SaaStr

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

The underperformers who aren’t putting in the effort get a conversation, and if things don’t change, it’s not a good fit. Jameson and Sam also recommend that across the org: sales, marketing and CS — the early and sooner you can get the entire team re-focused on creating their own pipeline, the better. Guess what?

Sales Hiring 202

Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Revenue Sales 202

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Wouldn’t it take away from allowing managers to manage and coach — not to mention the monstrous to-do lists of VPs and CEOs? Scott’s newsletter makes a great point: as buying teams get bigger and bigger, our sales teams need to grow with them. In other words, the partners balance out each other’s strengths and weaknesses.

Underperforming Technical Team 121

Underperforming Technical Team CTO Hire CTO Coach Technical Review 121

User Pilot

APRIL 6, 2023

Developing and releasing sophisticated products with all the bells and whistles imaginable might seem like a great idea. In this article, we look at different ways for product managers to avoid falling into the overengineering trap. Poor prioritization and external pressure are also common causes. But worry not!

Underperforming Technical Team 92

Underperforming Technical Team Management Interviewing Scale 92

User Pilot

JANUARY 29, 2023

Why do product managers need a new feature validation framework? TL;DR Product managers need a new feature validation framework to ensure that they meet user needs or drive organizational goals and avert product failure. Product teams should invest in validation when developing the MVP. How can you build one?

Management 94

Management Underperforming Technical Team Interviewing Scale 94

User Pilot

MARCH 31, 2022

There’s a simple way to boost product-led growth: giving users a fantastic first impression of your product by using onboarding tooltips. Then, it’s relatively simple to create an onboarding process that meets their needs and drives adoption. What are onboarding tooltips? Ready to get started? Let’s dive in!

Onboarding 94

Onboarding Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Compensation 94

CustomerSuccessBox

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Here, he talks about the steps to get a perfect customer onboarding. What are the ingredients of a perfect customer onboarding ? What are the KPIs and metrics you track for onboarding? Should onboarding be different for different customers? Your onboarding process should be prescriptive, yet flexible.

Onboarding 52

Onboarding Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team Consulting 52

Chart Mogul

MAY 30, 2019

Ingmar, our VP of Customer Success, and our support team cracked the code on first response time and measuring NPS. As we grow, we’re able to spend more time developing the proactive tiers of the pyramid without de-prioritizing a strong foundation of fast, helpful ticket replies and features that delight. Defining your program.

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Underperforming Technical Team Development Strategy Management 78

User Pilot

MARCH 23, 2023

And how can customer success teams address them to ensure product growth? Reasons why customers churn: #1: Customers churn when there is a bad product-customer fit and your product’s features don’t align with their needs. 2: Customers churn as a result of an ineffective onboarding process that doesn’t deliver product value.

SaaS Payments 95

SaaS Payments Churn Underperforming Technical Team Payment Methods 95

OpenView Labs

MARCH 8, 2021

For all those reasons, hiring and management must be on point. What Interviewing 600+ Sales Reps Taught Me About Team Building. What’s your biggest weakness? The last thing you can afford is a bad sales hire. Building an effective (and committed) enterprise sales team for the long haul starts with the people you hire.

Sales Hiring 80

Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting B2B 80

Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Shopify is a huge opportunity for developers looking to expand into the micro-SaaS space. The Shopify App Store brings together Shopify app developers and Shopify shop owners for their mutual benefit. Why you need to track business metrics for Shopify App Developers 10 business metrics for Shopify App Developers 1.

Payment Solutions 98

Payment Solutions Outsourced Development Underperforming Technical Team Metrics 98

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Each person on your team has different needs, responds to feedback in different ways and evolves in different trajectories – and management should always reflect that. Even when you reach the perfect team dynamic – a new hire or budget cut can easily throw things off balance. The craft of managing.

Leadership 118

Leadership Part-Time VPE Management Underperforming Technical Team 118

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 19, 2022

To ensure long-term content strategy success , it’s best to periodically evaluate your team’s content requirements and workflow alignment. As a sales content manager, it’s strongly recommended to review your content strategy if you’ve been using the same sequences, templates, and snippets that you initially launched with.

