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CRO Confidential: The Hangover’s Over: 5 Ways to Get Your SaaS Revenue Back On Track with Gong’s SVP Sales and Founders Fund

SaaStr

#1: The Days of work-LIFE Balance Are Over (Emphasis on Little Work and Big Life) Mapping back to a period of time known as The Party, 2021 was full of people, in sales especially, who were making twice as much money while working half as hard. When everyone went remote, they worked remotely from the beach while their companies were growing.

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CEOs of Zapier, Walkme and Dialpad: How to Build Your First Management Team (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

As part of the run up to 2021 SaaStr Annual in the SF Bay Area Sep 27-29, we’re taking a look back at some of our top sessions of all times. So let’s take a look back to a deep dive with the CEOs on what they learned building their first senior teams: ———-. Get best price tickets here!!! And for good reason.

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The biggest challenges facing support teams right now (and how to solve them)

Intercom, Inc.

Most support teams have seen an influx of support queries since COVID-19 hit – and those issues are more complex than ever. According to recent research, however, many teams aren’t sufficiently equipped to meet these new challenges. Challenge #1: Limited team bandwidth, resources, and budget.

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Pivoting from Growth-at-All-Costs: 4 Focus Areas to Thrive in Any Market with BCG Consulting Partner Courtney Dong + Managing Director and Partner JB Reed (Video)

SaaStr

Management teams must determine how to thrive in a downturn to position their businesses for profitable growth. The ‘Rule of 40’ is a valuable metric that can illustrate the degree of shift and what it means for companies fundraising and operating. Data shows a significant shift in company valuations happened from 2021 to 2022.

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Olivier Pomel, CEO of Datadog: How to Build and Sell a Product that Customers Love (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

We’re so excited to have Olivier Pomel, CEO and co-founder of Datadog, back at SaaStr Annual 2021 Sep 26-28 in the SF Bay Area!! Pomel focused his session on: Making your SaaS startup customer-centric: Hw event marketing has helped him integrate his engineering and sales teams. We hired everybody on our teams.

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Conversational support isn’t just a nice-to-have – it’s make or break

Intercom, Inc.

According to one Microsoft Global State of Customer Service report , 90% of consumers surveyed said that customer service is an important factor in their choice of, and loyalty to, a brand, while nearly two-thirds (58%) would sever their relationship with a business due to poor customer service. Support teams want it.

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7 Tips to Close 7,000 Customers From Gorgias’ VP of Sales

SaaStr

Their CEO will join us at SaaSr Scale 2021 on December 15 to talk about using data to get to 10,000 SMB customers! I considered the four companies and chose Gorgias based on my experience with their team during the interview process. Together, we developed sales pitches, built out a robust sales process in just a couple of weeks.

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