Valuize Consulting

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

A recent Towers Watson study revealed that businesses with a strong employee experience sustained a 4% bump in revenue while those with a poor experience saw revenue fall by 1%. Development Programs. 41% of employees consider career development and personal growth opportunities important to their job satisfaction ( SHRM , 2017).

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 14, 2018

The General Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR) was a key component that was highlighted in Sales Hacker’s sales trends and predictions for 2018. This article dives into an overview of the GDPR, the good, the bad, and the grey areas around this new data privacy regulation. Before we begin, let’s set a few things straight.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2021

If you’re a senior engineer and want to further your career, what skills should you develop? Moving forward in your career, avoid the trap of doing work that feels high-impact, but it’s actually not , or work that makes you look good at the expense of the project and the team. How do people move into staff engineering roles?

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Guided selling with Revenue Grid allows you to guide reps step-by-step through every deal, reducing guesswork and increasing consistency so your teams have the best odds with every opportunity in the pipeline. See how you can put your sales teams in the best position to win now at revenuegrid.com/saleshacker. Callie Moriarty: Hi Sam.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 14, 2018

The 8 Types of Salespeople in EVERY B2B Team. Coaching for Sales Success: Developing Your Own Model. A coaching study released in August 2018 identified that 48.2% A coaching study released in August 2018 identified that 48.2% Every coaching goal should be a specific activity to change or a specific skill to develop.

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Chart Mogul

MARCH 1, 2022

In the summer of 2018, we conducted extensive research into alternative pricing models. While preparing for the pricing migration, we determined that the account management team would take the lead on the project since we anticipated that re-selling and additional onboarding would be necessary to migrate some of these accounts successfully.

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Chart Mogul

MAY 7, 2020

Onboarding a new member of your sales team is challenging on its own, but especially so when they have to call prospects out of the blue. Providing the right cold calling training can make or break the success of a new team member. Explain their existing sales process and what they learned in the course of developing it.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 8, 2019

How do you keep up with such breakneck development? By building a nimble, swashbuckling team that relishes tackling new challenges on the high seas of marketing. One of the biggest shifts that Meghan has made is to the way her team is organized. Source: HubSpot Research, State of Inbound 2018.

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Casey Accidental

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The Summit gathered ~40 CPOs and product leaders to chat through topics centered around product development and product-led growth. Most companies when they find product/market fit with their first product only have one acquisition and engagement loop that is successful, and the job of most of the team is to refine and scale those loops.

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The Angel VC

DECEMBER 12, 2018

While this is generally true for most companies, it’s particularly true for SaaS businesses, which invest heavily in product development, sales, and marketing upfront and get payments from customers over a delayed period of time, usually several years. The main reason is that your customer acquisition costs are highly front-loaded.

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BetterCloud

AUGUST 25, 2022

And in both of those jobs, my teams were responsible for understanding how to attract top talent—and more importantly, how to retain your best employees. But in 2018, Gallup found that only 12% of employees strongly agree that their organization does a great job of onboarding new employees.

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Unbounce

AUGUST 29, 2019

And while we considered illustrations, our design team ultimately decided to go in a different direction. As marketers trying to stand out in an increasingly competitive industry—is it bad for us to follow design trends? You almost always need to scope out a big chunk of your marketing team’s time, budget, and brainpower.

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Neil Patel

DECEMBER 22, 2022

It became especially critical after the August 2018 Google Medic update. For example, a medical site giving out bad health advice may result in severe health consequences for users who follow the information. Collab with experts like you : Team up with another brand via guest posts or research. Conclusion.

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InsightSquared

JANUARY 2, 2020

In Forrester’s Goal-KPI-Action-Data (GKAD) Framework , researchers note, “In both 2017 and 2018, global data and analytics decision makers reported that, on average, their firms based just 45% of business decisions on quantitative information and analysis versus gut feelings or opinions.” . Too many decisions are based on gut-feel.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In this episode, a16z partner Seema Amble talks with Dimitri Dadiomov, the co-founder and CEO of payment operations platform Modern Treasury, about the challenges of creating a new category, hiring for marketing before you hire for sales, and why developing new features is similar to birding. It was maybe like a 4 or 5 person team.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 17, 2018

In this guide, I will teach you the fundamentals of Lead Qualification for inbound and outbound sales development, and give you actionable steps you can take to maximize your Revenue per Lead. Sales and Marketing Alignment is a trending topic and the role of Sales Development has been growing fast. What Is Lead Qualification?

