OpenView Labs

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Does your product-led growth strategy deliver on its promise to customers and prospects? . The exciting thing about prototypes is that large-scale experiments can be built through open-source projects , which companies like Netflix and Linkedin will do as a strategic way of recruiting top talent. . Milestone: Selecting a price.

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Buffer Resources

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Especially if you’re a small business owner whose personal brand is closely linked to your company mission, LinkedIn shouldn’t be ignored as part of your social media strategy. Read on to hear their stories, see their results, and learn the strategies you can start implementing today.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 3, 2020

403: Sam Taylor is the VP of Sales and Success @ Loom, the startup that helps you get your message across by making it easy to record instantly shareable videos. As for Sam, prior to Loom, Sam spent over 4 years at Salesforce following their acquisition of Quip, a startup Salesforce acquired for $750M where Sam was also the 1st sales leader.

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SaaSX

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Some founders are able to launch a product and get a bit of early traction without sales or marketing. The first is if there is incredible product-market fit and some virality or network effect built into the product itself. Some founding teams just instinctively know how to get their go-to-market programs off the ground.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

If you talk to enough founders and marketers who have attempted to create a category, typically they’ll all say the same thing — it’s incredible when it works, but if you can take the blue pill and avoid it, you might save yourself the headache. Naturally, this can also lead to more market share and higher valuation multiples. .

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 19, 2019

To help get you started on the right path, I’ve rounded up six examples of the best cold emails marketers and salespeople have ever sent – as well as the factors that made them work. Contributor : Ryan Robinson , Writer/Content Marketer at ryrob.com. The “Quote Request” Email That Created Expert Connections. Why It Works.

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Neil Patel

APRIL 13, 2021

In fact, according to Mediakix, 61 percent of marketers struggle to find the best influencers for their campaigns. Why You Should Use Influencers in Your Marketing Strategy. Before we get started, let’s touch on influencer marketing more generally. Before we get started, let’s touch on influencer marketing more generally.

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CustomerSuccessBox

MAY 2, 2022

SaaS marketing and distribution is crucial as, if not more important than, developing the service itself. From outbound to inbound marketing, and from paid to non-paid platforms, there’s a lot to consider. Any aspiring SaaS startup must develop a solid marketing strategy. Start-up Setup and Strategy.

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ProfitWell

DECEMBER 13, 2019

The goal in SaaS sales is not to convince your customer to buy your product there and then—it’s to win that customer over to your product for a lifetime. We’ll tell you how to use your understanding of a prospect to turn them into a delighted customer, what metrics to lean on, and how to build the perfect SaaS sales team. What is SaaS?

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Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

But sales is the one thing founders cannot oversee — without it your startup will die. But the one thing you must think about is sales. Without sales, your startup dies. Yet, sales is all too often a dirty word. They go for the sale without caring about what the customer needs in the first place. Coach regularly.

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OpenView Labs

DECEMBER 17, 2019

OpenView’s experts weighed in with their predictions across product, sales, marketing, pricing, corporate development and talent. Product Managers Will Own a KPI. How many of your highest paid team members are in sales? The fact is that a great (albeit expensive) sales rep is worth every penny and has an obvious ROI.

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OpenView Labs

DECEMBER 21, 2020

–Ryan Dunagan, VP of Marketing at Spotio. The prevailing go-to-market structure for SaaS companies in the last decade is through an inside sales team. Virtually all inside sales teams were forced to go remote in mid-March and haven’t been back in the office since. Martin Roth, CRO at Levelset.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Eoghan McCabe, CEO , and Matt Hodges, VP of Commercial Product Strategy. Des Traynor, Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer. Analytics, biz ops, marketing, sales, support, recruiting, finance, HR. ” On Product Management. Builder beware: marketing tension in product-first companies.

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ProfitWell

DECEMBER 18, 2019

And April Dunford of Ambient Strategy is here, as product positioning pro. Plus, Campfire Labs takes a deep dive into Drift’s conversational marketing approach. And apparently, Coke just keeps on nailing it , with better than expected second quarter results and net revenues rising 6% during the quarter, and sales volume another 3%.

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Buffer Resources

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Let’s be honest: you probably didn’t get into content marketing because you love working with numbers.    Thankfully for folks like me, there are many brilliant tools to help you keep on top of your content marketing metrics (little to no math required).   That’s certainly true for me.

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Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

But sales is the one thing founders cannot oversee — without it your startup will die. But the one thing you must think about is sales. Without sales, your startup dies. Yet, sales is all too often a dirty word. They go for the sale without caring about what the customer needs in the first place. Coach regularly.

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ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Today—and quite frankly, every day—content is queen. We’re talking all things content marketing (even if you’re a skeptic, listen on). What I’m totally on board with is the mention of updating your hiring strategies to boost retention. Content marketing, meet everyone. Your top subscription news.

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ProfitWell

JANUARY 24, 2020

There’s a huge surge in the content marketing sphere , supplemented by social media madness and competition for eye-catching, compelling ad space. But since marketers today have nearly all the same tools at their disposal, there’s an issue here. Is content marketing dead? Does content marketing actually work?

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Casey Accidental

JANUARY 23, 2019

Because of training and car inspections, supply side onboarding had to be decentralized to a GM in each market. And because each market needs to boot from scratch, it generally made sense to give the GM responsibility for the entire market. It is unclear if this is the right strategy for Airbnb.

