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How Customer Success can get a bigger piece of the budget pie with Jeff Heckler

ChurnZero

According to our 2022 Customer Success Leadership Study, CS teams are already underfunded and under-resourced. My job is to continually inform and share knowledge that’s going out in the marketplace. This is something that I’m doing with fractional headcount allocation. A lot of times, my COO might know about it.

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Mental Models to Help You Grow

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

I leveraged many of the 52 mental models while working at various software as a service (SaaS) companies, but in truth, they can be applied anywhere, regardless of industry. Customer > Team > Individual During my time at HubSpot, the leadership team shared this mental model to help with decision-making. Brand equity.

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HubSpot’s Michael Redbord on staying in touch with your customers as you scale

Intercom, Inc.

In a company’s early days as a lean, mean, business machine, it’s fairly easy for leadership to stay in sync with their users. As the General Manager for HubSpot’s Service Hub , Michael knows a thing or two about keeping customers close. Kaitlin: You’re the General Manager HubSpot’s Service Hub.

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Gong’s Linda Lin on customer success strategies for moving upmarket

Intercom, Inc.

A great customer success team will help you to better understand your customer’s needs, identify what “success” means to them, and in turn, help your customers realize the value of your services, creating a more successful outcome for both their team and yours. Since then, you’ve spent over 12 years in post-sales leadership.

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Three million downloads and counting: Inside Intercom reaches a podcasting milestone

Intercom, Inc.

“The great thing about performance marketing is the ROI is really obvious, so you can justify increased spend and headcount based on the performance, and that’s what we’ve done” The first thing we did was build out a pretty robust performance marketing team. “Great leadership hinges on some sense of predictability.

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Sales and GTM in Uncertain Times with Adnan Chaudhry and Matt Garratt (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Whereas, if companies have a bit higher attrition and retentions less than 80%, the churn could go up to above 16%. I was an account executive covering financial services vertical and covering in New York. Adnan Chaudhry: We’re doing sales leadership, all hands calls with customer service and support and sales every single week.

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Lessons learned from growing a PM team in a hyper-growth startup

Point Nine Land

In SaaS vs. marketplaces? This is an exercise that should be done with input/feedback of the leadership team. How are you coming up with the best solutions? How do you organize your work? An experience that is well aligned with your product: has the candidate been working in B2B vs B2C? An organizational task.