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If Your VP Hasn’t Done Some Key Part of the Job by Day 90. He Never Will.

SaaStr

A head of sales that doesn’t recruit at least one strong rep in the first 90 days. A head of customer success that doesn’t own churn, or net revenue retention in the first 90 days. A head of customer success that doesn’t own churn, or net revenue retention in the first 90 days.

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Gong’s Linda Lin on customer success strategies for moving upmarket

Intercom, Inc.

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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Sales Hacker’s 35 Most Influential Women in Sales

Sales Hacker

Welcome to Sales Hacker’s first-ever Influential Women in Sales list! In this exclusive list, we wanted to honor not just female leaders that promote their own sales platform (no shame in that!) They say “You can’t be what you can’t see,” and the sales floor is no exception.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Work-Bench and Initialized Capital — May 8, 2020

SaaStr

Where does Jessica find managers and founders do pipe reviews wrong? What does Jessica believe is the right way for sales reps to engage with new customers during this time? How should sales teams and CS respond to requests for discounts? What other strategies has Jessica seen work really well for retention?

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Jan 13- Customer Success Jobs

SmartKarrot

Role: Customer Success Specialist Location: Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland (Hybrid) Organization: Zowie As a Customer Success Specialist, you will manage and support the success of a portfolio of customers across the entire post-sale customer journey from kick-off to advocacy and renewal.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Chargebee and Glassdoor — November 1, 2019

SaaStr

What does Krish mean when he says, “In SaaS, you either sell to one of 2 customer profiles”? How does Krish think about purely serving the SMB market? Does one have to expand the product line to retain customers? How does he think about the mortality rate of SMBs? First, what is continuous customer development?

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week: May 24, 2019

SaaStr

How does Andrew advise founders on the question of whether to start in enterprise or SMB? What are the benefits of starting in SMB? It was growing pretty fast, we were successful and became, to some degree, victims of that success. I had Jason VandeBoom of ActiveCampaign on the show, and he said SMB first works.