OpenView Labs

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

To the victor go the spoils and these companies are rewarded with abundant capital, enviable brand recognition, and an easier time attracting candidates. The first call with a candidate is no longer an interview; it instead needs to be 100% focused on setting the hook. In order for a $1-2.5M Then it’s critical to sell, sell, sell.

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OpenView Labs

DECEMBER 16, 2019

An increase in competitiveness in the marketplace means candidates have more choices than ever. They want a product/service that’s doing something powerful. That’s why building your brand within the marketplace will be the key to cutting through the competitiveness. How to build a magnetic brand.

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Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

MARCH 23, 2020

I leveraged many of the 52 mental models while working at various software as a service (SaaS) companies, but in truth, they can be applied anywhere, regardless of industry. Total Addressable Market Total addressable market (TAM) is an economic framework to understand the potential revenue available for a product or service.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 23, 2019

When the customer journey isn’t well-orchestrated, Marketing and Sales can do serious damage in the marketplace. Here’s how it broke down: Marketing took on the work (and responsibility for) buyer personas, lead quality, and better positioning of Sales teams in the marketplace. Not the message, I am sure, they were meaning to send.

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

They’ll teach you how to grow a community around your brand and engage followers. They do their due diligence regarding your company and target audience, for example, by interviewing the right executives within your team or creating buyer personas. Measuring the ROI of Social Media Marketing Consulting Services.

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 24, 2020

How to Find a Good Consultant – Getting the Interviewing Process Right. You can also select a freelancer profile from these marketplaces. You can learn a lot about their personality, work ethics, and value that you may not identify while interviewing them. The scope is big, and covering every part of the syllabus isn’t possible.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

He is currently CEO of Bite, the best-in-class digital ordering solution for restaurants, leading the company to incredible growth within top QSR brands like Chick-fil-A, Taco John’s, and Fazoli’s. We create digital ordering experiences on behalf of restaurant brands. That’s differentiated us in the marketplace.

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SaaStr

JULY 9, 2019

The challenge, however, is that because of the limited disposable income that both consumers and businesses have, you can’t charge a lot of money for services there. ” At this point we were offering the service for free. They are interested in trying new brands, experimenting with new things.

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SaaStr

MARCH 20, 2020

317: Rachel Hepworth is VP of Marketing @ Pilot, the startup that offers the best bookkeeping, tax and CFO services for growing businesses. Below, we’ve shared the transcript of Harry’s interview with Rachel. Before Slack, Rachel spent 4 years at LinkedIn where she led the product marketing team for content experiences. Agnes Bazin.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

268: Ryan Bonnici is the CMO @ G2, the company that allows you to get the right software and services for your business with over 897,000 user reviews to help you make smarter buying decisions. What type of CMO would Ryan bucket himself as; demand gen or brand? How does Ryan think about the relationship between the two? Ryan Bonnici.

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Unbounce

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Display ads rely on graphic formats to catch user attention, build brand awareness, and guide users to your site. FYI: Search ads can increase brand awareness by as much as 80%. Retargeting leverages past engagements with your brand to show consumers ads to re-engage them. Is it brand awareness? Image courtesy of Kajabi.

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Neil Patel

JANUARY 20, 2021

Many people use social media solely for brand awareness. It’s a social platform and your brand needs to have a human touch. Don’t Just Promote Products and Services. It’s best to vary your posts to include different types of content: Brand story posts Authority building posts Lead nurture posts Personal posts.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Befofe that Manny was a Senior Product Manager @ Amazon where he engineered the compensation system for Amazon Associates and Web-Services which accounts for 15% of Amazon’s traffic. This interview originally aired as Episode 229 on April 29, 2019. Below, we’ve shared the transcript of Harry’s interview with Manny.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 16, 2020

?. Andrey Khusid, founder and CEO of Miro , hasn’t done many interviews. Andrey explains why embracing the professional services sector in a unique way has paid dividends. We wanted our brand to be not just a company name but a “love mark” to accelerate our word of mouth growth. Andrey: That’s a great question.

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ProfitWell

MAY 21, 2019

Ari Wells is the VP of Product Marketing at cloud service mogul Akamai. You have to look at the marketplace and understand how people are actually finding their success. Now's the time to perform in-depth customer and analyst interviews. You hear about product market fit a lot these days, and with good reason.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 7, 2021

For example, a minimum number of maintenance technicians would be critical if you sell a field service app. Professional services/customer success. For existing products and services you may feel this is unnecessary, but for new propositions, it will be essential. round table, phone interview, online survey).

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SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

There’s none of the brands that you’ve seen get to an IPO or continue on to a Fortune 500 company that is not making some significant investments there. Our monthly self-service churn went from like 3% to like 9%, right? We know that brand and that is an efficiency that’s then helping that sales team.

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Backlinkfy

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Having the presence of a diverse range of people in your creative department not only makes financial sense, but it would also help to ensure that sensitives are not overlooked during the development of campaigns and thus provide more trust and relatability towards your brand from consumers.

