User Pilot

JUNE 28, 2023

Sustaining user engagement throughout the entire onboarding process can feel like a task only large teams can achieve. Introducing core features, driving user activation, and maximizing retention rates after the user onboarding experience will all impact the user journey moving forward.

Onboarding 97

Onboarding SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions 97

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Storyblok started with a leadership-first hiring plan and a recruitment strategy that involved the following: A test to know how candidates handle different tasks and their expertise level. A way of onboarding new employees and equipping them with the right tools. This was Storyblok’s strategy when it started expanding its team.

Scale 190

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scaling 190

Sales Hacker

JULY 25, 2022

Here’s the thing about driving a car — and about running a sales org: Bumps in the road are inevitable. One of the best ways to ensure every part of your engine is running smoothly is to build sales performance dashboards for everyone on your team. What is a sales performance dashboard? What is a sales performance dashboard?

Sales Recruiting 99

Sales Recruiting Engineering Revenue Sales Enablement 99

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. The opportunity emerged out of a shift in how we practice sales. Starting a new sales team is not unlike doing improv.

Sales Hiring 171

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team Scale 171

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 19, 2022

As the president of Sales Xceleration, a firm specializing in assessing and implementing sales strategy , sales processes, and sales execution to drive growth, I’ve seen how job hopping can affect otherwise stable sales teams. Sales organizations experienced 58% higher voluntary turnover in 2021 than in 2020.

Sales Hiring 79

Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting Compensation 79

ChurnZero

JANUARY 10, 2022

SaaS customer onboarding makes or breaks your customer retention. Your onboarding process is a learn-or-churn, adopt-or-get-dropped situation. For this reason, unlocking the optimal SaaS customer onboarding experience is invaluable. Work Cross-Functionally During SaaS Customer Onboarding.

Onboarding 98

Onboarding Sales Recruiting SaaS Technical Review 98

SaaStr

MARCH 18, 2022

Mapistry recruited a diverse pool by inviting both legacy customers and new customers. . New customers add value to your CABs with their fresh experience with your sales cycle and onboarding processes. Beneficial relationships between you and your customers help achieve high retention rates. Bringing home the learnings .

Sales Recruiting 236

Sales Recruiting Enterprise Onboarding Investment 236

SaaStr

JULY 1, 2020

An open discussion with Sam Blond, CSO at Brex, and Kristen Habacht, VPS at Atlassian, about adjusting their sales process during Covid-19. Kristen Habacht runs EDR sales at Atlassian, which I got a check today, $40 billion-$50 billion company. She manages a huge global team. Four, people in the sale? Jason Lemkin: None.

Merchant Services 180

Merchant Services Scale Sales Recruiting Sales 180

SaaStr

OCTOBER 12, 2020

You can also totally change your sales team. If you want to say, increase net retention from 100% to 105% this quarter, make that a Top 3 goal and talk about it every single week. The wheels will turn, priorities will change, onboarding will improve, support will improve, features will shift … and churn will come down.

Sales Recruiting 345

Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Churn Onboarding 345

Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

It’s an approach that’s served him well along the road to building the HubSpot sales team, where he was CRO for nine years. That experience led to his bestselling book, The Sales Acceleration Formula. I just don’t think sales have anything to do with product-market fit. A data-driven framework for scaling.

Scale 226

Scale Scaling Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring 226

ChurnZero

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Designing a successful post-sale strategy requires choices, says CXology’s Tim Conder. In addition to your five customer needs, you also have key questions that help you develop a deep understanding of what your customer is trying to do, in a deeper way than your sales team has already discovered. A: First, it matters how you recruit.

Sales Recruiting 52

Sales Recruiting Scale Customer Success Sales 52

User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

Customer Onboarding Specialist: Responsible for helping new customers get up and running with the company’s products. Account Managers: They serve as the lead point of contact for all customer account management matters. They also manage finances and supervise one or more engineering teams.

Sales Hiring 98

Sales Hiring SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting CTO Hire 98

User Pilot

MARCH 21, 2024

Creating customer profiles helps you better understand your target audience, enabling you to attract more product-qualified leads , provide personalized customer service , and drive retention. This detailed insight then allows you to customize your marketing and sales campaigns , ensuring they are tailored to the needs of potential customers.

