SaaStr

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

So a playbook on scaling high performance organizations in 30 bit minutes. So big, big scale. Now this work came out of some really good people analytics from Google that was performed over two years where a group that is referred to as Project Oxygen looked at teams, all functions across many organizations. No big deal.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 5, 2024

For context – Ashley had previously helped Sam scale Brex’s outbound sales from $2M to over $300M in ARR as Senior Director of SDR. Ashley joined Brex at $2M in ARR, and she was tasked with taking what existed and scaling it. Her first assignment was hiring SDRS.

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SaaStr

MARCH 9, 2022

Author Geoffrey Moore describes the chasm criteria this way: Demonstrate market leadership. References become part of the decision-making process. Along with a higher growth rate, leadership should also pause to review their retention and churn rates. Get the Playbook Right First, Then Scale Fast. Do Right By Customers.

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Buffer Resources

AUGUST 16, 2023

However, scaling a business into a seven-figure enterprise is a completely different ball game altogether. So, how could these startups scale while others struggled to find their footing? So how did I scale my PR agency to a coveted seven-figure powerhouse? To scale and truly stand out, I needed to niche down.

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SaaStr

JULY 13, 2022

She draws from personal experience scaling a global product company to $1B and shares common mistakes. When hiring, do the reference checks yourself. The establishment of the enablement function is vital in scaling a business. You need a sales enablement team if your company has scaled to over $10 million ARR.

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SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2022

This episode is an excerpt from a session at SaaStr Scale. And it will require a collaboration across the organization at the leadership level. We used a third party to help us because speed was important for us to get that opportunity I was referring to plus everything else that came down. Rico Mallozzi, Sr. Colleen Kapase.

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Totango

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

We have implemented forms and email communications to try and see if the right contact can be referred to us and we can update our contacts accordingly. . The post Q&A with Aruba: How We Scaled Our Customer Engagement Strategy appeared first on Best Customer Success Blog: Articles for Enterprise Growth.

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User Pilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

That’s what Dave Martin , a product leadership coach, has talked about in his talk at this year’s Product Drive Summit hosted by Userpilot. As companies scale, they often cannot satisfy customer needs equally well. Leadership and investors often challenge them because they can’t see anything tangible that they’re paying for.

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Totango

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

We have implemented forms and email communications to try and see if the right contact can be referred to us and we can update our contacts accordingly. . The post Q&A with Aruba: How We Scaled Our Customer Engagement Strategy appeared first on Best Customer Success Blog: Articles for Enterprise Growth.

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SaaStr

APRIL 20, 2022

This period, often referred to as The Great Resignation, shows us how important it is to take measures to retain our employees. One challenge Twilio faced was balancing the scaling efforts of the organization and building a world-class team to support their growth ambitions—in a virtual environment.

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Tom Tunguz

JUNE 6, 2018

That head will need to scale the team to meet the objectives of the company. First, you already have a strong reference on their behalf, so there’s less screening required. Second, there’s no leadership/relationship risk. All of those should be obvious. There is one that is often overlooked.

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SaaStr

MARCH 19, 2019

Niall Wall, Box SVP of Business and Corporate Development alongside Vicki Lin, Stripe’s Head of Ecosystem and Cecilia Stallsmith, Slack’s Director of Platform Marketing discuss scaling your revenue via indirect channels and platform ecosystems. You can create whatever combined word you’d like for that to be the case.

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ChurnZero

AUGUST 30, 2019

Top 10 Customer Success Takeaways from SaaStr Scale. Yesterday, ChurnZero had the opportunity to attend and sponsor a brand new SaaStr event called – SaaStr Scale. The programing was packed with 15+ hands-on “The Playbook To” session from top CROs, CMOs, and CCOs, all with the focus of helping you to scale faster.

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Totango

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

We have implemented forms and email communications to try and see if the right contact can be referred to us and we can update our contacts accordingly. . The post Q&A with Aruba: How We Scaled Our Customer Engagement Strategy appeared first on Best Customer Success Blog: Articles for Enterprise Growth.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 16, 2023

With massive annual technology budgets and scaled distribution, the largest FIs are the ideal end-buyers. Similarly, if you’re able to uncover what’s top of mind for your FI’s executive leadership—such as keeping up with the newest generative AI advancements—you still need to match those concerns to a specific line-of-business owner.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

What does it take to scale a sales team successfully? And that became a pretty important skill set as people were trying to scale SaaS businesses all over Silicon Valley. So just looking around from the inside, you can learn a lot about how great companies are scaled. I don’t subscribe to the servant leadership model.

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SaaStr

MAY 27, 2021

But the entrepreneurs who take their work to the next level by publishing content about what they’re building at the earliest stage will give themselves a sharp edge in the thought leadership department. . Sometimes SDRs are referred to as BDRs, business development representatives. .

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SaaStr

AUGUST 13, 2021

You need a baked financial model, that includes sales and marketing costs, scaling over time, headcount, and comparison to comps, and when you’ll need the next round(s). Customer References Re ady to Go. Have 5+ customer references ready to go, on a sheet, on a list. Your Personal References and LinkedIn Ready to Go.

