SaaStr

JUNE 7, 2021

If you take this ability to not follow the herd and the experience, you can spot trends. When you think about it, when a trend is early, everybody thinks you’re wrong. Peter : 2002, I guess or so. Jason : The world ended in 2002 too. ” I have apples for sale. That was 30 years ago. Peter : Yeah.

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

You are getting enormous levels of organic traffic … Full of enthusiasm, you rush to your sales manager to check the sales status. And your jaw drops seeing you’ve got little to none sales from all of that traffic. You have to make consistent sales if you want to scale your business fast. No, I’m serious.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

The people you hired, the culture you make, the first 10, 20 hires really make the rest of the culture of the company. And so again we would just have added to more kind of friction in the sales cycle and there was a whole video long sales cycle. We opened a small sales office in Wework. People make the difference.

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The Marketing & Growth Hacking Publication

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

Hiring professional photographer could give a real push, and mark of quality to your content. If you don’t have a comm/marketing team, it is best to hire a creative production agency. This is not 2002, virality does not exist anymore. The person who hired me was not even aware of it and did not believe me.

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Outseta

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Live chat tools come with the promise of completely changing your approach to marketing, of revolutionizing the way you deliver customer support, and there’s even companies like Swayed that are building live chat tools with the goal of replacing sales reps altogether. Their sales reps were slick and convincing. A phone tree.

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SaaStr

APRIL 16, 2023

And we ended the day with an incredible combo of the hottest app at that time (and one of the hottest ever), Slack, who likely was around $30m ARR or so … and hadn’t yet added a sales team! I’m like, “Where can I talk to a sales rep?” Can you get to $100 million without a sales team, do you think?

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SaaStr

MAY 17, 2019

And that’s how we were able to then survive from 2002 til about 2007, when the cloud market finally took off. So I want to discuss, first you mentioned the BigMachines, and post sales Oracle, you did version 2.0 But Max was struggling to build sales, to build a company around it. with Steelbrick.

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