SaaStr

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

The underperformers who aren’t putting in the effort get a conversation, and if things don’t change, it’s not a good fit. Jameson and Sam also recommend that across the org: sales, marketing and CS — the early and sooner you can get the entire team re-focused on creating their own pipeline, the better. Guess what?

Sales Hiring 224

Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Revenue Sales 224

User Pilot

AUGUST 15, 2021

A key reason why customer engagement metrics are important to successful SaaS businesses. While customer acquisition is important, if you're unable to keep user engagement up, you've built a leaking house that will drown everyone in it! Measure engagement by feature usage to understand what brings the most value.

Engagement 98

Engagement Metrics Scale SaaS 98

User Pilot

MAY 1, 2024

Before starting his own venture, Lenny worked in the product and engineering teams of companies like Airbnb and Neustar. Renowned for his tenure on Airbnb’s product team, Lenny’s professional journey truly began in 2010 when he served as the CEO of a budding startup named “Localmind.”

Underperforming Technical Team 79

Underperforming Technical Team New CTO Interviewing CTO 79

Tom Tunguz

MARCH 3, 2020

Each bucket has a set of disciplines that the team scores. First, it enumerates the important priorities for a marketing team. And second, the scorecard provides a way for a team to understand their strengths and weaknesses. company positioning: what is the narrative of the business? Business Development.

Underperforming Technical Team 291

Underperforming Technical Team Marketing Scale Social Media 291

User Pilot

JANUARY 22, 2024

For your product marketing strategy, however, you’ll need to align your sales and marketing teams, create a value-based pricing strategy , collect and apply customer feedback , and map out the customer journey. It keeps you and your team on the same page, with a clear vision and a good understanding of your audience and goals.

Product Marketing 95

Product Marketing Marketing Social Media Scale 95

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

COVID-19 has put many businesses in the tough position of choosing what to cut rather than where to invest. But businesses are still looking for products and services that can help them adapt quickly and become more resilient, as well as plan for a post-pandemic future. 3 Ways to Engage Prospects and Move Deals Forward.

Engagement 97

Engagement Underperforming Technical Team Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence 97

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 28, 2018

Working as Sales Development Representatives at Intercom, we deal with a huge volume of conversations with potential leads that come in through live chat. Above all, it was a poor experience for our existing customers. Enter our chatbot to help lead qualification. And then our chatbot stepped in to the rescue.

Scale 187

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Customer Support 187

Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Because it is one of the only social networks left that is truly “personable” and the engagement is still decent because of it. This adds up to 132 percent more engagement–without doing any extra work past the initial setup. Send onboarding messages with educational messages to engage followers. Send upsell campaigns.

Engagement 145

Engagement Social Media Marketing Underperforming Technical Team 145

Stax

JANUARY 3, 2024

In this blog, we will cover what your small business needs to consider when implementing self-checkout. Poor implementation of self-checkouts can add friction to the customer experience, so it’s important to design a tailored checkout strategy and smooth implementation. 9 Steps for Implementing Self-Checkout Step Summary 1.

Payment Solutions 88

Payment Solutions Payment Methods Payment Services Payments 88

Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 10, 2020

I hope this post allows people and teams to safely talk about Product Judgment. If you ever had to face a Manager, Director or Exec as they make bad product decisions and you’re struggling to persuade them otherwise, this post will help you. It takes years to build, and therefore ranges from very weak to very strong.

Underperforming Technical Team 291

Underperforming Technical Team Interviewing Communication B2B 291

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 28, 2022

Sanj has plenty of experience scaling sales teams at growing businesses, and that’s precisely why, as of November of last year, he‘s overseeing EMEA sales at Intercom. Attract and develop talent and invest in supporting resources like onboarding, sales enablement, and sales engineering. It was the start of the wave of the cloud.

Scale 210

Scale Scaling Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting 210

SaaStr

APRIL 14, 2023

Mistake #1: Viewing Investors Only As Capital As founders build a team, they focus on obtaining complementary skill sets. Of course, building great teams and finding product market fit is critical, but don’t forget about product investor fit. So if you’re trying to fit your business model into what SaaS looks like in the U.S.

