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The 9 Worst Sales Mistakes Founders Should Avoid

Point Nine Land

The Founder isn’t willing to be the first salesperson Many of the best founders we work with don’t have a sales background and are either product or engineering focused. Yes, they will refine it once the engine is running, but they don’t need to stand up the entire sales org from scratch without any proof that it will scale.

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SaaS Churn: Myths, Benchmarks, and Strategies to Retain More Revenue

FastSpring

To investigate, Ryan Law, former CMO and cofounder of Cobloom, performed an analysis of six recent churn reports or studies and found that there is no consensus on the average churn rate for SaaS companies. Qualitative Data Gathering: Surveys and Exit Interviews. Check out the interview here. But is this purely anecdotal?

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21 Digital Marketing Tools You Need When Starting a Business

Neil Patel

A big part of your digital marketing strategy should be based around search engine optimization (SEO) and this digital marketing tool will ensure that you always make good decisions regarding your content and its appeal to search engines. The best digital marketing tools make life easier.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Lucidchart and Wrike — February 28, 2020

SaaStr

Karl has been in every interview for every new hire for the first 6 years of the business, why? Below, we’ve shared the transcript of Harry’s interview with Karl. I started my training on the technical side, thinking I wanted to be a scientist or engineer, in particular, thinking I wanted to do research. What works?

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SaaStr Podcast #364 with Figma Head of Sales Kyle Parrish

SaaStr

Below, we’ve shared the transcript of Harry’s interview with Kyle. I started seeing some people from Dropbox go to be founding engineers over at Figma, the collaborative space design, still working in desktop apps. It wasn’t just engineering, product, and design roles. Harry Stebbings. Kyle Parrish.

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How to Close the Enterprise When You’re Just a Startup (Summit Replay)

Sales Hacker

We should probably do an interview together. And if we’re talking to the right profile of person, they’re very interested in doing that interview and doing that case study. Somebody may have a title, they may have a CTO, CEO, co-founder, or whatever. Could somebody come in and help with a technical conversation?

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These 36 RevOps Leaders Have Something (Great) to Say

Sales Hacker

It’s not all technical. RevOps is still developing as a function, so people with a lot of different experiences, like moving from engineering to marketing for example, find RevOps to be a great place to put their problem solving skills to work. Want a bit more context? Check it out. Why Follow RevOps?

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