SaaStr

DECEMBER 29, 2022

At Maxio , we help B2B SaaS companies unlock their next stage of growth. Our financial operations platform is designed to meet the unique financial challenges of B2B SaaS, including billing, subscription management, revenue and expense recognition, and SaaS analytics. Get the Best B2B Data Available with SalesIntel.

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SaaStr

JULY 10, 2021

So let’s take a look back to a deep dive with the CEOs on what they learned building their first senior teams: ———-. As a founder/CEO, building your first management team is something that you often lose sleep over. What makes you feel that you need to level up your management, set up your first management team?

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Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 23, 2023

I’m watching public company earnings to identify early weaknesses in the software market. Expected growth across segments is muted with an average of 5% growth across these B2B categories. Microsoft’s Ability to Cross-Sell its Suite is Driving Dominance in Many Categories GitHub is now home to 100 million developers.

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SaaStr

MARCH 5, 2025

With IPOs becoming increasingly rare (especially in B2B since 2021), M&A has become the more likely exit path for most founders. Manage Team Expectations – Balance transparency with the need to keep the team focused on building the business.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 10, 2022

From the get-go, ensure alignment between sales and marketing teams on goals and anticipated outcomes. It’s estimated that only 35% of sales reps at US-based B2B tech firms are achieving their quotas. Create dynamic alignment on goals. Beyond that, it models a specific way of working together for the entire company to adopt.

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FastSpring

JULY 11, 2024

The most common examples of successful CRO tactics provided at many conferences tend to focus on B2C ecommerce, but what are the proven winning tactics you can use in your B2B CRO strategy? In this episode of Growth Stage, we interview Sahil Patel of Spiralyze about his thoughts on: Special considerations for B2B CRO. Jump to video.

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User Pilot

DECEMBER 31, 2024

While your product managers use our analytics reports to track product usage, your engineering teams can use our session replays to uncover bugs, and your customer support team may use our in-app help center feature to offer self-service and reduce support tickets. Userpilot is perfect for non-technical teams.

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SaaStr

JUNE 13, 2024

Every week, there are significant new developments in tech. If you go to a team and say, “I can do 70% of what your team is doing now automatically and at a fraction of the cost.” Classic B2B SaaS Last Year vs. Summer ‘24 Where are we today? It’s a playbook you’re developing, and it’s not easy. At Gong, yes.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 4, 2019

More recently, however, I’ve realized that the technology industry at large struggles with such clarity and consistency – in marketing terms, there is often a difficulty developing a clear value proposition that aligns with product and brand identity. 1 Poor definition of value proposition and feature focus. 2 First-mover disadvantage.

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Branding Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Airlines 210

SaaStr

OCTOBER 4, 2024

They built one platform that does it all, but also made it simple so that these small businesses they wanted to serve, could actually use it to grow revenue without needing a developer that they didn’t have. This is more normal in consumer land, but in the B2B / SaaS world, we forget that using software should be fun, not a grind.

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Buffer Resources

JANUARY 15, 2024

Inaccurate, packed with "filler," or completely AI-generated — bad B2B (business-to-business) content is easy to spot and even easier to find online. But what makes B2B content good ? According to one study, it also costs over $50 billion annually due to wasted resources alone. Tough question. Interview them.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 12, 2023

Management teams must determine how to thrive in a downturn to position their businesses for profitable growth. However, management teams that pursued growth at all costs were punished severely. For companies in B2B SaaS, it also means understanding to whom they’re selling. Strategy to win. Key takeaways.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 13, 2019

As the head of our Support Ops team, I work daily with my teammates to develop automated solutions that don’t frustrate customers, but empower them. They can also route customer conversations to the team best equipped to handle their questions and can even provide answers to simple customer questions like, “How can I add more users?”.

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ChurnZero

OCTOBER 25, 2024

There are so many questions to answer when considering how to scale a customer success team. What about team leads? When do I split my one team into two teams? How do I split one team into two? And I know you want to scale your customer success team in the right way. I know it’s a lot of pressure.

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Buffer Resources

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

And B2B companies are no different. ” remember there’s still a human behind every B2B purchase, too. This article will highlight those and help you create a solid social media strategy for your B2B company. B2B social media marketing vs. B2C social media marketing: How should your strategy differ?

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

B2B and B2C content marketing require entirely different strategies. Instead, you need a targeted B2B content marketing strategy to reach your marketing goals. Why Do You Need a B2B Content Marketing Strategy? As mentioned, B2B content marketing presents different challenges from B2C content marketing.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 7, 2024

Paul Mander currently leads all of go-to-market for B2B at Optery. He previously built the pre and post sales solutions team at mParticle from zero to supporting hundreds of enterprise customers. Is there a lot of internal or customer work that needs to be done or managed by your team? How easy is it to implement your product?

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Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Sales Hiring Scale 118

Kellblog

MAY 5, 2021

The other day I read a book on account-based marketing (ABM), entitled ABM is B2B , and I must say I disliked it. My Thoughts on the Book: ABM is B2B. Let me get this off my chest: ABM is not B2B. B2B means business-to-business [3]. Just as ABM is one type of B2B marketing. We call it the B2B Maturity Curve.

