ChurnZero

OCTOBER 28, 2022

The results of the 2022 Customer Success Leadership Study, based on the perspectives and insights of more than 1,000 Customer Success leaders, are in. The good news is Customer Success teams are growing both in size and budget. The bad news is they’re not growing enough.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 24, 2024

How should you handle presenting challenges to your C-suite team when you’ve just joined the company? Lattice had a product-led growth flow on the website while the sales team was still trying to sell the PLG companies The good news is Lattice had a lot of activity and initiatives at play. Can you start and stop a PLG motion?

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ChurnZero

JULY 22, 2022

Does your Customer Success team have a shallow view of onboarding? If you consider onboarding to be a success when a customer reaches their go-live date, then you need to dig deeper. It’s about transforming your customer’s business and delivering value, so you make their life better,” says Donna.

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User Pilot

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

TL;DR Product managers often don’t get the due recognition for their work and their role is often marginalized by frustrated leadership or other teams. Allocating time for a specific research stage is often a no-go for leadership, so make the habit of interviewing customers continuously. Let’s dive in!

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

The company’s customers include Etsy, K-Swiss, Toyota, Yelp and Facebook among others. Its customer base spans over 14,000 customers in over 100 countries. sales team. I did all sorts of things there from sales, to project management, to running the engineering team, hiring. Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Throughout the year, we’ve talked to business leaders, experts, and pioneers about all kinds of topics: from creating world-class customer experiences to the challenges of running a business during the pandemic, from being an ally and addressing gaps in diversity to building technical leadership careers.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Guided selling with Revenue Grid allows you to guide reps step-by-step through every deal, reducing guesswork and increasing consistency so your teams have the best odds with every opportunity in the pipeline. See how you can put your sales teams in the best position to win now at revenuegrid.com/saleshacker. Sam Jacobs : Fair enough.

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User Pilot

JANUARY 8, 2024

Host product webinars to reach your target audience Develop webinar content that educates your audience on industry trends, common challenges, and how your product addresses these issues. Encourage word-of-mouth marketing with existing customer testimonials Happy and loyal users are more than excited to share their product experiences.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

What does it take to scale a sales team successfully? How can one determine a closer in the interview process? Below, we’ve shared the transcript of Harry’s interview with Andy. I’ve heard so many good things from Kobie, now at Upfront, and then also the team at Openview. How does Andy think about discounting?

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SaaStr

APRIL 16, 2020

In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Carolyn made her way across the pond from Head of US Communications at Orange to GM of Method in SF to then playing a key role in the marketing team at PagerDuty? * How are PagerDuty shifting their strategy? * What does Carolyn believe is the right tone to approach customers within this time?

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

What can teams do to bring their themes to life? Below, we’ve shared the transcript of Harry’s interview with Latané. As I’ve said before, I’ve heard so many good things from Brian and the team at Venrock. And so I started to build some of classic demand gen functions, like BDR team. Who is involved?

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SmartKarrot

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Every leader should develop a personal framework to organize how they approach their work. Customer Success leaders benefit from a personal framework since time is in short supply and we constantly need to prioritize our efforts. What are my P’s & T’s of Customer Success? Priorities, Program, Tools and Team.

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SmartKarrot

AUGUST 25, 2022

The best bet one has with career change is developing transferable skills. Transferable skills are assets that a person develops internally and help the employer bring a unique set of experiences to the table. They can be developed and learned in school, through friends, other jobs, and more. Leadership.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

Anthony : I’ll add more too and this sounds like a sponsored answer, but customer success becomes even more important as we sort of think about where growth is coming from. Obviously, marketing and investments are expensive and we know the cost to keep a customer is obviously a lot less. It’ll help de-risk that.

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CustomerSuccessBox

JULY 11, 2022

Anyone who jumps ship is a dead-end for customer success in their eyes. These establishments devote all of their time and resources to pampering newcomers, allowing other customers to suffer the door slamming on their exit. Customers who regrettably churn are those who leave you for reasons within your control.

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Kellblog

MARCH 11, 2020

Some SaaS startups develop a form of zero-sum delusion early in their evolution, characterized by following set of beliefs. Believing that: A customer has a fixed budget that is 100% fungible between ARR (annual revenue revenue) and services. Interview customers. Usually these companies sell inexpensive software (e.g.,

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 23, 2020

As for Tamar, previously, Tamar was a Vice President at Google, holding product and engineering leadership roles on Google’s most important products, including Search, Identity, and Privacy. How important a role does the press play in customer’s responses? How does Tamar structure the customer development process?

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SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2019

When should one look to hire their first customer success reps? Here’s what Eyal and Megan talk about: How to develop software faster. Below, we’ve shared the full transcript of Harry’s interview with Vikas Bhambri. I do want to break the interview today up into a couple of different parts really. Eyal Manor.

