Sales Hacker

JULY 21, 2021

Before you include these buzzwords in your job descriptions and hiring processes, make sure you know what you’re talking about. That thing reps do where they call every lead every day until the customer finally picks up the phone? Let’s come up with a plan for some quick wins”. Digitize everything! This term is outdated.

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X-functional Sales Strategize Cold Call 125

Sales Hacker

APRIL 10, 2018

CASE IN POINT: In the late 90s, SkyStream followed Cisco’s footsteps in infrastructure sales. However, SkyStream was able to sustain itself as it had diversified with a $10M contract with Disney on a new product, a $5M 3-year contract with the Department of Defense, and a $2Mrevenue stream from both the EMEA and APAC region.

Go To Market 73

Go To Market GTM X-functional Territory 73

Partners in Excellence

JULY 15, 2015

Each of these things impact the buying formula Jeff establishes: CD x CF > C + F (If you want to know what it means, read Jeff’s article ). So what drives the CIO in making the decision is different than those in the finance function. For the Controller: CD CTLR x FP CTLR > C CTLR + F CTLR.

B2B 95

B2B X-functional Finance Drivers/motivators 95

Lead Fuze

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Need Help Automating Your Sales Prospecting Process? This is crazy specific, but you could find all the people that match the following: . Start with the Sales Process. Before making any changes to the sales process, you need to understand it completely. The company offered me $X,000. With the role of HR Manager.

Appointment 52

Appointment X-functional Sales CRM 52

Hubspot

MAY 12, 2023

They should be process-oriented, digitally literate, and comfortable handling logistics. Hiring managers can use EA interview questions to design a better interview process and find the best fit to work with them. Showcase your soft skills by walking them through your thinking process for a situation or sharing an accomplishment.

X-functional 78

X-functional Pitch Follow-up Clients 78

Hubspot

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Effective sales prospecting is a multistep process that requires systematic prospect discovery, qualification, and outreach. Whatever you’re looking for, a sales prospecting tool will help you do one or more of the following: Identify high-quality prospects. You can automate parts of the search process to save time and resources.

Prospecting 78

Prospecting X-functional CRM Contact 78

Sales Hacker

JULY 10, 2020

I followed his system, and it changed my life. What followed was almost a discovery session , similar to what we all put our clients through. Again, we were new to our relationship, so he sought to understand everything I was doing (he already had some idea) and understand my process. “ You can double your income with this.

Legal 116

Legal X-functional Contract Presentation 116

Hubspot

MAY 17, 2018

With the right plan in place and an understanding of your company’s needs, finding the right freelancer for the job can be a largely painless process. Follow these steps to make the process smoother for both you and your new freelance partner. Before you jump into the hiring process, make sure you can define everything up front.

Contract 77

Contract X-functional Negotiate Start-ups 77

Hubspot

AUGUST 4, 2015

But not all couples are functioning like a belt and suspenders. Then it’s up to you just to become a football player.”. If Montana was your marketer firing qualified leads your way, Do you have a documented sales process to follow? Do you follow up quickly with leads? Mac and cheese. Taco Tuesdays.

X-functional 72

X-functional Teamwork Sales Follow-up 72

PandaDoc

MARCH 7, 2023

Salespeople quickly adapt to consumer needs and switch up tactics whenever necessary. A sales workflow is a sequence of necessary processes that your team can follow to complete a sale. Wondering how to streamline the sales process ? How can a business benefit from a good sales process flowchart?

Process 52

Process Objectives and Key Results Pitch Legal 52

SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

If you would like to find out more about the show and the guests presented, you can follow us on Twitter here: Jason Lemkin. We’ve invested in over 300 companies at Salesforce Ventures and have partnered with both of you closely and it’s been amazing to see this story up close and personal over the years. Matt Garratt.

Price 59

Price Retail X-functional Healthcare 59

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Today on the show, we’ve got Vishal Sunak, CEO and co-founder of LinkSquares, a company that applies AI to your contract. Vishal and I talk about what it’s like to start a company from nothing and how his experience at Backupify and InsightSquared helped inform the process. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast.

