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Requests for proposals are a mixed blessing. Completing them can be a tedious, unpleasant task, but they can’t be completely ignored because they can lead to significant sales revenue. The key is to identify which RFPs give you the greatest probability of being chosen, and respond only to those. MORE
The post Data-Driven Outbound as an Acquisition Channel appeared first on Sales Hacker. Sales Development Live Events MORE
This week was our “dead week” at Team SaaStr where we rest and recover a bit from 2020 SaaStr Annual at Home. Look for more news soon on our next big digital event, new products, and more — soon!! MORE
Customer service is the lifeblood of businesses. From small ecommerce sites to Fortune 500s, organizations of all sizes across every industry must prioritize their customers to be successful. But like everything else in today’s day and age, customer support has gone digital. MORE
Illustration: Edith Zimmerman. This episode, part one in a two-part series on the Creator Economy , explores the process and economics behind creating an independent newsletter. MORE
Since Netflix started in the late 90s as a DVD-by-mail rental service competing with Blockbuster, it has completely reinvented itself… twice – first, when it went from DVD rental to video streaming platform, and then again when it went from … The post a16z Podcast: Designing a Culture of Reinvention appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz. MORE
I am surprised how many CEOs can't answer this question-and-a-half well, or even at all: "Why do you really win deals? Why did your top 5 customers pick you?" " But, all the great CEOs can. — Jason ?BeKind? BeKind? Lemkin ?? jasonlk) September 14, 2020. MORE
Customer success metrics should always lead to action. The most important metrics are used to reveal the kind of customer experience you are delivering. This knowledge comes with a responsibility to act. MORE
Where is the SaaS world relative to how far it can go? With valuations of as-a-service companies and all-time highs or close to it, and more and more startups leveraging this model to serve an ever-larger number of consumers, I wondered how much more business is there to capture? Let’s try to estimate. We do have enough data to get a sense of total as a service penetration. MORE
The folks at Plannuh, specifically Peter Mahoney, Scott Todaro, and Dan Faulkner, asked me to write the forward for their new book, The Next CMO: A Guide to Marketing Operational Excellence. Free download here.). In this post, I’ll simply present the Forward that I wrote for them. MORE
Disclosure: This content is reader-supported, which means if you click on some of our links that we may earn a commission. Phone communication plays a critical role in today’s business landscape. Practically every business, regardless of size or industry, needs to have a business phone system. MORE
Hemingway famously wrote that there are two ways to go bankrupt: gradually, then suddenly. In many ways, the impact of technology on our day-to-day financial choices has followed a similar trajectory. MORE
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Disclosure: This content is reader-supported, which means if you click on some of our links that we may earn a commission. The best VoIP phone services create exceptional customer experiences. And exceptional customer experiences work wonders for your bottom line. MORE
SEPTEMBER 15, 2020
Your communication with your customer is the force multiplier that can unlock the full potential of your product. The advice, lessons, and encouragement you provide can guide your customer to achieve maximum return on their investment and drive growth that benefits both of you. MORE
So you’re sold on product led growth. You’ve already adopted a freemium or trial business model, using your product as the primary vehicle to drive growth, and you’ve nailed 1–3 channels for acquiring new users. MORE
Dedicated servers are the top of the line in web hosting. As the name implies, your website won’t be sharing server resources with any other sites—you’ll have a server all to yourself. MORE
Answering the most common and most pressing questions about MRR to guide your 2021 planning. Monthly recurring revenue is one of the least exciting topics to take on in 2020. It is simple (to calculate). Everyone knows what it is about. MORE
90% of my evaluation of any leader that works for me is the quality of people they can get to work for them. This could be wrong… Maybe it should be 95%. — Todd McKinnon (@toddmckinnon) September 13, 2020. Recruiting is tough. I certainly don’t do it well enough. MORE
Imagine moving thousands of articles, pages, images, and videos from one place to another. It sounds like an extensive, time-consuming mess because it is. But that’s exactly what you have to do if you choose the wrong content management system. MORE
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One of our top sessions from our recent Annual at Home event was from GitHub’s COO, Erica Brescia. For those unfamiliar with her background, Brescia started off as the founder and COO of Bitnami, a 75 person startup. MORE
Although Pinterest is often regarded as the go-to platform for pinning recipes and home décor ideas, it’s also a powerful digital marketing tool. More than 416 million people visited Pinterest each month to explore and categorize ideas they love. MORE
The post How to Inspire, Grow, and Enable Your Teams in a Down Market appeared first on Sales Hacker. Career Development Chorus Marquee Partner Live Events MORE
Today on the show, we’ve got Brian Litvack, the first person that ever hired me as a sales consultant and my fast friend. He’s the Co-founder and CEO of a company called LeagueApps, which is democratizing the world of youth sports. MORE
