Sales Hacker

APRIL 4, 2025

Not through more software, but through system design. Before that, he was the CEO and Co-Founder of DataHug, which was acquired by Calidus Cloud in 2016. Its about asking one key question: How do we turn our GTM data into coordinated action across the buyer journey? More for your eardrums Ray Smith is the VP of AI Agents at Microsoft.

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System Scale Outsourcing Services Lead Rank 106

DiscoverOrg Sales

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

According to Gartner, in 2007, spending on software rose 13% and overall IT spending grew 11% worldwide. The proliferation of software-as-a-service (SaaS) and cloud computing created huge changes to the software market. That’s why 2016 saw DiscoverOrg double down on non-IT datasets. Why so high? How’d we do it?

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Decision Maker Marketing Hiring Ideal Customer Profile 120

Cincom Smart Selling

DECEMBER 15, 2015

CRM is not just a software technology, it needs to be the strategy underlying every business objective. Most CRM systems can be integrated with other software. What’s Ahead in 2016 for Manufacturing? The post CRM 2016: Stop Thinking Technology; Start Thinking Strategy appeared first on Cincom Blog. But, be careful.

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CRM Strategy Enterprise Enterprise 69

Pipeliner

DECEMBER 5, 2024

The Genesis of Sendoso Identifying the Problem Kris Rudeegraap’s journey began in the realm of software sales, where he observed a significant decline in the effectiveness of email outreach by 2015. Founding Sendoso Motivated by the desire to streamline the gifting process, Kris co-founded Sendosoin 2016.

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Top of Funnel Direct Mail Video Lead Rank 84

Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Issue Date: 2016-09-01. It may feel awkward at first because social media has become such a personal space for a lot of people, says Patrick Hogan, chief technology officer at sales software and services provider Tenfold. Author: Paul Nolan. read more

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Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 2, 2016

Issue Date: 2016-07-01. Teaser: There’s a persistent “myth” in software development: great developers are 10X more productive than average developers. I call it a “myth” in quotation marks because there’s disagree­ment around that statement in the software community. Author: Scott Brinker.

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

If you are in IT sales and marketing, there are three significant challenges of which you should be well aware when setting up your budgets and plans for 2016. IT Spending on the Decline? First, Gartner announced mid-summer that IT spending is on the decline. decline (compared to a paltry 1.6% growth in 2014).

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Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 26, 2018

Compare that to 2016, when CRM penetration surged to 74 percent but goal attainment dropped to 55.8 Erik Charles is the vice president of strategic marketing with Xactly , which provides cloud-based enterprise and software services. percent, and it’s clear that data by itself is not the key to sales success.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

AUGUST 19, 2016

In fact, conversion rates through the funnel were 5x better for software and support associates than they were for sales and marketing candidates, so we had to develop a funnel for each role – driving a certain number of candidates every week per position. Cold calls. How Can You Improve Your Strategy?

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

The decision to fold Bizo was made in early 2016. A sales enablement software company can now create an audience consisting solely of sales employees at companies with 20+ people in sales. And just 18 months after the acquisition, LinkedIn said they had misjudged the amount of work it would take to integrate Bizo into their services.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Beyond size, certain industries are more likely to champion innovation and product releases, including manufacturing, software, and business services, according to ZoomInfo data. Additionally, diversity-themed executive roles have been on the rise in companies since at least 2000, but made a noticeable jump in 2016, ZoomInfo data shows.

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Understanding the Sales Force

MAY 17, 2016

We were fortunate to be in the audience for the 2016 Notre Dame Commencement where Vice President Joe Biden , former Speaker of the House, John Boehner , and former Joint Chiefs of Staff and retired 4-Star General, Martin Dempsey were among the speakers.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 30, 2025

Before that, he was the CEO and Co-Founder of DataHug, which was acquired by Calidus Cloud in 2016. GTM 139: AI Agents Are Changing Everything Microsofts VP of AI Agents on the New Era of Work and Software | Ray Smith Listen on Apple , Spotify , YouTube , or wherever you get your podcasts by searching The GTM Podcast.

