Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

In B2B sales orgs, you’ll encounter two common models of the journey from prospect to closed deal. There’s sales pipeline , a 7-stage journey describing what your sales team must do to convert a lead to a customer. For your team, the goal is to share more information about your products without appearing overly promotional.

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Incredo

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

In its turn, SaaS company is responsible for optimizing conversions and successful onboarding so the visitor becomes a paying customer. Process is simple but would we write about it if everything was that easy? And this is a B2B partner program. In our case, we needed to invest a lot in product development.

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Chargify

MARCH 25, 2019

Recurring subscriptions are becoming the norm in the business world, and for good reason. 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.

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ChurnZero

OCTOBER 5, 2022

This is a guest blog contributed by Emily Ryan, chief client officer at Valuize , a B2B consulting company that helps industry-leading technology organizations supercharge their customer lifecycle to drive best-in-class net dollar retention. Make your insights actionable for your team by consolidating them into an easy-to-digest scorecard.

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SaaSOptics

MAY 19, 2022

For subscription-based SaaS businesses, your customer acquisition metrics indicate how effectively you acquire new users via sales, marketing, or a product-led approach like a free trial. Below, we’ll dive into how to develop a customer acquisition strategy from start to finish. . How to Develop a Customer Acquisition Strategy.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

As Head of Sales for Spendesk, Nico was initially inspired by the vision of founder Rodolphe Ardant who had spotted a gap for ‘spend management’ in the B2B market based on personal banking trends. So they created a software that provides control, visibility, and payment methods for corporate finance teams.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

For Samuel Hulick , a UX consultant and one of the biggest authorities out there on user onboarding, that means thinking less about the product itself and more about how to get users the results they’re after. We had them on the podcast way back in 2016, and they’ve even been a guest contributor to our book Intercom on Onboarding.

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ChurnZero

JULY 12, 2019

Perhaps product problems, loss of a key user in the account, a bad use case… Sure, these are some reasons why customers may churn, but the reality is that your churn rate is deeply connected to the quality of onboarding journey your users go through. Do you need to improve team communication? The Beginning of the Journey.

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Chart Mogul

APRIL 29, 2021

We spend most of our waking hours thinking about how to build a reliable, beautiful product that helps subscription businesses grow faster using their customer and billing data. If we could reliably generate new opportunities and onboard right-fit customers? ChartMogul is a product-led business. TechnologyAdvice. So, how did it go?

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Neil Patel

MARCH 2, 2021

Over 41 percent of businesses use review websites before purchasing software—so reviews matter for B2B work, too. To help, I’ve broken this list into B2C and B2B review sites, depending on your target buyers. The audience is consumers looking for impartial, reliable reviews from an expert team. B2B Review Sites.

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Chart Mogul

APRIL 29, 2021

We spend most of our waking hours thinking about how to build a reliable, beautiful product that helps subscription businesses grow faster using their customer and billing data. If we could reliably generate new opportunities and onboard right-fit customers? ChartMogul is a product-led business. TechnologyAdvice. So, how did it go?

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FastSpring

APRIL 26, 2022

Last week, I canceled an annual SaaS subscription (I had three weeks left until renewal). Interestingly, even though I paid for a year-long subscription, the company didn’t let me keep the last three weeks of access to its premium features. This action will immediately downgrade your subscription. What Is Negative Churn?

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User Pilot

MARCH 15, 2022

Focusing on the proper metrics at this stage is crucial to how successful or bad your GTM plan will be. This go-to-market plan is used by product marketers and their team to ensure you smoothly launch your product to the right customers at the right time and stand out from the competition already existing in the market. GTM strategy.

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User Pilot

MARCH 18, 2021

But how the marketing team decides to tell your story will determine who it connects with. Take a look at how these companies position themselves: Product Onboarding Tool. vs. A Product Onboarding Tool for Startups. vs. The Product Growth Tool for Product Teams. Conversion Copywriter to B2B and SaaS. Joel Klettke.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

After working on NASA’s Space Shuttle Main Engine, he went on to develop Portfolium, a social networking platform that allows students and graduates to showcase skills beyond the traditional resume to potential employers. But before universities would do business with them, they needed assurance on their security posture. SOC 2 101.

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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

If B2B SaaS were on a dating site, it’d be looking for a lifelong commitment; a scary thought for potential suitors when there are plenty more fish in the sea. With fierce competitors vying for your customers’ hand in subscription, you need to show them you care—and not just about their income ( goal diggers wanted). This is important.”

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Totango

JULY 18, 2018

Customers often turn to Customer Service or Customer Support teams for help throughout the customer journey. From onboarding challenges, to user experience difficulties, to product misfires, the Customer Support or Customer Service agent is often the customer’s “first responder.”. The current state of Customer Support.

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User Pilot

MAY 9, 2024

The customer onboarding process is essential for product success. The article will teach you how to design an onboarding strategy for your SaaS. We also share onboarding best practices and how Userpilot can help you implement them. We also share onboarding best practices and how Userpilot can help you implement them.

