Neil Patel

OCTOBER 24, 2020

In a nutshell, they can give you expert opinions, analysis, and recommendations that can help ensure a more objective-based approach to grow your business and maximize sales – all at the same time. You can also select a freelancer profile from these marketplaces. Sales and Marketing Consultants. IT Consultants.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 16, 2020

Andrey explains why embracing the professional services sector in a unique way has paid dividends. So we decided not to build everything ourselves but to make sure that people can build and extend our product and also we’re not just thinking about a developer platform. Embracing professional services as a distribution channel.

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SaaStr

MARCH 19, 2019

On one half of it you have product market fit and on the other half you have partners and ideally developers integrating in order to reach your users. The platform flywheel, the basics of it are you have a product that suddenly has market fit, you have customers who are joining that product.

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SaaStr

JUNE 10, 2020

Second, product market fit. Product market fit matters more than ever and technology is what’s going to get us out of this, the understanding of data and getting the insights and how fast we move in tech. And he said, “Product and engineering are going to build this weekend. Meagen, sales.

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A Smart Bear

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Sometimes that’s airtight product/market it. Sometimes that’s product design so thrilling that every customer spreads the word to five more. Sometimes that’s a market insight that takes competitors five years to understand. Selling to the mid-market is hard. Sales” is not a dirty word.

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 18, 2021

In the Reforge Product Strategy course, we teach that there are four different types of product work : Feature development: adding new things to the product that improve value proposition e.g. Uber’s Split Fare. Product/market fit expansion: adding totally new products that create new value propositions e.g. Uber Eats.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

268: Ryan Bonnici is the CMO @ G2, the company that allows you to get the right software and services for your business with over 897,000 user reviews to help you make smarter buying decisions. Before Hubspot, Ryan was Head of Marketing @ Salesforce (APAC) where he led his team to achieve 227% YoY net-new sales sourced through marketing.

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SaaStr

MAY 15, 2020

333: Bridget Gleason is the Head of Sales and Customer Success @ Tidelift, the company providing managed open source, backed by maintainers. Before Tidelift, Bridget was VP of Sales @ Logz.io and before that was VP of Corporate Sales @ Sumo Logic where she drove ARR up by a record 237%. Loving our podcast content?

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 22, 2019

I’m excited to be joined today by Intercom’s own Jonathon Colman, a senior designer who came to us by way of the Nature Conservancy, REI and five and a half years at Facebook, where he most recently worked as a UX Content Strategy Lead for Marketplace. And content design definitely spends time focusing on those words, on that service.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 4, 2019

The fastest growing software companies in recent years all have something in common – they started with little to no sales team. They relied on a great product, with a passionate userbase that helped kickstart an organic growth engine which sold the product for them. Yes, Slack started off with no sales team.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Outreach’s annual sales industry summit, Unleash, has a speaker lineup for 2019 that is absolutely packed with genius-level sales insights. It just so happens that many of the speakers (26 of them, actually) are also some of our favorite Sales Hacker contributors! Lauren Alt – Marketing Campaigns Manager at Outreach.

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SmartKarrot

JUNE 25, 2021

No business can survive in the long run without a loyal customer base for its services or products. SaaS leaders need to believe and keep the product in mind to guide customers properly. The Customer Development model is not a replacement for the Product Development model, but rather a companion to it. Customer Discovery.

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Unbounce

JUNE 16, 2020

These are often built with agencies, consultants, and managed-service-providers (MSPs) in mind. These partners resell your product and benefit from offering ongoing services, usually on a retainer basis. Your partners act as an outsourced sales and marketing team. Increased Product Focus. Reseller Programs.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

If you can create a scenario where others are building on top of your product – and therefore evolving it in ways you may not have the resources to do yourself – your offering suddenly becomes even more valuable to your customers. Here, Ceci unpacks her thinking for Intercom’s Group Product Marketing Manager, Jasmine Jaume.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 9, 2024

In this conversation, a16z Growth general partner Sarah Wang speaks with Crossbeam CEO Bob Moore about his new book, Ecosystem-Led Growth: A Blueprint for Sales and Marketing Success Using the Power of Partnerships. Or, “are my sales reps selling into the same companies as your sales reps?”

