Posts tagged growth
Mastering Sales Process Management: A Comprehensive Guide to Success

In the world of sales, the pursuit of perfection is an endless journey. An almost infinite number of experts have delved into the subject, each offering their unique insights and strategies. But why is this topic so crucial? The answer is simple: "Perfecting your sales process and perfecting the management and repeatability of that process leads to more deals and more revenue for your business."

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Moving Beyond the Founder – Making Sales the Key Catalyst to Growth

As a start-up gears up for a Series A investment, early-phase scaling becomes imperative to secure funding. In the absence of a foolproof playbook, the path forward is far from clear-cut or universally acknowledged. The typical playbook often suggests hiring a VP of Sales, a move fraught with challenges:

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What's the Right Time to Hire a Sales Leader?

"We will wait to hire a sales leader until we have more customers."  While it may seem like a prudent approach to save resources, this strategy can have both advantages and disadvantages. Here's some thoughts as we explore what might be behind this statement and whether it's a wise decision for a growing company.

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Leveraging a Fractional Sales Leader to Reach Your First $1 Million in Revenue

In the world of startups and small businesses, achieving that elusive first $1 million in revenue can often feel like an insurmountable hurdle. It requires strategic planning, effective execution, and a dedicated team.

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Scaling Through Sales: How Sales Leaders Drive Business Growth

In the exhilarating universe of startups and glamorous founders, Sales Leaders are often unsung heroes, guiding businesses through the tumultuous journey of hyper-growth. Their innovative strategies, customer focus, process-centric approach, adaptability, and team leadership form the backbone of a startup's success story.

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Fractionalizing Work Allows for Faster Growth

Staffing up and growing an executive team in large increments is outdated. And in other areas of our lives, we have already embraced the alternative. The idea of taking small steps is built into the formula for success in personal development, mentoring, building wealth, or the Kaizen concept.

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How SaaS Companies Can Embrace Evangelist-Led Growth

By embracing evangelist-led growth. This strategy develops and leverages the enthusiasm and advocacy of a company's most passionate users to eventually drive new customer acquisition. These "evangelists" are customers who are highly satisfied with a company's product or service and are willing to recommend it to others.

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Sales-Centric or Bust

I think that sales-centric and customer-centric are inherently the same. In today’s transparent markets, one cannot sell without putting the customer front and center. Simply put, salespeople work to understand customer needs or problems and then sell solutions that address those.

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Learnings From Across the Pond

Historically, in Europe, interims work full-time until the assignment ends. But fractionalization – an increasing factor in talent staffing and management – is creating new opportunities in the interim field. By market, 51% of Spanish interims and 40% of Italian interims were on part-time rather than full-time assignments. Interims in most other markets reported an average of 20-30%, and 25% was the overall European average of fractional assignments.

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