Kellblog

JUNE 27, 2020

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]. If you sell: A recruiting app, running your first recruiting campaign. For example, one company had a CAC of 4.0,

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User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

TL;DR SaaS, or “Software as a Service,” is a business model that delivers centrally hosted software to subscribers over the internet. Account Managers: They serve as the lead point of contact for all customer account management matters. What is a SaaS business model?

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Sales compensation planning can be a tricky beast to tame — but know that you’re not alone. I asked 12 incredible sales leaders across the SaaS industry to share their biggest challenges with comp planning and how to overcome them. Related: New to sales compensation planning? Top 10 sales compensation challenges.

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Neil Patel

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Additionally, incentivize your customers to participate by offering them a gift, discount, or any other perk that suits your business model. It’s a powerful technique for driving sales as it’s easier to sell to an existing customer than to a new prospect. Direct Response Marketing for Job Recruiting.

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Tom Tunguz

APRIL 14, 2019

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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SaaStr

AUGUST 25, 2023

2 “Give the VP of Sales more time.” You can’t always expect a great VP of Sales to double sales in 30-60-90 days. But you have to see progress in one sales cycle. If, in one sales cycle, things aren’t improving on several core metrics, they never will. The best VPs of Sales hit the ground running.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 29, 2018

In this blueprint, we provide insights on how to structure your sales organization. The changes in SaaS require that we no longer look at salespeople as individual contributors, but rather a team that crosses disciplines, not just within sales but also across other parts of the organization such as marketing and product.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 23, 2024

Whether it’s creating better tools to write code and test code, better tools for customers to engage with reps, better tools for sales teams to engage with their prospects, all those things are happening inside of Bill. Alex: Let’s dive into your business models. I think it’s a good business model.

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User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Segmentation has been proven to improve a vast range of product success metrics (not just sales efforts). 7 types of user segmentation with examples There are many customer segmentation models to choose from. Simply create a segment of your most active users, and offer incentives to recruit them for beta testing.

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 6, 2015

How do I create the right kind of recruiting process? On November 4, we’ll chat with Kenny van Zant, the creator of high velocity inside sales techniques and flywheel business models. And we have a great lineup so far.

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SaaStr

APRIL 17, 2019

Steve has previously said, “Sales and marketing must be one team.” Where does Steve find common points of tension between sales and marketing? I mean, my career started as a software engineer, and out of frustration, I went into sales. Glassdoor had a business-to-consumer and a business-to-business.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 21, 2018

Whether you’re at an early-stage startup that’s just made its first sales hires, or part of a fast-moving sales team in a large organization, the key to success often comes down to efficiency. How can you capture, qualify and convert the right leads for your business while working within your means? Short on time?

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Baremetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

Revenue models can help — but when you consider potential revenue, you must understand where it comes from. For instance, do you have a certain number of sales agents or current customers or a specific marketing activity planned? And don't forget the costs of recruiting. Working capital is important to your business model.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 26, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Rahim Fazal , Co-Founder and CEO of the SV Academy. If you missed episode 71, check it out here: PODCAST 71: Why is Account Based Marketing Not Working w/ Latane Conant. Keeping up with the evolution of sales. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. What You’ll Learn.

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OPEXEngine

JANUARY 13, 2021

Hiring—lessened requirements for in-person work expected even post-pandemic open up recruitment beyond physical locations, but competition for talent will remain tough in tech. B2B Sales and Marketing. Sales organizational changes: no more big rooms with 50+ inside sales. Impact of the Remote Workplace. More testimonials.

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OpenView Labs

DECEMBER 21, 2020

“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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SaaStr

MARCH 26, 2019

Scaling the company’s employee base, sales teams, marketing, and operations—all while preserving its culture—has required a laser focus on first principles, smart processes, and effective hiring. Speaker video: Stripe is really a set of developer tools for building and operating an online business. The exchange of value.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 3, 2018

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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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

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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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In this episode, a16z partner Seema Amble talks with Dimitri Dadiomov, the co-founder and CEO of payment operations platform Modern Treasury, about the challenges of creating a new category, hiring for marketing before you hire for sales, and why developing new features is similar to birding.

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SaaStr

MARCH 18, 2019

Scaling the company’s employee base, sales teams, marketing, and operations—all while preserving its culture—has required a laser focus on first principles, smart processes, and effective hiring. And at the risk of giving you a full Stripe sales pitch, don’t worry, that’s in my other talk. The exchange of value.

