Intercom, Inc.

JULY 29, 2021

And so, Mark Rudden and his team had to figure it all out by themselves. Fortunately, Mark had quite a bit of experience working and scaling teams in demanding, hypergrowth environments. In fact, in some form or another, he’s been working in sales for most of his career. SaaS is the subscription business.

Sales Hiring 223

Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team 223

SaaStr

JUNE 4, 2019

I actually worked in sales for five and a half years and that’s probably why I have tended to gravitate to B2B marketing. Worked as an AE and then a sales manager. Decided to go to business school, did that for a little bit and then came out in management consulting, a company. So, they’re a B2B piece.

Sales Recruiting 176

Sales Recruiting Scale Underperforming Technical Team Pricing 176

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Users are recruiting your product to reach a specific outcome in their lives — whether that’s catching a flight to reunite with their families or using a productivity app to meet a deadline and impress their boss. Samuel Hulick: I actually started as a full stack developer. Take pancakes, for example.

Onboarding 254

Onboarding Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team 254

ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Your top subscription news. And Zenefits —SaaS for managing human resources—is highlighting that change on its blog, deemed Workest. What I’m totally on board with is the mention of updating your hiring strategies to boost retention. We might get a bad rap, but we're harmless (and quite dedicated). Email Address Play.

Sales Hiring 40

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Content Marketing Underperforming Technical Team 40

Full Session

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Product teams, UX and UI researchers, marketers, and site owners use this feature to capture data and analyze user behavior. Identify Javascript errors, user frustration, usability issues, or poor-performing content. FullSession provides a central analytics platform that lets you and your team collaborate more efficiently.

Software Review 52

Software Review Technical Review Payment Solutions Payment Methods 52

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

Stax

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Software as a Service (SaaS) has made business software more accessible by offering cloud-based, on-demand access to a range of solutions, from project management and collaboration to sales and marketing. As such, they can face less competition because of the high barrier of entry that comes with developing specialist SaaS products.

SaaS Payments 88

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payments Payment Solutions 88

SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

So growth of the kind of subscription, eCommerce industry has been over 100% year on year for the past five years, according to McKinsey. The second constituent there is the developer. Why do developers love SaaS products? The key here is knowing what your sales model is. One is what I call the low touch sales model.

SaaS Payments 235

SaaS Payments Metrics Payment Methods Scale 235

SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

359: The Secrets to Vertical Growth, What it Really Takes to Build a $1B SaaS Company with Matt Garratt, SVP, Managing Partner @ Salesforce Ventures, Trisha Price, Chief Product Officer @ nCino and David Schmaier, CEO & Founder @ Vlocity. They need fewer sales as a percentage of overall employees. David Schmaier: Sure.

Payment Solutions 152

Payment Solutions Pricing Payments Payment Services 152

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?

Merchant Services 185

Merchant Services Scale Sales Recruiting Sales 185

ChurnZero

APRIL 27, 2021

Grotech Ventures is a team committed to helping creative and driven entrepreneurs build technology companies that last. We certainly look at retention and net retention, though many of our companies have very few renewal cycles to evaluate at the time we invest. Let’s hear what they each had to say. .

Scale 98

Scale Customer Success Payments Underperforming Technical Team 98

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. SaaS Sales Models.

SaaS Payments 157

SaaS Payments Payment Methods Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring 157

ProfitWell

AUGUST 18, 2020

As more companies move to SaaS and subscription-based models of revenue, this old paradigm is crumbling. The shift to the customer-first paradigm has happened quickly in SaaS and subscription-based economy. As a new, and in some ways, more preferred revenue model, new players are entering the SaaS and subscription market every day.

SaaS Payments 111

SaaS Payments Payment Methods Underperforming Technical Team Outsourced Development 111

ProfitWell

DECEMBER 4, 2019

SaaS, or software as a service, is a delivery model in which a centrally hosted software is licensed to customers via a subscription plan. Recurring payments. Recurring payments take the form of monthly recurring revenue, otherwise known as MRR. Heightened customer retention. Consistent updates.

Business Model 54

Business Model SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payments 54

SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2019

Awesome revenue growth on the X axis, awesome revenue retention on the Y. Hundred percent revenue retention, 200% revenue growth. Option A is we can go have awesome revenue retention, 100% revenue retention, but mediocre growth. Option B is awesome revenue growth, 200%, but mediocre revenue retention, 70%.

Scale 210

Scale Sales Hiring Revenue VP of Engineering 210

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

* How does David think about scaling sales teams? How does one know when is the right time to hire your first sales reps? What have been his lessons on optimizing payback period for sales reps? How should founders think about sales rep compensation? How does David think about payback period on a per rep basis?

Scale 199

Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting 199

SaaStr

AUGUST 22, 2020

Centralized HQs with all the perks and amenities “under one roof” have traditionally been used as recruiting tools to attract and retain top talent. And honestly, we’re limiting ourselves by proximity on recruiting a diverse best-in-class team. This will be a really strong indicator of retention and recruiting.

Sales Recruiting 150

Sales Recruiting Cloud CTO Hire Scale 150

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 25, 2020

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we’ve got Alyssa Merwin , Vice President of Sales Solutions for LinkedIn, North America. She runs Sales Navigator and is perhaps one of the most important people selling sales engagement and sales software in the world. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast.

Management 73

Management Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Development Team Review 73

SaaStr

MARCH 13, 2020

315: Harry Hurst is the Co-Founder & Co-CEO @ Pipe, the startup that gives you control of your cash flow by giving you access to the full annual value of your monthly subscriptions, upfront. So at about 13, I set up an eBay business, and we actually used PayPal obviously to process all of the payments. I totally agree.

SaaS Payments 219

SaaS Payments Payment Methods Finance Payments 219