Thu.Mar 14, 2019

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Building a SaaS Sales Machine (Podcast)

SaaStr

I don’t usually post podcasts or similar media that I do about … myself. That seems a little much. Especially these days, with all the incredible content on SaaStr. But Dimitar Stanimiroff, now CEO of Heresy and previously MD EMEA at Stack Overflow, wanted to do a deep dive ahead of SaaStr Europa and we had some fun. If you want to hear a bit about the early days and lessons learned from them, as well as some succinct thoughts on the Best of SaaStr and how those lessons have evolved

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What do growth investors look for?

SaaStock

On the latest episode of the SaaS Revolution Show, we take you back to the SaaStock18 stage for a panel discussion on what growth investors look for. Jos White, General Partner at Notion Capital , moderates the panel featuring Nicola McClafferty, Investment Director at Draper Esprit, Michael Brown, General Partner at Battery Ventures, and Tom Mendoza, Venture Investor at EQT Ventures.

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Stop Wasting Your Life. Know When It’s Time to Sell Your Company with Think3 (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Andy Tryba, Founder & CEO at Think3, talks about his thoughts on exits and why you should sell your startup. He suggests that the more times you sell (or exit in general), that you’ll be able to start another startup and make it more successful than the first one. He says “Because, certainly, as you get to startup four or five, you’ve learned a lot, versus startup one and two.

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The professional and the personal: how to build closer relationships with your SDRs with Cognetik’s James Bawden

Predictable Revenue

On this edition of The Predictable Revenue Podcast, co-host Collin Stewart welcomes James Bawden, Senior Business Development Representative at Cognetik. The post The professional and the personal: how to build closer relationships with your SDRs with Cognetik’s James Bawden appeared first on Predictable Revenue - The Outbound Success Company. We help companies grow faster with Outbound Sales.

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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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What are collaborative tools, and why are they on the rise?

Trint

Collaboration is everything for journalists. And thanks to technology, this doesn’t mean teams have to sit on top of each other when working on projects - not just because that would be extremely uncomfortable - and stories from the field can be supported by writers at home. Work lives across geographies in today’s age, making the newsroom truly globalized.

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How to Set up Your Inbound Efforts to Make Your Outbound Strategy More Effective

Sales Hacker

Outbound sales is often a hot topic because a silver bullet that applies to all personas and industries does not exist. Sales Managers too often get caught up in how to optimize their outbound efforts that they forget about enabling their team for handling inbound. But the most successful sales organizations build a predictable pipeline by leveraging a strong inbound strategy that supplements outbound efforts.

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7 Innovative Ways to Make Your e-Commerce Brand Highly Successful

Nimble - Sales

We often hear people say, “Pass me a Kleenex,” or “That picture reeks of Photoshop.” Now, even though these statements signify tissues and photo editing respectively, each of these particular brands has made such a name for themselves that they have become synonymous with the product itself. That’s the goal your brand should aim for […]. The post 7 Innovative Ways to Make Your e-Commerce Brand Highly Successful appeared first on Nimble Blog.

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Atos to modernise WA Health in $124M Oracle deal

IT World

Global IT services provider Atos has won a five-year contract to overhaul the Western Australian Department of Health’s (WA Health) legacy infrastructure. The $124 million-project will see Atos work with the WA Government-owned IT services provider Health Support Services (HSS) to deploy a pay-as-you-go hybrid digital cloud service. The scope of the project will include a fully-managed Oracle Cloud platform, plus private, managed public and hybrid cloud orchestration. .

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Subscription60: Thursday, March 14th

ProfitWell

Good morning subscription nerds, and happy Pi Day. I’m talking March 14th (3.14) but let’s skip the math and splurge on some real pie. Apple, blueberry, cheese, you name it and I’m all about it. But before we binge, let’s jump in to the subscription news and resources you need to keep it rolling. Get daily subscription insights direct to your inbox.

