Intercom, Inc.

MAY 3, 2018

Rohini Pondhi , product management lead for Square’s Invoices product, knows this challenge well. Here are five quick takeaways: Instead of relying on word of mouth to permeate the team, write things down. I went into consulting for a few years, then realized I didn’t want to do it forever, so I got my MBA.

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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? Does one have to move to enterprise? Does one have to expand the product line to retain customers?

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Audacix

AUGUST 17, 2022

Pentesting-as-a-Service, or PTaaS, is an all-encompassing application security delivery model which includes automated self-service tools, secure-by-design practices and manual web app penetration testing services throughout your software development lifecycle.

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FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

Ryan Austin had VP-level experience in training when he decided to start a consulting business to help enterprise-level companies with their corporate learning and development initiatives. Ryan and his team noticed so many inefficiencies across the L&D workflows. “It That’s really when it got us thinking about that.

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Totango

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Hiring team members with the right customer success manager skills is critical for the effectiveness of your CS team and strategy. We’ll cover these below, along with five best practices to follow when bringing a new customer success manager aboard your team. What Is a Customer Success Manager (CSM)?

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 29, 2021

And so, Mark Rudden and his team had to figure it all out by themselves. Fortunately, Mark had quite a bit of experience working and scaling teams in demanding, hypergrowth environments. SaaS is the subscription business. Building a great sales team: How Intercom fosters and maintains its sales culture.

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OPEXEngine

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Some SaaS startups develop a form of zero-sum delusion early in their evolution, characterized by the following set of beliefs. Since the only thing consultants do is implementations, their job title should be “Implementation Consultant“. Any solutions practices or offerings should be built by our partners.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

So they created a software that provides control, visibility, and payment methods for corporate finance teams. Instead, focus on fostering a culture of communication and feedback loops between the team. He really fosters innovation and humility as a team player – aspects that were important to me. Nico: Correct.

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Neil Patel

MARCH 2, 2021

The audience is consumers looking for impartial, reliable reviews from an expert team. team to give them more information about your products. It’s not always easy to identify and remove “fake” bad reviews. It’s most suited for SMBs offering financial or subscription-based products, like home insurance or gym memberships.

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Valuize Consulting

DECEMBER 7, 2021

In the subscription economy, there’s no debate about whether or not to invest in Customer Success (CS); 70% of rapidly growing businesses say that Customer Success is extremely important ( Hubspot , 2017). When it comes to budget, organizations often haven’t established where the investment is coming from to fund the CS team.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 8, 2021

Joel Friedlaender is the founder of Cliniko , a practice management software for clinics and allied health practitioners to manage their scheduling and booking, patient records, invoicing, and more. My background is as a software developer, and I’ve been doing that for just over 20 years. Joel Friedlaender: Sure. Joel: Sure.

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SaaSHolic

DECEMBER 2, 2021

A bad onboarding experience won’t impact your bottom line as a SaaS company, but it will negatively affect your customer’s productivity. What makes an onboarding experience a bad one? BigCommerce is so focused on providing a robust onboarding experience that they even offer one-on-one consultation for their clients.

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SmartKarrot

AUGUST 11, 2021

SaaS, or software as a service, is a subscription-based model where customers pay subscription fees for services such as Dropbox, CRM, or perhaps Mailchimp, and this is how the companies earn monthly recurring revenues (MRM). And nearly 60% switch companies based on poor customer service. Payment Method may not work.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 4, 2019

the stuff that Customer Success teams are really meant to do). One customer success trend I’m seeing is the need to develop more repeatable customer education programs. The biggest trend I see emerging in Europe, which started at the end of 2018 is Customer Success Plans becoming a staple asset of Customer Success teams.

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Baremetrics

MAY 7, 2019

Choosing the right combination of funding for your business is just as fundamental as choosing the right co-founders (or not), the right market, the right product, and the right team. To get started in finding the right funding options, answer these two questions as thoroughly and honestly as possible: What do I value? John Doherty of Credo.

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FastSpring

JANUARY 31, 2023

Paddle vs. FastSpring, this guide compares: What areas of the payment lifecycle each one provides a solution for (e.g., payment processing, gathering and remitting taxes, and subscription management) and what additional software you’ll need to add to your tech stack. Flexible subscription management and recurring billing tools.

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Audacix

MARCH 20, 2020

When we're busy helping our teams, our customers, our neighbours, our families, it's easy to lose sight of the fact we also need to position our SaaS businesses to come out of this period stronger and ready to pounce on the opportunities that will present themselves. If you chose number 2, welcome to the club.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

She went on to become a high school English teacher, college writing instructor, and writing consultant for government agencies. And so, in 1996, she founded E-WRITE , a writing training consultancy that helps people do just that. So, “any inconvenience” is passive-aggressive. What would that involve? ’ No.

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ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Your top subscription news. But that convenience doesn’t negate the fact that you have to develop a strategy and, well, actually do the optimizing. He’s offering three tiers of this bad boy…. $10 Subscription Sapien : Gail Goodman. And that’s a wrap for your November 22 subscription news.

