Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 5, 2018

Our chat covers how gaming principles influenced her growth experiments, her team’s most successful retention tactics, and much more. Adam: How was the transition from classic marketing to working more with designers and engineers on the growth team? What follows is a lightly edited transcript of the interview.

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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. They don't really believe in NPS and they're willing to be bad for some customers. Question 3: Who are you willing to be bad for? Contents Why have a CX Strategy. The weird thing?

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 22, 2021

As a sales leader, how are you supposed to motivate your teams without President’s Club ? Not only that, how are you supposed to manage your team’s well-being at a time when it’s never been harder to sell? Director of Sales Development at Brex. Chris Walker, Executive Vice President of Revenue at EddyHR.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 28, 2018

people involved in each B2B deal, you need a deck if you want your message to travel from the champion you met to the buyer you didn’t. Cold Calling is the top sales skill you should be developing to gain a competitive edge, not just for prospecting and landing meetings with C-Level decision makers, but at every stage of the funnel.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

I struggled with being able to align our sales and marketing teams across New York, LA, London, Delhi all of these different places. And at the end of the day, Vertify is a revenue operations intelligence platform that turns disparate data into intelligent answers for revenue teams specifically. My team is suffering from this problem.

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SaaStr

JULY 20, 2021

The session that I’m talking about is basically about the board dynamic and about how to survive this valley of death and bring not just yourself and your team but your extended team, including your board, across that until you cross the $1 million mark, and then the $10 million mark and keep going beyond. There we go.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 7, 2018

Below, I’m going to dive right into the top 7 habits a Sales Development Rep (SDR) should develop. The Sales Development Representative (SDR) is quite the professional paradox. 7 Habits a Successful SDR Must Develop: Own your time. Develop a curious and patient mindset. Learn to love reporting.

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ChurnZero

JULY 12, 2019

Perhaps product problems, loss of a key user in the account, a bad use case… Sure, these are some reasons why customers may churn, but the reality is that your churn rate is deeply connected to the quality of onboarding journey your users go through. Do you need to improve team communication? Check Slack. Online meetings?

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SaaStr

JULY 1, 2021

The second is pulling more around values, and how we approached team building. Even as a three person team, we went through an exercise to figure out what do we stand for, as a team? Sam : This is not my insight, but someone else says… I really do believe it, that the team you build is the company you build.

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OpenView Labs

JULY 8, 2019

It’s also a good idea to learn what you can from others who have already traveled the road you’re on. The situation was this: our engineering team was constantly innovating and adding new functionality. For a lot of companies, especially startups and expansion-stage organizations, figuring out pricing involves a lot of trial and error.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

From strategies in recruitment and team building to sales tactics, these leaders from Salesforce, nCino, and Vlocity, will discuss the top tips for moving beyond horizontal SaaS and building a billion-dollar SaaS company. David, you talked a bit about the team and the founders. David Schmaier: Sure. Matt Garratt: Thank you.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

InVision is a software platform that’s built for design teams that are building remarkable digital applications and digital experiences, and it’s used to collaborate with product and engineering organizations as well. Seth Shaw: We thought this was going to be a smaller Q and A, so this should be exciting. My name is Seth Shaw.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Bansal shares this and other key milestones and frameworks for company building in conversation with a16z general partner Peter Levine; enterprise deal team partner Satish Talluri (who was a director of product and growth operations there); and Sonal Chokshi. the night before it was to IPO). Sonal: You got the product side and not the market.

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Outseta

MARCH 18, 2019

Wes Bush is a SaaS marketer who has quickly developed a reputation as “the free trial vs. freemium guy.” I know that sounds really weird, but just taking someone else's opinion on what you should do is really a bad framework for deciding what you should do. On the other hand, you could use an outcome based approach to value metrics.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 5, 2020

Today She discusses how everything is changing in the current climate, the rise of war-time founders, having teams work remote, and the supply-chain reimagined. And that’s probably not so much in a down market like this, where investors really care about the metrics and the unit economics. What does this mean?

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Sales Hacker

MAY 20, 2021

You should approach this tactically with honed and consistent metrics. You need to measure and repeat so you and your sales team only put effort into promising prospects abroad. Develop a focused sales approach. More than any other time, with limited travel, companies must be very focused in their international sales approach.

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SaaStr

APRIL 16, 2019

Learn how Pendo built a product, team, and culture in its Raleigh hometown that could scale coast-to-coast and continent-to-continent. Be willing to travel. I think it’s that willingness to travel that continues keeping us a head of the curve, continues teaching us how to continue building a great business.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 14, 2018

Looking for an example of a happy, high performing product team? I hosted Laura on our podcast to learn everything from why assembling a great product team is like pulling off a heist, to tips for improving collaboration and marrying business needs with user goals. Laura: Metrics one of thing people often ask about.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 18, 2018

The final step of your plan should be to develop additional emails that drive deeper engagement and retention from your most valuable prospects and customers. For example: If your leads are frequent travelers, the best time to catch them might be early in the day or late afternoon, while they’re waiting for a flight or train.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Never believe that doubting yourself is a bad thing. That company only lasted another year before they were out of business, so it was a poor use of my energy, time, and being away from my family – a lesson I work to pass on to others new in roles today. Invest in your development internally and externally. Joyce Johnson.

