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The Defining Characteristics of Successful SMB SaaS Startups

Tom Tunguz

No White Papers; Just Mass Media Marketing Typically, this sales process leads with a product that excites users and triggers word of mouth sharing, and blog posts, and news articles. It’s all subscription. Yammer offers employees a better communication mechanism to end users and offered the IT department compliance controls.

SMB 100
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170+ Women in Sales Share Their Career-Defining Aha Moment

Sales Hacker

Cassie spent the first pre-SaaS chapter of her tech career in growth roles in subscription and marketplace businesses (TheLadders.com, GLG). Today I help investment managers harness the power of community and technology to automate regulatory compliance. What is one a-ha moment you’ve had in your sales career?

Scale 130
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Three Marketing Lessons from The Political Realm

Kellblog

Sometimes proof means a deep technical explanation (so write a white paper), sometimes it’s a reference story, and sometimes it’s just a smiling, “that’s what we do here.” This is not just about compliance, it’s about security.” Reframing that properly separates compliance from security. People want both.