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SmartKarrot

DECEMBER 24, 2021

In a few years, we have seen lots of B2B SaaS businesses flourish. Running a B2B SaaS business requires a shift in metrics that founders rely upon. Most people run their SaaS business just like any other B2B business. After developing a hypothesis, you can test it by launching a Minimum Value Product (MVP).

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FastSpring

JANUARY 27, 2022

Note: FastSpring offers advanced subscription management services that support free trials, monthly and annual paid plans, proration, discount management, and more. How Castos upsells subscription tiers. His podcast hosting company uses data analytics that looks at which users are most likely to grow out of their current subscriptions.

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Chart Mogul

APRIL 24, 2019

Here she shares her thoughts on setting mobile growth strategy, measuring success, and of course, key subscription metrics for teams with mobile apps. GetResponse provides an all-in-one online marketing platform for teams that need to build landing pages, send emails, run webinars, and more. A bit of background. Enter mobile.

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SmartKarrot

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

To develop excellent customer experiences , consultants have worked hard to assist businesses in recognizing the magnitude of customer scores. The objective is to develop a strong customer base. The foundation of your customer health score is determined by the objective your team is aiming for using the customer success health score.

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SmartKarrot

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

To develop excellent customer experiences , consultants have worked hard to assist businesses in recognizing the magnitude of customer scores. The objective is to develop a strong customer base. The foundation of your customer health score is determined by the objective your team is aiming for using the customer success health score.

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ChurnZero

MARCH 20, 2020

Additional research showed that “[M]any of its Customer Success Managers fell short in this area, despite their technical backgrounds because they lacked the recent field experience needed to engage deeply with frontline operations teams.” Morgan advises that “Change agents need to develop a strong voice.” Improve Your Public Speaking.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2019

What is the right way for startup founders to address sales rep onboarding? Here’s what Eyal and Megan talk about: How to develop software faster. But I think what it boils down to is also how newer technology is being developed and the ability for it to inter-operate with other platforms. What is a good payback period?

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

An Accenture study found that the cost of customer attrition due to poor customer service in the U.S. That’s because for a Customer Success team, satisfaction is just the minimum. Like many other organizational units, B2B Marketing has evolved as the business landscape shifted towards a buyer-centric model. Cross-team members.

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Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

We trust leaders to make decisions on what tools they need to get the most out of their teams. Guide to SaaS Revenue Recognition and Deferred Revenue in SaaS by Ben Murray, The SaaS CFO SaaS revenue recognition is an ongoing priority for SaaS accounting teams. This post describes my recommendations for SaaS board meetings.

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Point Nine Land

JUNE 18, 2023

Both can be used to report on customers, subscriptions, and revenue. You can also see right away that, for instance, month 5 was an unusually bad month for the April 2020 cohort. a churn or retention rate you’d be happy with), red for “bad” values, yellow for “OK”, and gradients for values in between. And both can be cohorted.

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Incredo

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Why software reviews are your best friends and why you need them? #1 Bad reviews teach, good reviews sell Not all of your reviews will be positive. Bad reviews point out to your weaknesses, helping you better your customer support, product, onboarding, whatever issue they address.

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The consumption gap is one of the most common problems of B2B SaaS companies. At first glance, this may seem like the loss of the customer but eventually, it is the loss of the company because when customers do not get an adequate return on investment they are more likely to cancel the subscription.

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Outseta

MARCH 18, 2019

Wes Bush is a SaaS marketer who has quickly developed a reputation as “the free trial vs. freemium guy.” A lot of free trials for B2B SaaS products, when you sign up there really isn't too much value right away unless you connect your data or maybe you upload something and in Vidyard this was the case.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 19, 2022

But maybe in SaaS and B2B things are pretty good. And also on the side, doing a strategy of pure, just changing our ICP and fully picking it and making it super narrow and super focused, and having 25% of the team doing that. And 75% of the team continuing business as usual. So much talk about doom and gloom. Jason Lemkin: Yep.

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Chart Mogul

JULY 1, 2020

Customer interviews are a powerful tool that can help you better position your B2B product to attract and retain more customers. B2B marketing is much more complicated than consumer marketing. That’s because B2B businesses address particular niches, where customers don’t spend as much time online. You identify customer pains.

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SaaSOptics

APRIL 7, 2022

Product-led growth is much more than a growth hack, pricing strategy, or industry buzzword—It’s an organizational framework used by B2B SaaS companies to answer one simple question: “How can we get our product to sell itself?” New users can easily onboard themselves. What is Product-Led Growth (PLG)?

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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? * And even just that shift drove a lot of behavior change both with customers and internally with the teams.

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SmartKarrot

JANUARY 21, 2021

Offering software as a service or product became necessary to make it affordable for companies to bring certain systems onboard. SaaS product management is the way of driving the development, launch, marketing, and improvement of company’s products. Developing a strong plan. SaaS or on-demand software goes back to the 1970’s.

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 24, 2022

This isn’t a bad idea, and why companies like Facebook continued to grow despite adding more and more complexity over time. There has been a renaissance of user experience and design in B2B use cases over the last decade, but those typically revolve around single use case products, like: Syncing files in Dropbox. This stuff is hard!

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