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So Your App Is Just A Nice To Have

SaaStr

— Jason 2022 SaaStr Annual Sep 13-15 Lemkin (@jasonlk) April 26, 2019. Today, it’s the default system of record for sales, support, and much more. One thing I took for granted was being CEO of an app that was beloved. If you have that, never ever give it up. Salesforce started off as a simple contact manager.

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20+ LinkedIn Influencers a Sales Person Must Follow in (Updated 2022)

SalesHandy

After spending around 70+ hours on LinkedIn, observing & analyzing hundreds of profiles of Sales Influencers or Sales Gurus we have mindfully put together the list of 20+ Sales LinkedIn Influencers/Gurus that you must follow in 2022. Chairman of VaynerX, CEO of VaynerMedia, 5-Time NYT Bestselling Author. Loic Simon.

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$1M to $100M in 20 Months, The Hard Part: How Everything Breaks in Hypergrowth with Deel Co-Founder & CRO Shuo Wang (Video)

SaaStr

With the growth of account management, Deel grew the business from 50 million ARR in December 2021 to 100 million ARR by the first quarter of 2022. Once onboard, get regular input from your sales, support, and customer success teams. Learnings from the growth stage Measure what you can.

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The B2B case for retention marketing: 7 key tactics

Martech

It didn’t even make the Sagefrog priority list in 2022.) Examples of successful applications of continuous selling models in B2B include: After-sales support services. But, at last, B2B marketers are beginning to grasp the importance of retention marketing for profit growth. Replacement parts. Just-in-time components.

B2B
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How to Build Sales Compensation Plans that Increase Retention and Productivity

Sales Hacker

In this article, I’ll outline the principles of compensation design , how to build sales compensation plans , and include resources to set OTEs and quotas that keep your reps happy and hungry for more. Why Sales Comp Planning is Key to Rep Retention. To further complicate things, on-target earnings (OTE) have reached an all-time high.

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How Sales Reps Can Use Generative AI to Sell Faster

Hubspot

While 77% of salespeople report working more hours than they did a few years ago, these extra hours don’t necessarily translate to more sales. Sales reps report that they spend 41% of the workday on non-revenue-generating activities, according to 2022 The Sales Happiness Index.

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What’s Happening in B2B SaaS in 2024 and Beyond with Zapier CEO Wade Foster and SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

But if you know what success looks like in sales, support, engineering, etc., 2022 was a knife falling in terms of public companies. As a manager, you have to do things differently. If your people are doing nine other jobs, they probably won’t be very good at any of them. 2021 was the boom. 2023 was the year of layoffs.

B2B