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Stack Overflow EMEA Maintained a 1% Sales Attrition Rate Over 5 Years
“And at Stack Overflow, our attrition rate for EMEA for the five years I was managing the team was just one percent.”
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Stanimiroff: Traditional sales management models breed internal backstabbing over collaboration
“That type of mentality kind of creates the wrong
culture and environment in the sales team and leads to a very poisonous environment.
If I was to ask you guys, what are the first things that you associate with the word sales team?
It wouldn't be collaboration…”
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Stanimiroff: One in ten SaaS sales teams suffers 50% attrition
“One in 10 teams would actually experience attrition as high as 50%.”
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Stanimiroff: Scaling sales is bottlenecked by finding management, not reps
“Once you start scaling, one of the biggest bottlenecks that you have in your team is not your ability necessarily to hire salespeople, which is actually very hard, but more importantly to hire decent sales management.”
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Stanimiroff: Burndown charts reveal how sales happened, not just totals
“The conventional bar chart only shows you what happened, how much we closed, and the burnout actually shows you not only that, what happened, but more importantly, how it happened. So you're not only able to see the results, but you're actually able to see wha…”
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Stanimiroff: Sales reps often do not realize goal deficits until mid-month
“If a salesperson or the team in the example I gave you before, start slipping behind goal, and they start losing their track a little bit, it's very often the case that they don't really appreciate the gravity of their situation up until it's too late. So in m…”
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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.”
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Stanimiroff: Hierarchical burndowns pinpoint sales target slippage to individual deals
“Should you actually start sleeping behind goal and the lines start opening up, you can easily, within a few clicks, track it to a regional office, To a smaller team within the office, to an individual and to a deal, which makes it super actionable in terms of …”
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Stanimiroff: Inside SaaS sales teams average a 34% annual attrition rate
“So, the average attrition rate inside SaaS sales team is 34%, which is quite significant.”
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Stanimiroff: Stack Overflow's European Sales Grew Bookings 130% Year-on-Year
“After five years of Stack Overflow, we basically built a team that was growing a hundred percent, a 130% on average in bookings year on year, which for SaaS companies is pretty substantial.”
