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Beyond the Downturn: Recession Strategies to Take the Lead

OPEXEngine

John Deere, the farm and industrial equipment manufacturer, managed working capital more actively from 2006 on, to increase free cash flow and build resilience against demand volatility. These range from investing for leadership based on a superior strategic and financial position, to readying a weak company for sale.

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CX pioneer Jeanne Bliss on building customer-centric businesses

Intercom, Inc.

Jeanne is one of the leading voices on customer-centric leadership. For businesses to grow, they must rise above the constant stream of issues and deflection strategies and shift to a proactive CX approach. We recently spoke with Jeanne to learn more about what it takes to create a sustainable, customer-centric business strategy.

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Subscription Rockstars: How HubSpot Went From Zero to $500+ Million in Annual Revenue

Chargify

And, of course, we will pay special attention to how their subscription billing models and pricing strategies contributed to their growth. In 2006, Brian and Dharmesh started HubSpot with the aim of helping people grow their businesses through a less intrusive, more human approach to marketing. HubSpot employees: 2006: 3 employees.

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Run Less Software

Intercom, Inc.

It’s even harder if you don’t know all of the armies on the field, their strategies and weapons, or even who’s a friend and who’s a foe. In this battle, I’ve found a secret weapon hidden within one of our core engineering strategies, an idea called Run Less Software. The same is true in software. Innovative startups.

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How to Make Deal Support Your Sales Organisation’s Secret Weapon

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

We consider sales enablement to be a bottom of the funnel (BOFU) function, but after listening to the sales and marketing leadership it became apparent that I could have the biggest impact by strategically focussing on the bottom of the BOFU, and providing “deal closing optimisation” activities to the business.

Scale 112
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Why Is Your Customer Success Role Incredibly Important?

TriTuns

Since 2006, Tri Tuns has been solely focused on helping SaaS vendors and buyers, all over the world, learn how to drive, accelerate and sustain adoption of technology. . Check out our Customer Success Training Programs Catalog for access to expert strategies and tactics that significantly boost CS results and renewals.

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Why Is Your Customer Success Role Incredibly Important?

TriTuns

Since 2006, Tri Tuns has been solely focused on helping SaaS vendors and buyers, all over the world, learn how to drive, accelerate and sustain adoption of technology. . And this is why the role of Customer Success is so important in helping organizations identify and adapt to the changes (e.g.,