Revenue Insights Podcast

In this episode of Sales Ops Demystified, Tom Hunt and Alex Freeman are joined by Brian McTeague, VP of Revenue Operations at FastSpring. They discuss Brian's journey from finance to sales and rev ops, FastSpring's growth goals for 2022, and the role of support ops as the combination of sales and rev ops.

In this episode of Sales Ops Demystified, Tom Hunt and Alex Freeman are joined by Sandy Robinson, Vice President of Revenue Operations at NYMBUS. They discuss Sandy's journey into sales and rev ops, how to enhance sales rep's functional and performance efficiency, and how to keep it simple for sales reps.

In this episode of Sales Ops Demystified, Tom Hunt and Alex Freeman are joined by Michael Hanna, Lead RevOps Function at Intuit, Shopify and Clio. They discuss the fundamentals of team building, how to motivate sales reps, and the benefits of eliminating sales-based incentives.

In this week's episode of Sales Ops Demystified, Tom Hunt and Alex Freeman are joined by Antoine Leprince, Revenue Operations Manager at EasyMovie. They discuss how to create a unified rev ops workflow, how to accelerate sales, CRM, and sales operations through video platforms, and Antoine's growth objectives for 2022.

In this episode of Sales Ops Demystified, Tom Hunt and Alex Freeman are joined by Hank Taylor, Vice President of Marketing and Revenue Operations at Vercel. They discuss Hank's transition into marketing and rev ops, how data analysis increases productivity, and the benefits of transferring data in the Salesforce Service Cloud.

In this episode of Sales Ops Demystified, Tom Hunt and Alex Freeman are joined by Aaron Le, Director of Revenue Ops at Rev.com. They discuss why it's important to move from a fragmented sales ops structure into a unified Rev Ops team, what makes the biggest difference in throughput for Rev Ops teams, and the process of documenting your sales process as you grow.

In this episode of Sales Ops Demystified, Tom Hunt is joined by Cyndi Dozal, Sr. Director of Revenue Operations at ChowNow. They discuss the need for financial exposure early on in your sales/rev ops career, creating a strategic sales and customer service workflow for high-ticket leads, and how Cyndi's Rev Ops team works across functions to support them as they pivot in the post-pandemic world.

In this episode of Sales Ops Demystified, Tom Hunt is joined by David O'Neill, Consulting Partner at RAIN Group. They discuss the evolution of Sales Ops over 25 years in the industry, major shifts in the industry, and how to have a positive and productive relationship with sales reps.

In this episode of Sales Ops Demystified, Tom Hunt is joined by Demar Amacker, Director of Revenue Ops at Zift Solutions. They discuss the value of frontline sales experience for a sales ops professional, how to help low-performing sales reps, and setting up Zift's Revenue Ops function and supporting team.

In this episode of Sales Ops Demystified, Tom Hunt and Alex Freeman are joined by Siva Rajamani, former Director and Head of Revenue Ops at Freshworks. He is currently the Co-founder and CEO of Everstage. They discuss the importance of making incentives visible and adding gamification for customer-facing teams, ways to improve the sales commissions process for entry-stage companies, and the proces...

In this episode of Sales Ops Demystified, Tom Hunt and Alex Freeman are joined by Gabriel Rothman, VP of Revenue Operations (and former Senior Director of Revenue Ops) at Rescale. They discuss important behavioral factors to consider for accurate lead scoring, how to build an intent-based behavioral model to increase SDR efficiency, and how to minimize conflicts when scaling multiple partner chann...

In this episode of Sales Ops Demystified, Tom Hunt is joined by Susan Metz, Senior Manager, Sales Operations at Turnitin. They discuss why a salesperson might transition into a sales ops role, the lessons she learned during her career in sales ops, and the challenges in merging multiple instances of several tools.

