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Warning Signs Your SaaS Company is Outgrowing QuickBooks: Painful Audits and Challenging Forecasts

Sage Intacct

For many startups and businesses that are still in the very early stages of growth, spreadsheet-based accounting solutions can be a real asset. But past a certain stage of corporate development, QuickBooks just doesn't make sense , particularly for auditing and accounting forecasting.

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A Basic Guide to Working Better With Your VCs in 2023

SaaStr

So in the Boom Years of late 2020 to early 2021, a lot of best practices working with VCs fell apart. Founders stopped caring. VCs did so many deals, they stopped caring. Everything was Up, Up and Up!! Now, it’s tougher times for almost everyone. If nothing else, it’s dramatically harder to get funded at the Series A and B stages, and almost impossible at C and D unless you are executing to perfection.

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Stealing B2C Black Friday tactics in the sales development world

Predictable Revenue

Jenell Riesner joins Collin Stewart on this episode of the Predictable Revenue podcast to discuss applying B2C Black Friday tactics to the sales development world. The post Stealing B2C Black Friday tactics in the sales development world appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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SaaStr’s Top Videos of 2022 (#12-#1): Atlassian, Gitlab, Twilio, Zapier, and More!

SaaStr

With three live events, two digital events, and our two special series, Workshop Wednesdays and CRO Confidential, we have 200+ videos just from 2022 for you! Our top videos alone cover a wide range of topics important to SaaS Founders and CEOs: scaling, fundraising, building and retaining a high-performing team, PLG, and more. Today, we’re giving you #12-#1 of our top videos of 2022!

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Struggling to Scale Test Coverage Under Pressure?

When test coverage falls behind release velocity, quality suffers, and your team feels the consequences. This guide outlines when it makes sense to outsource quality assurance (QA), the risks to watch for, and how to scale testing without increasing headcount or slowing down engineering. You will learn how leading teams are leveraging external QA partners to expand coverage, enhance defect detection, and remain aligned with CI/CD timelines.

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Should You Raise Your Rates and Only Take Paid Speaking Gigs? Not So Fast…

Sparktoro

Over on Mastodon, SparkToro CEO Rand Fishkin and Seer Interactive CEO Wil Reynolds were chatting about the blind advice of “Raise your rates!” and “Don’t speak for free!” They floated the idea of a co-authored blog post, and I (SparkToro’s VP Marketing Amanda Natividad) promptly chimed in.

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Intercom recognized with 101 badges and awards in G2’s Winter Reports 2023

Intercom, Inc.

We are delighted to announce that Intercom has once again been recognized as among the best solutions in a number of Customer Service categories in the newly released G2 Winter Reports 2023. This season, we were rewarded a whopping 101 badges and awards, a recognition of Intercom’s position as a leader in the field of Customer Service. #Humblebrags.

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New Sales Enablement Report: 74% of Orgs to Increase Spend in 2023

Sales Hacker

Per new research, a mere 26% of organizations say 90% or more of their reps met quota last year. Today’s uncertain economic climate only complicates matters. Many revenue leaders have gone in search of the right tools and strategies to help sellers thrive. And many have turned to sales enablement. Related: What Is Sales Enablement? Process, Framework and Tools.

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What is E-A-T?

Neil Patel

Which three words describe content and websites that deliver outstanding value? Expertise, authoritativeness, and trustworthiness—or E-A-T. E-A-T signals what Google and potential customers are looking for—expert-level content that answers all the right questions. E-A-T first showed up in Google’s Search Quality Guidelines in 2014 and has progressively become one of the most important aspects of SEO.

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How To Ask A Client For A Referral [+ Templates]

Totango

ClieOne of the most basic principles of customer success is using your products and services to create advocates for your company/product/brand. Having an army of happy customers can do much of this legwork for you. The fact of the matter is that customers are influenced by word-of-mouth two to 10 times more than they are by paid media. Up to 50% of consumers insist that the recommendations of people they know are the primary drivers of their buying decisions.

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Mastering Apache Airflow® 3.0: What’s New (and What’s Next) for Data Orchestration

Speaker: Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate

Apache Airflow® 3.0, the most anticipated Airflow release yet, officially launched this April. As the de facto standard for data orchestration, Airflow is trusted by over 77,000 organizations to power everything from advanced analytics to production AI and MLOps. With the 3.0 release, the top-requested features from the community were delivered, including a revamped UI for easier navigation, stronger security, and greater flexibility to run tasks anywhere at any time.

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Strategies For Sustainable Growth In 2023

Chart Mogul

For a long time, exponential growth was an expectation for successful SaaS companies. Now, in this economic environment, growing sustainably might just be the new “name of the game”. We spoke with SaaS leaders across different sectors to bring you insights on sustainable growth strategies for 2023. Daria Danilina, Co-founder at Salesroom, Jonah Remz, VP … For a long time, exponential growth was an expectation for successful SaaS companies.

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Why enterprises should embrace remote work in 2023

IT World

Many businesses are looking to cut costs as economies face recession, but some enterprises may be ignoring one of the most effective ways to trim the fat while boosting productivity — by embracing remote working. The power is in your hands. We know Macs, iPhones, and iPads have been seeing increased deployment across the enterprise. We also know (because IBM , SAP and so many companies tell us) that businesses that embrace Apple kit also see reduced overall cost of ownership and lower tech supp

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Accounting and Auditing Pains: When to Leave QuickBooks

Sage Intacct

For many startups and businesses that are still in the very early stages of growth, spreadsheet-based accounting solutions can be a real asset. But past a certain stage of corporate development, QuickBooks just doesn't make sense , particularly for auditing and accounting forecasting.

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2022's top Google Assistant advice for Android

IT World

One of Android's most underappreciated advantages is its tight integration with the excellent Google Assistant voice command genie. It's easy to take Assistant for granted, being a person who carries around an Android phone every day. It's just always there , usually quietly waiting. And it's certainly not perfect. But Assistant can do some spectacularly useful stuff.

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Agent Tooling: Connecting AI to Your Tools, Systems & Data

Speaker: Alex Salazar, CEO & Co-Founder @ Arcade | Nate Barbettini, Founding Engineer @ Arcade | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO @ Aggregage

There’s a lot of noise surrounding the ability of AI agents to connect to your tools, systems and data. But building an AI application into a reliable, secure workflow agent isn’t as simple as plugging in an API. As an engineering leader, it can be challenging to make sense of this evolving landscape, but agent tooling provides such high value that it’s critical we figure out how to move forward.

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Applications for cryptocurrency: types of software and tips on choosing the right one

SaaS Metrics

A cryptocurrency application is a cell phone program that enables users to operate and manage their entire collection of cryptocurrencies even without the necessity of logging into a full-fledged computer. Apps usually provide simpler customization and entry features than desktop PC platforms, but more often than not, they offer all the same. Read more.