FastSpring

JUNE 11, 2024

In this episode of Growth Stage, we interview affiliate marketing veteran and attribution animal Adam Riemer of Adam Riemer Marketing about his thoughts on: What proper affiliate marketing looks like. How to go about recruiting the RIGHT affiliates to help drive meaningful growth in your business. Adam, welcome to Growth Stage.

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SaaStr

JULY 1, 2021

PlanGrid builds beautiful, simple software for the construction industry. It became a part of our interview questions. What’s worked for us is that we’re here to build beautiful productivity tools for an industry of field workers who have never seen great software before, and we believe that they deserve it.

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

To help speed up the process, I reviewed six of the best systems on the market and put together a comprehensive list of what to look for as you make your final decision. Think about your accounting software, your employee scheduling software, and other essential tools related to payroll. Software as a service (SaaS).

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ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

This is a guest article by Swati Garg , founder and CEO, Melo Associates , and Lindsay Lynch , senior recruitment consultant, Melo Associates , a recruitment firm focused on customer success hiring for SaaS and tech companies nationwide. List the tools, software, and resources the employee will use or have access to.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

They work with consulting firms, hire their own analysts, buy data management software. But the fact is that a large portion of the employees – developers, marketers, product managers (whose work depends on an intimate understanding of the customer) – rarely, if ever, interact with them.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 28, 2021

That idea might sound crazy, but it’s actually part of a new trend sales organizations are using to hit their revenue targets. Social selling is a way for sales professionals to use social media platforms to connect with prospects and start building relationships. LinkedIn Profile Tips for Sales Reps.

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Tom Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

As they grow, startups often create ad hoc managers I call team leads. Team leads manage 3 to 5 people. They work alongside their team, whether engineering, sales or marketing and contribute actively to achieving the goals of that team team. They code, sell or market for 50% of their time.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 8, 2018

In a time where buyer behavior has rendered cold calling nearly obsolete, successful sales prospecting begins with using tools like live chat and social media to build relationships. He’d go on to become the VP of Sales at Sprinklr, guiding the company through its own high growth period, before striking out on his own.

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OpenView Labs

DECEMBER 16, 2019

And according to Gartner , by the time 2021 hits, the software industry will have grown another $113 billion. So if scaling your sales organization is a priority in 2020, here are the things you need to be aware of to make sure you do so successfully. Hiring sales leaders will get harder. What makes them want to choose you?

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Thats why HG Insights created The Next Generation of Sales AI report to calm the FOMO and help you bring AI to your GTM teams. It includes a breakdown of the Sales AI landscape, adoption of GenAI and Sales software across buyer groups. Plus, an analysis of the top 75 trending sales AI tools. Youre not alone.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 30, 2023

The first goal of sales at a startup isn’t to bring in revenue — it’s to get customer feedback. I’ve used our sales process to iterate our way to product market-fit and wanted to share what I’ve learned along the way. Use sales conversations as a tool to get product feedback. So how do you get there?

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Getting the team right is one of the hardest parts of scaling sales. But no sales team can afford to grow without intention. While building a sales team, we’ve focused a lot on our sales culture. Here’s how we went about growing a sales team that is both world class and culture-additive.

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User Pilot

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The term comes from a commercial and was first used in the software context by a Microsoft manager in 1988. Start implementing a dogfooding program by recruiting users from across the organization, especially those not involved in the product development. Review and adjust your testing protocols.

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User Pilot

MAY 30, 2024

Project management software, visual collaboration tools, roadmap software, shared Slack channels, and customer feedback and analytics tools can facilitate collaboration between PMs and PMMs. If you’re looking for an all-in-one platform for both product managers and product marketing managers, Userpilot is the solution you need.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. A more scientific interview process [20:35]. Sam Jacobs: This week on the show, we’ve got Luke Rogers, the Vice President of Sales at Instabase. He now leads the sales function at a really promising and high-growing unicorn called Instabase. Welcome to the Sales Hacker podcast.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 21, 2021

“It looked like being the pain in the butt BDR who asked way too many questions, broke anything that could possibly be broken, and paid for my own subscriptions to software just because I wanted to tinker with things before I had to bother asking for approval and budget.”. Do you love chasing down the sale? Unified data problems.

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User Pilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Investing in product analytics software can be a worthwhile investment as it helps you attain deeper insights into user behavior. TL;DR Hotjar is a product experience insights platform with heatmaps, surveys, and interviewing capabilities. Online reviews show multiple Hotjar customers who dislike the pricing model and/or price point.

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SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

I will tell you how many COs I’ve talked to that say, “I’ll come to SaaStr, but I don’t want my series B or series C VC interviewing me,” which is sort of interesting. It sounds minor or technical, but if you want to due diligence on a human being, I get to do it a few 100 times a year.

