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The Cadence: How to Turn Your SaaS Startup into an Army with David Sacks (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

When you start growing above 50 employees, and certainly get to 100, things change, you now have teams, which means you have functional leaders. Rather than having this feeling of disconnected functional areas, everyone in the company knows what to work on. The first system is what I call the sales finance system.

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15+ Interview Questions for Consultants [+ Sample Responses]

Hubspot

It's also when you really need to sell yourself and your skills. Describe a time when you worked within a cross-functional team to complete a project. For instance, you may work cross-functionally with different departments or have multiple stakeholders to manage. Why are you the best person for this position?

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Sales Pipeline Radio, Episode 318: Q & A with Alan Gonsenhauser @agonsenhauser

Heinz Marketing

Matt : Yeah, or companies that have a history of selling to mid-market and SMB companies that don’t take the time to understand how an enterprise buyer buys and then don’t respect what is conveyed via a very different buying process. I’m a big believer in cross-functional alignment. And keep things simple.

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Adopting artificial intelligence in your sales process

PandaDoc

Do you feel like your selling job is becoming harder and harder over time? As the same State of Sales 5th edition claims, salespeople, on average, sell only 28% of their working hours. So hurry up and learn how to stop wasting your time on inefficient routines and redirect your efforts to selling!

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The Playbook to Scaling High-Performance Teams with Gusto COO Lexi Reese (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

We have 1,000 employees across three locations, San Francisco, Denver, and New York, and everything in the past four years has grown by more than 10 X. They cross referenced a bunch to come up with the teams that performed the highest, were not the smartest people in the room. How do you challenge directly X-axis?

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CXL Live 2017 Recap: Optimization & Growth Insights from 20+ Experts

ConversionXL

It’s not which variant collects more email addresses, it’s which variant sells more books. Pay them upfront so they don’t try to say X to get the money. If the copy won’t sell them, what will? Copy either sells or it doesn’t. All users have equal access to information and functionality. What is functionality?

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Decacorns & Unicorns in 2020: Founders Fund Keith Rabois and SaaStr’s Jason Lemkin (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

And so obviously the people that need consumers to spend money for their revenue and then their contribution margin just had no shot of selling things, look at model T-shirts or something. People are buying and selling houses. X and it’s not [inaudible 00:20:29]. Somehow this defies logic but is true. Jasom Lemkin: Yeah.