SaaStr

DECEMBER 29, 2022

We believe that in order for SaaS companies to unlock their next stage of growth, their financial operations tech stack must strike the right balance between flexibility, which allows them to pivot quickly in an ever-changing market, and complexity, which supports them as they scale their business, operations, and monetization strategies.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Because we are specifically looking for data, analytics and software companies similar to you, we only have 5 spots available in your industry. We bolted onto their outbound team. Specifically, we focused on helping scale up their individual user base. As a result, their team had to 2x to manage the qualified inbound.

Scale 72

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Outsourced Development Growth Marketing 72

Tom Tunguz

MARCH 3, 2020

Each bucket has a set of disciplines that the team scores. First, it enumerates the important priorities for a marketing team. And second, the scorecard provides a way for a team to understand their strengths and weaknesses. You might score each on a 1 to 10 scale. Business Development. who does it sell to?

Underperforming Technical Team 292

Underperforming Technical Team Marketing Scale Social Media 292

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. Or is your team less technical?

Data Analysis 128

Data Analysis Software Data Scale 128

SaaSOptics

AUGUST 11, 2022

Raise, Sell, Merge, or Scale? In this article, we’ll help you determine the next best step for your business and provide guidance on whether you should raise, sell, merge, or scale your SaaS. The acquirer gets an opportunity to grow market share without doing the heavy lifting of growing and scaling an existing business.

Scale 97

Scale Scaling Technical Review Venture Capital 97

User Pilot

JUNE 20, 2023

Want to know how you can use survey analytics to leverage customer feedback data? There are five types of survey data: quantitative data, qualitative data, categorical data, ordinal data, and scalar data. Here are the four major types of survey data.

Data 76

Data Scale User Experience Underperforming Technical Team 76

SaaStr

OCTOBER 10, 2022

From the get-go, ensure alignment between sales and marketing teams on goals and anticipated outcomes. Scale winning behaviors. The opportunity to scale growth is understanding the behaviors of the top of your sales force.”. Scale winning behavior across the sales force. Create dynamic alignment on goals. Key takeaways.

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Scale Sales Hiring Marketing Venture Capital 274

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Not only does the sales team have strong performers, but the entire company’s mission is focused on changing the industry’s approach to sales by giving sellers the information they need to close more deals. . How do you improve a sales team’s performance when they’re already operating at world-class levels? . My plan? .

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Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring Scaling 66

ChurnZero

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Every Customer Success team focuses on keeping customers engaged and ultimately, preventing churn. But as a company scales and brings in new accounts, CSMs can start to feel like Lucy and Ethel in the chocolate factory—the customers keep rolling along faster than CSMs can properly manage them! Lighten the load CSM’s normally carry.

Education 98

Education Customer Success Underperforming Technical Team Scale 98

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. If you’re a leader, he says, don’t try to scale your job. Here are five quick takeaways: Most sales and support teams talk about their jobs as a funnel.

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Scale Scaling Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team 188

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2019

Businesses also win if, as a result of AI, teams are able to create more white-glove moments that turn users into customers for life. Rick started Guru in 2013, after successfully founding Boomi (a cloud integration and data management company) and selling it to Dell. Collaboration pains increase as you scale. Short on time?

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Scale Scaling AI Search Underperforming Technical Team 156

OnStartups

MAY 18, 2021

All the points below have been pulled from startup sales teams that I think work pretty well (including the team at CRM software company, HubSpot). Building Startup Sales Teams. They’re not bad people, they’re just different from you, especially if you're an introverted geek like me. Don’t hire sales people too early.

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Sales Hiring Scale Underperforming Technical Team Startup 110

SaaStr

MAY 10, 2022

Recovery from COVID has taught us that adapting and learning how to thrive in new ways in the face of change, whether good or bad, can lead to exponential growth. . He highlights the three key strategies that helped TripActions scale and boost their revenue. Develop a well-defined vision. Do not waste time developing a Plan B.