Contract 108

Contract X-functional Objectives and Key Results Legal 108

SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2019

What about the changing tech stacks and infrastructures makes them vulnerable to up and comers? If you would like to find out more about the show and the guests presented, you can follow us on Twitter here: Jason Lemkin. I do want to break the interview today up into a couple of different parts really. Eyal Manor. Megan Lueders.

Finance 54

Finance X-functional CRM Engineering 54

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

What is the process to do it efficiently? How does your customer success and customer support functions change with the move to enterprise? If you would like to find out more about the show and the guests presented, you can follow us on Twitter here: Jason Lemkin. How does he think about the mortality rate of SMBs?

GTM 52

GTM Price Up-sell Product 52

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 13, 2021

The licensee embeds the third-party software into its application to improve it by adding new functionality or features, or enhancing existing functionality or features. One OEM contract can give thousands or tens of thousands of end-users access to the licensor’s software. Licensing OEM software. OEM deal structure.

GTM 74

GTM Negotiate Profit margin Contract 74

PandaDoc

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

They help give a lasting impression of the company and the product it’s offering to drive the decision-making process. If they agree, the deal is finalized by the signing of a contract. And closing questions help initiate the final negotiating process to reach an agreement for a sale. Why are closing questions important?

Closing 52

Closing Contract Technique Objectives and Key Results 52

SaaStr

JUNE 14, 2019

How should execs think about making exciting enough go-forward plans for it to be attractive to buyers but also realistic enough that they can hit it in the acquisition process? * How do they set up the process from there? How do they set up the process from there? * You have PE platform roll-ups.

Strategize 58

Strategize Quota Non-Profits Price 58

Hubspot

AUGUST 8, 2019

Percentage of revenue from existing customers (cross-selling, upselling, repeat orders, expanded contracts, etc.). They help you understand what’s working and what’s not regarding your holistic sales process. Average contract value (ACV). Percentage of leads followed up with. Revenue by product or product line.

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X-functional Quota Cross-sell Contract 96

PandaDoc

APRIL 24, 2020

While the free plan won’t be a great fit for power users, all you need is a DocuSign account to sign up. Most competitors follow DocuSign’s lead here by offering equivalent plans at no charge, but PandaDoc takes free plans to a new level with our Free eSign Plan. Competitor highlights. Personal plans.

Price 59

Price X-functional CRM Follow-up 59

SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

If you would like to find out more about the show and the guests presented, you can follow us on Twitter here: Jason Lemkin. ” I thought this was a particularly interesting one to kind of pick up on. SaaStr’s Founder’s Favorites Series features one of SaaStr’s best of the best sessions that you might have missed.

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X-functional Start-ups Drivers/motivators Go To Market 52

Sales Hacker

MAY 9, 2019

The Process for Creating a Sales Compensation Plan. Whether you’re building a sales compensation plan from scratch or re-building an old one, you should take the following steps in order: Understand the Basic Requirements of a Good Sales Comp Plan. Create a 2-Page Contract and Get Mutual Commitment [TEMPLATE PROVIDED].

SQL 103

SQL Commission Customers Non-Profits 103

SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

If you would like to find out more about the show and the guests presented, you can follow us on Twitter here: Jason Lemkin. I actually just got off the boat, Nick, and scurried up to make sure that I was ready to go for the presentation. So, you teed it up really well. One, it starts high up in the sales process, right?

Retail 78

Retail Start-ups Drivers/motivators Up-sell 78

SaaStr

MARCH 1, 2019

Annual contracts: To what extent do annual contracts dominate today? Why does Tom think in the early days one should be wary of signing too many multi-year contracts? How does Tom think about calculating churn when it comes to multi-year contracts? What one question must all founders be asking in the sales process? *

Contract 46

Contract Price Commission Conversion 46

Heinz Marketing

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Listen up – the number of minutes you choose is important. If you add a 5+ minute wait step, your campaign’s priority is now considered low , and the action will be deprioritized for the system-wide CRM sync that happens every 5 minutes (and almost every other process Marketo runs). 1 – Batch Campaigns and Wait Step Priority.

CRM 135

CRM Campaign X-functional Clients 135

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

If you would like to find out more about the show and the guests presented, you can follow us on Twitter here: Jason Lemkin. But it took a lot of thinking up until that point before we ended up pulling the trigger. It just made it a lot easier for us to scale up Salsify as we found success. Harry Stebbings. Rob Gonzalez.

