top 5 things a great sales vp does
your #1 mis-hire: the VP of sales in so many start-ups – especially Software-As-A-Service (SaaS) / tech, the majority of first VP Sales fail. they don’t even make it 12 months (we’ve heard that the average tenure for VP Sales of early companies in the valley averages...
Jason Lemkin’s ’20-interview’ Rule
jason lemkin’s the serial tech entrepreneur and venture capitalist who founded the world’s #1 resource for saas entrepreneurs: SaaStr.com. jason was ceo of EchoSign, and led it from $0 to $100M+ in revenues and a sale to Adobe. he’s also my co-author of...Building a Killer Sales Team
Funding, Sales & Growth in one of my favorite talks this year, my co-author jason lemkin of saastr and i discuss the top most common mistakes in building your first great sales team. we covered the importance of leadership, crafting the right sales strategy...
Mapping Calls vs. “Are We a Fit Calls”: Key Differences
We’ve seen SDRs spend a lot of time chasing prospects that will never buy. You can quickly determine with whom you should be speaking and whether or not your business is a good match for a prospect through mapping and “Are we a fit?” calls.....About The Author
Aaron Ross, of the award-winning, bestselling book Predictable Revenue, has been teaching companies how to double or triple (or more) new sales since he helped Salesforce grow from $5m to $100m. Now he’s turned his attention to building the software platform that will power the next wave of Cold Calling 2.0 teams.
