Totango

JULY 8, 2021

To move away from this pattern, we suggest organizations put in place an early customer warning system that enables their customer success team focus on proactive customer retention. We find this solution works best for teams operating in a high- to medium-touch engagement model. How to Build An Early Customer Warning System.

Systems Review 65

Systems Review Underperforming Technical Team Payment Features Churn 65

ChurnZero

JUNE 11, 2021

Customer health scores give Customer Success teams a deep understanding of a customer’s health and are a leading indicator that there may be an issue with an account or customer. Another example is creating a health score based on tiered implementation: SMB onboarding versus Enterprise onboarding.

Software Review 96

Software Review Systems Review Scale Underperforming Technical Team 96

CustomerSuccessBox

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Know your North Star KPI Setting up CS team as per those KPI Choose the right CS tool Track, Measure, Improve and build collaborative teams. Onboarding stage- it makes sense to identify how many people churned out. If you’ve customers churning out at the onboarding stage itself, you know what is the issue that needs to be fixed.

Customer Success 59

Customer Success Technical Review Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team 59

SaaStr

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Lots of us fantasize about moving upmarket, but are unsure of how to get started, is it just a matter of hiring a team of SDRs and getting them to hit the phones? Oops… Today we’ll be covering the five tips and here they are right here, from handling buyer expectations to navigating the complex sale. Lauren A.:

Underperforming Technical Team 159

Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring compliance SMB 159

SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2019

Ep 255: Vikas Bhambri is SVP Sales and Customer Experience @ Kustomer, the startup providing Real-time, actionable views of customers with continuous omnichannel conversations and intelligence that automates repetitive, manual tasks. What is the right way for startup founders to address sales rep onboarding? Missed the session?

SaaS Payments 139

SaaS Payments Cloud Technical Review Scale 139

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

As for Krish, under Krish’s leadership the team has grown to over 300 people and over 5,000 clients making it one of the next generation in truly global SaaS businesses started in India. How does Krish think about purely serving the SMB market? How does he think about the mortality rate of SMBs? What questions reveal the most?

Scale 134

Scale SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting Payment Services 134

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 11, 2019

But as the business becomes more successful – and there are resources to build a support team – additional layers begin to separate executives from their customers. Since 2010, he’s helped the company grow to more than 40,000 customers and helped scale the support team to more than 500 employees to assist those users. Short on time?

Scale 188

Scale Scaling Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team 188

ChurnZero

JANUARY 4, 2019

the stuff that Customer Success teams are really meant to do). One customer success trend I’m seeing is the need to develop more repeatable customer education programs. The biggest trend I see emerging in Europe, which started at the end of 2018 is Customer Success Plans becoming a staple asset of Customer Success teams.

Customer Success 73

Customer Success SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions 73

SaaStr

AUGUST 8, 2019

The first step in success with SMB clients is to recognize that it’s not a one size fits all scenario. Companies need a specialized approach for SMB accounts, different than the tactics used for Enterprise. Agnes Bazin | Chief Development Officer @ Doctolib. Okay, it’s not bad. Want to see more content like this?

Sales Recruiting 110

Sales Recruiting SMB Scale Sales Hiring 110

SaaStr

AUGUST 8, 2019

The first step in success with SMB clients is to recognize that it’s not a one size fits all scenario. Companies need a specialized approach for SMB accounts, different than the tactics used for Enterprise. Agnes Bazin | Chief Development Officer @ Doctolib. Okay, it’s not bad. Want to see more content like this?

Sales Recruiting 110

Sales Recruiting SMB Scale Sales Hiring 110

Upscope

JANUARY 4, 2021

They are very useful and act almost as a separate sales and marketing copy to assure customers as well as solve problems. What's even more interesting is how bots are starting to integrate with on-page onboarding and guidance systems to show the customer how to do something. Answer Dash does this.

Software Review 52

Software Review Systems Review Technical Review Scale 52

ChurnZero

JANUARY 4, 2019

the stuff that Customer Success teams are really meant to do). One customer success trend I’m seeing is the need to develop more repeatable customer education programs. The biggest trend I see emerging in Europe, which started at the end of 2018 is Customer Success Plans becoming a staple asset of Customer Success teams.