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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. But we provide a combination of APIs and software. So just be like if this is any good at all, I’m glad I’m here.

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User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

In this article, we've got a comprehensive review of the entire product development process. We'll take you through idea generation, market research, defining a minimum viable product, building new features, managing the launch, and beyond. Next up, you need to validate the idea before you start writing code.

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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. Then, create user segments around these similarities.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

If you missed episode 130, check it out here: Turning Junior-level Talent into Top Sales Professionals with Eddie Baez. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Sales enablement is easy. REGIE uses artificial intelligence to create entire outbound inbound, and even follow-up sales campaigns faster. We’re on iTunes.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Matt Turck talks with three hyper-growth stage Co-Founders and CEOs on three roadblocks when scaling past $15M ARR: hiring, culture, and sales. I’m CEO of Dataiku and Dataiku is a software platform that enables business analyst and data scientist to work collaboratively to deliver a large machine learning projects.

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User Pilot

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

You can collect feedback from your customer base via in-app surveys, feedback widgets, interviews, and by monitoring social media mentions and reviews. Interview existing customers Another good way to identify emerging market gaps is by interviewing your customers. How do you recruit your interviewees?

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User Pilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

One of the consequences of this is that the sales cycles slow down. Create strategic value PMs are under a lot of pressure to deliver features – from the sales team chasing a deal, the customer service colleagues trying to alleviate customer pain points, and executive leadership eyeing market expansion or increased market share.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 26, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Rahim Fazal , Co-Founder and CEO of the SV Academy. If you missed episode 71, check it out here: PODCAST 71: Why is Account Based Marketing Not Working w/ Latane Conant. Keeping up with the evolution of sales. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. What You’ll Learn.

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Brian Balfour

OCTOBER 13, 2017

This post is the HubSpot Sales case study that illustrates the concepts of the 4-Fits Framework, a 5 post series in which I explain the four frameworks you need to align to grow to a $100M+ company. In this post, I will walk you through how we laid the foundation for the HubSpot Sales product and set it on course towards that $100M goal.

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Mucker Capital

APRIL 2, 2024

In this Mucker Growth session, Mike Genstil with ValueCore delves into the concept of value selling and its application in enterprise sales. As a founder, ideally you want your sellers, marketers, and product leaders aligned in transforming product features into value-based messages to accelerate sales cycles and secure corporate deals.

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Mucker Capital

APRIL 2, 2024

In this Mucker Growth session, Mike Genstil with ValueCore delves into the concept of value selling and its application in enterprise sales. As a founder, ideally you want your sellers, marketers, and product leaders aligned in transforming product features into value-based messages to accelerate sales cycles and secure corporate deals.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 22, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Nick Worswick, Global Head of Growth for WeWork. The importance of due diligence in company selection. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Welcome to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Before we get to that interview, we want to thank our sponsors.

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User Pilot

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The State of SaaS report found that 76% of the 100 SaaS applications reviewed have a friction-based sign-up flow. Recruit the research participants. Send out the survey or interview 1-on-1. Turn your survey or interview data into actionable insights that will help you improve customer pain points. Create cluster reports.

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User Pilot

JULY 28, 2024

Product Teams Can Use Userpilot to: Improve Product Adoption with Insights from Analytics Improve User Onboarding Interactive Guidance Collect User Feedback with No-Code In-App Surveys Get a Demo 14 Day Trial No Credit Card Required What is a retention specialist? Book a demo to see it in action!

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Sales enablement is easy: all you have to do is create perfectly targeted content, stay informed on email best practices, drive more engagement quarter over quarter, spend less money, and do all of this with less time. More sales meetings, start creating better sequences faster, go to go.regie.io

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ChurnZero

AUGUST 28, 2020

For this reason, everyone is trying to crack the code on how to create the optimal onboarding experience. Interview customers to identify their effective and affective needs and pain points. Recruit cross-functional team members to review customer feedback, map internal workflows, and define responsibilities and metrics.

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User Pilot

JUNE 28, 2023

Stripo offers a pre-sign up interactive demo that brings prospects to their ‘Aha’ moment before they even create an account. Kommunicate drives sales-less product adoption through product experiments and tracking adoption rates with Userpilot.

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ChurnZero

MARCH 6, 2020

The Customer Success industry is obsessed with cracking the code on customer experience and loyalty. Founder Annette Franz shares a quote from sales expert Zig Ziglar that shows how a people-first philosophy is your business growth strategy: “You don’t build a business. Customer Success Starts Within: 6 Ways to Put Employees First.

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Totango

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Your sales team lands a new customer with great potential. While the product provides many benefits, one that is particularly interesting is it shortens the sales cycle (decreasing time to revenue). So they ask every new customer how long their average sales cycle is. Let the data make the sale for you.

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