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5 Interesting Learnings from BigCommerce at $180,000,000 in ARR

SaaStr

Shopify is #1 in so many market segments, but for “bigger” SMBs BigCommerce (and perhaps less-custom enterprise deployments) is arguably #2 to Shopify. It’s much smaller than Shopify, at $170m ARR vs $3B+ ARR, but it’s still plenty big for us to learn a lot from this big but not #1 player in the market.

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Don?t Hire the Wrong Outsourced Sales Professionals: 6 Handy Tips

Sales Hacker

A viable and proven option is handing over some or all of your sales efforts to outsourced sales professionals. It’s true that outsourcing your sales to a third-party provider can yield favorable results. There are many outsourcing companies, but which of them can actually hold a sales quota and get results?

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It’s Time to Raise Your Debt Facility: Execution Tactics for Founders

Andreessen Horowitz

How does the company underwrite and service assets? Does the company self-service or is it reliant on any third-parties or other vendors? What partners or licenses are required? asset pricing, factors that go into deciding yields, flow of funds, debt servicing, key vendors (i.e.,

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What is revenue optimization? Using pricing to optimize revenue

ProfitWell

The data you focus on collecting for revenue optimization should center on what will help you with segmentation and forecasting. Segmentation concerns dividing your customers into groups based on their shared attributes in order to better coordinate your marketing. Example market segments include the following: Age.

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Ecommerce Terms You Need To Know To Manage Your Digital Business

FastSpring

Affiliate marketing. A type of performance-based marketing in which a business rewards partners (also known as affiliates) for each visitor or customer brought by the affiliate’s marketing efforts. A marketing concept where an instruction is given to the target audience to persuade them to take immediate action.

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7 Lessons Helping Start Pardot, SalesLoft and Calendly (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

the initial idea that I came up with for Pardot was simply to do an outsourced lead generation S as a service. We got it into the hands of a few early customers, and they said, “David, we don’t want to buy leads as a service from you, we want the software that you built to generate those leads. That was Pardot 1.0.

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Sales Hacker’s Top Sales Trends & Predictions You MUST Be Aware Of In 2018

Sales Hacker

For example, if you’re buying a sales acceleration tool that specializes in outbound emailing, you may only want to hear reviews from others that sell to your market/segment, have the amount of reps that you do, or use a similar tech stack as your org. Sell through trusted partner channels. Reason #2 – GDPR.

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