SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

But when none of them offered a good deal, Mailchimp walked away, convinced they wouldn’t entertain any more talks on acquisition. Chestnut began by discussing the ins and outs of the acquisition by Intuit. Mailchimp had been in conversation with several potential buyers. That changed with a phone call from Alex Chris at Intuit.

SMB 189

SMB Entertainment Acquisition Branding 189

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Maybe the rise of streaming spells the end of the mainstream – while we were once part of a collective audience of a common popular culture, but the profusion of choice has increasingly atomized our entertainment.

Payment Solutions 259

Payment Solutions Payment Methods Software SaaS Payments 259

Buffer Resources

APRIL 24, 2024

​​The primary goal of organic social media is to build a genuine connection with your audience by providing valuable, entertaining, or informative content that resonates with them. It’s the easiest way to build brand awareness as a brand. These goals require consistent effort over time to see significant results. 

Social Media 110

Social Media Strategy Scale Branding 110

SaaStr

MARCH 7, 2023

Take advantage of a unique recruiting pool resulting from RIFs across the industry to secure key talent.Active cost management Look for opportunities to reduce spend — first discretionary expenses (travel, entertainment, meals, contractors, tooling), then non-discretionary Slow down or freeze hiring Incentivize increased business efficiency Organizational (..)

Outsourcing Services 161

Outsourcing Services Scaling Venture Capital Forecasting 161

SaaStr

JANUARY 26, 2023

Building a useful and entertaining brand helps produce sustained value and ensures the right customers take notice and remain engaged over time. SEO Content: Various types of material are helpful to potential buyers on their journey, such as thought leadership pieces, webinars, customer narratives, and product videos.

Scale 40

Scale Entertainment Marketing Construction 40

Sales Hacker

MAY 17, 2021

Many of our members came to Sales Hacker to learn more about sales leadership (like Neal ) , lead generation (like Alfred ), and staying top of mind (like Saafi ). We were encouraged and challenged by participating in our AMA’s from Morgan Ingram to Amy Volas , and entertained by the exciting storytelling from Josh Braun to Scott Barker.

Cybersecurity 61

Cybersecurity Entertainment Leadership Mobile 61

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 10, 2021

He places his focus and energy on amplifying professionals, teams, and organizations in the areas of leadership, sales, strategic customer care, organizational excellence, and especially, that human communications thing where many sometimes struggle. Keith: Many people know of Sandler sales and sales leadership training.

Scale 105

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Leadership Consulting 105

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Sam Jacobs : Alexandra Schrecengost founded Virtual With Us in 2020, and Culture With Us in 2021, supporting corporations through cultural programming, DEI initiatives, and food and beverage entertainment to improve human connections. Michelle Wine Estates, and learned the back end of entertaining clients in a restaurant.

Entertainment 84

Entertainment Innovation Compensation Travel 84

Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

New product releases, leadership changes, sales and promotions, thank-you emails for customers’ order, emails that tell customers you’re sorry to see them go, responses to abandoned carts, and holiday celebrations immediately come to mind. Focus on being informative and entertaining. You don’t need to be overly promotional.

Social Media 145

Social Media Entertainment Mobile Communication 145

Sales Hacker

MARCH 27, 2020

How to create one by leveraging the entertainer’s effect. The Entertainer Effect (17:14). ? In 2014, I was working at a digital product agency, and my team had the opportunity to pitch to a major entertainment brand on building a loyalty program for their number-one TV show. The Entertainer Effect (17:14).

Entertainment 73

Entertainment Sales Startup Strategy 73

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Peter Mahoney, CMO of Plannuh, regularly interviews his prospects’ CMOs, publishing thought-leadership podcasts that they promote on their social media. Access to C-level entertainment talent. Customer podcasts. Interview your prospect’s executives and promote their podcasts. Reaction/pivot prospect study.

Innovation 102

Innovation Development Business Marketplace as a Service 102

SaaStr

JANUARY 29, 2021

But let’s assume there’s rent, 3 associates, 2 analysts, an admin or two, and a lot of Travel & Entertainment (say, $100k per partner per year in expenses here and $25k per other professional in expenses). OK, so 2% of $150m is $3m in fees per year. . That sounds like a lot, and it is.

