Sales Hacker

JULY 18, 2019

Heart start to race a few beats? For most sales reps and leaders, this is an important part of your role — and yet pipeline reviews are one of the most dreaded meetings on the calendar. Having well-defined and accurate sales stages for your business is critical, particularly if you plan to leverage the weighted pipeline functionality.

X-functional 68

X-functional Pipeline Contract Quota 68

PandaDoc

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The no-strings-attached free trial, a couple of tutorials, and a bunch of courses allow any user to successfully set up the system and start tinkering with the available features. To capture both professional reviews and opinions from real users, we actively interact with up to 30 various sources of data. Among these are: G2.com

X-functional 52

X-functional Territory CRM Lead generation 52

Hubspot

MAY 12, 2023

Behavioral questions are the trickiest kind of interview question and often start with “Tell me about a time…” or “How would you handle…?” Why it matters : This question is often the first one asked and can trip up candidates. When answered well, it can set you up as smart and ambitious. Tell me about yourself.

X-functional 78

X-functional Pitch Follow-up Clients 78

Sales Hacker

JULY 10, 2020

We start to think we have things figured out. For years, he had been a successful enterprise salesperson , started his own company, sold it, and was very well connected with heads of sales at some huge companies. He simply asked me during one of our goal setting meetings, “ How much money do you want to make this fiscal?

Legal 116

Legal X-functional Contract Presentation 116

Hubspot

MAY 17, 2018

The answer to any of these questions will set the tone for how you start your search, and who you ultimately hire. Before you jump into the hiring process, make sure you can define everything up front. It’s bad for the freelancer because they were working on a specific set of criteria that now is expanded upon or blown up.

Contract 77

Contract X-functional Negotiate Start-ups 77

Hubspot

OCTOBER 16, 2017

That is to say, if you want your salespeople to do X, reward them financially for doing X. Increase average contract length. Salespeople are demotivated to do anything but sell, so good luck asking them to attend meetings, log notes, go to training, etc. Selling function (hunting or farming). Increase cash flow.

Commission 92

Commission Quota X-functional Non-Profits 92

Lead Fuze

DECEMBER 1, 2021

It’s important to make sure any technology you use integrates seamlessly before starting a project. Start with the Sales Process. The company offered me $X,000. LinkedIn is the best place to find up-to-date information. If you use a CRM like Hubspot or Salesforce, email functionality may already be built in.

Appointment 52

Appointment X-functional Sales CRM 52

SaaStr

JULY 24, 2019

Hopefully, you could leave this session enabled with a handful of action items or ideas that you can take back to your organizations in order to start to move the needle on net retention. That really helps to reduce purchase friction and allow the CSM to grow the account without working on contracts. First up, hiring well.

X-functional 56

X-functional Engineering Clients Start-ups 56

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 19, 2018

and “When did my target prospect implement our competitor’s product, so I can figure out when they may be up for renewal?”. Why pay for two very effective sales intelligence tools, when you can consolidate your already complicated tech stack into one, and spare yourself the wrath of having to ask your finance team to sign two contracts?

X-functional 59

X-functional Technology Technology Sales 59

Hubspot

AUGUST 4, 2015

But not all couples are functioning like a belt and suspenders. If not, start now, even if it’s just a blog post every other month. Then it’s up to you just to become a football player.”. Do you follow up quickly with leads? George teed up shot after shot for Jerry to whack. Mac and cheese. Taco Tuesdays.

X-functional 72

X-functional Teamwork Sales Follow-up 72

SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

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: But then when you start to grow and you start to get these customers, you see some really nice benefits.

Price 59

Price Retail X-functional Healthcare 59

SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

Listen to the start of the episode for a promo code to our upcoming events! Harry Stebbings: I love that energy to start with. So I started my career out actually on the venture side of the table. I was sending a 100 emails a week and doing those initial meetings for that firm for two years. Loving our podcast content?

X-functional 52

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

SaaStr

JUNE 14, 2019

How do they set up the process from there? * How do management meetings with potential PE acquiring firms compare to founders meeting VCs in the early days? How many meetings is normal to have in this process? What does Dave believe is crucial to achieve in these in person meetings? You have PE platform roll-ups.

Strategize 58

Strategize Quota Non-Profits Price 58

SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2024

The focus was cleaning up and rebooting, which meant exiting two of the four AEs in his first 45 days. 2023 saw the team grow from 6-10 reps, which is pretty modest, and they built an SDR function. 2023 saw the team grow from 6-10 reps, which is pretty modest, and they built an SDR function. Now, they have over 22 BDRs.

Go To Market 102

Go To Market GTM X-functional Objectives and Key Results 102

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. for more information. Check them out.

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? It’s actually an interesting journey and unique in that unlike most folks these days, a lot of them can stem their history with SaaS starting at SalesForce, as an example. I actually started it at Oracle and it was by accident.

Finance 54

Finance X-functional CRM Engineering 54

SaaStr

APRIL 23, 2019

Henrique started his first company at 16 and has now built two successful companies from nothing. How they came up with the idea of Brex, and product market fit. And we started out, we were both coders, and I started coding by the time I was around 12, Pedro when he was nine. So, please feel free to ask questions.

Launch 62

Launch Pitch Niche Negotiate 62

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

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

As for Krish, under Krish’s leadership the team has grown to over 300 people and over 5,000 clients making it one of the next generation in truly global SaaS businesses started in India. Listen to the start of the episode for a promo code to our upcoming events! And then we decided to start a company. Loving our podcast content?

