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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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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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 10, 2020

I hope this post allows people and teams to safely talk about Product Judgment. If you ever had to face a Manager, Director or Exec as they make bad product decisions and you’re struggling to persuade them otherwise, this post will help you. It takes years to build, and therefore ranges from very weak to very strong.

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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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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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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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User Pilot

MARCH 21, 2024

You can collect data via multiple sources, such as feedback surveys , user interviews, product data analytics , and firsthand observations from your customer-facing teams Create a high-level customer journey map with all the relevant touchpoints to contextualize the collected data. Let’s discuss these benefits in more detail.

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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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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 19, 2022

As the president of Sales Xceleration, a firm specializing in assessing and implementing sales strategy , sales processes, and sales execution to drive growth, I’ve seen how job hopping can affect otherwise stable sales teams. But also the cost it has on their careers — and your sales team. This trend especially impacts sales teams.

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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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30 Day Leadership

JULY 18, 2023

In this episode, leadership coach, Nils interviews Dustin Tysick, host of the B2B Revenue Leaders Podcast and VP of Revenue at Testimonial Hero, about the importance of coaching and adapting to different personalities and processing styles. The cost of not consistently developing your leadership skills is enormous.

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Aaron Beashel

OCTOBER 31, 2016

During his time at Salesforce, Alex was fortunate enough to work directly with Salesforce co-founder and CEO Marc Benioff, and together they utilised a framework Benioff himself devised called the V2MOM to align and manage the Service Cloud team. It was game-changing for the company, and for each team that implemented it.

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Frontegg

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

This passwordless methodology is extremely suitable for B2B setups where dozens of SaaS applications are being used on an ongoing basis with end users mostly using their personal computers or laptops to access them. For example, app developers can implement a hybrid authentication setup in tandem with Social Logins if needed.

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Blulogix

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Crafting the Blueprint: How to Build a Monetization Framework for Agile Success By BluLogix Team A Step-by-Step Guide to Architecting Your Monetization Strategy In the dynamic realm of agile monetization, constructing a robust Monetization Framework is akin to drafting a master blueprint for a skyscraper.

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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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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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The Marketing & Growth Hacking Publication

MARCH 3, 2019

Have you ever visited a B2B website and wondered whether you had somehow gone back in time to the days of VHS? Or maybe you run a B2B brand and can’t for the life of you figure out why you inherited a website that is so poorly designed and structured for SEO. Bad web design is a trend among B2B brands. You’re not alone.

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OpenView Labs

MAY 12, 2020

Those are some pretty great results for a small team—only about 50 people in the whole company—that needs to navigate the challenges of selling a horizontal product serving multiple audiences from single-player scenarios to enterprise deployments. Small businesses or teams who adopt it self-service.

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ChurnZero

MARCH 15, 2019

Churn Monster #10: Bad Fit Customer . We’re talking about a bad fit customer. A bad fit customer is a customer who is unable to receive value from your product or service due to a mismatch of currents needs and offerings. You are worried you have acquired a bad fit customer. What do you do?

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ProfitWell

AUGUST 5, 2019

As a B2B marketer, you’re no stranger to the often overwhelming count of tasks on your plate. The most effective B2B marketers know better than most how to prioritize their workflow, automate tasks, organize their calendars, and invest in marketing channels that pay dividends. What is B2B marketing?

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

In these challenging economic times, business as usual has been anything but – and like many sectors, B2B sales is in the midst of transition. A recent survey of B2B sales professionals commissioned by my company, Lusha, sheds light on the extent to which this critical industry is in a state of flux. 33% had poor sales demos.

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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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Frontegg

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

With password authentication, there is always additional stress on IT and support teams. The hackers and the bad guys know this fact very well and have been ‘feasting” on this inherited weakness over the last two decades. Weak passwords are a SaaS vendor’s curse, in both B2B and B2C use cases.

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User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

In this article, we’ll go over some concept testing examples from some of the best B2B and B2C brands to help you get started with your strategy. Understand Customer Needs and Optimize the Product Development Process : Concept testing lets you pinpoint exactly what features resonate with your audience.

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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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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 21, 2019

Imagine how motivated your team would be if you could get this tool for them.”. But top-producing B2B sales professionals talk just 43% of the time! The post Persuasive Words and Phrases: the Good, the Bad, and the Silent appeared first on Sales Hacker. It also makes your product “a necessary step in achieving those benefits.”.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Sales managers looking to stand out among their peers would do well to focus on four things: prioritizing work that will move the needle, making sure the right people are on their team, thinking about initiatives that will improve the business (not just themselves and their reps), and developing a solid decision-making framework.

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Blulogix

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

By BluLogix Team Strategically Aligning Your Business Needs with the Ideal Platform In the vast sea of digital transformation, selecting the right monetization platform can feel like navigating through uncharted waters. Join us as we continue our exploration of developing a robust monetization framework.

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Point Nine Land

OCTOBER 23, 2023

We recently hosted the Point Nine Founders Summit, featuring several panels and presentations from founders, CFOs, COOs, and sales execs on building early sales teams and hiring your first successful sales leaders. It helps keep the product team focused on customer feedback and providing value in exchange for revenue.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 8, 2019

A successful close is the end goal that every sales team guns for. But despite a focus on closing sales, it remains one of the biggest issues for teams. In fact, 36% of sales teams regard it as the most challenging part of the sales process, and 28% say it’s their top priority. Giving your sales team highly qualified leads.

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FastSpring

APRIL 4, 2024

As an experienced sales and GTM leader, John Eitel has more than witnessed how product-led growth (PLG) has affected the tech and SaaS space in the last few years — he and his teams have been up close and personal with how PLG increased in popularity as a sales strategy. “I And it makes up for a lot of bad product experiences, right?

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

We help our clients develop a digital strategy that maximizes the results they achieve with their content marketing, advertising, and SEO campaigns. You get a hand-picked team that will provide evidence-based, practical strategy and recommendations. Ironpaper bills itself as a B2B growth agency. Projects start at $10,000.

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Underperforming Technical Team Strategy Content Marketing Scale 139

OpenView Labs

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

For the longest time, B2B SaaS companies have failed to put much thought into their mobile experience because: People don’t work on mobile. The bulk of mobile traffic comes from developing nations (read: low budget). To avoid overloading your sales team, offer 1:1 demos only to those who meet a certain lead score. Not exactly.

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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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Audacix

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Or maybe you're looking to shift left with application security so that you can build a culture of security within your development team? Whatever your reasons for researching this topic, the good news for you is that your team can take ownership of many of your application security testing activities.

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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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Underperforming Technical Team Customer Support AI Headcount 279

ChurnZero

JULY 22, 2022

Does your Customer Success team have a shallow view of onboarding? Q: What should you do if the team you’re onboarding wasn’t part of the buying decision and isn’t thrilled to be learning a new tool? I have the internal handoff from pre-sales to post-sales customer teams. I have two handoffs.

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