SaaStr

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Lexi Reese, Gusto COO uses her 20+ years of experience to provide advice on building high performing teams using authenticity, empathy and logic. Lexi explains the importance of team trust, driver and passenger mindsets, and much more. I think the foundation of high performance teams is that they share five things.

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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. OKRs are a useful mental model - they make it crystal clear what people and teams should be striving for.

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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.

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ChurnZero

JULY 22, 2022

Does your Customer Success team have a shallow view of onboarding? But when it feels like each customer has different goals and definitions of success, how do you create an onboarding program that caters to these individual needs and at the same time can scale? They don’t engage. You’re not engaged.

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Chart Mogul

JULY 15, 2021

For 35%, it’s the share of paid users, followed by user engagement/experience and efficiency metrics. As teams grow, it gets harder to rally around key goals. We both noticed a similar pattern: alignment on key metrics breaks as headcount grows: More teams means more silos in processes and tools used to follow metrics.

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Chart Mogul

JULY 15, 2021

For 35%, it’s the share of paid users, followed by user engagement/experience and efficiency metrics. As teams grow, it gets harder to rally around key goals. We both noticed a similar pattern: alignment on key metrics breaks as headcount grows: More teams means more silos in processes and tools used to follow metrics.

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User Pilot

APRIL 30, 2024

From this article, you will find out how to develop a strong growth marketing strategy and learn growth marketing tactics for different customer journey stages. TL;DR A marketing growth strategy is a comprehensive business growth approach focusing not only on customer acquisition but also on long-term engagement and retention.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

ML teams tend to invest a fair share of resources in research that never ships. If you want to invest in ML, hire someone with experience on both the tech and the operational side so they can start working with the product team from day one. Des Traynor: So, maybe just a couple of dictionary definitions. Fergal Reid: Exactly.

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Chart Mogul

MAY 30, 2019

We know that transformational customer success focuses on proactive, strategic engagement. Ingmar, our VP of Customer Success, and our support team cracked the code on first response time and measuring NPS. We also needed to ensure each team and each individual contributor had clear goals and metrics to track success.

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Stax

JANUARY 29, 2024

Sub-merchants are having a poor payments experience Another tell-tale sign of having a sub-optimal payments partner is if your customers (i.e., The last thing you want is for them to churn due to a poor payments experience. ” “There’s definitely a component where there’s reusable code.

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Chart Mogul

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Getting a new customer on board is a happy time for every sales team, but it’s not quite the end of the road. Poor handoff practices also have a much broader impact than just making a few customers unhappy — they dramatically affect retention and your company’s bottom line. Set expectations from the start.

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OpenView Labs

MAY 19, 2021

After college, Ashley joined Twilio and played a key role in helping the company reach, engage, and convert its developer audience. She’s an expert on what works and what doesn’t when it comes to building successful relationships with developer audiences, software marketing teams, and technical CEOs.

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User Pilot

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

If so, you should definitely watch the talk that Jason Knight , a product consultant and advisor, gave at this year’s Product Drive hosted by Userpilot. TL;DR Product managers often don’t get the due recognition for their work and their role is often marginalized by frustrated leadership or other teams. Is giving up any easier?

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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?

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CustomerSuccessBox

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Time to value; customer engagement; Key Actions (leading indicators); measures of success. Any tips on a handoff from sales to the onboarding team? Make sure you have a handoff that provides the onboarding team with everything that sales know about the customer and why they’ve come to you to solve a problem. Yes and No.

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OPEXEngine

JUNE 8, 2021

In the movie Glengarry Glen Ross, Blake, a successful salesperson, visits the real estate sales team and gives them a blistering motivational speech that has gone down in history as one of the best of all time. Today’s enterprises, by definition, are complex. Enterprise SaaS, by definition, is also complex.

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User Pilot

MAY 18, 2023

UX deals with a user's interactions with specific aspects of your product, while CX is broader and covers all customer engagements with your brand. Metrics tracked by UX designers and professionals: product usage rate , feature engagement rate , trial to paid conversion rate. That's not entirely true. User persona template.

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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.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

We will be hosting monthly digital events, kicking off the series with none other than Lars Nilsson who coined the phrase account-based sales development himself. Their B2B sales intelligence platform delivers accurate company, contact, technographic, engagement, and intent data right in your CRM, browser, and more.

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User Pilot

JANUARY 8, 2021

Before we get into what is considered a good NPS score, we have some good news and some bad news. What Is Considered Good NPS Score, and What Is a Bad NPS Score? The metric was developed by Bain and Company in 2003 and has since been adopted by millions of businesses. Some industries like SaaS will have an average NPS of 30.

