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

How you handle, communicate with, and learn from account churn—user offboarding—is as crucial especially when the churned customer is a major account. Such as the conclusion of a project, a poor match, or a firm changing course are considered non-regrettable churn. This might help: Guide for implementing a proper exit interview.

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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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User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

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. They also manage finances and supervise one or more engineering teams. Before hiring, assess your current needs and hire as your company grows.

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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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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. Later’s Farhan Virji on adapting B2C support strategies for B2B teams. 10 years of making internet business personal.

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SmartKarrot

AUGUST 11, 2021

You need to put in countless hours of research and development, relentless marketing campaigns, and tireless sales effort to earn a paying customer. And nearly 60% switch companies based on poor customer service. The competitors might have developed something that closely matches the needs and wants of your target users.

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Chargify

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Time is money (especially in the SaaS world), and whether you’re an early stage startup or an established business, development resources are almost always at a premium. Using precious development resources to build and maintain your own recurring billing code, and all the complexities that arise, 1. costs money and 2.

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User Pilot

APRIL 8, 2021

The “customers” part of this definition is important, since this is what differentiates customer analytics software from tools like Google Analytics, which look at data from website visitors as opposed to customers. Note: these methods are by no means mutually exclusive. Don’t be this person. Source: mywellnesshub.in.

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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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Outseta

OCTOBER 15, 2018

It made the rounds in tech circles online. Venture capital is not inherently bad or the manifestation of greed and commitments to impossible-to-deliver growth. and paid it out to the Founders and early team members. The company even took $2.5M of the $3.5M Without question, Buffer was flying high. Morale took one on the chin.

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ProfitWell

AUGUST 18, 2020

Reliance told her that she would need to buy-out the remainder of her two years in one lump sum payment, plus the interest the company would lose over those two years, and she would have to pay an additional hefty administration fee too. The administration fee alone totaled nearly three of her monthly payments. Every person has biases.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Before Optimizely, Travis spent 6 years at Salesforce in a number of sales roles including building the first Platform Sales team. What does Travis advise founders when it comes to uniting customer facing teams? * Below, we’ve shared the transcript of Harry’s interview with Travis. Loving our podcast content? Aydin Senkut.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Companies that have access to more accurate financial data have the ability to develop seamless exchanges of information, providing consumers with improved ways to manage their finances. Happy post lunch interview. But how do companies gain secure access to that data in the first place? Enter the platform company. Zach : Go for it.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Think about what you could be doing to bring more diversity into your teams and be more inclusive as a company, and go actively out of your way in order to achieve set goals. I usually do them with Paul or people from the product teams – it’s much more fun to be on a podcast with your boss. Be open-minded.

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

And as Travis mentioned, we’ve had lots of great recent guests, Hollie Wegman, CMO at Segment, Adam, the head of developer relations at HashiCorp, G.C. Her team loved working for her. Leadership, she’s been on the leadership team for two massive businesses, and so who better to hear from on that topic than Claire.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

Below, we’ve shared the transcript of Harry’s interview with Rob. I was working on a startup that was an early mobile payment platform. It was basically using Bluetooth and an app on PalmPilots to do wireless payments in restaurants. My account runs my website. Harry Stebbings. Rob Gonzalez. Harry Stebbings: We are back.

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OpenView Labs

JUNE 16, 2020

Ask yourself: Do your communications demonstrate empathy and care for your customers? Every communication should help people feel heard and valued—even if they’re spending less. If you’re going to provide flexible pricing or waive fees, make sure communication is open and clear expectations have been set (early and often).

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 29, 2019

It’s no surprise that one of the key levers for growth as you go from startup to scale-up is your sales team. How quickly you’re able to accelerate growth depends on your ability to build a nimble sales org and develop a strong sales strategy. That’s why one of my favorite interview questions is, “What are you passionate about?”

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User Pilot

AUGUST 15, 2023

Online marketing strategies for social media, emails, press releases, etc. It’s also important that you create excitement ahead of the launch and ensure synergy between your customer support and sales teams. To succeed at this stage, you need to coordinate your marketing efforts with your product team.

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SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

I will tell you how many COs I’ve talked to that say, “I’ll come to SaaStr, but I don’t want my series B or series C VC interviewing me,” which is sort of interesting. Personally, our team has been holding back a little bit. You can learn what founders think of VCs. Aileen Lee: And hi, everyone.

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FastSpring

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

I interviewed Michael about successful global marketing strategies. Stream the Episode Highlights From The Interview 1. Global SEO: The First Thing You Need to Verify One of the first things that Michael checks when he’s working with a new client that has a website translated into multiple languages is their hreflang tags.

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OpenView Labs

MAY 29, 2020

Don’t do this via a survey; actually talk to them via Zoom or a phone call. You may need a third party to do these interviews for you so that customers feel like they can be completely open. He didn’t charge me but asked that I write an online review instead. Reduce upfront/adoption costs and offer flexible payment terms.

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User Pilot

JULY 24, 2023

Personalizing the user experience. Building a community. Ensuring that customers stay with your SaaS service long-term is crucial since most of their lifetime value (LTV) is derived from subscription renewals rather than their first upfront payment. Personal interviews. Increasing signups with a free trial.

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 8, 2020

It’s a simple concept: get as many quality and relevant websites to link back to your content. Another website that links to your page is either directly or indirectly prompting their users to check out your content or services. This is because at one point in time a website may have linked to another. 2) Fix Broken Backlinks.

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SaaStr

JULY 19, 2019

250: Peter Yared is the Founder & CEO @ InCountry, the startup that allows you to operate globally with data residency as a service meaning they store your mission-critical data in it’s country of origin, without compliance. Below, we’ve shared the full transcript of Harry’s interview with Peter Yared. Peter Yared. Michael Seibel.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 4, 2019

As for Jeppe, prior to founding Pleo he was the CEO @ Nodes, a design and development house that worked with brands including Loreal, BMW and Lego. What tool stack do they have to ensure seamless communication between remote and non-remote? In this session Gillian will walk you through how to build a high performing CSM Team.

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