Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 31, 2022

I have written a lot about product/market fit in the past. Whether you are a founder, product or growth leader, being able to recognize and measure product/market fit is a critical tool to make the best decisions on driving success of a company. Frankly, it is just much harder.

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SaaStr

APRIL 20, 2024

Marketing hackers, sales hackers, product hackers. " @searchbrat @zapier @kippbodnar @HubSpot @jasonlk pic.twitter.com/dUudpe9s2Q — SaaStr (@saastr) April 16, 2024 HubSpot and Zapier’s CMO had us on their “Marketing Against the Grain” pod / videocast. We lost too much of that.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

So you’ve heard that product-led growth is all the rage, and now you want to transition from a sales-led motion to a product-led one. A hybrid product-led sales motion is more realistic if your product was not originally built to sell itself. A dedicated growth team is suited to this change.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

That’s why some of Intercom’s first marketing hires were product marketers and why we’ve had a “seat at the table” from the early days of the company. . Product marketing looks different in every company, but one common trend is that many product marketing managers (PMMs) feel undervalued.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 6, 2021

Julie finds ways to amplify the happy customer voices and to harness them to brilliantly drive more sales. Both sides measure the results and together they gain insights about who their happy customers are and how they use the product. Sometimes this creates friction withing product and marketing efforts, such as with gated content.

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Casey Accidental

APRIL 13, 2021

As a product leader with a background in growth, it’s surprising how much what I actually end up working on is product/market fit. Product people should only be focused on growth i.e. connecting people to the value of a product once they’ve confirmed the product is delivering value.

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Kellblog

JULY 24, 2021

I sometimes get asked about how to structure an enterprise software marketing organization and the relative roles of product marketing vs. competitive analysis. My first job in marketing, which served as my bridge from a technical to a sales-and-marketing career, was as a competitive analyst.

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SaaStr

APRIL 4, 2023

If you don’t want your company defeated by change, you need to adapt your Go-To-Market strategy at every stage of growth. Managing Partner of CIPIO Partners, Rolan Dennert, shares how companies need to readjust and rethink GTM fit — and even product market fit — from time to time. This is true in life and business.

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User Pilot

APRIL 3, 2024

Continuous improvement through experiments is key in product-led innovation, ensuring products evolve in line with user preferences. PLG and SLG differ in focus: PLG centers on product appeal for growth, while SLG relies on sales strategies and personal interactions. Product-led vs Sales-led differences.

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Tom Tunguz

MAY 1, 2023

When a startup is born, founders lead sales. Design partners, pilots, or founder-led sales - they have many names - these customers work with a startup to solve a problem. Said another way, founder-led sales are sales engineering sales, not account executive sales.

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User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The Product Marketing vs Growth Marketing discussion isn't just about specific tasks and to-do lists, but about how they cultivate product growth to achieve business objectives. Using high-quality user feedback , customer research, and product analytics to improve the customer experience and drive product adoption.

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User Pilot

MAY 17, 2021

Are you tracking the right Product Marketing KPIs? With so many product growth insights available to every product marketer, it’s sometimes hard to understand which metrics are relevant and which you should be tracking to measure the success of your product marketing. What is Product Marketing?

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User Pilot

MARCH 15, 2022

Why a go-to-market strategy plays an integral of your SaaS product success? You’ve done the hard work of building a product or a specific feature that people want. This is where the GTM strategy comes in. In this blog post, you’ll learn everything about go-to-market strategies.

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OpenView Labs

JUNE 3, 2021

If you aren’t clear on what product marketing is, how it’s different from product management, and what the responsibilities of a product marketer are, you’re not alone. Specifically, I’m talking about product management and product marketing. This isn’t the case.

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User Pilot

JANUARY 18, 2023

With so many product marketing strategies floating around the SaaS world, it can be hard to identify the right one. In this guide, we’re going to go over what PLG marketing is and why it just might be the perfect approach for your business. What does PLG stand for in marketing? What is PLG strategy?

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

How do you build a sales organization from scratch? What about moving from founder-led sales to building a sales team and scaling your revenue growth? Product-Market Fit . Hitting $1M ARR is the benchmark to figure out if you have a product-market fit.” – Veronika Riederle, CEO @Demodesk.

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SaaStr

JULY 11, 2023

How do you win with a high-velocity sales strategy in a fast-moving, competitive market? In a special session of Workshop Wednesday, Gorgias Founder & CEO Romain Lapeyre and Gorgias VP of Sales & Partnerships Aasif Osmany share their learnings, advice, and hacks for optimizing your sales process.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 11, 2022

Sales organizations have never had more data at their fingertips. For most sales leaders, knowing how to use and deploy that data is one of the greatest opportunities to boost seller performance. This webinar is your guide to building a well-oiled, data-driven sales team. It’s also one of the most challenging.