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SmartKarrot

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

To develop excellent customer experiences , consultants have worked hard to assist businesses in recognizing the magnitude of customer scores. The objective is to develop a strong customer base. The possibility that a client would renew their membership is perhaps the outcome chosen by one team. Boost renewal rates?

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SmartKarrot

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

To develop excellent customer experiences , consultants have worked hard to assist businesses in recognizing the magnitude of customer scores. The objective is to develop a strong customer base. The possibility that a client would renew their membership is perhaps the outcome chosen by one team. Boost renewal rates?

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OpenView Labs

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Lack of segmentation leads to weak product-market fit. This, in turn, signals potential churn, difficulties getting new sales reps productive, below-average win rates, weak pricing power and never-ending product roadmap discussions. Average quota attainment: How much of your sales team reaches quota in a given quarter?

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 4, 2019

the stuff that Customer Success teams are really meant to do). One customer success trend I’m seeing is the need to develop more repeatable customer education programs. The biggest trend I see emerging in Europe, which started at the end of 2018 is Customer Success Plans becoming a staple asset of Customer Success teams.

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 13, 2020

It’s a great way to record your invoices, share posts across social media, or get a text notification if an important client emails you. The problem isn’t just in the amount of time an in-house team has to dedicate to the work. This lack of resources is a major struggle for teams with in-house F&A staff, according to Consero.

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Valuize Consulting

APRIL 8, 2022

As a revenue leader, are you empowering and incentivizing all of your customer-facing teams to drive maximum NDR in your organization? Given the importance of net new sales to your company’s longevity and value, your Sales team should be empowered to wholeheartedly focus on acquisition. Evolve Your SaaS Revenue Model For Maximum NDR.

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Neil Patel

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Find an Amazon marketing consultant. 3 Ways an Amazon Marketing Consultant Can Help Grow Your Business. Most Amazon consultants focus on one goal: getting you more customers. Here are the main ways that a consultant can help. And they do this with poor store setup and product listings. Use them for these areas.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

For Samuel Hulick , a UX consultant and one of the biggest authorities out there on user onboarding, that means thinking less about the product itself and more about how to get users the results they’re after. Samuel Hulick: I actually started as a full stack developer. And it was basically my job to make it clickable.

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SaaStr

JUNE 4, 2019

Decided to go to business school, did that for a little bit and then came out in management consulting, a company. You have to be listening to customer feedback and incorporating that as you’re developing your messaging, your positioning, your product names. We were monitoring it of course for both good and for bad.

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ChurnZero

OCTOBER 4, 2019

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. We had the right people on our team, but we needed to invest in technology to scale and formalize processes.

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FastSpring

JANUARY 27, 2022

For example, Jon Torres — a digital marketing consultant specializing in SaaS commerce — noticed that, for some of his clients, refund requests spiked around renewal time. “It Note: FastSpring offers advanced subscription management services that support free trials, monthly and annual paid plans, proration, discount management, and more.

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Even if developers do come, and they happen to build integrations that help customers; if incentives aren’t aligned between the two companies, lasting investment will not happen, and the integrations will be poorly maintained. Incorrect incentives will lead to poor quality integrations. So, how do you create and manage the supply side?

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ChurnZero

MARCH 20, 2020

Additional research showed that “[M]any of its Customer Success Managers fell short in this area, despite their technical backgrounds because they lacked the recent field experience needed to engage deeply with frontline operations teams.” Morgan advises that “Change agents need to develop a strong voice.” Improve Your Public Speaking.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 18, 2020

He even managed to help pivot the company from a programmatic transactional revenue model to a subscription model over the course of, not just the last three months during COVID, but over the course of the last few years. We’ve got two sponsors, including a new one called Sapper Consulting. Sales enablement is easy.

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FastSpring

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Full Interview: Audio Only Full Interview: Video 3 CRO Insights From Dave Gowans Why Full Funnel CRO Is Especially Important for SaaS and Subscriptions “The easiest and most straightforward bit of CRO is what you can do on the website,” Dave says. Stream the entire conversation or read the highlights below. Jump to highlights.

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Chargify

APRIL 23, 2019

If you have a clear answer to the first question and a confident ‘Yes’ for the second, then you’ve got problem/solution fit and a hypothesis, and it’s time to start pressure testing your idea,” advises growth marketing consultant Lauren Bass. Here’s an example: in the beginning, New Relic didn’t see their target customers as developers.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2019

Prior to Kustomer, Vikas spent over 20 years implementing, consulting, marketing, and selling CRM and ContactCenter solutions with companies like LivePerson and Oracle. Here’s what Eyal and Megan talk about: How to develop software faster. Why does Vikas believe that a wave of SaaS incumbents are about to be displaced or disrupted?

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Note: FastSpring’s Revenue and Subscription Dashboards quickly show our customers where their revenue is coming from, the average order value or MRR per country, promotions performance per country, and more. “So I can see: is there an ecosystem around what’s happening that I can maybe try to tie into with my marketing?”

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