Sales Recruiting 105

Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team Interviewing Social Media 105

Totango

MARCH 19, 2021

The traditional customer journey infographic envisioned the customer’s experience from a sales and marketing standpoint, visualizing a funnel marking the steps from a lead acquisition through a sale, also known as the buyer’s journey. Keep in mind that onboarding can also begin in the presales process.

Sales Recruiting 125

Sales Recruiting Onboarding Branding Retention 125

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 25, 2019

Given that the primary metric we measure growth in is revenue, it follows that sales feels growth more acutely than almost any other function. As the Senior Vice President of Sales for Pipedrive , she’s currently responsible for building nimble sales teams who drive sustainable revenue.

Scale 136

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scaling 136

OpenView Labs

AUGUST 19, 2021

Sales recruiting is broken. The sad truth is that VP of Sales are turning over within 19 months —and that timeline is shrinking. . Not only that, the market has heated way back up and the VP of Sales is one of the most sought after roles. This isn’t linear and there are many shades of grey when it comes to sales. .

Sales Hiring 82

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale Startup 82

User Pilot

JULY 22, 2023

In this guide, we’re going to show you how a land and expand strategy can help you grow your revenue generation from existing clients by deploying a foot-in-the-door approach with your sales team! You need a clear target market, proper positioning, product-market fit, and the right sales process for a land and expand strategy to work.

Strategy 96

Strategy Sales Recruiting Customer Success Acquisition 96

User Pilot

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Overall, customer value management can make your product more competitive. Sales reps can use the knowledge to shift sales negotiations from price to value. That’s when the team develops the product and helps users to use it effectively, for example, through onboarding and in-app support. Book the demo to see how!

Management 105

Management Scale Customer Lifetime Value SaaS 105

User Pilot

APRIL 30, 2024

Appcues enhances user onboarding, adoption , and retention with targeted walkthroughs, in-app messaging, and feature adoption tools. Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Software : CRM systems help you manage and analyze customer interactions and data throughout the customer lifecycle. Typeform survey templates.

SaaS Payments 104

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Methods Payment Solutions 104

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, . build smoother connections both with your prospects through optimized sales process. And from SaaS sales models to SaaS pricing.

SaaS Payments 157

SaaS Payments Payment Methods Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring 157

Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

When it comes to launching sales teams in hyper-growth startups, few people have walked the walk as much as Maggie Hott. She “stumbled” into it, as she told us, first as one of the earliest sales hires of Eventbrite, where she stayed for four years, and then into Slack in early 2015 as the first sales rep in the Bay Area.

Scale 118

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team 118

User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

It’s important to define and execute a clear user segmentation strategy for a number of reasons: customer segmentation helps you personalize in-app experiences, improve retention , and drive product success. Segmentation can help you launch personalized onboarding experiences. But the most important aspect of all of this?

Strategy 105

Strategy Sales Recruiting Onboarding Churn 105

ChurnZero

AUGUST 28, 2020

SaaS onboarding makes or breaks your customer retention. Onboarding has a long-lasting impact with deep ties to a customer’s likelihood to churn. For this reason, everyone is trying to crack the code on how to create the optimal onboarding experience. But it’s not just about Sales and Customer Success.

Onboarding 59

Onboarding Sales Recruiting Software Review Technical Review 59

OpenView Labs

JANUARY 25, 2022

Improvements to new user activation tends to improve all downstream KPIs: free-to-paid conversion, retention, net expansion, CAC payback, NPS, etc. Here are the top seven onboarding mistakes you could be making. Read on to learn how to improve and get inspired by some of the best SaaS onboarding experiences.

Onboarding 76

Onboarding Sales Recruiting Software Interviewing 76

Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 21, 2018

Whether you’re at an early-stage startup that’s just made its first sales hires, or part of a fast-moving sales team in a large organization, the key to success often comes down to efficiency. Then, the sales team went to work. When making a sales hire, Max pays attention to the way candidates approach getting the job.

