SaaStr

JANUARY 24, 2024

She was hired because they saw a bit of softening in new business growth, and she came to help diagnose what was going on and help scale the business. 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.

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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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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.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Will you have an overlay team that only sells the new product, or will you enable your entire sales force? This question exists whether you have 2, 12, or 50 sales reps. Making customers successful One point to remember is the difference in maturity curves on different products. Prepare for post-sales on new products.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 11, 2023

Before we get into it, curious to hear your thoughts on last weeks Sales Hacker/GTMnow announcement ?! This week I sat down and interview the VP of Sales at Crunchbase , Ang McManamon. Ang shares her 5 P’s of Sales Leadership: Professionalism Preparation Process Performance Play More on these below.

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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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Scale Customer Success Strategy Sales Hiring 177

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

With so many incredible sessions to choose from, we thought we’d highlight a few for you here: Building & Scaling Global Product Teams. Why Customer Success and Product Should be Best Friends. Why Customer Success and Product Should be Best Friends: Lessons Learned with AWS’ Head of Customer Success Harini Gokul.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 5, 2024

In the latest episode of CRO Confidential, host Sam Blond, partner at Founders Fund and former CRO at Brex, sits down with Ashley Kelly, VP of Global Sales Development at Rippling. For context – Ashley had previously helped Sam scale Brex’s outbound sales from $2M to over $300M in ARR as Senior Director of SDR.

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Totango

JANUARY 22, 2024

AI also emerged as a topic when we asked three of our executive leaders – Chief Marketing Officer Karen Budell , SVP of Customer Success Chris Dishman , and Chief Revenue Officer Dennis Reardon – to share their industry predictions for 2024. By nature, CSMs feel inclined to assume any responsibility involving the customer.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

On December 8, join @Talend #CMO @LaurenV for a roundtable session at @saastr Scale 2020 "The Five Hardest #Marketing Decisions to Make and How to Get Them Right with Talend." leadership #womenintech #SaaStrScale [link] pic.twitter.com/JMuRqVP3ae. Our next big digital mega-event SaaStr Scale is coming up soon, Dec 8-9!!

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SaaStr

MARCH 25, 2023

So one recent survey we did really brought out a healthy debate: does your VP of Sales really need to be a product expert? Many of the comments said it was more important a VP of Sales understand process and leadership more than the product itself. They often melt. I say, you just gotta know the product. At least a little bit.

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SaaStr

MARCH 22, 2024

After switching to SaaS, she started as an SMB sales leader with no prior management or SMB sales experience. She wanted to jump into a full cycle capacity as a sales leader, but she said yes. The decision to leave a fairly scaled role leading 200+ AEs at LinkedIn to join a smaller-stage startup.

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Scale Underperforming Technical Team SMB Finance 239

SaaStr

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Eran Zimman, monday.com’s co-founder and co-CEO, shares his secrets to scaling and growth in an unpredictable market. Serve customers a CRM or project management first, and as they scale and use it more, they’re exposed to more features. You don’t want to overwhelm SMB customers, and Monday made this a focus from day one.

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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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Customer Success Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale 52

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

In leadership, there’s a great expression that “to those who much is given, much is expected.” This is a common mistake founders make — getting a new Head of X when you get to a certain point in business, missing a sales number, the product isn’t what you want, there’s too much churn, etc. Your average sales quota is $1M.

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Designing a successful post-sale strategy requires choices, says CXology’s Tim Conder. Without making those choices upfront, you’ll find it hard to create a good customer experience and scale it, and you’ll easily fall into the chaotic trap of “doing what it takes”. Then, think about leadership in general.

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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. Build the baseline by checking leadership assumptions.

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Scale SMB Enterprise Sales Hiring 209

SaaStr

APRIL 1, 2023

The 4 things you need to win as a SMBTEch startup are: Efficient GTM Commitment to customer success Product strategy that drives strong net dollar retention and grows your existing customer base Patience Of course, this is by no means comprehensive. Know Your Customer and be choosy as you scale.

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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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Customer Success Sales Recruiting Technical Review Compensation 98

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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Totango

JUNE 10, 2022

As we saw in our 2021 State of the Customer Success Industry and Salary Report , the role of Customer Success Manager (CSM) is one of the fastest-growing jobs in the industry. In a recent webinar titled “Navigating Your Customer Success Career Path”, Totango’s Sr. Customer success is still new.

