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Dear SaaStr: What’s The Number One Challenge for Scale-Up Stage Founders?

SaaStr

You can hack managing and finding 1–3 reps yourself, but after that, you really need a VP of Sales. SaaS products get too complex to hack a product roadmap too long. Or churn will increase, NPS will stagnate and decline, and upsell and revenue retention will be a fraction of what it could be.

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How to learn from churn – designing good user offboarding

Intercom, Inc.

Of course, when you’re working in a startup or high-growth SaaS company, the focus is often on maximizing active users and increasing revenue. We hear about all the growth hacks to get new users into your product, and the latest patterns in user onboarding (we’ve even written a book on it ). Build a feedback loop.

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What is growth hacking and does it work for SaaS businesses?

ProfitWell

What is growth hacking? Growth hacking was coined by Sean Ellis to describe strategies that singularly and obsessively drive a company's growth. The idea of growth hacking is ambitious, if not vague. They are changes you make across your workflow that align your entire team to work toward growth.

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What’s The #1 Challenge After $1m-$2m ARR?

SaaStr

You can hack managing and finding 1–3 reps yourself, but after that, you really need a VP of Sales. SaaS products get too complex to hack a product roadmap too long. You can’t hack it forever. In SaaS, it is recruiting your VPs and management team : SaaS products mostly don’t sell themselves.

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7 Proven Strategies to Reduce Churn (With Real Examples)

Baremetrics

I spent over a week speaking with different SaaS founders and marketers about how they successfully reduced churn for their business. churn by doing something every SaaS business should be doing, but most don’t. And one showed me a simple tactic their company used that helped reduce churn from 9% to 7.5% What is churn?

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Understand, Classify, and Effectively Analyze Churn

Sixteen Ventures

Understanding customer churn can be one of the most challenging, yet essential elements for the success of any SaaS business. In this blog post, we delve […] The post Understand, Classify, and Effectively Analyze Churn appeared first on Customer-centric Growth by Lincoln Murphy.

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Sales Stack 2022: The Tools

yoursales

Sales Stack 2022 Sales Tools for Professional B2B Sales SALES STACK 2022: Sales Tools for. Professional Sales SALES STACK. 2021: Sales Tools. Sales W hich challenges would you like sales technology to solve for your sales team? What is sales technology here to do?

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