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5 Rules to Win When Competition is Everywhere With Atlassian COO Anu Bharadwaj and Boast.AI Co-Founder Lloyed Lobo

SaaStr

The SaaS world is competitive, and standing out in a highly saturated market takes remarkable hard work and skill. However, the companies that adapt and create transformational change tend to survive. As Bharadwaj says, “We live in a dancing landscape.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Tidelift and Cloudflare

SaaStr

333: Bridget Gleason is the Head of Sales and Customer Success @ Tidelift, the company providing managed open source, backed by maintainers. As for Bridget, she has the most incredible track record. Listen to the start of the episode for a promo code to our upcoming events!

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Q&A with Maria Pergolino, Anthony Kennada, Aaron Ross and Jason Lemkin (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Jason Lemkin moderates a panel of some greatest-of-all-time SaaStr speakers taking questions from the audience and over Twitter. The panel discussed navigating a future recession, building great office culture, app exhaustion and more. We wrote a book together. to a 4.2

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How Intercom is preparing for a return to the office

Intercom, Inc.

As vaccination efforts soar and lockdowns ease, people are slowly leaving home and getting back to the office. But what can we do to make this transition as smooth as possible? Can we still function in a busy office setting? So there is a lot of that to be factored in.

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Sequencing Business Models: Can That SAAS Business Turn Into a Marketplace?

Casey Accidental

As someone who has spent a lot of time building marketplaces in my career, a curious thing has happened over the last couple years. Founders have started reaching out asking for help converting their SAAS or SAAS-like business into a marketplace. The approach sounds a bit like this: I’ve amassed a large group of X type of professionals. Now, this story itself explains why many businesses fail to make the conversion to marketplace.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Zylo and TaskRabbit — July 26, 2019

SaaStr

252: Eric Christopher is the Founder and CEO @ Zylo, the software management system built for the cloud pioneering a new standard in software management. Finally, prior to Shoutlet, Eric spent over 7 years at ExactTarget as a Senior Business Development Manager which is where he met High Alpha’s Scott Dorsey. Why does Eric believe that hitting the employee 50 mark is a huge moment for founders and the scaling of the company? How to navigate a product pivot.

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3 Key Automations to Accelerate Your SaaS Company’s Growth

SaaStr

However, trouble arises when your company ends up with a SaaS sprawl – the overall amount of adopted applications overwhelms your tech stack. That’s why integration needs to be a key part of your automation strategy. Otherwise, you risk holding your company back.

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Top 10 Customer Service Trends for 2021

SmartKarrot

As more and more companies are realizing the need to become customer-centric, their investment in customer service – both financial and conceptual – is rising rapidly. A small miss in giving a good customer experience can cause them to leave you permanently.

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Top 10 Customer Service Trends for 2021

SmartKarrot

As more and more companies are realizing the need to become customer-centric, their investment in customer service – both financial and conceptual – is rising rapidly. A small miss in giving a good customer experience can cause them to leave you permanently.

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5 Secrets to Moving Upmarket – How the Right Sales Tax Technology Can Support SaaS Growth

SaaStr

Just like filing your income tax returns or hanging that state-mandated safety poster up in your break room, sales tax is a back-office pain point, not a profit center. . That makes sales tax compliance easy to ignore… until it becomes a problem. . There are a few reasons.

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The 18 Outstanding Speakers at SaaStock LatAm 2019

SaaStock

Latin America is undergoing a digital transformation, and the SaaS community is exploding as a result. Our agenda is a reflection of the ecosystem. We’ve gathered LatAm’s leading SaaS founders, executives, and investors – as well as a few international faces – for an unbeatable few days of knowledge and networking. His first career steps were at Seer Technologies and Monitor Company in the 1990s. Talk: Sales is a Team Sport.

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SaaStr Podcast #398 with Salsify Co-Founder & CMO Rob Gonzalez

SaaStr

To date, Salsify has raised over $250M in funding from the likes of Venrock, Underscore, Warburg Pincus, Matrix Partners & Greenspring to name a few. When is it right for SaaS companies to turn down potential customers? What can you do to make the land as frictionless as possible?

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There are No Shortcuts: 5 Hard-Won Lessons from Zenefits CEO Jay Fulcher

OPEXEngine

In August 2020, Zenefits CEO Jay Fulcher posted on LinkedIn , saying, “Success takes work, study, time, grit, courage, experimentation, resilience, and a belief in yourself that may not always be steady but never goes completely away … there are no shortcuts.”. A Cautionary Tale.

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How to Choose The Right Amazon Marketing Agency

Neil Patel

Choosing the right Amazon marketing agency can be the difference between becoming a thriving seller on Amazon or one that flops. A pool of more than 2.5 Only a few sellers make a great income on the platform. Are you a seller struggling to attract buyers on Amazon? By partnering with a top Amazon marketing agency, you can improve the visibility of your store, reach more buyers, and drive sales. A marketing agency won’t re-invent your store on Amazon.

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5 Ways to Build your SaaS Channel Partner Strategy in 2020

SaaSX

Today’s digital marketplace is a vast and wild place. It can get a little lonely out there. So to combat this feeling (but, really, to maximize resources for greater ROI), companies sometimes turn to a partner for help with the heavy lifting.

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How to Use LinkedIn Insights in an Actionable Way

Neil Patel

LinkedIn Insights gives you the ability to see information about who follows you, engages with your content, or may be of interest to you as a lead or new hire. As marketers, we live and thrive with the data. These insights assist with measuring the success of a campaign.

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15 Ways to Get More Instagram Followers

Neil Patel

Do you ever wonder how some people on Instagram gain so many followers in a short amount of time or on a consistent basis? If you prefer watching a video instead of reading content, watch this, as it will help, but I still recommend reading the article as it breaks down the steps.

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Amazon’s Kristin Graham On How to Build, Maintain and Scale a Strong Culture

OpenView Labs

Culture can make or break a company. And it’s particularly important during a pandemic when unprecedented circumstances and challenges are wreaking havoc on business as usual. Ask 10 people to define culture, and you’ll likely get 10 different answers.

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How to Build a $18B+ Success Story Far Away from Silicon Valley with Adyen (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

In this session, the audience will learn about Adyen’s journey from a Dutch payments startup, to a global public company with more than 15 offices around the world working with large global companies like Facebook, Spotify, Uber and Microsoft. Roelant will share lessons from the company’s own global growth path and will be giving practical tips for companies who are thinking about expanding their business globally. What a great video.