Sales Hiring 183

Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Technical Advisors 183

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 29, 2021

Ever since he was hired as the Director of EMEA Sales at BrowserStack , a web and mobile testing platform that lets developers test their websites and mobile applications across browsers, operating systems, and mobile devices, he had to completely rethink how to successfully onboard hundreds of salespeople just as everyone was going remote.

Sales Hiring 223

Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team 223

ChurnZero

JULY 9, 2020

Sure, you won customers over to get the initial purchase, but what about your post-sale courting? Upskill to Up Your Retention Game . Both customer functions are responsible for driving retention, growth, and advocacy in related but distinct capacities. Being a good partner and delivering outcomes is expected.

Retention 64

Retention Strategy Scale Sales Recruiting 64

SaaStr

MAY 8, 2020

Where does Jessica find managers and founders do pipe reviews wrong? What does Jessica believe is the right way for sales reps to engage with new customers during this time? How should sales teams and CS respond to requests for discounts? What other strategies has Jessica seen work really well for retention?

Sales Recruiting 181

Sales Recruiting Technical Review Sales Hiring Outsourced Development 181

Totango

OCTOBER 20, 2022

In some companies, customer success managers may play an active role in the sales process, helping sales representatives elicit customer goals and persuade buyers of product benefits. At other companies, CS managers may be assigned to follow up on sales during the customer onboarding phase.

Sales Hiring 93

Sales Hiring Customer Success Sales Recruiting Technical Review 93

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 28, 2022

And for Intercom’s VP of Sales EMEA, Sanj Bhayro , scaling is just what you need to invest in to ensure growth becomes as constant and linear as it can be. Sanj has plenty of experience scaling sales teams at growing businesses, and that’s precisely why, as of November of last year, he‘s overseeing EMEA sales at Intercom.

Scale 210

Scale Scaling Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting 210

Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

But sales is the one thing founders cannot oversee — without it your startup will die. But the one thing you must think about is sales. Without sales, your startup dies. Yet, sales is all too often a dirty word. They go for the sale without caring about what the customer needs in the first place. Coach regularly.

Sales Hiring 93

Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Startup 93

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 19, 2021

What’s more, Forrester’s study, Drive Conversational Experiences For A Future-Ready Customer Support Strategy , revealed how conversational support can fuel customer retention and business growth across the entire business. Teams that benefit: Sales, marketing. Teams that benefit: Sales, marketing, customer success.

Underperforming Technical Team 129

Underperforming Technical Team Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting 129

SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2024

They talk about the culture code that was created in HubSpot’s early days and how they have continued to have strong retention rates and overall happiness in their employees. Along with our marketing software, along with our sales software. But first, I just wanna talk about employee retention for a minute.

Part-Time CTO 260

Part-Time CTO CTO Hire CTO Coach CTO 260

ChurnZero

JANUARY 13, 2023

Customer sentiment, intention, and level of trust can be surfaced and incorporated into more predictive customer health scores while providing valuable insights and feedback to CSMs and account managers. We believe we will see more teams hiring a CS enablement manager and more budget allocated towards training & development.

Trends 98

Trends Customer Success Sales Hiring Scale 98

User Pilot

APRIL 18, 2024

Segmenting your customer base offers several benefits, including improved personalization , retention, and customer loyalty. You can tailor onboarding flows and in-app messages and offer personalized support. These include recruiters, sales managers, and marketers. Its purpose is to assess market viability.

Customer Lifetime Value 103

Customer Lifetime Value Sales Recruiting Market Segmentation Scale 103

User Pilot

JANUARY 8, 2024

Code-free UI patterns : Using our code-free user interface patterns, you can build engagement flows like guided onboarding, contextual tooltips, or feature release modals. Participant pool : Recruit users from a diverse pool of over 200,000 individuals across various demographics and locations. Maze pricing. UserTesting in action.

Sales Recruiting 52

Sales Recruiting User Experience Pricing Trends 52

Totango

JULY 19, 2021

It may be wise to look for applicants coming from diverse backgrounds, such as those with customer relations, sales or other service-orientated backgrounds. Be sure you look for the skills and qualities that will allow a customer success manager (CSM) to truly connect with customers. Onboarding. 1: Recruit the Right People.

Customer Success 124

Customer Success Sales Recruiting Compensation Scale 124