Tue.Oct 06, 2020

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Overcoming impostor syndrome – tips for dealing with self-doubt

Intercom, Inc.

Our work lives are riddled with anxieties. Many of them are natural and fleeting, and we deal with them. One that can haunt people, however, is impostor syndrome. The belief that we are a fraud, doubting our accomplishments and talents. “If you’re anxious about your abilities a lot of the time anyway, you’re 1,000x more so when performance review period comes around” Each year (twice a year in my case), that feeling is amplified considerably by the dreaded performance rev

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Lessons learned while adding "as A Service"? to software applications

SaaS Brief Submitted Articles

Not just WHY you should SaaS-enable your software application, but also HOW to SaaS-enable it. Transitioning an application into a modern SaaS enabled offering in more of a challenge than many people realize or expect.

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How to Meet ADA Website Compliance

Neil Patel

The terms “website accessibility” and “ADA website compliance” are increasingly being bounced around in the online business world—there’s a good chance you’ve heard of it. But many people still don’t know what, exactly, ADA website compliance means—or how it can impact a business. I’ll clear up all the confusion and give you a step-by-step guide to making sure your website is ADA compliant—and explain why it matters.

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How to Get in Front of Your Ideal Audience

FastSpring

As a digital business owner, there’s nothing better than getting your first sale from your first real customer … not someone related to you. And after all the time and effort you put into understanding and connecting with your audience, you deserve that happy dance. But let’s take a step back and talk about the work involved in getting that first sale.

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SaaS: How They’re Turning Payments Into Profit Centers

Discover how top SaaS companies are earning up to $700k + and zero upfront cost with Usio Integrated Payments.

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Customer Success vs. Customer Support: What Are the Differences?

Totango

Customer success vs. customer support: although these two terms appear similar, they actually refer to two different, yet complementary, functions within a company. Fulfilling a proactive role, customer success focuses on problem prevention and creates value by enabling clients to achieve business goals. Customer support is reactive and acts as a resource for clients to use when they encounter specific technical issues and need help. .

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Investing in Scribe Therapeutics

Andreessen Horowitz

“I watched a video by Bill Gates and Steve Wozniac from the beginning of the personal computer age 25 years ago. When they were asked when they realized the PC was going to take off, they said it was serendipitous, … The post Investing in Scribe Therapeutics appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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Digital Marketing Consulting

Neil Patel

66% of Americans check their phone 160 times a day. That’s a lot. When we’re not on our phones, we might be browsing the web on a laptop, playing a multiplayer game online, watching Netflix on a Smart TV and so on… The point is, we’re bound to a digital world which means that every business needs some form of online presence these days. The trouble is digital marketing trends change all the time.

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Bio Eats World: Going Back to Work in a Pandemic

Andreessen Horowitz

It’s not normal to talk to your employer about the details of your health: your current temperature, who you’ve been exposed to, whether your kid is sick, whether or not you’ve been social distancing. So how do employers handle and … The post Bio Eats World: Going Back to Work in a Pandemic appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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$55M in Series F: What does this make possible?

Chargebee

We’re excited to announce our latest $55M Series F round of funding led by Insight Partners, and participation from our existing investors. This brings the total funding we’ve raised to date to $105M.

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Beyond the Basics of A/B Tests: Highly Innovative Experimentation Tactics You Need to Know

Speaker: Timothy Chan, PhD., Head of Data Science

Are you ready to move beyond the basics and take a deep dive into the cutting-edge techniques that are reshaping the landscape of experimentation? 🌐 From Sequential Testing to Multi-Armed Bandits, Switchback Experiments to Stratified Sampling, Timothy Chan, Data Science Lead, is here to unravel the mysteries of these powerful methodologies that are revolutionizing how we approach testing.

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3 Famous Freemium SaaS Strategies (And Why They’re So Good)

OpenView Labs

Under normal circumstances, if you invested tons of time and money into building a product that also costs money to maintain, you probably wouldn’t give it away for free, right? I doubt anyone would. But if giving it away for free or allowing people free access to it would help grow your business in the long run, then it makes sense to do that, right?

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PODCAST 130: Turning Junior-level Talent into Top Sales Professionals with Eddie Baez

Sales Hacker

Today on the show, we’ve got Eddie Baez, the co-founder of Career Pipe, a recruiting agency and SDR training program for underrepresented groups and minorities primarily in New York City. Eddie is bringing B2B sales to a group of people that may not be as aware of it. He finds people that aren’t aware of what is possible in a sales career, puts them through a six-week training program, and places them in companies looking to hire.

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SaaS Channel CAC Goals Calculator: Monitor & Test Viable Paid Channels

Inturact

Paid advertising for SaaS businesses can be costly! We want to help you make sure you are properly monitoring your channel CAC and understanding if a channel is viable to scale, as well as understanding how each channel compares to your organic channel CAC. In order to do this we have put together a process to follow that takes into consideration the 3:1 LTV:CAC Ratio as the backbone of our testing strategy.

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How Smart Contingency Planning Helped Salsify Get Through the Hardships of Covid-19

OPEXEngine

Jason Purcell, Co-founder and CEO of Salsify, saw firsthand the crippling economic impacts of the 2008 Great Recession. In building Salsify, a product experience management company, he and his executive team expected another recession to occur at some point, and they knew they’d have to plan for the worst. In turn, they made contingency planning an annual priority.

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How Investors & Strategic Buyers Evaluate Integrated Payment Strategies

Explore how integrated payment strategies impact investor and buyer evaluations. Payments are more than a feature — they’re a key to long-term success and market differentiation. They help SaaS companies offer seamless user experiences and efficient operations. Investors and strategic buyers assess these integrated payment strategies as a measure of a company's growth potential and sustainability.

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Announcing the Winners of ChurnZero’s 2020 ChurnHero Awards

ChurnZero

Superior Customer Success programs set great companies apart from their peers. Aligning client and vendor goals to create mutually beneficial outcomes can make a big splash – not just on customer loyalty and happiness, but also your bottom line. That’s why, starting this year, we’ll recognize organizations that have shown a commitment to fostering customer centricity with the 2020 ChurnHero Awards.

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The Honest Answers on What’s Next for Events

SaaStr

When COVID hit in January of 2020, it tore through the landscape of B2B + Cloud events, canceling all events that thousands of companies rely on for pipeline and revenue. No one was truly prepared for the disastrous tsunami we call COVID, however, it is remarkable just how quickly businesses were specifically able to adapt and overcome this new challenge.

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The 6 Best Ecommerce Marketing Companies of 2020

Neil Patel

Ecommerce is still growing. Statista says worldwide ecommerce sales will grow from 4.2 trillion in 2020 to 6.5 trillion by 2023. The worldwide pandemic and the growth of remote work continues to boost ecommerce growth. This is a huge opportunity for ecommerce companies that are ready for this change. Your ecommerce business will need help. The huge growth in ecommerce means competition; as a result, ecommerce companies are struggling to get customers to their business.

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Should you arm your SaaS software engineers with a web app vulnerability scanner?

Audacix

Web application vulnerability scanners have been around for a long time. And they've been ignored by most software engineers for a long time. Isn't it strange that the very people who build amazing software completely ignore other novel software that helps them secure their creations? Why do software engineers not like vulnerability scanning tools? There are many reasons behind this, but a primary factor is likely to be software engineers' lack of acknowledgement that they are responsible for se

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.