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. Strategy - annually changes. MSPOT stands for: Mission - rarely changes.

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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. Click To Tweet. Set expectations from the start.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

I’m talking about product-led growth as an investment strategy, but really my background is 10 years of operating experience in the product-led growth world. I say investment strategy, but really it’s like how do you build a company that’s focused on product-led growth? I have a team of people who work on numbers.

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

Technical SEO is the backbone of every successful, long-term SEO strategy. And that’s when things go bad. The team scrambled to fix that. Hopefully, it’s a simple fix like a bad robots.txt file. Not all agencies can develop, let alone implement, advanced technical SEO strategies. In-house Team Alignment.

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Incredo

OCTOBER 17, 2019

or “how long should I spend on developing my software ?”. To answer your questions correctly, we need to ask for clarification and more details about your software, its complexity and company goals. If you search on Google, Youtube or Quora, answers will tell you that 7%, 9%, 10% or more is the common approach.

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Building on the definitions from that essay and introducing a few new ones, here are the types of business models we’ll cover: SaaS: software that businesses access online and purchase via a subscription e.g. Slack, Adobe, Atlassian. Payments also allow the company to enforce policies that build trust in the marketplace.

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Incredo

OCTOBER 17, 2019

or “how long should I spend on developing my software ?”. To answer your questions correctly, we need to ask for clarification and more details about your software, its complexity and company goals. If you search on Google, Youtube or Quora, answers will tell you that 7%, 9%, 10% or more is the common approach.

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SaaS Payments Compensation Payment Services Sales Recruiting 144

ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

But every so often, you’d discover a strategy that got you just a little bit farther. And by putting those strategies together over time, you’d eventually end up farther and farther down the mountain. Keeping your customers as long as possible is the key to running a sustainable subscription business.

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SaaStr

JULY 25, 2021

You can have the great product and a great team, but the market of small or very niche. The second one is the team, obviously depending on how earlier the team has a huge factor because you may be so early in your journey that there’s nothing else to point to, but the track record of the team. Jyoti Bansal: Yeah.

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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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Casey Accidental

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Many of the terms we use to define businesses today are features of the business rather than an encompassing definition, like the words SAAS or platform, which makes them not very useful. Note: I am blatantly stealing Brandon Chu’s platform definitions for this. The Weak Transition to Marketplace Arguments.

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Chargify

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Managing offers, reliable billing, and subscription lifecycle management is complex, creating an iceberg effect for companies that decide to tackle it on their own. It allows us to upgrade, downgrade, or cancel a client’s subscription easily. Below, we’ll shed some light on the great buy vs. build debate. costs money and 2.

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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. Tweet this quote. Set expectations from the start.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 29, 2021

And so, Mark Rudden and his team had to figure it all out by themselves. Fortunately, Mark had quite a bit of experience working and scaling teams in demanding, hypergrowth environments. SaaS is the subscription business. Building a great sales team: How Intercom fosters and maintains its sales culture. And I got it.

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Valuize Consulting

DECEMBER 7, 2021

In the subscription economy, there’s no debate about whether or not to invest in Customer Success (CS); 70% of rapidly growing businesses say that Customer Success is extremely important ( Hubspot , 2017). When it comes to budget, organizations often haven’t established where the investment is coming from to fund the CS team.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

So they created a software that provides control, visibility, and payment methods for corporate finance teams. Instead, focus on fostering a culture of communication and feedback loops between the team. He really fosters innovation and humility as a team player – aspects that were important to me. Nico: Correct.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

As for Krish, under Krish’s leadership the team has grown to over 300 people and over 5,000 clients making it one of the next generation in truly global SaaS businesses started in India. * First, what is continuous customer development? Second, why does Krish believe it is one of the most important things any company must do?

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FastSpring

APRIL 4, 2024

As an experienced sales and GTM leader, John Eitel has more than witnessed how product-led growth (PLG) has affected the tech and SaaS space in the last few years — he and his teams have been up close and personal with how PLG increased in popularity as a sales strategy. “I And it makes up for a lot of bad product experiences, right?

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In this episode, a16z partner Seema Amble talks with Dimitri Dadiomov, the co-founder and CEO of payment operations platform Modern Treasury, about the challenges of creating a new category, hiring for marketing before you hire for sales, and why developing new features is similar to birding. It was maybe like a 4 or 5 person team.

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Payment Solutions Payment Methods Payment Services Payments 106

Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

So let’s dive into how I automated my Instagram marketing and how you can too… Strategy #1: Get More Shares With Story Mention Automations. Strategy #2: Schedule Posts in Advance. Strategy #3: Automate Direct Messaging Responses. Strategy #4: Drip Campaigns in Instagram. Strategy #5: Automate Comment Replies.

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Platforms can create an immense amount of long-term value for companies, or be a minor component of their product strategy to maintain product/market fit. Bill Gates’s definition of platform has been widely popularized, but it has some problems. Incorrect incentives will lead to poor quality integrations. The Types of Platforms.

