Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Customer success means wildly different things to different companies in the SaaS industry. Many organizations create customer success teams but there’s no clear definition as to how these teams develop long-term value for both the customer and the business. The role of customer success teams.

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Totango

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Hiring team members with the right customer success manager skills is critical for the effectiveness of your CS team and strategy. Here we’ve identified the 13 most essential qualities to consider when hiring a CS manager. What Is a Customer Success Manager (CSM)?

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 19, 2021

It’s quick, efficient, and personal, meaning that customers can get the answers they need, where and when they need them. And for your support team, using the right conversational support tool and framework allows them to maximize their resources, so they can focus on solving complex queries and building long-term customer relationships.

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Buffer Resources

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

In this article, I will share the competitive analysis framework my team and I have developed (through weeks of research and dozens of iterations), and give you some tips on where to look for data that isn’t publicly available so you can have a competitive advantage. Customer acquisition 4.7. Customer service 4.9.

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SaaStr

JULY 5, 2023

The Team Matters More Than The Operating Model Snow’s greatest piece of advice is to choose your team wisely. He believes the team is more important than the operating model because you can have the best models in the world. But if you don’t have the underlying team and structure, it won’t work. They didn’t.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

When it comes to launching sales teams in hyper-growth startups, few people have walked the walk as much as Maggie Hott. She “stumbled” into it, as she told us, first as one of the earliest sales hires of Eventbrite, where she stayed for four years, and then into Slack in early 2015 as the first sales rep in the Bay Area.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 11, 2019

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. It becomes harder for the folks running things to make time to be inside their customers’ minds. Speak the customer’s language. Short on time?

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Sales Hacker

JULY 21, 2021

“We’re looking for a strategic rockstar sales rep who knows how to leverage and optimize our customers’ digital transformation to really move the needle!”. There are sales buzzwords that we love and some that we really hate. But that doesn’t mean they’re all bad. RevOps helps achieve sales and marketing alignment”.

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SaaStr

JULY 29, 2022

As they scaled, they radically changed how they did sales. They moved to a more traditional SaaS inside sales model, and they started shipping out these hardware devices, and only 30% to 40% of the customers would end up paying for them. And we’re about to add basically a team collaboration tier on top of the product.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Scaling a support team is challenging enough as it is. You’re investing resources in hiring and training the right people, tracking different metrics at different stages, adding more and more complexity with each increase in headcount, use cases, and customers. For Natasha, the answer is a resounding yes.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 5, 2018

Doug Landis often sees an unsuccessful sales pitch stumble straight out of the gate. Previously, however, he ran sales productivity for teams at Google, Salesforce and Box. His time at the latter culminated in the title of Chief Storyteller, where he rewrote the script for how Box sales team talked to and about their customers.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 5, 2018

Doug Landis often sees an unsuccessful sales pitch stumble straight out of the gate. Previously, however, he ran sales productivity for teams at Google, Salesforce and Box. His time a the latter culminated in the title of Chief Storyteller, where he rewrote the script for how Box sales team talked to and about their customers.

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User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

Before hiring, assess your current needs and hire as your company grows. Engineering Manager: In charge of planning, designing, and overseeing projects. They also manage finances and supervise one or more engineering teams. Much of the success here depends on how competent and motivated the CTO and their team is.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

While it’s likely that more realistic claims close fewer accounts, it pays off in customer retention. ML teams tend to invest a fair share of resources in research that never ships. Match it as much as possible with projects that have an actual impact on the customer’s experience.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 17, 2018

In short, JTBD is a research process that helps uncover a customer’s motivation for buying your product – the “job” your product is“hired” to complete. Today, Bob is President and CEO at The Re-Wired Group , a consultancy that’s helped develop more than 3,500 products and services. So I have to find something better.”

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

In August of 2016, Rachel Hepworth embarked on a unique challenge: start a growth marketing team at one of the most successful startups of this generation – one that had long relied heavily on word of mouth. I stumbled upon Eric Ries and Steve Blank, the concept of customer development – it was a revelation. We got sales leads.

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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? Oops… Today we’ll be covering the five tips and here they are right here, from handling buyer expectations to navigating the complex sale.

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

And as Travis mentioned, we’ve had lots of great recent guests, Hollie Wegman, CMO at Segment, Adam, the head of developer relations at HashiCorp, G.C. And I joined as a customer support rep. But even back then, I heard whispers in the halls of how great a manager Claire was. Her team loved working for her.

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How To Buy Saas

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Introduction: Why Choosing the Right CRM Matters Choosing the right Customer Relationship Management (CRM) platform can make or break your businesss growth trajectory. A powerful CRM helps organize customer data, streamline sales pipelines, and automate marketing ultimately boosting revenue. Lets dive in!