Venture Capital 297

Venture Capital Travel Compensation Investment 297

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

MARCH 23, 2020

Customer > Team > Individual During my time at HubSpot, the leadership team shared this mental model to help with decision-making. Examples of jobs to be done include, people buying a hammer to hang a painting and famously, a milkshake for entertainment during their daily commute. This is always wrong.

Underperforming Technical Team 213

Underperforming Technical Team Scale Sales Hiring Marketplace as a Service 213

OpenView Labs

JUNE 29, 2020

As a result, technology and service providers are faced with an entirely new set of priorities from their clients’ senior leadership teams. As the CMO of a global apparel company described, “Leadership teams are faced with a triple threat. Triple threat. Supply chain disruptions have made product availability unreliable at best.

Marketing 53

Marketing Travel Leadership Technical Review 53

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Bryan Elsesser: But, it’s also checks and balances on the leadership as well. Leadership needs to be involved in that conversation and it needs to be a full court press. Bryan Elsesser: But I think there’s tracks of balances… Doug Landis: But it’s also on you to study. It’s also on you to study.

Sales 231

Sales Business Leadership Entertainment 231

OpenView Labs

MARCH 10, 2021

Each of the core industries—AEC (Architecture, Engineering & Construction), Design & Manufacturing, and Media & Entertainment—have evolved to a point where they would be almost unrecognizable from what they were only a couple decades ago. This isn’t, as they say, your father’s manufacturing and construction.

Construction 69

Construction Marketing Entertainment Machine Learning 69

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 28, 2018

AA-ISP Leadership Summit. Attended by around 1000+ Inside Sales leaders, LS2019 will focus on prioritizing organization mission and personal leadership development. What they’re saying: “ What a great week it’s been at the Leadership Summit! SiriusDecisions Sales Leadership Exchange. ” — Rainmaker 2018 Attendee.

Scale 75

Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Underperforming Technical Team 75

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Get technical help and a dose of motivation from two of the leading B2B sales trainers, leadership coaches and business strategists on the market. B2B marketing experts James Carbary and Jonathan Green interview a business leader on leadership, sales-to-marketing realignment, buyer personas, marketing strategy, and a host of other topics.

Scale 111

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Social Media 111

SaaStr

APRIL 24, 2020

How does John think about the role of leadership in a crisis such as this? Where does John believe many leadership teams go wrong in times such as this? How can leadership teams ensure that a crisis is not self-fulfilling and how can one prevent that mindset? You’ve got executive people who want thought leadership.

Scale 212

Scale Leadership Strategy Technology 212

Totango

APRIL 25, 2019

Edgar Papke – Award-winning Author and Expert on Organizational Leadership. Deepak Sharma – Customer Success Leader, Deloitte. Keith Strodtman – COO, Customer First, SAP. Anne Ting – SVP Marketing, Totango. Dilip Kumar – COO, Group Services, Dimension Data. Peter Storer – Chief Revenue Officer, Avero.

Scale 54

Scale Customer Success Entertainment Leadership 54

Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 20, 2024

In the same way that globalization can be a substitute for automation, social networking is, you know, like letting people access everyone else in the world for entertainment, for fun, for communication, for whatever you want to do. David: And so you’ve done it differently this time around? Adam: Yeah, yeah, yeah. David: Right.

AI Search 138

AI Search AI Artificial Intelligence Scale 138

Sales Hacker

JUNE 3, 2019

The leadership skills you learn right out of school. Deciding whether to put someone in a leadership position or a contributor position. And there are a few more people that are really interested in leadership, but we don’t have a job available for them yet. The leadership skills you learn right out of school.

Construction 60

Construction Scale Sales Hiring Leadership 60

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 7, 2020

Leadership. Leadership. The Exceptional Leadership Institute for Women. Emcee and Entertainer. Shemaroo Entertainment Ltd. We’ve broken the list down into categories of expertise for your convenience. Sales Development. Sales Growth. Sales Enablement. Enterprise Sales. Sales Operations. Sales Technology.

VP of Engineering 121

VP of Engineering Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Payment Services 121

SaaSX

MAY 12, 2019

Charisma — a personal magic of leadership arousing special popular loyalty or enthusiasm for a public figure (such as a political leader) Merriam-Webster. Our ability to be informative, transparent, authentic, entertaining, and engaging has an impact on the success of our content. Psychology Today. Social Expressiveness.

