SaaStr

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

How To Build A High-Performing Team And Retain Top Talent. Every leader needs to have a strategic playbook to build high-performing teams and retain top talent,” says Guan Wang, Global Director of Market Intelligence for Snowflake. . Stage 3: Employee Development. The Playbook For Building And Retaining A High-Performing Team .

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Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Acquisition Company Culture 246

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 12, 2021

As a support leader, you already know how important it is to take care of your customers – but it’s just as important to take care of your support team. Here’s why human support is so crucial for any customer-centric organization, and how it can have a significant impact on your team, your business, and your customers. Here’s why.

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Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Payment Methods Payments 222

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The success of an executive team often depends as much on their interpersonal harmony as their professional expertise. How does a team establish rapport with one another? Algolia’s Bernadette Nixon (Chief Executive Officer) and Michelle Adams (Chief Revenue Officer) have spent the past few years developing this relational toolbox.

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Underperforming Technical Team Leadership Outsourced Development Finance 310

Neil Patel

OCTOBER 5, 2020

For better or worse, technology affects communication because it is a part of our everyday lives. But is it all bad? From a business perspective, you could argue that technology communication is beneficial. From a business perspective, you could argue that technology communication is beneficial.

Communication 145

Communication Technology Artificial Intelligence Social Media 145

Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 1, 2021

As a result, we’ve seen some major, long-lasting changes to how businesses and consumers communicate and build relationships with one another: The popularity of messaging channels is on the rise – messenger-based support is now the second most used support channel. Challenge #1: Limited team bandwidth, resources, and budget.

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Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Scale Headcount 232

SaaStr

MARCH 22, 2024

Shifting from an operator and loving operations and data to a sales and revenue leadership role felt like a big jump. The highs and lows always come, usually involving the people on your team. For Erica, the bad days are when they’re not executing or achieving growth the way they want. Automation and AI could solve for that.

Scale 296

Scale Underperforming Technical Team SMB Finance 296

User Pilot

OCTOBER 19, 2024

Satisfaction in SaaS, therefore, isn’t simply about developing a nice product and launching it in the market. For instance, you can launch a CSAT survey after a customer interacts with your support team. Similarly, unhappy customers are more likely to tell others of their poor experience. Userpilot review on G2.

Business 111

Business Underperforming Technical Team Customer Lifetime Value Systems Review 111

SaaStr

APRIL 1, 2021

Some examples: Okta basically won the corporate side of identity (rocketed to #1) but wasn’t #1 on the developer side. Twilio wanted to own more of messaging, to dominant messaging, so it bought the leaders in email APIs (Sendgrid) and communication data / intelligence (Segment). Not a bad play. You catch up.

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Underperforming Technical Team Cloud Acquisition Communication 266

SaaStr

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Jon Perera, CMO at Highspot, says the place to start is sales and marketing alignment—a system that aligns strategy, communication, execution, and goals between the two departments. From the get-go, ensure alignment between sales and marketing teams on goals and anticipated outcomes. Create dynamic alignment on goals. Key takeaways.

Scale 323

Scale Sales Hiring Venture Capital Marketing 323

Buffer Resources

AUGUST 2, 2024

They’re frustrated by being at the mercy of changeable algorithms or having their data sold to the highest bidder. Most social media users — especially those leveraging the networks to boost visibility for themselves, their businesses, or their work — accept that the good of social media goes hand-in-hand with the bad. 

Social Media 113

Social Media Underperforming Technical Team Government Blockchain 113

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 24, 2018

When used correctly, data can powerfully enrich sales and marketing efforts and help any business fuel growth. But all too often, companies fall into the trap of using partial or old data to drive major decisions. Companies commonly make the mistake of using expired or partial data from a small subset of users to justify big decisions.

Data 182

Data Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring 182

User Pilot

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Let’s review everything your customer success team has to do in the absence of any customer success tools. Collect customer data to calculate complex formulas for tracking metrics, monitor customer health scores, and resolve support tickets while continuously trying to improve retention and expansion.