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Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Debt financing is preferable for sales and marketing acceleration since it has a lower long-term cost and enables the company to expand quicker. An offering of equity financing does not always imply approval of your business model. Additionally, getting SaaS equity financing is much slower, often taking six months or more.

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ProfitWell

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Citrix plans to shift to a subscription business model and software-as-a-service, as the company recently showed strength in its Workplace subscriptions. CEO David Henshall said that the Citrix business is shifting to subscriptions ahead of expectations. Per usual, Zuora’s Tien Tzuo says it well. Welcome to the club, Citrix.

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Tom Tunguz

MAY 14, 2013

It’s a logical question to pose in the aftermath of the Digg sale and the wobbly Facebook IPO. There is one clear lesson from Digg’s sale: the technology that powered a once-massive social network is worth about $500,000. The Atlantic summed up the essence of social networks' business models brilliantly.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

If we combine it with a business model that nobody really understands, it’s just too much. And so again we would just have added to more kind of friction in the sales cycle and there was a whole video long sales cycle. And then the next one that we best now is proving a business model. Felix : Yes.

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ProfitWell

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

We are very clear by saying that our story is not a sales story for the next four quarters or so.”. GameStop needs to redesign their whole business model. Recruit your friends into the subscription know by sending them to recurnow.com to sign up for episodes on the daily.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 13, 2021

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. Going through all parts of the customer journey.

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OpenView Labs

JANUARY 25, 2022

If you can nail it, you’ll be on the path to a very strong business model. 1 – Your product is too confusing without sales or success helping out. You signed up for a product only to get bombarded by a chaotic array of touch points spanning in-product chat, sales rep outreach, company announcements, marketing emails, and so on.

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ProfitWell

AUGUST 28, 2019

Well, it seems to be a case of business model, economics, and downright ethics. An article from Forbes Senior Contributor Stephanie Denning claims , “WeWork has an arguably strong value proposition, but the business case and economics are much less clear. So why are we so enthralled by the WeWork saga?

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SaaStr

AUGUST 8, 2023

Strategic finance can be thought of as a project management function for your company’s underlying business model or a BizOps team that operates within a more financial lens. Strategic Finance optimizes a company’s underlying business model to create long-term value by increasing revenue and decreasing costs.

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Baremetrics

MAY 14, 2020

A year and a half later, Product Pains had decent usage but still no real business model. I quit to join Andrew (he likes to say he recruited me) and we transformed Product Pains into Canny , a SaaS tool. Takeaways: Many businesses start off as side projects. He quit and decided to pick Product Pains back up.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 18, 2019

Customer Success was barely a discipline when Anthony joined Gainsight, but thanks to the rise of SaaS and subscription-based business models more generally, where retaining and providing value to your existing customers is a non-negotiable, the category has exploded. I like the idea of being long-term greedy, but short-term humble.

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FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

And I just started a consulting business, it was a service business. They recruit sports athletes, and offer a bunch of things for the sports athletes pretty cool. There’s the plug, Brandon, you owe me one but this thought of recruiting athletes and creating a marketplace. it’s a sports tech company.

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ProfitWell

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Because if we flip this mindset, we look at an undeniably successful business model, with retailers actually asking customers to pay them for loyalty. Think Costco —a membership-based retail company whose model has caught on with companies like Lululemon , GameStop , and master in the space: Amazon Prime. Email Address Play.

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ProfitWell

JANUARY 6, 2020

And Gold’s article highlights four predictions for this booming business model. Companies will begin to diversify their offerings , launching and experimenting with varying promotions and services to increase subscribers, build loyalty, and drive sales. Recruit your teammates into the subscription know at recurnow.com.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

Does Bob agree with the notion that channel sales have completely died in the world of SaaS? And in the course of doing that, I think I really discovered and fell in love with SaaS as a business model and it really doubled down on my interest in data analytics. Why is this? What are the drivers of its death?

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OpenView Labs

OCTOBER 11, 2019

In a market that requires companies to earn their customers’ business each and every day, it can literally make or break your entire business model. With twenty-five years in the software business, I’ve seen my share of pricing exercises. I’ve had roles in almost every function from sales to product to customer success.

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