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9 essential sales steps you need to grow your SaaS startup

Intercom, Inc.

In the early stages of most SaaS startups’ lives, the CEO or founder often acts as the initial head of sales. Despite that value, however, there’s a drawback – a lack of formal sales training and sales process can seriously undermine those initial efforts. It’s okay if you are ‘terrible’ at it.

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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. Some startups adopt this strategy to fool investors.

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

Business of Software Conference

Startups often struggle to communicate the value of their products, particularly in sales meetings. And we’re a tiny little startup, some of those things look really expensive. Now I’m a startup. So I’m a little startup in the sales enablement space. April Dunford // Ambient Strategy.

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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). Sales doesn’t need to be a cost center. Structure your sales organization for maximum efficiency.

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Rules & Tools For Scaling Software Sales | Stephen Allott, Seedcamp| BoS Europe 2018

Business of Software Conference

or a consultant or thinking about doing a startup? It’s an online website which is really a catalogue for cloud services and products and consultants and developers to build Government digital and cloud implementations and I think it’s transacted over £3 billion since it started. I’ve never worked in sales.

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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 continue to do what I love doing, which is helping startups figure out how to build and grow. Coining sales productivity. My approach is super tactical.

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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 continue to do what I love doing, which is helping startups figure out how to build and grow. Coining sales productivity. My approach is super tactical.