Atlassian has a sales staff. Atlassian has a sales staff. Atlassian has a sales staff. Atlassian employs many people whose job it is to be on the phone all day with potential customers. This is just marketing. Take it with a grain of salt.
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Atlassian sold $320M worth of software with no sales staff
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Re: Atlassian sold $320M worth of software with no sales staff
#22Atlassian has a sales staff. Atlassian has a sales staff. Atlassian has a sales staff. Atlassian employs many people whose job it is to be on the phone all day with potential customers. This is just marketing. Take it with a grain of salt.
Re: Atlassian sold $320M worth of software with no sales staff
#23Is the boasting about"no salespeople" suggesting that they do not do outbound sales I.e actively working to drive sales?
Either way, wearing "no salespeople" as a badge of honor seems misguided, only technical people would value that. A well run sales operation is a key component of a healthy company.
Re: Atlassian sold $320M worth of software with no sales staff
#24>"Atlassian sold $320M worth of software with no engineering staff"
They just have to change job titles from software engineer to software expert
Re: Atlassian sold $320M worth of software with no sales staff
#25Sales team means, people who try to sell product aggressively or try to convince you with calls, emails etc.
They dont need that kind of team. As they said, product already speaks for itself. They dont need to focus sales.
How many JIRA owners get a mail/call from Atlassian? For sale?
Re: Atlassian sold $320M worth of software with no sales staff
#26Atlassian has a sales staff. Atlassian has a sales staff. Atlassian has a sales staff. Atlassian employs many people whose job it is to be on the phone all day with potential customers. This is just marketing. Take it with a grain of salt.
Re: Atlassian sold $320M worth of software with no sales staff
#27OFC they have, but; Sales team means, people who try to sell product aggressively or try to convince you with calls, emails etc. They dont need that kind of team. As they said, product already speaks for itself. They dont need to focus sales. How many JIRA owners get a mail/call from Atlassian? For sale?
How many JIRA owners get a direct contact from Atlassian? Every one which is likely to turn into an enterprise client.
Re: Atlassian sold $320M worth of software with no sales staff
#28When you want to buy 50k licenses of JIRA, there is a "Contact Us" button. The person who is responding to that email is a salesperson.
Re: Atlassian sold $320M worth of software with no sales staff
#29>Tesla doesn't have sales people, You go into an apple store, [and] they don't have sales people. God, I love these word games. Tesla doesn't have sales people; they have Product Specialists [0]. Tesla doesn't have sales people; they have Specialists [1] and Experts [2]. [0] https://www.teslamotors.com/en_GB/careers/job/product-specia... [1] https://jobs.apple.com/us/search?job=USASP#&openJobId=USASP [2] https://jobs…
Re: Atlassian sold $320M worth of software with no sales staff
#30>Tesla doesn't have sales people, You go into an apple store, [and] they don't have sales people. God, I love these word games. Tesla doesn't have sales people; they have Product Specialists [0]. Tesla doesn't have sales people; they have Specialists [1] and Experts [2]. [0] https://www.teslamotors.com/en_GB/careers/job/product-specia... [1] https://jobs.apple.com/us/search?job=USASP#&openJobId=USASP [2] https://jobs…