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AMA at SaaStr Annual 2022 with SaaStr Founder & CEO Jason Lemkin – Part 1 (Pod 607 + Video)

SaaStr

They have service and all this, but the second cloud for them was sales. Your core models for sales, for marketing spend, for hiring and engineering and product. Even this year, one of the big vendors for us quit three weeks ago. A key vendor that we’ve relied on for years. More likely than not, but barely.

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2021 in conversation: Learnings from the podcast

Intercom, Inc.

Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. Government services shouldn’t be renowned for their endless queues, confusing forms, and excessive bureaucracy. Zanade Mann , founder of Black Women’s Business Collective. Janeen Uzzell , COO for Wikimedia Foundation.

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How Buffer Reached $20m in ARR by Focussing on Growing ARPA

Chart Mogul

Buffer’s mission is to empower their customers to build their brand and engage their audience on social media. Joel had what he calls “an honest conversation” with Buffer’s CTO Dan. led Joel to realize they need to focus on creating value for their customers and “outsource” areas where they’re not experts. Tweet this quote.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Bernadette Nixon, Jay Snyder, Nick Mehta, Loren Padelford, and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

We’ve got everything from self-service all the way up to the enterprise. So how we accomplish something at the enterprise level in a one to few or a one-to-one or a one to few is very different to how you would accomplish it in a self service model. Is it wanting to control their brand? Nick Mehta: Yeah. Jay Snyder: 100%.

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Three million downloads and counting: Inside Intercom reaches a podcasting milestone

Intercom, Inc.

We’ll also hear Andrew Chen, general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, talking about the changing landscape of customer acquisition. We spent a lot of time and effort setting up that foundational system, making sure that our data was really good. We track everything and give credit for impressions, clicks, actual conversions, etc.

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How to Close the Enterprise When You’re Just a Startup (Summit Replay)

Sales Hacker

How to overcome no brand in market. How to overcome no credible timing event. How to overcome no brand in market (01:23). ? How to overcome no brand in market (01:23). First and foremost, overcoming no brand in market. Second tip here on overcoming know brand in market, expose the buyer’s FOMO.

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PODCAST 119: Show Gratitude & Build Relationships With Small Gestures with Brendan Kamm

Sales Hacker

Businesses run on documents, Conga is changing the way the world works by modernizing, streamlining, and automating your documents, contracts, and processes to make it easier to do business. Maybe that goes a little too far of outsourcing your entire life. Now, before we bring you this conversation, we want to thank our sponsors.