How do you drive sales? Set territories, pricing, metrics, and quotas? Build a team? Be a leader? Today’s episode features a panel discussion on Software as a Service (SaaS) sales and scaling hosted by Jono Landon, founder and CEO of Hubbli.
Panelists include Cheryl Fearon, Zensurance sales director; Bram Belzberg, KEV Group CEO; Jordan Grant, Zafin head of business development; and Nick Kozmin, Salesprocess.io founder.
Topics Include:
What is sales? Mastering a craft, learning every day, figuring out what works, and how to make it better and easier for customers and team members
KEV Group’s growth lifecycle due to product, pricing, and positioning innovation
Salesprocess.io started to help SaaS startups scale successfully through product-market fit, lead generation, selling, and closing
Sales Strategies and Metrics: Selling hasn’t changed, but marketing technology and tools make an impact
Sales Sprints: Implement weekly, monthly, and yearly goals and action items to achieve
Successful Strategies to Scale: Hiring practices and personality tests to find top talent that fit with a company’s culture and onboarding process
Ideal Customer Profile: Required characteristics of potential prospects include asset size, interviews, and value of solution
Conducive and Compelling Candidates: Competencies, hard work, and diligence may not be enough or make someone worthy of position
Art of Sales: Customize, interpret, develop, and deliver message to get customers
Content Marketing: What should you do to solve your problem? How can you solve the problem by purchasing a solution?
Salary, Commissions, Compensation, and Bonuses: Different business models that generate motivation and participation
Links and Resources:
Hubbli
Jono Landon on LinkedIn
Cheryl Fearon on LinkedIn
Zensurance
Bram Belzberg on LinkedIn
KEV Group
Jordan Grant on LinkedIn
Zafin
Nick Kozmin on LinkedIn
Salesprocess.io
Toronto Software as a Service (SaaS) Meetup Group
Predictable Revenue by Aaron Ross
Trello
Caliper Test
Salesforce
Salesforce Methodology
SalesLoft
Mixmax
Zendesk
ConnectAndSell
HubSpot
ActiveCampaign
Close.io
Calendly
Google Analytics
Zapier
Ring Central
Zoom
GoToWebinar
Quotes/Tweets:
“Sales is like mastering a craft. It’s about learning every single day on what works, what doesn’t work, and how do you make it better and easier for your customer and your team.” Cheryl Fearon
“Selling hasn’t changed, but marketing has changed to make an impact.” Nick Kozmin
“Solve one problem for one person.” Jordan Grant
“Any good sales leader is going to be...agile. They will try and test a million different things.” Bram Belzberg