Intercom, Inc.

MAY 24, 2018

When used correctly, data can powerfully enrich sales and marketing efforts and help any business fuel growth. But all too often, companies fall into the trap of using partial or old data to drive major decisions. Companies commonly make the mistake of using expired or partial data from a small subset of users to justify big decisions.

Data 182

Data Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring 182

SaaStr

JANUARY 12, 2023

The current economic climate presents new challenges for businesses. Management teams must determine how to thrive in a downturn to position their businesses for profitable growth. “It’s Data shows a significant shift in company valuations happened from 2021 to 2022. Key takeaways.

Consulting 49

Consulting Underperforming Technical Team Management Marketing 49

SaaStr

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Their CEO will join us at SaaSr Scale 2021 on December 15 to talk about using data to get to 10,000 SMB customers! I considered the four companies and chose Gorgias based on my experience with their team during the interview process. Together, we developed sales pitches, built out a robust sales process in just a couple of weeks.

Scale 284

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Underperforming Technical Team 284

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

A few months back, I was inspired by a section in Scott Barker’s “The Forecast” newsletter where he referenced some data from Chorus.ai Scott’s newsletter makes a great point: as buying teams get bigger and bigger, our sales teams need to grow with them. First, identify your team member’s strengths and weaknesses.

Underperforming Technical Team 130

Underperforming Technical Team CTO Hire CTO Coach Technical Review 130

Stax

MAY 5, 2025

In recent years, businesses have seen this massive shift from desktop to mobile devices which has forced them to develop apps with built-in integrated payment gateways. A bad payment experience can lose customers and damage your brand. There are many different gateways available, each with its strengths and weaknesses.

Payments 88

Payments Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Solutions 88

Neil Patel

JANUARY 25, 2021

The thing about data is it helps you make better business decisions. Everyone has questions when it comes to choosing data analysis software. Why are there so many data analytics tools? You have to arrange your data, explain it, present it properly, and then derive a conclusion from it. Let’s begin! User Skillset.

Data Analysis 137

Data Analysis Software Data Scale 137

SaaStr

JUNE 19, 2024

The three core areas to focus on are: Evolving your growth engine Building and solving for when to become a multi-product platform Investing in your people and team #1: Evolving Your Growth Engine Let’s start with some context for Bitly’s journey. You might have to rebuild your marketing team. Optimize your acquisition funnel.

Scale 300

Scale Scaling Underperforming Technical Team User Experience 300

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

MARCH 23, 2020

Companies which don’t use mental models risk unleashing mayhem with poor choices or becoming bloated and bureaucratic by reducing the volume and speed at which decisions are made - both scenarios are undesirable and will impact growth. The same is true of data - data informs decision-making, but doesn’t replace it.

Underperforming Technical Team 215

Underperforming Technical Team Scale Sales Hiring Marketplace as a Service 215

Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 21, 2020

If it’s one of the most common elements in our designs, why is it so often the last thing most teams focus on – if they focus on it at all? Activity tracking apps such as Fitbit (29.5%) and Strava (41%) tend to use more of their screens to show visualizations of activity data rather than representing that data in text or language.

Mobile 291

Mobile Social Media PayPal Underperforming Technical Team 291

SaaStr

JUNE 4, 2021

Pomel focused his session on: Making your SaaS startup customer-centric: Hw event marketing has helped him integrate his engineering and sales teams. How many of you guys’ product rely on the highly functioning engineering team? Helping the engineering teams run smoothly and being super productive thanks to mentoring.

Scale 317

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring Engineering 317

Clouded Judgement

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Tabular is a compelling data lakehouse solution, meaning it brings data warehouse functionality (SQL semantics + ease of use) to the data lake (cost-efficient and scalable). If you want your data platform to run like those at Netflix, Salesforce, Stripe, AirBNB and many others (i.e. Let's dive in.

Data 130

Data Government Scale GCP(Google Cloud Platform) 130

User Pilot

JANUARY 2, 2025

Its purpose is to collect data necessary to personalize the onboarding experience by highlighting relevant features or resources for each user type. The survey aims to better understand users workflows and help prioritize product development initiatives, like new integrations, that add the most value to its users.

