7 Tips To Building The Ultimate Sales Team For Growth 2023

Building and growing a winning sales team is complex and nuanced, because your business is unique in culture, proposition and situation. But, one thing that scale-ups ALL have in common right now is the pressure on revenue targets and the urgent need to drive sales for growth in 2023.

10 leaders and founders from breakthrough companies like Workable, CharlieHR and GoCardless generously shared their advice and experiences. We combined their intel with our own market insights and expertise to bring you 7 guiding principles for any scale-up building a sales team.

It’s choc-full of on-the-ground insights - all the dos and don’ts with real life examples from founders and leaders of breakthrough companies in SAAS, fintech & healthtech.

Meet the Panel


If you are a scale-up looking to smash your 2023 targets, YOU NEED OUR LATEST REPORT.

In this report, we cover the 7 tips you need to know:

  1. Your first hire - dos and don’ts

  2. Creating a winning sales team structure

  3. Why sales for scale-ups are different

  4. What is essential Vs nice-to-have

  5. Hybrid working for today’s sales teams

  6. Building a powerful sales culture

  7. Mistakes to avoid


 
The reality is that if you get the hiring
right, all the rest looks after itself. If you
are a start-up or a scale-up…
— Neil Weston, Openmind Networks, Cyber & SAAS.

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  • Understand your requirements and challenges,

  • Define your business objectives,

  • Set realistic budgets,

  • Create the perfect job spec, and

  • Identify the best hiring solution for you.


About us

Santa Monica Talent supports game-changing brands achieve their explosive growth targets. We help build exceptional sales, marketing, HR, product, operations and leadership teams. We provide services designed for Series A, B, and C scale-ups, or high growth companies of 20 to 200 people. The Santa Monica team has a successful record of C-level hiring across the technology industry -including fintech, insurtech, crypto, healthtech,HR software, SAAS, AI, and social impact.

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