Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2019

Businesses also win if, as a result of AI, teams are able to create more white-glove moments that turn users into customers for life. Here are five quick takeaways: Businesses focused on scaling need to think of customer support as a revenue team , not a cost center. For us, that first fit was with growing sales teams.

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Baremetrics

AUGUST 1, 2021

Needless to say, the SaaS sales cycle is a long-drawn-out process--with the length of an average SaaS sales cycle being around 84 days as per research. Factors such as high product cost, privacy issues, complicated features, and innumerable product options are to blame for the long sales cycle.

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Valuize Consulting

DECEMBER 13, 2021

As Customer Success as a discipline has grown, it has also developed an accompaniment of misconceptions and myths, generating a lot of confusion about how to do it right and scale successfully. A 5% increase in customer retention rates leads to anywhere between 25 and 95% increase in corporate profitability ( Harvard Business Review , 2000).

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Natalia Luneva

DECEMBER 23, 2020

These days businesses are fighting for people’s attention first and only then for making a sale. For example, I recently observed how a founder praised a developer with a $2000 bonus. Gathering and maintaining a team of high performers isn’t easy. Others want to be praised publicly. Highly recommended.

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Teamgate

OCTOBER 19, 2019

Let’s say you have 2000 Facebook fans, 2000 followers on Twitter, and 2000 email subscribers. But one thing that makes email marketing so sexy is that it’s much easier to build a mailing list of 2000 people than to get 2000 new followers on Twitter or Facebook. Team up with influencers . Absolutely not.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

I’ve been in software since the ’90s and for over 20 years, nearly that entire time, we’ve been talking about digital transformation, developing strategies, architecting new technologies, and moving beyond digitization to rethinking our businesses, our products, and our services in a way that’s optimized for a digital world.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

This is the recipe for a mediocre sales team. Like a sports franchise, a top team should be both collaborative and competitive. On this week’s episode, I caught up with Steli to chat all things sales. When not writing his sales handbook, he’s been overseeing the change from Close.io to Close.com.

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Kellblog

DECEMBER 27, 2021

My point was that this is normal and healthy: you can long Miami and Austin without shorting Palo Alto which, by the way, would have been a bad idea in 2020. Is web3 going to change everything because, as Chris Dixon argues, the best entrepreneurs and developers have learned not to build atop centralized platforms? Web3 hype peaks.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

And for leveling up your sales skills, nothing beats a good sales book. So what are the best sales books for helping you reach peak performance? Have been recommended by sales professionals. Here’s how you can find the sales books that are most relevant to you. Here they are… The 97 Best Sales Books in 2020.

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FastSpring

MARCH 10, 2023

Our former Director of Content and Community spoke to Alf about managing a happy team, how he’s grown his company without external funding, the history of developing in the Mac ecosystem, and running a consulting and software business. And the problem was, I have no clue in software development. And I love that very much.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

From strategies in recruitment and team building to sales tactics, these leaders from Salesforce, nCino, and Vlocity, will discuss the top tips for moving beyond horizontal SaaS and building a billion-dollar SaaS company. They need fewer sales as a percentage of overall employees. This episode is sponsored by Linode. .”

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SaaStr

MAY 15, 2020

333: Bridget Gleason is the Head of Sales and Customer Success @ Tidelift, the company providing managed open source, backed by maintainers. Before Tidelift, Bridget was VP of Sales @ Logz.io and before that was VP of Corporate Sales @ Sumo Logic where she drove ARR up by a record 237%. When should one hire their first CS rep?

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SaaStr

JANUARY 21, 2020

Justin Welsh, former SVP of Sales at PatientPop explains how he started in SaaS in 2009 as the second sales hire at Zocdoc. Justin used Sales Culture to grow a successful PatientPop team to 140 employees and 55 million in revenue. Justin Welsh | SVP Sales @ PatientPop. Want to see more content like this?

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Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

You can think of Horizontal SaaS as broad-based tech that is industry agnostic; a sales person at a Cybersecurity company can use HubSpot the same way a sales person at a Health Supplements company might use it. We trust leaders to make decisions on what tools they need to get the most out of their teams.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Before I joined the venture capital industry many years ago, I was a software developer, and I worked for a startup around the 2000 time period. Usually, it requires an outbound sales motion. Many of these are names that you know, and this is actually the largest we’ve seen in history.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. How to build a more diverse team [24:50]. Sam Jacobs: This week on the show, we’ve got Luke Rogers, the Vice President of Sales at Instabase. Through that, he went to university where he studied AI and cybernetics, ultimately leading big teams in EMEA for AppDynamics.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 30, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Justin Welsh , Founder at The Official Justin. Justin is the former SVP of sales at PatientPop and a current advisor to it, as well as a tremendous number of SMB SaaS companies. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Sam Jacobs: Welcome to the Sales Hacker Podcast!

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 22, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Nick Worswick, Global Head of Growth for WeWork. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Welcome to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Showpad is the leading sales enablement platform for the modern seller. They are the leading sales engagement platform. We’re on iTunes.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 14, 2022

I love media, I love content, and I love the team here. You probably will be quite bad when you start. ” And I’m like, “No, but you will get better and better and better, and you will look back and realize that you’ve grown and developed, and that is how we are. I get quite bored doing one thing only.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 21, 2019

There are tons of roundup articles about top women sales leaders. Most of the time, somebody does a LinkedIn search for “sales leader,” chooses the top 15 profiles with the most followers, and calls it a day. What about the amazing sales leaders who aren’t well-known already? Most Dynamic Women Sales Leaders.