Customer Success 105

Customer Success Enterprise Software Review Startup 105

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 23, 2018

When building your products, the security and privacy of your customers’ data needs to be a top priority. And that is also true when selling and marketing your product, particularly with the arrival of GDPR, which has brought the issue of data security and privacy to widespread public awareness.

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Underperforming Technical Team Systems Review compliance Marketplace as a Service 220

Stax

MAY 5, 2025

In recent years, businesses have seen this massive shift from desktop to mobile devices which has forced them to develop apps with built-in integrated payment gateways. A bad payment experience can lose customers and damage your brand. There are many different gateways available, each with its strengths and weaknesses.

Payments 88

Payments Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Solutions 88

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 7, 2024

He previously built the pre and post sales solutions team at mParticle from zero to supporting hundreds of enterprise customers. Is there a lot of internal or customer work that needs to be done or managed by your team? While mParticle has a killer, commercially focused CS team, inertia affected the team as well early on.

Underperforming Technical Team 119

Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Sales Hiring Scale 119

SaaStr

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Their CEO will join us at SaaSr Scale 2021 on December 15 to talk about using data to get to 10,000 SMB customers! I considered the four companies and chose Gorgias based on my experience with their team during the interview process. Together, we developed sales pitches, built out a robust sales process in just a couple of weeks.

Scale 281

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Underperforming Technical Team 281

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 13, 2019

As the head of our Support Ops team, I work daily with my teammates to develop automated solutions that don’t frustrate customers, but empower them. They can also route customer conversations to the team best equipped to handle their questions and can even provide answers to simple customer questions like, “How can I add more users?”.

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Underperforming Technical Team Customer Support AI Headcount 279

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

They want one that fits their unique needs and integrates with their data sources and third-party things. The good news is you have a big backlog, and the bad news is you have a big backlog. Adam came up with the wildest idea he could think of for an app and used Anthropc, a large language model company, to help develop the idea.

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Generative AI AWS Artificial Intelligence AI 290

Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 21, 2020

If it’s one of the most common elements in our designs, why is it so often the last thing most teams focus on – if they focus on it at all? Activity tracking apps such as Fitbit (29.5%) and Strava (41%) tend to use more of their screens to show visualizations of activity data rather than representing that data in text or language.

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Mobile PayPal Social Media Underperforming Technical Team 291

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

MARCH 23, 2020

Companies which don’t use mental models risk unleashing mayhem with poor choices or becoming bloated and bureaucratic by reducing the volume and speed at which decisions are made - both scenarios are undesirable and will impact growth. The same is true of data - data informs decision-making, but doesn’t replace it.

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Underperforming Technical Team Scale Sales Hiring Marketplace as a Service 215

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 1, 2021

As a sales manager, the most impactful thing you can do is coach your team. At Intercom, we’ve developed the GEMS framework to help everyone on our teams achieve best-in-class written communication. Prospects and customers can only subscribe to that ideology if they experience it firsthand with our teams”.

Communication 118

Communication Underperforming Technical Team Sales Technical Review 118

SaaStr

JANUARY 21, 2020

Justin used Sales Culture to grow a successful PatientPop team to 140 employees and 55 million in revenue. When I was hired, I came in with one salesperson and zero dollars in recurring revenue and over the next four years grew the sales team to over 140 employees and 55 million in recurring revenue. Want to see more content like this?

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Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale Sales 328

User Pilot

APRIL 15, 2024

Left unaddressed, customer communication pain points can cause dissatisfaction and eventual churn. TL;DR Customer communication pain points refer to the problems customers encounter when trying to get help through your support channels. Analyze customer data and improve in-app communication with interactive guides.

Communication 105

Communication SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payment Solutions 105

User Pilot

AUGUST 26, 2024

Product data capture is essential for SaaS companies looking to understand user behavior, optimize user experiences, and drive product growth. From choosing the right data capture methods to navigating complex tools, SaaS companies must balance the need for detailed insights with the reality of technical constraints.

Outsourcing Services 105

Outsourcing Services Data Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 105

Frontegg

JUNE 23, 2025

Common misconfigurations include exposed storage buckets, excessive permissions, unsecured APIs, and poor network segmentation. Integrating CSPM into DevSecOps processes embeds security checks across the development lifecycle. Automation also alleviates the burden on security teams by handling repetitive tasks.

