User Pilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

TL;DR Regular roadmaps kill outcomes by forcing teams to think in the categories of features and timelines. It’s difficult to implement outcome-based roadmaps because stakeholders don’t trust product teams to deliver on business goals. Build a product that users love by delivering value and a good product experience.

Scale 101

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting Software Review 101

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Scaling a support team is challenging enough as it is. Maybe you’ve just extended support hours and it’s becoming harder to plan shifts for different time zones; maybe you’re spending hours figuring out schedules for the week ahead; maybe the inflow prediction was a bit off and now your team is under or overstaffed.

Scale 206

Scale Software Outsourcing Services Sales Hiring 206

OpenView Labs

MAY 19, 2021

After college, Ashley joined Twilio and played a key role in helping the company reach, engage, and convert its developer audience. She’s an expert on what works and what doesn’t when it comes to building successful relationships with developer audiences, software marketing teams, and technical CEOs.

Underperforming Technical Team 52

Underperforming Technical Team Development Technical Review Marketing 52

SaaStr

OCTOBER 30, 2021

I considered the four companies and chose Gorgias based on my experience with their team during the interview process. I had also worked in customer service and e-commerce in the past and knew this market was prime for disruption. Together, we developed sales pitches, built out a robust sales process in just a couple of weeks.

Scale 254

Scale Sales Hiring Sales SMB 254

SaaStr

JULY 25, 2021

I mean, and I may at the risk of stating at times of blinding lava, they’re very … They’re really care a lot about what is the market opportunity you’re going after, right? You can have the great product and a great team, but the market of small or very niche. Jyoti Bansal: Yeah.

Sales Recruiting 242

Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale VP of Engineering 242

Casey Accidental

JANUARY 2, 2018

This blog post was adapted from a presentation I did recently. I receive a lot of questions about growth teams. Is this marketing being re-branded? Who does this team report to? When do I start a growth team for my business? The purpose of growth is to scale the usage of a product that has product-market fit.

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Underperforming Technical Team Scale Retention Engineering 111

Kellblog

JULY 8, 2020

Mark’s a seasoned startup executive, he’s go-to-market oriented, and he has some large-company chops that he developed earlier in his career. They should have input, but startups should hire a VP of Marketing with strong product marketing skills at the same time as the first VP of Sales. (DK:

Sales Hiring 140

Sales Hiring Startup Software Review Enterprise 140

User Pilot

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

How would you feel if you could no longer use our products? This is a question used in product-market fit surveys. Startups use these surveys in the early stages of product development to measure the degree to which a product satisfies market demand. Add a picture of your team member to humanize it!

Retention 98

Retention Scale Underperforming Technical Team Churn 98

User Pilot

MAY 30, 2023

Every successful product marketer has at some point wondered how to create a persona. Good user personas are critical to any successful product marketing campaign. As a result, one of its primary customer personas is a Product Manager from a B2B SaaS company. User persona example for Userpilot.

Social Media 98

Social Media Interviewing Underperforming Technical Team Product Marketing 98

User Pilot

APRIL 19, 2024

Effective market research requires clear and measurable objectives, guiding decision-making and ensuring relevance to the project’s needs, and should be accompanied by appropriate methods , including both primary and secondary research. This allows businesses to tailor their offerings and engage more effectively with their target market.

Market Research 52

Market Research Sales Recruiting Marketing Underperforming Technical Team 52

User Pilot

APRIL 18, 2023

The 4 types of customer satisfaction surveys are Net Promoter Score (NPS) surveys, customer satisfaction score (CSAT) surveys, customer effort score (CES) surveys, and product-market fit (PMF) surveys. As a result, you can develop well-informed strategies to improve customer satisfaction. How was your onboarding experience?

Underperforming Technical Team 93

Underperforming Technical Team Scaling Onboarding Product Marketing 93

User Pilot

AUGUST 14, 2023

Which measures the customer’s experience with a specific product, feature, or team interaction. Ask users to rate from 1 to 5 how easy it is to use your product. Product evaluation surveys. Which gauges how users feel about product performance and what they value the most. Develop your product through a PMF survey.