Travel 206

Travel Revenue Underperforming Technical Team Scale 206

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Companies in our region are good at achieving PMF and scaling to $1 million-$5 million ARR efficiently. They are hiring leaders, building teams, and attracting advisors in the US while devouring the SV SaaS playbook. It helps your leaders scale and creates a CXO pipeline for the company. Silicon Valley has a deep talent bench.

Scale 218

Scale Sales Hiring Cybersecurity Underperforming Technical Team 218

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. The more data you have, the better. 7 Tips to get 7,000 Customers.

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Scale Sales Hiring Sales SMB 263

Totango

MAY 5, 2021

It is important that companies collect this valuable voice of customer data , and then use it to best leverage results into effective action. . There is an index that scores customer satisfaction on a scale of zero to ten. Develop training modules to address weak points, as well as fix software bugs.

Data 118

Data Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Technical Review 118

Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 12, 2019

A little over a year ago, I got the opportunity to start a new team within our sales organization – a team of Relationship Managers dedicated to growing our current customers at scale. To do the first, we had to hire, train, and write a playbook – the building blocks of any team. Relentlessly measure impact.

Sales Hiring 171

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team Scale 171

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

MARCH 23, 2020

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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Underperforming Technical Team Scale Sales Hiring Marketplace as a Service 213

SaaStr

APRIL 5, 2023

A bad experience with a revenue operations leader might taint your view of the position at all future companies, but that would be a mistake, as CRO Confidential podcast host Sam Blond learned first-hand. How do I think about scale? These leaders act as partners and build out a strong team. Not every leader is created equally.

Sales Hiring 199

Sales Hiring Education Scale Strategy 199

User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

TL;DR Customer discovery questions enable product teams to better understand customer needs and problems so that they can build products that the potential customer truly needs. To collect the necessary data, you can conduct customer discovery interviews or trigger in-app surveys.

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Underperforming Technical Team Scale Interviewing Social Media 81

Audacix

OCTOBER 19, 2023

million was the average cost of data theft all over the world, as per reports from IBM. These weak points, if left unaddressed, can be exploited by hackers as an entry point for launching cyberattacks, infiltrating systems or data, or causing harm to an organization. Table Of Contents In 2023, USD 4.45

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Underperforming Technical Team Enterprise Software Management 40

Audacix

OCTOBER 19, 2023

million was the average cost of data theft all over the world, as per reports from IBM. These weak points, if left unaddressed, can be exploited by hackers as an entry point for launching cyberattacks, infiltrating systems or data, or causing harm to an organization. Table Of Contents In 2023, USD 4.45

Underperforming Technical Team 40

Underperforming Technical Team Enterprise Software Management 40

User Pilot

MARCH 23, 2023

And how can customer success teams address them to ensure product growth? Reasons why customers churn: #1: Customers churn when there is a bad product-customer fit and your product’s features don’t align with their needs. 3: Poor customer service or experience with the sales teams can make customers churn.

SaaS Payments 93

SaaS Payments Churn Underperforming Technical Team Payment Methods 93

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 16, 2018

They help managers evaluate how their employees are doing, the value they bring to a team and how their work can be improved. Now, as one of the managers of a global support team that is quickly scaling, I can completely understand not only the necessity but the benefits of tracking KPIs. Reviews of teammates’ conversations.

Customer Support 154

Customer Support Underperforming Technical Team Scale Construction 154

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 8, 2020

But with so much data to consider, how can you define the help desk metrics that matter for your team? As Seth Godin once put it: “Don’t measure anything unless the data helps you make a better decision or change your actions.” Transparency naturally occurs when you implement clear, measurable goals.

Customer Support 211

Customer Support Metrics Technical Review Scale 211

Buffer Resources

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Since Elon Musk took over Twitter, or X as it’s now called, a number of new social media apps have either come into the limelight or been developed to capture the users that have been leaving. Here’s my observation of “the good, the bad, and the ugly” of Bluesky. Here are some of them.

