Kellblog

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Is your leadership team world-class? Does your board think you have the right leadership team? Heck, does your leadership team think you have the right leadership team? new ARR), OKRs , or hiring goals — either in terms of number or quality (particularly when staffing their own leadership team).

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Leadership Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring Scale 115

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.

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Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team Scale 171

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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Scale Underperforming Technical Team Scaling Leadership 178

Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

For example, image generation often is slow and clunky to control, resolution can be poor, and it’s been incredibly difficult to add correct text to the images. It’s incredibly fast and versatile, and the pictures it generates range from high-definition anime to abstract art to photorealistic images. The release of the latest Ideogram.ai

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Investment Underperforming Technical Team Innovation User Experience 110

SaaStr

APRIL 14, 2023

Mistake #1: Viewing Investors Only As Capital As founders build a team, they focus on obtaining complementary skill sets. Of course, building great teams and finding product market fit is critical, but don’t forget about product investor fit. Founders can definitely help lift the ecosystem in SE Asia. That’s a mistake.

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Development Team Review Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team SMB 220

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. These leaders act as partners and build out a strong team. Not every leader is created equally.

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Sales Hiring Education Scale Strategy 195

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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Underperforming Technical Team Scale Sales Hiring Marketplace as a Service 213

User Pilot

AUGUST 21, 2023

Product managers often work in cross-functional teams and bridge the gap between multiple departments. Product managers need to put themselves in the shoes of company executives, other team members, and of course end users so a strong affinity for empathy will go a long way. What qualities do you look for in a strong product team?

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Interviewing Underperforming Technical Team Management Sales Hiring 97

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Do you have two sales teams? Who gets what part of the long-term development budget? And most importantly, multiple products can be very distracting at the management team level. The new product tends to dominate the discussions, yet by definition, is only a tiny percent of the revenues in the early days.

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Underperforming Technical Team Cloud Revenue Acquisition 353

Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2021

” The secret to shipping successful product, then, is clearly defining for your team the problem that you’re setting out to solve. A great problem statement supercharges product development. It inspires and guides your design team, it makes evaluation simple, and it creates direction for scoping and iteration.

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Transportation Travel Underperforming Technical Team Finance 279

Sales Hacker

MARCH 29, 2018

This is part 2 of a 5-part series to help you develop the right approach to sales coaching. Coaching isn’t about who’s good and who’s bad. It isn’t about leaving the stars alone and trying to crack the code for the underperformers. You’ve got to think—what’s next for each member of my sales team.

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Underperforming Technical Team Data Sales Software Review 81

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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Social Media Underperforming Technical Team Scale User Experience 123

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?

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Technical Review Leadership VP of Engineering CTO Coach 274

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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Underperforming Technical Team Customer Success Outsourced Development Sales 80

Chart Mogul

JULY 15, 2021

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. Metrics get more complex and their definition shifts, which require ongoing education. Repetition is key.

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Underperforming Technical Team Revenue Scale Communication 52

Chart Mogul

JULY 15, 2021

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. Metrics get more complex and their definition shifts, which require ongoing education. Repetition is key.

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Underperforming Technical Team Revenue Scale Communication 52

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. Market development targets new markets with existing products, while product development – existing markets with new products. If so, we’ve got you covered.

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Underperforming Technical Team Strategy Marketing Customer Lifetime Value 86

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. G2 has a really helpful way of defining these, so I’m going to paraphrase their definition here.

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Underperforming Technical Team Strategy Development Payment Methods 145

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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Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning AI Search AI 249

Chart Mogul

MAY 30, 2019

Ingmar, our VP of Customer Success, and our support team cracked the code on first response time and measuring NPS. As we grow, we’re able to spend more time developing the proactive tiers of the pyramid without de-prioritizing a strong foundation of fast, helpful ticket replies and features that delight.

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Underperforming Technical Team Development Strategy Management 78

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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Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale VP of Engineering 247

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 13, 2019

As the head of our Support Ops team, I work daily with my teammates to develop automated solutions that don’t frustrate customers, but empower them. They can also route customer conversations to the team best equipped to handle their questions and can even provide answers to simple customer questions like, “How can I add more users?”.

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Underperforming Technical Team Customer Support AI Headcount 279

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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Merchant Services Payment Services SaaS Payments Payments 88

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? I have the internal handoff from pre-sales to post-sales customer teams.

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Scale Onboarding Scaling Underperforming Technical Team 98

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Many organizations create customer success teams but there’s no clear definition as to how these teams develop long-term value for both the customer and the business. Some sales teams consider a customer success manager as the post-sale counterpart of an account executive. The role of customer success teams.

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Sales Hiring Customer Success Scale Underperforming Technical Team 123

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. You can’t lie.”.

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Underperforming Technical Team Development Technical Review Marketing 52

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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Underperforming Technical Team Benchmarks Onboarding SaaS 88

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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Technical Review Management Underperforming Technical Team Leadership 102

FastSpring

DECEMBER 7, 2023

As the Director of Corporate Development & Strategic Partnerships at WP Engine , Carl has worked on many acquisitions and partnerships, including brands like Flywheel, Perfect Dashboard, Block Lab, and recently, Delicious Brains. “This is everyday for me, so I love talking about it,” says Carl Hargreaves about mergers and acquisitions.

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Software Review Technical Review Development Team Review Branding 136

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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Enterprise Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Sales 52

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. Consequently, it leads to higher user satisfaction, retention, and loyalty.

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Engagement Metrics Underperforming Technical Team Scale 105

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

MAY 22, 2017

It’s a tough question, and I don’t think anyone has a definitive answer yet, but the agencies which it figure stand to create a whole new line of business. We appreciate the definition is not 100% perfect and that it currently excludes sales managers, but for the moment we’re okay with that. But how can sales enablement be packaged?

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Marketplace as a Service Sales Enablement Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team 112

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 13, 2022

Oftentimes a good customer service experience starts with developing a sound process. With ticketing workflows that put the emphasis on conversations not tickets, customer support teams now have the ability to categorize, prioritize, and assign issues as they arise. What is a customer service process?

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Underperforming Technical Team Customer Support Technical Support Churn 129

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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SaaS Payments Payment Methods Merchant Services Sales Recruiting 139

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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Scale Outsourcing Services Software Sales Hiring 206

ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Here’s a standard customer advisory board definition: a customer advisory board is a group of trusted, hand-picked customers or influencers brought in by a business to be thought leaders and help the company gain key insights into their customer base. Plus, feedback like this can help you develop and deliver better products in the future.

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Underperforming Technical Team Branding Advertising Retention 98

Clouded Judgement

JANUARY 6, 2023

We know software is impacted from macro - but how bad will it get? We’re definitely starting to see more and more estimate revisions now. We didn’t know when inflation would cool or how high rates would go, but we knew they were going up. Call this a “known unknown.” It’s very tricky to predict.

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Cloud Azure AWS Underperforming Technical Team 130