Totango

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

To make it to the Super Bowl, a football team must have two things: a strong defense and a strategic offense. The defense maintains a good field position and prevents the opposing team from scoring points, while the offense orchestrates smart plays to gain additional yards and score points. What is gross retention?

Retention 108

Retention Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Churn 108

Stax

JANUARY 8, 2024

As such, PayFacs need to equip themselves with an effective risk management strategy that helps them continuously monitor risks and employ appropriate risk responses if needed. PayFacs need to equip themselves with an effective risk management strategy that helps them continuously monitor risks and employ appropriate risk responses if needed.

Merchant Services 88

Merchant Services Payfac Payment Services SaaS Payments 88

Neil Patel

OCTOBER 29, 2020

According to Smart Insights , 45 percent of companies don’t have a clearly defined digital marketing strategy; 17 percent of companies have a digital marketing strategy in place, but it’s separate from their marketing plan. They don’t have the strategy, tactics, or tools they need to market their business well.

Underperforming Technical Team 145

Underperforming Technical Team Strategy Development Payment Methods 145

Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

According to Smart Insights, 49 percent of organizations don’t have a clearly defined digital strategy. Choosing the right digital strategy for your business is essential. What’s more important is choosing a company that can execute that strategy. Here’s a list of our picks for the best digital strategy companies in the world.

Underperforming Technical Team 139

Underperforming Technical Team Strategy Content Marketing Scale 139

Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Due to the competitive digital landscape , business owners need to chalk out entire outlines, strategies, and implementation within weeks – or even days. Having a carefully drafted digital strategy. Plus, a result-driven approach serves as the basis of digital strategy, which can be very beneficial for your company.

Consulting 123

Consulting Strategy Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team 123

Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Unfortunately, things only get more difficult when it comes to running the whole business as a Shopify app developer. This article will cover 10 business tips for improving your Shopify app’s development, marketing, and sales. 10 business tips for Shopify app developers 1. The Shopify QA team are your friends 6.

Payment Solutions 98

Payment Solutions Underperforming Technical Team Outsourced Development Development 98

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 199

Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Revenue Sales 199

Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 1, 2021

Most support teams have seen an influx of support queries since COVID-19 hit – and those issues are more complex than ever. According to recent research, however, many teams aren’t sufficiently equipped to meet these new challenges. Challenge #1: Limited team bandwidth, resources, and budget.

Underperforming Technical Team 232

Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Scale Headcount 232

Chart Mogul

MAY 30, 2019

If you're asking questions like these, then it’s likely time to turn your attention to strategies tailor-made to support top-tier customers. Ingmar, our VP of Customer Success, and our support team cracked the code on first response time and measuring NPS. This will help with determining your success management metrics.

Underperforming Technical Team 78

Underperforming Technical Team Development Strategy Management 78

User Pilot

MARCH 15, 2022

Why a go-to-market strategy plays an integral of your SaaS product success? This is where the GTM strategy comes in. In this blog post, you’ll learn everything about go-to-market strategies. Successful product launches stand on the back of an effective GTM strategy. What is a go-to-market (GTM) strategy?

Strategy 82

Strategy Marketing SaaS Customer Lifetime Value 82

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The success of an executive team often depends as much on their interpersonal harmony as their professional expertise. How does a team establish rapport with one another? Algolia’s Bernadette Nixon (Chief Executive Officer) and Michelle Adams (Chief Revenue Officer) have spent the past few years developing this relational toolbox.

Underperforming Technical Team 271

Underperforming Technical Team Leadership Outsourced Development Finance 271

ChurnZero

JANUARY 6, 2022

Though Customer Success was originally regarded as a post-sale cost center, you can flip its narrative with the right metrics, positioning, and forecasting strategy. Customer Success teams that own one or both of these revenue sources get viewed as a profit center by the business. Choose Metrics that Emphasize Your Value.

Forecasting 98

Forecasting Customer Success Metrics Sales Funnel 98

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. Combining these different tactics makes up an effective customer acquisition strategy , which fuels the entire acquisition process.