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ChurnZero

APRIL 27, 2021

Grotech Ventures is a team committed to helping creative and driven entrepreneurs build technology companies that last. Companies that grow rapidly often have shorter sales cycles, can leverage a high velocity inside sales model that does not require travel, expensive meals, and golf to close a sale. ChurnZero raised a $2.5

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Sales Hacker

MAY 9, 2019

Once you understand how to create a fair compensation plan for your sales team, you can check out some examples: Sales Development Rep (SDR) Compensation Plan Example. The goal of variable pay is to develop a performance-driven culture in which your sales team is financially accountable for results.

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FastSpring

OCTOBER 12, 2023

I think SaaS businesses and subscription businesses are particularly bad at having vague, waffley headlines on their homepages,” he states. As people started booking travel online. My very first vacation was planned with a travel agent, and of course later moved to online. But it makes for a good story, if nothing else.

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Clouded Judgement

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

If you want features in your lakehouse (on top of open source Iceberg) for ingestion, CDC, streaming (file loading, Kafka connect, etc), schema evolution, compaction, optimization, time travel, snapshots, auto-scaling, maintenance (no more writing spark jobs to delete snapshots!), This prevents bad data from leaking downstream.

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Neil Patel

APRIL 3, 2023

X Socially Distanced Vacation Spots for the COVID-Conscious Traveler), it might need to be completely revamped or even retired. When it begins to underperform. You don’t need a reason to update your content, but if it’s currently performing well, then keep an eye on the changes you make and their impact on your metrics.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Companies that have access to more accurate financial data have the ability to develop seamless exchanges of information, providing consumers with improved ways to manage their finances. “Well, fintech might be bad in the margins for me, but I can actually profit from this so let’s embrace it.”

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Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Develop a Full Marketing Strategy 2. After all, it’s probably funded your travels across the world or helped you build up other projects at the same time. Important SaaS Metrics and Unit Economics Unit economics and SaaS metrics like churn rate will always be important. Table of Contents. Why Would You Sell? to 11.2%.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Then I worked on “Pokemon: Mac and Cheese” for Kraft” Bob: When I was part of the new product team, we would not only design things we also worked with suppliers and would fly all over the world to actually get those lines up and running and do that kind of stuff. Because I think it’s an area that’s lacking in literature.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 20, 2020

343: Kyle Parrish is the Head of Sales @ Figma, the company that helps teams create, test and ship better designs from start to finish. Kyle was in charge of creating the Austin, Texas sales team @ Dropbox, what were some of his biggest lessons when it comes to moving sales outside of HQ? What worked? What did not work?

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SaaStr

MAY 27, 2020

They don’t want to p**s off management teams that face dilution from down rounds. I don’t think we really know how bad things can be. I mean, sorry, we’re already there, but I don’t know if it’ll be there on mass or if this is just a small trend, it’ll depend on how bad the market gets.

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SaaStr

JULY 1, 2020

She manages a huge global team. It has a portion of its revenue that’s very sensitive to the economy and a lot of startups in the customer base, good and bad, right? Sam will have a lot of interesting perspectives on how he manages his team through these times. Travel is a challenging part of the industry today.

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Incredo

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Do you want to grow your SaaS sales team and improve your processes? maintain healthy atmosphere in your Smarketing team, make smart choices regarding your SaaS sales model, strategy, pricing, . Skills for SaaS Sales Team. 6 Essential skills for SaaS inside sales team to boost product’s sales. 3 examples for you).

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The Marketing & Growth Hacking Publication

APRIL 8, 2019

The 2019 Playbook for Cross-Platform Deep Linking and Attribution Image Source: Branch Blog The team at deep-linking startup Branch, knows what they’re talking about when it comes to building a bulletproof deep linking strategy. 7 Must-read Mobile Growth eBooks 1. How does one strengthen their measurement?

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Prior to joining the world of venture, Karen was a Senior Director at Apple and before Apple, Karen spent an incredible 9 years at Box as a founding member of the executive team, where she was responsible for defining and leading Box’s Industry GTM strategy. What is the ability of the company to continue to build an incredible team?

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SaaStr

MAY 2, 2019

Join Vlad Shmunis, founder, chairman, and CEO of RingCentral as he discusses RingCentral’s journey from a two-person startup to a $7B market cap global enterprise communications company (NYSE:RNG) — the good, the bad, and the ugly. Jonathan : Travel. Want to see more content like this? Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020. Vlad : In there.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

263: Building a company made up of distributed teams presents a plethora of complex challenges that can derail productivity and impact employee retention. But with it comes immense benefits and competitive advantages such as the diversification of ideas, speedier product development, and representation in important regions and time zones.

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Baremetrics

JULY 25, 2019

Because of its immense impact on warfare and commerce, weather forecasting has commanded significant research and development focus since the 1980’s, second only to cryptography in global consumption of compute cycles. It feels hotter outside than yesterday” : “Our sales team has more momentum than last month.” Yes and no.

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