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Q&A with Maria Pergolino, Anthony Kennada, Aaron Ross and Jason Lemkin (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

And so, she can, and Anthony just finished up basically going from the first sales hire at Gainsight at almost 100 million in revenue and has just retired. Maria : It’s like saying, “Hey, you want a sales rep to carry 10 times the quota they do today. You can’t, you have to invest in that sales infrastructure.”

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3 Customer Retention Strategies for the Pandemic’s Next Wave

ChurnZero

Customer Success teams are in a unique position to listen to their customers’ challenges. You and I both know how awful it feels to have someone disregard what we say and focus on their end goal instead. I’ve had a few situations where the person was more interested in the sale than truly helping me find the right solution.

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Using Product Led Growth as an Indicator for Investment w/OpenView Venture Partner, Ashley Smith (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

At Twilio, I think my entire job there my first two years was throwing t-shirts at people, because everyone had a Twilio t-shirt I think in the developer community in 2010, and that was our marketing strategy. Your sales team becomes more efficient, your customer success team becomes efficient, your customers like you more.

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Intercom on Product: One for the roadmap

Intercom, Inc.

Sales, marketing, finance, support, and R&D all use the roadmap for different thing. Sales want to sell it, marketing needs to plan for it, finance needs to model it, support needs to be able to explain it, and R&D needs to be excited about it. Getting this right allows your teams to work in lockstep together.

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Intercom on Product: One for the roadmap

Intercom, Inc.

Sales, marketing, finance, support, and R&D all use the roadmap for different thing. Sales want to sell it, marketing needs to plan for it, finance needs to model it, support needs to be able to explain it, and R&D needs to be excited about it. Getting this right allows your teams to work in lockstep together.

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5 Effective Things We Did to Move Upmarket and Built Pipeline with Mapistry (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Lots of us fantasize about moving upmarket, but are unsure of how to get started, is it just a matter of hiring a team of SDRs and getting them to hit the phones? Oops… Today we’ll be covering the five tips and here they are right here, from handling buyer expectations to navigating the complex sale.

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The Top 5 Questions Every CEO Wrestles With – Lessons From Host Analytics (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Do I have the right team? And just because someone was a right member of the team last year doesn’t mean they’re a right member of the team next year. And just because someone was a right member of the team last year doesn’t mean they’re a right member of the team next year.