Valuize Consulting

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The question now is, how big should CS organizations be, and what’s the best way to staff and scale its success? To uncover how today’s CS leaders are successfully building and scaling their CS organizations, Valuize’s Founder and CEO, Ross Fulton, spoke to TSIA’s Vice President, Customer Success Research, Stephen Fulkerson.

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User Pilot

APRIL 7, 2023

What are the different types of B2B customer insights for SaaS businesses? When your product is catering to other businesses, it can be difficult for sales reps and other teams to understand the needs and experiences of the clients, especially if the client company sells multiple products. Their challenges and pain points.

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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

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. Their CEO will join us at SaaSr Scale 2021 on December 15 to talk about using data to get to 10,000 SMB customers! I sent cold emails and LinkedIn messages and ended up with nine interviews.

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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. What’s more, you can collect data at scale for a more representative view.

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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?

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SaaStr

MARCH 26, 2019

Scaling the company’s employee base, sales teams, marketing, and operations—all while preserving its culture—has required a laser focus on first principles, smart processes, and effective hiring. In this talk, Claire will share these and other lessons for scaling high-growth organizations. Dare I say SaaS.

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OpenView Labs

MARCH 8, 2021

And that’s exactly why we’ve put together this list of the best resources around SaaS and B2B sales. 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.

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User Pilot

JANUARY 29, 2023

Developing features without validation results in bloated products and unnecessarily drives the cost of development up. Product teams should invest in validation when developing the MVP. If your users respond well to them, you can iterate on them and develop them incrementally.

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Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

MARCH 23, 2020

One of the biggest challenges businesses face when they grow is scaling effective , autonomous and quick decision-making. I leveraged many of the 52 mental models while working at various software as a service (SaaS) companies, but in truth, they can be applied anywhere, regardless of industry. A good idea is a good idea, after all.

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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

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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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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Baremetrics

AUGUST 6, 2021

As a SaaS founder, a hundred tasks are bound to occupy your mind on a daily basis. This process is not reserved for the corporate world; the earlier appropriate HR processes are implemented, the greater the chances are that the company’s vision will retain its integrity at scale. So how do you find the right person?

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

sales team. I would argue it was one of the first SaaS companies of its time, but back then we called it an ASP, an application service provider. 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.

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User Pilot

APRIL 19, 2024

You will learn effective techniques for collecting and analyzing data , with practical tips on applying your findings to benefit your SaaS. Applying insights from market research to product development and marketing strategies can significantly enhance business growth. These choices can make or break your SaaS company.

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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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Chart Mogul

JULY 15, 2021

Same when you reach 100 people.” – Hiroshi Mikitani, Rakuten CEO, based on an interview with Phil Libin. As teams grow, it gets harder to rally around key goals. My Droyd co-founder, Brieuc, led Ops at AB Tasty as they grew from 50 to 200+ employees, then went on to advise various Series A-C SaaS companies with their Operations.

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Chart Mogul

JULY 15, 2021

Same when you reach 100 people.” – Hiroshi Mikitani, Rakuten CEO, based on an interview with Phil Libin. As teams grow, it gets harder to rally around key goals. My Droyd co-founder, Brieuc, led Ops at AB Tasty as they grew from 50 to 200+ employees, then went on to advise various Series A-C SaaS companies with their Operations.

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User Pilot

JUNE 30, 2023

By collecting and analyzing feedback through VoC surveys, SaaS businesses can gain valuable insights about customers. This data allows product managers to make more informed product development and roadmap planning decisions. What strengths and weaknesses of our competitors’ products/services have you noticed?

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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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SaaStr

MARCH 18, 2019

Scaling the company’s employee base, sales teams, marketing, and operations—all while preserving its culture—has required a laser focus on first principles, smart processes, and effective hiring. Here’s what Claire talks about: How to avoid trapdoor decisions when scaling. Lessons for scaling high-growth organizations.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 11, 2023

This week I sat down and interview the VP of Sales at Crunchbase , Ang McManamon. Ang McManamon is a tenured sales leader who puts culture first, helps build high performing SaaS teams, and executes with urgency across all areas of an organization. What does the early build for a strong sales team look like?

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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 There are now over 150 enterprise companies using the platform.

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Chart Mogul

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

After all, it’s the customer success teams that drive growth through retention and churn mitigation. After all, it’s the customer success teams that drive growth through retention and churn mitigation. It also gives you some direction on what cross-functional teams you may need to work with. Buyers start getting cautious.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 8, 2022

As a former agency owner, now the Chief Marketing Officer at FastSpring, David Vogelpohl has helped many software companies scale around the world. I interviewed him for insights into how to build a global growth strategy, especially when it comes to localization. Leave the technical challenges of selling around the world to us.

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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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User Pilot

JANUARY 17, 2024

Scaling SaaS is not for the faint of heart. If you do not scale, you will be unable to reach a new pool of customers and your competitors will leave you in the dust. If you scale prematurely, you may struggle to satisfy customer expectations. Provide the necessary training for your sales teams.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How did Andy make his way into the world of SaaS? Why does Andy think the seat-based pricing model in SaaS will die? What does it take to scale a sales team successfully? How can one determine a closer in the interview process? What are the downsides of it? Harry Stebbings.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 16, 2019

During his 5 years at PatientPop, Justin grew sales from $0 to $56m alongside the full build-out of the sales team. In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Justin made his way into the world of Sales and came to be one of the industry’s leading scale up Sales leaders with PatientPop and ZocDoc. * How did Justin experience burnout?

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OpenView Labs

JUNE 10, 2019

It’s easy to forget that SaaS product management is a relatively new, and still emerging, function. For proof, might I suggest the classic post Good Product Manager/Bad Product Manager , which presents a very different vision for the role of product manager than most of us have today). Team Alignment. Table of Contents.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

In today’s data-driven SaaS scene, these can affect hundreds of millions of users and cause damage in the billions of dollars, and as compliance frameworks become requirements to do business, businesses are turning to third-party services that can help expedite and facilitate the process. And just continuing to push it higher with the team.

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OpenView Labs

JANUARY 19, 2022

This also means that the typical go-to-market playbook SaaS experts used to follow (below) isn’t as relevant as it used to be. Based on interviews with B2B SaaS experts who have built and scaled product-led businesses, we designed a new user journey. Scale: how to keep users happy and capture more value.

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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. What “customer success” looks like evolves as your company and customers scale upmarket.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 5, 2022

If you missed episode #202, check it out here : Insights into Founding a Fully Remote SaaS Company with Tom Lavery. True personalization at scale [14:51]. Good companies vs. bad companies [22:48]. So let’s listen to our sponsors, and then we’ll get right into the interview with Andy Paul. powered by Sounder.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 30, 2021

Scaling sales during the pandemic. How to build a winning sales team. Scaling Up During The Pandemic [11:40]. Developing A Winning Sales Team [16:24]. Now, without further ado, let’s listen to this interview with Neil Ringers. I got the itch again and looked for companies with the ability to scale.

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