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OPEXEngine

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Some SaaS startups develop a form of zero-sum delusion early in their evolution, characterized by the following set of beliefs. Believing that: A customer has a fixed budget that is 100% fungible between ARR (annual revenue revenue) and services. Interview customers. We had financials that Wall Street loved (e.g.,

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

As for Krish, under Krish’s leadership the team has grown to over 300 people and over 5,000 clients making it one of the next generation in truly global SaaS businesses started in India. Does one have to expand the product line to retain customers? First, what is continuous customer development? Harry Stebbings.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 27, 2020

Whether you run a one-person sales enablement program or are part of a team, the sheer scope of the job can be overwhelming. Now here’s where it can get challenging: you serve the revenue-producing employees, sure, but you do it to help your executive team achieve their goals. Define in advance what success looks like.

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SaaStr

MAY 24, 2019

235: Andrew Filev is the Founder & CEO @ Wrike, the cloud based collaboration and project management software that scales across teams in any business. As for Andrew, he started his first software development company at the age of 18 and has been running Wrike for the last 13 years alongside advisory roles with both Ditto and Appulate.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Vikas’ Journey from Sales Engineer to Managing a BD Team (22:20). Vikas leads customer sales and customer experience department overseeing sales, BD implementation, customer success and support. It’s a customer experience platform. Now, without further ado, my interview with Vikas Bhambri.

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SaaStr

MARCH 18, 2019

Scaling the company’s employee base, sales teams, marketing, and operations—all while preserving its culture—has required a laser focus on first principles, smart processes, and effective hiring. Our team is in Room 111. They were self taught developers. Claire Johnson: If you don’t know us, I’d love to change that.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 2, 2019

She’s now a consultant helping VPs of Sales scale and build their sales teams. She’s also been a high-performing individual contributor — she was part of the team that drove a lot of growth at HubSpot as it went from small to large, and she worked under Mark Roberge. What You’ll Learn. Who is Mary Rogul. Outreach has your back.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 8, 2018

On this episode of the Sales Hacker podcast, we talk with Marc Jacobs , SVP of Sales and Customer Success at CB Insights about the secret to incredible sales management and building a sales coaching culture. Building a professional development program resulting in high quota attainment for SDRs turned Account Executives.

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SaaStr

MAY 15, 2020

333: Bridget Gleason is the Head of Sales and Customer Success @ Tidelift, the company providing managed open source, backed by maintainers. Finally, before YesWare, she was VP of Sales @ Engine Yard, where she tripled monthly recurring revenue, over the course of her 3+ year tenure, in 3 key leadership roles. What works?

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

I am the Chief Customer Officer of InVision. InVision is a software platform that’s built for design teams that are building remarkable digital applications and digital experiences, and it’s used to collaborate with product and engineering organizations as well. My name is Seth Shaw. What are your hobbies?

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SaaStr

MAY 31, 2019

How can one prevent their customer support team from being a wall of protection for the product and eng team? How can you ensure seamless collaboration and communication flow between product and customer support? What are the most important things when establishing your first remote team? Parker Conrad. Molly Ford.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Bansal shares this and other key milestones and frameworks for company building in conversation with a16z general partner Peter Levine; enterprise deal team partner Satish Talluri (who was a director of product and growth operations there); and Sonal Chokshi. the night before it was to IPO). Like, if you don’t know <Yeah.>

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 21, 2020

And their city by city Unleash summit series road shows, along with top notch thought leadership content. Now, without further ado, let’s listen to this interview with Jim Sharpe. And when that was successful, we were confident that we could go to where we are today, which is actually shut down fully.

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User Pilot

JANUARY 14, 2024

TL;DR A product manager leads the product management team and is responsible for overseeing all stages of the product development process. They earn more than developers, astronauts, and even attorneys, but less than surgeons. The Director of Product is accountable for multiple product lines and manages product management teams.

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SaaStr

MARCH 24, 2020

Sam Blond, CSO at Brex explains why recruiting, networking and employee happiness is the key to this playbook on recruiting your sales team. I’m doing The Playbook To Recruiting Your Sales Team. Once again, amazing job to the SaaStr team. I’m really honored to share this stage with some really bad ass speakers.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Prior to their incredibly successful IPO in April of 2017, they raised funding from some of the best in the business including Sequoia, a16z, Greylock, Khosla and Floodgate to name a few. Why was joining Okta the most challenging interview process he has experienced? Below, we’ve shared the transcript of Harry’s interview with Ryan.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

When it comes to launching sales teams in hyper-growth startups, few people have walked the walk as much as Maggie Hott. We recently sat down with Maggie to chat about all things sales – from laying down a solid foundation to hiring the right people and, finally, scaling the team into hyper-growth. Look for the team players.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 31, 2019

She founded Box’s growth team as well as the product operations team. And before box she ran product and engineering teams building large scale financial platforms for Accenture clients. Ciara : Craig’s designed and led teams at enterprise and consumer companies including Salesforce, eBay, and Google.

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Valuize Consulting

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Connect Your Customer Ecosystem With A Product Owner. Product Owner is one of the most widely misunderstood roles, both within the context of Customer Success and more broadly across software organizations. ” Q: What is the role of a Product Owner in the context of Customer Success Operations? .”

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