Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Scott pulled the research from Chorus, which reported that over five weeks (~May-June 2020), 88% more directors have been joining calls and 72% more executives are joining sales calls on the sell side. Scott’s newsletter makes a great point: as buying teams get bigger and bigger, our sales teams need to grow with them.

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

The 8 Best Content Marketing Companies of 2020. Wil Reynolds founded Seer interactive, which got its start as a search engine optimization company. From the beginning, Distilled has always been focused on technical SEO, focusing on the development aspects of content marketing. Distilled – Best for Technical SEO.

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User Pilot

MAY 29, 2025

Poor mobile UX design leads to high bounce rates, abandoned carts , and negative app reviews. Performance expectations: People using mobile web or app expect speed and instant clarity because theyre often on the go, juggling multiple tasks, or dealing with weak connections. This article will provide an in-depth guide. The bottom line?

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SaaStr

JULY 15, 2022

It’s pretty good, someone did a Tweet storm the other day on Zeb from ClickUp’s presentation at SaaStr Annual 2020. Jason Lemkin: You certainly can hire a whole content team and build 10,000 pieces of content, but I will tell you what I have always seen work is one incredible piece a week. That’s a great example.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

If your SaaS business has a sales team, there’s no way to grow 100% year-over-year without also growing your sales leadership. Knowing the common pitfalls won’t stop you or your team from making them, but it will help build the most important skill any manager can have: resiliency. Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020. Overwhelmed.

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 6, 2020

trillion in 2020 to 6.5 These experts have a significant amount of experience in their chosen specialty, whether that’s search engine optimization, paid advertising, or conversion optimization. They prioritize search engine optimization, conversion optimization, and pay per click management in that order. trillion by 2023.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020. For example, if you’re getting ready to close the deal, sales team’s pretty darn excited. You have to be aware, you have to listen, and you have to talk about the bad things your customers are saying about you. Want to see more content like this? Kathy Lord | SVP @ Sage People.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Scaling a support team is challenging enough as it is. Maybe you’ve just extended support hours and it’s becoming harder to plan shifts for different time zones; maybe you’re spending hours figuring out schedules for the week ahead; maybe the inflow prediction was a bit off and now your team is under or overstaffed.

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Outsourcing Services Scale Software Sales Hiring 206

SaaStr

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Companies that have access to more accurate financial data have the ability to develop seamless exchanges of information, providing consumers with improved ways to manage their finances. Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020. “Well, fintech might be bad in the margins for me, but I can actually profit from this so let’s embrace it.”

Payments 202

Payments SaaS Payments Banking Underperforming Technical Team 202

Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

We pulled from my prior marketplaces experience and dove into their business quickly to develop a point-of-view on the opportunity. Prior to founding Instacart, Apoorva was a fulfillment optimization software engineer from Amazon. billion from 2019 to 2020. It truly has been a team effort. billion to $20.7

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Now imagine someone injures themselves after taking your advice… well, that would be bad. My team is now making a tweak to improve my load time even more. I wish I can walk you through how to do it step by step, and maybe that could be a future blog post, but the easiest is to just find a developer from UpWork to do it for you.

Strategy 111

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Unbounce

JUNE 24, 2020

At Unbounce, we not only believe that applied AI is the future of marketing , we also think marketers tuned in to what’s happening now stand to benefit in a big way in 2020 and beyond. According to them, AGI “controls itself autonomously, with its own thoughts, worries, feelings, strengths, weaknesses, and predispositions.”

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CloudGeometry

MAY 22, 2021

If only some developers in the past had been more virtuous, frugal, expert, what have you, we could have… (“Closed that deal! In modern software development, velocity is the intended outcome of distributed SaaS and cloud-native environments. This doesn’t mean customers cause technical debt any more than one can blame developers.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

There are enough stories of data breaches and cyber attacks to chill even the savviest security engineer to the core. An aerospace engineer turned entrepreneur, Adam learned early the best way to earn trust was proving you deserve it. And just continuing to push it higher with the team. From rocket science to compliance.

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

The best engineers create luxury cars. billion in 2020 to $388 billion in 2025. The first step in developing a luxury marketing strategy is to understand your audience. If several different groups of people buy your products, you’ll need to develop a buyer persona for each of them. The quality has to match the price tag.

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SaaStr

MARCH 26, 2019

Scaling the company’s employee base, sales teams, marketing, and operations—all while preserving its culture—has required a laser focus on first principles, smart processes, and effective hiring. Know who is the foundation of your product and build your product for that user (in Stripe’s case, developers). Know your forever user.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

In June 2020, in the midst of the pandemic, Rebecca and her mother — child psychiatrist and scientist Dr. Helen Egger — launched Little Otter. How can you develop the technology while making sure it really gets to the people who need it the most and has an actual impact on their lives? The company means a great deal to both of them.

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SaaStr

APRIL 9, 2019

Being an engineer can give you the upper hand as a CEO because you understand the product. Join us for SaaStr Annual 2020. Mallun Yen : So, you were an engineer by training and then you became an engineering leader, as the CTO of Webex, and then you became a CEO. Have your user conference around $10M ARR or earlier.

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Sales Hiring Scale CTO Hire Marketing 139

TriTuns

JANUARY 21, 2020

Do you want to boldly grow your SaaS company in 2020 – and beyond? The next generation of this business model, led by the creation of customer success (CS), is ushering in a new growth engine. This is very bad news for SaaS vendors. The Fundamental Shift You Need To Make. But these approaches alone are not enough.

