Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

Building a sales funnel that aligns with your business goals is essential. I’m the head of Product at Datanyze, specializing in sourcing up-to-date prospect contact info to keep your pipeline flowing and sales funnel fresh. What is a sales funnel? And then there’s the sales funnel. The 4 stages of a sales funnel.

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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. We had split into two distinct but complementary functions.

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CustomerSuccessBox

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Here, he talks about the steps to get a perfect customer onboarding. What are the ingredients of a perfect customer onboarding ? What are the KPIs and metrics you track for onboarding? Should onboarding be different for different customers? Your onboarding process should be prescriptive, yet flexible.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 30, 2021

I asked Aasif Osmany to share his learnings as a top-performing SMB VP of Sales, below. I considered the four companies and chose Gorgias based on my experience with their team during the interview process. While at Gorgias, I expected to leave with as much knowledge to earn me an honorary bachelor’s in sales.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 30, 2020

B2B sales is always changing, but nothing could’ve quite prepared us for the wild ride that 2020 ended up being. While most of us have settled into the new normal and the challenges that come with it, sales leaders are looking ahead with uncertainty. Best Sales Statistics to Know in 2021. Short on time? What this means for you.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Many organizations create customer success teams but there’s no clear definition as to how these teams develop long-term value for both the customer and the business. Some sales teams consider a customer success manager as the post-sale counterpart of an account executive.

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InsightSquared

JANUARY 16, 2019

It’s easy to say you need great onboarding, but it’s another to implement effective onboarding. On top of that, it’s easy for growing companies to push an onboarding strategy low on the list of priorities. Here’s why bad onboarding compounds, and what a great onboarding strategy looks like.

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User Pilot

JANUARY 16, 2024

Perform a SWOT analysis, identify the strengths and weaknesses of your top competing products, etc. Task ChatGPT with identifying and formulating the best pricing strategy for your industry. Have ChatGPT brainstorm ideas to improve your onboarding process. ChatGPT can also help you make sense of large datasets.

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CustomerSuccessBox

MAY 25, 2022

While keeping your clients satisfied can feel like a challenge at times, churn is frequently caused by mistakes in the onboarding process. You’ll see higher retention and upsell with a good and well-planned onboarding strategy in place. Suggested Read : The Ultimate Guide to Customer Onboarding. Customization.

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User Pilot

MARCH 23, 2023

And how can customer success teams address them to ensure product growth? Reasons why customers churn: #1: Customers churn when there is a bad product-customer fit and your product’s features don’t align with their needs. 2: Customers churn as a result of an ineffective onboarding process that doesn’t deliver product value.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 14, 2022

Sales leaders often label high-performing sales reps as having the “it factor.” But believe it or not, the “it factor” in sellers is a myth and one that’s been embraced for far too long by sales leaders. The reality for many organizations is—top performers thrive and the rest of the team is left behind.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Sales onboarding – every company does it, but few do it as well as they’d like. According to a report from The Sales Management Association, 62% of companies consider themselves to be ineffective at onboarding. Taking a Page from Agile Software Development. This need for speed gave way to agile development methods.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 8, 2019

A successful close is the end goal that every sales team guns for. Whether prospecting, making cold calls, negotiating, or even researching, every small step a sales rep takes is tied to this goal. But despite a focus on closing sales, it remains one of the biggest issues for teams. Image Source. We all know this.

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OpenView Labs

MARCH 8, 2021

B2B sales involves one business selling its product to another business. Those with experience in both B2B and B2C sales know that B2B is a lot tougher—the deals are bigger, there’s often more than one decision-maker, and the competition is intense. What Interviewing 600+ Sales Reps Taught Me About Team Building.

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User Pilot

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

A market gap can be caused by missing functionality or poor user experience. Tracking user behavior in-app enables product teams to find ways to improve product experience. Competitor analysis enables PMs to find areas where rivals fail customers and develop sound positioning and differentiation strategies.

