Neil Patel

OCTOBER 4, 2020

A Well-rounded Team. For that reason, the analytics agency that you work with will need to have a diverse set of team members who are both analytical but also creative. For that reason, the analytics agency that you work with will need to have a diverse set of team members who are both analytical but also creative.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Developing a product that solves a customer’s pain point provides a sense of pride and can drive the positive, emotional moment of awe that retains customers for the long haul. Companies need to grow at a pace that still allows their employees to experience the onboarding and responsibility that will set them up for success.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 21, 2020

In my experience, getting caught up in shiny objects (like great numbers) during the hiring process is a straight line to Disasterville, and when the cost of a bad hire is painfully significant , it pays to take a measured approach. Also: What are the top performers in my current team doing? This is a team effort.

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SaaStr

MARCH 26, 2019

Scaling the company’s employee base, sales teams, marketing, and operations—all while preserving its culture—has required a laser focus on first principles, smart processes, and effective hiring. Write down your principles (like your mission statement) and use it very early for guiding culture and decision making.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 3, 2020

In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Sam made his way into the world of SaaS with Dropbox and how that led to his leading the sales and success team today @ Loom. What was Sam’s biggest lesson from scaling the sales team at Dropbox? Sam Taylor: And so, I joined as a sales development rep at Salesforce, best move I ever made.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 19, 2018

It means reducing choices amongst engineering teams and standardizing technology, so our team can spend as much time as possible delivering value to customers. Our chat covers the origins of Run Less Software, how it has evolved at scale, and how it differs from the equally valid approaches of other engineering teams.

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SaaStr

MARCH 18, 2019

Scaling the company’s employee base, sales teams, marketing, and operations—all while preserving its culture—has required a laser focus on first principles, smart processes, and effective hiring. Our team is in Room 111. They were self taught developers. Your registration. We’re doing office hours all day.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

As for Krish, under Krish’s leadership the team has grown to over 300 people and over 5,000 clients making it one of the next generation in truly global SaaS businesses started in India. First, what is continuous customer development? Second, why does Krish believe it is one of the most important things any company must do?

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ChurnZero

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Her department is responsible for onboarding, support, services, and retention of Bloomfire’s customers. Sam has over 16 years of experience in consulting, product management, and leading customer success teams. Bloomfire allows teams to improve productivity and customer centricity by creating a self-service knowledge base.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

After working on NASA’s Space Shuttle Main Engine, he went on to develop Portfolium, a social networking platform that allows students and graduates to showcase skills beyond the traditional resume to potential employers. Portfolium was eventually acquired, but the team behind it never stopped thinking about a better way to do it.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

At Reddit, he led a team of 35 – none of whom knew how to manage other engineers. He had to quickly determine which team members displayed a potential for leadership and teach them the fundamentals of management so they could make new hires and scale – without ruining the culture. Short on time?

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SmartKarrot

AUGUST 31, 2021

Role: Director, Customer Success Location: Remote, San Francisco, CA, US Organization: Salsify As a Director of Customer Success, you will supervise, build and expand the existing Customer Success strategy to enable each member of the team to be the best-trusted advisor for the customers.

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Upscope

JUNE 9, 2021

A couple of them our team did. This is so trIue because I'm currently working at a call center and feel trapped, emotionally unstable, weak , I'm driving myself crazy and I don't want to talk to anyone. Managing primarily by metrics would be a sad way to build a company and work with other people. I feel so alone I need help!

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SaaStr

MAY 31, 2019

How can one prevent their customer support team from being a wall of protection for the product and eng team? Stripe recently announced their 5th office would be… “remote”, so how does Parker feel about the building of remote teams? What are the most important things when establishing your first remote team?

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Chargify

APRIL 23, 2019

Here’s an example: in the beginning, New Relic didn’t see their target customers as developers. They zeroed in on Ruby on Rails developers as their early adopters and became a voice within that very niche community. Later they expanded to serve a larger population of developers as they scaled.”. Funnel optimization**.

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SaaStr

MAY 15, 2020

Why does Bridget believe the best starting point for customer success is “company culture and value”? How does company culture impact the quality of customer success? Where do most teams go wrong in implementing the role out of their CS strategy? Is there a customer success playbook that I have to develop?

