SaaStr

JUNE 20, 2023

If a VP of Sales has a $500k+ OTE and a big team to manage, does it even make senses to sell courses on the side? Once you had something, once you had scale, then go help one other startup. I don’t wish to see more people in increasingly bad financial standing this year. Same holds true for developers.”

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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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SaaStr

JANUARY 29, 2023

Sometimes it’s VP Sales (OK, often, this is the most common mishire — another post here on what a really great VPS can do for you, and how a poor one can wreck your company, coming). The #1 reason to do a start-up is Career Development. It’s one of our enduring topics on SaaStr. Sometimes it’s VP Marketing.

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SaaStr

MARCH 26, 2019

Scaling the company’s employee base, sales teams, marketing, and operations—all while preserving its culture—has required a laser focus on first principles, smart processes, and effective hiring. In this talk, Claire will share these and other lessons for scaling high-growth organizations. Our team is in Room 111.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 10, 2022

From the get-go, ensure alignment between sales and marketing teams on goals and anticipated outcomes. Scale winning behaviors. The opportunity to scale growth is understanding the behaviors of the top of your sales force.”. Scale winning behavior across the sales force. Create dynamic alignment on goals. Key takeaways.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 2, 2024

You don’t want conflict with the sales team. How do you leverage that offer to develop relationships with partners? This is where they started, but startups weren’t adopting the product as much with a discount, and there was a lot of conflict with the sales team. During SaaStr Annual, Zendesk Sr.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 29, 2022

We believe that in order for SaaS companies to unlock their next stage of growth, their financial operations tech stack must strike the right balance between flexibility, which allows them to pivot quickly in an ever-changing market, and complexity, which supports them as they scale their business, operations, and monetization strategies.

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User Pilot

MARCH 23, 2023

And how can customer success teams address them to ensure product growth? Reasons why customers churn: #1: Customers churn when there is a bad product-customer fit and your product’s features don’t align with their needs. 3: Poor customer service or experience with the sales teams can make customers churn.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Companies in our region are good at achieving PMF and scaling to $1 million-$5 million ARR efficiently. They are hiring leaders, building teams, and attracting advisors in the US while devouring the SV SaaS playbook. It helps your leaders scale and creates a CXO pipeline for the company. Silicon Valley has a deep talent bench.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 13, 2023

After scaling from $0 to $100,000,000 in two years, Jones has a fair share of experience with things breaking. To thrive in those environments, they develop the skill sets needed. At Wiz, the leadership team thinks of the company as a child. While your team is small, your communication process can be simple.

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SaaStr

JULY 25, 2021

As two CEO who love the art of sales and scaling, this one really was special. Jyoti Bansal : And then he started talking about sales and Dev during the breakfast he convinced me if you can marry the right kind of sales scaling and execution then that’s when your business will really, really take off.

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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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User Pilot

APRIL 6, 2023

Developing and releasing sophisticated products with all the bells and whistles imaginable might seem like a great idea. Developers tend to overcomplicate code when they don’t have enough experience or want to show off their skills. Poor prioritization and external pressure are also common causes. Book the demo!

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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. . He highlights the three key strategies that helped TripActions scale and boost their revenue. Develop a well-defined vision. Do not waste time developing a Plan B.

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Totango

JULY 28, 2021

In this blog we’ll share five of the most important best practices for hiring a customer success manager. Totango’s dynamic assignment feature lets you scale your customer success management by automatically matching team members to customers who need assistance based on fit, skill and availability.

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User Pilot

APRIL 7, 2023

When your product is catering to other businesses, it can be difficult for sales reps and other teams to understand the needs and experiences of the clients, especially if the client company sells multiple products. However, customer insights can help your teams understand all aspects of your B2B partners. An example is shown below.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Freemium can help software companies gain users quickly—but what happens when it’s time to scale back or up? Join Joaquim Lecha, CEO at Typeform, and Christoph Janz, Managing Partner at Point Nine, as they delve into freemium at scale. We give them the superpowers of the developer and the designer. But that’s not bad.

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User Pilot

JULY 31, 2023

TL;DR Pendo is a product growth platform for product , marketing , customer success , and UX design teams. Pendo is currently developing AI features to enhance experience personalization , product discovery and accelerate product-led growth. In short, the feature allows teams to collect and prioritize feature requests at scale.

