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The Path to CRO with TigerEye, CircleCl, Lattice, and Notion

SaaStr

After switching to SaaS, she started as an SMB sales leader with no prior management or SMB sales experience. The highs and lows always come, usually involving the people on your team. For Erica, the bad days are when they’re not executing or achieving growth the way they want. Automation and AI could solve for that.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week: May 24, 2019

SaaStr

235: Andrew Filev is the Founder & CEO @ Wrike, the cloud based collaboration and project management software that scales across teams in any business. As for Andrew, he started his first software development company at the age of 18 and has been running Wrike for the last 13 years alongside advisory roles with both Ditto and Appulate.

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What’s New at Greenhouse: $200M ARR, AI in the Real World, Going Big with PE, and More

SaaStr

In a year like this, SMB is doing worse, with a lot more churn and startups going out of business. But in other years, SMBs are jumping in the boat, so you get amazing growth long-term with a multi-segment strategy. But in other years, SMBs are jumping in the boat, so you get amazing growth long-term with a multi-segment strategy.

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State of the Cloud 2019: Europa Edition with Alex Ferrara, Bessemer Venture Partners (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Before I joined the venture capital industry many years ago, I was a software developer, and I worked for a startup around the 2000 time period. Contrast that with companies that might also sell into the SMB segment of the market where the ASPs, the average deal sizes are lower. I think it’s a really staggering stat.

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Predictions for Customer Success in 2019

ChurnZero

We’ll see more applications of AI in Customer Success, but these will mostly be behind-the-scenes. the stuff that Customer Success teams are really meant to do). the stuff that Customer Success teams are really meant to do). As the chatbot craze subsides, I anticipate behind-the-scenes AI to become a major trend in 2019.

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The Top 5 Things Unleash Taught Me About the State of Sales Tech in 2019

Sales Hacker

I heard things at Unleash like: “I’ve been using AI to help uncover new leads on my own from people’s out of office replies.”. And: “Our team has been A/B testing a statistically significant sample of subject lines and now we not only know which is the best, but we can tell you why…”. Last week was a little different. What’s Next?

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Using PLG and Sales Led Growth Together to Drive Exponential Results

FastSpring

As an experienced sales and GTM leader, John Eitel has more than witnessed how product-led growth (PLG) has affected the tech and SaaS space in the last few years — he and his teams have been up close and personal with how PLG increased in popularity as a sales strategy. “I And it makes up for a lot of bad product experiences, right?

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