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Making the Business Case to the CFO: 5 Questions You Should Answer

BetterCloud

You’ve done your homework, watched interactive demos , and studied your ROI calculator results. For example, during the roaring 2021/2022 IT investment boom, IT has more latitude to invest without the strong involvement of finance leadership. Especially financial leadership. Now, those days are gone.

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The Zero-Sum Fallacy: ARR vs. Services

Kellblog

SeasEdge was doing a business intelligence (BI) evaluation and were looking to use BI to improve operational efficiency across a wide range of retail use cases, from supply chain to catalog design. We had a pretty formulaic sales cycle, from discovery to demo to proposal. We had financials that Wall Street loved (e.g.,

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Catalyst Explained: 3 SaaS Business Catalysts That Can Change the Game for You

SmartKarrot

Operational Efficiency. Recent technological advancements indicate that SaaS companies will have to manage to scale up operations at an increasing rate without disrupting or affecting the efficiency and overall success of current organizational projects. Thought Leadership.

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Catalyst Explained: 3 SaaS Business Catalysts That Can Change the Game for You

SmartKarrot

Operational Efficiency. Recent technological advancements indicate that SaaS companies will have to manage to scale up operations at an increasing rate without disrupting or affecting the efficiency and overall success of current organizational projects. Thought Leadership.

Scale 10
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The Zero-Sum Fallacy: ARR vs. Services

OPEXEngine

SeasEdge was doing a business intelligence (BI) evaluation and were looking to use BI to improve operational efficiency across a wide range of retail use cases, from supply chain to catalog design. We had a pretty formulaic sales cycle, from discovery to demo to proposal. We had financials that Wall Street loved (e.g.,

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Lessons learned from growing a PM team in a hyper-growth startup

Point Nine Land

This is an exercise that should be done with input/feedback of the leadership team. Not everything has to be demoed, just the really cool things, sometimes gifs and screenshots are enough. Look into sales pitches, demos, webinars,… Did your presentations/contents translate well into what we are showing to prospects and customers?

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The Difference Between Effectiveness and Efficiency Explained

InsightSquared

Others run tight ships with collaborative and focused work environments, but lack the leadership and direction to succeed. Consider the differences between activity effectiveness and activity efficiency among your sales reps. That is where activity efficiency ratios come in. every call, email, demo, etc.)