Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 22, 2018

Fast forward to today, and Eventbrite is the world’s largest self-service event ticketing and registration platform – processing more than 3 million tickets each week. Going back a bit, Brian was a co-founder at SkillSlate, a local services marketplaces similar to Thumbtack. We raised a $1.5-million

Marketplace as a Service

SaaStr

MARCH 17, 2020

Hired talked about how they’re giving companies unprecedented flexibility for tech hiring. Go to Hired’s website to learn more about their news. CustomerSuccessBox announced “Sheldon,” a new AI-engine to help customer success teams improve MRR Retention. Predictable Revenue. com/matched. ActiveCampaign .

Sales Hiring

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Understanding your ICP is a foundational and organization-wide decision because it impacts your downstream sales and marketing efforts. . Build your sales, marketing, customer success, and product development efforts around the needs of your ideal client.”. Spotlighting the success of an ICP-focused strategy .

Payments

SaaStr

JUNE 16, 2020

Leveraging survey data from 66+ enterprise SaaS companies, Matt Garratt, Managing Partner of Salesforce Ventures shares the landscape of how businesses are shifting their sales & GTM strategies to react to today’s uncertain times. Adnan Chaudhry | SVP of Sales @ Salesforce. Matt Garratt: Go to the next slide.

Sales Hiring

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 11, 2019

As the General Manager for HubSpot’s Service Hub , Michael knows a thing or two about keeping customers close. Here are five quick takeaways: Most sales and support teams talk about their jobs as a funnel. Kaitlin: You’re the General Manager HubSpot’s Service Hub. Customer service as a model for growth.

Scale

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

MARCH 23, 2020

I leveraged many of the 52 mental models while working at various software as a service (SaaS) companies, but in truth, they can be applied anywhere, regardless of industry. Total Addressable Market Total addressable market (TAM) is an economic framework to understand the potential revenue available for a product or service.

Underperforming Technical Team

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 14, 2022

?. Regardless of the industry or the product you’re selling, the old sales playbook is falling short of customers’ expectations. For James Dyett , a customer-centric mindset shouldn’t just be the purview of post-sales departments. Sales, he thought, would do just the trick. Hire customer-centric salespeople.

Scale

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 13, 2021

Although Linda started her career in sales, she has spent the past twelve years scaling post-sales teams and moving hyper-growth companies like Zendesk, Slack, and now Gong upmarket into the enterprise realm. Your first SaaS customer success hire. The Davidson Hang Podcast with Linda Lin.

Customer Success

Neil Patel

OCTOBER 24, 2020

Hire a consultant, hands down. 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. Unfortunately, your in-house team doesn’t have the required expertise to push through change.

Consulting

Point Nine Land

APRIL 9, 2021

What does it take to raise capital, in B2B marketplaces, in 2021? Over the last few years, we’ve published a number of SaaS funding napkins as well as marketplace napkins. This year, we’re shaking things up with our first ever B2B marketplace napkin! What does it take to raise capital, in B2B marketplaces, in 2021?

Marketplace as a Service

OpenView Labs

DECEMBER 16, 2019

So if scaling your sales organization is a priority in 2020, here are the things you need to be aware of to make sure you do so successfully. An increase in competitiveness in the marketplace means candidates have more choices than ever. They want a product/service that’s doing something powerful.

Sales Recruiting

OpenView Labs

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Enterprise sales is not a simple switch to make from SMB sales—it’s a completely different beast. I recently caught up with a founder I talked to last year who didn’t have the time (or desire) to deal with sales and wanted to hire someone to ‘”validate the market” for him. Source: SalesHacker.com.

Sales Hiring

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 21, 2022

Things like media companies, finance companies, retail companies, sales functions, marketing functions, and customer support. “The biggest thing I can do for Slack is to hire people who know a lot more than I do and give them free rein to do their best work” Adam Risman: You mentioned the team started with performance marketing.

Outsourcing Services

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 7, 2022

Businesses quickly realized they were spending a bit too much on awareness and customer acquisition and not nearly enough on retention. Sometimes, to develop a valuable service for your customers, you have to take one step back and understand what they need from you at that moment and where your gaps are. How did that work?”

Customer Success

Stax

APRIL 17, 2025

Think: cloud platforms and operating systems like Microsoft, Amazon Web Services (AWS), the Salesforce ecosystem, or a payment platform. Software vendors recommend a platform to their customers (or vice versa), and earn revenue for each successful referral or sale. Technical support and resources Youre not doing it alone.

Merchant Services

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 6, 2018

Finding the best live chat software in a crowded marketplace can be tricky. Simply being available can make the difference between getting a sale and losing a potential customer. The window must act as a sales clerk would in a retail store, greeting the customer and offering assistance. Target Customer: Sales and support teams.

Sales Hiring

ChurnZero

JANUARY 13, 2022

Amir will lead all post-sales functions, helping customers use the full scope of their products and services to unleash the power of CentralSquare in their communities. In her expanded role, Ellen will continue to lead global system engineering and enablement and will add professional services and customer support to her team.

