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Why You Should Consider Eliminating the Title “Implementation Consultant” from Your Startup

Kellblog

Before proceeding, let me say that if you have a low-touch, high-velocity, easy-adoption business model — and the product to go with it — then you don’t need to read this post [3]. ” is not the credo of a success-oriented consultant. But what do we call our consultants again? Implementations.

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The Three Strategic Questions Facing AI Agencies

Tom Tunguz

These startups use machine learning to disrupt an industry traditionally dominated by agencies: law, accounting, recruiting, translation, debt collection, marketing…the list is long. It impacts margin, ability to generate feedback data to improve ML models and sales processes.

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Gong’s Linda Lin on customer success strategies for moving upmarket

Intercom, Inc.

Although Linda started her career in sales, she has spent the past twelve years scaling post-sales teams and moving hyper-growth companies like Zendesk, Slack, and now Gong upmarket into the enterprise realm. Since then, you’ve spent over 12 years in post-sales leadership. ” 3. Dee: Fantastic.

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19 SaaS Predictions For 2021 and Beyond

OpenView Labs

“The prevailing go-to-market structure for SaaS companies in the last decade is through an inside sales team. Virtually all inside sales teams were forced to go remote in mid-March and haven’t been back in the office since. Teams are starting to ramp back up, and the next chapter of inside sales is a little wild.

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Cognota’s Ryan Austin on Creating an Entire Category (LearnOps)

FastSpring

Ryan Austin had VP-level experience in training when he decided to start a consulting business to help enterprise-level companies with their corporate learning and development initiatives. And I just started a consulting business, it was a service business. Or is it just the world reinventing like business models?

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Chargebee and Glassdoor — November 1, 2019

SaaStr

Billion story from its launch in 2008 to its 2018 acquisition by Recruit Holdings. Hear about the early days of Glassdoor; tactical lessons on scaling—from building a business model and recruiting an all-star management team to advice on building a compelling, innovative company culture; and learn whyGlassdoor’s $1.2

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Sales Automation: 210+ Tools to Turbocharge Your Sales Process

Sales Hacker

We’ve been compiling this sales automation tools list for a while, trying to figure out the best way to get the information out there. There are a number of existing resources available on sales automation, but they don’t offer use cases and examples of how to put the tools to action. What Is Sales Automation?

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