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

The context is then used to train and develop machine learning algorithms. According to ReviewTrackers , 94 percent of consumers say a bad review has convinced them to avoid a business. With an algorithm developed to crawl and scrape data from competitors, you can save time while also increasing your potential for profit.

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Combine traditional features like colorful booths, meeting rooms, info packets, and guest speakers with the online elements of virtual tours, and analytics and it’s easy to see why many businesses are having success with this method of hiring. Put a team together that shows off the best aspects of your business.

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Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 16, 2014

New Relic processes this data and provides interactive reports to identify underperforming code. Today, the company counts 250,000 users and 10,590 paying customers. We will explore revenue growth, average revenue per customer, sales efficiency, payback periods, net income, gross margin and engineering spending.

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User Pilot

JANUARY 17, 2024

The most common challenges that hinder SaaS growth are lack of product-market fit , ineffective sales and marketing strategies , customer churn, and long product development cycles. Here are the 15 most effective ways to scale your SaaS business: Create a solid customer acquisition strategy.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Dan O’Connell, Chief Strategy Officer at Dialpad. From there, he helped scale a team of 150 at AdRoll, before becoming CEO and President at TalkIQ, which was acquired by Dialpad. How AI & ML are impacting the future of sales. Hiring for values. We’re on iTunes.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Sales, marketing, finance, support, and R&D all use the roadmap for different thing. Sales want to sell it, marketing needs to plan for it, finance needs to model it, support needs to be able to explain it, and R&D needs to be excited about it. Getting this right allows your teams to work in lockstep together.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Sales, marketing, finance, support, and R&D all use the roadmap for different thing. Sales want to sell it, marketing needs to plan for it, finance needs to model it, support needs to be able to explain it, and R&D needs to be excited about it. Getting this right allows your teams to work in lockstep together.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 19, 2022

After all, while metrics help us measure the impact of our work, they only support a narrative. We wanted a deeper view into the industry, and so, we surveyed almost 300 leaders across a range of industries to discover the key trends emerging in the customer support space. Declan Ivory , VP of Customer Support at Intercom.

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User Pilot

AUGUST 14, 2019

Troi decided that they would automate part of their sales demos. It provides support across the entire project management workflow, from project planning to billing. This meant their Sales team didn’t have the time to close more deals or outreach to their leads and prospects. What was Troi’s Problem?

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ProfitWell

AUGUST 18, 2020

In some verticals, this rapid decline in switching costs, coupled with an increase in market competition, has led to the virtual disappearance of risk for the customer. The risk to switch is so low that one survey found that 63% of DTC customers leave after one poor customer experience.

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Stax

MAY 21, 2024

We’re seeing a similar trend in the legal industry, where law firms rely on case management systems to run their businesses. With management systems’ continual growth and improvement, it’s no wonder software sales are at an all-time high. They likely already have someone doing the job that your software provides.

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FastSpring

JANUARY 31, 2023

Table of Contents What areas of the payment lifecycle will you be able to manage and what other software will you need for a complete payment solution? Eventually, you’ll need additional software to manage complex recurring billing needs, accept more payment methods around the world, or create a customized checkout process.

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Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Scalability Other Factors That Affect the Sales Multiple How to Make Your SaaS Business More Attractive and Valuable 1. Develop a Full Marketing Strategy 2. Lower Churn Prepare for a Sale Where to Sell Going it Alone Through a Private Sale Working With a Broker for a Win-Win Situation.

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Neil Patel

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

All the technical stuff is managed by the provider, the sites are blazing fast, and WordPress never goes down. In the event that there is an issue, it’s resolved quickly by the managed WordPress hosting support team. 1 – WP Engine — The Best Overall Managed WordPress Hosting.

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CustomerSuccessBox

DECEMBER 12, 2019

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. First of all customer success is a long term game. While scaling Customer Success, leaders are prone to make some common mistakes based on their presumptions.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

What about, as someone who’s gone from your own solo GP fund in 2012 to a team, how does a founder think about a new partner? They will fall asleep thinking about your company and wake up thinking about your company, and hopefully not in a bad way, in a good way. That’s true.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 16, 2023

One of the toughest challenges for founders — and especially technical founders who are used to focusing so much on product features over sales — is striking “product-market fit”. So in that shift from product-market fit to product-market-SALES fit, how much should you optimize your go-to-market for product… and even the other way around?

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 31, 2019

She founded Box’s growth team as well as the product operations team. And before box she ran product and engineering teams building large scale financial platforms for Accenture clients. Ciara : Craig’s designed and led teams at enterprise and consumer companies including Salesforce, eBay, and Google.

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