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Dear SaaStr: How Do I Get a Job as a First Time VP of Sales?

SaaStr

" with @kylecnorton 1⃣ Too stubborn 2⃣ Need love space 3⃣ Do better diligence pic.twitter.com/yBGqYpQKfN — Jason ✨👾SaaStr 2025 is May 13-15✨ Lemkin (@jasonlk) January 20, 2025 Here’s how to approach it: Prove you can own a number. Most VP of Sales hires happen through referrals. Network like crazy.

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Why account-based expansion is B2B’s next growth lever

Martech

This is a huge opportunity for 2025 and marketers looking to increase their worth to the GTM. Greater potential for product advocacy and referrals and customer stories for marketing. Customer data enables more precise targeting and personalization compared to generic intent data.

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How to Get Hired Before the Role Is Posted

Sales Hacker

98% of C-level roles happen through backchannel referrals. More for your eardrums GTM 151: How to Scale Vertical SaaS in 2025 | Dennis Lyandres (Ex-CRO, Procore) Dennis Lyandres is an Advisor with ICONIQ and a Board Member of Speedchain and CaptivateIQ. People post in our Slack channel that they’re hiring but it’s not posted.

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5 Interesting Learnings from Chime at $2 Billion in ARR

SaaStr

Referrals are Chime’s largest acquisition driver since 2022 , helping bring sales & marketing spend down to 26% of revenue in Q1 2025, from 42% in 2022. Keep Driving Up ARPU, Slowly But Steadily Chime’s ARPU grew from $231 to $251 (Q1 2024 to Q1 2025). million in Q1 2025. times as much ARPAM, on average.

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Is Your Customer Success Team Helping or Harming Your Word-of-Mouth?

SaaStr

So we had another 2025 Customer Success experience the other day. At Least 20% of Your New Customers Should Come from Referrals and Word of Mouth. A CS exec at a somewhat dated platform we used pushed us and pushed us to take a Zoom to do a roadmap review. We finally did, and it turned out, the agenda was just Yet Another Upsell.

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Timeless growth principles that scaled $20M to $450M

Sales Hacker

Cartas customer onboarding didnt just reduce churn, it became a flywheel for expansion, referrals, and upsell across PE and VC networks. Make onboarding a growth weapon Your GTM is only as good as your post-sale experience. Flawless implementations earned trust (and more logos). Think of onboarding as revenue activation.

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13 Ways Sales Cloud, Revenue Cloud, and Agentforce for Sales Are Helping You Sell More, Faster

Salesforce

Agentforce for Quoting When it’s available: June 2025 What it does: Use natural language to automatically generate quotes and amendments based on your business rules, pulling from comprehensive deals, customer, product, and pricing data. Then, navigate to Agent Builder in Setup and enable Pipeline Management.

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