sales quota

also referred to as: sales quotas

7 statements across 7 episodes · 3 bullish · 1 bearish · 6 people on the record · first statement Aug 14, 2018 by Dimitri Stanimiroff · across every show →

Everything said about sales quota, oldest first

Aug 14, 2018 positive
Insight
Stanimiroff: Breaking monthly sales quotas into weekly sprints improves forecast predictability
“Instead of thinking of, I've got 20 days to do 200 K, we basically will split the month into sprints. So, small increments of time that are easier to manage, and we almost would set many targets for each one of them.”
Dimitri Stanimiroff Aug 14, 2018 ▶ 19:02 Sales Rep 2.0: How to Make Sales Agile with Heresy
Nov 30, 2021
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Lemkin: SaaS sales quotas at scale range from 3x to 5x OTE
“At scale, we end up at these three X, four X, five X numbers, right? Which is quotas are an SMB, usually three X, your full, your fully burdened comp, your on target earnings, your OT, up to five X in the enterprise.”
Jason Lemkin Nov 30, 2021 ▶ 17:25 Scaling a Successful SaaS Sales Team w/ 20VC Founder Harry Stebbings and SaaStr Founder Jason Lemkin
Jan 25, 2022 negative
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Bailey: Setting artificially high sales quotas fails to drive success
“We say, we set the targets super high, and then they'll get further than they ever would have gotten if we hadn't set the target that high. But that doesn't work. Because they're not with us. They're not creating that success. We're not a team working together…”
Melissa Murray Bailey Jan 25, 2022 ▶ 3:41 Driving Peak Performance through Reimagined Management with Hootsuite CRO Melissa Murray Bailey
Mar 28, 2022
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Blond: Companies should set quotas so roughly 70% of reps hit target
“Philosophically you want some consistency with those targets, but also you want something like 70% of your sales team over target or over quota.”
Sam Blond Mar 28, 2022 ▶ 15:59 How to Set and Hit Revenue Targets with Sam Blond, CRO at Brex | SaaStr Software Community
Aug 16, 2022 positive
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Binch: Monthly Sales Quotas Instill Better Operational Urgency Than Quarterly Quotas
“By being on a monthly quota, you get 12 viewpoints Into your business that way. You get the ability to see 12 different views as opposed to thinking about it in quarterly basis where you have that big run up for the last couple of days of a quarter. I think ab…”
Bill Binch Aug 16, 2022 ▶ 9:48 SaaS Secret Sauce: How the CEO/CRO Dynamic Drives Growth | Marketo’s Former EVP Sales Bill Binch
Oct 24, 2024 neutral
Assertion Supported
Tunguz: Average SaaS company raised sales quotas 14% year-over-year
“So the average respondents company increased quota, 14% year over year, which is higher than inflation.”
Tomasz Tunguz Oct 24, 2024 ▶ 11:10 The State of SaaS Go-to-Market l Theory Ventures General Partner Tomasz Tunguz #saas #b2bsaas
Mar 5, 2025 positive
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Blonde: Early startups can manufacture winning cultures by setting highly attainable quotas
“You can manufacture what I would describe as like a culture of winning or an environment where people are making good money. And what I mean by that is like, you set the quota, you decide what the commission structure is. And if early on, you want to be delibe…”
Sam Blond Mar 5, 2025 ▶ 27:36 How Windsurf Built A Billion-Dollar AI Leader and a Winning Sales Machine
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