GTM 52

GTM Price Up-sell Product 52

Salesforce

OCTOBER 26, 2021

We started moving away from tracking net-new activity and thinking about a longer revenue cycle.” sign up now. Different measures track different models, but all depend on a simple formula: [Recurring revenue = Active accounts in a period X Cost of good/service]. X 100 = 10% customer churn rate. Why does it matter?

X-functional 98

X-functional Sales Growth Contract 98

PandaDoc

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

If they agree, the deal is finalized by the signing of a contract. That process of negotiating with a prospect is one PandaDoc can help you streamline and speed up. Pre-built, customizable templates and real-time reporting and notifications on proposal activity free up your sales team to hone their craft.

Closing 52

Closing Contract Technique Objectives and Key Results 52

SaaStr

AUGUST 12, 2020

David Sacks, General Partner at Craft Ventures joins the New New in Ventures to discuss The Cadence and how to structure around it while building a start-up. When you start growing above 50 employees, and certainly get to 100, things change, you now have teams, which means you have functional leaders. billion dollars.

Finance 111

Finance X-functional Launch Objectives and Key Results 111

Hubspot

AUGUST 8, 2019

Percentage of revenue from existing customers (cross-selling, upselling, repeat orders, expanded contracts, etc.). Number of meetings scheduled. Average contract value (ACV). Percentage of leads followed up with. Percentage of leads followed up within target time range (for example, 8 hours). Market penetration.

X-functional 96

X-functional Quota Cross-sell Contract 96

Sales Hacker

MAY 9, 2019

Create a 2-Page Contract and Get Mutual Commitment [TEMPLATE PROVIDED]. These can become complicated, but start creating only three levels. Here’s a simple example to begin with that covers the SDR, AE and Customer Success Manager (CSM) functions: Table 1. Decide Base Pay vs. Variable Pay (Commissions). Set Targets.

SQL 103

SQL Commission Customers Non-Profits 103

SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

In the run up to SaaStr Europa 2022 in Barcelona on June 7-8 , we’re taking a look at some of the top all-time SaaStr Europa sessions. Basically you can more easily start using products. That equation basically makes up your profitability. Start with increasing the number of customers, getting more customers.

Price 92

Price Launch X-functional Contract 92

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

I do want to start it a little bit on you. But I had wanted to start a company for a long time before that. But it took a lot of thinking up until that point before we ended up pulling the trigger. Or should I start my own company? Or should I start my own company?” Harry Stebbings: Not at all.

E-commerce 102

E-commerce Manufacturing X-functional Retail 102

SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

I actually just got off the boat, Nick, and scurried up to make sure that I was ready to go for the presentation. Nick Mehta: I got to say pretty good internet up there on the Italian Alps, so I’m impressed. So, you teed it up really well. One, it starts high up in the sales process, right? Jay Snyder: Yeah.

Retail 78

Retail Start-ups Drivers/motivators Up-sell 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

JUNE 13, 2019

I write a blog at tomtunguz.com that focuses a lot of early stage start-ups and uses a lot of data in order to illuminate different topics. Contract length. How long should a contract be in order to maximize conversion rate? A multi-year contract, a month-to-month contract, an annual contract.

Contract 83

Contract Price X-functional Conversion 83

Sales Hacker

APRIL 14, 2020

Take control with the DocuSign agreement cloud, a suite of tools that automates sales contracts and quotes ,all right in your CRM. Create custom contracts in a click, sign them digitally, and automatically pull data back into your opportunities. Talk to us about your business and how you started — give us an overview.

Contract 70

Contract CRM Consult Cross-sell 70

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? I started a little legal software company with my Dad in South America.

Contract 46

Contract Price Commission Conversion 46

SaaStr

JULY 13, 2023

Startups come in all shapes and sizes on various stages of a timeline, yet it’s not surprising how many have the same questions and concerns about how to scale from x to y to z, the right time to hire and fire, and how to keep a team motivated during hard times. But since startups came into the mainstream, normal people started coming in.

X-functional 70

X-functional Closing Growth Contract 70

PandaDoc

MARCH 7, 2023

Salespeople quickly adapt to consumer needs and switch up tactics whenever necessary. Sales workflows provide flexible and adaptable roadmaps that can be continually improved to keep up with evolving consumer needs and preferences. The process you outline for prospecting sets up how the rest of your sales workflow will operate.

Process 52

Process Objectives and Key Results Pitch Legal 52

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

We have heard a lot of sessions today around ramping up your lead gen, accelerating marketing. Because all of a sudden we start seeing right before we cut the check, we get buyer’s remorse. So five steps to getting started. So starting with culture. Second or third is referrals. Has somebody else bought it?

Prospecting 88

Prospecting Customers Promote X-functional 88

SaaStr

MARCH 17, 2020

I remember in my first week or two at Talkdesk I had one of the sales leaders come up to me and say, “Hey, we’re going to need a reference for this customer that we’re trying to close to help us help sell the deal.” I wanted to start by talking a little bit about the Talkdesk evolution. deal size growth.

Clients 57

Clients Service Customers Start-ups 57

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. Okay so start off quizzing the chart, take a sip of your coffee, 9:00am. It was all about getting the contract.

Growth 83

Growth Cross-sell Contract X-functional 83

SaaStr

JANUARY 21, 2020

Justin Welsh, former SVP of Sales at PatientPop explains how he started in SaaS in 2009 as the second sales hire at Zocdoc. 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.

Quota 102

Quota Sales Healthcare Territory 102