SaaStr

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

How do you build out a Sales Development (SDR) function at your SaaS company? Establishing a baseline for successfully doing outbound with the existing sales team you have is critical before investing in a dedicated SDR function. The first hire after six AEs was a senior hire, Ashley Kelly, as Senior Director of Sales Development.

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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?

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

In this tactical session, he highlights the trends he’s seen most commonly seen in startups that die and offers insights on the causes, symptoms, and solutions. #1 Learn about your investors previous bad investments (this could determine your fate!). #2 Causes: Weak previous relationship. 5 Slow product development.

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Underperforming Technical Team Startup Engineering Retention 171

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. Perform feature ideation with trend analysis.

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Customer Lifetime Value SaaS Underperforming Technical Team Retention 105

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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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Data labeling turns raw data into useful information that can then be utilized for optimized marketing. However, turning raw data into labeled data takes time. The good news is data labeling is scalable when you work with the right data labeling software. What Is Data Labeling?

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Scale Outsourcing Services Artificial Intelligence Scaling 125

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 19, 2022

As the president of Sales Xceleration, a firm specializing in assessing and implementing sales strategy , sales processes, and sales execution to drive growth, I’ve seen how job hopping can affect otherwise stable sales teams. But also the cost it has on their careers — and your sales team. And the data backs this up.

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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.

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ChurnZero

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Every Customer Success team focuses on keeping customers engaged and ultimately, preventing churn. 65% of respondents said it’s common practice to share customer training data with the Customer Success organization. Customer Success teams typically answer the same questions over and over again as they gain new clients.

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User Pilot

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Customer intent helps product teams understand customer needs and build solutions that delight users. Increase expansion revenue : When you collect and analyze consumer intent data, you can spot which users will likely upgrade to a higher plan or purchase additional products. Five key steps to interpreting customer intent.

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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. . Generally sent to customers right after onboarding or other key events, this data can be utilized to leverage success by: Helping you perfect your onboarding process. .

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 29, 2018

This is part 2 of a 5-part series to help you develop the right approach to sales coaching. While part 1 focused building the right coaching mentality , this article covers how you can take a data driven sales coaching approach. . Using Data to Inspire Commitment. 1) Why does data driven sales coaching matter?

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User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

It, along with product analytics , offers a comprehensive view of your customers and products and lets you make better data-driven decisions. TL;DR Customer analytics involves gathering and interpreting customer data for actionable insights. More personalized experiences for customers with segmentation and customer data.

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Underperforming Technical Team Customer Lifetime Value Retention Engagement 105

User Pilot

APRIL 19, 2024

You will learn effective techniques for collecting and analyzing data , with practical tips on applying your findings to benefit your SaaS. Applying insights from market research to product development and marketing strategies can significantly enhance business growth. The outcome? Quantifiable. Attainable.

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User Pilot

MARCH 7, 2024

AI writing assistants help teams make their microcopies concise but informative and engaging. Your ability to engage users is evidence that you understand both your user preferences , needs, and pain points and the weak spots of your product experience. Just like in NPS, the metric data comes from the survey. User churn rate.

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User Pilot

JULY 31, 2023

TL;DR Pendo is a product growth platform for product , marketing , customer success , and UX design teams. It enables businesses to analyze user in-app behavior , collect customer feedback to make data-led decisions, improve user onboarding, and communicate effectively with users. Let’s get right to it! Who can use the Pendo app?

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User Pilot

JANUARY 31, 2023

The main factors contributing to at-risk customers include poor onboarding process , lack of product value perception, lousy customer support, unfixed bugs, and no learning materials, resource center, and FAQs. Prevent customer churn and drive customer loyalty Analyzing customer churn data helps you predict churn and identify friction points.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

We know that moving at speed is all about making decisions quickly and acting on them – but quick decisions get a bad rap. . They’re considered heedless, overly luck-dependent, and almost treasonous by those of us in the data and research domains. This may seem counter-intuitive, but they are as important as evidence, facts, and data.

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User Pilot

MARCH 28, 2024

User analytics play an essential part in the product development and management process. It also explores different kinds of user data analysis, shows you how to conduct it, and introduces a few product analytics tools with the necessary functionality. The data can also come from user feedback. Let’s get to it!

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Underperforming Technical Team Data Analysis AI User Experience 52

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.