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Cold Calling Scale Microsoft Ideal Customer Profile 71

Fill the Funnel

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Igloo has been my #1 best-selling web page software in 2016. The post #1 Website Tool of 2016 appeared first on Fill the Funnel. It builds stunning web pages, landing pages, webinar registration pages, and with this new update – MEMBERSHIP sites. Works with WordPress or standard HTML websites.

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Tools Webinar Metrics Funnel Top of Funnel 48

SBI

OCTOBER 5, 2017

According to the CSO Insights 2016 Sales Enablement Optimization Study , 32.7% of surveyed organizations had a sales enablement function in 2016 (up from 25.5% Sales enablement is a hot topic at the moment, and a key priority for many sales organizations. Yet, as an industry, we’re failing badly at it. in 2015), but only 5.2%

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Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 13, 2017

In fact, 2016 data from CEB shows that the average buying group has increased from 5.4 Software, sales and marketing leaders need to start thinking differently for greater sales enablement and revenue generation. As if the “content shock” weren’t exhausting enough, buyers also have more internal touchpoints to deal with.

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Top of Funnel B2B Strategy Referrals 189

Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 17, 2018

When I started selling HubSpot software in 2007, no one had ever heard of inbound sales and marketing. As the exclusive provider of inbound software, we were able to scale the company quickly from several hundred to several thousand customers. But by that time, we had a sizable lead in the market. million riders.

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Loyalty Inbound Skype Scale 135

No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 24, 2017

percent of sales reps made quota in 2016. They invest dollars in upgrading ERP Systems, marketing, equipment, and software each year, but for some reason, they don’t see value in upgrading the education provided to their sales and service teams. They’re expected to land and expand within their named accounts. environments.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 28, 2017

What we are selling is not the software product – the set of all the features, in their specific implementation – because there are just not many buyers for this software product. The software just happens to be the part we’re able to build and ship (and the means for us to get our cut). million daily active users in March 2016.

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SalesLoft

AUGUST 12, 2016

Today Salesloft is excited to announce we are going Platinum at Dreamforce 2016. It’s a story we knew we had to tell… and a stage that attracted over 120,000 attendees to the largest software conference in the world was too much to resist. So, what’s on deck for Dreamforce 2016? But that’s all about to change.

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Crunchbase

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Industry: Productivity Tools, Scheduling, Software. Industry: Analytics, Basketball, Software, Sports. Industry: Audio, Collaboration, Messaging, Software. Founded in 2016 by Denise Woodard , the idea for the company came after Denise’s daughter Vivienne was diagnosed with severe food allergies. HQ: Atlanta, Georgia.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 1, 2020

Many of today’s fastest-growing software companies have something in common — their products can sell themselves. According to OpenView — the expansion stage software VC — there are more than 300 mature software companies that have embraced PLG. No Sales was to Atlassian the way no software was to Salesforce.

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Hiring Scale Enterprise Enterprise 97

No More Cold Calling

APRIL 1, 2016

To express my gratitude and celebrate this milestone, I am offering my No More Cold Calling book for 99 cents from the Kindle store for one day only: April 14, 2016. Simply go here on Thursday, April 14, 2016, between 12:01 a.m. Director of sales strategy at a large B2B software company, Amy is tenacious. and 11:59 p.m.

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Referrals Cold Calling Sales Qualified Lead Social Media 120

SalesLoft

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

And in the case of Dreamforce , the biggest software conference of the year, this is often those members’ chance to finally take it to the sea. Between the tips from both the seasoned travel vets and newly nomadic, find out how you can make the most out of your Dreamforce 2016 tickets this year: Make Yourself Visible to Your Prospects.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Check out these seven key points from Schuck: M&A Can Grow Your Company In Serendipitous Ways Despite Schuck’s success in starting and growing his own software-as-a-service company (originally called DiscoverOrg) there was one problem he struggled with: He couldn’t build a strong engineering team. “I

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No More Cold Calling

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

cloud software industry, discusses the importance of your online brand in this month’s guest post. Ian Moyse was rated #1 on “Social for Cloud” in both 2015 and 2016 by Onalytica , and “Top 20 for IOT” in 2016. Ian Moyse, an executive sales leader in the U.K. Here’s his take: “Nearly half of the world is online!