SaaS 49

SaaS Entertainment Leadership Branding 49

User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

The business world has seen numerous examples of blue ocean strategies delivering exceptional results over the past century across a range of industries from automotive to entertainment. Rather than compete directly with existing circuses catering to kids, Cirque targeted adult and corporate entertainment segments willing to pay much more.

Strategy 62

Strategy Technical Review Business Innovation 62

SaaStr

JULY 22, 2019

I think the people that you hire, it’s a combination of the organization that you create, it’s the leadership that you hire and the service delivery mentality that you think about. We’re thinking already about what does that mean in terms of the leadership, the organizational structure that we need to have.

Scale 170

Scale Scaling Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team 170

ProfitWell

MAY 29, 2020

So what a lot of this preliminarily comes down to is leadership—and the company at its core. HBO Max launched just yesterday, AT&T’s first big entertainment venture since Time Warner. Each member of the team needs to communicate what they’re working on, as well as what they’re struggling with, at all times. Confusion to the Max.

B2B 64

B2B Outsourced Development Technical Review Entertainment 64

User Pilot

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

This means that everyone from your marketing team to your sales team, product managers and teams, engineering and design teams, and the entire company leadership, are needed to make this work. Gamification makes your product more entertaining, creating a sense of friendly competition that keeps users hooked.

Scale 89

Scale Acquisition Strategy Retention 89

Neil Patel

DECEMBER 12, 2020

Do you want to start a blog to share your extensive knowledge and thought leadership with the world? To give you a better idea, the internet is generally made up of five kinds of websites: Blog: Are you going to continually publish content that informs, entertains, or inspires a particular audience?

Payment Methods 145

Payment Methods Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions 145

User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

The business world has seen numerous examples of blue ocean strategies delivering exceptional results over the past century across a range of industries from automotive to entertainment. Rather than compete directly with existing circuses catering to kids, Cirque targeted adult and corporate entertainment segments willing to pay much more.

Strategy 52

Strategy Technical Review Business Innovation 52

OpenView Labs

OCTOBER 25, 2019

In the last few years, against great adversity, women have made encouraging strides in politics, entertainment and many other areas. of all senior leadership positions. Ironically, these abysmal numbers stand in direct contradiction to the fact that having women in leadership positions is good for business. In 2018, U.S.

Technical Review 41

Technical Review Leadership PayPal Entertainment 41

SaaStr

JULY 22, 2020

I used to call it lean back commerce, how do you get entertained and then suddenly discover something that you want to buy? So where do you get actually, the fun back into your life and some people will say it’s education, entertainment. I think Instagram is sort of the best example of that. What’s the future there?

Venture Capital 216

Venture Capital Investment Travel Marketplace as a Service 216

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Bringing Sales & Leadership with Heart and Ladies Happy Hour to the sales community. I went through a VP of Sales Program with SaaSy Sales Leadership — the moment I realized I didn’t want to be a VP of Sales. She is a Speaker and Hostess for LinkedIn Live. What is one a-ha moment you’ve had in your sales career?

Scale 130

Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring VP of Engineering 130

Neil Patel

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Business owners and leadership teams should adopt a new mindset of growth and opportunity to make these changes feasible. While people know they must buy things they need, they still spend money on non-necessities, like entertainment and cosmetics. And you know what?

Technical Review 84

Technical Review Strategy Marketing Social Media 84

Buffer Resources

AUGUST 23, 2023

What performs well on TikTok A hashtag analysis revealed entertainment, dance, and pranks take the top-three spots on the short-form video platform, but fitness/sports, home renovations/DIY, beauty/skincare, fashion, lifehacks/advice, and pets are also contenders.

Social Media 89

Social Media Business B2C Branding 89

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

If you missed episode 127, check it out here: Leadership Lessons From 10 Years of Democratizing Youth Sports w/ Brian Litvack. Prior to his CRO role at iCIMS, Tom held senior leadership positions at several companies, including Hewlett Packard, Symantec, Rackspace and Nuance Communications. We’re on iTunes. And on Stitcher.

Scale 69

Scale Development Team Review Sales Hiring Leadership 69

Sales Hacker

JULY 31, 2020

RELATED: PODCAST 47: Key Qualities of great Sales Leadership w/ Dan Fougere. Rather than lose myself in what appeared to be an extreme lift, I opted to no longer entertain harmful thought patterns — AKA cognitive distortions. They’ll even micro-manage those who are already hitting their numbers.

Technical Review 106

Technical Review Development Team Review Underperforming Technical Team Social Media 106