SaaStr

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Developers act, think, and behave differently than your average customer. As an API-first company, WorkOS focuses on selling primarily to developers. Doing Business with Developers. Developers haven’t typically been the buyers in enterprise software, so why should you build for developers?

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Outsourced Development Underperforming Technical Team Development Part-Time VPE 210

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

How To Build A High-Performing Team And Retain Top Talent. Every leader needs to have a strategic playbook to build high-performing teams and retain top talent,” says Guan Wang, Global Director of Market Intelligence for Snowflake. . Stage 3: Employee Development. The Playbook For Building And Retaining A High-Performing Team .

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Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Acquisition Company Culture 246

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Lexi Reese, Gusto COO uses her 20+ years of experience to provide advice on building high performing teams using authenticity, empathy and logic. Lexi explains the importance of team trust, driver and passenger mindsets, and much more. I think the foundation of high performance teams is that they share five things.

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Scale Underperforming Technical Team Scaling Leadership 215

SaaStr

MARCH 5, 2025

Manage Team Expectations – Balance transparency with the need to keep the team focused on building the business. Different buyers value different aspects of your business – some want your technology, others your team or customer base. Take baby steps, learn as you go, and be realistic about the commitment required.

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Technical Review Software Review Development Team Review Sales Hiring 187

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.

Scale 52

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Customer Success Scaling 52

Buffer Resources

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

In this article, I will share the competitive analysis framework my team and I have developed (through weeks of research and dozens of iterations), and give you some tips on where to look for data that isn’t publicly available so you can have a competitive advantage. Are they looking for a developer with a specific skill set?

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Social Media Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Sales Hiring 122

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

The underperformers who aren’t putting in the effort get a conversation, and if things don’t change, it’s not a good fit. Jameson and Sam also recommend that across the org: sales, marketing and CS — the early and sooner you can get the entire team re-focused on creating their own pipeline, the better. Guess what?

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SaaStr

MAY 10, 2022

Recovery from COVID has taught us that adapting and learning how to thrive in new ways in the face of change, whether good or bad, can lead to exponential growth. . Develop a well-defined vision. If you have a comprehensive, compelling vision, it will be easy for your teams to trust it and rally behind you.

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Travel Revenue Underperforming Technical Team Scale 266

GetUplift

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

I don’t know about you but every time we hit publish on an article for our blog, our hearts skip a beat. . It’s highly unlikely that a website visitor will instantly convert after reading one blog post. . There are also two other factors that determine whether you’ll get conversions from a blog post or not: Customer research.

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SaaStr

JUNE 4, 2021

Pomel focused his session on: Making your SaaS startup customer-centric: Hw event marketing has helped him integrate his engineering and sales teams. How many of you guys’ product rely on the highly functioning engineering team? Helping the engineering teams run smoothly and being super productive thanks to mentoring.

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Because it is one of the only social networks left that is truly “personable” and the engagement is still decent because of it. This adds up to 132 percent more engagement–without doing any extra work past the initial setup. Send onboarding messages with educational messages to engage followers. Send upsell campaigns.

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Engagement Social Media Marketing Underperforming Technical Team 145

SaaStr

JUNE 7, 2021

If you don’t have tickets, lock in Early Bird pricing today and bring your team! When you get that thing where you’re a rational person and you think it will be great and 99 out of 100 people think it’s bad, that’s when you have opportunity. I was a software developer, a product person. Get tickets here.

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Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Headcount 339

User Pilot

APRIL 13, 2022

Click tracking is an essential method for uncovering weak spots in the product UX and the user flow by analyzing how users engage with your UI. You first have to understand the basics of click tracking and work with different tools that track in-app engagement. This can be a broken link, poor onboarding , confusing UX, etc.

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Engagement Underperforming Technical Team SaaS User Experience 98

Frontegg

MAY 23, 2025

The development of Time-based OTPs (TOTPs) further improved upon HOTP by eliminating the need for user action to increment counters. Developers must implement careful checks and potentially offer feedback mechanisms for users facing time-related issues. In such cases, they relay the token immediately to gain access before it expires.

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Underperforming Technical Team Cybersecurity Mobile Education 52

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

They are hiring leaders, building teams, and attracting advisors in the US while devouring the SV SaaS playbook. AI is likely the next platform, dev tools are strategic given the scarcity of developers, cybersecurity is front and center for enterprises, and the data stack is still going strong. Proximity to customers helps too.

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Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Cybersecurity 285

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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User Pilot

AUGUST 15, 2021

A key reason why customer engagement metrics are important to successful SaaS businesses. While customer acquisition is important, if you're unable to keep user engagement up, you've built a leaking house that will drown everyone in it! Measure engagement by feature usage to understand what brings the most value.

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Engagement Metrics Scale SaaS 98

SaaStr

JUNE 19, 2024

The three core areas to focus on are: Evolving your growth engine Building and solving for when to become a multi-product platform Investing in your people and team #1: Evolving Your Growth Engine Let’s start with some context for Bitly’s journey. You might have to rebuild your marketing team. Optimize your acquisition funnel.

