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SaaStr
JULY 22, 2020
I’m not ashamed to admit that when I set up our first SaaS sales comp plan, I had no idea what I was doing. In my first start-up, yes I sold to the enterprise. I sold $6m our first year (man, that sounds good looking back on it).
Predictable Revenue
SEPTEMBER 9, 2020
Keeping your existing users is much more cost effective that finding and converting new leads. Despite this, the average business mailing list loses 25% of its subscribers every year. Reactivating your lapsed customers is key to preventing them from becoming lost customers.
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Predictable Revenue
OCTOBER 22, 2020
Ari Levine has learned to approach everything from the position of the consumer. Even in B2B enterprises, that buyer is a person and we shouldn't forget that. Let's learn how to be more human in our outreach approach and create quality connections with our target audience.
Andreessen Horowitz
OCTOBER 18, 2020
New technologies enable activities that fall into one of two categories: 1) doing things you could already do but can now do better because they are faster, cheaper, easier, higher quality, etc.
Speaker: Sneha Narahalli - VP, Head of Product at Sephora
In this webinar, Sneha Narahalli, Head of Product at Sephora (Digital, Data & MarTech), will give you an iterative method for identifying and developing Product Market Fit.
For Entrepreneurs
SEPTEMBER 9, 2020
KBCM TECHNOLOGY GROUP SAAS SURVEY – COVID EDITION For the eighth year in a row, we’re proud to work with KBCM Technology Group (formerly Pacific Crest Securities) Thank you to the readers of forEntrepreneurs who participated in taking the survey!
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SaaSX
SEPTEMBER 29, 2020
The SaaS sales playbook applied best to a product-led growth when it is adapted to be sales-assisted versus sales led
InsightSquared
JULY 21, 2020
The best sales teams consistently deliver for their organizations, plain and simple. It’s not just the effort of one or two rainmakers, but one of the entire team. This is no mistake, as the elite teams are relentless in their development of sales skills.
Cobloom
SEPTEMBER 7, 2020
This is a guest post from Benjamin Brandall. Benjamin is a content marketer at Process Street , where he writes on startups, SaaS, and workflows. In his spare time, he runs Secret Cave , a site covering obscure entertainment and internet culture
Chargebee
DECEMBER 21, 2020
Churn is a universal problem that every company faces. Let's look at some real-life examples and understand how companies in SaaS dealt away with churn
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Product teams strive to incorporate customers’ needs in everything they build, but this can’t be done without clear strategy, processes, and feedback loops in place. In this eBook, you'll learn how to build a robust voice of the customer program.
SaaStr
NOVEMBER 18, 2020
Second-timers know the playbook and can execute against it faster. But often times, they also have a bit of healthy skepticism, a bit of baggage, from the last time. First-timers often know very little, but are baggage free. That can be very powerful.
SaaStr
AUGUST 17, 2020
Here’s my list of the best golden advice I was given as a first-time — and second-time — CEO: Manage People — In General, and Earlier. The earlier in your career you can learn how to manage people, the faster you can excel in learning to scale. Managing people isn’t always fun.
SaaStr
NOVEMBER 17, 2020
If you get even 10 paying customers in your first 90 days in market, and they don't churn … You have something. Never, ever quit then. Even if you have no money. Even if the team isn't sure. Even if the competition is fierce. Even if they say it's too hard.
Chargebee
SEPTEMBER 28, 2020
“A culture is not a set of beliefs; it’s a set of actions.” Bushido
Speaker: William Haas Evans - Principal Consultant, Product Strategy Practice Lead, Kuroshio Consulting
In this webinar, we'll explore product strategy obstacles and present practices to overcome them while driving clarity and alignment across your executive team.
Incredo
JANUARY 29, 2020
When users interact with the World Wide Web, they tend to be rather lenient with their activity online and consider the consequences of their actions a little less.
Predictable Revenue
SEPTEMBER 2, 2020
Co-Founder and CEO of Lemlist, the coolest sales automation platform ever created, shares tips and tricks to grow a SaaS company in a B2B space, from scratch! The post Building a Successful B2B Outbound Sales Strategy From Scratch appeared first on Predictable Revenue.