Customer Success 49

Customer Success SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions 49

The Marketing & Growth Hacking Publication

APRIL 8, 2019

Internal Team: Hire your own Sales Development Rep (SDR) team that is 100% dedicated to outbound prospecting. Pros: No one will know your “stuff” better than internal people, it’s the best long-term solution for most companies, and begins your sales Farm Team. You build a team of four Outbound SDRs.

Outsourcing Services 40

Outsourcing Services Outsourced Development Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting 40

SaaStr

JANUARY 21, 2020

Justin Welsh, former SVP of Sales at PatientPop explains how he started in SaaS in 2009 as the second sales hire at Zocdoc. Justin used Sales Culture to grow a successful PatientPop team to 140 employees and 55 million in revenue. Justin Welsh | SVP Sales @ PatientPop. Want to see more content like this?

Sales Recruiting 258

Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale Sales 258

SaaStr

AUGUST 19, 2022

So the new sales leader is trying to figure out, can we go further up market? And also on the side, doing a strategy of pure, just changing our ICP and fully picking it and making it super narrow and super focused, and having 25% of the team doing that. And 75% of the team continuing business as usual. Jason Lemkin: Okay.

Scale 213

Scale Sales Hiring Scaling VP of Engineering 213

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Women in sales often have a polarizing experience. Never believe that doubting yourself is a bad thing. In the Sales Hacker video series Aha Moments , I asked 10 women: “What is one ‘aha moment’ you’ve had in your sales career?”. What is one a-ha moment you’ve had in your sales career? Anything less is failure.

Scale 130

Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring VP of Engineering 130

SaaStr

JULY 30, 2020

356: Pete Kazanjy is the Co-Founder @ Atrium, the startup providing proactive, always-on insights for sales operations, managers, and leaders. Alongside Atrium, Pete is also the Founder of Modern Sales Pros, a community of 15,000 focused on sales operations and sales management. How do the best onboard their sales reps?

Part-Time VPE 205

Part-Time VPE Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring 205

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Developing a sales strategy is one of the core activities every business will have to undertake. A well defined sales strategy is your path to meaningful, sustainable growth. When done correctly, your sales strategy will help your sales team execute with focus – SMB or enterprise, inbound or outbound, hunting or farming.

Scale 177

Scale Strategy Sales Underperforming Technical Team 177

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

As for Travis, prior to joining Redpoint, Travis was head of Customer Growth at Front, after spending 5 years building the global Sales organization at Optimizely, the world’s most popular experimentation platform. What does Travis advise founders when it comes to uniting customer facing teams? * Loving our podcast content?

Underperforming Technical Team 166

Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Payments Payment Services Technical Advisors 166

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. We trust leaders to make decisions on what tools they need to get the most out of their teams.

Scale 52

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring SaaS 52

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

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 183

Merchant Services Scale Sales Recruiting Sales 183

SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2021

Turns out a founding team of six MBAs creating a full suite of products sold solely to SMBs can become a multi-million dollar public company in nine years – and continue growing rapidly ($77.6 Dharmesh : …said, “This is a very bad idea. million in 2013 to $115.9 million in 2014.). I said, “Holy crap.

Part-Time VPE 225

Part-Time VPE Technical Cofounder CTO Hire New CTO 225

SaaStr

DECEMBER 12, 2020

As for Kate, prior to making the move to Notion just last month, she spent an incredible 8 years at Dropbox including holding roles such as Head of Sales Development, North America and Director of Global SMB Revenue and Operations. What is the role of sales in a product-led growth organization? He responded.

Scale 175

Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting 175

Point Nine Land

JUNE 18, 2023

You can also see right away that, for instance, month 5 was an unusually bad month for the April 2020 cohort. a churn or retention rate you’d be happy with), red for “bad” values, yellow for “OK”, and gradients for values in between. How can different teams use cohort analysis to make better decisions?

SaaS Payments 128

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payments SaaS 128

SaaStr

AUGUST 30, 2019

As for Whitney, she directly leads the organization’s go-to-market efforts, including sales, marketing, business development and customer operations. When is the right time for founders to think about building out their first exec team? What is the optimal onboarding process for any new COO? Missed the session?

