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3 Ways Fast-Growing Startups Are Building Sales Teams Differently

YoungUpstarts

by Keith Johnstone, Head of Marketing of Peak Sales Recruiting. That is, if they have the right sales team in place…. Ahead of CES, product development teams scrambled to make sure their shiny new product was ready for prime time. Here are 3 ways fast-growing startups build sales teams differently: 1.

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Are You Putting Your Rock Star Customers To Work?

YoungUpstarts

Talented product developers. SAS Canada “customer champions” helped the firm restore declining customer retention rates—which had fallen as low as the mid-80s percent — back to the firm’s traditional high retention rates of 97-98 percent. This has resulted in dramatic increases in sales. Highly trained salespeople.

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The #1 thing successful founders think about for their next startups

Hippoland

In particular, one thing to consider if you’re trying to make money off affiliate ads is to think about how unique the product/service is in the ads you’re running. For example, if you are running affiliate ads for hotels, you might get 3-5% on a sale. 2) B2B startups have high margins. Sales cycles matter though.

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The #1 thing successful founders think about for their next startups

Hippoland

In particular, one thing to consider if you’re trying to make money off affiliate ads is to think about how unique the product/service is in the ads you’re running. For example, if you are running affiliate ads for hotels, you might get 3-5% on a sale. 2) B2B startups have high margins. Sales cycles matter though.

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

AgileZen – project management visually see and interact with your work Kanbanery – Simple online team or personal kanban board LeanKit Kanban – Great for visualizing work of product development Kanban Pad – “Nice and lean” and free online Kanban tool Banana Scrum – A tool simple as Scrum itself.

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CXL Live 2018 Recap: Top 5 Lessons from Each Speaker

ConversionXL

Facts don’t change minds – true for both sales and customers. Tara Robertson – How to 10x Growth by Optimizing Customer Marketing & Retention. Retention is the most important thing – if that’s poor, nothing else matters. Start with retention. Optimize for retention, not just acquisition.

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Freemium vs. Free Trial: Which Gets You More Paying Customers (Not Just Freeloaders)?

ConversionXL

As Wes Bush details, you have three options for a SaaS go-to-market strategy : sales led, marketing led, or product led. Both freemium and free-trial programs are product-led strategies: they show instead of telling. If you haven’t committed to a product-led strategy, you can stop reading now. So what should you do first?

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