Scale 92

Scale SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services 92

Chart Mogul

OCTOBER 3, 2019

The design of your product? . Marketing? . After your product/market fit, your business model is the most important consideration if you’re to save your business from the startup graveyard. Or it can be segmented by marketing channel, geography/market, cohort, or any other way that makes sense to your business.

Acquisition 91

Acquisition Underperforming Technical Team Startup Customer Lifetime Value 91

SaaSOptics

MAY 19, 2022

Below, we’ll dive into how to develop a customer acquisition strategy from start to finish. . How to Develop a Customer Acquisition Strategy. Identify your target market. Which marketing channels did prospects engage with before becoming a customer? You have poor product/market fit.

Acquisition 59

Acquisition Scale Strategy Software Review 59

SaaStr

DECEMBER 23, 2020

How does Tamar think about effective product design today? How does Tamar structure the customer development process? What channels can teams put in place to have this real-time dialogue with their customers? I was a C++ developer working on electromigration on a full chip. What questions does she ask? Harry Stebbings.

VP of Engineering 232

VP of Engineering Software Review Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team 232

User Pilot

MARCH 18, 2021

Customer Retention Strategy for Your Marketing & Sales Departments How to Build Products Designed for Retention The Role of Product Marketers in Customer Retention The Customer Support Strategy Why Is The Data You Collect So Important to CS and Retention? vs. A Product Onboarding Tool for Startups. Eden Bidani.

Retention 52

Retention Strategy Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 52

User Pilot

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

TL;DR Product analytics is the process of collecting and analyzing data about product usage and user behavior. Product analytics tools empower teams to make informed decisions on how to add more value and offer a better user experience. Pendo is a product adoption platform famous for high-quality analytics solutions.

Software Review 98

Software Review Systems Review Underperforming Technical Team Mobile 98

OpenView Labs

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Competitive pressures and changing customer needs can be captured by a great marketing or product marketing lead. And the primary burden of your product and GTM execution can fall on an effective technical leader and proven sales executive. This team in turn can be trusted to execute on growth, product, hiring, etc.

Sales Hiring 82

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale Startup 82

User Pilot

JUNE 26, 2023

Want to track the different types of product metrics to get product growth insights ? Product metrics are critical for product growth managers to develop the right product strategies and drive continuous value for customers. Thus, these metrics let you assess the success of your product.

Metrics 87

Metrics Customer Lifetime Value SaaS Acquisition 87

Neil Patel

OCTOBER 24, 2020

Unfortunately, your in-house team doesn’t have the required expertise to push through change. Our team at Neil Patel Digital has compiled the ultimate guide below to help you understand the nuances of working with a consultant for the best results. Spot knowledge gaps and weak points in strategy, and ask for alternatives.

Consulting 132

Consulting Sales Hiring Technical Review Sales Recruiting 132

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

What does it take to scale a sales team successfully? If you would like to find out more about the show and the guests presented, you can follow us on Twitter here: Jason Lemkin. I’ve heard so many good things from Kobie, now at Upfront, and then also the team at Openview. How does Andy think about discounting?

Sales Hiring 190

Sales Hiring Scale Leadership Sales Enablement 190

User Pilot

JANUARY 30, 2023

The product adoption curve is a concept created by Everett Rogers back in 1962 and further developed by Geoffrey Moore in 2014. In SaaS, as you develop your product and achieve product-market fit , you must consider the five user segments so you can improve product adoption and grow your business.

Technical Review 96

Technical Review Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Education 96

User Pilot

JANUARY 12, 2023

First, the use cases we’ve put together for this article present different angles of how to act on behavioral data at different stages of the customer journey. So let’s jump straight to the article to uncover product growth insights with the help of behavioral analytics. Ready to practice? How to track user behavioral data.

Artificial Intelligence 98

Artificial Intelligence SaaS Software Review User Experience 98

SaaStr

JANUARY 12, 2023

The current economic climate presents new challenges for businesses. Management teams must determine how to thrive in a downturn to position their businesses for profitable growth. However, management teams that pursued growth at all costs were punished severely. Market demand signals should also be taken into account.

Consulting 40

Consulting Underperforming Technical Team Management Marketing 40

Casey Accidental

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Developer platform: a business where developers can build businesses on top of the business’s software and charge customers. The Weak Transition to Marketplace Arguments. There are three fairly weak arguments I don’t like, but I’ll present them anyway. #1 Take them from the marketplace team.

