Totango

JULY 1, 2022

Then we’ll explore why it plays a major role for B2B SaaS business models and how loyalty for B2B businesses differs from that for B2C brands. What Are Key Differences between Customer Loyalty for B2B and B2C Brands? First, we’ll discuss what customer loyalty is. What Is Customer Loyalty?

B2B 114

B2B B2C Underperforming Technical Team Business 114

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. Emilie Maret | Fellowship Team @ The Family. Series A money is to fund the growth energy and the Series B money and C the expansion and the scale up.

New CTO 171

New CTO Sales Hiring B2C CTO Hire 171

User Pilot

MARCH 24, 2025

Want to advance your career in mobile product management or find top talent for your team? You will collaborate with engineering, design, and business teams to deliver cutting-edge mobile solutions that improve efficiency, user adoption , and overall product performance. Who would be a BAD fit for this job?

Mobile 52

Mobile Underperforming Technical Team Management Scale 52

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 24, 2018

This allowed a passionate audience to develop – and built enthusiasm ahead of the books’ full release. They allow for massive scale and provide a captive subscriber audience that you can upsell. Give us a feel for your career to date: what brought you to Clearbit, and what’s the mission of your team there?

Data 182

Data Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring 182

Neil Patel

MARCH 2, 2021

To help, I’ve broken this list into B2C and B2B review sites, depending on your target buyers. Let’s start with B2C. B2C Review Sites. B2C” businesses sell goods and services directly to consumers. If you’re a B2C business, opt for popular, high-traffic review sites to maximize your exposure. Angie’s List.

Software Review 136

Software Review Technical Review Scale Merchant Services 136

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Here are five quick takeaways: The founders of Spendesk noticed that, while the B2C space was innovating with peer-to-peer quickpay options, nothing like that existed in the B2B space (which often lags a few years behind the consumer market). Spendesk thinks about building its company in three stages: startup, growth, and scale.

Scale 162

Scale Payment Methods Payment Solutions Marketing 162

OpenView Labs

MARCH 8, 2021

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. What’s your biggest weakness? The last thing you can afford is a bad sales hire.

Sales Hiring 98

Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting B2B 98

Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 20, 2022

Not too long ago, when Intercom turned 10 , we dedicated an entire episode to speed , or why startups should always strive to keep momentum as they scale. We surveyed and interviewed key people in our teams to understand how they worked and how they saw Intercom’s internal operations. So, naturally, we hatched a plan to hit the gas.

Underperforming Technical Team 249

Underperforming Technical Team Headcount Sales Hiring Scale 249

Neil Patel

MARCH 9, 2021

Whether you’re running a corporate startup marketing campaign or moving your local business into the digital age , you can’t afford to waste time and money on weak leads. It also helps prospects feel more secure about their purchase and develops the business’ reputation as a customer support specialist. What is Lead Scoring?

Scale 123

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Metrics B2B 123

User Pilot

APRIL 24, 2025

Want to advance your career in product management or find top talent for your team? Stripe They’re looking for a senior Product Manager to lead a pillar within our LPM Cost Optimization team. A collaborator experienced in working with cross-functional teams, including engineering, design, and external partners.

Payment Methods 52

Payment Methods Payment Solutions Retention Churn 52

Buffer Resources

OCTOBER 24, 2023

  After graduating, I worked in various B2C marketing roles with tourism companies and heritage sites, which meant working alongside digital marketing agencies. After all, most leads consume three to four pieces of content from a vendor before engaging with their sales team.  This felt like a missed opportunity.

Outsourcing Services 123

Outsourcing Services Scale Outsourced Development Underperforming Technical Team 123

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? We’re human beings with, we come with baggage, good baggage, bad baggage, prior experience, a perspective. It’s good.