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Neil Patel

JANUARY 20, 2021

Knowing this, should marketers really worry about organic reach? It also happens to be the linchpin of any successful marketing campaign. You need to attract potential buyers and funnel them into your sales funnel. With that said, let’s look at how Facebook’s news feed algorithm works to surface content. Yes and yes.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 16, 2018

First, most founders don’t have a background in either sales or marketing, and even though they’re told to “ start marketing the day you start coding ”, they just don’t know where to begin, or they’re incredibly overconfident. In this article, you’ll learn how to: Understand the role of product marketing.

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User Pilot

JULY 22, 2023

What is a land and expand strategy? In this guide, we’re going to show you how a land and expand strategy can help you grow your revenue generation from existing clients by deploying a foot-in-the-door approach with your sales team! Use growth loops, content marketing, and referral programs to drive user acquisition.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

In this Ask Me Anything Part 1, Lemkin answers the questions: Many VCs talk about funding, yet you’re so focused on sales. How do you build high-quality content that’s consistent and repeatable? Question #1: Why Are You So Focused On Sales When Other VCs Are Focused On Funding? That VP of Sales came out of Salesforce.

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SmartKarrot

APRIL 13, 2020

As companies are increasingly interested to use SaaS as a winning strategy, several recent trends in 2020 have been observed amongst top SaaS businesses: In 2020, it is very important for SaaS businesses to create customer-success functions and take a more proactive approach towards customer success management. Customer Support.

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 12, 2020

If you aren’t willing to embrace AI digital assistants as a marketer, you’re going to have a tough time competing with everyone else. Just like Alexa brings you the best jams on-demand and Siri helps you find the nearest Starbucks, AI digital assistants can help you become a better marketer. And late adopters?

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SmartKarrot

JUNE 28, 2021

Apply here: [link] Role: Customer Success Manager, Team Lead Location: Ashburn, VA, US Organization: Stack Overflow As a Customer Success Manager, you will be responsible for customers’ growth & success via strategic development, key stakeholder management, data insights and account leadership.

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Neil Patel

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

They are an uber-effective (and perennially underused) marketing tactic. They can help humanize your brand and, ultimately, boost sales. They also make for incredibly effective marketing collateral. There’s no corporate sales message with an employee spotlight. Boost Your Recruitment Strategy.

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FastSpring

MARCH 16, 2023

I spoke to Andrew about what he calls the “great underutilization of content.” ” To stay relevant, content marketers need to keep publishing content. Many marketers are missing out on a huge opportunity to reuse existing content in fresh ways. Andrew, take us back a little over a decade.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

With the rise of AI, new sales technology and automation at the forefront of the sales echo chamber these days, we thought we’d take a moment to bring it back to BASICS – that’s why we’ve rounded up this complete glossary of sales terms and definitions to help you remember where it all started.

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SaaStr

JULY 15, 2022

Jason Lemkin: I’ll answer it, but are you thinking more on sales or technology or broadly speaking in the question? Ash Bhoopathy (@ashbhoopathy): Probably more around go-to-market and sales. First of all, on go-to-market and sales and marketing, be very, very wary of folks that want to outsource your core.

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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

We conducted intensive market research with SaaS practitioners across LatAm to dig into the reasons behind the region’s hypergrowth, and worked with the progressive global VCs who are fuelling the SaaS boom to understand the key players and the scope of the opportunity. Starting as VP of Sales, in less than two years he became CEO.

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Incredo

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Do you want to grow your SaaS sales team and improve your processes? maintain healthy atmosphere in your Smarketing team, make smart choices regarding your SaaS sales model, strategy, pricing, . build smoother connections both with your prospects through optimized sales process. And from SaaS sales models to SaaS pricing.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 28, 2019

Few roles in business are as fraught with uncertainty as that of the Chief Marketing Officer. This is in large part a reflection of marketing today, a world where the scope of marketing activities has broadened significantly. B2B marketing has become radically more complex, and it follows that the role of the CMO has too.

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Outseta

JANUARY 20, 2020

I’m pretty jaded when it comes to the financial numbers that get thrown around in start-up land—I don’t care what TechCrunch says, I don’t care what your market cap is—I think it’s clear that the world of technology start-ups is pretty screwed up when it comes to financial valuations. And working in the property management industry?

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

Byron Deeter and Elliott Robinson, partners at Bessemer Venture Partners, offer macro trends in the public and private cloud markets, strategic advice to cloud founders, and insights into why entrepreneurs should feel auspicious about the future. This episode is sponsored by Linode. That was February 5th, 2019. What happens to growth?

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

WebPT achieved 30% market share and transformed an entire vertical with a purpose-built solution in a tech-averse industry. Becky Buckman | VP, Marketing Communications @ Battery Ventures. I run marketing and communications for Battery Ventures. I started in the marketing department. We have a lot of people in marketing.

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Brian Balfour

OCTOBER 13, 2017

This post is the HubSpot Sales case study that illustrates the concepts of the 4-Fits Framework, a 5 post series in which I explain the four frameworks you need to align to grow to a $100M+ company. In this post, I will walk you through how we laid the foundation for the HubSpot Sales product and set it on course towards that $100M goal.

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