Acquisition 59

Acquisition Scale Strategy Software Review 59

Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

B2B and B2C content marketing require entirely different strategies. Instead, you need a targeted B2B content marketing strategy to reach your marketing goals. Let me show you why a strategy is so important and help you figure out how to reach those valuable business prospects. Why Do You Need a B2B Content Marketing Strategy?

B2B 144

B2B Strategy B2C Content Marketing 144

Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

According to a recent survey from the DMEXCO, 70 percent of executives worldwide expect the pandemic to accelerate the pace of digital strategy. Today, businesses are expected to outline, plan, implement the digital strategy in a matter of days or weeks. Not if you have the right digital strategy agency. Here are a few examples.

Strategy 124

Strategy Underperforming Technical Team Advertising Scale 124

Baremetrics

AUGUST 1, 2021

In the SaaS industry, acquiring new leads through short-term marketing promotions will not cut it--which works as a killer strategy for the eCommerce business model. So what works (and doesn’t work) as a SaaS acquisition strategy? Showcase success stories This is one of the most tried-and-tested strategies that works wonders.

Acquisition 98

Acquisition Strategy SaaS Underperforming Technical Team 98

User Pilot

AUGUST 15, 2021

A key reason why customer engagement metrics are important to successful SaaS businesses. In this article, we will walk you through ten important user engagement metrics to measure. Measure engagement by acquisition channel to optimize your acquisition strategy and focus on the one with the most engaged users.

Engagement 98

Engagement Metrics Scale SaaS 98

FastSpring

APRIL 26, 2022

In part two, we’ll cover five churn-prevention strategies that have been successful in other SaaS businesses. Part I: SaaS Churn Benchmarks Part II: 5 Proven Strategies for Reducing SaaS Churn Part III: Churn Definitions and Additional Resources. Next, let’s look at how to develop a churn-reduction action plan.

Benchmarks 123

Benchmarks Churn Payments SaaS Payments 123

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Christoph Janz, General Partner of Point Nine Capital, shares what it takes to raise capital in SaaS, overall investment activity in 2023, and how to develop a convincing AI strategy. It’s not much worse than 2019, and it wasn’t that bad then. Half the investors want to hear a convincing AI strategy when talking to founders.

AI 194

AI Underperforming Technical Team Cloud Strategy 194

SaaStr

JANUARY 7, 2022

Have you ever had a sudden realization that you’re spending more on sales and marketing than research and development? When it comes to marketing, executives can grow frustrated or intimidated by the sheer volume of numbers and metrics, ill-defined terminology, unclear processes, and potential conflict between sales and marketing teams.

Sales Hiring 229

Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Marketing Market Research 229

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. So how do you create a strong, enterprise-ready team? For Linda, it all comes down to your approach to customer success.

Scale 177

Scale Customer Success Strategy Sales Hiring 177

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The best way to do that is to develop the right behaviors in your sales reps. There are many things that can drive revenue growth within your company, but as a sales leader, it all starts with your team. Here are five key areas to challenge your team on in order to grow both them and your company. You have to be a sales LEADER.

Underperforming Technical Team 96

Underperforming Technical Team Development Revenue Sales Hiring 96

User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

Chief Technical Officer : Responsible for outlining the company’s technological vision, implementing technology strategies, and ensuring that the technological resources are aligned with the company’s business needs. They also manage finances and supervise one or more engineering teams. Average salary: $196,172/yr.

Sales Hiring 94

Sales Hiring SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting CTO Hire 94

User Pilot

JANUARY 22, 2024

The framework is a roadmap for creating a winning product marketing strategy that drives effective resource allocation and provides a flexible foundation for growth. A good product marketing framework has three main components: a go-to-market strategy , a product marketing strategy, and a growth strategy.

Product Marketing 92

Product Marketing Marketing Social Media Scale 92

User Pilot

MARCH 14, 2024

The report allows teams to understand how users navigate their website or application, identify the top pages visited after the homepage, find out what causes friction in the user journey, identify top-performing pages and features, and analyze user paths leading to conversions. You can also use the segments and dimensions to filter the data.