Marketplace as a Service 106

Marketplace as a Service Business Model Business Underperforming Technical Team 106

Chart Mogul

OCTOBER 3, 2019

The design of your product? After your product/market fit, your business model is the most important consideration if you’re to save your business from the startup graveyard. Or it can be segmented by marketing channel, geography/market, cohort, or any other way that makes sense to your business.

Acquisition 52

Acquisition Startup Underperforming Technical Team Customer Lifetime Value 52

Sales Hacker

MARCH 22, 2018

Entering new markets (geographically or target-segment). Sales outsourcing agencies tend to outperform your own team with: Proven experience in exactly the sales functions they offer. lead generation) are obvious, but some are not: 1) Finding a product/market fit. Would the product fit the selected market?

Outsourcing Services 78

Outsourcing Services Sales Outsourcing Outsourced Development Scale 78

OpenView Labs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

But no matter how thick a skin you develop, it’s never fun to be told ‘no,’ especially after you’ve spent significant time with an investor exploring a potential deal. To make matters worse, the customers revealed that instead of paying for a seat for each team member, they bought one login and shared it amongst 10 people.

Technical Review 73

Technical Review Scale Development Team Review Software Review 73

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Here are five quick takeaways: The founders of Spendesk noticed that, while the B2C space was innovating with peer-to-peer quickpay options, nothing like that existed in the B2B space (which often lags a few years behind the consumer market). Instead, focus on fostering a culture of communication and feedback loops between the team.

Scale 162

Scale Payment Methods Payment Solutions Marketing 162

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. Does one have to expand the product line to retain customers? First, what is continuous customer development? Loving our podcast content?

Scale 127

Scale SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting Payment Services 127

SaaStr

APRIL 17, 2019

Prior to Harness, Stephen was VP of Marketing at Glassdoor, managing a team of 52 in product marketing, helping grow B2B revenue from $19m to $90m in just 2 years, leading to their $1.2Bn acquisition. Steve has previously said, “Sales and marketing must be one team.” Why does he believe this is so important?

DevOps as a Service 100

DevOps as a Service Sales Recruiting Scale Sales Hiring 100

Sales Hacker

MARCH 3, 2021

Salespeople create relationships, but it has traditionally been up to the customer success or account management team to nurture them. However, both teams must be aligned every step of the way, with one common goal in sight: delivering the best possible customer experience. Team effort. What is the handoff process?

Underperforming Technical Team 75

Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Onboarding Customer Success 75

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). The bad news though?

Engagement 98

Engagement Strategy Underperforming Technical Team Social Media 98

SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

350: Neha Sampat is the Founder and CEO @ Contentstack, a modern content management system bringing business and tech teams together to deliver personalised, omnichannel experiences. What are the counter-intuitive strategies Neha has found work when it comes to motivating remote teams? * That eventually led me to building products.

Scale 200

Scale Technical Review Technical Advisors Sales Hiring 200

SaaStr

MAY 24, 2019

235: Andrew Filev is the Founder & CEO @ Wrike, the cloud based collaboration and project management software that scales across teams in any business. As for Andrew, he started his first software development company at the age of 18 and has been running Wrike for the last 13 years alongside advisory roles with both Ditto and Appulate.

Sales Hiring 145

Sales Hiring Scale SMB Sales Recruiting 145

SaaStr

JUNE 14, 2019

Finally pre-Salesforce, Dave was CEO @ MarkLogic where he grew the team from 40 to 240 and revenues from $0 to an $80m revenue run rate. Does Dave agree that if the money is on the table founding teams should take it? What are the clear differences between a good book and a bad book? Who is involved? How long does it take?

Sales Hiring 141

Sales Hiring Payment Services SaaS Payments Underperforming Technical Team 141

SaaStr

MARCH 20, 2020

As for Rachel, prior to joining Pilot, she saw the hyper-growth of Slack firsthand enjoying a couple of different roles including Head of Growth Marketing and then also Head of Self Service and Platform Marketing. Before Slack, Rachel spent 4 years at LinkedIn where she led the product marketing team for content experiences.

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SMB Scale Startup Marketplace as a Service 179