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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. Customer > Team > Individual During my time at HubSpot, the leadership team shared this mental model to help with decision-making. Again, it was an easy to use model which scaled effective decision-making.

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Tom Tunguz

MAY 8, 2018

The habits formed from 17 years of schooling and a 100 point scale run deep. The company leadership set corporate OKRs. Doerr refers to OKRs as the first gift he gave Google. “Even better if you have a moonshot goal in there, with a 5% likelihood of success.” Several years later, I found myself writing them.

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ChurnZero

JUNE 7, 2022

In order to create uniform buy-in for the work of Customer Success, leadership needs to take steps to first and foremost ensure that the mission of their department is fully aligned with the corporate mission. Be empathetic to your leadership peers. Of course, leadership comes with a lot of responsibility.

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Totango

JUNE 28, 2022

Using a digital engagement model can help you better deliver and scale these important communications. Totango’s Engage Customers SuccessBLOC makes it easy for you to drive customer engagement with automated retention and expansion activities to scale your engagement model and help you stay top-of-mind with customers.

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SaaStr

MARCH 17, 2020

Learn from Talkdesk SVP of Client Services how to build a Customer Reference Program. How to create boundaries and norms with the sales team, how to find customer advocates, how to build and scale your program, as well as the difference between incentivized vs. reward program. Do we have to do these customer references?

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Sometimes this focus on solving customer problems means we make simpler engineering decisions up front, in the knowledge that those decisions won’t scale forever and that we’ll need to revisit them in the future. This was a huge undertaking that required not just technical skill, but also organizational flexibility. Testing our hypotheses.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 9, 2022

But as the organization scales and matures, these rules become quite complex. Approaches vary from top-down (leadership pushes goals all the way to sellers) and bottom-up (sellers and managers determine realistic goals and commitments and roll them up). Related: How to Set the Right Goals For Sales Reps (With Examples).

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 25, 2020

If you are looking to scale up your marketing, you will need talented people that can take charge of and execute your strategy. Scaling a business isn’t easy. Two of the key challenges that come with scaling are getting the right talent and getting enough new customers. Read on to find out which decision is better for you.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

For startups creating categories, the value of dominating a market while scaling can result in operational benefits as well. It’s hard enough to position your own company and product, let alone create a cognitive reference for an entire industry. Naturally, this can also lead to more market share and higher valuation multiples. .

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SaaStr

JANUARY 27, 2021

If your VP of Sales candidate knows how to source and hire 2-3 AEs and make them successful, they can do it again, even at a much larger scale. With less support, fewer leads, less reference accounts, lower NPS, higher churn. See if it’s all really as it seems. A product harder to sell. And run they probably will.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 1, 2024

Hello and welcome to The GTM Newsletter – read by over 50,000 revenue professionals weekly to scale their companies and careers. Owned media refers to content distributed through a brand’s channels , including self-hosted video, company blogs, and email campaigns.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

This is Scale, Intercom’s podcast series on driving business growth through customer relationships. Bobby: I imagine it’s one thing to lead customer support or to offer that leadership and consulting, and another thing, as you said, is to put it on paper. ” “Hey, can you refer me to…?”

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Kellblog

JULY 24, 2021

My other formative experience came from watching yet another movie, Wall Street , where antagonist Gordon Gekko refers to Sun Tzu’s The Art of War. ?. While Gekko doesn’t use my favorite quote for these purposes [4], his reference to the book was very much in vogue at the time, and probably why I first read it.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

If you told me there was an employment strategy that would improve my company’s employee retention, hiring, and productivity — yet I ignored it — I bet you’d question my leadership. . Employee referrals are key to scaling hiring across a company. The 2019 State of Remote Work report found that more than half (62%) of U.S.

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Mucker Capital

APRIL 2, 2024

Buyers may also struggle to justify investments in new purchases and to convince their leadership team of the worth. Hard Cost This refers to money spent outside the company on materials, software, technology, etc. Four Main Categories Where Pain Can change to Value.

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Totango

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

When CMOs and CCOs form a partnership around their customer knowledge, marketing can focus on customer acquisition while CS focuses on retention, increasing customer lifetime value, and brand advocates who refer more prospects. This partnership helps to activate the flywheel and propel growth from the existing customer base.

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ChurnZero

JUNE 7, 2022

In order to create uniform buy-in for the work of Customer Success, leadership needs to take steps to first and foremost ensure that the mission of their department is fully aligned with the corporate mission. Be empathetic to your leadership peers. Of course, leadership comes with a lot of responsibility.

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Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

APRIL 10, 2018

We consider sales enablement to be a bottom of the funnel (BOFU) function, but after listening to the sales and marketing leadership it became apparent that I could have the biggest impact by strategically focussing on the bottom of the BOFU, and providing “deal closing optimisation” activities to the business.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

I’m referring to the full spectrum of business execution, from product management to design to engineering to marketing to sales to support and all the other functions needed to scale a business. Basic marketing and selling at a global scale is becoming easy too. The second army are your main competitors.

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