Intercom, Inc.

JULY 28, 2022

Those line charts showing fast-rising user acquisition or explosive ARR have been synonymous with the industry over the past decade. And for Intercom’s VP of Sales EMEA, Sanj Bhayro , scaling is just what you need to invest in to ensure growth becomes as constant and linear as it can be. Sanj: Well, it’s a pretty long one.

Scale 210

Scale Scaling Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting 210

User Pilot

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Train the customer support team on the product and give them time to develop support resources. Once the product is out, use product analytics to track your success metrics. New feature or product enhancement checklist: Gather ideas for new features and improvements from customer requests and feedback.

Underperforming Technical Team 98

Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting Social Media Market Research 98

User Pilot

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Next, you need to choose the right metrics to measure progress and set the timescale for the experiment. Set your success metrics and timeline Once you set the goal, you need to choose the right metrics that will guide the work of your team and help you evaluate the effectiveness of your efforts. How can you achieve this?

Management 95

Management Sales Recruiting User Experience Customer Lifetime Value 95

SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

Check out this 2018 Europa session with Guillaume Princen, Head of France and Southern Europe @ Stripe, where he talks about the metrics you need to be focused on in your startup. If you don’t have the time to watch the whole session, here are the main metrics you should be mindful of. Average Revenue per Customer.

SaaS Payments 229

SaaS Payments Metrics Payment Methods Scale 229

OpenView Labs

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The game has changed when it comes to recruiting. Hiring managers should prepare by putting together pitch materials (usually a 2-3 page deck) to give candidates a deeper look at your company and culture – beyond what’s on your website. It’s tempting to prioritize new customer acquisition as your top growth priority. .

Payment Services 80

Payment Services Benchmarks SaaS Payments Merchant Services 80

SmartKarrot

MARCH 4, 2021

Role: VP, Customer Success – SaaS Location: Remote, Boston, MA, US Organization: Blue Signal Search As a VP of Customer Success, you will manage and provide executive leadership to all facets and members of the customer success department. We can only improve what we can measure.

Customer Success 10

Customer Success Sales Recruiting Cost optimization & reporting Leadership 10

Natalia Luneva

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

We tried to come up with a framework where we set marketing, sales and finance which we call heavy burdens of the company. For instance, in an early stage company HR is focused on recruiting whereas if you are at a bit later stage you are more focused on HR process. Levers of scaling a SaaS company. In our case these are: 1.

Scale 52

Scale Scaling Sales Recruiting SaaS 52

SmartKarrot

JUNE 22, 2021

Role: Customer Success Director Location: Remote, United States Organization: Terminal As a Customer Success Director, you will lead client relationships to facilitate seamless onboarding, ensuring strong relationships and alignment of expectations through the entire customer lifecycle.

Customer Success 10

Customer Success Sales Recruiting Scale Sales Hiring 10

ChurnZero

JULY 9, 2020

But if you’re like most companies, when it comes to attracting your customers, the only thing your marketing’s dropping is the ball. Sure, you won customers over to get the initial purchase, but what about your post-sale courting? If you teach a customer how to use your product to fix a problem, you’re in the game.

Retention 64

Retention Strategy Scale Sales Recruiting 64

User Pilot

JUNE 28, 2023

Stripo offers a pre-sign up interactive demo that brings prospects to their ‘Aha’ moment before they even create an account. Kommunicate drives sales-less product adoption through product experiments and tracking adoption rates with Userpilot. Scheduling their first post(s).

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Onboarding SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions 89

ChurnZero

MARCH 11, 2020

I wasn’t satisfied that we lost a customer, but I was now armed with valuable new information that would lead to a breakthrough in our sales model. When I ran Customer Success at PeopleMatter I interviewed every customer who canceled their services with us. And today I see many of my customers doing the same thing.

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Churn Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring 52

SmartKarrot

MARCH 2, 2021

Role: Director of Customer Success Location: Remote, Rochester, NY Organization: FinFit As a Director of Customer Success, you will set the overall vision and strategic plan for the Customer Success organization, focusing on driving product adoption, leading a positive customer experience, and driving growth through member acquisition.

