Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 18, 2019

They didn’t know it at the time, but they had also created an entire business category: an on demand, short-term rental marketplace, which has shot the value of their business north of $38 billion. Though he had experience in recruiting, sales and product, marketing was new ground for him. So how can we do more of that?

Scale 112

Scale Sales Recruiting Marketplace as a Service Sales Hiring 112

OpenView Labs

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The game has changed when it comes to recruiting. Hiring managers should prepare by putting together pitch materials (usually a 2-3 page deck) to give candidates a deeper look at your company and culture – beyond what’s on your website. You can start by defining what your ideal sales process should look like.

Payment Services 80

Payment Services Benchmarks SaaS Payments Merchant Services 80

SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

Check out this 2018 Europa session with Guillaume Princen, Head of France and Southern Europe @ Stripe, where he talks about the metrics you need to be focused on in your startup. If you don’t have the time to watch the whole session, here are the main metrics you should be mindful of. MRR, obviously. This wasn’t the case.

SaaS Payments 244

SaaS Payments Metrics Payment Methods Scale 244

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Seeing a real demand for business courses in their consumer marketplace, the team identified an opening in the market to disrupt corporate training and hypothesized that employers would be more than willing to pay. When Yvonne joined in 2016, the business unit consisted of just 10 people across product, engineering, sales, and marketing.

Marketplace as a Service 243

Marketplace as a Service Scale Sales Recruiting Business 243

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. Questions about KPIs and metrics for performance measurements. You can also select a freelancer profile from these marketplaces.

Consulting 132

Consulting Sales Hiring Technical Review Sales Recruiting 132

Neil Patel

OCTOBER 9, 2020

You have developed a killer website and drafted an effective marketing strategy to generate leads and drive sales. You’ll also get better and more relevant marketing strategies to drive your online sales. In the end, you‘ll have better pay-per-click management that will give you more exposure in search engines. So what next?

Consulting 83

Consulting Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting 83

Neil Patel

JANUARY 20, 2021

You need to attract potential buyers and funnel them into your sales funnel. Don’t Just Promote Products and Services. We’ll be gathering some key metrics to measure your performance. Step 2: Delve in Deeper to Post Metrics. In my experience, post level metrics are more insightful than page metrics.

Social Media 145

Social Media Software Review Branding Engagement 145

SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

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. Maria : It’s like saying, “Hey, you want a sales rep to carry 10 times the quota they do today. You can’t, you have to invest in that sales infrastructure.”

Sales Hiring 211

Sales Hiring Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting 211

Stax

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Software as a Service (SaaS) has made business software more accessible by offering cloud-based, on-demand access to a range of solutions, from project management and collaboration to sales and marketing. Users will pay a recurring monthly or annual fee to access a specific set of services.

SaaS Payments 88

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payments Payment Solutions 88

Neil Patel

DECEMBER 17, 2020

A sales rep completes their proposal and it’s automatically routed to the right manager for review and approval. Not only is that rep moving on to their next task, the pending approval is queued up exactly where it needs to be for the manager. There’s no code to write, just select the option that pushes the workflow along.

Payments 131

Payments Payment Solutions Software Review Payment Services 131

SmartKarrot

JULY 5, 2021

Develop a culture of continuous improvement for process repeatability, operations scaling, capacity management, and customer satisfaction. Ensure close coordination and collaboration with Sales, Account Management and Customer Success teams to ensure customer retention and growth.

Customer Success 10

Customer Success Sales Recruiting Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team 10

SaaStr

MAY 14, 2023

Algolia went from zero to seven figures in revenue in 12 months, and the launch of their search as a service product, and grew pricing from $19 a month to $100,000, which sounds amazing. web services. Daniel, you grew to 3 million in ARR before you hired a VP of Sales. How’d you manage all that? Nick : Pretty good?

Sales Hiring 256

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale Payment Methods 256

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. Is your sales process simple and streamlined?

Outsourcing Services 131

Outsourcing Services Sales Recruiting Scale SaaS 131

Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

And for leveling up your sales skills, nothing beats a good sales book. So what are the best sales books for helping you reach peak performance? Have been recommended by sales professionals. Here’s how you can find the sales books that are most relevant to you. Here they are… The 97 Best Sales Books in 2020.

Scale 141

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Payment Methods 141

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Women in sales often have a polarizing experience. In the Sales Hacker video series Aha Moments , I asked 10 women: “What is one ‘aha moment’ you’ve had in your sales career?”. The conversations that followed were so authentic and encouraging that we decided to expand this conversation to other badass women in the sales world.

Scale 130

Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring VP of Engineering 130

SaaStr

JUNE 10, 2020

Meagen, sales. Launch it to our customers, launch it to the sales team, launch it to prospects.” What did we need for our sales team from an enablement standpoint and our CSMs? And then of course, sales pipeline and the livelihood of our business. They’re going to build a bunch of things that we need.

Travel 184

Travel Marketing Scale Outsourcing Services 184

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%.

Sales Hiring 205

Sales Hiring Scale Technical Review Outsourcing Services 205

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 : I mean, I’ve talked to over 60 recruiters. So I think that’s contributing to this importance of kind of investing in marketing and sales. Maria Pergolino | frmr.

Scale 225

Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team 225

SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

He dropped out of Stanford Graduate School of Business and then co-founded LeaseExchange, an online marketplace for equipment leasing. The company’s best-selling book, Predictable Revenue , details the hugely successful outbound process and sales created specifically for Salesforce. Talk: SaaS.City Bootcamp: Sales Leadership.

Technical Review 207

Technical Review Scale Entrepreneurship Sales Hiring 207

Sales Hacker

APRIL 21, 2021

Do you love chasing down the sale? What about using data analysis to create sales strategies? Revenue operations (RevOps) is a centralized org within a company that supports all revenue-generating business operations including Sales Ops, Marketing Ops, Customer Success Ops, and systems management. Unified data problems.

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Scale Technical Review Sales Recruiting Technical Advisors 100

Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

The litmus test is if you’ve created a marketplace: are people actually building on your product because there’s value that you’ve created, or is it just a nifty integration? The upside of having this big two-sided marketplace and extending your product into tons of different products with an API is quite large. But are they platforms?

Underperforming Technical Team 170

Underperforming Technical Team Marketplace as a Service Outsourced Development Development 170

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. Back in those days, I was really inspired by the eBay model of a marketplace where it was a bidding auction approach. We looked at the numbers. It was healthy.

Scale 121

Scale Marketplace as a Service Sales Recruiting Scaling 121

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 24, 2018

In this mega guide, I’ll breakdown 31 different lead generation techniques you can use to supercharge your sales pipeline almost immediately. Two of which are currently sales and marketing. I’m in control of every step of the sales process – from awareness to decision making. Why am I sharing this?

Sales Recruiting 84

Sales Recruiting Sales Underperforming Technical Team Social Media 84

SaaStr

JULY 26, 2019

Prior to founding Zylo, Eric was the VP of Sales @ Sprout Social leading the revenue operations for over 11,000 customers. Before Sprout Social he was VP of Sales at Shoutlet, responsible for global direct and channel sales teams and developing and managing strategic relationships. What was the founding moment with Zylo?

Sales Hiring 147

Sales Hiring Scale SaaS Payments Payment Services 147