With so many people using personal devices for work-related tasks, cybersecurity is more important today than ever before. Hackers are getting more sophisticated, and protecting your organization’s data needs to be a top priority. Endpoint security software is the solution. MORE
I get sent this resume to review all the time. Director+ of Sales at Slack / Zoom / DropBox / Pick Your Brand Name SaaS Company. Took Hot Start-Up from $0 to $30m as VPS from Day 0. Was there “early” through IPO and did amazing things. That all sounds impressive, for sure. But were they great? MORE
Disclosure: This content is reader-supported, which means if you click on some of our links that we may earn a commission. Without customers, your business wouldn’t exist. I guess it could… but you wouldn’t last long without a stream of revenue helping you keep the lights on. MORE
Ok on the heels of 100,000+ across social, Zoom and more at 2020 SaaStr Annual at Home, our next big digital event is the 2nd edition of SaaStrScale.com on Dec 8-9. Scale particularly focuses on helping founders scale to $1B ARR … and beyond. MORE
Disclosure: This content is reader-supported, which means if you click on some of our links that we may earn a commission. There is one decision in life that you simply cannot get wrong. And no, it’s not choosing the right partner or career. MORE
With more than 300,000+ web hosting providers on the market today, finding the best hosting plan for your website can be challenging. Whether you’re starting a new website from scratch or looking to upgrade your existing plan, cloud web hosting is an excellent option to consider. MORE
SaaStr
SEPTEMBER 17, 2020
I get sent this resume to review all the time. Director+ of Sales at Slack / Zoom / DropBox / Pick Your Brand Name SaaS Company. Took Hot Start-Up from $0 to $30m as VPS from Day 0. Was there “early” through IPO and did amazing things. That all sounds impressive, for sure. But were they great?
The Daily Egg
SEPTEMBER 18, 2020
Imagine moving thousands of articles, pages, images, and videos from one place to another. It sounds like an extensive, time-consuming mess because it is. But that’s exactly what you have to do if you choose the wrong content management system.
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SaaStr
SEPTEMBER 13, 2020
90% of my evaluation of any leader that works for me is the quality of people they can get to work for them. This could be wrong… Maybe it should be 95%. — Todd McKinnon (@toddmckinnon) September 13, 2020. Recruiting is tough. I certainly don’t do it well enough.
Andreessen Horowitz
SEPTEMBER 15, 2020
Since Netflix started in the late 90s as a DVD-by-mail rental service competing with Blockbuster, it has completely reinvented itself… twice – first, when it went from DVD rental to video streaming platform, and then again when it went from … The post a16z Podcast: Designing a Culture of Reinvention appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.
Chart Mogul
SEPTEMBER 17, 2020
Answering the most common and most pressing questions about MRR to guide your 2021 planning. Monthly recurring revenue is one of the least exciting topics to take on in 2020. It is simple (to calculate). Everyone knows what it is about.
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The Daily Egg
SEPTEMBER 16, 2020
Customer service is the lifeblood of businesses. From small ecommerce sites to Fortune 500s, organizations of all sizes across every industry must prioritize their customers to be successful. But like everything else in today’s day and age, customer support has gone digital.
Andreessen Horowitz
SEPTEMBER 16, 2020
Hemingway famously wrote that there are two ways to go bankrupt: gradually, then suddenly. In many ways, the impact of technology on our day-to-day financial choices has followed a similar trajectory.
Sales Hacker
SEPTEMBER 16, 2020
The post Data-Driven Outbound as an Acquisition Channel appeared first on Sales Hacker. Sales Development Live Events
Kellblog
SEPTEMBER 14, 2020
The folks at Plannuh, specifically Peter Mahoney, Scott Todaro, and Dan Faulkner, asked me to write the forward for their new book, The Next CMO: A Guide to Marketing Operational Excellence. Free download here.). In this post, I’ll simply present the Forward that I wrote for them.
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SaaStr
SEPTEMBER 17, 2020
One of our top sessions from our recent Annual at Home event was from GitHub’s COO, Erica Brescia. For those unfamiliar with her background, Brescia started off as the founder and COO of Bitnami, a 75 person startup.
The Daily Egg
SEPTEMBER 17, 2020
With so many people using personal devices for work-related tasks, cybersecurity is more important today than ever before. Hackers are getting more sophisticated, and protecting your organization’s data needs to be a top priority. Endpoint security software is the solution.
Neil Patel
SEPTEMBER 16, 2020
Disclosure: This content is reader-supported, which means if you click on some of our links that we may earn a commission. Phone communication plays a critical role in today’s business landscape. Practically every business, regardless of size or industry, needs to have a business phone system.
Sales Hacker
SEPTEMBER 17, 2020
The post How to Inspire, Grow, and Enable Your Teams in a Down Market appeared first on Sales Hacker. Career Development Chorus Marquee Partner Live Events
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With so many factors and people to consider, how do you make sure you pick the right LMS? It’s simple: This guide covers crucial considerations with actionable advice and professional insights, so you know you’ve picked the perfect eLearning solution.
