OpenView Labs

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

And there’s more and more bifurcation between the ‘haves’ – the fast growers – and the ‘have nots’ of SaaS than ever before. The new data reveals a similar picture for private SaaS startups. . The first call with a candidate is no longer an interview; it instead needs to be 100% focused on setting the hook.

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FastSpring

APRIL 26, 2022

Last week, I canceled an annual SaaS subscription (I had three weeks left until renewal). In the language of SaaS, I churned. In part two, we’ll cover five churn-prevention strategies that have been successful in other SaaS businesses. Part I: SaaS Churn Benchmarks. Is There an Ideal Churn Rate for 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. Between hiring, training, and helping new employees excel, iterating on customer feedback, building brand awareness, et al., Between hiring, training, and helping new employees excel, iterating on customer feedback, building brand awareness, et al.,

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Tom Tunguz

MARCH 17, 2016

Clay Christensen, a Harvard Business School professor, asserted in a recent interview that we understand only half of the marketing puzzle: the marketing science involved in a competitive ecosystem, when consumers are buying millions of products. Or Duo’s payments siphon dollars from an extant security budget.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2019

Ep 255: Vikas Bhambri is SVP Sales and Customer Experience @ Kustomer, the startup providing Real-time, actionable views of customers with continuous omnichannel conversations and intelligence that automates repetitive, manual tasks. Why does Vikas believe that a wave of SaaS incumbents are about to be displaced or disrupted?

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Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

But sales is the one thing founders cannot oversee — without it your startup will die. Between hiring, training, and helping new employees excel, iterating on customer feedback, building brand awareness, et al., Between hiring, training, and helping new employees excel, iterating on customer feedback, building brand awareness, et al.,

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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. In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Krish made his way into the world of SaaS and came to found one of India’s fastest growing SaaS companies in Chargebee?

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User Pilot

APRIL 24, 2024

SaaS renewals can be a breath-holding moment. It’s when a customer decides whether to continue paying for your product or not. If you want to ensure customers renew each time, continue reading ahead. In this article, we’ll share everything you need to know for increasing customer renewals.

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SmartKarrot

MARCH 8, 2022

In celebration of International Women’s Day, we are honored to present our Top 50 Women Leaders in Customer Success to Follow list for 2022, celebrating 50 influential women leaders and their inspiring stories of strength and success. Her diverse yet unique skills include customer life cycle optimization from pre-sales.

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User Pilot

MAY 9, 2024

The customer onboarding process is essential for product success. From initial sign-up to renewals and upgrades, it guides customers to ensure they have a seamless experience and can easily achieve their goals. The article will teach you how to design an onboarding strategy for your SaaS.

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SmartKarrot

AUGUST 11, 2021

“A customer is a King”, an age-old business mantra that emphasizes the importance of customers or would-be customers in every business. The same is true for companies who are dealing in SaaS products. The lifeblood of the SaaS business is its customers. Fewer features in your SaaS product.

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ProfitWell

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Patrick went through the history of SaaS, and Neel broke down some of our latest innovations. Nick Mehta , CEO of Gainsight, and his colleague, Kate Peter dropped knowledge on how to drive customer success across SaaS businesses. Customer success is the third-fastest growing profession. Tune in live below ??

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SaaStr

MARCH 18, 2019

Formerly a senior leader at Google, Claire Hughes Johnson is now Chief Operating Officer at Stripe, where she’s helped guide the online payments firm through rapid growth. Stripe today has more than 1,400 employees and processes billions of dollars for millions of users worldwide. Dare I say SaaS. The exchange of value.

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ProfitWell

MAY 8, 2020

Today, we’re all in sales. Listen wherever you get podcasts: How is B2B SaaS growth trending over time? ??7 Now, what's happening in B2B SaaS news? What do you mean, customer success shouldn't sell? Jay Nathan , B2B SaaS retention, expansion, and scaling expert, says: “We are all in sales.”.

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ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Your core is a lot like pricing in SaaS companies. A pricing audit assesses your subscription business’ pricing process to ensure consistency across similar accounts, maximize profitability, and benchmark against other companies. Remember, acquired customers can still churn at any point. It needs dedicated focus and priority.

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ChurnZero

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Whether Customer Success or Sales should own the renewal, expansion, and upsell is a hot-button issue in today’s SaaS sphere. As such, we decided to tap industry experts for a verbal duel on the subject where the winners take home the esteemed (and priceless) prize of bragging rights and SaaS street cred.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

And for leveling up your sales skills, nothing beats a good sales book. So what are the best sales books for helping you reach peak performance? Have been recommended by sales professionals. Here’s how you can find the sales books that are most relevant to you. Here they are… The 97 Best Sales Books in 2020.