Underperforming Technical Team 101

Underperforming Technical Team Metrics Mobile User Experience 101

Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

We pulled from my prior marketplaces experience and dove into their business quickly to develop a point-of-view on the opportunity. Beyond the metrics, co-founder and CEO Apoorva Mehta had great founder/product fit. It truly has been a team effort. It was April 2014, and the company was raising its Series B. billion to $20.7

Marketplace as a Service 142

Marketplace as a Service Scale Underperforming Technical Team Construction 142

ProfitWell

MARCH 2, 2020

That’s what makes a customer success strategy so important. Building a solid customer success strategy is easy, too, as long as you focus on how different types of customers move through their journey, from discovery to purchase. The benefits of a clearly defined customer success strategy. Let’s dive in. Higher customer LTV.

Customer Success 72

Customer Success SaaS Payments Strategy Payment Services 72

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

APRIL 19, 2022

Customer journey analytics gives teams a real-time comprehensive sight into customer behavior providing valuable insight into the journey. How Customer Journey Analytics can benefit your business teams? Most importantly, this approach also enables marketers to connect strategy and tactics to customer experience and business results.

Scale 52

Scale Metrics Underperforming Technical Team Customer Lifetime Value 52

User Pilot

MARCH 14, 2024

Key metrics you should be measuring. You can use customer analytics to create targeted marketing campaigns, inform product development, and reduce churn , among other things. Metrics for tracking customer interaction analytics: Customer satisfaction score. This data isn’t just for top-level strategy. Churn rate.

Customer Lifetime Value 93

Customer Lifetime Value SaaS Underperforming Technical Team Retention 93

User Pilot

AUGUST 21, 2023

Product managers often work in cross-functional teams and bridge the gap between multiple departments. Product managers need to put themselves in the shoes of company executives, other team members, and of course end users so a strong affinity for empathy will go a long way. What qualities do you look for in a strong product team?

Interviewing 82

Interviewing Underperforming Technical Team Management Sales Hiring 82

Blulogix

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Crafting the Blueprint: How to Build a Monetization Framework for Agile Success By BluLogix Team A Step-by-Step Guide to Architecting Your Monetization Strategy In the dynamic realm of agile monetization, constructing a robust Monetization Framework is akin to drafting a master blueprint for a skyscraper.

Payment Features 52

Payment Features Underperforming Technical Team Construction Customer Lifetime Value 52

SaaStr

OCTOBER 30, 2021

I considered the four companies and chose Gorgias based on my experience with their team during the interview process. When I first joined the Gorgias team, there were two founders, two engineers, and myself as the first non-technical hire. There are two things that help me analyze data: metrics and filters. .

Scale 260

Scale Sales Hiring Sales SMB 260

Chart Mogul

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

At the Product-Led Institute, we developed the “Triple-A” sprint, which focuses on rapidly identifying problems, building solutions, and measuring impact. The Triple-A sprint gives you a way to build a sustainable growth process and can be used by any team in your business. uptick in your ARR from moving just focusing on one metric.

Underperforming Technical Team 69

Underperforming Technical Team Development Churn Metrics 69

User Pilot

APRIL 30, 2024

Wondering what a marketing growth strategy is? From this article, you will find out how to develop a strong growth marketing strategy and learn growth marketing tactics for different customer journey stages. Start building your marketing growth strategy by setting goals. Use the metrics to find areas for improvement.

Underperforming Technical Team 91

Underperforming Technical Team Strategy Marketing Customer Lifetime Value 91

Upscope

MAY 24, 2019

There are many articles on developing a customer experience (CX) strategy so seeing a range of practical examples will help put them into perspective. Below we'll stick to a simple definition and then show you 7 examples of how companies implemented CX strategies. Contents Why have a CX Strategy. A customer description.

Strategy 99

Strategy Sales Hiring Airlines Underperforming Technical Team 99

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 22, 2020

But as straightforward as their metrics may be, their jobs are anything but simple. It’s also one of the hardest to teach and develop. You don’t want a rep who bails on every sale at the first sign of trouble, but you also don’t want someone who never lets a bad sale go. When do you decide a prospect isn’t the right fit?

Sales Hiring 76

Sales Hiring Interviewing Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting 76