Sales Hacker

MAY 9, 2019

This is how the comp plan should look for those in closing roles. Here’s a simple example to begin with that covers the SDR, AE and Customer Success Manager (CSM) functions: Table 1. For example, if your Founder closed $800k in business in the past 12 months, at an ACV of $25k, the target for a new salesperson would be $640k.

SQL 103

SQL Commission Customers Non-Profits 103

Sales Hacker

MARCH 22, 2018

Reasons to outsource include: Lack of expertise and experience in some sales functions (e.g. Assigning sales functions to other departments (we’ve seen R&D doing sourcing). Sales outsourcing agencies tend to outperform your own team with: Proven experience in exactly the sales functions they offer. Some functions (e.g.

B2B 79

B2B X-functional Cold Call SQL 79

ConversionXL

JANUARY 24, 2017

More and more, people are using experimentation as a way to optimise not just sales – but also pricing, functionality, and product. Trends include: big data tools, data manipulation (SQL and alternatives), languages like Python, and deeper analyses (e.g., Conversion is expanding beyond just the core user experience.

Conversion 87

Conversion UX A/B testing SQL 87

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

The above points are unique but all tie back to the fact that, in B2B, you’re more closely working with a sales team. So while many usability heuristics remain the same in B2B website design and functionality , much of what goes into lead gen, sales, and analysis is different. More people tend to be involved in buying decisions.

B2B 110

B2B Conversion B2C SQL 110

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 4, 2018

The other half have a mix of data sources, which inevitably include an offshore SQL database (or ten) managed by an external vendor whom no one can track down. or “Who is likely to try product X?” We pull in the data, build the model, and are off and running.”. Like Vizadata, MIT’s Endor pursues this path.

Sports 131

Sports Clients Engineering Niche 131

SaaStr

MAY 10, 2019

And when we would focus on the buying experience and making it very personal to the buyer we actually see a dramatic increase in revenue and so MQL and SQL are what I call maybe a momentum or a KPI metric, but they shouldn’t be how you’re driving or measuring your teams. And they also follow that customer through that process.

X-functional 51

X-functional SQL Pipeline GTM 51

Heinz Marketing

JUNE 7, 2021

But it’s also a great way to then go back to your business partners and get that partnership and buy-in when you can quantify, “Hey, we’re spending X amount of time building decks, how can we do some things to lighten the sales load?” ” Or, last year in particular, a lot of time in internal meetings.

Pipeline 123

Pipeline B2B Sales Cross-sell 123