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What Could Possibly Go Wrong? Scaling from 2 to 200 Employees and 0 to 75,000 Customers with Storyblok CEO Dominik Angerer and VP of Operations Lydia Kothmeier (Video)

SaaStr

In 2019, the founding team at Storyblok set out to create a content marketing solution that worked for everyone—developers and marketers alike. Their first step to achieving this was hiring a sales leader to build a sales team. Outbound: including Account Based Marketing (ABM). Self-service.

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10 Things That Would Have Helped Me Go From $1m to $10m Faster with Less Stress

SaaStr

I thought it would be worth drilling down deeper into each of them, and sharing the learnings and mistakes: 1/ Spending less time fixing things, more time recruiting senior folks to own them. No one spends enough time recruiting as it is, after $1m ARR or so. Yes, you can manage the sales team yourself. You can do this.

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All Your VPs Really Need to Do is Tilt the Curve

SaaStr

We’ve written a lot on SaaStr on how to increase the odds your first management team is a success. How to hire a great VP of Sales (tons on that here ). What a great VP of sales really does. What a great VP of marketing really does (tons on that here ). How to manage customer success. About this and that.

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Before You Hire That Awesome SaaS Veteran — Just Make Sure They Are Willing To Do The Work

SaaStr

The decade-long run of next-generation SaaS start-ups, and the explosion since 2015 of SaaS unicorns and decacorns has led to a lot of experienced execs on the market. To want a head of sales operations and a director of sales to help carry the load not later … but on Day 1. This is great. as you race past $10m+ in ARR.

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Working With a Digital Marketing Agency Vs. Hiring In House

Neil Patel

If you are looking to scale up your marketing, you will need talented people that can take charge of and execute your strategy. But should you build your own in-house marketing team or hire an agency partner? The Benefits of Working With a Digital Marketing Agency. The Benefits of Working With a Digital Marketing Agency.

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The Expanding Role of Marketing in SaaS Companies

Tom Tunguz

The role of the marketing team within SaaS has stretched from simply engendering awareness and creating interest, to guiding customers much deeper into the funnel. In traditional go-to-market models, marketing teams fill the very top part of the funnel. First, the scope of marketing activities has broadened significantly.

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How Natural Language Processing Affects Digital Marketing

Neil Patel

What impact does it have on digital marketing? How it Is Now: The Effects of NLP on Digital Marketing. Marketing has always been about context; getting into the heads of our audience to understand what they are (and aren’t) telling us. That makes it hugely applicable to marketing. Scaling Content Creation.