ChurnZero

JUNE 12, 2020

Today, you’d be hard-pressed to find a high-velocity Sales, Marketing, or Product team without a designated operations function. Beloved by their tactical peers, operations brings needed order and logic to busy, results-oriented teams. Poor strategy, organization, and execution hurt your productivity and therefore your scalability.

Customer Success 80

Customer Success Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring 80

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 28, 2022

And for Intercom’s VP of Sales EMEA, Sanj Bhayro , scaling is just what you need to invest in to ensure growth becomes as constant and linear as it can be. Sanj has plenty of experience scaling sales teams at growing businesses, and that’s precisely why, as of November of last year, he‘s overseeing EMEA sales at Intercom.

Scale 210

Scale Scaling Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting 210

CustomerSuccessBox

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Since the last 5 years, Customer Success has become a buzzword in not only the B2B SaaS industry but several other industries too. As companies have started understanding the benefits of customer success, they have started rushing into the field in the hope of getting quick returns on their investment.

Customer Success 59

Customer Success Sales Hiring Scale Underperforming Technical Team 59

SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The struggle to convince your senior leadership team to invest in customer experience has always been there for decades. Many company leaders say that customers come first, but they get more worried about tapping into new markets, sales, talent management, or process optimization when it comes to implementation.

Leadership 21

Leadership Underperforming Technical Team Investment Scale 21

TriTuns

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

If you are like many customer success managers, you are probably extremely focused on the question, “Will our customers be successful with OUR software”. You and your team probably ask yourselves what you, as a customer success professional, need to do to ensure the customer is successful using your product.

Underperforming Technical Team 45

Underperforming Technical Team Customer Success Software Investment 45

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

I’m talking about product-led growth as an investment strategy, but really my background is 10 years of operating experience in the product-led growth world. Now I’m investing in that. I say investment strategy, but really it’s like how do you build a company that’s focused on product-led growth?

Investment 100

Investment Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring Software Review 100

TriTuns

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

If you are like many customer success managers, you are probably extremely focused on the question, “Will our customers be successful with OUR software”. You and your team probably ask yourselves what you, as a customer success professional, need to do to ensure the customer is successful using your product.

Underperforming Technical Team 40

Underperforming Technical Team Customer Success Software Investment 40

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. As everyone left to work for an investment bank in California or New York that summer of ’99, I went to work at a startup in Ann Arbor.

Scale 221

Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Sales 221

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 22, 2020

Instead, top reps are leveraging the latest thought leadership topics to form connections with prospects and spark mutually engaging conversations. If the customer isn’t happy, it can cause months of pain — not just for the customer, but for Customer Success. It’s also one of the hardest to teach and develop.

Sales Hiring 76

Sales Hiring Interviewing Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting 76

SmartKarrot

AUGUST 24, 2022

Role: Director of Customer Success Location: Westborough, MA, US (Hybrid) Organization: Connectbase As a Director of Customer Success, you will ensure customers derive maximum value from the Connectbase platform and utilize it to its fullest capability. Manage the post-sale relationship of Catchlight B2B accounts.

Customer Success 19

Customer Success Technical Advisors Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring 19

Chart Mogul

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

At the Product-Led Institute, we developed the “Triple-A” sprint, which focuses on rapidly identifying problems, building solutions, and measuring impact. The Triple-A sprint gives you a way to build a sustainable growth process and can be used by any team in your business. Which inputs should we invest in?

Underperforming Technical Team 69

Underperforming Technical Team Development Churn Metrics 69

Sixteen Ventures

AUGUST 1, 2018

I’m so over talking about churn and if you really understand what Customer Success is all about , you should be, too. Customer Success-driven Growth. Customer Success-driven Growth. Customer Success is a growth driver. Revenue growth from your existing customers.

Churn 129

Churn Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring Customer Success 129

Valuize Consulting

JUNE 10, 2020

How were your company’s customer success processes created? Perhaps it was fueled by all of the strategic expertise, funding and time required to develop a category-leading customer success strategy—one that transforms your company’s revenue retention and expansion metrics. The state of customer success processes.

Customer Success 40

Customer Success Engineering Scale Technical Review 40

ChurnZero

OCTOBER 4, 2019

It’s time for another installment of our blog series where we spotlight a Customer Success professional and get their take on the industry as well as get to hear some of their top tips they’d like to share. Today we are showcasing – Sam Schneider, the VP of Client Success at Bloomfire. A: It’s ok to say no.

Customer Success 40

Customer Success Sales Hiring Scale Underperforming Technical Team 40

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.

Underperforming Technical Team 68

Underperforming Technical Team Scale Sales Hiring Systems Review 68

Chart Mogul

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

At the Product-Led Institute, we developed the “Triple-A” sprint, which focuses on rapidly identifying problems, building solutions, and measuring impact. The Triple-A sprint gives you a way to build a sustainable growth process and can be used by any team in your business. Which inputs should we invest in?

Underperforming Technical Team 52

Underperforming Technical Team Development Churn Metrics 52

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. Use YouTube marketing to reach relevant audiences Develop informative and engaging videos related to your product or industry.