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Social Media Ideal Customer Profile Telecommunications Penetration 120

SBI

OCTOBER 12, 2017

A 2016 Bizible and TOPO report featuring ABM Insights and Recommendations confirmed that, “ABM outperforms a traditional marketing approach across a number of categories, including sales and marketing alignment, overall customer LTV, contract value, close rate, and ROI.” But, it’s a big change that nets even bigger results.

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Account Based Marketing Ideal Customer Profile Inbound Lead Rank 132

Sales Hacker

MARCH 12, 2024

He previously co-founded the cloud data pipeline company Stitch (acquired by Talend in 2018) and business intelligence platform RJMetrics (acquired by Adobe by way of Magento Commerce in 2016). Prior to RJMetrics, Bob worked on the Investment Team of Insight Partners. He guest lectures regularly at Princeton University and The Wharton School.

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Hotels Case Study Conference LinkedIn 123

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 2, 2019

IBM IBM has been a champion of our top ten list, appearing in 2016, 2018, and now 2019 at number one. Accenture Coming back from 2016 and 2017’s lists, Accenture comes back as one of our top ten yet again. Deloitte Deloitte ranked number one on our 2016 and 2017 lists, but was absent from our 2018 top ten. Revenue: $280.5

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Company Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank Lead Scoring 100

PandaDoc

MAY 15, 2020

With the unprecedented pandemic of COVID-19 that has forced many businesses to quickly adapt to remote life, signature software is one tool that every industry must now rely upon. Our software also generates a unique barcode that emphasizes its certificate authority. Originally published August 30, 2016, updated May 15, 2020.

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SalesLoft

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Sales software changes as rapidly as the sales landscape , which is to say at light-speed. While no one knows exactly what 2017 will bring, we predict that the future of sales software will introduce more customization and the power of big data analysis to all industries. 2016 saw continued growth for time spent on social media.

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Software Software Top of Funnel Social Media 52

OpenSymmetry

APRIL 29, 2016

The 2016 SPM Vendor Guide is an information resource that provides organizations an introduction to the leading suppliers of Sales Performance Management systems and solutions. The release of the 2016 SPM Vendor Guide comes at a busy time for OpenSymmetry as they prepare for various SPM vendor conference across the entire month of May.

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Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 16, 2020

The founders of Bryteboard , Sargun Kaur and Nicole Hardson Hurley, founded their business after recognizing fundamental flaws in the tech recruiting process — specifically when it came to technical interviews for software engineers. In 2015, Smith released AllHere — an AI-powered attendance intervention software for K-12 school districts.

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Scale Apparel Sage Remedy 140

Zoominfo

AUGUST 31, 2020

“It’s imperative to continually listen to what customers are saying , putting yourselves in the customers’ shoes and thinking of ways to better enable them,” Craig Williams, chief information officer at networking software company Ciena, told IDG Connect. Technology : Sales intelligence platforms and buyer intent software.

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Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank Marketing Loyalty 130

DiscoverOrg Sales

JANUARY 25, 2018

What started as a couple of college friends with an idea has grown over the years from 4 employees, to 20, to over 500 as of this writing – with revenue growth of over 50% from 2016 to 2017. Henry : Coupa software filed to go public this year. In general, business growth steps through five stages : Seed and Development.

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Scale Hiring Epiphany System 113

Sales and Marketing Management

AUGUST 18, 2017

Fellow Deadheads, Meerman is the author of “The New Rules of Marketing and PR” and Halligan is CEO and cofounder of marketing software behemoth HubSpot. Walton’s comments were written for the foreword of “Marketing Lessons from the Grateful Dead,” by David Meerman Scott and Brian Halligan.

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Lead Rank Marketing Strategy Trade Show 149