Sat.Jun 02, 2018 - Fri.Jun 08, 2018

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How to make product improvements

Intercom, Inc.

Kaizen is the philosophy of continuous improvement. Web businesses searching for product market fit think they can follow this philosophy just by shipping code. But shipping code doesn’t mean that you’re making any significant product improvements. Similarly you can make undeniable improvements to parts of your product and get no response or appreciation for it.

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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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Lessons from Christoph Janz and Nick Franklin at Mogul I/O Berlin

Chart Mogul

Our own Nick Franklin spoke to Christoph Janz of Point Nine Capital at the fourth edition of our inaugural event series, held in Berlin at Point Nine's headquarters. Berlin was our biggest Mogul I/O event so far — thanks to everyone who came out to hear the talks, enjoy the discussion and see an excellent fireside chat between Nick Franklin and Christoph Janz.

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How to Personalize Your Outbound Approach According to Your Market and Persona

Sales Hacker

Customers want to be recognized as people, not account numbers or dollar signs. If you want to create sales emails that get responses, it’s this one fact that you need to focus on. No matter your industry, niche, product, or service, the ideal is to communicate with prospects and customers as individuals. How do you do that? With personalization. They want it, need it, and expect it.

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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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From first touch to qualified lead: building a sales funnel for live chat

Intercom, Inc.

The promise of live chat for sales teams is being able to connect faster with high-quality leads. But for someone in Sales Operations, the first thing we think is: how well does live chat convert? As Intercom’s VP of Sales Operations, my job is to obsess over how we can optimize our supply chain to deliver against our pipeline and revenue targets; in other words, figuring out how to make our sales organization run better and faster.

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Dear SaaS Peers, Scale Value, Not Usage (It’s Not as Simple as You Think)

Chargebee

Lessons from Michelin, Google, and certain other SaaS companies that got their pricing right.

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Don’t Ignore SaaS Metrics in Early Stage Success

SaaSOptics

Several months ago, I met an entrepreneur with a high-growth SaaS business. Being in the business of selling tools to measure subscription business metrics, I jumped right in, my mind set on a quick close.

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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 Investors & Strategic Buyers Evaluate Integrated Payment Strategies

Explore how integrated payment strategies impact investor and buyer evaluations. Payments are more than a feature — they’re a key to long-term success and market differentiation. They help SaaS companies offer seamless user experiences and efficient operations. Investors and strategic buyers assess these integrated payment strategies as a measure of a company's growth potential and sustainability.

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PODCAST 10: Using Data to Align Marketing, Sales, and Customer Success

Sales Hacker

On this episode of the Sales Hacker podcast, we talk with Cassie Young , Chief Commercial Officer at Sailthru about how data driven decision making can bring sales, marketing, and customer success all on the same page. What You’ll Learn. Building a cash-flow positive organization. Messaging and managing through challenges. The Rule of 40 – Using data to measure your business.

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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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SaaSOptics is The 2018 CODiE Award Winner for Best Billing and Subscription Management Solution

SaaSOptics

It's an exciting day at SaaSOptics — Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) CODiE Awards named us the 2018 Best Billing and Subscription Management Solution. CODiE Award recipients are known as "companies producing the most innovative businesses technology products across the country and around the world.". We're honored to receive such high praise.

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Our 5-minute guide to cloud-managed networking

ITPro

Tutorials. Learn why cloud-managed networking is growing in popularity with businesses.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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The Sales Velocity Equation: Your First Personal Sales Ops Exercise

Sales Hacker

One of the most enlightening and personal sales operations exercises that any rep can do is to build their own sales velocity equation. In fact, even before sellers join a company, it can be extremely helpful to ask your prospective employer about the current sales velocity of their organization. This way, you’ll understand what kind of “sales engine” you’re about to start driving.

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?? SaaS Roundup #122

Chart Mogul

This week: Is your churn problem actually an onboarding problem, a comprehensive Domo S-1 breakdown and how startups die from their addiction to paid marketing. In SaaS Roundup, we comb through the noise to find you only the best SaaS-flavored reads of the week — just our top three. You can also receive SaaS Roundup in your email inbox every Friday — just drop your email here and you’ll receive the next issue.

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Questions You Need to Answer about SaaS Reseller and Partner Channel Agreements

SaaSOptics

As your SaaS business grows, you’re going to expand the various ways you sell and market your product. Tapping into new customers through resellers and channel partners is one option many businesses will choose, but as we see at SaaSOptics, businesses often struggle to define reseller or channel partner arrangements and financial reporting because there are multiple ways to do so.

