Sales Hacker

APRIL 25, 2019

I am passionate about helping small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) accelerate their growth with outbound sales. The SMB Decision: In-House vs. Outsourced Sales Development. Without a sales development team, you can find yourself struggling when it comes to pipeline generation. Salary and benefits costs.

Outsourcing Services 76

Outsourcing Services Sales Hiring Sales Outsourcing Outsourced Development 76

SaaStr

JULY 15, 2022

So how feasible do you think that works for a typical B2B SaaS business that probably our user-base is not too knowledgeable about [inaudible] on the internet for something specific in their day-to-day use case? But I almost never see mediocre outsource SEO really work for B2B. That’s a great example. This always works.

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Scale Outsourcing Services Sales Hiring VP of Engineering 227

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

They are hiring leaders, building teams, and attracting advisors in the US while devouring the SV SaaS playbook. Application SaaS has matured and increasingly there are fewer niches available to build large businesses. In return, they will spend a certain number of hours per month with your team. Learnings on GTM.

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Scale Sales Hiring Cybersecurity Underperforming Technical Team 203

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.

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Sales Hiring Outsourcing Services Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting 145

SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

It wasn’t the case 20 or even 10 years ago, where the business models of the internet were more focused on eCommerce, marketplaces, or even advertising. The second constituent there is the developer. Why do developers love SaaS products? The last kind of constituent here is investors and business owners.

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SaaS Payments Metrics Payment Methods Scale 230

Sales Hacker

MARCH 22, 2018

In this article, I will summarize what I’ve learned about B2B sales outsourcing. W hat is Sales Outsourcing? Sales outsourcing gives parts of your own sales process to others (individuals or agencies). Reasons to outsource include: Lack of expertise and experience in some sales functions (e.g. Lead Generation).

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Outsourcing Services Sales Outsourcing Outsourced Development Scale 79

Baremetrics

AUGUST 6, 2021

There comes a point in any successful business, however, when it’s time to grow. For the cacophony of new voices to come together in harmony, they will need a guiding process and structure as scaffolding for the business you are building together. Plan your hiring process long before adding people to the team. Table of Contents.

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Underperforming Technical Team Outsourced Development Consulting Scale 130

User Pilot

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

A market gap can be caused by missing functionality or poor user experience. Canva identified a market need for a user-friendly graphic design tool for non-designers and DocuSign for a secure solution to sign and manage digital documents and contracts. Talk to the developers and engineers. What are examples of market gaps?

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Underperforming Technical Team Marketing Market Research Outsourced Development 84

Neil Patel

APRIL 20, 2021

Education is the key to success in business but I’m not just talking about your college or university; I’m talking about self-education. Understanding the finances behind your business can help you increase your profits, cut back on expenses, and operate more smoothly. The list could go on, but it’s all part of being a business owner.

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Outsourcing Services Business Underperforming Technical Team Outsourced Development 119

SaaStr

JULY 25, 2021

I still remember the very first time I met Dev back in 2011 and I was this engineer turn first-time founder, CEO running the business. And we were like less than 10 million ARR and business was doing very well. And I met with Dev and I was telling him our business was doing very well and he asked me, “Why is it doing well?”

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Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale VP of Engineering 241

SaaStr

AUGUST 8, 2019

Agnes Bazin | Chief Development Officer @ Doctolib. She’s part of the founding team Doctolib, and the current chief development officer for the company. Okay, it’s not bad. We split our sales organization into four different teams. So, two teams cater to practices. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

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Sales Recruiting SMB Scale Sales Hiring 106

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.

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Sales Hiring Scale Technical Advisors Technical Cofounder 125

Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 12, 2019

A little over a year ago, I got the opportunity to start a new team within our sales organization – a team of Relationship Managers dedicated to growing our current customers at scale. We now had “hunters” who acquire new business and “farmers” who nurture existing business. Relentlessly measure impact.

