Wed.Jun 06, 2018

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When You Hire an Executive, You're Hiring a Network

Tom Tunguz

You’ve just raised a round of financing. Your next step is to build your management team. There are several criteria for finding the right executive. Competency in the field, cultural fit, communication skills, management experience. All of those should be obvious. There is one that is often overlooked. Network. Recruiting is one of the most important responsibilities for a head of a department.

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More than just conversations: the next frontier of live chat for sales

Intercom, Inc.

Sales has changed. Messaging and live chat are the new medium for initial sales conversations, not the phone calls or forms of old. Here at Intercom, we’ve seen this shift happening first-hand. Since we launched our live chat for sales product , the people reaching out to us to learn more are sales decision-makers. They’re VPs of sales, sales directors and CROs.

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Customer Success Trend at TSW Spring 2018 Conference

Totango

Customer Success Buzz at TSW. Customer success is hot. Notably, over 50% of the attendees at TSIA’s Spring Technology & Services World (TSW) event this year were in customer success. TSW buzzed with people who were both in the know and those looking to better understand what a Customer Success program really means and how to get started. Organizations are finally recognizing they cannot afford to ignore their most important asset – their customer.

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How to build a scalable sales process (Q&A webinar)

CloseSaaS

Here's the recording of today's webinar about how to build a scalable sales process (no matter the stage you're in today). Tune in below!

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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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How to Reduce the Cost of Your Content Department With a Monthly Meeting

Kraftblick

A precisely built planning process is like magic. As our company has improved our planning process over the course of many months, we have accumulated some valuable experience on this topic and want to share it with you. In one of our articles, we already discussed the importance of daily planning and methods of building a working daily planning process.

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Is Your Company Guilty of Causing Marketing Technology Vendor Fatigue?

Outseta

By Geoff Roberts 12 min read I read an article recently on ESPN after the Boston Celtics took a 2-0 lead in the NBA’s Eastern Conference Finals about LeBron James’ Cleveland Cavaliers and the organizational fatigue the Cavs are currently experiencing. The Cavs have recently made several deeps runs into the postseason, resulting in longer than normal seasons.

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10 Tips to Build Rapport Internally to Navigate Complex Deals

Sales Hacker

Sales is all about relationships—we know that. However, the focus tends to be on external relationships with customers. After all, that’s where the deals come from. But what can easily get overlooked are the many internal relationships in an organization. Today’s sale is difficult and complex —and it’s near impossible if you try to go it alone. Sales leadership, sales engineers, customer success, and marketing all play crucial roles in getting a deal to closed-won.

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