Development Team Review 243

Development Team Review Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team SMB 243

CustomerSuccessBox

MARCH 10, 2022

To deliver the service to the clients which a company’s sales team laid out has a real thing to deal with. If not met, it’s just up for a downfall while creating a poor experience for the clients. The role and responsibilities of these two separate operations-“ Client Service Manager ” and “ Client Engagement Manager ”-differ.

Engagement 52

Engagement Management Underperforming Technical Team Outsourced Development 52

SaaStr

MAY 10, 2022

A crisis can strike at any time without warning, and it can be especially stressful when business leaders are not prepared for the unknown. Many businesses are struggling to survive after the pandemic triggered unprecedented challenges, crippling the global economy as a whole. Develop a well-defined vision.

Travel 229

Travel Revenue Underperforming Technical Team Scale 229

CustomerSuccessBox

MARCH 11, 2022

As Customer Success specialists, we often think of quarterly business reviews (QBRs) as the reviews we do with our own customers, when we summarize recent successes, outline future targets, and build our connections with key stakeholders. Why Internal Quarterly Business Review is important.

Underperforming Technical Team 52

Underperforming Technical Team Customer Success Business Forecasting 52

User Pilot

MARCH 23, 2023

And how can customer success teams address them to ensure product growth? TL;DR Customer churn refers to the rate at which a business loses customers within a specific period. Reasons why customers churn: #1: Customers churn when there is a bad product-customer fit and your product’s features don’t align with their needs.

SaaS Payments 94

SaaS Payments Churn Underperforming Technical Team Payment Methods 94

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Lexi Reese, Gusto COO uses her 20+ years of experience to provide advice on building high performing teams using authenticity, empathy and logic. Lexi explains the importance of team trust, driver and passenger mindsets, and much more. Gusto now serves 100,000 small businesses. Who was the highest engaged teams?

Scale 190

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Scaling Leadership 190

ChurnZero

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Every Customer Success team focuses on keeping customers engaged and ultimately, preventing churn. In fact, customer education helps scale Customer Success , as the company scales business. . Customer Success teams typically answer the same questions over and over again as they gain new clients. Product adoption.

Education 98

Education Customer Success Underperforming Technical Team Scale 98

User Pilot

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Declining user engagement is a slippery slope to churn – every Product Manager’s greatest nightmare. The bad news is: there is no ‘one-size-fits-all’, cookie-cutter method. It’s cheaper than acquiring new customers-Anywhere from 5% to 25% according to Harvard Business Review. No time to read?

Engagement 98

Engagement Strategy Underperforming Technical Team Social Media 98

Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Unfortunately, not all of us either have the time or acumen to engage deeply in creative work. This despite often engaging in tasks, whether personal or professional, where an artistic touch would help immensely. The release of the latest Ideogram.ai model (1.0) is a massive step forward for image models.

Investment 111

Investment Underperforming Technical Team Innovation User Experience 111

User Pilot

JANUARY 29, 2023

FullStory uses gamification elements to keep its – otherwise lengthy – signup flow engaging. Poor SaaS product experience like this dissuades customers from the product, driving them to your customer support team or your competitors. Appy encourages its customers to leave general feedback and feature requests.

Business 98

Business Social Media Underperforming Technical Team Onboarding 98

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The best way to do that is to develop the right behaviors in your sales reps. There are many things that can drive revenue growth within your company, but as a sales leader, it all starts with your team. Here are five key areas to challenge your team on in order to grow both them and your company. You have to be a sales LEADER.

Underperforming Technical Team 96

Underperforming Technical Team Development Revenue Sales Hiring 96

Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

In other words, if different people or teams in your company aren’t on the same page about everything that’s going on, they might end up doing a worse job. Silos can make your company seem less innovative and damage your employee engagement , resulting in lowered productivity. Because it’s bad for business.

Marketing 142

Marketing Business Underperforming Technical Team Content Marketing 142

User Pilot

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

A market gap can be caused by missing functionality or poor user experience. Tracking user behavior in-app enables product teams to find ways to improve product experience. Competitor analysis enables PMs to find areas where rivals fail customers and develop sound positioning and differentiation strategies.

Underperforming Technical Team 94

Underperforming Technical Team Marketing Market Research Outsourced Development 94

Neil Patel

OCTOBER 25, 2020

But should you build your own in-house marketing team or hire an agency partner? Digital agencies are companies that help other businesses perform a specific function such as marketing, development, or design. They act as a substitute for an in-house team, serving the same labor function but outside of the organization.

