FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

Ryan Austin had VP-level experience in training when he decided to start a consulting business to help enterprise-level companies with their corporate learning and development initiatives. Ryan and his team noticed so many inefficiencies across the L&D workflows. “It Cognota didn’t necessarily start as a software business.

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User Pilot

JUNE 20, 2023

Some effective strategies for building user trust include: Mapping the customer journey to understand the difficulties users face as they progress through your app. Obtaining (and acting on) users’ opinions of your product through user feedback and interviews and more. What is user trust? This is the power of the first impression.

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FastSpring

APRIL 4, 2024

As an experienced sales and GTM leader, John Eitel has more than witnessed how product-led growth (PLG) has affected the tech and SaaS space in the last few years — he and his teams have been up close and personal with how PLG increased in popularity as a sales strategy. “I But really excited about this interview. Jump to video.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2021

For those who don’t know him, Will has over 10 years of experience in the likes of Yahoo, Digg, Uber, and Stripe, and he’s currently the CTO of Calm , the mindfulness app that helps millions of people to lower their stress levels and sleep better. If you’re a senior engineer and want to further your career, what skills should you develop?

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Think about what you could be doing to bring more diversity into your teams and be more inclusive as a company, and go actively out of your way in order to achieve set goals. I usually do them with Paul or people from the product teams – it’s much more fun to be on a podcast with your boss. Be open-minded.

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GetUplift

DECEMBER 12, 2021

It’s a process that my team and I at GetUplift have used to 10x our clients’ conversion rates. I spent years researching the psychology behind purchase decisions and used that knowledge to develop a four step conversion optimization process deeply rooted in emotional marketing. The second thinking system is rational and calculated.

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User Pilot

AUGUST 15, 2023

It’s also important that you create excitement ahead of the launch and ensure synergy between your customer support and sales teams. Finally, you must analyze customers’ in-app activities after launch to drive retention. To learn how Userpilot can supercharge your in-app marketing plan, book a demo today!

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Before Optimizely, Travis spent 6 years at Salesforce in a number of sales roles including building the first Platform Sales team. What does Travis advise founders when it comes to uniting customer facing teams? * Below, we’ve shared the transcript of Harry’s interview with Travis. Loving our podcast content? Aydin Senkut.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

Below, we’ve shared the transcript of Harry’s interview with Rob. I was working on a startup that was an early mobile payment platform. It was basically using Bluetooth and an app on PalmPilots to do wireless payments in restaurants. And there’s a lot of benefit to running a software as a service, in general.

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SaaStr

MARCH 26, 2019

Formerly a senior leader at Google, Claire Hughes Johnson is now Chief Operating Officer at Stripe, where she’s helped guide the online payments firm through rapid growth. Know who is the foundation of your product and build your product for that user (in Stripe’s case, developers). Our team is in Room 111.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

In this special episode, we sat down with Zanade to talk about allyship, empowering Black-owned businesses, and what it takes to change deeply seated systemic issues and affect policy at a national level. Later’s Farhan Virji on adapting B2C support strategies for B2B teams. Intercom on Product: Keeping the momentum going as you scale.

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How To Buy Saas

DECEMBER 1, 2020

SaaS is a global software solution created by different businesses in order to improve human activities in a matter of clicks. SAAS is also abbreviated as software as a service. SaaS as we already understood is a software as a service. These saas can be either web or app-based or even both. What is SAAS marketing?

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Natalia Luneva

JANUARY 13, 2021

The period refers to a month or year depending on which payment option you offer or which of them is more popular. Software companies that serve large organizations experience a 6-10% churn rate. I also interviewed dozens of SaaS founders and marketers to understand the main factors behind high SaaS churn rate.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 5, 2020

I caught up with Jasmine for a chat that ranged from how she got her first big break to how she has tackled the tough task of building out her design team at Intercom from scratch. When she joined Intercom, most of Jasmine’s team left (through no fault of her own)! I can design an app. An app does not require printing.

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FastSpring

APRIL 26, 2022

While it’s not a bad idea to be measuring both, your monthly churn rate should be much, much lower than your annual churn rate. Qualitative Data Gathering: Surveys and Exit Interviews. Next, let’s look at how to develop a churn-reduction action plan. Update Your Dunning Management System. What Is Negative Churn?

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FastSpring

JANUARY 26, 2024

And at a company like Sideways 6 — whose product is an idea management software to help organizations engage people and foster innovation — that emphasis on collaboration gets even louder. But the support team are responsible for first response times, for things like NPS, whereas what we’re responsible for is, ultimately, outcomes.”

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User Pilot

JULY 24, 2023

Account-based marketing is the preferred approach for enterprise solutions while software bundles often leverage email marketing to generate sales. Last but not least, any type of marketing campaign needs a system for tracking performance so you can allocate your marketing budget in the most effective way possible.

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SaaStr

MARCH 18, 2019

Formerly a senior leader at Google, Claire Hughes Johnson is now Chief Operating Officer at Stripe, where she’s helped guide the online payments firm through rapid growth. But we provide a combination of APIs and software. Our team is in Room 111. They were self taught developers. Dare I say SaaS. Your registration.

