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4 Lessons For SaaS Startups From Optimizely's Early Days

Tom Tunguz

Last night, SaaS Office Hours hosted Optimizely co-founder and CTO Pete Koomen. Famously, they tested the idea by calling two advertising agencies and asking them to pay $1000 a month for early access to a product that didn’t yet exist (but soon would). Now 400 people strong, Optimizely is the leader in A/B Testing.

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What's the ROI of your mom?

ProfitWell

On a global scale, on average, product marketers with strong leadership support earn almost $13k more a year than those without. Sprinklr scooped up the social advertising business this week in a perfect complement to what Sprinklr has been building for the past decade: one platform for customer experience management. And for some U.S.

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Three million downloads and counting: Inside Intercom reaches a podcasting milestone

Intercom, Inc.

They had occasional advertising here and there. For Slack, that was clearly the engineering and dev communities, who love new tools. They love new ways of working and were happy to bring Slack into their functional teams and say, “Let’s experiment with this new way of working.” And it was very successful.

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PODCAST 123: How to Go From a Transactional Model to a Subscription Model with Brandon Meyers

Sales Hacker

We’ve got two sponsors, including a new one called Sapper Consulting. Brandon has over 15 years of experience in technology, sales, and ad tech, and he’s recognized as one of the leading figures in the Bay Area on advertising technology. It has been an incredible journey for him. So it’s a great show.

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How To Build (Internal) Trust As A CMO

Outseta

That’s pretty wild if you think about it, but the source of the problem is quite clear to me: CMOs are failing to build trust with their CEOs and leadership teams. Just as a CTO may have to explain the importance of technical projects to a CEO, the CMO needs to educate the CEO on the various ways marketing can drive their business.

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PR for Startups : Interview with PR Expert Julija Jegorova

Teamgate

Often startups have very limited funds, so they cannot afford to boost their campaigns with marketing or advertising. Unlike, let’s say, advertising, media placements are earned rather than paid for, meaning that a journalist validates your story or product. How PR is different to marketing and advertising?

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Kevin Indig on searching for meaning and the meaning of search

Intercom, Inc.

. “The real advances in SEO come from people trying things out and sharing them with the community” Alexa: You mentioned trial and error there and given that SEO is really a new discipline, how has trial and error helped you be at the forefront of a discipline that has emerged within your career span? Kevin: Absolutely.