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Frontegg

MARCH 17, 2022

Product-Led Growth (PLG) is becoming the default strategy in modern SaaS organizations due to the plethora of operational, financial, and technical benefits it brings to the table. But what about the traditional Sales-Led Growth? Let’s dive into the Product-Led vs Sales-Led comparison and learn about the main differences.

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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?

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CustomerSuccessBox

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Here, he talks about the best practices in Customer Onboarding. Can you define successful onboarding? What are the ingredients of a perfect customer onboarding? What are the KPIs and metrics you track for onboarding? Should onboarding be different for different customers? Top 5 mistakes that you have seen/made.

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Designing a successful post-sale strategy requires choices, says CXology’s Tim Conder. Maybe, just as our product teams create a roadmap of future product features, we should have a similar roadmap of improvements to our customer experience. Q: Is there a proven strategy for engagement and continual alignment?

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Chart Mogul

APRIL 29, 2021

Over the last six months, we built and refined a dedicated outbound sales strategy. This mentality extends, of course, to our marketing strategy, which is why folks still print out our cheat sheets and read our weekly roundup. It also extends to our customer acquisition and sales strategy. The result?

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Chart Mogul

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Getting a new customer on board is a happy time for every sales team, but it’s not quite the end of the road. The final step is the sales to customer success handoff process that lays the foundation for retaining customers successfully. This sales to customer success transition is a delicate balancing act. Click To Tweet.

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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.

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Chart Mogul

APRIL 29, 2021

Over the last six months, we built and refined a dedicated outbound sales strategy. This mentality extends, of course, to our marketing strategy, which is why folks still print out our cheat sheets and read our weekly roundup. It also extends to our customer acquisition and sales strategy. The result?

Scale 52

Scale Sales Hiring Strategy Underperforming Technical Team 52

Sales Hacker

MAY 27, 2021

That means thinking of the sales team as remote-at-heart, not remote-by-default. Running a sales team without face-to-face communication. Remember the sales floor when it existed in physical reality? That means that communication in your team has been slashed to the bare minimum. Reimagined sales coaching.

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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.

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User Pilot

MARCH 18, 2021

A successful customer retention strategy requires constant iteration and innovation to keep up with an ever-changing SaaS market environment. There has to be cross-departmental and cross-functional cooperation between product, sales & marketing, customer success, and customer support to implement a successful customer retention strategy.

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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.

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Buffer Resources

JANUARY 15, 2024

Inaccurate, packed with "filler," or completely AI-generated — bad B2B (business-to-business) content is easy to spot and even easier to find online. "  Among her favorite recent content examples is a sales multithreading playbook from Lavender that gives you the why, why, and how to without burying the lede.

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User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

TL;DR Customer discovery questions enable product teams to better understand customer needs and problems so that they can build products that the potential customer truly needs. Other data sources include product analytics, asking customer-facing teams, competitor analysis, and industry events.

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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. In part one, we cover benchmarks and common churn formulas. Table of Contents.

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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.

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User Pilot

APRIL 7, 2023

When your product is catering to other businesses, it can be difficult for sales reps and other teams to understand the needs and experiences of the clients, especially if the client company sells multiple products. However, customer insights can help your teams understand all aspects of your B2B partners.

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User Pilot

DECEMBER 18, 2020

The bad news is: there is no ‘one-size-fits-all’, cookie-cutter method. There may not be as clear a path to your key activation points as you thought and these bad experiences will continue to affect any new users (accumulating churn over time). Lack of activation (users stuck at the New User Onboarding stage).

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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.

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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. 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.

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GetUplift

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

So how do you know who your real audience is so you can create a CRO strategy that works? Because once you know that, you can apply that messaging to every page, ad, sales email and funnel you create. And then we show marketing, product & sales teams how to use it. It starts with a lot of talking. Simple, right?

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Totango

JANUARY 26, 2021

When you know why customers are leaving you, you can develop appropriate preventive measures. For example, your attrition analysis might determine that customers who experienced a slow onboarding process have a significantly higher churn rate than those who completed the onboarding process quickly. Poor Customer Fit.

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