SaaStr

JUNE 21, 2023

After three months, this talented guy came to Harbaugh with the recognition that LaunchDarkly’s customers were developers. He didn’t like to sell to developers, so he quit. because they needed to rebuild the sales team. They rebuilt the sales team and closed some big deals. And it was true.

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User Pilot

MARCH 23, 2023

What are the reasons for customer churn in SaaS? And how can customer success teams address them to ensure product growth? As a SaaS company, your ultimate goal is to retain customers and keep them happy with your product. 3: Poor customer service or experience with the sales teams can make customers churn.

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Chart Mogul

JULY 15, 2021

High growth companies like Airtable, Figma, Notion, or Github all have revenue as a top of mind business milestone. In fact, out of a sample of 40 growth stage companies, 50% said revenue growth was their #1 north star metric, according to research led by Lenny Rachitsky for Future.

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Chart Mogul

JULY 15, 2021

High growth companies like Airtable, Figma, Notion, or Github all have revenue as a top of mind business milestone. In fact, out of a sample of 40 growth stage companies, 50% said revenue growth was their #1 north star metric, according to research led by Lenny Rachitsky for Future.

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User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

TL;DR In SaaS, concept testing is a research method used to test concepts during product discovery and before their launch. Concept testing helps SaaS businesses validate ideas , make the product development process customer-centric, and detect potential issues early, reducing the risk of product failure.

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User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

Confused about trying to understand SaaS roles? SaaS companies have many moving parts, and it can be difficult to determine who does what. TL;DR SaaS, or “Software as a Service,” is a business model that delivers centrally hosted software to subscribers over the internet. What is a SaaS business model?

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SaaStr

JULY 1, 2021

Dropbox just hit one billion dollars in annual revenue. What’s the secret to SaaS success at YCombinator? Sam : We’re going to talk today about a lot of topics, but the general theme is, what’s the difference between good and great SaaS companies? It became a part of our interview questions. TRANSCRIPT.

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User Pilot

MARCH 21, 2024

You can collect data via multiple sources, such as feedback surveys , user interviews, product data analytics , and firsthand observations from your customer-facing teams Create a high-level customer journey map with all the relevant touchpoints to contextualize the collected data. Let’s discuss these benefits in more detail.

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SaaStr

JULY 12, 2022

Make the revenue recur, I’m interested. Then, we have this community in SaaS — SaaStr. up that is sub one million in recurring revenue? Generally, what happens is 95 percent of us SaaS founders, while we may have done some sales in our career, we’re not formally trained in sales. That’s all I do.

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User Pilot

MARCH 14, 2024

Looking for customer analytics use cases that can significantly improve your SaaS? This article lists key use cases for SaaS and explains how to implement them to unlock customer satisfaction and product growth. 9 use cases for customer analytics in SaaS: Test your onboarding flows with A/B testing. You’re at the right place.

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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?

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User Pilot

MARCH 27, 2023

We finish with an overview of product analytics tools that your team can benefit from. Product analytics are used not only by the product team but also by the customer success and the marketing team, as well as UX designers and devs. As a result, product teams are able to make quicker decisions.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Gorgias is the leading contact center for e-commerce and it’s been a fun one to track at SaaS, from 1,000 to 3,000 to now 7,000 customers. I sent cold emails and LinkedIn messages and ended up with nine interviews. From those nine interviews, I received four offers. 7 Tips to get 7,000 Customers.

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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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User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

You can ask users for feedback on pricing to find the sweet spot between the most revenue and the highest amount users would pay. How brands use concept testing: Todoist conducted 30-minute interviews with users to validate a new feature. Get feedback on different messaging and ads to find which resonates.

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Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

For years we have been reading and hand-picking the best SaaS blog posts to share with 24K+ SaaS Roundup subscribers. Subscriber or not, anyone who wants to increase their SaaS knowledge will benefit by reading the curated posts below. In all seriousness though, that’s kinda what Horizontal SaaS promises (or tries) to be.

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Chart Mogul

JULY 1, 2020

Customer interviews are a powerful tool that can help you better position your B2B product to attract and retain more customers. Believe it or not, it’s not rocket science: they perform customer interviews. Types of customer interviews. Depending on what you want to achieve, customer interviews can be divided into two groups: 1.

