FastSpring

DECEMBER 7, 2023

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. How you should think about building a sellable business. 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. Look for existing ecosystems of websites, communities and social presence that exist in that geography around your topic. “So Leave the technical challenges of selling around the world to us.

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FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

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. Ryan and his team noticed so many inefficiencies across the L&D workflows. “It Ryan Austin 01:00 Sure.

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Natalia Luneva

JANUARY 13, 2021

However, the subscription business model can’t survive if you keep on acquiring new custo mers but the old ones keep on walking away. The period refers to a month or year depending on which payment option you offer or which of them is more popular. Sure, every business may have their own world-changing differentiator.

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FastSpring

JANUARY 26, 2024

With years of experience at managing customer success (CS), Jake Dipple knows how important it is to foster collaboration between businesses and their customers. In this episode of Growth Stage, host and CMO of FastSpring David Vogelpohl interviews Jake about his thoughts on: What Customer Success is at a high level. And much more!

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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). I’m an execution person.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 3, 2018

Here are five quick takeaways: Instead of relying on word of mouth to permeate the team, write things down. If Rohini’s team is making changes to the UI or the front end, they can test quickly and easily, but because their core product is payments-based, much more rigor is required compared to your typical software product.

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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. Interview them. According to one study, it also costs over $50 billion annually due to wasted resources alone. But what makes B2B content good ?

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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. In fact, more than 80% of Americans in the last year bought through Stripe, but obviously through a business that ran on Stripe. Our team is in Room 111.

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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. The different roles in SaaS companies: Chief Executive Officer : As the highest-ranking executive, this person ensures the company runs smoothly and employees are happy and engaged.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2021

If you’re a senior engineer and want to further your career, what skills should you develop? Moving forward in your career, avoid the trap of doing work that feels high-impact, but it’s actually not , or work that makes you look good at the expense of the project and the team. How do people move into staff engineering roles?

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

One of the biggest decisions you can make when setting up your sales team is whether to focus primarily on inside or outside sales. We’ll look at the strengths of each type of sales, why you need both of them in your team, and how to determine the best balance for your organization. What is inside sales? What is outside sales.

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CustomerSuccessBox

JULY 11, 2022

However, if you work hard, you can design an offboarding procedure that makes a good first impression and leaves room for future business. The majority of businesses rarely give their departing consumers much consideration. They could, however, have left due to a business-related issue just as probable. Here is how you do it.

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FastSpring

APRIL 26, 2022

In part two, we’ll cover five churn-prevention strategies that have been successful in other SaaS businesses. So the flip side is that SaaS companies targeting individuals or small businesses with a larger customer base and shorter contract lengths will naturally have higher churn rates. If you prefer, you can use this ??

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User Pilot

APRIL 8, 2021

Here’s a sobering truth: if you run a SaaS company and don’t use customer analytics software , you probably won’t be in business very long. Gone are the days when business leaders can afford to make decisions solely on the basis of intuition. How do you choose the best Customer Analytics Software for your Business?

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

It’s been 10 years since co-founders Eoghan McCabe , Des Traynor , David Barrett , and Ciaran Lee sat in a small Dublin coffee shop and dreamed of making internet business personal, and we’re still every bit as excited. Zanade Mann , founder of Black Women’s Business Collective. Amanda Renteria , CEO for Code for America.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

For the past 25 years, she’s been helping people and businesses draft their own style guides and write better emails, chats, and social media messages to improve both communication and the customer experience. Acknowledge what the customer is saying and be as personal and specific as you can. Use plain language. ’ No.

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OPEXEngine

MAY 4, 2021

He started out in the late 1980s researching technology companies for Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, then for Morgan Stanley, and then for Salomon Brothers before jumping to the corporate side as finance head for the online job-search site Monster. Hopefully it will be communicated during the interview process.

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FastSpring

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Barriers are anything that stop a buyer from converting, such as website usability, solution fit, or pricing. But he explains that what happens on the website is such a small and early part of the entire customer relationship. Stream the entire conversation or read the highlights below. Jump to highlights. But sign-ups went down.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 30, 2021

How to build a winning sales team. Developing A Winning Sales Team [16:24]. Leveraging the next generation of artificial intelligence, the platform allows sales reps to deliver consistent, relevant, and responsible communication for each prospect every time, enabling personalization at scale previously unthinkable.

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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? Does it have to be in person? Loving our podcast content? Harry Stebbings.