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E-commerce Manufacturing X-functional Retail 102

Sales Hacker

JULY 2, 2019

For this model, you’ll need the following metrics: Leads per month for the previous time period. If your CRM doesn’t have this reporting functionality, you can export the data into an excel file and quickly get the average sales price from there. 2,000 x 10% = $200/lead. Lead to customer conversion rate by lead source.

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Price X-functional CRM Sales 78

SaaStr

MAY 14, 2023

As we gear up for SaaStr Europa 2023 in London on 6-7 June and SaaStr Annual 2023 in the SF Bay Area on 6-7 September , we wanted to take a look back at some of our most iconic speakers and sessions from over the year, that we can still learn from today. OK, so straight up. Next up, we’ve got Nicolas Dessaigne.

Price 93

Price Start-ups Up-sell X-functional 93

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

We have heard a lot of sessions today around ramping up your lead gen, accelerating marketing. You want them to follow. You need to be able to do that for a second reason, which is you want to sign up customers who are passionate about what you do, that believe in what you do. Are we processing a renewal?

Prospecting 88

Prospecting Customers Promote X-functional 88

SaaStr

MARCH 17, 2020

At Talkdesk today, the client services organization is 90 people strong and we are responsible for making sure that our customers both in the pre-sale and the post-sale process are able to design and then achieve their desired outcomes. Why do they need to be involved in that process?” We had really high saturation of the market.

Clients 57

Clients Service Customers Start-ups 57

PandaDoc

APRIL 12, 2022

To get the most out of NPS, do the following: Place your NPS survey in a location where it will receive a high response rate. Follow up with respondents. To gather the data, you’ll need to ask the following question: How satisfied were you with your experience today? How do they use your software? What for and how often?

Customers 52

Customers X-functional Promote Price 52

SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2019

What are you doing up so early? What’s the failure rate for a Series A start up? What’s the failure rate of a Series C start up? We are screwing up the scale. Awesome revenue growth on the X axis, awesome revenue retention on the Y. It was all about getting the contract. SaaStr, good morning.

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Growth Cross-sell Contract X-functional 83

Sales Hacker

JULY 28, 2020

Conga is changing the way the world works by modernizing, streamlining and automating your documents, contracts, and processes to make it easier to do business. Going from that organization to running a Series A sales team where I showed up and it was one person. First of all, where are you from, and where’d you grow up?

Sell 61

Sell Presentation Start-ups X-functional 61

SaaStr

JANUARY 21, 2020

So you might be wondering who am I and why am I up here talking about sales culture? I think it’ll become clear why Jason asked me to come up and talk about this very specific topic. In the last year, I ended up working directly for the CEO doing special projects. Well, let me give you a little bit of my background.

Quota 102

Quota Sales Healthcare Territory 102

SaaStr

MAY 10, 2019

If you would like to find out more about the show and the guests presented, you can follow us on Twitter here: Jason Lemkin. So we actually are the operators of SaaS companies, and we come into organizations and help them streamline their go to market processes. Here’s what Dave talks about: When is the right time to raise money?

X-functional 54

X-functional SQL Pipeline GTM 54

Hubspot

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Checking out what other people have come up with can be a great way to kick your own thought process into gear. Ask everyone to come prepared to discuss a certain product category or question, such as, "What's your favorite type of X and why?" If you get a decent number of sign-ups, that's a sign you should move forward.

Minimum Viable Product 101

Minimum Viable Product Legal X-functional Networking 101

SaaStr

JANUARY 3, 2020

Annual contracts: To what extent do annual contracts dominate today? Why does Tom think in the early days one should be wary of signing too many multi-year contracts? How does Tom think about calculating churn when it comes to multi-year contracts? What one question must all founders be asking in the sales process? *

Contract 10

Contract Price Commission Conversion 10

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

If you would like to find out more about the show and the guests presented, you can follow us on Twitter here: Jason Lemkin. I’ve wanted to do this one for such a long time and following off first step. Is PR just pitching and getting articles? Take a listen for more. This episode is sponsored by Owl Labs. Harry Stebbings.

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Non-Profits Up-sell Start-ups Product 78