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Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team Scale 171

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 4, 2019

The fastest growing software companies in recent years all have something in common – they started with little to no sales team. Yes, Slack started off with no sales team. Yes, Dropbox started off with no traditional sales team. billion in revenue) so it’s safe to say Jeanne and her team have helped do exactly that.

Scale 162

Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Payment Services 162

Panintelligence

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

This leads to a constant backlog of requests for data teams. Since its debut in the 1980s, no-code has changed the game when it comes to developing applications—and launching them at speed. And Fintech teams are reaping the rewards: The rapid speed-to-market that embedded analytics empowers is every VP of Product’s dream.

Outsourcing Services 52

Outsourcing Services Outsourced Development SaaS Underperforming Technical Team 52

SaaStr

AUGUST 8, 2019

Agnes Bazin | Chief Development Officer @ Doctolib. She’s part of the founding team Doctolib, and the current chief development officer for the company. Okay, it’s not bad. We split our sales organization into four different teams. So, two teams cater to practices. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

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Sales Recruiting SMB Scale Sales Hiring 106

Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 4, 2021

And no one knows this better than Zanade Mann , founder and Managing Director of the Black Women’s Business Collective. She created this collective in 2020 out of a growing need to provide access and resources to Black and Afro-Latina women business owners who started experiencing difficulties in the wake of COVID-19. Lifelong teacher.

Outsourcing Services 151

Outsourcing Services Outsourced Development Business Scale 151

User Pilot

MARCH 9, 2023

The key causes of customer churn are poor customer support , buggy product, wrong product-market fit, bad user experience, poor onboarding process, high pricing, and long time-to-value. If your product doesn’t help them reach their end goals, they’ll stop investing their time and money in it.

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Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services 90

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Scaling a support team is challenging enough as it is. You’re investing resources in hiring and training the right people, tracking different metrics at different stages, adding more and more complexity with each increase in headcount, use cases, and customers. For Natasha, the answer is a resounding yes.

Scale 206

Scale Outsourcing Services Software Sales Hiring 206

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

If you’ve used big-name prospecting tools before, you know that they all share one, massive problem: Bad data. If your team has invested time in a stellar marketing campaign, it can be disheartening for those messages to get flagged as spam or end up in dormant and nonexistent inboxes. So how can one cut through the noise?

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Sales Recruiting Strategy Systems Review AI Search 94

Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 13, 2018

Businesses have been giving prospects and customers “an experience to remember” for hundreds of years. Those investments have felt good for those in it for the ride, have raised an eyebrow for those on the sidelines, hitting budgets hard and somewhere along the line, have made business sense. Staging events to remember.

Branding 205

Branding Outsourced Development Scale Travel 205

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 22, 2020

They understand that, while getting a contract signed is what gets them to their quarterly number, it could ultimately be a loss for the company if the product isn’t the right fit for that customer. It’s also one of the hardest to teach and develop. Tell me about a time you collaborated within the sales team and with other teams.

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Sales Hiring Interviewing Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting 77

OpenView Labs

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

As software pervades every sector of the world economy, the developers building it are rapidly becoming the most important buyers of technology and infrastructure in companies of all sizes. As a company that builds economic infrastructure for the internet – Stripe’s ability to connect with developers is central to our mission.

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Underperforming Technical Team Scale Sales Hiring SaaS Payments 40

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

OCTOBER 29, 2018

High SaaS churn is a corollary of poor retention - but it can creep up unannounced, and rather than deal a single fatal blow, it causes death by a thousand small cuts. If businesses with high churn continue to acquire new customers they’re going to waste time and resource, and have little to show for it. This is always a huge mistake.

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Churn SaaS Payments SaaS Payments 152

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

sales team. Well, let’s go to the business school at Michigan.” As everyone left to work for an investment bank in California or New York that summer of ’99, I went to work at a startup in Ann Arbor. I did all sorts of things there from sales, to project management, to running the engineering team, hiring.

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Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Sales 212

Chaotic Flow

AUGUST 18, 2015

SaaS businesses develop intimate, long term relationships with their SaaS customers. If they don’t keep their customers around for years, then all that capital invested in customer acquisition will have gone to waste. As the future unfolds, the value of that investment has little correlation to the price that you paid.