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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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Tetrate emerges from stealth to bring service mesh to the enterprise

IT World

The architects of open source service mesh technology Istio and Envoy have broken off to set up an enterprise-grade solution aimed at large-scale customers. Tetrate has been in stealth mode for the past year while they looked to solve some of the biggest issues enterprises may have in adopting service mesh technology. The founding team includes Varun Talwar, a former Google engineer who helped build the company's own open source service mesh solution, Istio, and former Twitter cloud engineer Je

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Weekly Walk with Techstars’ Managing Director, Claudia Reuter

OpenView Labs

The post Weekly Walk with Techstars’ Managing Director, Claudia Reuter appeared first on OpenView Labs.

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“Spring Is Coming” to the Avangate Affiliate Network

2Checkout

It’s time to hang your winter jacket in the closet and change your wardrobe to warmer clothes, because “Spring Is Coming” to the Avangate Affiliate Network. Our spring contest will make your sales bloom and may even fulfill your Amazon wishlist. (Feel free to think “beyond the wall” with creative promotions!

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5 Reasons to Choose MYSQL for Business Data Backup

SaaS Metrics

Image Source: wpdev.work It cannot be emphasized enough that business individuals should always have a backup plan for their data. This is important because it can help save your entity anytime there are data crises. After making the bold move to ensure that you back up your data, you will fast realize that there are numerous options at your disposal.

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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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How Mom-and-Pop Businesses Can Market Effectively in a Digital World

The Marketing & Growth Hacking Publication

Image courtesy: Pixabay We live in an interesting era, where technology has completely revolutionized the business landscape. Apps, social media, and the internet in general have reshaped the conversation, forcing businesses big and small to adapt or fall by the wayside. While giant companies like Amazon have the resources to survive and make appropriate changes, it’s much harder for small mom-and-pop shops to do the same.

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Trust and Privacy: The Case (and Comparison) of Microsoft and Facebook

Andreessen Horowitz

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The art of being truly customer centric: 6 lessons from Survey Monkey’s CMO

Intercom, Inc.

These days, progressive, modern marketers like you and me are always hearing about customer centric marketing. We know that it’s customers, not brands, who hold the power. And while it may be easy to grasp the concept of customer centric marketing, it is damn hard to live, breathe and consistently measure its impact across your business. Being “customer centric” can too often be little more than an empty rallying cry, an aspirational idea where insights are half baked, unshared and certainly not

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Churn-informed onboarding and engagement strategies

Chart Mogul

Onboarding emails meet churn indicators. Steph Knapp discusses how you can identify and use weaknesses to optimize your overall onboarding and customer engagement strategy. This week’s blog article comes to us from Steph Knapp in Nashville, Tennessee. You may know Steph from her Zendesk Onboarding Email Breakdown featured in our 2018 SaaS Roundup summary.

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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.

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Sloppy PPC Landing Pages Hurt Your Ad Spend. Here’s How To Fix ‘Em.

Unbounce

Median conversion rates hover between 3-6%, according to the Conversion Benchmark Report. But the best? Anywhere between 12-27%. That’s two to five times the median. If you’re reading this, chances are that you’re stuck somewhere in the depressingly-low single digits. Most are. You’ve got the right keywords, your Ad Groups are on point, and your landing pages nail the essentials.

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What is Influencer Mapping and Why Does it Matter So Much?

The Marketing & Growth Hacking Publication

Be it to spread awareness, generate leads, or get conversions, every brand needs a marketing strategy. While there are many different modes of marketing that brands around the world leverage successfully, influencer marketing is quickly catching steam. In fact, in 2016, influencer marketing became more popular than print marketing, according to Google Trends.

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4 Tips to Handle Negative Reviews and Protect Your Brand’s Reputation

The Marketing & Growth Hacking Publication

The modern online world thrives on word of mouth marketing and online reviews. Before a potential customer even considers the possibility of engaging with your brand, they will first research your entire online existence in order to evaluate your brand’s credibility. This means that online reviews can literally make or break your business in the digital realm.