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In-context or out of touch: The future of online customer service

Intercom, Inc.

Support teams are facing a critical juncture: business costs and customer expectations continue to grow while resources like headcount and budget are decreasing. In turn, you’ll increase efficiency without increasing your headcount. The devil’s in the data: Data is the fuel for efficiency.

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Engineering Planning During Uncertain Economic Times

OPEXEngine

Do you need to make tough decisions about team headcount? Acquisitions, quarterly sales results, and new rounds of funding will require teams to work with management and determine the next steps. Slowing Hiring. This often means pulling back on hiring goals or pausing hiring altogether. Acquisitions.

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How To Structure Your Sales Organization For Maximum Efficiency

Sales Hacker

In this blueprint, we provide insights on how to structure your sales organization. The changes in SaaS require that we no longer look at salespeople as individual contributors, but rather a team that crosses disciplines, not just within sales but also across other parts of the organization such as marketing and product.

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Mental Models to Help You Grow

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

Operational efficiency. The Horizons Framework is an effective way to categorise projects, which in turn helps with assigning budget, headcount and timelines. The key tenet is to understand the real job customers are using or “hiring” your product for. Inventing is to innovation as simplicity is to operational excellence.

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Insights from Typeform: Leveraging Customer Success to Scale Your Business

OpenView Labs

Over this time, our headcount has grown by over 10x, and our revenue has grown by over 60x. I was originally hired as Head of Sales, but quickly transitioned to building out our customer success team in order to proactively improve retention. Sales as part of the Customer Success journey. Making Customer Success Scalable.

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What It’s Like Running a Profitable $400M Public SaaS Company with Vimeo CEO Adam Gross 

SaaStr

His first company was Personify and he went on to be a VP of Developer Relations at Salesforce, then hire number 11 at Dropbox, CEO at Heroku, and an investor and on many boards before landing as the current CEO at Vimeo. How Does Vimeo Handle Long-Tail PLG vs. a Very Sales-Led Motion? This is how Adam ended up at Vimeo. His advice?

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

Point Nine Land

There are many posts out there explaining how startup co-founders should “land the first sales, then hire the first 2 sales and when to hire a VP sales”. But, in my experience, there’s very little written about what is the equivalent for Product Management. Are you done with product management?