Scale 102

Scale Churn Underperforming Technical Team Scaling 102

Buffer Resources

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Most of the data is ridiculously difficult to get. 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.

Social Media 122

Social Media Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Sales Hiring 122

SaaStr

JULY 15, 2022

It’s pretty good, someone did a Tweet storm the other day on Zeb from ClickUp’s presentation at SaaStr Annual 2020. Jason Lemkin: You certainly can hire a whole content team and build 10,000 pieces of content, but I will tell you what I have always seen work is one incredible piece a week. That’s a great example.

Scale 292

Scale Outsourcing Services Sales Hiring VP of Engineering 292

SaaStr

JANUARY 21, 2020

Justin used Sales Culture to grow a successful PatientPop team to 140 employees and 55 million in revenue. When I was hired, I came in with one salesperson and zero dollars in recurring revenue and over the next four years grew the sales team to over 140 employees and 55 million in recurring revenue. Want to see more content like this?

Sales Recruiting 312

Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale Sales 312

SaaStr

MARCH 24, 2020

Sam Blond, CSO at Brex explains why recruiting, networking and employee happiness is the key to this playbook on recruiting your sales team. I’m doing The Playbook To Recruiting Your Sales Team. Once again, amazing job to the SaaStr team. I’m really honored to share this stage with some really bad ass speakers.

Sales Recruiting 172

Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale Underperforming Technical Team 172

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 23, 2020

They could have a lack of trust from above due to a predecessor doing a bad job. It starts with overcoming those 2 bad habits we mentioned earlier by developing a learner’s mindset and finding the right solution by staying curious. In other words, once we think we know something, we stop seeing or listening to new data.

Underperforming Technical Team 109

Underperforming Technical Team Sales Sales Funnel Leadership 109

SaaStock

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

was created by a team with 25+ years of experience in location-based tech, spanning various services and real-time asset tracking systems. Near is a platform that provides real-time data on places, people and products. Near works with global brands across 44 countries to deliver processed data that feeds into business decision making.

SaaS Payments 225

SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Merchant Services Payment Methods 225

Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

It’s an approach that’s served him well along the road to building the HubSpot sales team, where he was CRO for nine years. Applying data and science to scaling has become easier because of the shift that’s happened in the software industry over the past 15 years, from outside sales to inside sales. A data-driven framework for scaling.

Scale 226

Scale Scaling Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring 226

Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 8, 2021

According to one Microsoft Global State of Customer Service report , 90% of consumers surveyed said that customer service is an important factor in their choice of, and loyalty to, a brand, while nearly two-thirds (58%) would sever their relationship with a business due to poor customer service. Support teams want it.

Technical Review 222

Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Customer Support Marketplace as a Service 222

SaaStr

JANUARY 24, 2024

How should you handle presenting challenges to your C-suite team when you’ve just joined the company? Lattice had a product-led growth flow on the website while the sales team was still trying to sell the PLG companies The good news is Lattice had a lot of activity and initiatives at play. Can you start and stop a PLG motion?

Scale 273

Scale Sales Hiring Scaling Revenue 273

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2021

If you’re a senior engineer and want to further your career, what skills should you develop? Moving forward in your career, avoid the trap of doing work that feels high-impact, but it’s actually not , or work that makes you look good at the expense of the project and the team. How do people move into staff engineering roles?

Technical Review 274

Technical Review Leadership VP of Engineering CTO Coach 274

Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

This is the recipe for a mediocre sales team. Like a sports franchise, a top team should be both collaborative and competitive. The team has grown quite a lot, but it’s still tiny: we’re now close to 40 people in 13 different countries. On this week’s episode, I caught up with Steli to chat all things sales.

Sales Hiring 184

Sales Hiring Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales 184

Sales Hacker

MARCH 25, 2021

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. Speak empathetically to their prospects and develop stronger connections as a result. Imagine you sell HR software designed to help HR managers run their teams efficiently.

Scale 129

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Outsourcing Services Sales 129

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Collaboration results in the development of products and services that make life easy for the people, driving the market, and indirectly leading to economic growth. If you want to keep your CFO engaged, make sure your presentation doesn’t fall flat. To make sure your presentation is interesting and compelling, keep it concise.

