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4 Key Components to a Winning Handoff Process for SaaS Companies

Sales Hacker

Isn’t it ultra-satisfying to watch a perfectly automated factory assembly line? It could be cars, machinery, or maybe just ice cream sandwiches. See how smooth things are? There’s no friction whatsoever. That’s how your customer experience should be. Salespeople create relationships, but it has traditionally been up to the customer success or account management team to nurture them.

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How to Find and Grow Your Amazon Sales Rank

Neil Patel

Are you a seller on Amazon? If so, you need to understand the importance of your Amazon sales rank and how it can help (or harm) your business. What is Amazon Sales Rank? Amazon sales rank (also known as best sellers rank or BSR) is a numerical score representing an item’s popularity in both its overall category and respective subcategories. What does that mean?

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Service Provision in the Fourth Industrial Revolution: How SaaS is Changing the Global Digital Economy

SaaS Metrics

The current digital needs of economies are accelerating the dynamics of the global cloud market. The spree is propelled by the fact that cloud computing works great towards optimizing infrastructure costs and rapid scaling up, especially when it comes to large projects.

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How Much is 20% More NDR Worth to Your SaaS Startup?

Tom Tunguz

A 20% delta in net dollar retention (NDR) may not seem like much, just a trifle, but make no mistake, it’s massive. In preparing for a presentation at next week’s Saastr Build conference, I reviewed this S-1 analysis for DataDog that I had published a few years ago. It shows the difference in the net dollar retention across three competitors in the same space, Application Performance Monitoring: DataDog, New Relic, and AppDynamics.

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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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Hire the Right Type of VP Marketing — Or You’ll Just End Up With a Bunch of Blue Pens with Your Logo On Them

SaaStr

Apologies to all those to whom this is already well known. But, I know many of you have never hired a head of marketing before. And as soon as you get your MSP (Minimum Sellable Product) out the door, and you’ve got your first 10 customers under your belt — you’re probably going to want to hire a VP or Head of Marketing to help you get more leads in, manage the process, and help get the word out.

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The 5 Reasons Why You’re Not Closing Deals

Predictable Revenue

Dave Kennett, CEO at Replayz, joined us to chat about what often goes wrong at each opportunity stage, and how to replicate the behaviors of top performers instead. The post The 5 Reasons Why You’re Not Closing Deals appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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Decision time: Our new product decision-making framework

Intercom, Inc.

There are many ingredients involved in successfully building a great product, but fundamentally it all boils down to a series of decisions. And it’s the quality of those decisions – and the speed at which you can make them – that will dictate how fast you can bring value to customers and realize positive impact for your business. That can be said of most businesses, at any scale, but too often the hard job of thinking about how businesses make decisions goes unexamined, never mind improved

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5 Ways to Enter a Crowded Market. And 3+ Ways Not To.

SaaStr

Zoom even at $100m ARR still felt like it was in a crowded market. So that’s not really an excuse pic.twitter.com/rUyeUzMKC6. — Jason BeKind Lemkin (@jasonlk) December 22, 2020. In SaaS, usually one of 5 things enable a new vendor to break-out in a crowded space: 10x better at One Important Thing. In the early days, you will be buggy and feature-poor.

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How to Create a CRM System

The Daily Egg

Pre-packaged CRM systems have been a game-changer in the way businesses handle their customer relationships. However, these ready-made solutions aren’t always the right choice for every business. Affordable and convenient as they might be, you might need a more robust and targeted solution. Building CRM software from scratch isn’t as daunting as it might first […].

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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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Script writing for marketing: how to create engaging videos

Trint

Video is up and everyone’s doing it - including your competitors. But attention spans are short and consumers are constantly being bombarded with content. So how do you break through and create an engaging video that people want to watch? Script it. Whether it’s a 20 second social media snippet or a product demo, scripting your video is a must. That way, your subject will stay on track and on brand.

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Intentions matter: How to uncover the why behind customer questions

Intercom, Inc.

Customers reach out to you when they hit a roadblock in using your product and getting their job done, so it’s essential that you’re able to provide them with the right answer, quickly. But when it comes to customer support, all of your great product knowledge and technical skills will go to waste if you’re answering the wrong question.

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5 Interesting Learnings About Zoom at $4B in ARR

SaaStr

So the last time we caught up with Zoom on the 5 Interesting Learnings series, it had just IPO’d. Boy a lot had changed. Especially Covid. It wasn’t that long ago folks thought Zoom might IPO at a $4 Billion valuation. Now, just a few years later, it’s doing that much in ARR. Woah. Double woah. And Zoom has seen growth in SaaS like we’ve never seen before.

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Project Management Methodologies: The Beginner’s Guide

The Daily Egg

As in every discipline, project management has its unique set of rules, procedures, practices, and techniques. Given the wide range of project objectives, industries, team configurations, and other variables, project managers can rely on a myriad of guiding principles to navigate complex plans and processes in the project’s lifecycle. In a nutshell, project management methodologies […].

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People, Passion & Perfection: The Key Ingredients for an Awesome Product

Need help launching innovative software quickly? Dive into "People, Passion, and Perfection" and unlock the secrets to building excellent products in the digital age. Fast-track your journey with Tech Accelerator: Agile and Cloud-Native for flexibility & scalability AI-powered innovation for faster results Quality at every step for a flawless user experience See real impact across industries: Healthcare: Empower patients and medical professionals with intuitive solutions Education: Transform cla

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Video storytelling 101: driving engagement through compelling stories

Trint

From Trint's recent webinar "Craft better, edit faster" with Amina Moreau. Co-founder of five-time Emmy Award winning Stillmotion and Sway Storytelling, Amina Moreau , joined us for our webinar on how video storytellers craft slick stories with smoother production. During the webinar we looked at the trends within the video industry, the different approaches to storytelling and the technology that brings everyone and everything together in the editing room.

