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A Look Back: Slack at $30,000,000 in ARR

SaaStr

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! We started development in early 2004. Can you get to $100 million without a sales team, do you think?

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Lead Generation: What is it, Effective Strategies & Tools

Neil Patel

Hack #1: Lead generation starts at home—review your homepage messaging. Since the homepage receives a tremendous amount of traffic, don’t you think that reviewing andadjusting your homepage messaging might help you generate more leads? Hack #4: Specialize: Separate your lead generation team from your sales team.

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