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The appliance of science: Mark Roberge’s formula for scaling

Intercom, Inc.

It’s an approach that’s served him well along the road to building the HubSpot sales team, where he was CRO for nine years. Applying data and science to scaling has become easier because of the shift that’s happened in the software industry over the past 15 years, from outside sales to inside sales. A data-driven framework for scaling.

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Intercom’s Sanj Bhayro on creating the right foundation to help businesses scale

Intercom, Inc.

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. By the time he left to join Google Cloud as EMEA VP of Operations and Customer Growth, Salesforce had around 17 billion dollars in revenue and almost 50,000 employees.

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The Founder’s Guide to Developer-led Growth with WorkOS (Video)

SaaStr

Developers act, think, and behave differently than your average customer. As an API-first company, WorkOS focuses on selling primarily to developers. Doing Business with Developers. Developers haven’t typically been the buyers in enterprise software, so why should you build for developers?

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What Happens When You Hire the Wrong VP

SaaStr

You know how everyone says you'll never look and wish you'd kept a bad VP as long as you did? Because to scale, you are going to need to add a true management team, and then a second one, and then layers of management. The fewer weak hires they continue to make. The less they slow down feature development.

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How to balance customer success and revenue in sales

Intercom, Inc.

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. The role of customer success teams.

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Customer retention is the new conversion

Intercom, Inc.

The latest batch of billion-dollar companies are built on high customer retention. 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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Four ways customer education helps support the Customer Success team

ChurnZero

Every Customer Success team focuses on keeping customers engaged and ultimately, preventing churn. But as a company scales and brings in new accounts, CSMs can start to feel like Lucy and Ethel in the chocolate factory—the customers keep rolling along faster than CSMs can properly manage them! Increase customer retention, lower churn.