B2B 168

B2B Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales 168

OpenView Labs

DECEMBER 1, 2021

In a conversation on The BUILD Podcast with Blake Bartlett , Hubert talked about how it’s bad for business to create a situation in which only the founder is allowed to be brilliant. Rather than creating a bottleneck, it’s much smarter to inspire each member of a team to find their own brilliance. Five or six UX interviews won’t do it.

Scale 98

Scale Underperforming Technical Team B2C Market Segmentation 98

Neil Patel

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Even for fully-staffed marketing teams, it can be overwhelming. They know how to use the tools and run fully-scaled email campaigns. In this case, look for an email marketing agency that is exceptional at developing strategies and tactics to help increase your open and click-through rates. Align your in-house team.

Marketing 118

Marketing Outsourced Development Underperforming Technical Team Scale 118

User Pilot

MARCH 30, 2025

So now lets look at all the different strategies and best practices for attracting mobile users to your SaaS app: 9 User acquisition strategies to scale your mobile app user base In a nutshell, your user acquisition strategies can be either: Paid media marketing, where you pay platforms to put your app in front of potential users.

Acquisition 65

Acquisition Mobile Software Review Social Media 65

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 5, 2018

Previously, however, he ran sales productivity for teams at Google, Salesforce and Box. His time at the latter culminated in the title of Chief Storyteller, where he rewrote the script for how Box sales team talked to and about their customers. Today, Doug is a Growth Partner at Emergence Capital. It didn’t exist 15 years ago.

Sales Hiring 171

Sales Hiring Technical Review Development Team Review Scale 171

User Pilot

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Meta is looking for an Operations leader to join the Product Data Operations (PDO) team. As a Manager on the PDO GenAI team, you will be responsible for managing a team of Project Managers to supply product teams with critical data and data labeling for Meta’s GenAI products. Who would be a BAD fit for this job?

Technical Advisors 52

Technical Advisors Data Management Scale 52

SaaStr

DECEMBER 31, 2019

She founded Box’s growth team as well as the product operations team. And before box she ran product and engineering teams building large scale financial platforms for Accenture clients. Ciara : Craig’s designed and led teams at enterprise and consumer companies including Salesforce, eBay, and Google.

Enterprise 152

Enterprise Underperforming Technical Team Scale B2B 152

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Samuel Hulick: I actually started as a full stack developer. Back in those days, and this was like over 10 years ago, the developer would get a Photoshop file that had all of the different interface elements. And therefore, it makes it really difficult to be able to scale. And it was basically my job to make it clickable.

Onboarding 254

Onboarding Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team 254

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 5, 2018

Previously, however, he ran sales productivity for teams at Google, Salesforce and Box. His time a the latter culminated in the title of Chief Storyteller, where he rewrote the script for how Box sales team talked to and about their customers. Today, Doug is a Growth Partner at Emergence Capital. It didn’t exist 15 years ago.

Sales Hiring 163

Sales Hiring Technical Review Development Team Review Scale 163

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.

Payment Methods 147

Payment Methods Marketing Payments SaaS Payments 147

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

But as you scale beyond Series A, how can you be sure you’re choosing the right lane? Later’s Farhan Virji on adapting B2C support strategies for B2B teams. On the surface, B2B customer support issues might look quite different from those of B2C. Webflow’s Maggie Hott on building a scalable sales team from the ground up.

VP of Engineering 118

VP of Engineering Technical Review Scale Outsourcing Services 118

OpenView Labs

MAY 13, 2021

To scale efficiently and effectively, expansion-stage companies need to focus their efforts on a specific subset of customers who are most similar to their best current customers, not a broad universe of potential customers. Customer segmentation is the way. What is customer segmentation and why does it matter?

Scale 94

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Software Review 94

SaaStr

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Actually what I found was a little disarming, a little unfortunate, because there was a lot of, I think, bad experiences in the past with corporate venture capital and with earlier stage companies or with other VCs working with CVCs as they were once called. Or just help me figure that out as we scale. They have two other companies.

