SaaStr

JANUARY 21, 2022

You might feel confused about where to begin, how to scale up, which mistakes you should avoid, and things you should consider before expanding. Now, let’s look at ten learnings that Dorian gathered while scaling Grammarly from a Consumer to an Enterprise brand with B2B offerings. Enter your email below for the latest SaaStr updates.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 27, 2021

Is your CS team growing as fast as your sales team? If this is your first SaaS company, you may not have ever hired or built a Customer Success team. This one isn’t nearly as risky as a VP of Sales , or a VP of Marketing hire. 3-10 or more years, if that’s your Customer Lifetime Value.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 20, 2021

Increased customer happiness (companies that leverage automation are 4x more likely to see CSAT improvements ) and potential savings of hundreds of thousands of dollars. What is customer support operations? First and foremost: what exactly is customer support operations? You’re not scaling as quickly as you’d like.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 27, 2021

Is your CS team growing as fast as your sales team? If this is your first SaaS company, you may not have ever hired or built a Customer Success team. This one isn’t nearly as risky as a VP of Sales , or a VP of Marketing hire. 3-10 or more years, if that’s your Customer Lifetime Value.

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Sales Hiring Customer Success Scale Customer Lifetime Value 196

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 13, 2021

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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SaaStr

JANUARY 30, 2023

Building revenue operations to support sales Deel had onboarded nearly 100 clients, reports showed good traction, and it was time to leverage this opportunity. Deel scaled the sales team from two to 250 account executives, but issues with productivity and enablement of the account executives cropped up. Use your data to inform.

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Tom Tunguz

JUNE 25, 2020

It contains data on go to market team structure, performance by sales function, marketing spend benchmarks, and customer success priorities. 1:1 AE/XDR ratios are the most common in both inside and outside sales teams. Sales teams with spans of control under 7 attain 80-95% of quota twice as frequently.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Three overarching learnings from incredible sales leaders who have lived through the ups and downs of growing sales teams at some of the fastest growing SaaS companies is exactly what we’ll dive into today – so you can get the learnings and insight without being in the driver’s seat. This week’s newsletter is sponsored by Flex.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 11, 2019

It becomes harder for the folks running things to make time to be inside their customers’ minds. If you’re a leader, he says, don’t try to scale your job. Since 2010, he’s helped the company grow to more than 40,000 customers and helped scale the support team to more than 500 employees to assist those users.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Getting the team right is one of the hardest parts of scaling sales. But no sales team can afford to grow without intention. While building a sales team, we’ve focused a lot on our sales culture. Here’s how we went about growing a sales team that is both world class and culture-additive. They’re resilient.

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Valuize Consulting

MAY 4, 2022

Rally Your Organization Around A Strong CS Scale Strategy. In the vast majority of B2B technology enterprises today, a Customer Success (CS) strategy is firmly in place. However, this strategy often begins and remains as a program that is focused on the minority high ARR customers. Identify Your North Star Metric.

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SaaStr

JULY 31, 2020

And some of the marquee customers include MongoDB, Gitlab and Qualtrics. . Last year, the company doubled its headcount, tripled revenue and landed on G2’s Top 100 Global Software list. . Keep in mind that Conversation Intelligence is the fastest-growing segment in sales technology, with much traction in the enterprise.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

If you want to hit the plan for Q1'22, You need to be hiring all the sales reps you'll need then … Now. The biggest pro is it recurs With even 120% NRR, you basically double in 4+ years even with no new customers. With precise headcount and budget needs. How many Customer Success Managers.

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SaaStr

MARCH 5, 2021

Flock Safety’s Founder and CEO, Garrett Langley, and its VP of Growth, Alex Latraverse, know a bit about sales. Enough to go from 0 to 100 sales reps in about 18 months — and they’re looking to be well beyond 100 by the end of this month. Here are some things to remember when you think about scaling your next big SaaS company.

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OpenView Labs

MARCH 10, 2019

Happy customers stick around and recommend your company to their friends. This is what makes customer success such an important part of any SaaS company’s success, and it’s especially critical for companies that employ a product led approach to growth. But how do organizations make customer success work at scale?

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ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Customer Success is gaining ground, influence, and budget within organizations. Based on a detailed survey of more than 1,000 Customer Success leaders, this is the most comprehensive study of the evolving CS landscape to date. Download your full copy of the 2022 Customer Success Leadership Study here.

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ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

This is a guest article by Michael Su , senior consultant of Customer Success, The Success League. Customer Success is still a young field and a new concept for many companies. When I ventured out to build my first Customer Success department at a tech software company, my leadership team thought I was nuts.

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ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

As a Customer Success leader, do you find yourself watering down your budgetary requests? According to our 2022 Customer Success Leadership Study, CS teams are already underfunded and under-resourced. How Customer Success can win more resources, budget, and credibility with Jeff Heckler.

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OpenView Labs

OCTOBER 2, 2019

This time every year, sales and sales operations teams work with their business partners in finance, marketing and other functions to set their annual sales plan for the coming year. One way to approach this complexity is to separate out the three key components of sales planning. Headcount Planning.