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SmartKarrot

AUGUST 11, 2021

“A customer is a King”, an age-old business mantra that emphasizes the importance of customers or would-be customers in every business. The lifeblood of the SaaS business is its customers. About 90% of Americans use customer service as a deciding factor for whether they want to do business with a company.

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ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

It’s the center of your business. Building a strong pricing strategy starts with hiring a professional team to conduct a pricing audit. A pricing audit assesses your subscription business’ pricing process to ensure consistency across similar accounts, maximize profitability, and benchmark against other companies.

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Chargify

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Initially, businesses only see a few basic requirements, but later realize there is much more hidden below the surface as it relates to the ongoing creation and maintenance of custom code. Using precious development resources to build and maintain your own recurring billing code, and all the complexities that arise, 1.

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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. In 2003 we realized that CMOs were really struggling with the auction-based nature of media buying in Search and we knew that was a math problem we could solve in a way that would tie directly to their business success.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

Jay Snyder: Got hotspot on my phone, so hopefully we’ll hold still. Nick Mehta: Power of the developer, or the API economy, both of you play very much in both those trends. If everybody’s just doing a little sliver of the work, how do you roll it up into a meaningful business case?

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OpenView Labs

APRIL 11, 2019

My personal and professional backgrounds contributed to my tendency to see the world through many mental models. I was born in Bombay, but grew up in New Jersey and was acutely aware of the juxtaposition of those two places in terms of economic development, politics and culture. The Four Growth Levers – Foundational Building Blocks.

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FastSpring

JUNE 11, 2024

Affiliate marketing can be a great growth lever to scale your digital product business, but how can you drive meaningful growth with the right affiliates without losing out to fraud or shady attribution schemes? How to go about recruiting the RIGHT affiliates to help drive meaningful growth in your business. Listen or watch now!

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Point Nine Land

MARCH 7, 2019

Lemkin recently posted a tweetstorm about his observation that most startups are bad at finance. When we’re at $5–10M in ARR or so, a great CFO might almost pay for him/herself by helping us tweak and optimize the business (in addition to freeing up your time). Like, all of them. Happy to talk to the candidate(s)!

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SaaStr

JUNE 14, 2019

Before that Dave was SVP/GM of Service Cloud @ Salesforce where he led the $500m line of business for customer service applications. Finally pre-Salesforce, Dave was CEO @ MarkLogic where he grew the team from 40 to 240 and revenues from $0 to an $80m revenue run rate. What are the clear differences between a good book and a bad book?

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Good sales leaders are always on the hunt to bring in new talent that can help a business grow. A sales team compensated entirely on revenue shouldn’t have a leader whose compensation depends on something else. This also allowed us to adequately use data to defend the quota targets that we set for the team.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2019

To date they have raised over $113m in financing from some of the best in the business including Tiger Global, Battery Ventures, Boldstart, Canaan, Cisco, and Redpoint, just to name a few. Here’s what Eyal and Megan talk about: How to develop software faster. Missed the session? The emergence of new A.I. Eyal Manor. Megan Lueders.

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GetUplift

DECEMBER 12, 2021

It’s a process that my team and I at GetUplift have used to 10x our clients’ conversion rates. I spent years researching the psychology behind purchase decisions and used that knowledge to develop a four step conversion optimization process deeply rooted in emotional marketing. The article was only written to drive website traffic.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

Sales Development and Prospecting. The Sales Development Playbook. The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team. If you truly want to be a better leader, better salesperson , better speaker, better writer, or just a better person, you need to study the craft. Selling to Big Companies. The Pirate’s Guide to Sales. B2B Is Really P2P.

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How To Buy Saas

DECEMBER 1, 2020

SaaS is a global software solution created by different businesses in order to improve human activities in a matter of clicks. With so many SAAS getting visibility in online marketplaces, we found that new saas businesses are struggling hard to make it to the right set of customers. Setup Pricing model and payment gateways.

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Neil Patel

APRIL 5, 2023

Now, I’m not saying using competitor research tools can give you everything you need for a successful business. If you want a leaner, more efficient, and proven way of doing business, read on while I discuss some of the best competitive research tools available. Finally, how will you leverage these insights to elevate your business?

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Outseta

OCTOBER 15, 2018

It made the rounds in tech circles online. First it was Wistia , followed shortly thereafter by Buffer ; both buyouts a sort of declaration of independence that gave both companies back the ability to build their businesses on their own terms. They had built a highly profitable business that was generally adored by its customers.

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