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Monetization: What SaaS platform builders need to know to prepare for growth, Part 2

CloudGeometry

This has consequences both for the cost of onboarding a customer, as well as the cost of maintaining the customer during the discovery period. Think beyond the cloud about what other resources you need to invest in making customers successful with your platform.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week: May 3, 2019

SaaStr

How does Manny think about quota construction today? Innovation is about empathy with your customers. It’s all about customer obsession! In this session, Sandy Carter, AWS Vice President will hone your superpower – not of customer focus, or customer driven, but customer obsessed.

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State of the Cloud 2019 from Bessemer Venture Partners (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

78 times in the AWS … ADABAS was referenced in the Amazon press release and earnings announcement. Now, let’s imagine that this company, over the last few years, heavily invested in customer success and really drove up their net retention by 15 points and let’s say, they’re 125% net retention.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Airtable and Shopify Plus — October 25, 2019

SaaStr

How does Liat think Airtable is pushing up against the traditional customer success model? 277: When is the right time to go upmarket and how do you serve small, medium and large customers in the same company. So with Airtable, customers are actually building their own domain specific applications.

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8 Effective Ways to Enhance Your Customer Perception

SmartKarrot

A good product with lousy support is the same as an awful product with good support in terms of customer retention. Ignoring negative feedback can undermine your customers’ trust in your business, which can significantly impact the bottom line. Essentially, it all boils down to one thing: trust.

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170+ Women in Sales Share Their Career-Defining Aha Moment

Sales Hacker

Bring your feelings, gut instinct, experience, and constructive emotion into the boardroom and sit at the table. If you do something constructive with your doubt, and use it to advance yourself, it can be an asset. Again, I am a big believer in the power of customer storytelling for helping sales outcomes.

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Intercom’s Fergal Reid and Ciaran Lee on the making of Resolution Bot

Intercom, Inc.

But now we have the data that actually shows our customers are managing to set up loads of answers and get resolutions. When we talk to them, it’s somebody from customer support or customer success who’s doing this frequently, someone a little more on the technically sophisticated end of the team.