Underperforming Technical Team 114

Underperforming Technical Team Scale Finance Market Research 114

User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Concept testing takes place before the development phase to assess how well the idea could satisfy user needs , while usability testing focuses on how easy the product is to use and navigate and happens during the development stage. Try to leverage feedback tools to streamline data collection and analysis.

Underperforming Technical Team 105

Underperforming Technical Team Interviewing Data Analysis AI 105

Stax

JANUARY 23, 2025

How Merchant Underwriting Works The merchant underwriting process typically follows a few steps carried out by the payment facilitators or acquiring bank to develop an underwriting risk profile. Tools like AI and data analytics enable faster evaluations by analyzing vast amounts of data and identifying patterns.

Merchant Services 68

Merchant Services Payment Services Payment Methods Development Team Review 68

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? You don’t want to fall into a trap of building all this custom stuff, I think you guys all know why that’s a bad idea.

Underperforming Technical Team 201

Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring SMB compliance 201

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

You can access that data set once you contribute your own information on a blinded basis. Managing a technical team as a non-technical person [24:13]. You can access that data set once you contribute your own information on a blinded basis. Using RepVue, you can figure out exactly what people are making. Sam’s Corner [33:50 ].

Marketplace as a Service 111

Marketplace as a Service CTO Hire Sales Recruiting Scale 111

Baremetrics

AUGUST 6, 2021

Plan your hiring process long before adding people to the team. In a small company, someone with a unique perspective is likely to contribute more meaningful ideas than someone who aligns perfectly with the rest of the team. You have a disgruntled employee who is underperforming, or even threatening to leave the company entirely.

Underperforming Technical Team 130

Underperforming Technical Team Outsourced Development Consulting Scale 130

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Scaling a support team is challenging enough as it is. Maybe you’ve just extended support hours and it’s becoming harder to plan shifts for different time zones; maybe you’re spending hours figuring out schedules for the week ahead; maybe the inflow prediction was a bit off and now your team is under or overstaffed.

Outsourcing Services 206

Outsourcing Services Scale Software Sales Hiring 206

Neil Patel

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Access to more capital means implementing better growth tools, expanding the team, and generally making the journey to profitability much smoother. You’re going to need solid numbers and data if you want a chance at their money. Choosing the right investor can and will have a massive impact on the future development of your business.

Startup 145

Startup Underperforming Technical Team Government Investment 145

User Pilot

MAY 27, 2025

Want to advance your career in product management or find top talent for your team? Mozilla: Director of Product, Firefox Growth Firefox is used by hundreds of millions worldwide, and the Director of Product for Growth plays a critical role in the product management team. Who would be a bad fit for this job?

Management 52

Management Underperforming Technical Team Scale B2C 52

User Pilot

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Quantitative data alone doesn’t reveal intent, only outcomes. Beyond the numbers: Understand why context matters Raw user behavioral data can be misleading without context. Imagine a product team celebrating a 200% spike in sign-ups after a promotional campaign. Thats why you need user session analysis.

Underperforming Technical Team 88

Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Onboarding Churn 88

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

It is important that these friendly connections represent the target persona market you have outlined, as otherwise, the feedback loop is likely to be weak. The amount of data captured can vary from a simple email address to a detailed assessment of their needs (for example, Intercom’s Custom Bot can do this automatically).

Startup 178

Startup Sales SaaS Systems Review 178

Incredo

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

And end up wasting their time and resources with affiliates that underperform. I see many SaaS companies jump headlong into creating an affiliate program thinking it will bring in a large number of customers without much effort. In our case, we needed to invest a lot in product development. But is your website ready?

SaaS Payments 139

SaaS Payments Payment Methods Merchant Services Sales Recruiting 139

SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

The SaaStock team will be landing in São Paulo to run the region’s first Pan-Latin American SaaS conference, SaaStock LatAm. Its focus is on businesses in Big Data, mobile, and SaaS. He has given his memorable presentations around the world. She’ll be talking about her approach to sales as a team sport.

Technical Review 207

Technical Review Scale Entrepreneurship Sales Hiring 207