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Service Level and Occupancy with Dan Smitley
Why Service Level & Occupancy? Dan Smitley is a 20 year workforce management industry expert and knows the difference between focusing on both service level and occupancy can make versus just one of the two KPIs. It provides a baseline for both the customer experience and the agent experience. Without one, you can’t have the other.…
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Training and Coaching Your Contact Center Supervisors
Why training and coaching are important One of the most important parts of a successful contact center is the leadership team. Training and coaching your contact center supervisors are just as important as the agents. Experts are constantly listing ways to help agents improve their performance, but supervisors are often forgotten about when it comes…
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Career Growth: From BDR to AE
The traditional path for a SaaS sales The career path in SaaS sales is generally BDR to AE to Manager and/or Director of Sales to CRO (if your desire is to get that high in a sales org). Like any other career path, there are steps and milestones for each along the way. Today, we’re…
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Is software sales a good career in 2023?
Breaking into SaaS Sales Over the past couple of years, friends and family have expressed interest in learning more about how not only to break into software sales but also succeed in software sales. I can see why they are intrigued. The earning potential. The flexibility to work remotely. The career progression potential. And of…
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Q&A with Cole Ackerman, Director of Sales Development
Today we’ve got the inside scoop on the one and only Cole Ackerman. Cole is the Director of Sales Development at Abstrakt! Cole lives and breathes sales and can have a conversation with anyone. From his SaaS sales experience at PandaDoc and OfficeSpace Software, he brings a creative approach to Abstrakt. Learn all about why…
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Lose the Distractions & Get to Work
Taylor Stevens, Client Success Lead at NextPatient, joins us to talk about the transition to the startup world and how… The first piece of advice is communication. If you aren’t on the same page as your Founder(s), it makes your … Plus we talked all about how & when to grow your team …
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Starting from scratch & building your future
Making the decision to join an early-stage startup is already risky, but to join and build a thriving Customer Success function (with no CS background)… that’s bold. But that’s what Matt Hensler, Founder & Executive Consultant at inswing, did. He pivoted from marketing to customer success. However, his agency background of knowing how to provide…
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Making the Leap from Corporate to Startup
Taylor Stevens, Client Success Lead at NextPatient, joins us to talk about the transition to the startup world and how… The first piece of advice is communication. If you aren’t on the same page as your Founder(s), it makes your … Plus we talked all about how & when to grow your team …
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Building an Anti-Fragile Sales Team
We’ve broken this down into four sections. While you could easily add a lot more, this process needs to be simple otherwise you won’t stick to it. Just like your core values, you hire and fire based on your principles.
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As Bruce Arians would say… no risk it, no biscuit
Spencer Fossen, our VP of Customer Success, got to join Clare Dobson on The Startup Sidekick podcast. He has already made a tremendous impact here and if you’re looking to learn about career progression, this is the episode for you. From sales to customer success, it’s all about relationship building.
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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence
In the first episode of The Startup Sidekick Podcast. Kyle Burnett joins Clare Dobson to discuss what it’s like being on the ground floor as a Co-Founder and if all of the hard work was worth it. Plus here about his new adventure, Little Taller.