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9 essential sales steps you need to grow your SaaS startup

Intercom, Inc.

Despite that value, however, there’s a drawback – a lack of formal sales training and sales process can seriously undermine those initial efforts. In this post, I outline how SaaS founders should modify their approach and implement a simple sales methodology to increase their odds of success.

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Mismatched Expectations: Product Information and Sales Teams

Mironov Consulting

Lately, I’ve been writing a lot about entirely predictable goal misalignments between the maker side (product, engineering, design) and the go-to-market side (sales, marketing, customer success) of tech firms, especially at B2B/enterprise software companies.  That  This is a must-close.”

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Stop Selling Your Product, Start Selling Your Point of View | April Dunford | BoS USA Online 2020

Business of Software Conference

So I use it as a forcing function to clarify my thinking around a thing that I’ve been doing both when I was a VP marketing, working inside companies, but also as a, as a consultant, a thing that I’ve been doing with my clients a lot. And what do enterprise buyers actually want in sales people? So you outline this.

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How to build, manage and scale a sales team – 12 strategies from the experts

Intercom, Inc.

Most users view a product only through the lens of their own use, not through the needs and habits of all the users in their enterprise (which is a view someone at the top, such as a Chief Information Officer, is more likely to have). Train reps for effectiveness, not just efficiency.

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The Great Silence

The Product Coalition

From this education, the influence of elaborate management consulting style frameworks appeared, which frankly, stakeholders care very little about. This is especially true in enterprise software and it’s this idea that talking with sales teams is broadly fruitful. Using these ideological tools for your own sanity is great.

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Emergence Capital’s Doug Landis on telling stories that sell

Intercom, Inc.

I think of it as go-to-market consulting. Doug: Here’s a little background on Emergence: we are hyper-focused on B2B enterprise SAAS companies. I realized I get way more value out of helping other sales people figure out how to tap into their full potential. My approach is super tactical. It didn’t exist 15 years ago.

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Emergence Capital’s Doug Landis on telling stories that sell

Intercom, Inc.

I think of it as go-to-market consulting. Doug: Here’s a little background on Emergence: We are hyper focused on B2B enterprise SAAS companies. I realized I get way more value out of helping other sales people figure out how to tap into their full potential. My approach is super tactical. It didn’t exist 15 years ago.