Sales Hiring 139

Sales Hiring Scale Technical Advisors Underperforming Technical Team 139

SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

Nick Mehta: Power of the developer, or the API economy, both of you play very much in both those trends. How do you help your team make that link to value? One, it starts high up in the sales process, right? You need to discover in the sales process. Jay Snyder: I mean, that is the, what would you say?

Payment Methods 199

Payment Methods Merchant Services Scale Payments 199

FastSpring

JANUARY 27, 2022

This score then determines how we’ll manage the relationship through onboarding and customer success, including whether they need further education on the benefits of marketing attribution or more advanced advice on how else our product can bring operational and strategic improvements across their business.”. Highlight self-service.

Merchant Services 138

Merchant Services Payment Services SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 138

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

In this episode of the Sales Hacker Podcast, we have Amy Frampton , Head of Marketing at BambooHR and 15-year marketing veteran. Join us for a hilarious conversation about what’s changed in marketing lately, brushing shoulders with Marshawn Lynch, poaching SDRs and AEs from sales, and tips for employer branding. powered by Sounder.

Sales Recruiting 81

Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Marketing Underperforming Technical Team 81

Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Scalability Other Factors That Affect the Sales Multiple How to Make Your SaaS Business More Attractive and Valuable 1. Develop a Full Marketing Strategy 2. Lower Churn Prepare for a Sale Where to Sell Going it Alone Through a Private Sale Working With a Broker for a Win-Win Situation.

SaaS Payments 105

SaaS Payments Technical Review Development Team Review Software Review 105

User Pilot

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Or is there another in-app onboarding software that is superior than the two? Appcues is a no-code onboarding tool that allows you to publish in-app onboarding tours , announcements , and launch surveys. Nevertheless, Spekit focuses on employee onboarding rather than user onboarding.

Software Review 52

Software Review Onboarding Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team 52

User Pilot

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Or is there another in-app onboarding software that is superior than the two? Nonetheless, Pendo is limited in terms of onboarding elements. It doesn’t have much room for customization without coding and you can’t customize onboarding elements to match your native theme.

Software Review 52

Software Review Technical Review Onboarding Underperforming Technical Team 52

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

374: ZoomInfo founder and CEO Henry Schuck shares how he built a business from scratch and grew it into one of the most successful IPOs of the 21st century—and what it was really like…the good, the bad, and most of all, the ugly. If you think of this from a market size standpoint, there’s often this debate, is that good or bad?

Sales Hiring 158

Sales Hiring Scale Payments Cloud 158

SaaStr

JULY 10, 2021

So let’s take a look back to a deep dive with the CEOs on what they learned building their first senior teams: ———-. As a founder/CEO, building your first management team is something that you often lose sleep over. What makes you feel that you need to level up your management, set up your first management team?

Sales Hiring 258

Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Development Team Review CTO Hire 258

User Pilot

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Or, is there a more appropriate in-app onboarding software available that would better suit your requirements? WalkMe is another tool for no-code growth that is better suited for employee onboarding. Which tool, UserGuiding or WalkMe, is more suitable for achieving no-code growth?

Software Review 52

Software Review Technical Review Onboarding Outsourced Development 52

SaaStr

OCTOBER 25, 2019

Before Assist, Liat spent 6 years at Twitter where she first hand saw their hyper-growth, managing a team of 40 across New York and SF and also Liat achieved 102% to quota on average every year. Finally before Twitter, Liat was VP of Sales @ Revolution Prep where she led and managed 7 offices. Loving our podcast content? Pricing? *

Sales Hiring 108

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale Underperforming Technical Team 108

SaaStr

OCTOBER 4, 2019

As for Jeppe, prior to founding Pleo he was the CEO @ Nodes, a design and development house that worked with brands including Loreal, BMW and Lego. Why did Jeppe decide to focus on SMBs from Day 1? How does the product build in the early days differ when building for SMB vs enterprise? What changes? * Missed the session?

Scale 127

Scale SaaS Payments SMB Sales Hiring 127