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Gong’s Linda Lin on customer success strategies for moving upmarket

Intercom, Inc.

Few people have more experience with this move than Linda Lin , Director of Customer Success at the revenue intelligence platform Gong. Moving upmarket means larger customers and higher revenue, but it’s not without its challenges. For Linda, it all comes down to your approach to customer success.

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5 Challenges in Moving Upmarket and How to Overcome Them with Salesforce Ventures

SaaStr

Going upmarket drives category leadership because you establish yourself as the company that the Fortune 500 logos use. It won’t be an overnight success, and you’ll likely experience failures. You also need dedicated resources across your organization — marketing, customer success, product, legal, and finance.

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Sales–Product Tension: The Secret to Segment’s Success

Andreessen Horowitz

Joe: The first time I met you was in the interview process. And so, as I went around and I interviewed some of the other executives, I heard similar things. But with our enterprise customers, we were probably part of $100M digital transformation project run by Accenture. He really gets it.”

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Lessons learned from growing a PM team in a hyper-growth startup

Point Nine Land

As interviewing 100 applicants can be quite draining, I recommend the following process: 1. A quick HR interview 2. Invite the candidate to a face-to-face or a Zoom interview. Culture fit interview. How to efficiently collect feedback from customer-facing teams? A written assignment with 4 tasks: A feature task.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Facebook Workplace and Slack ? May 29, 2020

SaaStr

Below, we’ve shared the transcript of Harry’s interview with Christine. Christine Trodella: When it comes to change management, especially when you’re talking about a tool that’s going to be rolled out to every employee in a business, it is critical to get executive buy-in and leadership buy-in. Harry Stebbings.

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