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Customer Success Operations 101: Drive Productivity with Purpose, People, and Process

ChurnZero

Today, you’d be hard-pressed to find a high-velocity Sales, Marketing, or Product team without a designated operations function. Beloved by their tactical peers, operations brings needed order and logic to busy, results-oriented teams. They focus on how to get things done faster, better, and more efficiently.

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The Zero-Sum Fallacy: ARR vs. Services

Kellblog

The services team should be introduced as late as possible in the sales cycle; ideally after contract signing, in order to eliminate the chance a post-sales consultant will show up, tell the customer “the truth,” and ruin a deal. We had a pretty formulaic sales cycle, from discovery to demo to proposal.

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The Zero-Sum Fallacy: ARR vs. Services

OPEXEngine

The services team should be introduced as late as possible in the sales cycle; ideally after contract signing, in order to eliminate the chance a post-sales consultant will show up, tell the customer “the truth,” and ruin a deal. ARR < $25K), use a low-touch sales model and focus on the small and medium business market [1].

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SaaS Company Benchmarking: Leveraging Metrics for Performance Insights

OPEXEngine

Working with your management team, you then develop a bottom up forecast for expenses. Bottom-Up Expense Forecasting. For example, you can access Sales headcount data for Account Executives, Sales Development Reps/Business Development Reps and Renewal Reps along with compensation data.

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The why, when, and how of customer (re-)segmentation with ChurnZero CCO Alli Tiscornia

ChurnZero

We also had to think about how we were doing their variable compensation to incent fairness across the team. Q: Were the sales projections based on a white space analysis? Alli: Sales projections were based on both white space and sales forecast. Who gets to go into enterprise?