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Buffer Resources

OCTOBER 24, 2023

But, during my day job, I noticed that quality content (blogs and web copy readers would actually engage with) was missing from most service offerings.  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. Sometimes, a lot. 

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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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User Pilot

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Customer intent helps product teams understand customer needs and build solutions that delight users. Use content like informative blog posts, product demos , and user reviews to address the needs of customers with buyer intent. and offer a numeric or Likert scale that users can quickly answer with a click.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

sales team. I did all sorts of things there from sales, to project management, to running the engineering team, hiring. This is where I got my chops in growing and scaling enterprise sales teams. We have team selling here that extends beyond the sales team. Want to see more content like this? Good afternoon.

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User Pilot

JANUARY 29, 2023

Developing features without validation results in bloated products and unnecessarily drives the cost of development up. Product teams should invest in validation when developing the MVP. If your users respond well to them, you can iterate on them and develop them incrementally.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Their CEO will join us at SaaSr Scale 2021 on December 15 to talk about using data to get to 10,000 SMB customers! I considered the four companies and chose Gorgias based on my experience with their team during the interview process. Together, we developed sales pitches, built out a robust sales process in just a couple of weeks.

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SaaStr

APRIL 5, 2021

Hmmmm … well, to me, that’s not a bad place to be once a space, a category, gets to $100m+. Because at this scale, there will be room at the bottom. But then the leaders break through, achieve Scale, and the outlines become clear. You’ll have to develop a very lean sales culture. Not usually.

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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?

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SaaStr

APRIL 5, 2023

A bad experience with a revenue operations leader might taint your view of the position at all future companies, but that would be a mistake, as CRO Confidential podcast host Sam Blond learned first-hand. How do I think about scale? These leaders act as partners and build out a strong team. Not every leader is created equally.

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OPEXEngine

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

A widely held view on strategy in the 1980s defined two ways to compete: firms could pursue either a low-cost advantage (usually through scale) or a differentiation advantage (by building intimate customer relationships). But there was also a major drawback: an inverse relationship between scale and intimacy.

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User Pilot

JUNE 20, 2023

TL;DR Product idea validation is a process during which product teams test and tweak the product concept to ensure it satisfies a real market need. Apart from testing the demand for the product, idea validation helps teams assess if they have the necessary expertise and resources to build the product. Let’s get straight into it!

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User Pilot

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Examples of customer retention survey questions include: Net promoter score (NPS) : “How likely are you to recommend our product to others on a scale of 0-10?” Startups use these surveys in the early stages of product development to measure the degree to which a product satisfies market demand.

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Casey Accidental

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The Summit gathered ~40 CPOs and product leaders to chat through topics centered around product development and product-led growth. Most companies have a primary acquisition loop that drives this scalable growth, and unfortunately, there aren’t that many acquisition loops that really scale.

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Chargify

APRIL 23, 2019

According to a study by the Startup Genome Project of more than 3,200 startups, they found that “70% [of startups] fail because of premature scaling.” Understanding which stage your SaaS business is in can help determine the appropriate time to scale to the next phase—and do so successfully. Let’s get started. Pre-Startup.

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Most of the articles that I write on my blogs are catered towards intermediate to experienced marketers and those with a business website. Everything from a site builder, perhaps using a website template to web design and using social media to develop your new business website. These are typically blogging platforms like: Blogger.

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User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

They also manage finances and supervise one or more engineering teams. Product Marketing Manager: This person is tasked with developing product marketing campaigns , crafting compelling marketing messages, and coming up with ideas to retain customers. They also manage finances and supervise one or more engineering teams.

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Sales Hiring SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting CTO Hire 98

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 7, 2019

If an email even remotely resembles bad outreach emails, it gets deleted. The problem is there are four million blog posts published per day. Their prospecting emails can’t just say “use Slack to communicate with your team.” A generic landing page that says “use Slack as a team workspace”. No questions asked.

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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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User Pilot

MARCH 27, 2023

We finish with an overview of product analytics tools that your team can benefit from. Product analytics are used not only by the product team but also by the customer success and the marketing team, as well as UX designers and devs. What’s more, you can collect data at scale for a more representative view.

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