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Outsourcing Support is a Lot Better Than Not Providing Support at All

SaaStr

Q: What are your thoughts on outsourcing customer support? There are certainly cons to traditional outsourced support vs. highly trained support that works right inside your company. Still awful. At least you know the vendor is there, but many of your customers will need more than just … a frustrating bot.

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ISVs vs SaaS: What’s the Difference?

Stax

Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and Software-as-a-Service Providers (SaaS) operate within the same market, thus creating a push-and-pull revenue dynamic. ISVs, or Independent Software Vendors, are businesses that develop and distribute software products to end-users. Consider Stax’s partner program.

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10 Things That Always Work in Marketing with SaaStr Founder and CEO Jason Lemkin: Part 2 (Pod 653 + Video)

SaaStr

If you outsource a firm or agency and dump cloned content on them and destroy your list, outbound won’t work for you. People are coming to do careful discovery, meet with vendors in person, and look at everything in the space before bringing budgeted and unbudgeted products into their company each year. You have to do the research.

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Run Less Software

Intercom, Inc.

Outsource Undifferentiated Heavy Lifting. Outsource undifferentiated heavy lifting. Since 2006 the era of “Everything as a service” has advanced quickly. Infrastructure as a service is now standard, as are Platform and Software as a service. Understand the potential consequences of outsourcing to young startups.

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Ten Ways To Stand Out in a Crowd of $25-$50/h Software Outsourcers

Kraftblick

Today, almost all software outsourcing companies point to the advantage of low cost in marketing themselves, one way or another. We offer high-quality services. Fortunately for you, working with real business needs, not just cost-cutting, is a weak point for many software outsourcers. We are cheaper.

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How to Automate your SaaS Expenses with Quickbooks Bank Rules

Baremetrics

This helps you to: Reduce human error Override Quickbooks suggestion engine Human error is particularly prevalent with outsourced accountants without a bookkeeper dedicated to your company. What remains a problem is the engine grouping all expenses from the same vendor under one account. Here you add the vendor.

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Intercom’s Rich Archbold on how to run less software

Intercom, Inc.

I started at Amazon before they had Amazon Web Services (AWS) so I was lucky enough to see AWS born out of the guts of all of the great operations work done for the amazon.com retail website. When you come up the stack a little bit, even inside of AWS, we use a specific set of EC2 instances. Who do we outsource to?