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Your chance to get acquainted with the company culture. The first month is when you get acquainted with the company culture. During this time, you try to get a clear understanding of the product your company is selling. This is where you need to start deriving a proper understanding of your team members.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 30, 2019

For those that do not know, HelloSign is the company reimagining how you approach your most important business agreements with their award-winning e-Sign solution. As for Whitney, she directly leads the organization’s go-to-market efforts, including sales, marketing, business development and customer operations.

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Neil Patel

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Even for fully-staffed marketing teams, it can be overwhelming. In this case, look for an email marketing agency that is exceptional at developing strategies and tactics to help increase your open and click-through rates. A Great Company Culture. So, before you proceed, check that their company culture fits with yours.

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OpenView Labs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

There is also a direct impact on employee engagement, which is a key indicator of a healthy company culture. Culture helps a company define itself, attract the right team members and customers, and differentiate in the marketplace. Ask 10 people to define culture, and you’ll likely get 10 different answers.

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SaaSX

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Plus, you’ll also be obliged to bring your entire team on board by encouraging your colleagues to roll out the welcome mat and adopt some partner-friendly best practices. Customer success expert Lincoln Murphy advises that top-of-list candidates should include companies “ready, willing, and able” to join your ranks. (He

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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. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

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SaaStr

MARCH 6, 2020

I came back to North America, we built out the inside sales team in North America over the next five years, building hubs in multiple countries, including in Bangalore, India, and assembling a global community of practice. Write it down, share the rough draft with your team, debate it, prioritize it. So it was a fabulous experience.

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SaaSOptics

MAY 6, 2022

To scale an early-stage company, you need to focus on the following core areas of your business: Financial Core —to create a streamlined quote-to-cash process. Customer Core —to maintain and develop customer relationships. Poor financial records are not something you can run away from. HR Core —to manage payroll and employees.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

What can be done in the onboarding phase to ensure the individual has the most empathy for the customer, regardless of function? * 263: Building a company made up of distributed teams presents a plethora of complex challenges that can derail productivity and impact employee retention. How to build an engineering team.

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SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2019

And we’ve got this megaphone called social media, that every single customer can talk about a great product experience, and they can also talk about a bad one. For Slack, it was one that a team sends 2000 messages. We raised 30 million bucks, we can expand the team. I’ve worked with hundreds of teams on this.

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Chart Mogul

JULY 1, 2020

Customer development interviews. Customer development interviews, on the other hand, give marketers a clue about what their customers really want or need. Intuit regularly conducts customer development interviews to test design changes and new features. Relevance and added value are key to developing our customer base.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

What is the right way to onboard them? I mean, if you were a Johnson & Johnson, or you were any of these large manufacturers, you had one person or a tiny little team on Amazon, and that was it. Because we’re an enterprise sale, a lot of the sales cycles are team oriented sales cycles. When is the right time?

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 12, 2018

Acquisitions can help fuel growth, but often go awry when the company fails to explicitly instruct their internal teams to step aside so that the new hires can do their jobs. Culture is the set of relationships people in the company have to each other – and the unwritten set of rules they live by – and it’s going to evolve over time.

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Chart Mogul

JULY 1, 2020

Customer development interviews. Customer development interviews, on the other hand, give marketers a clue about what their customers really want or need. Intuit regularly conducts customer development interviews to test design changes and new features. Relevance and added value are key to developing our customer base.

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Sixteen Ventures

DECEMBER 31, 2019

How to Develop a Customer Success Strategy. The Role of Customer Success in… Customer Development. Customer and User Onboarding. Stretch vs. Bad-Fit Customers. Customer Onboarding. Customer Onboarding: How to Design and Implement an Effective Onboarding Process. Customer Onboarding: AHA!

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 25, 2019

Before Assist, Liat spent 6 years at Twitter where she first hand saw their hyper-growth, managing a team of 40 across New York and SF and also Liat achieved 102% to quota on average every year. Liat Bycel: Yeah, I think that career development conversation should be an ongoing conversation. Harry Stebbings: Totally.

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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. Ep 271: Gillian Heltai oversees Talkdesk’s Customer Success and Technical Support teams, partnering closely with customers to achieve their CX vision. What are the core differences?

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