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PODCAST 05: Moving Your Product (And Your Sales Team) Upmarket

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years at Intralinks where he began his sales career. He started as an individual contributor, spent three years as a frontline manager and then two years building out the go to market strategy in Hong Kong. You need to have: The front-end and back-end of your product ready for this new market. Prior to this, he spent 12.5

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Inside Sales vs. Outside Sales: Which Is Best for You?

Sales Hacker

For example, if you’re an early-stage startup and a first-time founder, it’s unlikely you’ll have a dedicated person finding and qualifying leads with a well-defined go-to-market strategy. It might be tempting to bring in a heavy hitter from a blue-chip brand because of their experience, but that could be a bad decision.

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How to Improve Sales Productivity and Close More Deals

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Seller confidence surveys gauge seller confidence in areas such as pricing, differentiation, and negotiation. These tools help sales and marketing teams enhance areas that drive higher performance, together. The integrity of your brand hinges on ensuring all go-to-market teams are singing from the same songbook.

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Sales Hacker Recommends: 97 Best Sales Books for Peak Performance (2020 Update)

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It may be hard to imagine, but something as counterintuitive as leading with your flaws can result in faster sales cycles, increased win rates, and makes competing with you almost impossible. The Pirate’s Guide to Sales uniquely blends years of selling concepts with real-world experience in a framework anyone can learn.

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170+ Women in Sales Share Their Career-Defining Aha Moment

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Cassie is an operating partner at Primary Venture Partners, where she works closely with Primary’s portfolio companies to help them build, scale and optimize their go-to-market efforts. Remember this when you are negotiating your pay. What would you tell a woman just starting a career in sales? Own your power.

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PODCAST 139: The Science of Becoming a Better Sales Leader with Luke Rogers

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Having founded his first company at age 15, Luke Rogers, now VP: sales at Instabase, is determined to turn the world of technology upside down in more ways than one, a passionate believer that experiences is the least important quality when building an elite go-to-market team. We need websites now.

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Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey Moore

The Lost Book of Sales

In the middle of the sales cycle, you need to be extremely flexible about commitments as you begin to adapt to the visionaries’ agenda. At the end, you need to be very careful in negotiations, keeping the spark of the vision alive without committing to tasks that are unachievable within the time frame allotted.