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How to Build Go-to-Market Efficiency in SMB Sales with Owner.com CRO Kyle Norton

SaaStr

2022 was a foundation-building year, fixing a very leaky bucket where the product crushed it with the right customers, but they were closing a lot of poor-fit customers. 2023 saw the team grow from 6-10 reps, which is pretty modest, and they built an SDR function. For Owner, they hired these two leaders on contract from their networks.

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Top 10 Mistakes In 10 Years From Gainsight CEO Nick Mehta

SaaStr

Mistake: On the other hand… not betting on the team that got me there “Everything will be fine once we get a new head of [X]” -every startup CEO ever (also me, frequently) When you launch a company, the initial team is usually whoever you can get. For this one deal, we just need to do X. To run a startup, you have to make bets.

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PPC 2023 in review: UA sunsets, Google antitrust trial, X’s downfall and more

Search Engine Land

The decline of X Following Elon Musk’s takeover in 2022, Twitter’s ad revenue steeply declined. The following month, the platform changed its name to X and tried to lure back advertisers by slashing the price of video ads. Previously, creators could only share videos that were a maximum of 10 minutes.

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A Look Back: “SaaS Metrics Masterclass: Key Business Metrics, Pricing Strategies and Billing Models with Stripe’s Head of France and Southern Europe, Guillaume Princen” (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

In the run up to SaaStr Europa 2022 in Barcelona on June 7-8 , we’re taking a look at some of the top all-time SaaStr Europa sessions. Join us at SaaStr Europa 2022. Just to say a little bit more about this, if you look at the sales functions are structured. He knows his cost item, his cost line, and his PNL is gonna be X.

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2023’s 19 Best Sales Prospecting Tools

Hubspot

In 2022, 29% of salespeople reported that improving sales process efficiency was their top goal, according to HubSpot research. HubSpot’s 2022 Sales Strategy Survey found that 18% of salespeople cite a lack of high-quality leads as their top challenge. Prospect monitoring functionality. See common benefits below. What Users Say.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Matt Garratt, Trisha Price, David Schmaier, Rob Bernshteyn, and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

Since March 15th, was there a trigger point where maybe I had a project that I was talking to Coupa, it might be a 2021, 2022, 2023 long term deployment because you have many enterprise customers. You can see it right behind you going across the bridge but can you see 10 X? It’s almost a step function. But what is this?

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Nick Mehta, CEO Gainsight: My Top 10 Failures as a SaaS CEO & What I’ve Learned (Video + Podcast)

SaaStr

The whole thing falls apart if you have a vision as a founder or functional leader and the people underneath you don’t believe the same things. This is a common mistake founders make — getting a new Head of X when you get to a certain point in business, missing a sales number, the product isn’t what you want, there’s too much churn, etc.