SalesLoft CEO, Kyle Porter, discusses exactly what SalesLoft does to hire, train, and succeed in the sales development arena, From culture to compensation. Transcript: So, one of the questions I get all the time is, how do you do inbound? How do you do outbound? How do you hire? How do you train? We get all these questions about sales development and uh, oftentimes on our blog, we try to showcase things that our customers are experiencing and that the industry's experiencing, but we also wake up every day and say, "If our sales development organization isn't fantastic, then we won't be representing this industry the way we want to." So, we put a lot of time and effort into making our sales development organization run smoothly. So today, I just wanted to showcase some of the things we're doing. It's not all the things, but just some of the things we're doing are unique or different that I thought, "Hey, you might want to see and pay attention to." So, the first slide I'm going to put up and show you, it's really what I consider to be some of the pillars of our sales development organization. (swallows) So what we'll do, is we'll talk about these throughout the presentation. [00:01:00] The first one here is that we glorify the role. We talked yesterday about how companies have under prioritized sales development and it's almost become like the stepchild of the sales organization. But, what we've done at Sales Loft is, we've made sure that it becomes a big priority. And so, some of the ways we do this is we run contests, we run promotions, we run things that really showcase how important they are to the company. Um, the second one on here is that you've gotta be metrics driven. This top of the funnel sales and modern selling environment is so, uh, there's so much volume and so much kind of high velocity happening, that you've gotta be able to track the numbers, and then investing in people is absolutely critical. So we want to make sure that we hire the right people, that we give them mentorship, we give them training. We give them the coaching they need, and the guidance to be successful. And then, we want to have the right process. And uh, in Ap-, in March of last year, Sales Loft raised our first institutional round of [00:02:00] financing. We raised 10 million dollars from a venture capital firm in California, and this then begun my board deck preparation, board meetings, forecasting. I guess, kind of real CEO job requirements. And so, with sales development, you can forecast sales, and you can predict the future, you you can plan for who you need to hire and how you need to hire them. So that's part of this seats pipeline. And then we want to drive efficiency. We talked a lot about how we don't want to be in an environment where we're blasting and scorching the earth of our prospect universe. We want to be efficient. So, these are the pillars. We're going to start by showing our org chart.