Acquisition 103

Acquisition Strategy Social Media Underperforming Technical Team 103

SmartKarrot

AUGUST 31, 2021

Role: Director, Customer Success Location: Remote, San Francisco, CA, US Organization: Salsify As a Director of Customer Success, you will supervise, build and expand the existing Customer Success strategy to enable each member of the team to be the best-trusted advisor for the customers.

Customer Success 19

Customer Success Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Leadership 19

OpenView Labs

JANUARY 8, 2021

What’s your biggest weakness? A candidate who can’t give me a real answer may not be open to feedback or may lack the humility I want to see on my team.”. David Apple, Head of Customer Success at Notion. Ashvin Vaidyanathan, Chief Customer Officer at Gainsight. “‘If It’s just not productive. I have two: 1.

Interviewing 75

Interviewing Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Scale 75

SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

Maria : Yeah, I think, coming from a marketing side and thinking about that as a marketer, marketing is all about investments. There’s none of the brands that you’ve seen get to an IPO or continue on to a Fortune 500 company that is not making some significant investments there. Aaron : And they just have to do it.

Sales Hiring 205

Sales Hiring Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting 205

ChurnZero

AUGUST 11, 2020

Just like in the first wave, your customers’ lives will be turned upside down once the next wave hits. As customers struggle to adjust and manage, they’ll want to know their troubles are being heard by the businesses they interact with. Customer Success teams are in a unique position to listen to their customers’ challenges.

Retention 97

Retention Strategy Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 97

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.

Customer Success 19

Customer Success Sales Recruiting Scale Underperforming Technical Team 19

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

What can teams do to bring their themes to life? 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. I’m going to look at the buying team. Who is involved? What needs to be ready?

Scale 173

Scale Sales Hiring Software Review Technical Review 173

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.

VP of Engineering 118

VP of Engineering Scale Technical Review Outsourcing Services 118

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

What does it take to scale a sales team successfully? I’ve heard so many good things from Kobie, now at Upfront, and then also the team at Openview. Andy MacMillan: I started my career in tech actually as a developer. I don’t subscribe to the servant leadership model. How does Andy think about discounting?

Sales Hiring 202

Sales Hiring Scale Leadership Sales Enablement 202

SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2019

Why is it so crucial to invest in enablement in the early days? When should one look to hire their first customer success reps? Here’s what Eyal and Megan talk about: How to develop software faster. * What have been the dramatic changes that have happened in sales over the last few years? What is a good payback period? *

SaaS Payments 132

SaaS Payments Cloud Technical Review Scale 132

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. They will increase hiring into a heavy forecast and cut weak performers into a light forecast.

Underperforming Technical Team 99

Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring Consulting Forecasting 99

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 11, 2019

In a company’s early days as a lean, mean, business machine, it’s fairly easy for leadership to stay in sync with their users. But as the business becomes more successful – and there are resources to build a support team – additional layers begin to separate executives from their customers. Speak the customer’s language.

Scale 188

Scale Scaling Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team 188

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?

Scale 128

Scale SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting Payment Services 128

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. Any solutions practices or offerings should be built by our partners.

Underperforming Technical Team 52

Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring Consulting Forecasting 52

SaaStr

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Lots of us fantasize about moving upmarket, but are unsure of how to get started, is it just a matter of hiring a team of SDRs and getting them to hit the phones? You don’t want to fall into a trap of building all this custom stuff, I think you guys all know why that’s a bad idea.

Underperforming Technical Team 156

Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring compliance SMB 156

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.

Sales Hiring 145

Sales Hiring Scale SMB Sales Recruiting 145

TriTuns

MARCH 20, 2019

This guest blog was written by Jason Noble , a UK-based Expert in Customer Success. Jason is also co-host of, “The Jasons Take On…” a monthly webinar and podcast program that covers a wide-range of customer success topics. Being Customer Centric. What do our customers want and how do they want it?

Sales Hiring 40

Sales Hiring Leadership Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 40

TriTuns

MARCH 20, 2019

This guest blog was written by Jason Noble , a UK-based Expert in Customer Success. Jason is also co-host of, “The Jasons Take On…” a monthly webinar and podcast program that covers a wide-range of customer success topics. Being Customer Centric. What do our customers want and how do they want it?

Sales Hiring 40

Sales Hiring Leadership Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 40

TriTuns

MARCH 20, 2019

This guest blog was written by Jason Noble , a UK-based Expert in Customer Success. a monthly webinar and podcast program that covers a wide-range of customer success topics. Being Customer Centric. Being customer centric is easy to say but hard to do. What do our customers want and how do they want it?

Sales Hiring 40

Sales Hiring Leadership Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 40

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.

Sales Enablement 88

Sales Enablement Scale Sales Hiring Sales 88

SmartKarrot

APRIL 14, 2023

As a manager, it can be challenging to juggle multiple responsibilities and lead a team effectively. Whether you’re managing a remote team, navigating digital transformation, or resolving conflicts, it’s important to have the skills and knowledge to tackle these challenges head-on.

Technical Review 10

Technical Review Management Underperforming Technical Team Scale 10