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Totango

JULY 5, 2022

In uncertain economic times, attracting new customers becomes exponentially harder as budgets get tighter and priorities shift. You need to be able to retain and scale your current customer base efficiently, with the current resources you have rather than adding more. . Dive into Customer Health.

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SaaStr

MARCH 8, 2023

So what should earlier-stage companies do: immediately build out a big sales team or focus on product-led growth? Atlassian’s PLG Model To understand and potentially replicate Atlassian’s success, it helps to understand what made them different. Now they have sales reps, but still consider themselves PLG. Here’s why.

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Sales Hiring Enterprise Headcount Scale 223

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

We remain optimistic about the prospects of cross-border SaaS. Companies in our region are good at achieving PMF and scaling to $1 million-$5 million ARR efficiently. The promise of SaaS was healthy profitability at scale and yet we see companies with hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue burning cash. That’s too tactical.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 4, 2024

It’s an exciting time to be in customer success. On the other hand, economic headwinds continue to constrain CS budgets and headcounts. “2024 will continue to see the chief customer officer move into the leadership phase,” predicts ChurnZero CEO and co-founder You Mon Tsang.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 10, 2023

This is a guest article by Swati Garg , founder and CEO, Melo Associates , and Lindsay Lynch , senior recruitment consultant, Melo Associates , a recruitment firm focused on Customer Success hiring for SaaS and tech companies nationwide. With limited headcount, companies are focused on filling their most critical roles.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 25, 2024

How will customer success jobs, and the skills they require, evolve in 2024? With technology advancing and customer expectations rising, customer success has become an essential force driving business growth and customer loyalty within the SaaS industry.

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OPEXEngine

DECEMBER 13, 2022

SaaSco’s sales have slowed in the second half of 2022 selling to mid-sized enterprises. SaaSco’s sales cycle is six to nine months. . If the Saasco executive team acts on that suggested benchmark, they will need to devote a significant part of their sales team’s capacity towards current customers.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Nearly every sales organization will admit they could be better at planning. According to a study by Cascade Insights , more than 75% of sales leaders agree their planning efforts are problematic — and 90% of sales ops leaders confessed on LinkedIn they need to do sales planning faster and more frequently.

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Totango

APRIL 6, 2023

With budgets being cut, staff being laid off, and sales cycles getting longer, many businesses are feeling the pressure, especially in the tech sector. To survive this tough “do more with less” climate, companies are turning to their customer success (CS) teams to ramp up their customer retention and expansion efforts.

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Valuize Consulting

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Customer Success Is A Growth Engine. You Just Need An Effective Customer Success Metric To Prove It. With global equations used to calculate investment-to-Revenue in traditional functions like Sales or Engineering , it’s often very straightforward to showcase the value and convince CFOs to invest in these organizations.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Customers expect efficient, personalized support, which is why support leaders are turning to a conversational, messenger-based approach to help them strike that balance and offer personal support at scale. Powering support at scale. We attribute a large part of that to being able to be proactive with customers”.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 16, 2022

It’s been a tough couple of years, Sales Hackers. What do the changing market conditions mean for RevOps and sales? What do the changing market conditions mean for RevOps and sales? VP of Global Inside Sales at Tray.io. Your prospects may share that they’re pausing on projects or vendor meetings. Ralph Barsi.

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CustomerSuccessBox

MARCH 9, 2022

In the glorious business of the SaaS space, one underlying truth that determines the growth and scaling of the business is that it takes several months to recover the Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC) and get to the profitable zone at a unit economics level. However, only one of them performs tasks at scale. What is CRM ?

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Customer Success Scale Customer Lifetime Value Outsourced Development 52

SaaStr

OCTOBER 18, 2019

With precise headcount and budget needs. How many Customer Success Managers. Second, you have to try to hire as many of the sales reps you’ll need for the end of Q1 … by mid-Q4. Even in the best of cases, it takes 60 days to scale a rep. You can’t wait until Q1 to get the leads you’ll need for next year.

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Valuize Consulting

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Customer Success Management: Distinguishing Fact From Fiction. 91% of businesses have said that their Customer Success organization has grown significantly in the last year alone ( Totango , 2021). Reframe: Investing in Customer Success Operations early is critical to scaling your organization effectively.

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Customer Success Scale Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team 52

Sales Hacker

MARCH 1, 2024

Hello and welcome to The GTM Newsletter – read by over 50,000 revenue professionals weekly to scale their companies and careers. A highly curated group of 200 GTM leaders, 85% director level and above across Sales, Marketing, and Partnerships. Consider the overnight success of a celebrity-owned product.

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ChurnZero

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Where is Customer Success Headed in 2022? Customer Success gradually, then suddenly, came to exist. Customer Success gradually, then suddenly, became essential to SaaS companies. Customer Success gradually, then suddenly, joined the C-suite. Customer Success flexes its authority.

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ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

For those of you that might not know – this is the premier Customer Success conference in Europe. Customer Success is one of the fastest growing professions in the modern economy. We’ve complied our top fifteen Customer Success takeaways from the conference to share with you.

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