Development Team Review 141

Development Team Review Scale Technical Review Software Review 141

OpenView Labs

MAY 20, 2019

That’s certainly true in developer tooling (AWS), sales and support (Salesforce), MarTech (Adobe), commerce (Square), HR tech (Workday) and even vertical markets (Veeva). Meanwhile, marketing teams from every competitor fight to rank on the same top keywords, driving costs per click through the roof. They aren’t alone.

Scale 96

Scale Startup Technical Review Software Review 96

Navint

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Earlier this year, we welcomed Sean Joyce to the Navint team. Sean has over 15 years of expertise in recurring revenue technologies, most recently hailing from Salesforce where he was a senior member of the product marketing team responsible for Salesforce CPQ & Billing.

Payments 53

Payments Technology Scale Revenue 53

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?

Scale 157

Scale Sales Payment Methods Merchant Services 157

OpenView Labs

MAY 12, 2020

Editor’s note: This article is by Dan Slagen, a four-time startup executive specializing in scaling global go-to-market functions from early stage to $100M+ in ARR. Now here’s the bad news: Startup CEOs are also some of the hardest people to understand as your manager, especially if you’ve never reported to one before.

Sales Recruiting 72

Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team Startup Scale 72

Baremetrics

APRIL 16, 2021

This capital should be used for product development and the people required to help you build it. Not so much in the Valley, but across the rest of the country, especially if you’re a SaaS business, not the case for B2C. The winner takes all, that company is a monopoly, achieving escape velocity at massive scale companies.

Venture Capital 66

Venture Capital Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team SaaS 66

OPEXEngine

AUGUST 9, 2022

A Bain survey of sales operations executives, in partnership with Research Now SSI, found that only 43% of sales organizations develop plans for a recession well in advance of it. Yet too many sales teams use outdated practices in making account and territory assignments. Zero-base sales capacity. Know when to walk away.

Scale 59

Scale VP of Engineering Payment Services Underperforming Technical Team 59

OpenView Labs

MAY 20, 2019

That’s certainly true in developer tooling (AWS), sales and support (Salesforce), MarTech (Adobe), commerce (Square), HR tech (Workday) and even vertical markets (Veeva). Meanwhile, marketing teams from every competitor fight to rank on the same top keywords, driving costs per click through the roof. They aren’t alone.

Scale 69

Scale Startup Technical Review Software Review 69

Stax

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

SaaS billing solutions are usually talked about within the context of B2C payment processing. This is often due to misconceptions that they will have to develop this functionality from scratch (more on this later). Don’t forget to conduct penetration testing and security audits to detect and address potential weaknesses.

Payments 88

Payments SaaS Payments Payment Services Merchant Services 88

Unbounce

JULY 12, 2023

How you can increase the volume and variety of your creative output using AI How you can improve your prompts If managing your data privacy is even possible in this new AI age Listen to the episode to find out about how (human) marketing agencies can fare against marketing robots… or maybe team up and create an even more powerful force.

AI 98

AI ChatGPT Merchant Services Underperforming Technical Team 98

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? Check Slack. Online meetings?

Scale 75

Scale Onboarding Customer Success Underperforming Technical Team 75

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. Keep an eye out as we will be making regular updates.

Scale 52

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring SaaS 52

ProfitWell

DECEMBER 4, 2019

An existing SaaS customer spends more, on average, than a new customer, and are more than seven times more likely to churn (leave your business) to go to a competitor because of poor customer service than they are for a better product. Consistent updates. Growth stage. The growth stage is where things start to get exciting. Mature stage.

Business Model 54

Business Model SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payments 54

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 1, 2020

If you missed episode 137, check it out here: Team Selling: A Comeback Story for 2021 with Trish Bertuzzi. Jake is an interesting guy with a lot of really interesting ideas about brands and about scaling organizations. The 6sense account engagement platform, uncovers and analyzes buyer intent at scale. We’re on iTunes.

VP of Engineering 77

VP of Engineering Branding Scale Marketing 77