IT World
NOVEMBER 21, 2022
Twitter, Stripe, Coinbase, Salesforce, Zendesk, Tesla, Meta, and others have announced significant layoffs in recent months , even though unemployment rates are among the lowest in 50 years. Facebook parent company Meta announced last week it would cut 13% of its staff or 11,000 workers, with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg saying he overestimated how long the pandemic’s e-commerce boom would last.
SaaStr
NOVEMBER 21, 2022
So there’s a lot of angst in VC today. And a lot of it is around bridge rounds. What’s a bridge round? It’s extra money solely from the existing investors. And bridge rounds are … stressful. Almost always. No one really wants to do them. They want a top VC to come in and do the next round at 2x, 3x, 10x the last round price.
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Predictable Revenue
NOVEMBER 21, 2022
Learn about the key stages of the sales funnel process, how to build a sales funnel from scratch, and how to optimize each stage for conversion. The post What is a sales funnel? appeared first on Predictable Revenue.
SaaStr
NOVEMBER 21, 2022
Wherever you are in your revenue journey, adopting certain growth strategies can help you keep growing fast. Robert Butler, Chief Commercial Officer at Payrix, has spent over 25 years in fintech and has most recently grown Payrix from $4 million to $100 million in ARR over the last four years, leading to a successful buyout and the launch of Worldpay for Platforms.
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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.
Sparktoro
NOVEMBER 21, 2022
In July and August of this year, SparkToro solicited (via Twitter, our email newsletter, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram) voluntary sharing of Google Analytics data from the web marketing community. Over 1,000 participants shared their websites’ traffic (through GA’s oAuth function) with us.
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Neil Patel
NOVEMBER 21, 2022
Did you know 1 in 2 visitors abandon a website that takes more than 6 seconds to load? You may think that sounds extreme, but it’s pretty reasonable. In a digitally connected world, people expect a quick and easy user experience, especially on mobile. Google agrees. Page experience signals such as page loading speed are now among the factors that help you rank on search engine results pages (SERPs).
Sales Hacker
NOVEMBER 21, 2022
A sales pitch without a story is like a frame without a picture: it’s just a thing. The most successful companies in the world have profound storytellers selling. Humanize your messaging— make your customer the hero in their own story, and use your demo to solve your hero’s problems. Use these real-life tactics and examples of how top sales leaders use storytelling to improve team performance, drive revenue, and strengthen the buyer-seller connection.
IT World
NOVEMBER 21, 2022
Emerging technologies including Microsoft’s Mesh and Facebook’s Horizon Workrooms hint at how augmented reality may become part of the future hybrid workplace. I caught up with Gordon Hempton and Wes Hather, co-founders of the augmented reality/metaverse communication platform Spot to see how they visualize the future of work.
CloseSaaS
NOVEMBER 21, 2022
CRM software helps you store customer data, create a sales process, and nail forecasting all in one. See our picks for the best CRMs for startups in 2023.
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.
IT World
NOVEMBER 21, 2022
For many years, the term “out-of-band Microsoft update” meant that Microsoft was releasing a special patch for a security issue identified as being under active attack. The patch was urgent enough to be released outside the normal “Patch Tuesday” security updates released the second Tuesday of every month. But recently Microsoft has been releasing out-of-band updates that fix issues that were introduced with the monthly security updates.
CloseSaaS
NOVEMBER 21, 2022
Don't know what to ask prospects? Check out these 39 qualifying questions to help you uncover prospects' needs, budgets & more.
Kalungi
NOVEMBER 21, 2022
Why is cold calling so important? Cold calling forces you to learn firsthand what prospects think of your product, and the information you gather during cold calling can be extremely helpful when trying to understand your market. With this information, you can adapt your product to better serve your prospects' needs and adjust your messaging to better speak to their pains and hopes.
Dubb
NOVEMBER 21, 2022
In this recap from a recent episode of RevShow, Rob and I discussed the idea of building your personal brand for career success. To help us explore this idea, we spoke with Selina Thomas, who was a candidate for Santa Clarita City Council. This is a great conversation for anyone who is looking to. The post Building Your Personal Brand for Career Success appeared first on Dubb Blog.
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.
SaaS Metrics
NOVEMBER 21, 2022
Online slot games, also known as digital slot machines, are very popular in online casinos. Because of the massive popularity of online slots, there are hundreds and even thousands of them that are available in just one online casino, and most of them offer variety in terms of gameplay mechanics or rules. Read more. The post Simple Tips for Playing Online Slots first appeared on SaaS Metrics.
OceanX
NOVEMBER 21, 2022
During cyber-week, it’s likely your job as an operations leader becomes very much about managing internal stakeholders and ensuring everybody has the information they need to make decisions. The good news is that if you prepared correctly, cyber-week could be like a ‘set it and forget it’ type of situation. There are very few levers you can pull during that very brief high-intensity period that will effectively make the change you haven’t prepared in advance.
SaaS Metrics
NOVEMBER 21, 2022
Have you always known that you wanted to work with people and change their lives by becoming a nurse? Are you currently employed in a completely other industry but considering changing to the nursing field? Whatever the case, it’s understandable that you could feel overawed by the possibilities if you’re interested in. Read more. The post Trending in Healthcare: Steps to Become a Certified Nurse first appeared on SaaS Metrics.
OceanX
NOVEMBER 21, 2022
When KraveBeauty was founded, they aimed to create a brand for people overwhelmed by the variety and excess of skincare products in the market. A few years in, they dug deeper into the problem and discovered that excess skincare isn’t just a problem for people; it’s also a problem for our planet. In this clip, Andy Chiu, General Manager at KraveBeauty, shares insights into their #SlowDownSkincare and #WasteMeNot campaigns, exposing the ‘Hidden Waste In The Beauty Industry.
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AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.
SmartKarrot
NOVEMBER 21, 2022
Role: Sr. Director Customer Success Location: San Diego, CA, United States (Hybrid) Organization: Workiz Inc. As a Sr. Director of Customer Success, you will develop and execute a strategy to increase customer retention and satisfaction. Manage a team of customer success managers. Work with other departments to ensure that the customers are getting the most value from the products and services.
Neil Patel
NOVEMBER 21, 2022
When you think about search, what comes to mind? I bet you are thinking “Google”. But there is more to search than Google. And even with Google, if you want to succeed you have to think beyond traditional SEO and PPC ads because everyone is using traditional tactics. You must think outside the box. And that’s what I am going to help you do today. So, let’s first go over the trends we are seeing, and then we can go over how you need to adapt.
IT World
NOVEMBER 21, 2022
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced late last week that it will close down the free Wickr Me encrypted messaging service, saying in a blog post that it plans to “refocus” on its related AWS Wickr and Wickr Enterprise products at the expense of the consumer wing of the Wickr family. Wickr has been in operation for a decade, making it one of the first end-to-end encrypted messaging apps on the market.
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