VP of Engineering

ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The Q&A portion of the webinar covered topics including how to overcome budget objections, promote CS wins across the organization, secure budget at the same rate as sales, and much more. My job is to continually inform and share knowledge that’s going out in the marketplace. Now we have a name for this. CFO is on it.

Customer Success

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Romain Huet : Of course, besides the brand I mentioned earlier like, Google, Apple and Facebook, and so on, a lot of marketplaces also like Uber and Airbnb they tend to think of themselves as platform because they have the buyers and the sellers connecting to each other. Let’s start with our five key steps.

Payments

User Pilot

AUGUST 18, 2024

Trello is the best task management tool. HubSpot is the best customer relationship management software. Salesforce is the best sales automation tool. Sprout Social is the best social media management tool. Cohort tables : The feature lets you track retention rates for your users by group and spot trends (e.g.

Scale

OpenView Labs

APRIL 13, 2020

It is no longer the job of Marketing or Sales to solely own revenue, nor Product the core user experience. What loops exist to drive virality, retention, and overall product engagement? Is monetization a freemium, free trial, sales-driven, or hybrid model? Are there marketplace dynamics? Monetization.

Systems Review

Stax

AUGUST 20, 2024

TL;DR Embedded finance integrates financial services into non-financial business processes, while embedded fintech integrates fintech solutions into the processes of an institution in the finance industry. For example, it offers faster access to funds and eliminates the need to use a third-party bank account.

Payments

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Congratulations you’ve built a product that’s proven itself in the marketplace! They told us they would do tons of all this pricing stuff and help us with hiring and introduce us to customers, and all of these things. Its product drives the acquisition, retention and expansion. Atlassian famously does not have a sales team.

Investment

Stax

JANUARY 8, 2024

For SaaS companies, becoming a payment facilitator (or PayFac) offers a ton of advantages—including but not limited to—boosting retention and profitability while exercising greater control over the customer experience. Reputational risks Risks associated with things like data breaches, poor customer service, company controversies, etc.

Merchant Services

Blulogix

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Product and Service Innovation: Analytics uncovers gaps in current offerings and highlights areas for improvement or innovation. This insight drives the development of new features, services, or subscription tiers that meet evolving customer needs. This may involve training existing staff or hiring data specialists.

Strategy

ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Leading a team of innovators and experts in their Customer Success, Professional Services, and Support organization, Amanda’s goal is to ensure that every customer optimizes the business impact of Lucidworks search and analytics deployments. “My Under her direction, marketplace utilization grew 39% in one year.

VP of Engineering

OpenView Labs

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Hire great developers. In both cases, founders start to hire marketing-types to help grow the developer brand and community. sales)—and hire marketers who will understand the difference. At the earliest stages, it’s difficult to justify hiring someone to build and manage a community of developers.

Development

OPEXEngine

OCTOBER 5, 2021

But while software’s success in the marketplace has lifted the valuations of software companies, our analysis suggests that some firms may still be undervalued. In more mature software companies, we see oversized returns for companies that are moving to software-as-a-service subscription models (see Figure 1). Four ways to drive value.

Software Review

Sales Hacker

JUNE 23, 2020

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Leah Chaney , the Chief Experience Officer for BetterGrowth, a customer support agency she founded. Leah has been a pioneer for customer experience practices for the last two decades, focusing her work on putting customers at the heart of SaaS and service-based technology organizations.

Scale

Neil Patel

MARCH 9, 2023

You can screen people who join to ensure that not just anyone with a social media account gets in. Remember, to keep your group high quality; it needs to be informative and not ‘sales-ey.’ Eventually, you can hire a moderator who can take care of the admin side of things for your group if you choose to.

Social Media

SaaSOptics

MAY 19, 2022

For subscription-based SaaS businesses, your customer acquisition metrics indicate how effectively you acquire new users via sales, marketing, or a product-led approach like a free trial. At what point will you introduce Sales into the buyer’s journey? . Metrics: What’s your target win rate for sales opportunities? .

Acquisition

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.

Scale

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? Hire a VP Product.

Sales Hiring

SmartKarrot

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Role: Director Client Success Location: Leawood, KS, US Organization: C2FO As a Director of Client Success, you will hire, mentor, develop, and direct Client Success Managers (CSM) to perform their daily duties. Partner with Sales leaders and offer account insight to build pipeline volume and accelerate expansion velocity.

Customer Success

SmartKarrot

AUGUST 29, 2022

Role: Senior Customer Success Manager Location: Boston, MA, US Organization: LeanIX As a Senior Customer Success Manager, you will be responsible for the retention of customer accounts by ensuring continuous communication and relentless support and guidance. Apply here: [link].

Customer Success

SmartKarrot

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Role: Vice President of Customer Success Location: Remote , Chicago, Illinois, US Organization: Storm2 As a Vice President of Customer Success, you will hire, coach, and lead their customer success organization. This includes retaining talent and implementing processes designed to manage turnover effectively.

Customer Success

SmartKarrot

MARCH 26, 2021

Role: Senior Manager / Director, Customer Success Location: Remote, Boston, MA, US Organization: MackeyRMS As a Senior Manager/Director of Customer Success, you will manage a team of CSMs as well as own accounts, including renewals and upsells. and conducting scheduled EBRs with senior executives.

Customer Success