OpenView Labs

APRIL 13, 2020

There are new job titles—growth marketing, growth product manager, growth engineer, head of growth—and new opportunities that have changed the way companies think about how to grow their revenue or users. Proliferation of iterative, experiment-driven, nimble approaches to product development (also known as Agile). Monetization.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 30, 2021

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Neil Ringers , EVP of Revenue Grid. Neil’s experience includes a long history of sales leadership, primarily in the Salesforce ecosystem, and is now running revenue for Revenue Grid. How Revenue Grid enables smarter selling. How to build a winning sales team.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 11, 2019

In a company’s early days as a lean, mean, business machine, it’s fairly easy for leadership to stay in sync with their users. But as the business becomes more successful – and there are resources to build a support team – additional layers begin to separate executives from their customers. Speak the customer’s language.

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A Smart Bear

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

The implication is that this was unknowable or bad luck, but the truth is, this was a predictable result of not understanding the market. Sometimes that’s a dream team that weathers the storm that sinks the other boats. The bad news is, you don’t know ahead of time what that thing will be. Multitasking is bad.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

Aaron Ross | CEO @ Predictable Revenue. And so, she can, and Anthony just finished up basically going from the first sales hire at Gainsight at almost 100 million in revenue and has just retired. Our monthly self-service churn went from like 3% to like 9%, right? Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW. Aaron : No.

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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. As a manager observing their team, what are signs that an individual is burning out? What actions and communications must they adopt to ensure that this feeling of culture over performance is accepted by the team?

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Chart Mogul

MAY 7, 2020

Onboarding a new member of your sales team is challenging on its own, but especially so when they have to call prospects out of the blue. Providing the right cold calling training can make or break the success of a new team member. Nobody likes cold calling. But just because it isn’t fun doesn’t mean it isn’t effective.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Congratulations you’ve built a product that’s proven itself in the marketplace! At Twilio, I think my entire job there my first two years was throwing t-shirts at people, because everyone had a Twilio t-shirt I think in the developer community in 2010, and that was our marketing strategy. I have a team of people who work on numbers.

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OPEXEngine

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

These companies have figured out a new paradigm: They are using scale to generate the benefits of leadership economics for their customers and they are combining an insurgent mission with technology to better understand (and deliver) what individual customers want. Ditto for leaders like Apple, Vanguard and Salesforce. Scale and intimacy.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

I’ve been in software since the ’90s and for over 20 years, nearly that entire time, we’ve been talking about digital transformation, developing strategies, architecting new technologies, and moving beyond digitization to rethinking our businesses, our products, and our services in a way that’s optimized for a digital world.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

Sales Development and Prospecting. The Sales Development Playbook. Predictable Revenue. The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team. Wooden on Leadership. Here are the best books on selling (and related disciplines) that can help you hit your goals and develop your career. The Seller’s Challenge. Outbound Sales, No Fluff.

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SaaStr

MAY 15, 2020

Finally, before YesWare, she was VP of Sales @ Engine Yard, where she tripled monthly recurring revenue, over the course of her 3+ year tenure, in 3 key leadership roles. Where do most teams go wrong in implementing the role out of their CS strategy? Does Bridget believe CS teams should be involved in the upsell process?

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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. Yes, Slack started off with no sales team. Yes, Dropbox started off with no traditional sales team. To find out, we sat down with Jeanne de Witte , Head of North America Revenue & Growth at Stripe.

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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

The SaaStock team will be landing in São Paulo to run the region’s first Pan-Latin American SaaS conference, SaaStock LatAm. Aaron Ross, Co-CEO, Predictable Revenue. He dropped out of Stanford Graduate School of Business and then co-founded LeaseExchange, an online marketplace for equipment leasing. Diego Cordovez, CMO, Meetime.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Never believe that doubting yourself is a bad thing. That company only lasted another year before they were out of business, so it was a poor use of my energy, time, and being away from my family – a lesson I work to pass on to others new in roles today. Invest in your development internally and externally. Anita Nielsen.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 8, 2021

It was seen as a necessary part of a business, but not something that drove revenue or influenced customers’ buying decisions. Another survey reveals that 84% of businesses report an uplift in revenue as one of the primary benefits of improving their customer experience. Download your copy of the thought leadership paper now.

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User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Key metrics like revenue growth, customer acquisition costs, and net promoter score can indicate the success of a blue ocean strategy. The focus is on developing new demand and reconstructing market landscapes to make rivals obsolete. Develop creative “what-if” scenarios to design potential blue ocean offerings.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Lauren Bailey’s award-winning sales firm Factor 8 has been instrumental in helping sales teams with their sales and management development programs. She also founded #GirlsClub , which is dedicated to changing the face of sales leadership by helping more women gain the skills and experience needed to apply.

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Chart Mogul

APRIL 24, 2020

With a pandemic underway, software-as-a-service businesses, in normal times the beneficiaries of relatively stable compounding growth, are now facing an existential threat: recurring revenue streams are drying up, at least in part. Revenue is down!” Was that the last wave of bad news?’ ‘I’m How bad will it get?