Strategy 90

Strategy Underperforming Technical Team Management Systems Review 90

User Pilot

APRIL 29, 2022

Fancy hiring a customer onboarding specialist or simply want to know who they are and what they do? In this article, you will get everything you need to know about customer onboarding specialists. What user onboarding software do you need to buy to equip them? Who is a customer onboarding specialist? What do they do?

Onboarding 89

Onboarding Underperforming Technical Team Interviewing Benchmarks 89

ChurnZero

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Every Customer Success team focuses on keeping customers engaged and ultimately, preventing churn. But as a company scales and brings in new accounts, CSMs can start to feel like Lucy and Ethel in the chocolate factory—the customers keep rolling along faster than CSMs can properly manage them! It doesn’t have to be this way.

Education 98

Education Customer Success Underperforming Technical Team Scale 98

User Pilot

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

How do product managers identify market gaps? A market gap can be caused by missing functionality or poor user experience. Canva identified a market need for a user-friendly graphic design tool for non-designers and DocuSign for a secure solution to sign and manage digital documents and contracts. Let’s get into it!

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Underperforming Technical Team Marketing Market Research Outsourced Development 94

Totango

JULY 28, 2021

Following best practices for hiring a customer success manager can make a critical difference in the quality of your customer relationships. Customer success managers serve as the face of your company in dealing with clients, playing a key role in ensuring satisfying experiences of your brand. What Is a Customer Success Manager?

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Customer Success Management Underperforming Technical Team Scale 118

InsightSquared

JANUARY 16, 2019

It’s easy to say you need great onboarding, but it’s another to implement effective onboarding. On top of that, it’s easy for growing companies to push an onboarding strategy low on the list of priorities. Bad onboarding can have lasting repercussions that continue to have a negative impact on your company for years.

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Sales Hiring Onboarding Underperforming Technical Team Strategy 70

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 19, 2022

As the president of Sales Xceleration, a firm specializing in assessing and implementing sales strategy , sales processes, and sales execution to drive growth, I’ve seen how job hopping can affect otherwise stable sales teams. But also the cost it has on their careers — and your sales team. This trend especially impacts sales teams.

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Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting Compensation 79

BetterCloud

AUGUST 25, 2022

And in both of those jobs, my teams were responsible for understanding how to attract top talent—and more importantly, how to retain your best employees. Let’s review just a few of them and discuss how your onboarding workflows assuage any concerns you might have about falling prey to the most common challenges of employee retention.

Onboarding 52

Onboarding Retention Underperforming Technical Team Software Engineering 52

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

As companies begin to succeed, they sometimes develop a tunnel vision towards the customers who have brought them their success. If you don’t work to keep your knowledge of the market fresh and current, you may be left with a narrow view that will inevitably catch your sales and product teams flat-footed. Verify product-user fit.

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Underperforming Technical Team Company Culture Customer Success Product Marketing 243

User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

What customer discovery questions should product managers ask to accurately identify the unsatisfied needs of potential customers and validate ideas? TL;DR Customer discovery questions enable product teams to better understand customer needs and problems so that they can build products that the potential customer truly needs.

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Underperforming Technical Team Scale Interviewing Social Media 83

Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 15, 2018

Will Larson has managed infrastructure teams for some of the biggest names in software. Partnering with the Infrastructure, Data and Developer Productivity teams, his group builds the tools that support every Stripe engineer and keep Stripe reliable and performant. That was just a transformational experience.

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Engineering Management Merchant Services DevOps as a Service 214

Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 12, 2019

A little over a year ago, I got the opportunity to start a new team within our sales organization – a team of Relationship Managers dedicated to growing our current customers at scale. To do the first, we had to hire, train, and write a playbook – the building blocks of any team. Relentlessly measure impact.

Sales Hiring 171

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team Scale 171

CustomerSuccessBox

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Here, he talks about the best practices in Customer Onboarding. Can you define successful onboarding? What are the ingredients of a perfect customer onboarding? What are the KPIs and metrics you track for onboarding? Should onboarding be different for different customers? Yes, but not custom to EACH customer.

