Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Google, for example, has an ads business, a vertically integrated hardware business for the Pixel and Google Home, a developer platform in Google Play, an enterprise SaaS product in Google Cloud, consumer subscription with YouTube Music and YouTube TV, and many light marketplaces like Google Shopping and Google Flights.

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Aaron Beashel

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Alex co-founded the well-known SaaS company Desk.com before selling it to Salesforce and becoming the VP of Service Cloud (their second largest business unit, behind Sales Cloud). It was game-changing for the company, and for each team that implemented it. How to create a V2MOM framework for your company or team.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 1, 2020

If you missed episode 137, check it out here: Team Selling: A Comeback Story for 2021 with Trish Bertuzzi. The role of branding in marketing [19:27]. The role of branding in marketing [19:27]. Building and leveraging a differentiated brand as a growth amplifier [22:29]. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast.

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Everything from a site builder, perhaps using a website template to web design and using social media to develop your new business website. This is just as bad as not having a website in the first place. Most good support teams will even have full backups of your site that they can restore if worse comes to worst.

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Audacix

JULY 28, 2022

Application security is seldom considered during the ideation phase of web application development - unless the development team has previously been hacked and survived to tell the tale. But it's also true that it's never too late to secure your cloud-based web app. What are web application security controls? Not really.

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SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

350: Neha Sampat is the Founder and CEO @ Contentstack, a modern content management system bringing business and tech teams together to deliver personalised, omnichannel experiences. Atypical in our world, but Neha scaled the business to well over $1M in ARR before raising funding. You should be.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

I’ve been in software since the ’90s and for over 20 years, nearly that entire time, we’ve been talking about digital transformation, developing strategies, architecting new technologies, and moving beyond digitization to rethinking our businesses, our products, and our services in a way that’s optimized for a digital world.

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Stax

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

This is often due to misconceptions that they will have to develop this functionality from scratch (more on this later). Stand out from competitors by offering increased convenience As competition grows in the eCommerce space, many companies are looking for additional cloud-based services they can integrate into their technology stack.

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SaaStock

MARCH 29, 2019

Here is what he writes: Kieran Flanagan , VP of marketing at HubSpot, shared some interesting insights on approaching new ideas for scaling up your business. The Gold: these are very rare and hard to achieve at the scale-up stage, so you’ll mostly encounter them with startups. Work on developing your brand. Full post.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

From strategies in recruitment and team building to sales tactics, these leaders from Salesforce, nCino, and Vlocity, will discuss the top tips for moving beyond horizontal SaaS and building a billion-dollar SaaS company. Coupa CEO, Rob Bernshteyn, and SaaStr CEO, Jason Lemkin, will discuss how the Cloud has changed in 2020.

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Frontegg

JUNE 24, 2021

In a nutshell, passwordless authentication is all about stopping the use of passwords to bolster security, improve brand performance, and conserve valuable IT resources. This kind of authentication works well for all kinds of SaaS applications – legacy, on-prem, cloud-based, and even ones with hybrid setups. SecureAuth.

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SaaStr

JUNE 14, 2019

Before that Dave was SVP/GM of Service Cloud @ Salesforce where he led the $500m line of business for customer service applications. Finally pre-Salesforce, Dave was CEO @ MarkLogic where he grew the team from 40 to 240 and revenues from $0 to an $80m revenue run rate. What are the clear differences between a good book and a bad book?

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ProfitWell

OCTOBER 1, 2019

A net promoter score (NPS) is a metric companies can use to measure and index customer loyalty and interest in the brand. Calculating customers' net promoter scores is a way to quantify their strength as brand promoters. An excellent net promoter score would be 10, and a very poor net promoter score would be 1.

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Kellblog

DECEMBER 27, 2021

My point was that this is normal and healthy: you can long Miami and Austin without shorting Palo Alto which, by the way, would have been a bad idea in 2020. ” Towards that end, revenue multiple is a better bubble indicator than share price, so let’s take a look at the latest from Jamin Ball at Clouded Judgement.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

From there, he helped scale a team of 150 at AdRoll, before becoming CEO and President at TalkIQ, which was acquired by Dialpad. How to develop your frontline managers [15:54]. One of them’s brand new. This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Dan O’Connell, Chief Strategy Officer at Dialpad.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 19, 2022

Jason recently opened up an AMA on Twitter Spaces to answer questions about how to scale faster. This morning, a pretty slow growing player, Ping Identity, slow to move to SaaS, slow to move to the cloud, struggled in some ways to compete with Okta and others, was acquired for 2.3 We can scale accounts, when we get them, very well.

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Google, for example, has an ads business, a vertically integrated hardware business for the Pixel and Google Home, a developer platform in Google Play, an enterprise SaaS product in Google Cloud, consumer subscription with YouTube Music and YouTube TV, and many light marketplaces like Google Shopping and Google Flights.

