Totango

JULY 28, 2021

While the conventional approach has been to assign one customer success manager per customer account, digital customer success platforms now make it possible for teams to administer success at scale by leveraging automation to deliver one-to-many success management. Developing meaningful interview questions.

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OpenView Labs

MARCH 17, 2020

So I’m always on the lookout for provocative interview questions that help you learn much more about the person than just their canned answer to “What’s your biggest weakness?” What area of professional development are you working on most deliberately and how? “Not just my public speaking skills.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 30, 2021

I sent cold emails and LinkedIn messages and ended up with nine interviews. From those nine interviews, I received four offers. Going into the interviews, I knew what I wanted out of a job– that part was simple. Together, we developed sales pitches, built out a robust sales process in just a couple of weeks.

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User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

How brands use concept testing: Todoist conducted 30-minute interviews with users to validate a new feature. It’s where you present an idea or prototype to your target audience to gauge their interest, understanding, and potential acceptance using feedback collection methods. Book a demo and get started! What is concept testing?

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SaaStr

JANUARY 24, 2024

How should you handle presenting challenges to your C-suite team when you’ve just joined the company? Lattice had a product-led growth flow on the website while the sales team was still trying to sell the PLG companies The good news is Lattice had a lot of activity and initiatives at play. Can you start and stop a PLG motion?

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User Pilot

JANUARY 16, 2024

Perform a SWOT analysis, identify the strengths and weaknesses of your top competing products, etc. Stakeholder management and communication : Use ChatGPT to generate boilerplate emails and presentations for stakeholders. You may want to learn who your top competitors are, their value proposition , and their weaknesses.

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User Pilot

JANUARY 10, 2024

User research methods for SaaS: Usability testing User testing User interviews Focus groups Session replays First click testing User feedback surveys Card sorting A/B testing Product analytics Heatmaps Userpilot can help you conduct user experience (UX) research and easily interpret the data. What is user research? What is user research?

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User Pilot

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Are all teams involved or is it just a select few with specialist expertise? Organizations with successful research democratization initiatives also benefit from improved collaboration between teams. Research teams may also be reluctant to train others not to compromise research results or out of fear of losing their positions.

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User Pilot

DECEMBER 13, 2023

How do you develop a robust UX strategy? TL;DR UX strategy provides guidance to the UX design team on how to create and improve experiences that satisfy user needs. TL;DR UX strategy provides guidance to the UX design team on how to create and improve experiences that satisfy user needs. This is the main focus of the article.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 8, 2018

Sales interviews are nerve-wracking. Yet as a hiring manager, seeking to build the best sales team in the industry, there are a few things I’ve observed that separate the good from the great—the things that distinguish good interviewees from those who actually end up landing an offer.

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SaaStr

MARCH 24, 2020

Sam Blond, CSO at Brex explains why recruiting, networking and employee happiness is the key to this playbook on recruiting your sales team. I’m doing The Playbook To Recruiting Your Sales Team. Once again, amazing job to the SaaStr team. I’m really honored to share this stage with some really bad ass speakers.

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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. OKRs are a useful mental model - they make it crystal clear what people and teams should be striving for.

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Baremetrics

AUGUST 6, 2021

Plan your hiring process long before adding people to the team. In a small company, someone with a unique perspective is likely to contribute more meaningful ideas than someone who aligns perfectly with the rest of the team. You have a disgruntled employee who is underperforming, or even threatening to leave the company entirely.

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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

JANUARY 17, 2024

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. Optimize your Saas product development team to set your business up for future success.

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Totango

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Hiring team members with the right customer success manager skills is critical for the effectiveness of your CS team and strategy. We’ll cover these below, along with five best practices to follow when bringing a new customer success manager aboard your team. What Is a Customer Success Manager (CSM)?

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

sales team. I did all sorts of things there from sales, to project management, to running the engineering team, hiring. This is where I got my chops in growing and scaling enterprise sales teams. You can interview the company for it, but at some point it’s a little bit of a leap of faith. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

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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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Scytale

MARCH 19, 2024

In this blog, we’ll walk through best practices for getting audit-ready, from getting your documentation together to prepping your team. DOWNLOAD THE WHITEPAPER Checklist for Preparing for Your Next Third-Party Compliance Audit Put Together a Dedicated Audit Team Appoint key staff from across your organization to a dedicated audit team.