In this episode of Sales Ops Demystified, Tom Hunt and Alex Freeman are joined by Akira Mamizuka, Vice President of Global Sales Operations, SaaS at LinkedIn. They discuss the most impactful sales ops activity for LinkedIn in 2021, how LinkedIn works to improve the well-being of their employees, and how the sales ops planning process changes when a company expands to multiple geographies.

In this episode of Sales Ops Demystified, Tom Hunt is joined by Cameron Bumstead, Former Senior Sales Ops Analyst at BigTime Software and Current Revenue Ops Consultant at Go Nimbly. They discuss transitioning into sales ops, how to enable sales reps to be more productive, and the importance of a dedicated sales coordinator role.

In this episode of Sales Ops Demystified, Tom Hunt and Alex Freeman are joined by Kenny Hsu, VP of Revenue Operations at AuditBoard. They discuss how sales leadership differs from the sales ops function, how sales reps can bring out the best value of their company through pricing flexibility, and how internal relationships can help secure investment in sales ops team expansion.

In this episode of Sales Ops Demystified, Tom Hunt and Alex Freeman are joined by Neil Thomson, Global Director of Sales Operations, Corporate Solutions at JLL. They discuss how to tell a story through data, building data-driven storytelling skills in your team, the key focus of Sales Ops teams, and how Sales teams can make the best use of their data.

In this episode of Sales Ops Demystified, Tom Hunt and Alex Freeman are joined by Dana Therrien, Senior Vice President, Worldwide Revenue Operations at Genesys. They discuss the biggest trend in Sales Ops, why a company should reflect on its sales ops culture, and what they can do to create a culture of enrichment in Sales Ops.

In this episode of Sales Ops Demystified, Tom Hunt and Alex Freeman are joined by Peter Charshafian, Senior Sales Excellence Manager at GlobalWebIndex. They discuss how Sales Ops roles are being thought of as "Sales Excellence" roles, how data helps build a baseline level of trust across entire organizations, and how to build standardized dashboards.

In this episode of Sales Ops Demystified, Tom Hunt and Alex Freeman are joined by Jani Levӓnen, Director of Sales Operations at Iron Mountain. They discuss how sales ops should be positioned in relation to the sales team, how to get started on creating a globalized sales ops function, and how to bring simplicity to your sales process so that you don't overload the sales team.

In this episode of Sales Ops Demystified, Tom Hunt and Alex Freeman are joined by Carl-Johan Färnström, Head of Business Operations at Mynewsdesk. They discuss CJ's journey from Sales Ops to Business Ops, cleaning up Mynewsdesk's tech stack, and how they plan to overcome Salesforce CPQ implementation problems.

In this episode of Sales Ops Demystified, Tom Hunt and Alex Freeman are joined by Kathy Chou, Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales Strategy and Operations at VMWare. They discuss the role of sales enablement in the digital world, how to measure its ROI, and uniting sales ops with marketing and customer success ops through sales enablement.

In this episode of Sales Ops Demystified, Tom Hunt and Alex Freeman are joined by Zahra Bukhari, Senior Sales Operations Manager at Klaviyo. They discuss Zahra's organic growth in her sales ops career, how Klaviyo's sales ops team is growing to support their expansion, and how first-time managers can approach delegating work and detach from their previous roles.

In this episode of Sales Ops Demystified, Tom Hunt is joined by Martin Levesque, Former Director of Sales Operations at FairWarning®. They discuss why Sales Ops as an internal consultancy team is a good idea, how sales ops teams can be better consultants to internal teams, and why industrial knowledge is so important to sales processes.

In this episode of Sales Ops Demystified, Tom Hunt is joined by Adam Ecevedo, Former Sales Operations Manager at Tableau Software. They discuss using data to enable sales reps to be more effective, how to be more data-driven, and handling data quality issues in sales ops.

In this episode of Sales Ops Demystified, Tom Hunt is joined by Will Brown, Director of Sales Operations at Loadsmart. They discuss an overview of Loadsmart's sales ops strategy, how to weaponize your sales team, and drive efficiency in prospecting through "sales ops qualified" leads.