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User Pilot

MARCH 14, 2024

The report allows teams to understand how users navigate their website or application, identify the top pages visited after the homepage, find out what causes friction in the user journey, identify top-performing pages and features, and analyze user paths leading to conversions. You can also use the segments and dimensions to filter the data.

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Underperforming Technical Team Metrics Mobile User Experience 105

Sales Hacker

MAY 19, 2021

If yes, does your data help them figure out what to do next? As a manager of SDRs and the co-founder of SDRs Anonymous, seeing sentiment gives me the ability to analyze the replies to our email sequences and use this data to coach my reps on how to really connect with their customers. 3 ways to use sentiment data.

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The bad news is that marketers waste 37 to 95 percent of their marketing budget. You’ll want to break each of these areas down in enough detail so you (and your team) can work with each of these areas properly. Web developers spend their time on sites like ArsTechnica, Reddit, SitePoint, etc. Here’s why.

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User Pilot

OCTOBER 6, 2022

What customer data can you collect to derive valuable insights and improve retention? Customer behavior data refers to any customers’ interactions inside the product across the different stages of the customer journey : from engaging with the onboarding checklist, to clicking on a particular feature, and more.

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Payment Solutions Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Payments Customer Lifetime Value 98

User Pilot

JUNE 20, 2023

TL;DR Product idea validation is a process during which product teams test and tweak the product concept to ensure it satisfies a real market need. Apart from testing the demand for the product, idea validation helps teams assess if they have the necessary expertise and resources to build the product. Let’s get straight into it!

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Underperforming Technical Team Social Media Scale Interviewing 98

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. It might be a systems person or someone deep in data analytics who can quickly translate different data points.

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Sales Hiring Education Scale Strategy 186

ChurnZero

MARCH 15, 2019

Churn Monster #10: Bad Fit Customer . We’re talking about a bad fit customer. A bad fit customer is a customer who is unable to receive value from your product or service due to a mismatch of currents needs and offerings. You are worried you have acquired a bad fit customer. What do you do?

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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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yoursales

JUNE 1, 2023

The Importance of Capturing Client & Prospect Communication Enhanced Customer Understanding By capturing external communication, sales teams gain valuable insights into the needs, pain points, preferences, and motivations of their customers.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 1, 2022

I’ve been an SDR , an SDR director, and now run a sales team at a startup. This ultimately leads to increased achievement of common KPIs that sales development teams are measured by such as new opportunities created, account touchpoints and calls. I’ve been in the SDR trenches. So how do you implement it?

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Totango

OCTOBER 20, 2020

It is important that companies collect this valuable voice of customer data , and then use it to best leverage results into effective action. . Generally sent to customers right after onboarding or other key events, this data can be utilized to leverage success by: Helping you perfect your onboarding process. .

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Data Underperforming Technical Team Education Software Review 84

Sales Hacker

MARCH 14, 2018

The General Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR) was a key component that was highlighted in Sales Hacker’s sales trends and predictions for 2018. This article dives into an overview of the GDPR, the good, the bad, and the grey areas around this new data privacy regulation. Biometric data. Location data.

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User Pilot

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The jobs-to-be-done (JTBD) framework is a customer-centric tool for product development and innovation, focusing on understanding the specific tasks or “jobs” customers hire products to do, providing insights into customer motivations, guiding innovation, aligning product features with real needs, and aiding in market segmentation.

Software Review 105

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OpenView Labs

JULY 20, 2020

The true cost to a company of a bad sales hire making $50k annually can be $380k , meaning the stakes for each hire are almost 8x an individual’s salary. Better interviewing = better sales teams. Positive year-over-year trends in rep attainment, promoted reps and rep tenure point toward this conclusion.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 30, 2020

That’s why the team at Sales Hacker decided to put together a statistics round-up showcasing how things changed in this year and where they’re likely headed in the future. Still curious which sales trends will be on the rise in 2021? Keep reading for the most important sales trends your revenue organization should keep a close eye on.

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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.

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User Pilot

JUNE 30, 2023

Use both close-ended and open-ended questions to collect holistic VoC data. This data allows product managers to make more informed product development and roadmap planning decisions. What are the different techniques to collect VoC data? Trigger customer feedback surveys contextually for existing customers.

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