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?

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User Pilot

OCTOBER 19, 2024

As such, you must tailor your strategies to meet your target customers’ specific needs and expectations. Satisfaction in SaaS, therefore, isn’t simply about developing a nice product and launching it in the market. For instance, you can launch a CSAT survey after a customer interacts with your support team.

Business 111

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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?

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User Pilot

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Let’s review everything your customer success team has to do in the absence of any customer success tools. Ensure that your data is clean and easily accessible, as poor data quality undermines the value of even the best customer success tool. This will allow teams to identify at-risk accounts and prioritize proactive outreach.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Scott’s newsletter makes a great point: as buying teams get bigger and bigger, our sales teams need to grow with them. In other words, the partners balance out each other’s strengths and weaknesses. First, identify your team member’s strengths and weaknesses. Business case development and IT/tech strategy.

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Underperforming Technical Team CTO Hire CTO Coach Technical Review 131

SaaStr

JANUARY 2, 2024

You don’t want conflict with the sales team. How do you leverage that offer to develop relationships with partners? This is where they started, but startups weren’t adopting the product as much with a discount, and there was a lot of conflict with the sales team. During SaaStr Annual, Zendesk Sr.

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FastSpring

JANUARY 23, 2025

They’re interested in the return on investment, they’re interested in the growth opportunities, they’re interested in the strategies and the synergies that those businesses can bring them, either as individuals or as companies. Blake Hutchison (29:53) Our churn rate is poor, but we actually know why.

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Scale Entrepreneurship Scaling Underperforming Technical Team 120

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. Personalized onboarding reduces time to value.

Underperforming Technical Team 105

Underperforming Technical Team Strategy Marketing Customer Lifetime Value 105

User Pilot

MARCH 25, 2024

In this article, we explore what customer attrition is, why it matters, and 15 effective strategies for strengthening customer relationships, boosting loyalty, and driving long-term growth. Some effective strategies for reducing customer churn include: Personalize the onboarding for new customers to shorten the time to value.

Underperforming Technical Team 104

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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. To do the first, we had to hire, train, and write a playbook – the building blocks of any team. Relentlessly measure impact.

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User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

What is a messaging strategy? A messaging strategy is a marketing framework /plan that outlines how your brand communicates its key messages and unique selling proposition to its target audience. Why should you have a solid messaging strategy? This helps you stand out and connect more deeply with your target market.

Strategy 111

Strategy Social Media Underperforming Technical Team Travel 111

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 8, 2020

But with so much data to consider, how can you define the help desk metrics that matter for your team? Help desk metrics are measurements that allow you to track your performance and effectively adjust your strategy to provide better customer support. What are help desk metrics? Ticket volume or total conversations.

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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. Additionally, a high close rate means you are able to run your team with greater efficiency.

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Scale Sales Hiring Sales Underperforming Technical Team 284

User Pilot

JANUARY 31, 2023

Winning new business is critical for any savvy product manager: a new client onboarding checklist template can help you systemize your path to a successful customer onboarding process. Used correctly, this sort of customer onboarding checklist can become an invaluable tool for any product manager.

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Onboarding Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Technical Review 98

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 19, 2022

Content is one of the most critical components of your sales engagement strategy. To ensure long-term content strategy success , it’s best to periodically evaluate your team’s content requirements and workflow alignment. Your content strategy evaluation should start with understanding your team’s current challenges.

Strategy 111

Strategy Underperforming Technical Team Management Systems Review 111

Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 7, 2018

Today he’s the founder and CEO at GrowthHackers , whose software, community and annual conference help teams work together to drive breakout growth results for “must have” products and services. a lot of Sean’s early focus and success there came from experimentation with onboarding. Developing a growth culture at Dropbox.

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VP of Engineering Growth Hacking Underperforming Technical Team Onboarding 196

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 1, 2018

They help their users be successful, and that means providing great onboarding. At Traction Conference, an event all about how to keep and grow customers and revenue at scale, I explained how to build onboarding based on your customers’ goals, and why when your product improves, your onboarding must improve with it.

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Retention Payment Methods Onboarding Payment Solutions 223

Stax

APRIL 15, 2025

There are some important variations to MRR that would be good for your sales team to be aware of, including new MRR, expansion MRR, and churn MRR. How To Calculate Other Types of MRR Now, while the above is the most basic form of MRR, there are some important variations to MRR that would be good for your sales team to be aware of.

Payments 88

Payments SaaS Payments Revenue Payment Services 88

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 14, 2022

The reality for many organizations is—top performers thrive and the rest of the team is left behind. of sales teams hit their goals. So what if sales leaders could figure out the recipe for their top sellers’ success and then build an entire team of high performers? A technology-driven strategy.