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ChurnZero

APRIL 8, 2022

It’s the definitive Customer Success leadership summit. At other conferences, I have sometimes felt like I’m sitting through a sales pitch, and I didn’t feel like that in any of the sessions I attended at BIG RYG. It’s a sales-free safe space. Customer Success is a growing SaaS community.

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Customer Success Scale Leadership Compensation 98

Valuize Consulting

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Level Up Your Customer Success Organization. In the subscription economy, there’s no debate about whether or not to invest in Customer Success (CS); 70% of rapidly growing businesses say that Customer Success is extremely important ( Hubspot , 2017). The fourth challenge is complexity.

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ChurnZero

MAY 3, 2022

Whether you’re building your expertise in cooking, crocheting, coding, or Customer Success, YouTube is now the place to level up. Let’s explore five of the best Customer Success YouTube channels for learning how to fight churn, understand industry trends, and position yourself for professional success in CS.

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Customer Success Scale Sales Hiring Leadership 98

ChurnZero

JUNE 7, 2022

Those of us who work in Customer Success know just how vital high-powered Customer Success teams are for organizations. Customer Success teams are essential for retaining customers, improving the customer experience, reducing churn, and boosting other crucial metrics.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 10, 2022

Khusid explains the company’s ability to perfect the user experience to such a horizontal group with its attention to data and feedback: “From the very beginning, we were focused on data points that were coming from our users and customers…we look at data points at scale. So why did it take so long to grow so explosively?

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Sales Hiring Scale Company Culture Leadership 210

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

These two departments are a SaaS company’s most important; without their alignment, there is no growth or scale. Another strategy we often see is moving from a PLG model to a sales assistive model with a more established sales team that can sell the product to the customer. . Set them up for success. .

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 27, 2023

When a new sales leader comes in, they usually say the data is messed up, difficult to comprehend, and unclear about where leads are coming from. A Lesson Learned: Stay Close to the Customer Organizations should focus more on customer success no later than 100 paying customers. That’s the secret.

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Sales Hiring Scale SMB Outsourced Development 200

SaaStr

APRIL 2, 2023

But what I learned, after years of procrastinating on tough moves for our leadership team, is that the leaders’ teams suffer greatly through that inaction. This thought is usually accompanied by a vague statement like “this person isn’t scaling.” Eventually, you end up with 2000 contract types for 1000 customers.

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Sales Hiring Scale Scaling Customer Success 263

SaaStr

MAY 27, 2021

For the past 10 years, I’ve been a sales advisor for the portfolio companies of early stage venture capital firm True Ventures. It’s fascinating work for a sales mind like mine that’s focused on helping brilliant people turn ideas into revenue-driving businesses. . A Pair of Sales Development Representatives. By Lars Nilsson.

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Sales Hiring Scale Venture Capital Sales 171

ChurnZero

DECEMBER 2, 2021

12 Key Takeaways from ChurnZero’s BIG RYG Virtual Customer Success Conference. It’s a wrap on ChurnZero’s 2021 BIG RYG Virtual – our online Customer Success conference. An acronym for Red, Yellow and Green, RYG represents the common indicators of customer health. Then, back into the tech stack from there.”

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Customer Success Technical Review Scale Compensation 98

SaaStr

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Customers have become very thoughtful about where they can spend their budget and how to do more with less in times of uncertainty. Yamini Rangan, CEO at HubSpot, has many insights on how to serve SMB customers at scale. HubSpot only made direct and partner sales for the first eight or nine years. Balanced Growth Drivers.

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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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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 21, 2022

1/ Crash course in Customer Success and SaaS metrics. Related reading: Key SaaS and Customer Success metrics you should care about – What’s a good CAC? 20 quick insights on Customer Success and SaaS metrics – The audience chat was on fire during this webinar. It depends on how technical your customers are.

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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. Trust the process.

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Sales Hiring Payment Services SaaS Payments Scale 230

SaaStr

DECEMBER 2, 2021

. #25 SaaStr 214: New Relic CRO Erica Schultz on What It Takes To Successfully Scale Into Enterprise & How The Very Best Reps Build Relationships With Their Leads. #24 The post Top 25 SaaStr Podcasts of All Time – Part 1 (#25-#13) appeared first on SaaStr.

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Valuize Consulting

JUNE 9, 2022

If you’re a CCO or CRO at a B2B technology company, ask yourself these 3 critical questions: Is your existing Customer Success management team struggling to keep up with your customer’s needs and your business goals? Is collecting, analyzing and acting on critical customer data a challenge in your organization?

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