The Daily Egg
JUNE 24, 2020
The best cloud storage service is Google Drive. For a more in-depth look at the best cloud storage services, check out reviews of our five favorites below. Looking for a way to save room in your office? Or maybe you want to be able to access files remotely? Or maybe you just need a place […].
DeepStream
AUGUST 16, 2020
What can you learn from video games to engage your customers and get them addicted to your products? Gamification is to key to successful engagement
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In-app guides are powerful tools for delivering exceptional product experiences, but it’s all too easy to use them improperly or get too carried away. In this eBook, we’ll show you eight essential dos and don’ts for building impactful in-app guides.
SaaStr
DECEMBER 15, 2020
It took us 2 years just to figure out our ultimate business model. What you think you do on day 1 may look very different by day 365. link]. — Aaron Levie (@levie) September 11, 2020. It seems like everyone wants to be a SaaS founder these days.
SaaStr
NOVEMBER 19, 2020
IME, rough order to make hires in: VPM: $0.2m ARR VPS: $1-$1.5m ARR VPCS: $2m ARR VPP: $3m-$4m ARR VPE: $5m-$6m ARR CFO: $10m ARR COO: $20m ARR. More here: [link]. — Jason BeKind Lemkin (@jasonlk) July 21, 2019. The other day I was meeting with a great CEO who had raised a modest seed round.
SaaStr
DECEMBER 14, 2020
“Churn” is a term we all use in SaaS as a core metric, but its roots, as near as I remember and can tell, come from our B2C colleagues. Folks churn out of their Verizon plan, their Netflix subscription, etc. In a low-end subscription model for a tool, not a solution (e.g.,
SaaStr
DECEMBER 7, 2020
I know you are probably like me. You go to a web service. What do you do? Free trial. Sign Up Now. The very, very last thing I am going to click is “Contact Me.”
Speaker: Matt LeMay - Product Coach and Consultant, Author of Product Management in Practice and Agile for Everybody
In this webinar, internationally recognized product leader Matt LeMay walks through the most common impediments to creating an outcome-focused product team and provides practical and actionable guidance for moving through them quickly and fearlessly.
SaaStr
DECEMBER 10, 2020
I hear again and again from SaaS founders growing to $5m, $10m ARR or even more that they don’t need a certain VP — with the exception of a VP of Sales. That they can get away without no one in the role, or a just a junior person in marketing, in product, in success, in biz dev, etc.
SaaStr
SEPTEMBER 13, 2020
90% of my evaluation of any leader that works for me is the quality of people they can get to work for them. This could be wrong… Maybe it should be 95%. — Todd McKinnon (@toddmckinnon) September 13, 2020. Recruiting is tough. I certainly don’t do it well enough.
SaaStr
OCTOBER 11, 2020
If someone is looking for another job in Year 1, Even if they don’t take it … You’ve already basically lost them. Do more 1-on-1s Get more 360 feedback Talk more. I know you don’t have time. Make it. — Jason BeKind Lemkin (@jasonlk) October 11, 2020.
Incredo
JANUARY 21, 2020
Conversational marketing has conquered the SaaS industry long ago. Software companies engage, qualify, and recommend visitors with the help of chatbots who set new rules for improving user experience.
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Product teams have access to tons of data these days, but just because you're tracking product metrics doesn't mean you're tracking the right product metrics. In this eBook, we walk through the ten KPIs every product leader should have on their radar.
Predictable Revenue
FEBRUARY 25, 2020
In sales, the common misconception is that by saying the right thing you’ll win the deal.
The Daily Egg
MAY 19, 2020
The post 15 Top Live Chat Software Solutions Reviewed appeared first on The Daily Egg. User Experience
SaaStr
AUGUST 14, 2020
A mistake many founders make is hiring a VP of Sales who has many strengths — but not at sales per se. A VP of Sales who is smart, polished, and worked at the right place, in a management-level position. That can talk about quota attainment and sales operations and scaling and number.
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