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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 Shortest Product Manager Job Ever!

The Accidental Product Manager

That’s why I was surprised when I got fired after two weeks on the job at my new product manager position. I had been working for a startup that had run into some financial problems. However, one of those weeks was filled with sales training for a batch of new sales people that had just been brought on.

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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. This is a talk about positioning, but a little bit more about how you communicate your positioning or share your positioning. And we’re a tiny little startup, some of those things look really expensive.

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

Intercom, Inc.

The optimal sales team structure is one that is accretive, where, roughly speaking, each sales rep brings in at least 5x his or her total compensation. Sales doesn’t need to be a cost center. Excerpt from “ What is the optimal structure of a startup SaaS B2B sales team? ”. it all “works”.

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The Great Silence

The Product Coalition

I even know some highly effective organisations with hundreds of thousands of users who just have product designers instead of product managers in most of their squads and are seeing positive results. which is positive. I suspect this came about to encourage people to trust our judgement.

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

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