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Navint

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Earlier this year, we welcomed Sean Joyce to the Navint team. Sean has over 15 years of expertise in recurring revenue technologies, most recently hailing from Salesforce where he was a senior member of the product marketing team responsible for Salesforce CPQ & Billing. What made you want to be a part of this consultancy?

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 30, 2021

How to build a winning sales team. Developing A Winning Sales Team [16:24]. Now, without further ado, let’s listen to this interview with Neil Ringers. It provides the information that helps me succeed, translating down into my sales team as I’m coaching and mentoring them. We’re on iTunes.

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A Smart Bear

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

We’re tired of hearing how small software companies usually fail. The data show that the two most common causes are: (1) Product isn’t useful to enough people, and (2) Problems with the team. But what happens if the power fails between the main power system in the data center and the cabinet where the two power strips are?

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Companies that have access to more accurate financial data have the ability to develop seamless exchanges of information, providing consumers with improved ways to manage their finances. Happy post lunch interview. Ari : And so what is your relationship with the banking system today? Enter the platform company. Zach : Go for it.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 3, 2018

Here are five quick takeaways: Instead of relying on word of mouth to permeate the team, write things down. If Rohini’s team is making changes to the UI or the front end, they can test quickly and easily, but because their core product is payments-based, much more rigor is required compared to your typical software product.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 14, 2020

So my father sat down with me in our basement, and I remember working in this makeshift workstation that we built together and we learned how to code, because back then there weren’t a lot of applications, there weren’t a lot of games, a lot of software to be used, so we actually had to create it ourselves.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

The New Solution Selling. Sales Development and Prospecting. The Sales Development Playbook. The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team. Here are the best books on selling (and related disciplines) that can help you hit your goals and develop your career. Here they are… The 97 Best Sales Books in 2020. The Challenger Sale.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2019

Prior to Kustomer, Vikas spent over 20 years implementing, consulting, marketing, and selling CRM and ContactCenter solutions with companies like LivePerson and Oracle. Eyal and Megan host a fireside chat between Google Cloud and Zenoss, a leader in software-defined IT operations. Missed the session? The emergence of new A.I.

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CustomerSuccessBox

JULY 11, 2022

Such as the conclusion of a project, a poor match, or a firm changing course are considered non-regrettable churn. You may deal with each of these situations by developing a customer offboarding procedure. Exit Interview or phone call: Calling clients could add a more personal touch. Step 2: Learn from the Churn.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

As for Krish, under Krish’s leadership the team has grown to over 300 people and over 5,000 clients making it one of the next generation in truly global SaaS businesses started in India. First, what is continuous customer development? Below, we’ve shared the full transcript of Harry’s interview with Krish Subramanian.

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OpenView Labs

JUNE 16, 2020

The best companies are tweaking sales systems, adjusting their go-to-market strategy and rediscovering customers’ needs as they evolve. Adjust your pricing model to accept deferred payments for highly-impacted industries. In good times or bad, your go-to-market strategy must change with the demands of your market. Image source.

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Chargify

OCTOBER 4, 2017

In this post we dive into understanding the billing iceberg effect and what to consider when determining if you should build or buy your recurring billing solution. Time is money (especially in the SaaS world), and whether you’re an early stage startup or an established business, development resources are almost always at a premium.

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OPEXEngine

MAY 4, 2021

” Of 53 software-as-a-service (SaaS) CFOs that CFO Dive covered over the past year, almost 30% started out in investment banking. Hopefully it will be communicated during the interview process. The people who are self-aware enough, as most CFOs are, would say what their weaknesses are in the interview process.”.

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FastSpring

APRIL 13, 2023

When Justin and his initial team started looking for a way to capitalize on VR/AR technology, they focused their attention on the “made-to-order” industrial market. Jera Brown interviewed Dopple founder and CEO Justin on how he launched Dopple and found success by pivoting to a new market. But Dopple’s team took the opposite approach.

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OpenView Labs

APRIL 11, 2019

I was born in Bombay, but grew up in New Jersey and was acutely aware of the juxtaposition of those two places in terms of economic development, politics and culture. I started the growth team and scaled Dia&Co’s customer acquisition and retention strategies. The Four Growth Levers – Foundational Building Blocks.

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SaaStr

MARCH 13, 2020

Below, we’ve shared the transcript of Harry’s interview with Harry Hurst. So at about 13, I set up an eBay business, and we actually used PayPal obviously to process all of the payments. And I guess this was somewhat foreshadowing because I’m now backed by David Saks who is the founding team there. Harry Stebbings.

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User Pilot

JANUARY 15, 2021

It’s the tools and methods you use to understand user behavior within your app. 51% of people will never return to a company that they’ve had a bad experience with. Even startups can make great use of in-app analytics to adjust and refine their products to ensure Product-Market Fit. Why is Product Analytics important?

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

And as Travis mentioned, we’ve had lots of great recent guests, Hollie Wegman, CMO at Segment, Adam, the head of developer relations at HashiCorp, G.C. Her team loved working for her. Leadership, she’s been on the leadership team for two massive businesses, and so who better to hear from on that topic than Claire.

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FastSpring

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Barriers are anything that stop a buyer from converting, such as website usability, solution fit, or pricing. I think SaaS businesses and subscription businesses are particularly bad at having vague, waffley headlines on their homepages,” he states. Stream the entire conversation or read the highlights below. Jump to highlights.

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