The Demand Efficiency Podcast

Podcast

Audio

Demand Generation

Growth

RiSE Accelerator Founder, Mandy Cole on Hiring 400+ sales reps in one year, and the value of continually seeking feedback.

Episode Outline

[04:39] Mandy’s background

[07:16] Discovering that running a company, it's evident it's an emotional business.

[10:13] Take time to really take a step back and use data as your foundation.

[11:18] While that looks great in a spreadsheet, it doesn't work in real life because until you have a process that's documented and that you can measure, and that is getting consistent results.

[12:04] Think deeply what needs to happen to hit your goal and direction you’re going to, based on what you have so far, make some assumptions on conversion, what type of pipeline you need, how many new opportunities

[14:34] Consider how many demos there, do they need to have a week or how many discovery calls depending on what type of sales cycle they are, how many discovery calls?

[16:35] Where is our product actually fit right now? And how are we going to attack that?

[17:04] Figuring out how to hold people accountable and then the second part was how to implement that correctly with the team

[19:22] The way to break the sales process into the four main categories

[20:19] Why Mandy really loves mentoring people and leading a team in house


Mandy's inspirations

Mark Roberge

Jeremy Liew

Connect with Mandy

Mandy Cole

Twitter

The Demand Efficiency Podcast

Podcast

Audio

Demand Generation

Growth

In this conversation with Matt Young, CEO at UserVoice, he talks about retention and product.

Today, you’ll hear about finding the a-ha moment, the customer journey, Matt’s top of mind thoughts around retention and product, the greater noise-to-signal in the industry today, the main problems Matt sees in companies doing user research, when and how to re-evaluate and recalibrate your value proposition, and the future of UserVoice.

As a leader in SaaS, product management, and product management, Matt has been challenging what it means to deliver great SaaS products for over 20 years. Prior to his current role as CEO of UserVoice, he served as VP of Engineering and President of UserVoice, as VP and CTO at Vodori, and as a Senior Analyst at Duke University. Since 2020, Matt has been a Product School Featured Speaker. Matt holds a BSc in Computer Science from Syracuse University and an MSc in Computer Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Episode Outline

[01:20] What’s most top of mind for Matt around retention and product?

[02:21] The a-ha moment and the customer journey

[05:35] Today’s greater noise-to-signal

[07:37] Re-evaluating and recalibrating on your value proposition

[09:27] Primary problems in companies’ user research

[12:13] UserVoice today and in the future

[14:48] Matt’s influential people

Matt’s Mentors

All the people he has wronged along the way.

Rahul Vohra

Connect with Matt

LinkedIn

Website

Connect with Matter Made 

Website

LinkedIn (Matter Made)

LinkedIn (Elias Rubel, CEO, Matter Made)

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