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SaaStr

MARCH 5, 2021

Flock Safety’s Founder and CEO, Garrett Langley, and its VP of Growth, Alex Latraverse, know a bit about sales. Enough to go from 0 to 100 sales reps in about 18 months — and they’re looking to be well beyond 100 by the end of this month. The three things that led to ramping up sales at Flock Safety were: Achieving product-market fit.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

The SaaS sales model seems so well-established, as hundreds of founders build their businesses and raise funding. Mark Roberge, Founder of Stage 2 Capital and Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School, shares insights from his years of experience into common SaaS sales missteps and how you can avoid them.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 14, 2021

And so, in 2014, he founded Productboard , a product management system that incorporates customer feedback and insights to help product teams build better products. Use it to make better product decisions. Information from the front lines is critical when helping product decision-makers prioritize what to build next.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The four stages of growth are: Early stage Early growth Growth Pre-IPO Each of those stages has key GTM milestones, benchmarks, and team-building strategies that allow you to grow effectively. But to develop a GTM strategy, you must have Product Market Fit. Founders are still leading sales and are very good at it.

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OpenView Labs

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Editor’s Note: This article is part three of a four-part series that covers the most crucial product marketing activities for an early-stage startup. Ok, we tested the product out with a few potential customers. Let’s start hiring a whole sales team!”. Welcome to Part Three, focused on scaling sales. Scaling Sales.

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OpenView Labs

APRIL 3, 2019

The researchers blame “premature scaling” as the root cause, pointing out that 70% of startups in the study scaled before they were ready and that startup founders substantially underestimate how long it takes to validate their market. It’s no wonder that the startup community obsesses over finding product-market fit.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Three overarching learnings from incredible sales leaders who have lived through the ups and downs of growing sales teams at some of the fastest growing SaaS companies is exactly what we’ll dive into today – so you can get the learnings and insight without being in the driver’s seat. This week’s newsletter is sponsored by Flex.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 27, 2022

But that doesn’t make it untrue or less significant for sales enablement leaders. Join Hana Elliot, VP of Revenue at Vendition and Deniz Olcay, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Allego for a deep-dive into the quickly evolving world of sales enablement. Tactics to keep your team razor-sharp for every touchpoint.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 20, 2022

That’s why many companies are shifting from a sales-led to a product-led motion. . Merging Sales-led and Product-led Motion Is Hard. So many companies are switching from sales-led to product-led growth, but why? . Product-led Motion De-risks the Revenue Model. There’s no getting around it.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The Challenges and Pitfalls of a Partner Ecosystem Drata attributes much of its success to its partner ecosystem, which is an interesting case study for most, so how do they break up marketing, sales, and resource allocation vs. a more direct-sales modeled business? The sales reps were friends, and accounts were shared.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 15, 2023

It’s hard to know when you’re ready to hire a sales team — and the consequences can make or break your startup. And that may include owning and executing the sales process , from initial outreach and lead generation to closing deals — not hiring a sales team right away. How do you know you’re ready to hire a sales team?

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ProfitWell

MAY 21, 2019

Ari Wells is the VP of Product Marketing at cloud service mogul Akamai. He joined us on stage at Recur 2018 to talk about how their team takes a product from concept to launch. You hear about product market fit a lot these days, and with good reason. What is Product Market Fit?

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User Pilot

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Are you a product-led or sales-led kind of SaaS? Or perhaps you’ve managed to marry the two strategies and embraced product-led sales? If not, but you’d like to learn more, then why not watch the talk that Ben Williams , known as the Product-Led Geek, delivered at the recent Product Drive hosted by Userpilot?

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Neil Patel

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

I’ve created this list of strategies to help businesses like yours identify how to market during a recession to keep your business on top. First, let’s discuss some of the information you should keep in mind when developing your recession marketing strategy. Business likely won’t be “as normal.”

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 21, 2023

By the time companies get to Series B, they’ve figured out their product-market fit but they still haven’t scaled. Series B is where the go-to-market expertise is essential – you have to know how to truly understand who your target customers are and set up an experimental channel strategy.

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OpenView Labs

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

The report’s authors already laid out how to get back to hyper-growth , and their article inspired me to share my predictions for 2021’s most important product marketing trends: 1. More SaaS companies will adopt product-led growth. The post 5 Major Product Marketing Trends to Watch In 2021 appeared first on OpenView.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 30, 2023

Building revenue operations to support sales Deel had onboarded nearly 100 clients, reports showed good traction, and it was time to leverage this opportunity. Deel scaled the sales team from two to 250 account executives, but issues with productivity and enablement of the account executives cropped up. Support sales early.

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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. While at Gorgias, I expected to leave with as much knowledge to earn me an honorary bachelor’s in sales. On my second day of work, I was fully immersed in the sales pipeline and conducting demos for new prospects alongside the CEO.

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