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Neil Patel

DECEMBER 4, 2020

How do you stand out in such a highly-competitive marketplace? And they do this with poor store setup and product listings. Amazon even developed its own SEO algorithm called A9. Basically, they’ll help you develop and implement marketing strategies to drive sales and revenue. Find an Amazon marketing consultant.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Renaud Visage, Co-Founder of Eventbrite, and Romain Huet, Head of Developer Relations at Stripe, know what it takes to effectively evolve your offering into a platform without losing what made offering appealing in the first place. Romain Huet | Head of Developer Relations @ Stripe. Want to see more content like this?

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Maria and Anthony present the CEO and CMO playbook of how the CEO and CMO can partner with other members of the team to grow sales and marketing. Maria : Not too bad. Just having, saying, “Hey this person, I’m going to use them because they’ll be great when we’re 30 million larger in revenue.”

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 18, 2020

We’ve got an interview with Brandon Meyers , the chief revenue officer of ADARA. He even managed to help pivot the company from a programmatic transactional revenue model to a subscription model over the course of, not just the last three months during COVID, but over the course of the last few years. We’re on iTunes.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

It’s time to start thinking about retention at scale and bring onboard a customer success team. That’s exactly how Yelp approached its growth journey, under the leadership of Senior Vice President and General Manager of Local Revenue Kayti Sullivan. Why you need a customer success team.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

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. And there’s a lot of benefit to running a software as a service, in general.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

Nick Mehta: Power of the developer, or the API economy, both of you play very much in both those trends. How do you help your team make that link to value? We’ve got a lot of training to do with our sales teams to get them to start to speak in these types of terms versus feature function.

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Payment Methods Merchant Services Scale Payments 188

User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Key metrics like revenue growth, customer acquisition costs, and net promoter score can indicate the success of a blue ocean strategy. The focus is on developing new demand and reconstructing market landscapes to make rivals obsolete. Develop creative “what-if” scenarios to design potential blue ocean offerings.

Strategy 52

Strategy Technical Review Business Innovation 52

OPEXEngine

MARCH 9, 2021

“I’ve talked to countless entrepreneurs who are anxious about the next step—first seed round, hiring a team, landing a board member, etc.,” That’s exactly what got the former Zenefits leadership team into trouble. As you start to develop a go-to-market strategy, “make sure to think through the process holistically,” says Jay.

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Chart Mogul

APRIL 24, 2020

With a pandemic underway, software-as-a-service businesses, in normal times the beneficiaries of relatively stable compounding growth, are now facing an existential threat: recurring revenue streams are drying up, at least in part. Revenue is down!” Was that the last wave of bad news?’ ‘I’m How bad will it get?

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Forecasting Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Marketplace as a Service 52

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Prior to joining the world of venture, Karen was a Senior Director at Apple and before Apple, Karen spent an incredible 9 years at Box as a founding member of the executive team, where she was responsible for defining and leading Box’s Industry GTM strategy. And we really had no revenue to speak of by the time that I had joined.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 20, 2020

If you missed episode 131, check it out here: Data, Set, Match: How to Build a Two-Sided Marketplace to Drive Revenue with Ryan Walsh. If RFPs are slowing down your sales team, you need to check out Loopio. If you haven’t applied to Revenue Collective yet, I encourage you to do so. We’re on iTunes. And on Stitcher.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The keys to great leadership [18:24]. How to build a more diverse team [24:50]. Through that, he went to university where he studied AI and cybernetics, ultimately leading big teams in EMEA for AppDynamics. Learn how modern sales teams with deals, win deals now. Modern sales teams, winning deals using 6sense.

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Chargify

AUGUST 17, 2017

Lemkin reviewed a number of SaaS companies that experienced growth stalls somewhere in the $20M – $40M ARR (Annual Recurring Revenue) and found a pattern: “The ones that stall out at $20m ARR, or thereafter? Enterprise customers have higher Average Revenue Per User (ARPU) and Lifetime Value (LTV). They all have low NPS.”.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Historically, growth of a sales team was based on the revenue starting with $0M on day 1 of the year. Doubling revenue would require hiring 2x as many people. . However, in a SaaS model , the customer acquisition team can grow revenue to $1M in year 1. Traditional Sales Growth vs SaaS Sales Growth.

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yoursales

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Which problems are the most pressing for your and your B2B sales team? Which processes can and need to be powered by technology for you and your team to sell more? Trends which MAY impact your Sales Stack in 2023 Sales is in constant development. What customers want is help solving problems. Being a B2B buyer isn't easy.

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yoursales

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Which problems are the most pressing for your and your B2B sales team? Which processes can and need to be powered by technology for you and your team to sell more? Trends which MAY impact your Sales Stack in 2023 Sales is in constant development. What customers want is help solving problems. Being a B2B buyer isn't easy.

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Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Outsourced Development 52

SaaStr

JUNE 20, 2019

I grew up in the Netherlands, people in Germany, people are being taught when they’re young to stay away from credit, it’s a bad thing, you want to avoid it. Aydin Senkut: Or companies that have 50 billion of global revenues. We had a marketplace payer solution. Roelant Prins: Totally.

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