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OpenView Labs

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

The idea for Pendo arose out of a need I had experienced first-hand while working as the VP of Product at an enterprise SaaS business. It was very difficult to get fast, accurate insights into exactly what my customers were doing in the product, information that was critical to prioritize product development efforts.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 29, 2019

In this week’s episode we’ve dug down into the podcast vaults to bring you some of the best insights shared by our guests about scaling sales. It’s no surprise that one of the key levers for growth as you go from startup to scale-up is your sales team. Hiring for sales with John Barrows.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

362: The Future of the Customer with Bernadette Nixon, CEO @ Algolia, Jay Snyder, Chief Customer Officer @ New Relic, and Nick Mehta, CEO @ Gainsight. Customers’ expectations are higher than ever with more access to information and options. One, it starts high up in the sales process, right?

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SaaStr

MAY 14, 2023

Here’s a chance to look back at 4 pre-IPO SaaS leaders today, and how they were doing and what they were thinking in the run up to $10m ARR. Algolia went from zero to seven figures in revenue in 12 months, and the launch of their search as a service product, and grew pricing from $19 a month to $100,000, which sounds amazing.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

As for Travis, prior to joining Redpoint, Travis was head of Customer Growth at Front, after spending 5 years building the global Sales organization at Optimizely, the world’s most popular experimentation platform. What does Travis advise founders when it comes to uniting customer facing teams? * Loving our podcast content?

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SmartKarrot

MAY 29, 2020

When it comes to the roles and responsibilities of an account manager, it is to foster the customer relationships, interact with the marketing and sales team to prepare sales pitches, establish innovative marketing strategies as well as media proposals. He or she communicates customer plans to other members of the team.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Rob made his way into the world of SaaS as a product manager and how that led to his founding Salsify over 8 years ago. * How does Rob think about the bundled vs unbundled thesis within SaaS? When is it right for SaaS companies to turn down potential customers? Harry Stebbings.

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ProfitWell

AUGUST 18, 2020

Reliance told her that she would need to buy-out the remainder of her two years in one lump sum payment, plus the interest the company would lose over those two years, and she would have to pay an additional hefty administration fee too. The administration fee alone totaled nearly three of her monthly payments.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

As leaders in sales engagement and sales management, Revenue Grid’s team has been working hard to understand this new landscape that we’re stepping into. We analyzed the data from over 502 B2B sales teams and hosted interviews with dozens of market leaders. The Number 1 Focus Areas for Sales Management.

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User Pilot

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Answer customer concerns with in-app educational materials. Deploy chatbots to automate customer communication. Improve customer communication by training your customer service team. Track the right customer communication metrics. Collect customer feedback to improve your customer communication strategy.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 27, 2019

How to Design a Sales Comp Plan to Get You to $100M with Work-Bench, Movable Ink, MongoDB and Concert Finance. Meghan Gill | VP of Sales Ops @ MongoDB. All right everyone, thank you so much for joining us today for our panel on how to design a sales comp plan to get you to 100 million dollars. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

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User Pilot

JULY 24, 2023

What is SaaS marketing? We’re all familiar with the basics of SaaS product marketing such as attracting users to a SaaS product with a subscription business model. That said, there are key differences between a SaaS marketing strategy and standard digital marketing. Offering self-service support.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Most recently Yousuf was the CIO & VP of Customer Success @ Moveworks, the advanced AI built for enterprise providing automatic resolution of IT issues. Below, we’ve shared the transcript of Harry’s interview with Yousuf. 290: Yousuf Khan is a serial CIO, start-up and VC advisor. Harry Stebbings. Yousuf Khan.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Related: The SaaS Executive’s Guide To Building A Winning Go-To Market Strategy. The Board and executive team need to understand that you can’t simply flip a switch and tell your existing reps to start selling to Enterprise customers. SMB products tend to have similarly less flexibility or customization capability. Integrations.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 21, 2020

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Angus Davis , VC and Partner at Foundation Capital. After graduating from high school, he moved out to Mountain View to work at Netscape, the first massive modern internet success story, with Marc Andreessen. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. We’re on iTunes.

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wepay

MARCH 23, 2018

SaaS businesses tend to believe in and use aggressive growth marketing approaches – at least once they are past the phase of building product and figuring out product-market fit. But growth marketing and marketing for growth aren’t quite the same thing, and every SaaS business is unique.

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SmartKarrot

JANUARY 18, 2022

SaaS (Software as a service) has become a buzzword in recent years. A SaaS company is a service provider that hosts applications and makes them available to customers over the internet. India has seen exponential growth in SaaS investments in the last decade. This article will help you –.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 2, 2020

Like so many of our peers, we were due to attend SaaStr 2020 a few weeks back, and we’d lined up interviews with some of the incredible speakers who would have been there. We’ll be releasing those planned interviews down the line, when the time is right. Tom Ronen , Head of Customer Success at Monday.com.

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User Pilot

JUNE 19, 2023

There’s no magic number when it comes to conversions, but knowing B2B SaaS funnel conversion benchmarks can benefit any SaaS product manager. In this article, we will discuss the most common B2B SaaS conversion rate metrics and their benchmarks. Education-related SaaS platforms come second with 7.5% adoption rate.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 6, 2020

At ECI Telecom, Chen founded its ADSL business unit and led it from inception to $100 million in annual sales. In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Chen made his way into the world of SaaS and came to found the leader in account payables with Tipalti. * How does Chen think about aligning revenue scale to your customers?

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