Customer Success 138

Customer Success Underperforming Technical Team Scale SaaS 138

Chart Mogul

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Getting a new customer on board is a happy time for every sales team, but it’s not quite the end of the road. Poor handoff practices also have a much broader impact than just making a few customers unhappy — they dramatically affect retention and your company’s bottom line. Set expectations from the start.

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Underperforming Technical Team Customer Success Outsourced Development Sales 80

Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

The context is then used to train and develop machine learning algorithms. According to ReviewTrackers , 94 percent of consumers say a bad review has convinced them to avoid a business. With an algorithm developed to crawl and scrape data from competitors, you can save time while also increasing your potential for profit.

Scale 125

Scale Outsourcing Services Artificial Intelligence Scaling 125

Stax

JANUARY 8, 2024

To establish an effective risk management program as a PayFac, you must establish a dedicated risk management team, utilize the right tools and technology, develop proper risk management policies and procedures, conduct regular risk audits, and stay up-to-date with the latest industry regulations.

Merchant Services 88

Merchant Services Payfac Payment Services SaaS Payments 88

Neil Patel

OCTOBER 18, 2020

Local SEO sounds cool and all but can it really help you scale your business in 2020? Now the more in-depth answer depends on what your business needs. Then let’s begin with… 3 Ways an SEO Consultant Can Help Grow Your Business. In good times and in bad times every business wants more leads.

Consulting 131

Consulting Scale Outsourced Development Outsourcing Services 131

Baremetrics

DECEMBER 7, 2023

While running my financial modeling software business Flightpath (Now Forecast+) , we often get the question “Which SaaS billing platform should we use” from our customers. If you get the setup wrong, you end up with bad data, incorrect reports and forecasts, which has a material impact on the business.

Payment Solutions 52

Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payments Software Review 52

SaaStr

JULY 12, 2022

The Number One Thing You Can Do to Accelerate Your Business Post-Initial Traction is Hiring a Great VP of Sales. I ran their web business service unit which hit $180 million in ARR last quarter. Now, I just invest in SasS companies. You have to create a repeatable process if you’re going to scale up the sales team.

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Sales Hiring Part-Time VPE VP of Engineering Sales Recruiting 248

Neil Patel

APRIL 12, 2021

They offer some of the best-known subscription boxes around, reflecting an increasingly popular (and potentially lucrative) business model. Recurring Business Revenue. According to Paysafe , 69 percent of Americans have multiple subscriptions, and 36 percent of those consumers believe they’ll invest in more soon.

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Outsourcing Services Payment Methods Subscription Payment Features 123

OPEXEngine

JUNE 8, 2021

In the movie Glengarry Glen Ross, Blake, a successful salesperson, visits the real estate sales team and gives them a blistering motivational speech that has gone down in history as one of the best of all time. This is the first challenge facing enterprise SaaS sales teams. A-B-C,” he says as he points to each letter.

Enterprise 52

Enterprise Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Sales 52

Audacix

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Just investing in security testing tools is not sufficient in this day and age. However, not all security assessments for your applications can be automated, particularly when it comes to vulnerabilities arising from business logic errors.

Software Review 40

Software Review DevOps as a Service Underperforming Technical Team Outsourcing Services 40

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 29, 2018

By “consultant engineer”, I mean an engineer developing software for a client (which is again different from being an independent contractor). A “fixed price” contract means that the price is agreed at the beginning, regardless of how long it takes. Unfortunately, there is a disconnect here for businesses. Absence of ownership.

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Consulting Engineering Outsourced Development Underperforming Technical Team 169

SaaStr

JULY 5, 2021

Ep: 413: Join four-time Founder and CEO Auren Hoffman as he breaks down how businesses can become the right model for explosive growth, emulate their strategy, and join the path to Unicorn potential in eight simple, hand-made steps. Let’s first dive into this advice individually and show how it applies to building a business as well.

Part-Time VPE 247

Part-Time VPE Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Outsourcing Services 247