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FastSpring

JANUARY 23, 2025

So assuming somebody’s sort of got their business in a place, they’ve got realistic expectations, they have some growth going on or at least flat line performance that they’re not in this kind of bad situation of being in decline and then deciding. Blake Hutchison (29:53) Our churn rate is poor, but we actually know why.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Modern sales teams need competent professionals with a variety of talents, skills and abilities. But in a hyper changing landscap e, which are the most crucial sales skills and traits that reps must possess (or develop) in order to exceed targets and deliver consistent sales success? Sales teams rarely operate as a one-person army.

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OpenView Labs

MARCH 8, 2021

B2B sales involves one business selling its product to another business. Those with experience in both B2B and B2C sales know that B2B is a lot tougher—the deals are bigger, there’s often more than one decision-maker, and the competition is intense. What Interviewing 600+ Sales Reps Taught Me About Team Building.

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SaaStr

JULY 25, 2021

You can have the great product and a great team, but the market of small or very niche. The second one is the team, obviously depending on how earlier the team has a huge factor because you may be so early in your journey that there’s nothing else to point to, but the track record of the team. Jyoti Bansal: Yeah.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 14, 2020

We all know and could name several successful B2C and B2B companies. My co founders and I were software developers, so we knew how to write the code, to build the website, to build the learning platform, to build the video distribution model. So, let me walk you through that. We said, “Well, we think we can do that.

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Totango

JULY 1, 2022

For B2B SaaS companies, customer loyalty drives subscription renewals and brand advocacy, making it a critical component of a profitable business model. This blog will look at why customer loyalty is vital for B2B SaaS businesses and how successful companies effectively cultivate it. First, we’ll discuss what customer loyalty is.

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SaaStr

JULY 15, 2022

So how feasible do you think that works for a typical B2B SaaS business that probably our user-base is not too knowledgeable about [inaudible] on the internet for something specific in their day-to-day use case? But I almost never see mediocre outsource SEO really work for B2B. Jason Lemkin: But usually your teams can’t do that.

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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

was created by a team with 25+ years of experience in location-based tech, spanning various services and real-time asset tracking systems. Launched in 2005 in New York and Guangzhou, Gizwits has become the largest IoT development platform in China, as well as its first PaaS and SaaS platform. Founders : Max Armbruster. Founded : 2014.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 27, 2024

SaaStr was created in 2012 to democratize learning and how to build B2B companies, and WordPress was started in 2003 to democratize publishing. WordPress is its own ecosystem, a vibrant community of hundreds of thousands of people who create add-ons, plugins, and develop sites. Then, in 2023, they moved into messaging.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

No wonder you never want to eat out again… The Sales Development outsourcing industry is broken for that exact reason. Your cost of trying to build Sales Development in house is therefore $90,000 at a minimum. RELATED: B2B Sales Outsourcing Is Dicey. You’re also getting food poisoning. Here’s How to Do It Right.

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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

The SaaStock team will be landing in São Paulo to run the region’s first Pan-Latin American SaaS conference, SaaStock LatAm. Eduardo Müller, Founder & CEO, B2B Stack. in 2016, he co-founded Vendas B2B Summit, the largest Brazilian B2B sales online event. She’ll be talking about her approach to sales as a team sport.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 30, 2020

B2B sales is always changing, but nothing could’ve quite prepared us for the wild ride that 2020 ended up being. That’s why the team at Sales Hacker decided to put together a statistics round-up showcasing how things changed in this year and where they’re likely headed in the future. Best Sales Statistics to Know in 2021.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Stacks can be developed at the project, team, or functional level and are regularly used to improve internal collaboration, measure the impact of marketing activities and reach customers in new ways. Without this foundation, your marketing stack can become a set of siloed tools that will bog your team down in complexity.

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User Pilot

MAY 27, 2025

Want to advance your career in product management or find top talent for your team? Mozilla: Director of Product, Firefox Growth Firefox is used by hundreds of millions worldwide, and the Director of Product for Growth plays a critical role in the product management team. Who would be a bad fit for this job?

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

This is the recipe for a mediocre sales team. Like a sports franchise, a top team should be both collaborative and competitive. The team has grown quite a lot, but it’s still tiny: we’re now close to 40 people in 13 different countries. On this week’s episode, I caught up with Steli to chat all things sales.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 24, 2018

This allowed a passionate audience to develop – and built enthusiasm ahead of the books’ full release. Give us a feel for your career to date: what brought you to Clearbit, and what’s the mission of your team there? We provide data for modern sales and marketing teams across all the products they already use.

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Frontegg

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

This coverage is allowing SaaS developers to create better user experiences and improved customer satisfaction. OIDC is responsible for letting users access SaaS applications by using login credentials from the social platforms that have been enabled by the developers. Poor password practices can still impact social login pipelines.

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Chaotic Flow

AUGUST 18, 2015

SaaS businesses develop intimate, long term relationships with their SaaS customers. It is typical in B2B software for customer acquisition to eat up 50% or more of total costs. Or, you might create teams that link specific sales reps to specific account managers and success reps. Churn Starts on Day One. Onboard in Real Time.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 9, 2023

Click To Tweet How to ask for a B2B email introduction 1. How to make a B2B email introduction 2. You may not want to vouch for that person again if they made you look bad by standing someone up. It makes the introducer look bad if ball is dropped after intro is made. It’s simple. Follow these points. No excuses!

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