Cloud 52

Cloud Underperforming Technical Team Management compliance 52

User Pilot

AUGUST 28, 2023

As the number of potential customer communication channels and touchpoints continues to increase, omnichannel communication is a must. In this article, we discuss what omnichannel communication involves, how it can help you deliver seamless experiences, and how to get started implementing it. What is omnichannel communication?

Communication 98

Communication Strategy Social Media Underperforming Technical Team 98

SaaStr

JUNE 4, 2021

Pomel focused his session on: Making your SaaS startup customer-centric: Hw event marketing has helped him integrate his engineering and sales teams. How many of you guys’ product rely on the highly functioning engineering team? Helping the engineering teams run smoothly and being super productive thanks to mentoring.

Scale 315

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring Engineering 315

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 12, 2021

Without this knowledge, it’s inevitable that your customer communication will remain impersonal and inefficient, neither of which will empower your team to meet ever-rising customer expectations. Armed with the right data, your team will be able to move the needle on providing personal customer communication at scale.

Communication 118

Communication Underperforming Technical Team Mobile Machine Learning 118

Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

This is the recipe for a mediocre sales team. Like a sports franchise, a top team should be both collaborative and competitive. The team has grown quite a lot, but it’s still tiny: we’re now close to 40 people in 13 different countries. On this week’s episode, I caught up with Steli to chat all things sales.

Sales Hiring 184

Sales Hiring Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales 184

Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Data labeling turns raw data into useful information that can then be utilized for optimized marketing. However, turning raw data into labeled data takes time. The good news is data labeling is scalable when you work with the right data labeling software. What Is Data Labeling?

Scale 144

Scale Outsourcing Services Artificial Intelligence Scaling 144

SaaStock

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

The platform enables the two sides to better communicate via social media and messaging. was created by a team with 25+ years of experience in location-based tech, spanning various services and real-time asset tracking systems. Near is a platform that provides real-time data on places, people and products. Founded : 2014.

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SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Merchant Services Payment Methods 225

SaaStr

APRIL 5, 2023

A bad experience with a revenue operations leader might taint your view of the position at all future companies, but that would be a mistake, as CRO Confidential podcast host Sam Blond learned first-hand. It might be a systems person or someone deep in data analytics who can quickly translate different data points.

Sales Hiring 245

Sales Hiring Education Scale Strategy 245

User Pilot

APRIL 2, 2025

It’s built for product people who need clear insights without drowning in data. In this article, I’ll show you how Userpilot helps product teams cut through the noise and understand what really matters in mobile user behavior: no data science degree required. Why choose Userpilot for mobile analytics?

Mobile 65

Mobile Underperforming Technical Team Onboarding AWS 65

Sales Hacker

MAY 9, 2025

They kept the focus on the core value proposition of helping teams write, plan and collaborate to create better workspaces, while still having the AI inclusion. Bad: We use AI to streamline sales workflows. Anchor with proof – even directional data builds credibility. But avoid buzzwords, make it visual and concrete.

AI Search 84

AI Search AI Scale SaaS 84

SaaStr

MARCH 24, 2020

Sam Blond, CSO at Brex explains why recruiting, networking and employee happiness is the key to this playbook on recruiting your sales team. I’m doing The Playbook To Recruiting Your Sales Team. Once again, amazing job to the SaaStr team. I’m really honored to share this stage with some really bad ass speakers.

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Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale Underperforming Technical Team 185

Sales Hacker

APRIL 19, 2022

Shruti is the Co-founder and CEO of Wingman , a company that helps salespeople make better decisions by bringing intelligence both into the conversations in real time and into the overall aggregation of data, so that people can close more deals. Why data and activity metrics aren’t enough. We are a team of nearly 50 people as we speak.

Communication 101

Communication Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Startup 101

Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 23, 2020

Once every decade or two, developments in technology trigger monumental changes in an industry. The Conversational Support Funnel has three layers: Proactive Support with messaging to answer customer questions in the product experience, reducing the number of queries reaching the support team. Putting people on hold isn’t good enough.

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Customer Support Scale Underperforming Technical Team Scaling 245