Social Media 125

Social Media Underperforming Technical Team Scale User Experience 125

User Pilot

APRIL 7, 2023

When your product is catering to other businesses, it can be difficult for sales reps and other teams to understand the needs and experiences of the clients, especially if the client company sells multiple products. However, customer insights can help your teams understand all aspects of your B2B partners.

B2B 87

B2B Underperforming Technical Team B2C Scale 87

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 12, 2020

Scaling Your Personalization. AI can help scale this, but we need to be careful not to rely too heavily on it. To scale your outreach you need to build a system to ensure your message gets seen. The system you set up becomes even more important once you begin doing outreach at scale, but I’ll go over that more later.

Scale 107

Scale Scaling AI Search AI 107

SaaStr

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Freemium can help software companies gain users quickly—but what happens when it’s time to scale back or up? Join Joaquim Lecha, CEO at Typeform, and Christoph Janz, Managing Partner at Point Nine, as they delve into freemium at scale. We give them the superpowers of the developer and the designer. Joaquim Lecha | CEO @Typeform.

Scale 135

Scale Scaling Payment Methods SaaS Payments 135

User Pilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

TL;DR Regular roadmaps kill outcomes by forcing teams to think in the categories of features and timelines. It’s difficult to implement outcome-based roadmaps because stakeholders don’t trust product teams to deliver on business goals. Many companies lack differentiation strategies and drive product development by copying competitors.

Scale 89

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting Software Review 89

Point Nine Land

OCTOBER 23, 2023

We recently hosted the Point Nine Founders Summit, featuring several panels and presentations from founders, CFOs, COOs, and sales execs on building early sales teams and hiring your first successful sales leaders. It helps keep the product team focused on customer feedback and providing value in exchange for revenue.

Sales Hiring 125

Sales Hiring Scale Technical Advisors Technical Cofounder 125

User Pilot

JANUARY 15, 2024

It involves feeling bad for their negative experiences and wanting to see them improve, but it doesn’t necessarily mean you understand their perspective or experience their emotions firsthand. How to conduct user research to incorporate empathy into your design project Product teams are not mind readers (that would have been cool!).

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Scale Interviewing Underperforming Technical Team Innovation 101

User Pilot

JANUARY 22, 2024

For your product marketing strategy, however, you’ll need to align your sales and marketing teams, create a value-based pricing strategy , collect and apply customer feedback , and map out the customer journey. A good growth strategy is also data-driven. This means collecting feedback data to measure customer satisfaction.

Product Marketing 92

Product Marketing Marketing Social Media Scale 92

User Pilot

APRIL 6, 2023

Developing and releasing sophisticated products with all the bells and whistles imaginable might seem like a great idea. Developers tend to overcomplicate code when they don’t have enough experience or want to show off their skills. Poor prioritization and external pressure are also common causes. Book the demo!

Underperforming Technical Team 89

Underperforming Technical Team Management Interviewing Scale 89

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 112

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Outsourcing Services Sales Enablement 112

User Pilot

MARCH 14, 2024

How to measure customer behavior with data analytics. TL;DR Customer analytics or customer behavior analytics is the practice of collecting and analyzing customer data to make better business decisions. Benefits of analyzing customer data: Understand customer behavior patterns. This data isn’t just for top-level strategy.

Customer Lifetime Value 93

Customer Lifetime Value SaaS Underperforming Technical Team Retention 93

Baremetrics

AUGUST 6, 2021

This process is not reserved for the corporate world; the earlier appropriate HR processes are implemented, the greater the chances are that the company’s vision will retain its integrity at scale. Plan your hiring process long before adding people to the team. For most companies, this plan will involve bringing on new people.

Underperforming Technical Team 130

Underperforming Technical Team Outsourced Development Consulting Scale 130