Customer Success 10

Customer Success Sales Recruiting Scale Consulting 10

ProfitWell

JANUARY 23, 2020

Product-led growth is a go-to-market strategy that relies on the product itself as the primary driver of customer acquisition, conversion, and expansion.”. And you claim that sales should be hired last when dealing with a product-led growth initiative. In product-led growth, product leads and sales follows. Why is that?

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Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Venture Capital Trends 43

SaaStr

JULY 30, 2020

356: Pete Kazanjy is the Co-Founder @ Atrium, the startup providing proactive, always-on insights for sales operations, managers, and leaders. Alongside Atrium, Pete is also the Founder of Modern Sales Pros, a community of 15,000 focused on sales operations and sales management. Stop asking questions.

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Part-Time VPE Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring 194

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Nick Mehta is the CEO @ Gainsight, the #1 customer success platform for corporate services, turning your customers into your best growth engine. In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Nick made his way into the world of SaaS and came to lead the charge in the category creation of customer success as CEO with Gainsight?

Sales Hiring 114

Sales Hiring Customer Success Scale Sales Recruiting 114

User Pilot

JULY 22, 2023

In this guide, we’re going to show you how a land and expand strategy can help you grow your revenue generation from existing clients by deploying a foot-in-the-door approach with your sales team! You need a clear target market, proper positioning, product-market fit, and the right sales process for a land and expand strategy to work.

Strategy 86

Strategy Sales Recruiting Customer Success Acquisition 86

ChurnZero

APRIL 27, 2021

As ChurnZero recently secured a Series B investment bringing our total funding that has been raised to date to $35 million, we thought we’d take a look back and see the role that Customer Success plays at each respective stage of funding for SaaS companies. Early-Stage Funding & Customer Success.

Scale 98

Scale Customer Success Payments Underperforming Technical Team 98

Unbounce

JUNE 16, 2020

I think channel distribution is one of the most promising and untapped acquisition channels for SaaS?—?especially With a $60 billion market in which to grow, these companies recognize that smart use of partnership channels can help them scale up while creating a win-win-win ecosystem for the company, the partner, and the customer.

Outsourcing Services 131

Outsourcing Services Sales Recruiting Scale SaaS 131

Kellblog

MARCH 13, 2020

In days of yore, chief revenue officer (CRO) was just a gussied-up title for VP of Sales. If someone was particularly good, particularly senior, or particularly hard to recruit you might call them CRO. Chief revenue officer meant chief sales officer meant VP of Sales. Frank, the head of Sales, had a $1B number.

Customer Success 98

Customer Success VP of Engineering Sales Recruiting Acquisition 98

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Women in sales often have a polarizing experience. In the Sales Hacker video series Aha Moments , I asked 10 women: “What is one ‘aha moment’ you’ve had in your sales career?”. The conversations that followed were so authentic and encouraging that we decided to expand this conversation to other badass women in the sales world.

Scale 130

Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring VP of Engineering 130

SaaStr

AUGUST 27, 2019

How to Design a Sales Comp Plan to Get You to $100M with Work-Bench, Movable Ink, MongoDB and Concert Finance. This panel will speak tactically to various comp design options as a way for management to determine and promote ideal behavior in their front-line teams. Meghan Gill | VP of Sales Ops @ MongoDB. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

Sales Recruiting 132

Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale Sales 132

SaaStr

JANUARY 7, 2020

The first thing is, and this is a little crazy, but recruitment is incredibly overrated. How many people out here spend more than a third of your time recruiting? Tough Management Lesson #1. A lot of CEOs spend over half their time recruiting people. Tough Management Lesson #2. Okay, wow, that’s a lot.

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Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Management Marketing 143

SmartKarrot

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Using metrics. CSMs take into account many metrics to quantify the efforts put in by the team. These metrics include the number of queries resolved in a month, the average time is taken to resolve an issue, etc. These insights help them to create more suitable marketing campaigns that attract more fitting customers.

Management 10

Management Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Metrics 10

Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

And for leveling up your sales skills, nothing beats a good sales book. So what are the best sales books for helping you reach peak performance? Have been recommended by sales professionals. Here’s how you can find the sales books that are most relevant to you. Here they are… The 97 Best Sales Books in 2020.

Scale 141

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Payment Methods 141

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

At the helm of Udemy for Business’ customer acquisition machine is their VP of Marketing Yvonne Chen. When Yvonne joined in 2016, the business unit consisted of just 10 people across product, engineering, sales, and marketing. Turning a sales objection into a unique differentiator.

