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

Intercom, Inc.

Next, determine the variable comp based on your answers to the following questions: How complex is your sales cycle? Is your model primarily inbound or outbound? Is the focus of the role primarily hunting (outbound), farming (growing existing business) or catching (inbound)? Train reps for effectiveness, not just efficiency.