Totango
SEPTEMBER 18, 2020
Customer success metrics should always lead to action. The most important metrics are used to reveal the kind of customer experience you are delivering. This knowledge comes with a responsibility to act.
SaaStr
SEPTEMBER 14, 2020
I am surprised how many CEOs can't answer this question-and-a-half well, or even at all: "Why do you really win deals? Why did your top 5 customers pick you?" " But, all the great CEOs can. — Jason ?BeKind? BeKind? Lemkin ?? jasonlk) September 14, 2020.
The Daily Egg
SEPTEMBER 14, 2020
With more than 300,000+ web hosting providers on the market today, finding the best hosting plan for your website can be challenging. Whether you’re starting a new website from scratch or looking to upgrade your existing plan, cloud web hosting is an excellent option to consider.
Neil Patel
SEPTEMBER 12, 2020
Disclosure: This content is reader-supported, which means if you click on some of our links that we may earn a commission. There is one decision in life that you simply cannot get wrong. And no, it’s not choosing the right partner or career.
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Sales Hacker
SEPTEMBER 15, 2020
Today on the show, we’ve got Brian Litvack, the first person that ever hired me as a sales consultant and my fast friend. He’s the Co-founder and CEO of a company called LeagueApps, which is democratizing the world of youth sports.
Totango
SEPTEMBER 15, 2020
Your communication with your customer is the force multiplier that can unlock the full potential of your product. The advice, lessons, and encouragement you provide can guide your customer to achieve maximum return on their investment and drive growth that benefits both of you.
SaaStr
SEPTEMBER 13, 2020
This week was our “dead week” at Team SaaStr where we rest and recover a bit from 2020 SaaStr Annual at Home. Look for more news soon on our next big digital event, new products, and more — soon!!
The Daily Egg
SEPTEMBER 15, 2020
Dedicated servers are the top of the line in web hosting. As the name implies, your website won’t be sharing server resources with any other sites—you’ll have a server all to yourself.
Speaker: Daniel "spoons" Spoonhower, CTO and Co-Founder at Lightstep
Many engineering organizations have now adopted microservices or other loosely coupled architectures, often alongside DevOps practices. Together these have enabled individual service teams to become more independent and, as a result, have boosted developer velocity. However, this increased velocity often comes at the cost of overall application performance or reliability. Worse, teams often don’t understand what’s affecting performance or reliability – or even who to ask to learn more. Distributed tracing was developed at organizations like Google and Twitter to address these problems and has also come a long way in the decade since then. By the end of this presentation, you’ll understand why distributed tracing is necessary and how it can bring performance and reliability back under control.
Neil Patel
SEPTEMBER 14, 2020
Disclosure: This content is reader-supported, which means if you click on some of our links that we may earn a commission. Without customers, your business wouldn’t exist. I guess it could… but you wouldn’t last long without a stream of revenue helping you keep the lights on.
Sales Hacker
SEPTEMBER 14, 2020
Requests for proposals are a mixed blessing. Completing them can be a tedious, unpleasant task, but they can’t be completely ignored because they can lead to significant sales revenue. The key is to identify which RFPs give you the greatest probability of being chosen, and respond only to those.
Andreessen Horowitz
SEPTEMBER 17, 2020
Illustration: Edith Zimmerman. This episode, part one in a two-part series on the Creator Economy , explores the process and economics behind creating an independent newsletter.
SaaStr
SEPTEMBER 17, 2020
Ok on the heels of 100,000+ across social, Zoom and more at 2020 SaaStr Annual at Home, our next big digital event is the 2nd edition of SaaStrScale.com on Dec 8-9. Scale particularly focuses on helping founders scale to $1B ARR … and beyond.
Speaker: Esther Kieft, Delivery Manager (Group Technology) at Domino's Pizza Enterprises
It is well known that empathy is a key ingredient in creating lovable products, yet not all products offer the best customer experience. From meeting stringent deadlines to insufficient resources being available to carry out customer research, there is a range of reasons why customer empathy could be missing in product development. Join Esther Kieft, as she breaks down using empathy at a distance to evaluate the problems that customers are experiencing during this global health crisis.
Tomasz Tunguz
SEPTEMBER 12, 2020
Where is the SaaS world relative to how far it can go? With valuations of as-a-service companies and all-time highs or close to it, and more and more startups leveraging this model to serve an ever-larger number of consumers, I wondered how much more business is there to capture? Let’s try to estimate. We do have enough data to get a sense of total as a service penetration.
Neil Patel
SEPTEMBER 17, 2020
Disclosure: This content is reader-supported, which means if you click on some of our links that we may earn a commission. The best VoIP phone services create exceptional customer experiences. And exceptional customer experiences work wonders for your bottom line.
OpenView Labs
SEPTEMBER 17, 2020
So you’re sold on product led growth. You’ve already adopted a freemium or trial business model, using your product as the primary vehicle to drive growth, and you’ve nailed 1–3 channels for acquiring new users.
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