Marketplace as a Service 243

Marketplace as a Service Scale Sales Recruiting Business 243

SaaStr

MARCH 1, 2019

What one question must all founders be asking in the sales process? * How should comp plans differ when comparing AEs to customer success? Where should the responsibility for upsell lie, customer success or sales? Should sales commission be paid on renewals? But you said that about multi year.

Scale 114

Scale SMB Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring 114

OpenView Labs

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Generally, success hinges on a company’s ability to acquire a deep understanding of the metrics that most accurately gauge company performance and profitability. A Quick Glossary of SaaS Metrics. Essentially, this metric is the marketing component of CAC (see below). Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR). Big mistake.

Benchmarks 71

Benchmarks Metrics Scale Sales Recruiting 71

SaaStr

APRIL 3, 2020

As for Anthony, prior to Front Anthony was the founding CMO at Gainsight where he and his team are credited with creating the Customer Success category. If that was not enough, Anthony is also the author of Category Creation: How to Build a Brand that Customers, Employees, and Investors Will Love.

Sales Recruiting 173

Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale Branding 173

SaaStr

AUGUST 5, 2019

Rajesh is going to walk you through the key elements of winning the long game in SaaS – how to win customers, how to create long-term relationships, and how to avoid churn. He will also provide insights on the differences between commercial and enterprise customers and the key metrics to keep an eye on as you grow your business.

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Sales Recruiting Construction Scale SaaS 166

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

They started in the point of sale market, and then as the company scaled, they rolled out new value props and modules for payroll, or Toast capital, or ways to manage your employee base. You can also find your second act inorganically via acquisition as Twilio did with SendGrid. This is really founder-led sales.

Sales Hiring 153

Sales Hiring Scale Payments Cloud 153

SaaStr

JULY 1, 2020

An open discussion with Sam Blond, CSO at Brex, and Kristen Habacht, VPS at Atlassian, about adjusting their sales process during Covid-19. Kristen Habacht runs EDR sales at Atlassian, which I got a check today, $40 billion-$50 billion company. She manages a huge global team. Four, people in the sale? Jason Lemkin: None.

Merchant Services 173

Merchant Services Scale Sales Recruiting Sales 173

Incredo

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Do you want to grow your SaaS sales team and improve your processes? maintain healthy atmosphere in your Smarketing team, make smart choices regarding your SaaS sales model, strategy, pricing, . build smoother connections both with your prospects through optimized sales process. And from SaaS sales models to SaaS pricing.

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SaaS Payments Payment Methods Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring 157

Sales Hacker

MAY 9, 2019

A great sales compensation plan needs to accomplish quite a lot. It needs to provide fair compensation to employees in customer-facing roles. It needs to incentivize specific behaviors and actions that suit the needs of both the company and the customer. The Process for Creating a Sales Compensation Plan.

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Compensation Sales Hiring Development Team Review Sales Recruiting 102

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Prior to its July 2002 acquisition by Novell, SilverStream was a public company that had reached a revenue run rate in excess of $100M, with approximately 800 employees and offices in more than 20 countries around the world. David is also the author of foreentrepreneurs.com the must read blog in the world of SaaS metrics.

Scale 189

Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting 189

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 21, 2019

There are tons of roundup articles about top women sales leaders. Most of the time, somebody does a LinkedIn search for “sales leader,” chooses the top 15 profiles with the most followers, and calls it a day. What about the amazing sales leaders who aren’t well-known already? Most Dynamic Women Sales Leaders.

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Sales Recruiting Scale Sales Hiring VP of Engineering 90

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 9, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Anthony Kennada , CMO at Front. Anthony’s also the author of Category Creation: How to Build a Brand that Customers, Employees, & Investors Will Loveo. If you missed episode 86 , check it out here: PODCAST 86: Strategic Vs Tactical Approach in Sales Planning with Mary Rogul.

Sales Recruiting 54

Sales Recruiting Scale Sales Hiring B2C 54

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 19, 2021

When asked about the key business benefits they’ve experienced from being able to scale conversational support across their organization, support leaders and decision makers reported: Improved customer retention (60%). Enhanced customer satisfaction (58%). Improved customer acquisition (54%). Increased ROI (54%).

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Underperforming Technical Team Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting 129