Unbounce

JUNE 16, 2020

especially for SMB SaaS startups. Today, small and medium SaaS businesses are discovering the power of using partners to help sell their products. These are often built with agencies, consultants, and managed-service-providers (MSPs) in mind. Your partners act as an outsourced sales and marketing team.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

If you can create a scenario where others are building on top of your product – and therefore evolving it in ways you may not have the resources to do yourself – your offering suddenly becomes even more valuable to your customers. Here, Ceci unpacks her thinking for Intercom’s Group Product Marketing Manager, Jasmine Jaume.

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Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

You can think of Horizontal SaaS as broad-based tech that is industry agnostic; a sales person at a Cybersecurity company can use HubSpot the same way a sales person at a Health Supplements company might use it. Here is a comprehensive list of SaaS blogs that goes through the most common metrics and terms.

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Hitenism

DECEMBER 26, 2016

Looking in hindsight over the past decade, it’s now unimaginable to think about how easy it used to be for a SaaS business to grow fast by just executing really well in sales or marketing. You were able to grow for longer before you really had to have a product people love. Sales has become a saturated channel.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

In this blueprint, we provide insight into where growth comes from and how to structure your sales approach to capture that growth. The Winning By Design Blueprint Series provides practical advice for every part of a SaaS sales organization. Traditional Sales Growth vs SaaS Sales Growth. Understanding Growth Potential.

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SaaStr

APRIL 3, 2019

As for Ben, he spearheads global sales and go to market teams. What must founders try and figure out before hiring their sales leader? What are the leading indicators that suggest a sales rep has the ability to be a sales manager? What does Ben mean when he says, “there are 3 distinct buckets of sales management”?

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Karen Page: I started my career in sales and marketing. Early stage, there’s going to be demand risk and product market fit risk, but later the risk is about the ability to scale. What do we think will happen when there’s a conflict around direction of product? Harry Stebbings: Totally. I see that.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 23, 2020

The situations that portend failure are varied and unfortunately common – no product-market fit, no cash, bad product, burnout, to name just a few of the most obvious. That meant producing useful content, not thinly veiled sales pitches. Nick explains their approach: “We didn’t think of it like traditional marketing.

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Point Nine Land

APRIL 21, 2021

There are many posts out there explaining how startup co-founders should “land the first sales, then hire the first 2 sales and when to hire a VP sales”. But, in my experience, there’s very little written about what is the equivalent for Product Management. In SaaS vs. marketplaces? How is it working?

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