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Kellblog

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Former Redpoint VC Tomasz Tunguz pointed out that product-led growth (PLG) firms are less profitable than sales-led growth firms, poking a hole in the “product sells itself” myth, and clouding dreams of liberation from costly S&M departments. I think PLG momentum built — and peaked — in 2022. Caveat emptor.

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Software Review Development Team Review Underperforming Technical Team Scale 120

SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2019

What is sales? What is sales? Isn’t sales really around customer value creation? Sales is not about revenue generation, it’s around customer value creation. Why are we so obsessed with sales being focused on revenue? Sales is first and foremost around customer value creation, revenue is an outcome.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

As for Jon, prior to being Chief Customer Officer at Box, he was Senior VP of Customer Success, responsible for all post-sales services Box provides from implementation to user adoption and more. How to build an engineering team. But we’re at a point now we’re 2000 employees. Missed the session? Jon Herstein.

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User Pilot

JANUARY 31, 2023

Ask for customer feedback and act on it There’s no such thing as bad feedback. That doesn’t mean they all need to land with your support team. The customer service is excellent, from sales, CSM through to support – everyone has been friendly, quick to respond, realistic and very helpful. Data is power.

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SaaStr

JULY 29, 2022

As they scaled, they radically changed how they did sales. They moved to a more traditional SaaS inside sales model, and they started shipping out these hardware devices, and only 30% to 40% of the customers would end up paying for them. And we’re about to add basically a team collaboration tier on top of the product.

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User Pilot

MARCH 15, 2023

To help you make a confident decision, we’ll compare each tool’s features, strengths and weaknesses, reviews, and pricing. Using a tool for interactive user guides is essential as it reduces dependency on developers and enables you to trigger user guides contextually. Let’s dive in.

Software Review 52

Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Onboarding Outsourced Development 52

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Renaud Visage, Co-Founder of Eventbrite, and Romain Huet, Head of Developer Relations at Stripe, know what it takes to effectively evolve your offering into a platform without losing what made offering appealing in the first place. Romain Huet | Head of Developer Relations @ Stripe. Want to see more content like this?

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Outseta

MAY 8, 2020

What I’m hoping this post provides is an objective look at the world of technology start-ups—the good, the bad, and the ugly. Before I lived it, I thought of the tech world as being very business oriented—a place owned by analytical types and developers writing rigid blocks of code that looked like gibberish to me.

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User Pilot

MARCH 20, 2023

It’s important to use a tool for creating interactive user guides because it reduces reliance on developers and allows you to trigger guides contextually. However, it’s not entirely no code, and some developer assistance may be required. Userlane is a no-code tool that enables users to create interactive user guides.

Software Review 52

Software Review Onboarding Underperforming Technical Team Scale 52

User Pilot

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Uncover weak spots of your product and bottlenecks that disturb the customer journey. There are several reasons why you may need one: Collecting customer feedback should be a standard procedure for any product team. Personalize the surveys as you wish (you will need help from a developer or may require CSS skills).

Software Review 52

Software Review Onboarding Underperforming Technical Team Pricing 52

User Pilot

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Uncover weak spots of your product and bottlenecks that disturb the customer journey. There are several reasons why you may need one: Collecting customer feedback should be a standard procedure for any product team. Personalize the surveys as you wish (you will need help from a developer or may require CSS skills).

Software Review 52

Software Review Onboarding Underperforming Technical Team Pricing 52

SaaStr

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Jos White of Notion and Christian Lanng of Tradeshift team up to show you how to work within, and sometimes around, rules in the workplace. I’m an entrepreneur-turned-investor, co-founder of an early generation one, SaaS company called Message Labs that we founded in 2000. Look, Uber was the bad boy brand of tech.

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Payments Payment Features SaaS Payments Underperforming Technical Team 102

User Pilot

MAY 5, 2023

TL;DR Chameleon is a digital adoption platform with a difference: while the other tools discussed are mostly no-code, Chameleon will require some developer involvement. It enables product teams to track product usage and user behavior to guide product development and optimize the user experience.

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A Smart Bear

OCTOBER 4, 2017

A “team of one” is the fastest, most efficient team, as measured by “output per person.” Communication and decision-making occupy the minimum possible time. A team of one is brittle, but fast. Why is this impossible when you have 500 employees? What are the fundamental forces that transform organizations at scale?

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

What about, as someone who’s gone from your own solo GP fund in 2012 to a team, how does a founder think about a new partner? They will fall asleep thinking about your company and wake up thinking about your company, and hopefully not in a bad way, in a good way. That’s true. Sunil Dhaliwal: What have I seen?

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SaaSOptics

AUGUST 16, 2018

He’s seen acquisition of JouleX, when it was bought by Cisco in 2013 for 107 million and he was a member of the founding management team and Vice President of Marketing for Internet Security Systems, where he grew the company from 5 million to over 400 million. Tim McCormick: 00:06:56 . Excellent, great.

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SaaSOptics

AUGUST 16, 2018

He’s seen acquisition of JouleX, when it was bought by Cisco in 2013 for 107 million and he was a member of the founding management team and Vice President of Marketing for Internet Security Systems, where he grew the company from 5 million to over 400 million. Tim McCormick: 00:06:56 . Excellent, great.

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