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Building Teams – Recruit “10x” Talent (“Force Multipliers”)

Building great companies requires building great teams – one of the keys to that is knowing how to identify great Talent (i.e. not merely talent but capital-T “Talent”). What I mean by great Talent is really what I call the “10x” people who are the force multipliers. I have used… Read More >

Revenue Growth: Lead Generation is the #1 Lever to Drive Revenue Growth

If you read “From Impossible To Inevitable: How Hyper-Growth Companies Create Predictable Revenue“, you probably remember one of the first top takeaways when Jason Lemkin and Aaron Ross wrote in their best-seller: “Lead generation is the #1 lever that drives revenue growth, and can create hypergrowth. You’ve been trying to grow your… Read More >

A Simple 6-Step Management System For Any Executive

When an executive is looking for a way to simplify how they manage their company or a business unit, I recommend the following system that I’ve used consistently over the years. You can use the following simplified 6-step Management System to run a business function and it covers most requirements… Read More >

Organizational Issues That Prevent Effective Leadership

There are several problems that organizations face with a typical/average manager based on research published in the Harvard Business Review. It turns out that many “leaders” are actually not able to perform a leadership function effectively. It is a real obstacle for companies if someone who is supposed to be… Read More >

Our Sales Team’s Core Values & Tenets

These are the core values our Sales team lives by

Core values for Sales teams are important because they are the team’s identity and the principles and beliefs by which a sales teams operates. Below I wanted to share the Core Values that I set for my sales teams and by which I hire, and by which we operate every… Read More >

Building Teams: Enable a Quality “Candidate Experience” When Recruiting

If you want to attract great people over years in the sales or SaaS community then you have to offer and enable a quality and very professional “Candidate Experience” that puts your brand image in a positive light. It’s a “small world” out there and people talk about companies and their… Read More >

The 3 Critical Gaps Between Planned Outcomes vs. Actual Results

There are always gaps between Strategy and its Execution, between business expectations and the actual results. You can invest a lot of time into a solid Corporate Strategy or your Sales Strategy that you think will deliver exceptional results but some times the result will be off from what you intended to achieve.… Read More >

MAP Method & Why a Clear Go-to-Market is Key to Scaling SaaS Sales

If you are a CEO, a VP of Sales or a VP of Marketing thinking about accelerating revenue growth, you need to invest in clearly defining your Go-to-Market Strategy. One of the key aspects of scaling is making sure you understand it clearly. A Go-to-Market Strategy (aka “GTM“) is at a… Read More >

Sales VP: Here’s How To Grow Sales in the Next 6 Months

Originally Posted on VentureFizz Sales Blog

If you’re a couple of quarters into the year and your sales team is not attaining their goals or quota targets, here is what you can do. Use the framework of focusing on the 5 key elements of sales management or the 5 P’s – People, Planning, Process, Pipeline and… Read More >

PE – What “Sales Pipeline” Means in PE Backed Portfolio Companies

Sales Pipeline is a term that gets used often – but what does it actually mean (and how is it different from a Sales Funnel)? Sales Pipeline Definition: A sales pipeline is a set of live, qualified in-flight / open sales deals (i.e. “Opportunities”), that sales reps manage to strategically… Read More >

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