Baremetrics

OCTOBER 11, 2021

If you’re asking yourself how much time, energy, and finances you should be investing into developing your content, look no further. Your SaaS company likely uses a CRM and/or payment processing software, and the data required to compute these core metrics can be all over the place. So, how can better content marketing help YOU?

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 19, 2019

When it comes to platform strategy, Ceci’s experience is unparalleled, having worked at Box as part of their founding platform team before later joining Slack in 2015 to found the platform marketing team there. If there’s customer adoption , developers generally will come. Measuring platform success is complicated.

Marketing 217

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SaaStr

AUGUST 20, 2020

343: Kyle Parrish is the Head of Sales @ Figma, the company that helps teams create, test and ship better designs from start to finish. Kyle was in charge of creating the Austin, Texas sales team @ Dropbox, what were some of his biggest lessons when it comes to moving sales outside of HQ? What worked? What did not work?

Sales Hiring 192

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 12, 2020

And perhaps more importantly, how can you develop it? There’s only really one way to develop product judgment and that’s through direct interaction with your customers. Create a safe environment for sound product judgment to develop by ensuring feedback is immediate, clear and concrete. ” What is it?

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ProfitWell

OCTOBER 23, 2019

A literal downfall, in poor Icarus’s case, after his wings melted mid-flight. Thankfully, you don’t need to end up like poor Icarus. Your product is only part of that equation—your onboarding process, customer success teams, and self-service education also play a huge role. He was excited to go flying.

Churn 56

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SaaStr

AUGUST 12, 2022

And my first investment ever in 2013, in the old, old days, was Pipedrive which ended up selling for well over a billion dollars cash during the peak. But it sounds like the bad news is you’ve got a limited runway. It’s not the investor’s problem if you have an expensive team. You already raised money.

Scale 185

Scale SaaS Payments Scaling SaaS 185

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

David is also the author of foreentrepreneurs.com the must read blog in the world of SaaS metrics. How does David think about scaling sales teams? Harry Stebbings: And David is also the author of foreentrepreneurs.com, the must read blog in the world of Saas metrics. . Do you need business development reps?

Scale 189

Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting 189

GetUplift

DECEMBER 12, 2021

It’s a process that my team and I at GetUplift have used to 10x our clients’ conversion rates. I spent years researching the psychology behind purchase decisions and used that knowledge to develop a four step conversion optimization process deeply rooted in emotional marketing. Here’s an example of this thinking system in action.

Payment Methods 122

Payment Methods Marketing Payment Solutions Underperforming Technical Team 122

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Prior to joining the world of venture, Karen was a Senior Director at Apple and before Apple, Karen spent an incredible 9 years at Box as a founding member of the executive team, where she was responsible for defining and leading Box’s Industry GTM strategy. What is the ability of the company to continue to build an incredible team?

Scale 172

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Investment Sales Hiring 172

SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2021

Turns out a founding team of six MBAs creating a full suite of products sold solely to SMBs can become a multi-million dollar public company in nine years – and continue growing rapidly ($77.6 million in 2013 to $115.9 Dharmesh : …said, “This is a very bad idea. million in 2014.). I said, “Holy crap.

Part-Time VPE 212

Part-Time VPE Technical Cofounder CTO Hire New CTO 212

SaaStr

JUNE 28, 2019

Since 2013 with their transition to SaaS have grown to more than $50 million in ARR in less than five years, while maintaining profitability. In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * Does David Skok believe that ACV should sit at the top of the metrics stack? What are the 4 metrics that fundamentally matter in your business?

Outsourcing Services 114

Outsourcing Services Scale Sales Hiring SMB 114

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.

Part-Time VPE 102

Part-Time VPE Fractional VPE Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team 102

ChurnZero

JUNE 3, 2022

VC and PE firms now ask founders about the metrics owned by CS teams, specifically NRR and GRR , within the first ten minutes of conversation. You Mon: When I think about being a leader, it’s all about how do I get my team to succeed. This was back in 2013. They’re the proactive team. That’s No.

Customer Success 52

Customer Success Sales Hiring B2B Technical Review 52

ChurnZero

JUNE 3, 2022

VC and PE firms now ask founders about the metrics owned by CS teams, specifically NRR and GRR , within the first ten minutes of conversation. You Mon: When I think about being a leader, it’s all about how do I get my team to succeed. This was back in 2013. They’re the proactive team. That’s No.

Customer Success 52

Customer Success Sales Hiring B2B Technical Review 52

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

I mean, if you were a Johnson & Johnson, or you were any of these large manufacturers, you had one person or a tiny little team on Amazon, and that was it. And I think that depends on, first and foremost, that you’ve got a healthy sales team, with healthy sales leadership, and a healthy sales process.

SaaS Payments 249

SaaS Payments Scale Payment Services Payment Solutions 249

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. I’d like to introduce Brian Parks. Excellent, great.

SaaS 40

SaaS Scale Sales Hiring Venture Capital 40

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. I’d like to introduce Brian Parks. Excellent, great.

SaaS 40

SaaS Scale Sales Hiring Venture Capital 40

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. I’d like to introduce Brian Parks. Tim McCormick: 00:06:56.

SaaS 40

SaaS Scale Sales Hiring Venture Capital 40

Unbounce

JULY 30, 2019

With that in mind, Unbounce has teamed up with a few heavy-hitters of marketing to give you the rundown on how you can start with your holiday campaigns and landing pages today. (So, ” (She and Val Geisler recently teamed up for a webinar on writing copy for holiday emails , so she has a lot to say on the subject.).

Scale 111

Scale Branding Underperforming Technical Team AWS 111

SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

When shelter in place started, the conversation we’ve had internally on our team is we have to think of ourselves as Navy SEALs, where we’re at base camp right now, and we’re going to train and we’re going to work on our playbooks and do our research. Personally, our team has been holding back a little bit.

Investment 159

Investment Technical Review Part-Time VPE Development Team Review 159

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

As for Allison, in her 5 years at Gainsight her list of achievements in endless from running all functions that drive value for Gainsight customers, now a 150 person team, to building out the corporate development function to being the right hand to the CEO. How can one approach setting up a services team for scale?

Engineering 26

Engineering Scale Underperforming Technical Team Customer Success 26

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

If RFPs are slowing down your sales team, you need to check out Loopio. Prior to that, he led sales teams all over the country, and we’re incredibly excited to have on the show. And every week we’re onboarding three to four to five teams. But I went in and their executive team that came in blew me away.

VP of Engineering 74

VP of Engineering Scale Development Team Review Technical Review 74

Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Research from Demand Metric shows content marketing costs 62 percent less but produces three times as many leads as traditional marketing. From the beginning, Distilled has always been focused on technical SEO, focusing on the development aspects of content marketing. Distilled – Best for Technical SEO. Budget: $25,000+.

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Content Marketing Technical Review Marketing Banking 134