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Lessons from Unreasonable Hospitality: A Favorite Read From Our Customer Advocacy Team

Buffer Resources

Books have a way of changing our perspective and bringing new lenses to life and different mindsets to mind — which is why we recently kicked off a quarterly book club within our Customer Advocacy Team at Buffer.   Here’s how we set up our book club, along with some key takeaways our team had reading this book.

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What Brands Look for When Considering Acquiring Software Companies

FastSpring

As the Director of Corporate Development & Strategic Partnerships at WP Engine , Carl has worked on many acquisitions and partnerships, including brands like Flywheel, Perfect Dashboard, Block Lab, and recently, Delicious Brains. Just looking at our user base, they really were that sweet spot of ideal customer profile.

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7 Drivers in Building to a $7 Billion Company with 1Password CEO Jeff Shiner and 1Password Advisor Carilu Dietrich (Pod 556 + Video)

SaaStr

Supporting your customers is a crucial component of building a great product. You iterate and develop your products according to your customers’ needs, which first requires you to listen to them. With great product and customer support teams in place, you are ready to do this. Profitability is power.

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Three chief customer officer job descriptions we love

ChurnZero

A chief customer officer is an operational role responsible for all customer-facing activity post-sale. This often includes leading implementation, customer success and customer support teams. Champion a customer-centric culture throughout the company.”

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Best Web Hosting for WordPress

Neil Patel

Check out my reviews and recommendations below to learn more. They are available around the clock via phone, live chat, and email support. Agents will work diligently to quickly resolve your problems. The best customer support teams will do this for free. The Top 6 Options For WordPress Web Hosting.

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A Look Back: Slack at $30,000,000 in ARR

SaaStr

And we ended the day with an incredible combo of the hottest app at that time (and one of the hottest ever), Slack, who likely was around $30m ARR or so … and hadn’t yet added a sales team! We started development in early 2004. Can you get to $100 million without a sales team, do you think?

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8 Customer Discovery Questions to Validate Product Market Fit for Your Startup

Tom Tunguz

Customer knowledge, both qualitative and quantitative, informed product development, and that research became a key part of AdSense’s success. A few years later when I joined Redpoint, I learned that venture capitalists perform similar customer research during diligence. How quickly is the product evolving?