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Full Session

JANUARY 5, 2023

Your brand should develop a customer-centric marketing strategy to provide an optimal user experience to your website visitors. According to Sweor , 38% of people will stop engaging with a website if the content or layout is unattractive. According to HubSpot , 42% of people will leave a website because of poor functionality.

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Chart Mogul

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Getting a new customer on board is a happy time for every sales team, but it’s not quite the end of the road. Poor handoff practices also have a much broader impact than just making a few customers unhappy — they dramatically affect retention and your company’s bottom line. Set expectations from the start.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Cold outreach strategies that generate engagement [18:02]. Guided selling with Revenue Grid allows you to guide reps step-by-step through every deal, reducing guesswork and increasing consistency so your teams have the best odds with every opportunity in the pipeline. Who is Callie Moriarty and what is 6 River Systems? [3:00].

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Neil Patel

MARCH 9, 2021

Whether you’re running a corporate startup marketing campaign or moving your local business into the digital age , you can’t afford to waste time and money on weak leads. Before we dive deep into the metrics and methods you’ll use, let’s establish a baseline definition of lead scoring. Engagement. What is Lead Scoring?

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Team selling and why it’s making a comeback [7:43]. Who influenced Trish in her career development [31:34]. She’s going to be talking to us about team selling and how the concept of combined quotas with senior and junior account executives, converging on one territory, is coming back. Show Introduction [00:04].

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CustomerSuccessBox

JUNE 17, 2022

Product analytics is the process of evaluating how your customers or users engage with your product. This enables your product team to identify and track engagement data and optimize the product. Product analytics enables you to track, visualize and evaluate real-time customer engagement and behavioral data.

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Valuize Consulting

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Stephen is a Customer Success Executive in the SaaS industry, specializing in customer renewals and relationships, with 20+ years of organizational development experience. When it comes to budget, organizations often haven’t established where the investment is coming from to fund the CS team. leverage Training & Development.

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SaaStr

JUNE 7, 2021

If you don’t have tickets, lock in Early Bird pricing today and bring your team! That’s the definition of being early. When you get that thing where you’re a rational person and you think it will be great and 99 out of 100 people think it’s bad, that’s when you have opportunity. Get tickets here.

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Casey Accidental

MARCH 29, 2022

Non-sexy things include general user experience improvements, performance, developer velocity, infrastructure, technical debt, and, fortunately less than it used to be, growth. But I urge everyone I can in product to develop the intuition to support these initiatives without making teams jump through hoops to justify these investments.

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OpenView Labs

JUNE 26, 2019

I find myself answering a similar set of questions about how to build a developer community the right way on a daily basis, so I hope this article is helpful to those looking building a community around their product, project or company. Building a successful developer community is not an easy task. Community is a powerful thing.

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Aaron Beashel

OCTOBER 31, 2016

During his time at Salesforce, Alex was fortunate enough to work directly with Salesforce co-founder and CEO Marc Benioff, and together they utilised a framework Benioff himself devised called the V2MOM to align and manage the Service Cloud team. It was game-changing for the company, and for each team that implemented it.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 21, 2021

But that doesn’t mean they’re all bad. A strategy is how a team plans to reach their overarching goals and all of the steps to get there. Managers can energize the whole team by helping secure some quick wins. “Hi! Let’s synergize our teams to create a streamlined approach that leverages our core competencies.

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InsightSquared

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Keeping tabs on all this great content is never easy, so we’ve compiled a Best of List with top webinars from our team and partners, to guide you into the new year! In this webinar, learn how to move beyond the bottom line and build capacity in your team. Key topics include: How to identify poor pipeline hygiene.

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User Pilot

MARCH 31, 2022

The ‘developer’ way: Javascript, HTML, CSS. This is the most complex option – but if you’ve got strong development skills (or have a developer you can call on), using Javascript will give you the most autonomy to design, create, and customize tooltips as part of your product tours.

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InsightSquared

MARCH 8, 2019

Over the past 16 months, I’ve worked really hard to build a brand for myself amongst my colleagues as a go-getter, team player, and someone who will spend an unlimited amount of time trying to overcome whatever challenges stand in front of me. Having a go-getter or team player mentality, unfortunately, accounts for $0 in the comp plan.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

Pipeline analytics: Offers sales managers a view of their teams’ pipelines that goes beyond what’s available in their native SFA applications. I am super unimpressed with the current Go-to-market tech stack options…If I found the right team to start a company to take out all of them I would. A couple of big challenges & trends.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 28, 2022

Sanj has plenty of experience scaling sales teams at growing businesses, and that’s precisely why, as of November of last year, he‘s overseeing EMEA sales at Intercom. In today’s episode, we sat down with Sanj to talk about scaling sales teams, what makes a great salesperson, and strategies to deliver the best outcomes for your customers.

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