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Point Nine Land

OCTOBER 23, 2023

We recently hosted the Point Nine Founders Summit, featuring several panels and presentations from founders, CFOs, COOs, and sales execs on building early sales teams and hiring your first successful sales leaders. It helps keep the product team focused on customer feedback and providing value in exchange for revenue.

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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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User Pilot

APRIL 19, 2024

Applying insights from market research to product development and marketing strategies can significantly enhance business growth. Sharper marketing messages, savvy product development strategies, and an intimate grasp of both prospective buyers and existing customers’ preferences and needs. Interviews. The outcome? Focus groups.

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User Pilot

AUGUST 14, 2023

Analyzing user sentiment is an essential step for all product developers and marketers to take. Whenever survey respondents fail to answer honestly, the most likely outcome is that you'll need to repeat the online survey in order to collect more accurate feedback the next time around — costing you more time, money, and team resources.

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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.

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User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

They also manage finances and supervise one or more engineering teams. Product Marketing Manager: This person is tasked with developing product marketing campaigns , crafting compelling marketing messages, and coming up with ideas to retain customers. They also manage finances and supervise one or more engineering teams.

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SaaStr

JULY 5, 2021

If you would like to find out more about the show and the guests presented, you can follow us on Twitter here: Jason Lemkin. We’re also going to fly through this presentation. They advise us to surround yourself with people that have different strengths and different weaknesses. You can view the full video here.

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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. “This is everyday for me, so I love talking about it,” says Carl Hargreaves about mergers and acquisitions.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

It’s an approach that’s served him well along the road to building the HubSpot sales team, where he was CRO for nine years. This has created large amounts of data for running teams. . Those risks can be fatal: Mark has found a 75% failure rate for both Series A and Series C startups (as he presented during his 2019 SaaStr talk.).

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ChurnZero

APRIL 1, 2022

How to help teams with imposter syndrome as a leader. You can also watch Sharon’s presentation on-demand, along with all other BIG RYG sessions. I’ve led major changes to improve things for our customers before, and I will work to earn the trust of this team.’”. How to help teams with imposter syndrome as a leader.

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Casey Accidental

MARCH 5, 2018

Below I share some tribal knowledge around common team structures, options I think work best and hiring tips that leverage this talent. Functional vs. Embedded Teams. One of the first questions organizations face when hiring analysts is how they should structure the team. The Hybrid Model.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 21, 2020

Justin used Sales Culture to grow a successful PatientPop team to 140 employees and 55 million in revenue. When I was hired, I came in with one salesperson and zero dollars in recurring revenue and over the next four years grew the sales team to over 140 employees and 55 million in recurring revenue. Want to see more content like this?

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 8, 2018

Sales interviews are nerve-wracking. Yet as a hiring manager, seeking to build the best sales team in the industry, there are a few things I’ve observed that separate the good from the great. Prepare For Your Next Sales Interview with These 5 Pro Tips. Understand that the sales interview process is grueling for a reason.

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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

OCTOBER 22, 2020

As for Ryan, he has spent an incredible 9 years at Okta in numerous different roles starting with running the product marketing team before moving to run the marketing team, leading to his promotion to CMO close to 5 years ago now. Why was joining Okta the most challenging interview process he has experienced? Harry Stebbings.

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User Pilot

JUNE 8, 2023

How can product and marketing teams leverage customer journey analytics to make data-driven decisions and build delightful customer experiences? In addition to increasing customer satisfaction and reducing customer churn , customer journey analytics helps teams boost customer lifetime value. How could the team diagnose the problem?

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User Pilot

JUNE 20, 2023

Obtaining (and acting on) users’ opinions of your product through user feedback and interviews and more. Then, you interview them to identify what they learned in that time about your product’s purpose, trustworthiness, and usability. However, most UX designers will tell you that empty states are an example of poor UX.

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User Pilot

MAY 30, 2023

User interviews Website analytics Product analytics , and more. This manager wants to better understand how users use their product so they can align users’ needs with product development and increase business revenue. These users are a bad fit for your product as they’re unlikely to find value in it.

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