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SaaStr

JULY 22, 2019

Join us at SaaStr Europa 2020. That’s not a bad start. We work with mostly modern teams. Developers were really loyal to the product, and they were able to take the product with them whenever they went. Want to see more content like this? Roger Scott | EVP @ New Relic. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW. Good afternoon.

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SaaStr

APRIL 23, 2019

Join us for SaaStr Annual 2020. Also, Brex is a Super Platinum sponsor for Annual 2020. Henrique: So, we applied to YC with this VR idea, which, looking back, it was pretty bad, but at the time we thought it was great. It was, kind of, like a developer friend who had a startup, so they saw their transactions on the terminal.

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TriTuns

JANUARY 21, 2020

Do you want to boldly grow your SaaS company in 2020 – and beyond? The next generation of this business model, led by the creation of customer success (CS), is ushering in a new growth engine. This is very bad news for SaaS vendors. The Fundamental Shift You Need To Make. But these approaches alone are not enough.

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SaaS Underperforming Technical Team Customer Success Business Model 71

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 Dharmesh : …said, “This is a very bad idea. million in 2013 to $115.9 million in 2014.). I said, “Holy crap.

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Neil Patel

MAY 3, 2021

It’s more likely to be UX design or software development. With the internet and software playing such an essential part in our lives, more and more skilled programmers are needed to develop and maintain the tools we need to thrive. Some of these folks will likely be developers. What Are Coding Bootcamps? Springboard.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Lots of us fantasize about moving upmarket, but are unsure of how to get started, is it just a matter of hiring a team of SDRs and getting them to hit the phones? Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020. You don’t want to fall into a trap of building all this custom stuff, I think you guys all know why that’s a bad idea.

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 24, 2022

This isn’t a bad idea, and why companies like Facebook continued to grow despite adding more and more complexity over time. This is one of the key challenges we faced at Eventbrite when we radically shifted our strategy in 2020. And I’m sure we’ve all seen that quote that say if a design needs an explanation, it’s a bad design.

Scale 139

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

374: ZoomInfo founder and CEO Henry Schuck shares how he built a business from scratch and grew it into one of the most successful IPOs of the 21st century—and what it was really like…the good, the bad, and most of all, the ugly. To say that 2020 has been unusual, and unprecedented, and momentous would all be understatements.

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Sales Hiring Scale Payments Sales Recruiting 220

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Join us at SaaStr Europa 2020. ” Was obsessed with mathematics, went to college at 16, became an engineer. Thought I wanted to be an engineer, quickly realized I actually prefer the customer facing side of the startup world. I have a team of people who work on numbers. Want to see more content like this?

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Guided selling with Revenue Grid allows you to guide reps step-by-step through every deal, reducing guesswork and increasing consistency so your teams have the best odds with every opportunity in the pipeline. See how you can put your sales teams in the best position to win now at revenuegrid.com/saleshacker. Callie Moriarty: Hi Sam.

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SaaStr

JULY 29, 2022

And we’re about to add basically a team collaboration tier on top of the product. The second question is more about, given that we’re basically users would be self qualifying into team management offering like a project management, et cetera. And you have to allow that, in fact, you have to support that in your sales team.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 15, 2022

Sales development school, marketing school, and more for your entire team. He launched a division specializing in technical sales and sales engineering. In 2020, he was appointed CEO. Asad Zaman : We specialize in helping companies build their go-to-market teams. Learn more at joinpavilion.com. Asad, welcome.

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Chart Mogul

APRIL 29, 2020

With a low page load speed, you will tend to lose potential customers, even if David Ogilvy himself developed your marketing strategy. Maybe all your designers and developers are too busy actually trying to grow your business, and they just don’t have time to convert huge batches of media files and reupload them. Easier said than done?

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Baremetrics

JULY 23, 2020

This can be seen in the growing popularity email (newsletters are hot in 2020). Launched Friendly Analytics on Product Hunt On March 18, 2020 Friendly Analytics launched on ProductHunt – only 26 days after registering the domain Friendly.is. During this time he has brought Friendly a long way, and we have developed into a good team.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020. Emilie Maret | Fellowship Team @ The Family. We’re a team of former investors and operators from the likes of Facebook, Deliveroo, and the Swedish payments company Klarna. Emilie Maret | Fellowship Team @ The Family. The good thing is … this is the good news, bad news.

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OpenView Labs

AUGUST 27, 2020

This phenomenon is commonly seen in a few markets: productivity tools (think Calendly , Notion , Zapier or Airtable ) and developer tools (think Datadog , Twilio or Atlassian). Ideally, a cybersecurity tool runs quietly in the background, covering for the CISO and ensuring there are no weaknesses.

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OpenView Labs

JANUARY 19, 2022

It’s important to focus on those users who become customers from the beginning because their usage of the product, and where they fall off in this user journey, will help you prioritize where your team spends the most time and resources to convert at the highest rate. . This is covered in-depth in the Developer Go-To-Market-Playbook. .

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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? I just came out of Stripe, I just came out of Datadog, I came out of Fastly, I’m an engineer, I love the guy that was the CTO of Fastly who [inaudible 00:08:34] making it up. The growth is top 3%.

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