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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. Challenge #3: Making Your Product, Sales, and Marketing Organizations Enterprise-Ready How do you actually get your entire organization aligned so they can support your Enterprise customers?

Scale 206
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Totango Welcomes Seasoned Industry Leaders to Executive Team

Totango

Last year, we experienced record business growth—we more than doubled our revenue and customer base, tripled our engineering and support staff, introduced Totango Spark , a next generation flagship customer success solution, and announced a go-to-market partnership with SAP among many other exciting milestones.

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

Andreessen Horowitz

I think the annual planning process that we actually ended up running was pretty similar to every other one we had run, but it was a couple months after we had just really deeply understood what it was people were using Segment for today and what they wanted to be able to rely on it for at a bigger, more enterprise-ready scale.

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

Point Nine Land

How to efficiently collect feedback from customer-facing teams? As your company grows, the customer facing teams (sales, customer support, customer success,…) are growing and the number of questions flowing to the product teams is growing: Is it possible to do this? How is it working? When are we going to do that?

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

SaaStr

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. Oculus our VR gaming platform is now enterprise ready. We see them building Empathy Labs.

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