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ChurnZero

JUNE 18, 2021

Customer exit interviews, when properly structured and executed, provide a unique chance to dig deep and discover valuable information which can lead to actionable churn-preventing insights. Anita Toth, Chief Churn Crusher, joined us for a webinar to discuss how to: Conduct killer customer exit interviews.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Take notes, highlight the best parts, and share important takeaways with your team. B2B marketing experts James Carbary and Jonathan Green interview a business leader on leadership, sales-to-marketing realignment, buyer personas, marketing strategy, and a host of other topics. Experiment, test, record, and optimize! Accelerate!

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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. If you want to build a revenue engine that will fuel long-term growth, you need to build and scale your sales org with intention. and many more to talk about how they’ve built sales teams from the ground up.

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User Pilot

MAY 12, 2024

You’ll also be able to choose between feedback widgets, surveys, or interviews when attempting to collect customer feedback. Those developing software for mobile devices or cross-platform use should look for alternatives with mobile support (such as the aforementioned Smartlook). What are the main use cases for Hotjar?

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Buffer Resources

JANUARY 15, 2024

Inaccurate, packed with "filler," or completely AI-generated — bad B2B (business-to-business) content is easy to spot and even easier to find online. Interview them. According to one study, it also costs over $50 billion annually due to wasted resources alone. But what makes B2B content good ? Tough question.

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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

JANUARY 22, 2024

A product marketing framework is like a compass that guides you through the complex, fast-paced world of SaaS. For your product marketing strategy, however, you’ll need to align your sales and marketing teams, create a value-based pricing strategy , collect and apply customer feedback , and map out the customer journey.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 29, 2021

And so, Mark Rudden and his team had to figure it all out by themselves. Fortunately, Mark had quite a bit of experience working and scaling teams in demanding, hypergrowth environments. SaaS businesses are obsessed with renewing customers, so why wouldn’t they put the same effort into their employees? Putting people first.

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ChurnZero

JULY 22, 2022

Does your Customer Success team have a shallow view of onboarding? Whether it’s greater efficiency, increased revenue, cost savings, or achieving compliance, every customer has a reason for purchasing your product. I recommend you interview customers. I have the internal handoff from pre-sales to post-sales customer teams.

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Chart Mogul

JULY 1, 2020

Customer interviews are a powerful tool that can help you better position your B2B product to attract and retain more customers. Believe it or not, it’s not rocket science: they perform customer interviews. Types of customer interviews. Depending on what you want to achieve, customer interviews can be divided into two groups: 1.

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ChurnZero

MAY 13, 2022

ChurnZero Chief Customer Officer Abby Hammer joined The CXChronicles podcast to share how she’s used the four mainstay CX pillars —team, tools, process, and feedback—to build a high-performing Customer Success organization from the ground up and turn it into the most operationalized part of the business. Episode highlights.

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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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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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SaaStr

JULY 15, 2022

So how feasible do you think that works for a typical B2B SaaS business that probably our user-base is not too knowledgeable about [inaudible] on the internet for something specific in their day-to-day use case? Jason Lemkin: But usually your teams can’t do that. This always works. If you do Salesforce, try to do Pipedrive.

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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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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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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. . Even today, when he asks students to define it, he hears a variety of answers like “when I hit a million in revenue, I have product-market fit.” .

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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? * Why does Travis believe that SaaS has upended the economic model but not the engagement model? Harry Stebbings.

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User Pilot

JULY 24, 2023

What is SaaS marketing? We’re all familiar with the basics of SaaS product marketing such as attracting users to a SaaS product with a subscription business model. That said, there are key differences between a SaaS marketing strategy and standard digital marketing. What is SaaS marketing?

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SaaStr

JANUARY 21, 2020

Justin Welsh, former SVP of Sales at PatientPop explains how he started in SaaS in 2009 as the second sales hire at Zocdoc. Justin used Sales Culture to grow a successful PatientPop team to 140 employees and 55 million in revenue. It’s an SMB SaaS company in the healthcare technology vertical. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

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