FastSpring

APRIL 13, 2023

From leading sales at Zillow to brand strategy at Tumblr to revenue at FiscalNote (a global policy platform), Justin Scott started noticing a trend. Thanks to massive technological advances happening in big data and AI, Justin saw new possibilities for improved user experiences with a brand. What are the values of the brand?

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

As for Krish, under Krish’s leadership the team has grown to over 300 people and over 5,000 clients making it one of the next generation in truly global SaaS businesses started in India. First, what is continuous customer development? Below, we’ve shared the full transcript of Harry’s interview with Krish Subramanian.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

About My First 16 Our new video podcast series My First 16 features interviews with founders and CEOs of fintech companies about how they acquired their initial customers and the hard lessons they learned along the way. And those teams really wanted APIs and web hooks and event logs, and those developer things.

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SaaStr

MARCH 20, 2020

Before Slack, Rachel spent 4 years at LinkedIn where she led the product marketing team for content experiences. Below, we’ve shared the transcript of Harry’s interview with Rachel. Before Slack, Rachel spent four years at LinkedIn, where she led the product marketing team for content experiences. Loving our podcast content?

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 11, 2018

From the first click on a paid-search ad to the final confirmation page after purchase, you need to provide customers with a consistent, branded experience. Understanding your customers’ motivations is key in developing content strategy, products and improving the customer journey. Improve the Customer Experience.

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ProfitWell

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Your top subscription news. We also have an episode of our series Protect the Hustle , during which Patrick interviews former Netflix culture pro Patty McCord, which preaches just the same. In it, Dan interviews Claire Lew , the CEO of Know Your Team , the software that essentially saves managers from becoming bad bosses.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Emoji use in customer support is a no-brainer when the brand’s voice is playful and fun – just make sure it’s there for embellishment, not carrying content or replacing words. Liam: And so, to avoid these kinds of mistakes from the get-go, should people go about developing a messaging strategy? What would that involve?

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

What does it take to scale a sales team successfully? How can one determine a closer in the interview process? Below, we’ve shared the transcript of Harry’s interview with Andy. I’ve heard so many good things from Kobie, now at Upfront, and then also the team at Openview. How does Andy think about discounting?

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SaaStr

MARCH 26, 2019

Formerly a senior leader at Google, Claire Hughes Johnson is now Chief Operating Officer at Stripe, where she’s helped guide the online payments firm through rapid growth. Know who is the foundation of your product and build your product for that user (in Stripe’s case, developers). Our team is in Room 111.

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SaaStr

MARCH 18, 2019

Formerly a senior leader at Google, Claire Hughes Johnson is now Chief Operating Officer at Stripe, where she’s helped guide the online payments firm through rapid growth. Our team is in Room 111. They were self taught developers. The whole company was mostly full stack developers based here, and there was no org charts.

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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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Outseta

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Before we get into the interview, a bit of background - I have hired Soren’s team at Working Planet multiple times. Soren: This was 2003, and I was working as Head of Business Development for a web engineering company in Boston. The company is focused on “putting the math behind advertising for data-driven, profitable results.”

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FastSpring

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Full Interview: Audio Only Full Interview: Video 3 CRO Insights From Dave Gowans Why Full Funnel CRO Is Especially Important for SaaS and Subscriptions “The easiest and most straightforward bit of CRO is what you can do on the website,” Dave says. Stream the entire conversation or read the highlights below. Jump to highlights.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 8, 2022

I interviewed him for insights into how to build a global growth strategy, especially when it comes to localization. Note: FastSpring’s Revenue and Subscription Dashboards quickly show our customers where their revenue is coming from, the average order value or MRR per country, promotions performance per country, and more.

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 13, 2020

It’s a great way to record your invoices, share posts across social media, or get a text notification if an important client emails you. The problem isn’t just in the amount of time an in-house team has to dedicate to the work. This lack of resources is a major struggle for teams with in-house F&A staff, according to Consero.

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Natalia Luneva

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Today I interview Cynthia Del’Aria and we talk about leadership in the SaaS world. Cynthia helps business owners turn their idea for an app, custom software, subscription product, or website into higher profit with higher margins. The differences between good and bad leadership. How to successfully lead a team.

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User Pilot

APRIL 8, 2021

With this knowledge, the product team can create individualized product walkthroughs that point users towards the key UI elements that they need to learn. Larger enterprises will generally have entire teams dedicated to customer analytics, so you’ll need to buy multiple seats, which can get expensive quickly. How big is your company?

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SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2019

Here’s what Eyal and Megan talk about: How to develop software faster. Below, we’ve shared the full transcript of Harry’s interview with Vikas Bhambri. I do want to break the interview today up into a couple of different parts really. This podcast is an excerpt of Eyal and Megan’s session at SaaStr Annual 2019. Eyal Manor.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 18, 2020

We’ve got an interview with Brandon Meyers , the chief revenue officer of ADARA. He even managed to help pivot the company from a programmatic transactional revenue model to a subscription model over the course of, not just the last three months during COVID, but over the course of the last few years. We’re on iTunes.

