SaaStr

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

Set and reinforce them early — as early as interviews. If someone is working hard but isn’t working out, invest in them and see if you can get them into the high-performing category. The underperformers who aren’t putting in the effort get a conversation, and if things don’t change, it’s not a good fit. Revenue matters, too.

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Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Revenue Sales 206

User Pilot

DECEMBER 13, 2023

How do you develop a robust UX strategy? We also look at: What a UX design strategy is Why it’s important Its core principles and elements A practical example of a company with well-established UX strategies Let’s dive right in! Start designing your strategy by clarifying the business goals.

Strategy 81

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User Pilot

JANUARY 8, 2024

With the right customer acquisition strategies, you can convert potential customers to paying users and set the stage for turning them into long-term loyal users. In-app strategies for converting free or trial users to paying customers. Measure campaign performance and refine your customer acquisition strategy.

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User Pilot

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

A market gap can be caused by missing functionality or poor user experience. Tracking user behavior in-app enables product teams to find ways to improve product experience. You can collect feedback from your customer base via in-app surveys, feedback widgets, interviews, and by monitoring social media mentions and reviews.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 21, 2020

You’ll be able to download the interview scorecard template that I use with my clients. Part two of this scorecard series will help you create a sales interview scorecard to land that sales role you’ve been dreaming about. Turns out, the candidate was scared, rather than excited, about their exit strategy. The cherry on top?

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Sales Hiring Interviewing Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team 95

Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 16, 2019

Growing a sales team isn’t as simple as putting a bunch of A players in a room and getting them to start selling your product. When done right, your sales team won’t just accelerate your company’s growth; they’ll enrich your company’s culture and help build a better product too. 12 steps to build a world-class sales team.

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Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Scaling 156

Valuize Consulting

DECEMBER 7, 2021

In the subscription economy, there’s no debate about whether or not to invest in Customer Success (CS); 70% of rapidly growing businesses say that Customer Success is extremely important ( Hubspot , 2017). When it comes to budget, organizations often haven’t established where the investment is coming from to fund the CS team.

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User Pilot

MAY 29, 2024

Define the product vision and strategy. Foster cross-functional team collaboration and communication. Best tools to use in your product development process: Userpilot – best tool for designing in-product experiences. Maze – best tool for user interviews and testing. Create your minimum viable product.

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Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Market Research User Experience 72

SaaStr

OCTOBER 30, 2021

A mentor of mine suggested that I reframe my search to seek out companies that I would invest in, instead of the other way around. He told me, you can invest time, talent, or treasure. Unfortunately for me, I had little experience, not much talent, and lacked the treasure/money to invest. It seemed like the best investment! .

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 19, 2022

As the president of Sales Xceleration, a firm specializing in assessing and implementing sales strategy , sales processes, and sales execution to drive growth, I’ve seen how job hopping can affect otherwise stable sales teams. But also the cost it has on their careers — and your sales team. Job hopping by the numbers.

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

According to a recent survey from the DMEXCO, 70 percent of executives worldwide expect the pandemic to accelerate the pace of digital strategy. Today, businesses are expected to outline, plan, implement the digital strategy in a matter of days or weeks. Not if you have the right digital strategy agency. Here are a few examples.

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Strategy Underperforming Technical Team Advertising Scale 124

User Pilot

JANUARY 17, 2024

This guide explores 15 practical strategies you can adopt when scaling your SaaS business. The most common challenges that hinder SaaS growth are lack of product-market fit , ineffective sales and marketing strategies , customer churn, and long product development cycles. Provide the necessary training for your sales teams.

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30 Day Leadership

JULY 18, 2023

In this episode, leadership coach, Nils interviews Dustin Tysick, host of the B2B Revenue Leaders Podcast and VP of Revenue at Testimonial Hero, about the importance of coaching and adapting to different personalities and processing styles. The cost of not consistently developing your leadership skills is enormous.

Leadership 52

Leadership Underperforming Technical Team B2B Interviewing 52

User Pilot

JUNE 20, 2023

TL;DR Product idea validation is a process during which product teams test and tweak the product concept to ensure it satisfies a real market need. Apart from testing the demand for the product, idea validation helps teams assess if they have the necessary expertise and resources to build the product. Let’s get straight into it!

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Underperforming Technical Team Social Media Scale Interviewing 81

FastSpring

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

I interviewed Michael about successful global marketing strategies. Stream the Episode Highlights From The Interview 1. Related Content Check out these related resources for more insights into international marketing strategies and managing an international business during an economic downturn. How do we help our people?”

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Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Strategy Software 143

User Pilot

JANUARY 16, 2024

Book a demo and see how Userpilot can help you deploy in-app messages, self-serve support, and other strategies to improve user satisfaction. Going ahead to develop products or features based on assumption doesn’t always end well—you’re likely to build something that doesn’t solve real user problems.

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User Pilot

APRIL 19, 2024

TL;DR Market research is vital for making informed business decisions, enabling companies to understand the market, target audience, and competitors, reducing risks, and optimizing marketing communications and product strategies. Interviews. The outcome? Focus groups. Product trials. Each method has its benefits.

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Market Research Sales Recruiting Marketing Underperforming Technical Team 52

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

MARCH 23, 2020

Companies which don’t use mental models risk unleashing mayhem with poor choices or becoming bloated and bureaucratic by reducing the volume and speed at which decisions are made - both scenarios are undesirable and will impact growth. Strategy - annually changes. MSPOT stands for: Mission - rarely changes.

