SaaStr

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Before Optimizely, Travis spent 6 years at Salesforce in a number of sales roles including building the first Platform Sales team. What does Travis advise founders when it comes to uniting customer facing teams? * Why does Travis believe that SaaS has upended the economic model but not the engagement model?

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Chargify

MARCH 25, 2019

Subscription services give the end user control over costs and employee access, without the cumbersome contracts. But some software-as-a-service (SaaS) companies struggle with how to sell subscriptions. To help, we’ve put together a list of the four strategies that are key to selling SaaS.

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ProfitWell

AUGUST 18, 2020

Reliance told her that she would need to buy-out the remainder of her two years in one lump sum payment, plus the interest the company would lose over those two years, and she would have to pay an additional hefty administration fee too. The administration fee alone totaled nearly three of her monthly payments.

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ChurnZero

APRIL 15, 2022

Bad timing sticks out a mile.”. If your Customer Success (CS) teams doesn’t possess ESP, you need tools to identify a customer’s buying signals, usage behavior, and ROI to break the endless cycle of trial and error with your expansion outreach. SalesIntel is a leading sales intelligence platform and B2B contact data provider.

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FastSpring

APRIL 13, 2023

When Justin and his initial team started looking for a way to capitalize on VR/AR technology, they focused their attention on the “made-to-order” industrial market. But they quickly realized the market was too small and that there was a bigger opportunity elsewhere — in wider B2B and B2C commerce. But that’s not where they started.

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CustomerSuccessBox

APRIL 7, 2022

Puneet Kataria shares his experience and observation on how customer success teams can be agile in the Customer Success Vodcast hosted by tl;dv! Every customer success team during the onboarding, buzz around the term “Early value”, the question is how does it all start and even delivered? You can listen to the full vodcast here.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Jos White of Notion and Christian Lanng of Tradeshift team up to show you how to work within, and sometimes around, rules in the workplace. I’m an entrepreneur-turned-investor, co-founder of an early generation one, SaaS company called Message Labs that we founded in 2000. Work smarter, not harder. Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020.

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ProfitWell

AUGUST 13, 2020

But first, the B2B SaaS index. CEOs are often reluctant to share bad news because they suffer from positivity delusion. That’s why he calls it a delusion: employees can handle bad news. There are many factors in being a great CEO, one of them comes down to being transparent with your team during turbulence.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 30, 2021

They’ve built a new process of guided selling, which Neil discusses during the show. How Revenue Grid enables smarter selling. How to build a winning sales team. Developing A Winning Sales Team [16:24]. And finally, we just turned SalesHacker.com into a community. powered by Sounder. What You’ll Learn.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Emilie Maret | Fellowship Team @ The Family. We’re a team of former investors and operators from the likes of Facebook, Deliveroo, and the Swedish payments company Klarna. We are a purely B2B fund, focused on software and fintech. Emilie Maret | Fellowship Team @ The Family. Maybe fifty of them are B2B SaaS.

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OpenView Labs

JANUARY 29, 2020

Freemium in SaaS is old news. The much-discussed pricing strategy took over the SaaS world and helped fuel the phenomenal success of SaaS pioneers like Dropbox, Evernote, SurveyMonkey and Hootsuite. Freemium appeared to be declining in popularity and, when it was in place, drove next to zero new ACV for most SaaS companies.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

One of the biggest decisions you can make when setting up your sales team is whether to focus primarily on inside or outside sales. We’ll look at the strengths of each type of sales, why you need both of them in your team, and how to determine the best balance for your organization. What is inside sales? What is outside sales.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Think about what you could be doing to bring more diversity into your teams and be more inclusive as a company, and go actively out of your way in order to achieve set goals. I usually do them with Paul or people from the product teams – it’s much more fun to be on a podcast with your boss. Be open-minded. If not now, then when?”

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FastSpring

JANUARY 27, 2022

Small tweaks to your SaaS billing practices can make a huge impact on the customer experience. For example, Jon Torres — a digital marketing consultant specializing in SaaS commerce — noticed that, for some of his clients, refund requests spiked around renewal time. “It 7 growth hacks from the SaaS experts. Learn more here.

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GetUplift

DECEMBER 12, 2021

This guide provides a detailed breakdown of my emotional marketing process. It’s a process that my team and I at GetUplift have used to 10x our clients’ conversion rates. The process for using your research to create social media ads, landing pages, and email sequences that actually convert. So, let’s dive in.

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OpenView Labs

MAY 29, 2020

Maybe they need new products and services, or adjustments to what you’ve been offering. So unless yours is a pure, high-end emotional sell (like Gucci handbags), deliver value and communicate the value that you’re providing customers. Reduce upfront/adoption costs and offer flexible payment terms. Develop subscription models.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

Strategy and Process. B2B Is Really P2P. Sales Development and Prospecting. The Sales Development Playbook. Sales Enablement. The Sales Enablement Playbook. Enablement Mastery. The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team. Blueprints for a SaaS Sales Organization. Integrity Selling for the 21st Century.

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SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

When shelter in place started, the conversation we’ve had internally on our team is we have to think of ourselves as Navy SEALs, where we’re at base camp right now, and we’re going to train and we’re going to work on our playbooks and do our research. Personally, our team has been holding back a little bit.

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FastSpring

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

That’s the philosophy behind SEM International , the firm he founded that specializes in multilingual internationally-based digital marketing services. Pricing Strategies to Combat Stagflation 2022 Emerging SaaS Customer Markets How FastSpring Can Help FastSpring helps SaaS and software companies sell around the world.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 9, 2019

The Process for Creating a Sales Compensation Plan. Once you understand how to create a fair compensation plan for your sales team, you can check out some examples: Sales Development Rep (SDR) Compensation Plan Example. Here’s an example of OTE levels for a SaaS business hiring salespeople in the Bay Area: Table 2.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 3, 2020

Despite huge growth and development over the last ten years, there’s also been some disappointments. Emmet: So my job here is to run the Product Design team here in Dublin and London, and Figma clearly had the biggest impact on our team this year. Probably with the rise of SaaS and in effect the death of the file format.

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