Onboarding 52

Onboarding Scale Underperforming Technical Team Systems Review 52

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 14, 2022

The reality for many organizations is—top performers thrive and the rest of the team is left behind. of sales teams hit their goals. So what if sales leaders could figure out the recipe for their top sellers’ success and then build an entire team of high performers? You can’t fix (or ignore) one without impacting the other.

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Underperforming Technical Team Sales Enablement Construction Forecasting 98

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Sales leaders have a bad habit of dumping people into a new job without properly preparing them to succeed. When I landed my first “big girl job” 20 years ago as an Inside Sales Manager , I was underqualified, overambitious, and soon underwater. Although I went through two weeks of training with my team, they were underwater too.

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Sales Hiring Onboarding Sales Recruiting Outsourcing Services 74

User Pilot

JULY 31, 2023

TL;DR Pendo is a product growth platform for product , marketing , customer success , and UX design teams. It enables businesses to analyze user in-app behavior , collect customer feedback to make data-led decisions, improve user onboarding, and communicate effectively with users. Pendo dashboard. Who can use the Pendo app?

Underperforming Technical Team 83

Underperforming Technical Team AI Scale Onboarding 83

User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

Chief Operating Officer: Responsible for overseeing day-to-day operations, providing strategic advice, and managing the company’s operations. Engineering Manager: In charge of planning, designing, and overseeing projects. They also manage finances and supervise one or more engineering teams.

Sales Hiring 96

Sales Hiring SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting CTO Hire 96

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. Here we’ve identified the 13 most essential qualities to consider when hiring a CS manager. What Is a Customer Success Manager (CSM)? What Makes a Good Customer Success Manager?

Sales Hiring 90

Sales Hiring Customer Success Sales Recruiting Technical Review 90

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Many organizations create customer success teams but there’s no clear definition as to how these teams develop long-term value for both the customer and the business. At some companies, customer success managers create resources for thousands of self-serve customers, while at others they work with a select few.

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Sales Hiring Customer Success Scale Underperforming Technical Team 123

OpenView Labs

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

In this article, we’re going to discuss how a proper approach to knowledge management (KM) can help you keep your best employees on board for as long as possible—and can minimize the pain felt if they do leave. Knowledge Management Fosters Engagement. Knowledge Management Strengthens Communication and Collaboration.

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Underperforming Technical Team Management Onboarding Communication 41

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Sales onboarding – every company does it, but few do it as well as they’d like. According to a report from The Sales Management Association, 62% of companies consider themselves to be ineffective at onboarding. Taking a Page from Agile Software Development. This need for speed gave way to agile development methods.

Onboarding 81

Onboarding Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Sales 81

User Pilot

JUNE 20, 2022

Anyone even remotely involved in product management will tell you that! In this article, we’ll explain what A/B testing is, why it matters for product managers, and how product teams should plan and run a test. Onboarding flows. Split testing starts with developing a hypothesis that you want to verify.

Management 52

Management Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Onboarding 52

User Pilot

MARCH 27, 2023

How can product analytics help product managers create better digital products and more satisfying user experiences? We finish with an overview of product analytics tools that your team can benefit from. We finish with an overview of product analytics tools that your team can benefit from. Let’s get right to it.

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Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Churn User Experience 97

Totango

JANUARY 26, 2021

When you know why customers are leaving you, you can develop appropriate preventive measures. For example, your attrition analysis might determine that customers who experienced a slow onboarding process have a significantly higher churn rate than those who completed the onboarding process quickly. Poor Customer Fit.

Churn 89

Churn Retention Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 89

ChurnZero

MARCH 15, 2019

Churn Monster #10: Bad Fit Customer . We’re talking about a bad fit customer. A bad fit customer is a customer who is unable to receive value from your product or service due to a mismatch of currents needs and offerings. So, what should a Customer Success Manager do when one of these type of customers land in their lap?

Underperforming Technical Team 45

Underperforming Technical Team Churn Software Review Compensation 45

User Pilot

APRIL 7, 2023

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. However, customer insights can help your teams understand all aspects of your B2B partners.

B2B 90

B2B Underperforming Technical Team B2C Scale 90