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SmartKarrot

AUGUST 22, 2022

What is their experience surrounding your brand like? VOC is often used in marketing, product development, sales, customer service, and management. Voice of the customer (VoC) is a process that helps companies understand what their customers want to improve their products or services. Like what you are reading? contact-form-7].

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Ideally the solution is your product or service, but even if it isn’t, your goal should be to solve the customers problem. Surround yourself with the right people, and Immerse yourself into your products and your marketplace. Interview them, sit with them, listen, and learn from as many smart people as you can. Collin Cadmus.

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How To Buy Saas

DECEMBER 1, 2020

SAAS is also abbreviated as software as a service. With so many SAAS getting visibility in online marketplaces, we found that new saas businesses are struggling hard to make it to the right set of customers. SaaS as we already understood is a software as a service. Start Listing your saas on Software and saas Marketplaces.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 23, 2020

Leah has been a pioneer for customer experience practices for the last two decades, focusing her work on putting customers at the heart of SaaS and service-based technology organizations. Now, without further ado, let’s listen to this interview with Leah Chaney. Who is Leah Chaney and what is BetterGrowth [1:30].

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Neil Patel

APRIL 5, 2023

Spying on your competitors can strengthen your position in the marketplace, but not without having three crucial factors in play: First, what are you looking for? Google Alerts Google Alerts is a free service offered by Google to keep you up-to-date on the latest news, conversations, and web content.

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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. Below, we’ve shared the transcript of Harry’s interview with Rob. And there’s a lot of benefit to running a software as a service, in general.

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Unbounce

JUNE 16, 2020

These are often built with agencies, consultants, and managed-service-providers (MSPs) in mind. These partners resell your product and benefit from offering ongoing services, usually on a retainer basis. Leadership must understand the risk and upside involved in having others represent your brand. Reseller Programs.

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FastSpring

JANUARY 8, 2019

Amazon Marketplace. Selling on the Amazon Marketplace can significantly boost volume through your store. Amazon charges fees on every sale through the Marketplace. A brand-approved or -designated reseller who can sell digital products directly to consumers on behalf of the brand. Authorized reseller . Cross-sell.

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SaaStr

MAY 15, 2020

Below, we’ve shared the transcript of Harry’s interview with Bridget or you can jump to the transcript of Michelle’s podcast. Transcript of Harry’s interview with Bridget: Harry Stebbings: Hello, and welcome back to the official SaaStr podcast with me, Harry Stebbings. Harry Stebbings. Bridget Gleason. Michelle Zatlyn.

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OpenView Labs

JUNE 16, 2020

Mark Cuban said it best: “How you treat your employees today will have more impact on your brand in future years than any amount of advertising, any amount of anything you literally could do.”. As the marketplace shifts, new constraints are giving rise to new opportunities. The marketplace is flooded with people. Choose wisely.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 21, 2022

What started as a series of interviews by co-founder Des Traynor soon bloomed into hundreds of episodes where we explore how businesses are driving growth through customer relationships and how to build successful products at scale. I’m recording the first in what I expect to be a series of interesting interviews.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

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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SaaStr

MAY 3, 2019

Before that Manny was a Senior Product Manager @ Amazon where he engineered the compensation system for Amazon Associates and Web-Services which accounts for 15% of Amazon’s traffic. CEOs everywhere are seeking to innovate, but 81% say their teams are not equipped to meet the challenges needed to compete in today’s marketplace.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

You don’t have to be subservient, forfeit your self-respect, or fake enthusiasm about your product or service. In today’s crazy marketplace, new sales strategies are needed to penetrate these big accounts. It’s also changed the way consumers operate in the marketplace. And, you never have to lie!

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 18, 2020

We’ve got an interview with Brandon Meyers , the chief revenue officer of ADARA. We’ve got an interview with Brandon Meyers, the chief revenue officer of ADARA. Now, without further ado, let’s listen to this interview with Brandon Meyers. Sam Jacobs: Is it a subscription service? So what do we do, right?

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SaaSX

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Today’s digital marketplace is a vast and wild place. What kind of company (or product/service) would work best alongside my business?” “What sort of organization can benefit from my company’s strengths?” It can get a little lonely out there. But don’t worry––we can help you jumpstart the process. . Ask yourself: . That’s okay.

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SaaStr

MAY 14, 2023

Algolia went from zero to seven figures in revenue in 12 months, and the launch of their search as a service product, and grew pricing from $19 a month to $100,000, which sounds amazing. web services. Next up, we’ve got Nicolas Dessaigne. Nicolas Dessaigne : Right. Nick : Pretty good? CEO of Algolia. Nicolas : Not a month.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 30, 2018

Kate: I graduated with a graphic design degree in the late ’90s before there was anything like “user experience” and really got my start in graphic design, advertising, branding, and that kind of stuff. We’re often talking around where should the brand be, where should marketing be, where should product design be. What do I do?”

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Chart Mogul

JUNE 25, 2020

For example, a journalist might interview you or write about your product updates or funding rounds. PR (done in the right way) will: Earn you media mentions, brand awareness, and high-quality leads. It makes it easier to pitch new guest posts and get clients for my content marketing services because I’ve built up this trust.

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