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Underperforming Technical Team Scale Sales Hiring Marketplace as a Service 213

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 13, 2021

Although Linda started her career in sales, she has spent the past twelve years scaling post-sales teams and moving hyper-growth companies like Zendesk, Slack, and now Gong upmarket into the enterprise realm. So how do you create a strong, enterprise-ready team? For Linda, it all comes down to your approach to customer success.

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Scale Customer Success Strategy Sales Hiring 177

SaaStr

JULY 1, 2021

It became a part of our interview questions. The second is pulling more around values, and how we approached team building. Even as a three person team, we went through an exercise to figure out what do we stand for, as a team? How have the other two of you thought about building out your team?

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VP of Engineering Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team 267

OpenView Labs

MARCH 8, 2021

Conducting interviews. What Interviewing 600+ Sales Reps Taught Me About Team Building. Loom’s Peter Prowitt shares the biggest mistakes to avoid if you’re interviewing for a sales position. 14 SaaS Leaders Share Their Favorite Interview Questions. What’s your biggest weakness? Find out what they said.

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Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting B2B 80

User Pilot

JANUARY 14, 2024

TL;DR A product manager leads the product management team and is responsible for overseeing all stages of the product development process. They earn more than developers, astronauts, and even attorneys, but less than surgeons. They have more responsibilities and independence in setting strategy and making product decisions.

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VP of Engineering Management Underperforming Technical Team Compensation 93

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Not long after starting the podcast, Harry got into investing himself, and in 2020, he leveraged the success of his show to launch his own venture capital fund, 20VC fund. Different channels come with different audiences, purposes, and specificities, and distribution strategies should reflect that. I love investing.

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SaaStr

JULY 12, 2022

Now, I just invest in SasS companies. You have to create a repeatable process if you’re going to scale up the sales team. The Number One Job of a VP Sales is Recruiting a Great Team. Your VP of Sales’ number one job is getting eight to 10 great people on you team. That’s my background. laughter].

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SaaStr

JULY 5, 2021

Ep: 413: Join four-time Founder and CEO Auren Hoffman as he breaks down how businesses can become the right model for explosive growth, emulate their strategy, and join the path to Unicorn potential in eight simple, hand-made steps. They advise us to surround yourself with people that have different strengths and different weaknesses.

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Part-Time VPE Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Outsourcing Services 258

User Pilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

TL;DR Regular roadmaps kill outcomes by forcing teams to think in the categories of features and timelines. It’s difficult to implement outcome-based roadmaps because stakeholders don’t trust product teams to deliver on business goals. Many companies lack differentiation strategies and drive product development by copying competitors.

Scale 85

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting Software Review 85

Neil Patel

JANUARY 11, 2021

Follow this up by building your team and finding a location if you’re opening a physical store. After all, your customers would prefer more of a good thing and less of a bad thing. Take surveys, make questionnaires, and do one-on-one interviews. At this point, you have your idea and a plan to make it come to life.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Each candidate you interview will have a unique set of strengths (and weaknesses). Last, the need for revenue operations help is usually brought on by high-stakes situations: The pressure of new revenue targets Selling a new product Growing your sales team Fires need to be put out, fast. Teams need to scale, fast.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 19, 2022

The results are in: businesses are investing more in measuring the impact of their customer service and turning to tools such as self-service and proactive support to drive a good experience. Then, it’s a matter of investing on onboarding and set them up for success. It’s based on each support team’s individual scorecards.

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Benchmarks Sales Hiring Scale Strategy 104

GetUplift

JANUARY 16, 2019

I’m not gonna pumpkin-spice coat it: interviewing customers is hard. Prompting vulnerable sharing from complete strangers is not something most people consider fun… Which is why I’ve heard just about every excuse for not interviewing customers: I don’t have any customers. Customer interviews don’t give quantitative data.

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User Pilot

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Actually, there are multiple types of personas for different teams, levels of research, and use cases—which you need to understand if you want to connect with customers. So let’s cover each of them and see what you can do to improve your team’s effectiveness. What is a persona?

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Underperforming Technical Team Software Review SaaS Interviewing 88

OPEXEngine

MAY 4, 2021

Corporate finance experience is declining, while investment banking is rising, as a path to the CFO seat, CFO Dive data shows. The newer path to CFO is through investment banking. ” Of 53 software-as-a-service (SaaS) CFOs that CFO Dive covered over the past year, almost 30% started out in investment banking. .

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Payment Services Finance Communication Strategy 52

Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Getting executives out of the 1:1 interview process and into a whiteboard session can help you assess their core competencies and how they’ll work with your team. We’re not necessarily interviewing them for a specific role in the portfolio. How can we help the team get calibrated on the role? Talent in 2024.

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Sales Recruiting Technical Advisors Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team 80

Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

When it comes to launching sales teams in hyper-growth startups, few people have walked the walk as much as Maggie Hott. We recently sat down with Maggie to chat about all things sales – from laying down a solid foundation to hiring the right people and, finally, scaling the team into hyper-growth. Look for the team players.

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Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team 118

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2021

If you’re a senior engineer and want to further your career, what skills should you develop? Moving forward in your career, avoid the trap of doing work that feels high-impact, but it’s actually not , or work that makes you look good at the expense of the project and the team. How do people move into staff engineering roles?

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 7, 2023

As the Director of Corporate Development & Strategic Partnerships at WP Engine , Carl has worked on many acquisitions and partnerships, including brands like Flywheel, Perfect Dashboard, Block Lab, and recently, Delicious Brains. And then we’ll get into a little bit of the strategy discussions we talked about a minute ago.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 12, 2018

”Tito, how do I go about building a sales team (especially the sales development function) from scratch?” Before we dive in, and maybe even more important than “how to” is the “how NOT to” part, so let’s cover some of the mistakes most people make when building SDR teams first.

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