Ben Cotton

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Sales Enablement Metrics for SaaS Businesses
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Sales Enablement Metrics for SaaS Businesses

I’m privileged to lead sales enablement for HubSpot out of EMEA and as part of my role I get to set the direction, goals and KPIs of the team. Helping our rapidly expanding sales team in Dublin, Ireland to succeed is challenging, rewarding and lots of fun. But selecting the right metrics to gauge the impact of sales enablement is tough.

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Building a SaaS Sales and Marketing Engine
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Building a SaaS Sales and Marketing Engine

The inherent predictability of the software as a service (SaaS) business model makes it attractive to business leaders, customers and investors alike. Predictable costs and revenue can and should lead to predictable growth. You also need to build a sales and marketing engine that generates enough high quality leads for your sales team to close each month.

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Five Business Lessons from David Ogilvy
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Five Business Lessons from David Ogilvy

Travelling through Bavaria by train on a recent holiday I took the opportunity to read Ogilvy on Advertising by David Ogilvy, an advertising executive widely lauded as the ‘King of Madison Avenue’. For those unfamiliar with Ogilvy’s background, he founded Ogilvy & Mather in 1948 and laid much of the groundwork for the agency to become the success story we know and admire.

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