Sales Hiring 145

Sales Hiring Outsourcing Services Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting 145

Buffer Resources

JANUARY 15, 2024

Inaccurate, packed with "filler," or completely AI-generated — bad B2B (business-to-business) content is easy to spot and even easier to find online. "AI-developed content can’t touch it [original research] on quality and value for a B2B audience," she says.  Tough question.

B2B 109

B2B Technical Advisors SaaS Payments Underperforming Technical Team 109

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 16, 2018

They help managers evaluate how their employees are doing, the value they bring to a team and how their work can be improved. Now, as one of the managers of a global support team that is quickly scaling, I can completely understand not only the necessity but the benefits of tracking KPIs. Employee engagement.

Customer Support 154

Customer Support Underperforming Technical Team Scale Construction 154

Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Choosing the right digital strategy for your business is essential. We help our clients develop a digital strategy that maximizes the results they achieve with their content marketing, advertising, and SEO campaigns. Everything we do is focused on producing real results for businesses whether that’s more traffic, leads, or revenue.

Underperforming Technical Team 139

Underperforming Technical Team Strategy Content Marketing Scale 139

User Pilot

MARCH 27, 2023

We finish with an overview of product analytics tools that your team can benefit from. Marketing analytics focuses on tracking the performance of marketing campaigns, while product analytics is interested in product engagement and user behavior inside the product. As a result, product teams are able to make quicker decisions.

Underperforming Technical Team 97

Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Churn User Experience 97

Casey Accidental

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Founders have started reaching out asking for help converting their SAAS or SAAS-like business into a marketplace. I’ve helped their business, but they’re asking for help driving more customers. Now, this story itself explains why many businesses fail to make the conversion to marketplace.

Marketplace as a Service 106

Marketplace as a Service Business Model Business Underperforming Technical Team 106

ChurnZero

MARCH 15, 2019

Churn Monster #10: Bad Fit Customer . We’re talking about a bad fit customer. A bad fit customer is a customer who is unable to receive value from your product or service due to a mismatch of currents needs and offerings. You are worried you have acquired a bad fit customer. What do you do?

Underperforming Technical Team 45

Underperforming Technical Team Churn Software Review Compensation 45

ChurnZero

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

If you were your own customer, would you want to sit through your quarterly business review (QBR)? However, many customer success teams squander this opportunity by making it about themselves and not thinking outside the box. In my years as a customer success manager, I’ve seen what makes a standout QBR and what makes a bad one.

Technical Review 52

Technical Review Development Team Review Business Underperforming Technical Team 52

Point Nine Land

OCTOBER 23, 2023

We recently hosted the Point Nine Founders Summit, featuring several panels and presentations from founders, CFOs, COOs, and sales execs on building early sales teams and hiring your first successful sales leaders. Building some level of repeatability in closing at least a handful of deals is the fuel that drives the entire business forward.

Sales Hiring 125

Sales Hiring Scale Technical Advisors Technical Cofounder 125

User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Increase customer engagement through optimization with A/B tests. Ideas from feature request surveys for developing product roadmap. Businesses can use customer analytics for various purposes, from adoption to retention to growth. It helps you stop guessing and optimize what works for you to increase customer engagement.

Underperforming Technical Team 96

Underperforming Technical Team Customer Lifetime Value Retention Engagement 96

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 19, 2023

I traveled with them in business class to see clients. Maybe it goes without saying, I never heard them mistake the mail room guy or the security guard for a leadership team member.) Because it is they who continuously top the lists of unseen team members across organizations in the U.S.

Sales Recruiting 85

Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring Sales 85

Sales Hacker

MARCH 25, 2021

Our guess is that poor Polly from purchasing is gathering dust on a noticeboard in the canteen or buried somewhere deep in your internal network of folders. Your business exists solely to satisfy buyers. Speak empathetically to their prospects and develop stronger connections as a result. Your sales team.

Scale 112

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Outsourcing Services Sales Enablement 112

User Pilot

APRIL 19, 2024

TL;DR Market research is vital for making informed business decisions, enabling companies to understand the market, target audience, and competitors, reducing risks, and optimizing marketing communications and product strategies. This allows businesses to tailor their offerings and engage more effectively with their target market.

Market Research 52

Market Research Sales Recruiting Marketing Underperforming Technical Team 52