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OpenView Labs

MAY 6, 2021

There are a number of browser plugins or cloud-based applications that automate activity on LinkedIn. We all tend to immediately want to automate and scale the outreach in hopes of getting faster results. For now, let’s explore some reasons why this is a really bad idea: 1. It damages your brand. It’s spammy.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

What can teams do to bring their themes to life? As I’ve said before, I’ve heard so many good things from Brian and the team at Venrock. And so I started to build some of classic demand gen functions, like BDR team. I’m going to look at the buying team. Who is involved? What needs to be ready?

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SaaStr

JULY 29, 2022

Jason recently opened up an AMA on Twitter Spaces to answer questions about how to scale faster. And I’ve watched them fairly quickly scale, to soon they’ll be at 10 million in revenue. As they scaled, they radically changed how they did sales. Jason Lemkin: Okay. Let’s get it going. Times are good.

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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. Outstanding brands create connections between customer needs and their solution.

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Stax

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Software as a Service (SaaS) has made business software more accessible by offering cloud-based, on-demand access to a range of solutions, from project management and collaboration to sales and marketing. As such, they can face less competition because of the high barrier of entry that comes with developing specialist SaaS products.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 2, 2019

She’s now a consultant helping VPs of Sales scale and build their sales teams. She’s also been a high-performing individual contributor — she was part of the team that drove a lot of growth at HubSpot as it went from small to large, and she worked under Mark Roberge. One of them’s brand new. What You’ll Learn.

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OPEXEngine

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Nevertheless, both help you improve decision-making, team performance, and business success. Thus, every team member could have their own interpretation of excellence. Of course, that’s prone to changes as your business could grow over time, requiring additional indicators that help you scale your recruitment.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

He’s also going to talk about what it’s like carrying a bag at Microsoft as a cloud specialist working on some of their products, how to effectively do social selling, why it’s important to cast a wide net, why you have to understand probabilities, what the Holy Trinity of sales is. He’s going to talk to us about that.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Maria and Anthony present the CEO and CMO playbook of how the CEO and CMO can partner with other members of the team to grow sales and marketing. In this Best of Times in Cloud and Saas, learn the questions to ask to hire the CMO expert and create a strong CEO and CMO partnership. Maria : Not too bad. Maria Pergolino | frmr.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 15, 2021

took over the company in 1952 and decided to make his mark through modern design, they’ve become the single largest design organization in the world, with over 1500 designers working in innovative products from machine learning to cloud to file sharing. The design team at IBM likes to employ a “make to learn” method. Fergal: Cool.

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OpenView Labs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Culture helps a company define itself, attract the right team members and customers, and differentiate in the marketplace. It’s the “why” behind the mission and the glue that holds everyone together in good times and bad. Culture is also tricky because there’s no one-size-fits-all way to define, cultivate or scale it.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

They sell that product to general councils, operations teams, and deal desks. Keys to success when scaling a company [10:56]. They sell that product to general councils, operations teams, and deal desks. Keep the promise of sales enablement and keep your team doing what they do best, which is winning. We’re on iTunes.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

398: Rob Gonzalez is the Co-Founder & CMO @ Salsify, empowering brand manufacturers to deliver the product experiences consumers demand at every point in their buying journey. It just made it a lot easier for us to scale up Salsify as we found success. Harry Stebbings: We are back. And so that understanding has evolved a lot.

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SaaStr

MAY 15, 2020

Where do most teams go wrong in implementing the role out of their CS strategy? Does Bridget believe CS teams should be involved in the upsell process? Harry Stebbings: Can I ask, if we take that to a practical level, because I totally agree in terms of that career development, and the thriving. What works? What does not work?

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User Pilot

APRIL 22, 2024

The benefits of having a customer insights dashboard include improved understanding of customer behavior, significant time savings, and enhanced cross-team collaboration. Ready to start tracking user opinions and feelings about your brand? It reveals customers’ overall emotional tone toward your brand, product, or service.

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SaaStr

MARCH 20, 2019

Prior to joining SendGrid, he spent 4 years at Citrix, where he drove the company’s product strategy for cloud infrastructure and server virtualization. What does Jeff mean when he says, “the developer first approach is a maturation of the supply chain of software?” How can leaders both be authoritative and vulnerable simultaneously?

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Never believe that doubting yourself is a bad thing. That company only lasted another year before they were out of business, so it was a poor use of my energy, time, and being away from my family – a lesson I work to pass on to others new in roles today. Invest in your development internally and externally. Joyce Johnson.

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SaaStr

JUNE 15, 2021

Twilio is a cloud communications platform that allows software developers to embed communications into the apps that they’re building. He said, “I feel so bad. Jeff : I felt really bad, because you plan way ahead. For real, why is the developer market bigger today? Jeff : Absolutely.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

Nick Mehta: Power of the developer, or the API economy, both of you play very much in both those trends. How do you help your team make that link to value? We’ve got a lot of training to do with our sales teams to get them to start to speak in these types of terms versus feature function. Nick Mehta: That’s great.

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User Pilot

MARCH 24, 2023

This article will compare the features, strengths, weaknesses, reviews, and pricing of each tool, enabling you to confidently decide which one is the best fit for your business needs. Using a tool for interactive user guides is crucial since it reduces reliance on developers and enables you to trigger user guides contextually.

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