Kellblog

AUGUST 31, 2019

From time to time, every CMO faces a key question: to brand or not to rebrand? Often, it’s right after joining a company and you want to make a big splash. Sometimes, it’s after you’ve been with a company for a while and you and some told-timers are bored with the current branding and want something new. My general advice to those considering rebranding is “don’t do it” because I think it’s a siren’s call for several reasons: Branding projects are usually big and expensive.

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SaaSX

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

If you’re spending many thousands of dollars driving prospects to your SaaS website but are struggling to convert them – you’re not alone. We’ve all been there, and we all know how discouraging (and scary!) it can feel. If you’re experiencing this, your website’s landing page is most likely to blame. Poor website conversion is typically a sign of a poor landing page.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Who’s responsible for retaining your SaaS customers? Sales? Marketing? Customer support? Customer success? All of the above! Because retention is a team sport — and customer churn is the opponent. In this article, we’ll talk about how sales reps (along with Marketing , Customer Success , and others) can keep customer churn to a minimum. 10 Ways to Reduce SaaS Customer Churn and Create Loyal, Long-term Users.

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Tom Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

There’s a new debate about marketing efficiency recently, and it’s an important one in the era of product-led growth. If a startup has great net dollar retention (NDR), should it be willing to increase its customer acquisition spend proportionately? I remain a believer that months-to-repay is the best metric for measuring customer acquisition efficiency for a single reason.

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Speaker: Kenten Danas, Senior Manager, Developer Relations

ETL and ELT are some of the most common data engineering use cases, but can come with challenges like scaling, connectivity to other systems, and dynamically adapting to changing data sources. Airflow is specifically designed for moving and transforming data in ETL/ELT pipelines, and new features in Airflow 3.0 like assets, backfills, and event-driven scheduling make orchestrating ETL/ELT pipelines easier than ever!

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Practical Advice on SaaS marketing

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

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ProfitWell

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

“Close enough” is sufficient only in horseshoes and hand grenades; your pricing page is no exception. If your pricing page isn't perfectly designed to convert potential customers, all that effort you put into sales, marketing, and product development might as well be for naught. Unfortunately, all too many early-stage startups fall into the trap of pouring everything they have into their product and only hastily slap together their pricing page as an afterthought.

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Agile Payments

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Managed Payment Facilitation : What is it and is it right for your SaaS.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Lambda School trains people online to be software engineers. Rather than paying tuition, students agree to pay a percentage of their income once they are employed and making over $50,000 a year. Hear from Austen Allred how and why you should be stepping on the gas when your CAC is low. Want to see more content like this? Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020.

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OpenView Labs

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Building and distributing new software products has never been easier. New developer tools make it possible to build software by combining blocks of logic, rather than coding from scratch. Hosting is easier and cheaper than ever. Thousands of products are released every day on app stores and marketplaces. Digital advertising channels allow marketers to reach millions of potential users with inexpensive and hyper-targeted ads.

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Backlinkfy

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

Quality link building is one of the most important aspects of today’s search engine optimization. It is mandatory for websites that want improved traffic from search engines. In fact, online businesses cannot attract the target audience without using a proper link building strategy. Devising an effective plan requires many skills including, psychology, content creation, programming, sales, and marketing.

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Tom Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

I’ve playing with a new mental model for early-stage startups: a pendulum. This pendulum oscillates between the limiting factors of the business at different stages. There only two limiting factors in this mental model: product and go to market. At the moment a startup is founded, the business is product limited. You can’t do much without a product.

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The Daily Egg

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

(A Note from Crazy Egg’s GM, Suneet Bhatt: This is a guest post from our friends at Verblio, a community of content marketing experts for hire, who focus on creating you excellent blog content and then, getting people to read it. One of the biggest challenges we hear from our community is how hard it […]. The post Content Marketing’s “Inside Baseball” Laid Bare: If you Write It, They Still May Not Come appeared first on The Daily Egg.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Sales has an unavoidable reality: sometimes, your team won’t hit their numbers. If your team isn’t reaching their goals, what are you doing as a leader to help them get up and over the line? Every manager should know how to effectively coach their reps. This coaching helps them drive their team and their company to greater productivity and higher sales.

