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20 Sales: The Biggest Challenges Building Outbound Sales Teams and How To Overcome Them | How The Best Sales Reps Do Customer Discovery | 2 Elements Sales Teams Are Always Responsible For | Sam Taylor, VP Sales and Customer Success @ Loom
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Sam Taylor is the VP of Sales and Customer Success @ Loom, an essential tool for hybrid and remote teams allowing you to record quick videos of your screen and cam. At Loom Sam leads Revenue Org including: Direct Sales, Customer Success, Self-Serve Revenue Growth/Assist, Sales Development, Global Customer Support, Revenue Ops + Strategy and Sales Enablement. Prior to Loom, Sam spent over 4 years at Salesforce, following their acquisition of Quip, where he was the first sales leader. Before Salesforce and Quip, Sam spent over 3 years at Dropbox as a mid-market sales leader.
In Today's Episode We Discuss:
1.) Entry into the World of Sales:
- How did Sam land his first big role in sales at Salesforce?
- How did the sales orgs differ when comparing Salesforce to Dropbox?
- What are 1-2 of Sam's biggest lessons from his time at Salesforce and Dropbox that shapes how he thinks today?
2.) Sales People Should Be Customer Therapists:
- What is the right way to approach customer discovery?
- How can sales reps get potential customers on a call in the first place?
- What are the right questions to ask? What engenders the most honesty?
- What are the wrong questions to ask? What are common mistakes?
- How do the best sales reps then feed that back to customer success and product?
3.) The When and The Who:
- When should founders consider hiring their first sales hire?
- Should this hire be a sales leader or a sales rep? What are the nuances?
- What are the characteristics of the best first sales hires?
- What are the first sales hires really on the hook for?
- Why does Sam disagree with the word "playbook" and instead suggest "frameworks"?
4.) How To Hire The Best: The Process
- What are Sam's lessons on what it takes to hire the very best sales reps?
- What are the right questions to ask in the interview process?
- What tangible case studies or tests are done to measure quality?
- Who is brought into the hiring process and at what stage?
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20 Sales: The Biggest Challenges Building Outbound Sales Teams and How To Overcome Them | How The Best Sales Reps Do Customer Discovery | 2 Elements Sales Teams Are Always Responsible For | Sam Taylor, VP Sales and Customer Success @ Loom
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
Manage episode 334902751 series 73567
Sam Taylor is the VP of Sales and Customer Success @ Loom, an essential tool for hybrid and remote teams allowing you to record quick videos of your screen and cam. At Loom Sam leads Revenue Org including: Direct Sales, Customer Success, Self-Serve Revenue Growth/Assist, Sales Development, Global Customer Support, Revenue Ops + Strategy and Sales Enablement. Prior to Loom, Sam spent over 4 years at Salesforce, following their acquisition of Quip, where he was the first sales leader. Before Salesforce and Quip, Sam spent over 3 years at Dropbox as a mid-market sales leader.
In Today's Episode We Discuss:
1.) Entry into the World of Sales:
- How did Sam land his first big role in sales at Salesforce?
- How did the sales orgs differ when comparing Salesforce to Dropbox?
- What are 1-2 of Sam's biggest lessons from his time at Salesforce and Dropbox that shapes how he thinks today?
2.) Sales People Should Be Customer Therapists:
- What is the right way to approach customer discovery?
- How can sales reps get potential customers on a call in the first place?
- What are the right questions to ask? What engenders the most honesty?
- What are the wrong questions to ask? What are common mistakes?
- How do the best sales reps then feed that back to customer success and product?
3.) The When and The Who:
- When should founders consider hiring their first sales hire?
- Should this hire be a sales leader or a sales rep? What are the nuances?
- What are the characteristics of the best first sales hires?
- What are the first sales hires really on the hook for?
- Why does Sam disagree with the word "playbook" and instead suggest "frameworks"?
4.) How To Hire The Best: The Process
- What are Sam's lessons on what it takes to hire the very best sales reps?
- What are the right questions to ask in the interview process?
- What tangible case studies or tests are done to measure quality?
- Who is brought into the hiring process and at what stage?
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