160: Building a sales team: what you need to get right early with Zach Barney
On this edition of The Predictable Revenue Podcast, co-host Collin Stewart welcomes Zach Barney, Founder of Zach Barney Enterprises, a growing sales consultancy working with product-driven founders from a host of different verticals. Zach is a vertan sales leader – he’s led sales teams from numerous different startups, contributed to Sales Hacker, and now leads his own burgeoning consultancy. Throughout the pod, Collin and Zach discuss the early decisions CEOs and sales leaders need to make to get growth right. Highlights include: the benefits of thinking about sales growth early (2:11), the first thing you need to get nailed (6:37), buyer personas (11:25), tracking what’s resonating (15:48), the almighty CRM system (17:04), marketing automation (26:05), and the getting the right data (38:04).