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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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Predictable Revenue

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Tips on how to write sales emails, social media, and other B2B marketing content that'll keep your customers engaged. The post 8 Tips For Writing Sales Texts For B2B Marketing appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

We’re proud to have > 60% women and multicultural speakers at the 2019 and 2018 SaaStr Annuals, and we are on track to meet or exceed that again in 2020. But our bigger goal is to drive our attendees to similar levels of inclusion and diversity. Our 2019 and 2018 attendee Diversity and Inclusion programs were fully subscribed and worked well, so we want to go even bigger this year on a number of levels.

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The Daily Egg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

(A Note from Crazy Egg’s Departing GM, Suneet Bhatt: This is the second guest post from our friends at Verblio, a community of content marketing experts for hire, who focus on creating you excellent blog content and then, getting people to read it. One of the biggest challenges we hear from our community is how hard it […]. The post How to Successfully Find and Vet a Content Creator for Your Agency or Business appeared first on The Daily Egg.

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

I’ve been an SEO for roughly 17 years now. And one thing that has remained constant, no matter how much you know about SEO, there is just too much to do. So much so, that most SEOs don’t even optimize their own websites anymore. And if they do, you’ll find that their site doesn’t rank for many competitive terms. Why? Because it is a lot of work! That’s why I’m excited to announce Ubersuggest 6.0.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

One sunny afternoon this April, a Chinese teenager nicknamed Gallen was backpacking through Bali, hunting for things to do. But he didn’t turn to TripAdvisor for crowd-sourced suggestions (too time consuming) or scroll through Instagram for local geotags (too imprecise).

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

This is a pretty important question and insight, especially these days. C-suite employees get an equity grant, 9+ times out of 10, based on the current cap table. Or if you are close to another round, often based on the upcoming cap table. What this means in practice is VPs and CXOs often get far more equity by joining … later. And far, far more risk-adjusted equity by joining later.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

It’s a healthy question and one that has strong opinions on both sides… . Does swag work? Promotional products (AKA swag, tchotchkes, freebies, branded merchandise, you name it) have been around for some time. In fact, they date all the way back to George Washington’s campaign in 1789. . More recently, companies have started to integrate swag into their sales sequences, driving healthy growth for the entire industry.

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Nimble - Sales

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Google Search Console is a powerful tool. One cannot overlook the diverse ‘search’ data that it provides. Constant analysis of the search console data can help your website climb the top ranks progressively and boost its online visibility. However, to enjoy the benefits, you must upgrade your SEO strategies accordingly, and for that, you need […].

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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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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

“You cannot be IN it… and not be OF it.” Dapper Dan a.k.a.

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InsightSquared

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

One of the main responsibilities of your marketing team is determining which campaigns are the best campaigns. This is no small feet. Even with the seemingly infinite amount of data spilling from your Salesforce instance, even with the growing number of available marketing enablement technologies, marketers are struggling to prove out their revenue impact. .

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FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

We live in a world run by data. We use massive amounts of data to tell the story of the world around us. This is especially true for software companies. It is an essential ingredient in understanding the health of a business. However, many businesses struggle to make sense of the massive influx of numbers, percentages, and other data points. Many ask themselves—what is the story that the data is showing?

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Nimble - Sales

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Software as a service (SaaS) is not a particularly complicated product to sell, especially in today’s digital day and age. But it is a somewhat complicated product to keep selling. Lead generation, conversion, and above all else, customer retention – can give SaaS leaders a chronic headache. Stuck in between acquiring new customers and renewing […].

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

“You got what it takes, but not enough to get started” — Too Short. An often-discussed problem today is that talent is more evenly distributed than opportunity.

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Cobloom

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

Whether you're trying to work out how efficient your sales and marketing strategies are, or determine how profitable your current customers are, it's vital to keep a pulse on the health of your SaaS business. Thankfully, there's a simple performance metric that does both. Today we're taking a deep-dive into one of the most crucial SaaS metrics around: customer acquisition cost (CAC).

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FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Prepping for the second installment of the European Union’s revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2) is a daunting task for companies of all sizes. Due to the uncertainty and ambiguity that accompanies the regulatory update, many software companies are left with questions about the future of their online sales in the PSD2 era. Many are asking questions like: Does the PSD2 affect my business even though I am not headquartered in the EU?

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