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Is your churn problem actually an onboarding problem?

Claudiu Murariu

Trying to sort out retention on its own is like hoping to solve a medical issue by dealing with the symptoms alone, while ignoring what caused it in the first place. A quick fix leads to shallow short-term results. You might win back a few customers, but the main issue lies somewhere else. Retention: the everlasting worry of most companies I’ve recently had the chance to work on retention campaigns for two very different companies: a medium-sized company with clients ranging from consumers to sm

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Driving Growth, Customer Satisfaction, and Retention through Usage-Based Pricing

As companies strive to boost revenue, deliver customer value, and stay competitive, they are increasingly embracing the potential of usage-based pricing.

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How To Survive and Thrive in a Long-Distance (Business) Relationship

Sales Hacker

This article outlines the dos and don’ts along with examples of how to build better business relationships as remotely-operating teams. . When it comes to choosing a romantic partner, we often let our gut instincts take over. We know who we like, who we don’t, what we want and what we want to avoid. One major obstacle for many would-be lovebirds? Distance.

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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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Why It's Better to Scale Your Financial Operations Without Spreadsheets

SaaSOptics

Sometimes in life, making ends meet is the only option. We’ve all faced situations where doing the thing that is “good enough for now” is the only option. Managing the financial operations of your SaaS business shouldn’t be one of those times. In their early days, most recurring revenue businesses manage financial operations with spreadsheets. Instead of robust finance systems that are expensive, they create homegrown SaaS financial operations by cobbling spreadsheets together with traditional a

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Using predictions to get your customers to buy again

ReSci

If you sell a consumable product, you want your customers to buy again and again. When a product gets used up or wears out, it makes sense to send a reminder to customers to refill, replace, or repurchase that product or a similar product. We. The post Using predictions to get your customers to buy again appeared first on ReSci.

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Addressing Top Enterprise Challenges in Generative AI with DataRobot

The buzz around generative AI shows no sign of abating in the foreseeable future. Enterprise interest in the technology is high, and the market is expected to gain momentum as organizations move from prototypes to actual project deployments. Ultimately, the market will demand an extensive ecosystem, and tools will need to streamline data and model utilization and management across multiple environments.

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Here’s What We Found in One Customer’s SaaS Environment That Caused Their IT Director to Say “Nooooo”

BetterCloud

“I showed this to my director. He shook his head, shut his computer, and walked away.”. That was what the IT manager at a midsize media company said when we found that they had 36,000 Dropbox files shared publicly. Given that this media company has reported on several prominent data breaches, losing their own sensitive data could have been a detrimental blow to their brand.

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How to turn a bully prospect into a paying customer

CloseSaaS

The last thing any inside sales rep wants to hear when they pick up the phone is: You suck!

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Is it time to dump Microsoft Office?

ITPro

In-depth. Office 365 promised continual improvements, but is Microsoft really making the core apps better?

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Sean Ellis on charting a path toward sustainable growth

Intercom, Inc.

When Sean Ellis joined Dropbox as the company’s first marketer, he was tasked with creating a culture of growth and experimentation. This wasn’t just a line item on a goals sheet; it was written into Sean’s contract. Where Dropbox went from there is well documented. Meanwhile, Sean has used that same approach to growth at LogMeIn, Eventbrite, Lookout and Qualaroo.

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6 Reasons Why Your Integrated Payments Strategy Could Fail

If you're in the software industry grappling with integrating payments into your business model, understanding where others have stumbled can be a game-changer for your revenue goals. Discover 6 key reasons behind the struggles many face. The challenge goes beyond the technicalities of integrating a payment system; it delves into the strategic oversight of revenue shares, negotiations with payment providers, and the full exploitation of potential revenue streams.

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5 Ways to Shorten Your Time to Revenue

Sales Hacker

The post 5 Ways to Shorten Your Time to Revenue appeared first on Sales Hacker.

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How repositioning a product allows you to 8x its price

A Smart Bear

Pricing is often more about positioning and perceived value than it is about cost-analysis and unconvincing ROI calculators. As a result, repositioning can allow you to charge many times more than you think. Here’s how. You’ve created a marketing tool called DoubleDown that doubles the cost-efficiency of AdWords campaigns. You heard that right folks — as a marketer, you can generate the same impact, the same number of conversions, the same quality of sales leads, but with half

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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.