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Stax

MAY 21, 2024

If you’re selling law practice management systems to law firms, you’re definitely not alone. As software and management systems have progressed in the modern age, time-consuming tasks like recurring payments and client management are streamlined through this process. But improvements go much deeper than that.

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ProfitWell

JANUARY 6, 2020

If you don’t have product-market fit, you could be advertising to the wrong buyer personas and attracting the wrong buyers, leading to higher churn and poor retention. A high churn rate might be indicative of poor product-market fit. He said by 2017, the team had reached 14 people. Average subscription length. Churn rate.

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Valuize Consulting

APRIL 8, 2022

As a revenue leader, are you empowering and incentivizing all of your customer-facing teams to drive maximum NDR in your organization? Given the importance of net new sales to your company’s longevity and value, your Sales team should be empowered to wholeheartedly focus on acquisition. Evolve Your SaaS Revenue Model For Maximum NDR.

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Chart Mogul

APRIL 24, 2019

Here she shares her thoughts on setting mobile growth strategy, measuring success, and of course, key subscription metrics for teams with mobile apps. GetResponse provides an all-in-one online marketing platform for teams that need to build landing pages, send emails, run webinars, and more. A bit of background.

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FastSpring

APRIL 13, 2023

From leading sales at Zillow to brand strategy at Tumblr to revenue at FiscalNote (a global policy platform), Justin Scott started noticing a trend. When Justin and his initial team started looking for a way to capitalize on VR/AR technology, they focused their attention on the “made-to-order” industrial market.

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Payment Methods Marketing Payments SaaS Payments 142

Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Building on the definitions from that essay and introducing a few new ones, here are the types of business models we’ll cover: SaaS: software that businesses access online and purchase via a subscription e.g. Slack, Adobe, Atlassian. Payments also allow the company to enforce policies that build trust in the marketplace.

Marketplace as a Service 52

Marketplace as a Service Business Model SaaS Payments Payments 52

Totango

JULY 18, 2018

Customers often turn to Customer Service or Customer Support teams for help throughout the customer journey. With the right tools, Customer Support teams can become agents of Customer Success, and their work can lead to increased customer satisfaction, customer retention, and bottom-line growth. The current state of Customer Support.

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Navint

MAY 21, 2019

Recurring Revenue Conference presented by Sutton Capital Partners marked its fifth year on May 1, 2019, in beautiful Marina del Rey, California. Thought leaders, entrepreneurs, executives, and the investor community gathered to discuss the subscription economy and ways to attract and retain loyal customers.

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SaaStr

MARCH 20, 2020

Before Slack, Rachel spent 4 years at LinkedIn where she led the product marketing team for content experiences. Before Slack, Rachel spent four years at LinkedIn, where she led the product marketing team for content experiences. And so that’s when I went to Slack to start their growth marketing team.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Fortunately, it’s not as elusive as you might think, and it can definitely be taught — writing coach Leslie O’Flahavan has spent over two decades doing just so. Liam: And so, to avoid these kinds of mistakes from the get-go, should people go about developing a messaging strategy? What would that involve? ’ No. .”

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 8, 2022

I interviewed him for insights into how to build a global growth strategy, especially when it comes to localization. Note: FastSpring’s Revenue and Subscription Dashboards quickly show our customers where their revenue is coming from, the average order value or MRR per country, promotions performance per country, and more.

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Baremetrics

MAY 7, 2019

Choosing the right combination of funding for your business is just as fundamental as choosing the right co-founders (or not), the right market, the right product, and the right team. Dictionaries and founders alike can’t agree on the definition of what it means to bootstrap a business. What do I need funding for?

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SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2019

Here’s what Eyal and Megan talk about: How to develop software faster. But I think what it boils down to is also how newer technology is being developed and the ability for it to inter-operate with other platforms. This podcast is an excerpt of Eyal and Megan’s session at SaaStr Annual 2019. Missed the session?

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Chargify

APRIL 23, 2019

The “primary risk [during pre-startup] is the failure to design a business plan and strategy that will enable the company to become profitable as it makes sales and earns revenue. Side note: Bass explains why broad target market definitions are a concern to be aware of: “You MUST be hyper specific here. Not pivoting when it’s needed.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

What does it take to scale a sales team successfully? I’ve heard so many good things from Kobie, now at Upfront, and then also the team at Openview. Andy MacMillan: I started my career in tech actually as a developer. How does one instil volume based pricing without disincentivizing usage? Andy MacMillan: Excellent.

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Baremetrics

AUGUST 23, 2021

You need to have a strategic approach that includes identifying your market fit, developing appropriate positioning and marketing strategies, and measuring performance. Here's where having a go-to-market (GTM) strategy comes into the picture. Here's how you can create an effective GTM strategy for your SaaS product.

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