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The Top 10 Mistakes People Make When Hiring a VP of Sales with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

Hiring a VP of Sales isn’t new, but the conversations have evolved as the world has. Jason has written about the cheat codes for hiring VPs of Sales since 2012 and realized it was worth a deeper dive. Jason has written about the cheat codes for hiring VPs of Sales since 2012 and realized it was worth a deeper dive.

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At Even Just $1m ARR — You Need to Stop Doing Stuff Yourself, And Go Make The Hire

SaaStr

You need engineering, product in all start-ups — but in SaaS, even in the very early days, you also need sales, client success, true support, demand gen marketing, etc. And Things I Successfully (More or Less) Offloaded By/At $1m ARR: Client/Customer Success. Routine Sales. Recruiting >=20% of Your Time.

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Strategic customer success: minimizing post-sale chaos with Tim Conder.

ChurnZero

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”. Here’s the webinar in full.

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What skills do customer success professionals need in 2024?

ChurnZero

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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10 Simple Tips to Do Better This Quarter — With The Leads You Already Have

SaaStr

SImple tips to Do Better in Q4 With What You Already Have: – Drive Down Churn – Drive Up NPS – Be More Grateful – Zoom with 10 Customers a Week – Promote Your Star(s) – Less Spam, more ABM – Weekly Webinar – Improve Lead Routing – Improve Lead Scoring – Talk to Every Prospect.

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Q&A: Customer Success Study Results Revealed

ChurnZero

With each passing year the Customer Success industry matures and meets new challenges along the way, and this year has been nothing short of challenging in many ways. . If you missed the webinar, you can watch it on-demand. Q&A Recap: Speakers: Megan Macaluso , VP Customer Success & Operations, ESG.

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Top 10 Customer Success Takeaways from Technology & Services World 2019

ChurnZero

Top 10 Customer Success Takeaways from TSW 2019. This event brought together thousands of technology leaders from Customer Success, Services, Sales, Product and Marketing. What was particularly great to see was the amount of Customer Success content that was structured into the programming.