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Sequencing Business Models: Can That SAAS Business Turn Into a Marketplace?

Casey Accidental

As someone who has spent a lot of time building marketplaces in my career, a curious thing has happened over the last couple years. Founders have started reaching out asking for help converting their SAAS or SAAS-like business into a marketplace. The Weak Transition to Marketplace Arguments. So goes the story.

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Mental Models to Help You Grow

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

One of the biggest challenges businesses face when they grow is scaling effective , autonomous and quick decision-making. The same is true of data - data informs decision-making, but doesn’t replace it. OKRs are a useful mental model - they make it crystal clear what people and teams should be striving for.

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HubSpot’s Michael Redbord on staying in touch with your customers as you scale

Intercom, Inc.

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. If you’re a leader, he says, don’t try to scale your job. As the General Manager for HubSpot’s Service Hub , Michael knows a thing or two about keeping customers close.

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Buyer Personas: Tips to Make Them Work Better for Your Sales Team

Sales Hacker

Our guess is that poor Polly from purchasing is gathering dust on a noticeboard in the canteen or buried somewhere deep in your internal network of folders. Perfectly position the product/service to their prospects. Speak empathetically to their prospects and develop stronger connections as a result. Or Mary from marketing?

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Scale vs. Intimacy – The old trade-offs do not cut it in the era of scale insurgency

OPEXEngine

A widely held view on strategy in the 1980s defined two ways to compete: firms could pursue either a low-cost advantage (usually through scale) or a differentiation advantage (by building intimate customer relationships). But there was also a major drawback: an inverse relationship between scale and intimacy.

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The 8 Best CRO Companies of 2020

Neil Patel

You have to make consistent sales if you want to scale your business fast. That’s all because of our ability to constantly optimize and improve our methods according to the current trends in the marketplace. You should check out the services of Neil Patel Digital. #2 3 WebMechanix — Best For All-In-One Services.

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Losing Sleep? Hiring Has Officially Replaced Cash as a Key Reason Startup Founders Are Up at Night

OpenView Labs

This data point isn’t like our typical benchmarks. Data shows that founders are often kept up by the same key topics and are far from alone. The market need for SaaS products has exploded and investment in SaaS companies has accelerated, requiring more talent to grow and scale. Selfishly, it’s revealing.