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

How should sales and marketing work together on pricing? Rob Gonzalez: Operationally, I look at, in particular, my experience at Endeca, but also another startup that sold to pharmaceutical companies and other life sciences businesses and financial services companies called Cambridge Semantics.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 12, 2021

Are talk tracks just a fancy new tech take on sales scripts? Not according to these sales and sales enablement experts. Software tools are constantly improving their platforms with new features, new product lines and new uses cases. The most important sales conversation your rep has is the first discovery call.

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OPEXEngine

MARCH 9, 2021

That’s exactly what got the former Zenefits leadership team into trouble. Instead of taking a reckless approach, it’s critical to make sure you have some key building blocks in place before going to market. It’s not just about delivering a superior product to the marketplace; rather, several stars must align,” he says.

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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. Experimenting with product/market fit. Pivoting sales to meet buyers. Regardless of how busy you are or slumping sales, now is the time to have a laser focus on your customers.

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SaaStr

JULY 11, 2019

It may seem like a simple decision, but there is a lot of complexity in a two-sided marketplace where people are expecting to get paid. The marketplace was doing well. We were growing, but there was still a lot of friction in the product. Why don’t we take Atlanta, a smaller market and just test it there?

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

In this blueprint, we provide insight into where growth comes from and how to structure your sales approach to capture that growth. The Winning By Design Blueprint Series provides practical advice for every part of a SaaS sales organization. Traditional Sales Growth vs SaaS Sales Growth. Understanding Growth Potential.

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Chargify

AUGUST 17, 2017

Sales exploded, and if you’d picked up a big enough chunk of stock when the company went public, you’d never have to work again.”. billion losing streak that has erased 84% of Sears’ market value.”. Even if it’s more a marketing game than a technology differentiation. Sona Hovhannisyan , Marketing at Incredo.

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SaaStr

APRIL 3, 2019

As for Ben, he spearheads global sales and go to market teams. What must founders try and figure out before hiring their sales leader? What are the leading indicators that suggest a sales rep has the ability to be a sales manager? What does Ben mean when he says, “there are 3 distinct buckets of sales management”?

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SaaStr

AUGUST 6, 2019

Most of you who ever have done enterprise sales, you know enterprise sales are spreadsheet-driven. Tradeshift Buy, which is essentially what we call private marketplaces. There can be many, many winners when you have compounding interest from users and from services. We can do the private marketplaces.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Karen Page: I started my career in sales and marketing. Early stage, there’s going to be demand risk and product market fit risk, but later the risk is about the ability to scale. How are they thinking about growing the company and the leadership team? Karen Page: How does this leadership team gel?

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SmartKarrot

AUGUST 5, 2021

In recent years, Product Operations roles have evolved to include: Operations, Technical Ownership, Product Strategy, Project Management, Customer Success , and Professional Services. Products can be software, hardware, or even services. Understanding the Need for Product Operations. contact-form-7].

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SaaStr

JULY 22, 2020

At the time, there may be four or five other firms doing this same strategy of investing somewhere between $500,000 and $2 million into companies that were just getting started we would call it pre product market fit. But we think of it as being sort of CO conspirators with the founders pre-product market fit.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 31, 2021

In this episode of the Sales Hacker podcast, we have Ajit Ghuman , Head of Product Marketing at Narvar and author of Price To Scale. If you missed episode 175, check it out here: Protecting Migrant Children: International Social Service. The role of product marketing, perfectly summarized.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 22, 2018

Fast forward to today, and Eventbrite is the world’s largest self-service event ticketing and registration platform – processing more than 3 million tickets each week. Going back a bit, Brian was a co-founder at SkillSlate, a local services marketplaces similar to Thumbtack. We raised a $1.5-million

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Point Nine Land

APRIL 21, 2021

There are many posts out there explaining how startup co-founders should “land the first sales, then hire the first 2 sales and when to hire a VP sales”. But, in my experience, there’s very little written about what is the equivalent for Product Management. In SaaS vs. marketplaces? How is it working?

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