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Scale Scaling Underperforming Technical Team User Experience 300

Totango

MAY 2, 2022

To help you navigate the process, we’ve developed a four-part blog series about the mistakes you should avoid when choosing a CS platform. In this article, we’ll look at the mistake of not thinking of customer success as a team sport. . Operationalizing Your Teams is Essential. The Customer Journey is Collaborative .

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Underperforming Technical Team Customer Success Finance Enterprise 112

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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Technical Review Technology Scale Marketing 223

Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

I’ve written more than 4,294 blog posts in 10 years. 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. Projects start at $10,000.

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Underperforming Technical Team Strategy Content Marketing Scale 143

Sales Hacker

MARCH 25, 2021

Our guess is that poor Polly from purchasing is gathering dust on a noticeboard in the canteen or buried somewhere deep in your internal network of folders. Speak empathetically to their prospects and develop stronger connections as a result. Imagine you sell HR software designed to help HR managers run their teams efficiently.

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Totango

DECEMBER 23, 2021

To help you and your team combat this dangerous phenomenon, we’re going to do a series of articles over the next few weeks discussing various burnout and mental health topics. Decreased productivity, a high turnover rate, low engagement, and employees with poor mental and physical health all lead to heavy financial burdens for companies.

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Underperforming Technical Team Customer Success Scale Leadership 105

User Pilot

MARCH 21, 2025

The real challenge is shaping an experience that keeps users engaged and drives continuous growth. So how do you ensure your app is intuitive, engaging, and built for long-term success? My team at Userpilot has helped countless product teams enhance their mobile UX without compromising performance. Profile startup.

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Mobile Engagement Strategy Underperforming Technical Team 57

Incredo

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Affiliate partners write and distribute copies, create videos or blog posts, introduce the software, direct users to software company’s landing page. In our case, we needed to invest a lot in product development. You will never again worry about investing thousands of dollars in paid ads and receiving nothing.

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SaaS Payments Payment Methods Merchant Services Sales Recruiting 139

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 26, 2018

I hosted Nir on our podcast to learn how to create healthy habits, how to avoid bad ones, what questions thoughtful product designers should be asking themselves, and much more. Here are five quick takeaways: We have good habits and bad habits , which are very different from addictions. Short on time? What is the external trigger?

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Underperforming Technical Team Advertising Technology Social Media 223

FastSpring

APRIL 24, 2025

Since 2010, she’s been leading teams, building websites, web applications for nonprofits, K through 12, higher education, government, businesses of all sizes. You know, get them out of your blog posts and over to where they actually buy, that kind of thing. And I’m giving that a bad description.

Business 106

Business Software Review Underperforming Technical Team AI Search 106

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.” Gong was designed for prediction, engagement, and enablement in early 2017, and it took a few years to get there. It’s not a bad thing.

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Scale AI Sales Underperforming Technical Team 304

SaaStr

JANUARY 21, 2020

Justin used Sales Culture to grow a successful PatientPop team to 140 employees and 55 million in revenue. When I was hired, I came in with one salesperson and zero dollars in recurring revenue and over the next four years grew the sales team to over 140 employees and 55 million in recurring revenue. Want to see more content like this?

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Scytale

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

In this blog, we’ll explore the importance of SOC 3 in boosting your business’s credibility and reveal four easy steps that you can follow to get your hands on a SOC 3 report. Develop and apply thorough data protection policies as part of your compliant security program to ensure you meet the necessary SOC 3 requirements.

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compliance Underperforming Technical Team Scale Technical Review 52

User Pilot

DECEMBER 19, 2022

There are various notification types you can use to keep your users engaged in SaaS. Apart from acting as regular reminders, notifications are great for encouraging user engagement , boosting conversion rates , and providing guidance to users. Increase engagement. There are 2 main notification types: in-app or push.

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Payment Solutions Engagement SaaS Payments Payment Methods 98

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

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. For your team, this step is about making your prospects realize they need your products or service.

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Sales Funnel Outsourcing Services Underperforming Technical Team Social Media 131

User Pilot

APRIL 30, 2024

From this article, you will find out how to develop a strong growth marketing strategy and learn growth marketing tactics for different customer journey stages. TL;DR A marketing growth strategy is a comprehensive business growth approach focusing not only on customer acquisition but also on long-term engagement and retention.

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Underperforming Technical Team Strategy Marketing Customer Lifetime Value 105

Neil Patel

AUGUST 16, 2021

Davidson shared how he reached 140,753 page views within twelve months, since re-launching his blog. He also added a must-read section on his sidebar, which is important if you want people to find your best content the moment that they arrive at your blog homepage. When people are engaged, magical things can happen, right on the spot.

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Strategy Social Media Underperforming Technical Team Development Team Review 145

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

For example, if you’re getting ready to close the deal, sales team’s pretty darn excited. You have to be aware, you have to listen, and you have to talk about the bad things your customers are saying about you. Is this related to a new service program we rolled out and that could be either good or bad, right?

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Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring Software Review 228

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. Some of his first professional positions were Engagement Manager at McKinsey, as well as a management consultant at Value Partners. In the meantime, Diego started actively blogging.

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Technical Review Scale Entrepreneurship Sales Hiring 207

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. "  B2B brands can follow Dock’s lead by reaching out to their customers and internal teams to find experts who might want to showcase their points of view.

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