Underperforming Technical Team 122

Underperforming Technical Team Sales Enablement Construction Forecasting 122

User Pilot

AUGUST 14, 2024

By developing a customer segmentation strategy, you can build the right segments, analyze their behavior, and set tactics to reach them through tailor-made initiatives. In this article, we’ll explore definitions, customer segmentation models, benefits, and how to design a customer segmentation strategy that boosts product engagement.

Strategy 104

Strategy Software Underperforming Technical Team Market Segmentation 104

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 19, 2021

And for your support team, using the right conversational support tool and framework allows them to maximize their resources, so they can focus on solving complex queries and building long-term customer relationships. But conversational support doesn’t just benefit your support team. Teams that benefit: Sales, marketing.

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User Pilot

OCTOBER 10, 2022

In this article, we’ll cover the key metrics you need to develop an informed feature adoption strategy and discuss how you can improve them. Feature adoption allows you to separate the successful features from the underperforming ones. Uncover weak spots and improve feature adoption. We’ve got you covered!

Metrics 97

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User Pilot

MARCH 13, 2024

This guide explains what feature ideation is, what strategies to use to come up with new ideas, and how to focus on the right ones. TL;DR Feature ideation is a process through which product teams brainstorm ideas for new features to introduce to their product. Why do you need feature ideation in your product development process?

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Underperforming Technical Team Scale User Experience Interviewing 105

User Pilot

AUGUST 1, 2024

Product marketing is the process of bringing a product to market, and a well-curated product marketing strategy is key to understanding customer needs and driving adoption. In this article, we explore the key steps product managers follow to create a successful product marketing strategy, including some successful real-world examples.

Product Marketing 105

Product Marketing Strategy Marketing Underperforming Technical Team 105

User Pilot

JANUARY 8, 2024

With the right customer acquisition strategies, you can convert potential customers to paying users and set the stage for turning them into long-term loyal users. In-app strategies for converting free or trial users to paying customers. Measure campaign performance and refine your customer acquisition strategy.

Acquisition 105

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 25, 2020

If you are looking to scale up your marketing, you will need talented people that can take charge of and execute your strategy. But should you build your own in-house marketing team or hire an agency partner? Digital agencies are companies that help other businesses perform a specific function such as marketing, development, or design.

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Sales Hiring Outsourcing Services Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting 145

Baremetrics

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Sean Ellis, who ran growth in the early days of Dropbox, LogMeIn, and Eventbrite benchmarked nearly a hundred startups with his customer development survey. Now, without further adieu, let’s look at 14 retention strategies you’ll wish you’d have implemented a year ago. They meet and onboard every single customer.

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Retention Strategy Payment Solutions Technical Advisors 136

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 30, 2020

That’s why the team at Sales Hacker decided to put together a statistics round-up showcasing how things changed in this year and where they’re likely headed in the future. Sales teams that invest in remote selling and sales intelligence tools will continue to outperform their peers. What this means for you. What this means for you.

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Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team Revenue 133

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

We’re seeing larger numbers of people work in the industry, more companies investing in sales enablement teams and numerous tools being developed to solve sales enablement challenges. Financial services (75%), high tech (70%) and telecommunications (67%) have the highest saturation of dedicated sales enablement teams ( Quark ).

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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. Next, let’s look at how to develop a churn-reduction action plan.

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Benchmarks Churn Payments SaaS Payments 147

User Pilot

DECEMBER 13, 2023

How do you develop a robust UX strategy? We also look at: What a UX design strategy is Why it’s important Its core principles and elements A practical example of a company with well-established UX strategies Let’s dive right in! Start designing your strategy by clarifying the business goals.

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User Pilot

MAY 27, 2025

Want to advance your career in product management or find top talent for your team? Mozilla: Director of Product, Firefox Growth Firefox is used by hundreds of millions worldwide, and the Director of Product for Growth plays a critical role in the product management team. Who would be a bad fit for this job?

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 13, 2019

In a recent talk at UX London , I discussed some lessons learned while growing the design team at Intercom, reflecting on the technology industry’s obsession with tools, and pointed out how our sense of tools as objects or apps blinds us to the reality that the processes we adopt and develop are also, in effect, tools.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 15, 2018

Will Larson has managed infrastructure teams for some of the biggest names in software. Partnering with the Infrastructure, Data and Developer Productivity teams, his group builds the tools that support every Stripe engineer and keep Stripe reliable and performant. Today he’s leading Foundation Engineering at Stripe.

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Stax

JANUARY 23, 2025

The merchant underwriting process is a critical step that payment processors and financial institutions use to assess the risk associated with onboarding new businesses. By thoroughly assessing merchants, processors can: Reduce fraud and chargebacks by identifying potentially fraudulent or non-compliant merchants before onboarding them.

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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. But also the cost it has on their careers — and your sales team. Job hopping by the numbers.

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User Pilot

AUGUST 30, 2024

What are the different marketing research methods product marketing teams can use to inform their strategies? Its goal is to help make informed decisions about product development , marketing strategies, pricing, and customer acquisition in SaaS companies. This is the main question the article answers.

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