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How to Optimize Your Automated Marketing System to Boost Sales

Entrepreneur - SaaS

As more marketing channels open, brands find reaching customers on all platforms increasingly difficult and costly unless they implement an effective automated marketing strategy.

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The 4 Questions Every Founder Should Ask Every VC. That Almost No One Asks.

SaaStr

When you go to raise venture capital, if you are in the fortunate group of start-ups with access to venture capital, you’ll either have options (more than one VC wants to fund you), or you won’t. Or sometimes, you’ll be in the middle, where you want to raise venture capital and can, but don’t need to. You’ll also have options in that scenario.

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Agile Project Management: The Beginner’s Guide

The Daily Egg

Project management can have you feeling like you are endlessly chasing your tail. Keeping track of all the moving parts—from team members, to project deliverables, to stakeholder expectations—can be both challenging and exhausting. But, with an agile operation, project management doesn’t have to be such an uphill battle. Agile project management allows teams to become […].

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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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Great teams work together. The best teams collaborate with Trint.

Trint

Get your team working together from the same page. With up to 20 collaborators in one transcript, teams can quickly search, verify and edit the same Trint simultaneously. Download the guide on getting your teams working together.

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Investing in Whatnot

Andreessen Horowitz

For many years now, we’ve seen ecommerce grow, sparking an entire industry of new brands, channels, and technology stacks. Today, everything from a legacy department store to your local grocery store to a faraway fashion boutique is “online” at your … The post Investing in Whatnot appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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5 Interesting Learnings From Salesforce at $24B+ ARR

SaaStr

We last checked in with Salesforce after $10B in ARR and a $100B market cap and it’s just cruised past that since. Salesforce has now crossed $24B in ARR, a $200B market cap, and is buying Slack! Wow. Its growth is 20% Year-over-Year, an incredible growth rate at $24B ARR … and faster than anyone has ever grown in software at $20B+ ARR … but at the edge of what it takes to be a “fast-growing” SaaS company.

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Kanban Project Management – The Beginner’s Guide

The Daily Egg

Project management has become the way to approach large overwhelming projects and break them down into bite size morsels of productivity. The biggest problem for many project managers is a lack of consistent improvement and a disorganized approach to project management. Kanban is a PM philosophy and approach with best practices and a favored layout—boards […].

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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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How content automation can accelerate your content creation

Trint

From dial-up internet to autocorrect, automation has made our lives easier, and the business world is no different. There are plenty of automation tools out there, all designed to speed up your manual processes for a hassle-free life. And while there are lots of areas of your business that you can automate, we’re focusing on content automation. What is content automation?

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NFTs and a Thousand True Fans

Andreessen Horowitz

In his classic 2008 essay “ 1000 True Fans , ” Kevin Kelly predicted that the internet would transform the economics of creative activities: To be a successful creator you don’t need millions. You don’t need millions of dollars or … The post NFTs and a Thousand True Fans appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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A Solution Sale Can Capture 3-20x the Revenues of A Tool Sale. With Almost the Exact Same Core Product.

SaaStr

Recently, I caught up with two great entrepreneurs/CEOs, both doing a few million in ARR and growing quickly. Doing well. Both had a roughly similar make-up of customers, split between: Big Customers (Fortune 500 / Global 2000 types) — not many, but each paying a lot; Small and medium-sized businesses, each paying four or five figures a year; and then.

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Critical Path Project Management

The Daily Egg

What exactly is the critical path project management method? Suppose you’re asked to write a very short recipe for making an omelet. You’ll probably mention three steps: Add butter to a heated pan, pour in beaten eggs, and cook the egg mixture for 3-5 minutes. These are the absolutely necessary steps to prepare an omelet—one […]. The post Critical Path Project Management appeared first on The Daily Egg.

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How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics

Just by embedding analytics, app owners can charge 24% more for their product. How much value could you add? This framework from Software Pricing Partners explains how application enhancements can extend your product offerings. You’ll learn: How to take a disciplined approach to pricing The three elements of the Packaging Decision Framework Ways to structure your new embedded analytics offering Download the White Paper to learn about How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics.

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How to Get 88% Open Rates and 56% CTRs Using Facebook Messenger Bots

Neil Patel

My colleagues recently shared the results of a marketing campaign they conducted using Facebook Messenger bots, which are basically the Facebook version of email marketing. The metrics shocked me: 88% open rate and 56% click-through rate! Although I’ve had some great email marketing campaigns, it’s hard to top that result. Why Should You Use Facebook Messenger Bots?

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Investing in Eco

Andreessen Horowitz

One of the challenges in any new industry — crypto being no exception — is building things that are not just cool for the sake of cool, but that manage to reach and delight a broad set of users. Technology … The post Investing in Eco appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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Monthly Quotas are Better than Quarterly, At Least Until $10m ARR or So. Here’s Why.

SaaStr

In SaaS companies in the very wide band from ~$1m to $40m ARR or so, the debate over Quarterly vs. Monthly Quotas comes up all the time. And it especially comes up when you hire your First VP of Sales, because odds are, he or she will want to move from Monthly to Quarterly Quotas. They’ll probably be more used to Quarterly quotas and goals. And also — they’ll think it gives them some breathing room.