The Demand Efficiency Podcast

Podcast

Audio

Demand Generation

Growth

Scott Leese on the importance of getting sales ops right in B2B SaaS before hyperscale

In this episode, Elias Rubel interviews Scott Leese of Scott Leese Consulting, LLC. A company founded with a focus on companies scaling from $0 - $25m ARR. Scott work with both domestic and international companies on sales strategy, process, people, pitch, and more. Listen to this episode to learn more on building and scaling a sales team.

Episode Outline

[04:39] Having the mindset of hustling and outworking everybody

[06:16] The purpose of writing his new book

[10:10] How investing in sales operations help scale the company

[12:04] Thoughts on recruiting and training people

[14:34] The bias and mistakes founders usually make

[16:35] How to communicate to your prospects in a way that is relevant to their needs

[19:22] The regret of not having a sales mentor or business mentor


Scott's Inspirations

Mike Lindstrom

Richard Harris

John Barrows

Kevin Dorsey


Connect with Scott

scottleeseconsulting.com

LinkedIn

Twitter

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Scott Leese blog

The Demand Efficiency Podcast

Podcast

Audio

Demand Generation

Growth

In this episode, we have Hiten Shah, founder of multiple successful companies, including Crazy Egg, KISSmetrics, and FYI. He shares the knowledge he has gained from starting the businesses and also how being curious about observing other businesses has helped him along the way.

Hiten explains the power of branding, highlighting three keywords: New, Different and Right. He also mentions the importance of setting the right intention with content as well as producing high-quality content which is in understanding of the market and its people.

He later mentions why identifying immature and mature channels and understanding the difference is key while scaling a business and also gives out the criteria he uses to evaluate channels.

Outline of this Episode

  • Content marketing - Hiten talks about the potential customer journey whether it's decisions around purchase or landscape of the product.
  • WebTraffic - FYI focuses on content that is specifically aligned with the audience.
  • The Audience - Hiten shares his experience on the selection and understanding of your audience.
  • Market research - FYI focuses on understanding the customer experience and sentiment analysis.
  • Channels - Hiten describes managing them and scoring channels.
  • Blog content - Hiten shares the importance of creating the structure and time needed to be put in before seeing results.


Hiten's Inspirations

  • Joel Gascoigne (Buffer)
  • Nathan Barry (Convertkit)
  • Matthew Kobach
  • Eric Yuan (Zoom)
  • Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson (Basecamp, previously 37Signals)


Connect with Hiten

LinkedIn

Twitter

Facebook

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