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GetUplift

MAY 15, 2019

Same with customer interviews and other qualitative data. Then we’ll talk about using social media to uncover different types of social proof you can use (with examples of how successful brands use it and how you can use it too.). Research gives us a snapshot of this context. But this context changes. It fluctuates.

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Chart Mogul

JULY 1, 2020

Customer interviews are a powerful tool that can help you better position your B2B product to attract and retain more customers. Believe it or not, it’s not rocket science: they perform customer interviews. Types of customer interviews. Depending on what you want to achieve, customer interviews can be divided into two groups: 1.

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SaaStr

JULY 15, 2022

Jason Lemkin: You certainly can hire a whole content team and build 10,000 pieces of content, but I will tell you what I have always seen work is one incredible piece a week. Jason Lemkin: But usually your teams can’t do that. So you’re going to need at least three of those in the sales ops team. This always works.

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User Pilot

MAY 12, 2024

You’ll also be able to choose between feedback widgets, surveys, or interviews when attempting to collect customer feedback. Those developing software for mobile devices or cross-platform use should look for alternatives with mobile support (such as the aforementioned Smartlook). Interested in driving product growth without coding?

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Neil Patel

APRIL 5, 2023

It offers an easy way to stay in the loop about what’s happening in their industry or with their favorite brands. The free option allows one search, then you need a paid subscription. Ahrefs does offer a premium product with tiered subscription packages. Paid subscriptions start from $119.95

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ProfitWell

AUGUST 18, 2020

As more companies move to SaaS and subscription-based models of revenue, this old paradigm is crumbling. The shift to the customer-first paradigm has happened quickly in SaaS and subscription-based economy. As a new, and in some ways, more preferred revenue model, new players are entering the SaaS and subscription market every day.

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Chart Mogul

JULY 1, 2020

Customer interviews are a powerful tool that can help you better position your B2B product to attract and retain more customers. Believe it or not, it’s not rocket science: they perform customer interviews. Types of customer interviews. Depending on what you want to achieve, customer interviews can be divided into two groups: 1.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Before Optimizely, Travis spent 6 years at Salesforce in a number of sales roles including building the first Platform Sales team. What does Travis advise founders when it comes to uniting customer facing teams? * Below, we’ve shared the transcript of Harry’s interview with Travis. Loving our podcast content? Aydin Senkut.

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SaaStr

MARCH 20, 2019

What does Jeff mean when he says, “the developer first approach is a maturation of the supply chain of software?” How has Jeff seen his original thesis for “developer first” evolve and change with time? What does truly special customer experience look like in the developer first model? * Three developers: Tim, Isaac, Jose.

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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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User Pilot

JUNE 8, 2023

How can product and marketing teams leverage customer journey analytics to make data-driven decisions and build delightful customer experiences? In addition to increasing customer satisfaction and reducing customer churn , customer journey analytics helps teams boost customer lifetime value. How could the team diagnose the problem?

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GetUplift

MARCH 22, 2019

Anyway, but what we do here is we work a lot with in-house teams. If your goals are event-based, which are good, or destination-based, which are bad. Your web developer’s traffic, your agency’s traffic, none of that should be in there. Unfortunately, what happens is that people are really bad at closing tabs.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

In August of 2016, Rachel Hepworth embarked on a unique challenge: start a growth marketing team at one of the most successful startups of this generation – one that had long relied heavily on word of mouth. Below is a lightly edited transcript of our interview. These people were describing exactly what I had been through.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Think about what you could be doing to bring more diversity into your teams and be more inclusive as a company, and go actively out of your way in order to achieve set goals. I usually do them with Paul or people from the product teams – it’s much more fun to be on a podcast with your boss. Be open-minded.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

He’s also a keynote speaker and CX expert with over 20 years of experience in the field, having led teams in social media, marketing, and customer experience at companies such as Humana, McDonald’s, and Discover. You can also read the full transcript of the interview, which has been lightly edited for clarity, below.

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How To Buy Saas

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Most of the saas businesses are based on the subscription model. Branding is considered to be one of the most important saas marketing strategies as the conversions in this niche never happen on first interaction due to high ticket size and other corporate formalities. Get a webinar or interview session plan with your industry expert.

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User Pilot

JUNE 8, 2023

How can product and marketing teams leverage customer journey analytics to make data-driven decisions and build delightful customer experiences? In addition to increasing customer satisfaction and reducing customer churn , customer journey analytics helps teams boost customer lifetime value. How could the team diagnose the problem?

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 29, 2019

It’s no surprise that one of the key levers for growth as you go from startup to scale-up is your sales team. How quickly you’re able to accelerate growth depends on your ability to build a nimble sales org and develop a strong sales strategy. That’s why one of my favorite interview questions is, “What are you passionate about?”

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