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10 Learnings Scaling from Consumer to SMB to Enterprise with Grammarly’s Head of Organizations Revenue Dorian Stone (Podcast 520 + Video)

SaaStr

You might feel confused about where to begin, how to scale up, which mistakes you should avoid, and things you should consider before expanding. Now, let’s look at ten learnings that Dorian gathered while scaling Grammarly from a Consumer to an Enterprise brand with B2B offerings. Go-to market mechanisms don’t translate.

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Revenue Marketing: Build for Scale with Podium SVP, Revenue Marketing Jess Weimer (Video)

SaaStr

Jess Weimer, Senior Vice President of Revenue Marketing at Podium, discusses why it’s time to pivot from demand generation to revenue marketing and best practices for making that pivot. Pillars of Revenue Marketing . Scale your alliance and solution partner marketing portfolio to amplify net new acquisition. .

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5 Interesting Learnings from Toast at Almost $800,000,000 in ARR

SaaStr

SMB sales (most of Toast) is very tough to do without a highly efficient and effective sales force. At least 20% of your customers from referrals and second-order revenue. #4. Many SMB leaders have to get very, very good at outbound because of the limited deal sizes. 20% of new customers / locations come from referrals.

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Do SMBs Need Customer Success? 100% For Sure If You Also Have Sales Involved

SaaStr

And as startups scale, many try to automate away support and success for the smaller accounts. If your SMB product requires or has a salesperson involved in closing, that’s a clear sign you also want a human being involved in making sure that customer is a success post-sale, too. Your brand benefits alone will make it worth it.

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10 Learnings from Yamini Rangan, CEO of HubSpot

SaaStr

At SaaStr Scale this year, Yamini Rangan, CEO of HubSpot joined us, and I thought it was really an A+ discussion. If at almost $2B in ARR, and a market-dominating brand, HubSpot has to still do RFPs … even when selling to medium-sized businesses … well get used to it. A great simple insight into scaling globally.

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5 Interesting Learnings from PagerDuty at $250,000,000 in ARR

SaaStr

Thank you @jasonlk for giving me the @saastr stage +4 yrs ago to share both my story & build @pagerduty 's brand … the Sunny Delight, solution to problem fit talk. It’s also an interesting contact to Zoom , Zendesk and Slack , which recently have seen enterprise and SMB growth be about equal post-Covid. #2.

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What Brands Look for When Considering Acquiring Software Companies

FastSpring

As the Director of Corporate Development & Strategic Partnerships at WP Engine , Carl has worked on many acquisitions and partnerships, including brands like Flywheel, Perfect Dashboard, Block Lab, and recently, Delicious Brains. “This is everyday for me, so I love talking about it,” says Carl Hargreaves about mergers and acquisitions.