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Your sales team needs account plans. Here’s how to create them.

Intercom, Inc.

Account plans are one of the most important weapons in a salesperson’s arsenal. They bring together critical information about your customer, your competitors and your strategy to nurture existing business in a simple document to ensure each customer is set up for success. So why do sales teams often ignore them? The formula for selling SaaS software is quite simple.

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Reshaping the Software and Services Marketplace – A Guest Commentary in E-Commerce Times

Think Strategies

In the old information technology (IT) world, systems integration and consulting companies flourished, helping enterprises of all sizes across nearly every industry pull together a plethora of proprietary systems from a wide array of software and technology vendors. Despite the promises of the cloud, not much has changed. While there may be fewer pure-play proprietary systems and applications, the need to customize software solutions and integrate disparate databases has continued to grow.

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5 Game-Changing Trends Shaping the Future of Sales [New Report]

Sales Hacker

Once again, Salesforce presents a strategic look into the rapidly shifting world of sales. The third edition of the widely anticipated State of Sales report surveyed more than 2,900 sales professionals and leaders from around the world. Here’s a quick sneak peak of their sales research report. Sales technology , buyer behavior, and the need to mingle have made sales more complicated, thrilling, and tougher than it already is. .

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Selling to startups: What you need to do to get the most out of your startup customers

CloseSaaS

Most B2B startups initially sell to other startups before going after more established companies. And for good reason. Startups are approachable, quicker to close, and more forgiving when things go wrong. But is selling to startups really a good growth strategy in the long-term?

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Beyond the Basics of A/B Tests: Innovative Experimentation Tactics You Need to Know as a Data or Product Professional

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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The Blockbuster Software M&A Market of 2018

Tom Tunguz

2018 is a blockbuster year for software M&A multiples. The prices companies fetch relative to their revenues surpass any of those in the past 7 years. Billion-dollar plus acquisitions in 2018 have commanded a median 17.7x trailing enterprise value to revenue multiple. Nothing in the past seven years is close. In fact, there is not a single acquisition in that range.

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