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Frontegg

JUNE 24, 2021

This self-service authentication solution also has an active developer community. This UK-based company is a leading passwordless Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) solution provider today, despite entering the market just in 2018. Keyless.io. As the name suggests, PingZero is the passwordless enterprise MFA solution on offer here.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 31, 2020

So, yes, it’s time to start a conversation about mental health on your sales team. But there is no such thing as only freezing out bad emotions. The sales community does not have a good track record with sales manager promotions or manager skill development. So strap in, because it’s about to get real, folks.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 18, 2022

Sarah Dayan is a staff engineer at Algolia , a “Search-as-a-Service” platform that helps developers build index and search capabilities into their own platforms through an API, and the host of two tech podcasts: Developer Experience and Entre Devs. Then, four years ago, in 2018, she got a job at Algolia as a software engineer.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 3, 2019

In the movie “Dirty Harry,” Clint Eastwood’s character asks one of his “bad guys” what has become an iconic question… “You’ve got to ask yourself one question: Do I feel lucky? This approach makes for a successful movie, but it’s important to remember: Your salespeople are not the bad guys, and you are not Dirty Harry.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Taking a Page from Agile Software Development. Software companies used to spend months or years developing new products. But when software-as-a-service (SaaS) became popular, companies needed to move more quickly – constantly innovating and developing and releasing software with quicker turnarounds. 4 Steps of Agile Onboarding.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Understanding your customers’ motivations is key in developing content strategy, products and improving the customer journey. Talk to your customers – Whether you offer a satisfaction survey after a purchase or have your sales team interview key customers, getting feedback from your customers is crucial.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 5, 2018

Gina stepped away from Duolingo at the beginning of 2018 to help non-profits better understand the growth and marketing principles that thrive in today’s tech world. Our chat covers how gaming principles influenced her growth experiments, her team’s most successful retention tactics, and much more. Gina: All the time.

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The Marketing & Growth Hacking Publication

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

The fact is that Neanderthals weren’t so weak and simple-minded as many people may think. In 2018 the US invested over $39 billion into programmatic ads which is 81.5% For example, the Epom Market team developed the so-called Bidding Autopilot feature. the Neanderthal would probably kill the Homo Sapien.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 4, 2019

the stuff that Customer Success teams are really meant to do). One customer success trend I’m seeing is the need to develop more repeatable customer education programs. The biggest trend I see emerging in Europe, which started at the end of 2018 is Customer Success Plans becoming a staple asset of Customer Success teams.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

The Sales Development Playbook by Trish Bertuzzi. Based on data from thousands of B2B marketers, The Challenger Customer suggests that sales teams should approach individuals who are more skeptical and less interested in their products and services, rather than easy targets who are eager to listen. The Art of War by Sun Tzu.

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Unbounce

DECEMBER 3, 2018

It provides an easy-to-interpret color-coded scoring system that you don’t need an engineering degree to understand—red is bad, green is good. Speed Boost handles the technical recommendations from PageSpeed Insights that developers usually tackle behind the scenes. When you look at the screenshot below, you can see why.

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OpenView Labs

JANUARY 29, 2020

Editor’s Note: This article was first published on August 9, 2018. According to this 2018 research report by ProfitWell, companies using freemium have 50% lower CAC with NPS scores nearly double those of non-freemium businesses. Freemium Model for SaaS – The Good, The Bad, and The In-between. Freemium in SaaS is old news.

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Chart Mogul

MAY 7, 2020

Onboarding a new member of your sales team is challenging on its own, but especially so when they have to call prospects out of the blue. Providing the right cold calling training can make or break the success of a new team member. Explain their existing sales process and what they learned in the course of developing it.

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ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Align team incentives around retention. Sales teams like to track dollars in the bank each month. Meanwhile, product teams are busy tracking how many features they've delivered and story points they've completed. Meanwhile, product teams are busy tracking how many features they've delivered and story points they've completed.

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Point Nine Land

DECEMBER 12, 2018

While this is generally true for most companies, it’s particularly true for SaaS businesses, which invest heavily in product development, sales, and marketing upfront and get payments from customers over a delayed period of time, usually several years. The main reason is that your customer acquisition costs are highly front-loaded.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 13, 2020

ML products also require us to manage relatively large technology risks – this is an area where, unlike in most other product development, technical limitations might render the entire design impossible. Resolution Bot is a product that automatically answers the repetitive questions faced by customer support teams. Key takeaways.

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Unbounce

OCTOBER 1, 2019

In just over a year , they (along with the rest of Zola’s marketing team) managed to: Build and launch 300+ custom landing pages for Zola’s specific audience segments. With Unbounce, Ari and his team dragged-and-dropped together a landing page celebrating the partnership in no time— and it looks incredible.

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Audacix

JULY 18, 2022

Whether you're about to implement DevOps or searching for ways to make it work better for your team, you must remember that DevOps is all about discipline. DevOps best practices that will help you to run your software development projects smoothly. But the list of best practices varies from expert to expert.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 3, 2018

So our team tried to fill the gap to help you build or enhance your own sales stack. Left to its own, a sales force will eventually become too bloated, unwieldy, and counterproductive if everyone on the team reverts to performing tedious tasks manually. Related: Best 160+ Sales Tools: The Complete List (2018 Update).

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SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

Prior to Crossbeam, Bob founded Stitched, a powerful ETL service built for developers that was acquired by Talend in 2018. Prior to Crossbeam Bob founded Stitched, a powerful ETL service built for developers that was acquired by Talend in 2018. How have you altered and developed as a CEO do you think?

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 4, 2019

the stuff that Customer Success teams are really meant to do). One customer success trend I’m seeing is the need to develop more repeatable customer education programs. The biggest trend I see emerging in Europe, which started at the end of 2018 is Customer Success Plans becoming a staple asset of Customer Success teams.

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