SaaStr

JANUARY 24, 2024

How should you handle presenting challenges to your C-suite team when you’ve just joined the company? Lattice had a product-led growth flow on the website while the sales team was still trying to sell the PLG companies The good news is Lattice had a lot of activity and initiatives at play. Can you start and stop a PLG motion?

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User Pilot

MARCH 23, 2023

And how can customer success teams address them to ensure product growth? Reasons why customers churn: #1: Customers churn when there is a bad product-customer fit and your product’s features don’t align with their needs. 3: Poor customer service or experience with the sales teams can make customers churn.

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SaaS Payments Churn Underperforming Technical Team Payment Methods 98

Frontegg

MARCH 17, 2022

But what about the traditional Sales-Led Growth? Let’s dive into the Product-Led vs Sales-Led comparison and learn about the main differences. What is Sales-Led Growth? Sales-Led Growth is all about marketing and sales teams. Likewise, if the sales team has poor leadership, leads can’t be handled.

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Scale Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Sales 105

SaaStr

APRIL 14, 2023

Mistake #1: Viewing Investors Only As Capital As founders build a team, they focus on obtaining complementary skill sets. Of course, building great teams and finding product market fit is critical, but don’t forget about product investor fit. Many customers in SE Asia are budget-based versus subscription-based. Absolutely.

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Development Team Review Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team SMB 211

OPEXEngine

JUNE 8, 2021

In the movie Glengarry Glen Ross, Blake, a successful salesperson, visits the real estate sales team and gives them a blistering motivational speech that has gone down in history as one of the best of all time. This is the first challenge facing enterprise SaaS sales teams. Challenge 2: Sales Cycles Are Longer.

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Enterprise Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Sales 52

ProfitWell

MARCH 12, 2020

The subscription-based economy boom has brought with it more competition than ever before, raising the bar for companies trying to offer recurring products or services to their customers. However, behind the boom lies the rising consumer demand for subscriptions. 10 of the best subscription business tools for SaaS products.

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SaaS Payments Subscription Payment Features Payments 59

Chart Mogul

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Getting a new customer on board is a happy time for every sales team, but it’s not quite the end of the road. The final step is the sales to customer success handoff process that lays the foundation for retaining customers successfully. This sales to customer success transition is a delicate balancing act.

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Underperforming Technical Team Customer Success Outsourced Development Sales 80

Sales Hacker

MAY 10, 2021

To create an effective and efficient sales funnel, your sales and customer support teams need to be well trained and in sync with each other. That free flow of information can aid sales. This guide will look at how you can include the support team in the sales process. Reduce churn.

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Stax

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Here’s an interesting stat: 70% of businesses consider subscription and membership models indispensable for future commercial growth and expansion. They must engineer a well-rounded solution that makes handling subscriptions a breeze (and yes, it is as hard as it sounds). However, only 10% of them currently employ these models.

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Payments SaaS Payments Payment Services Merchant Services 88

User Pilot

JANUARY 16, 2024

Perform a SWOT analysis, identify the strengths and weaknesses of your top competing products, etc. You may want to learn who your top competitors are, their value proposition , and their weaknesses. Can you help me with a list of the top 3 competitors in this space, their value propositions, and their weaknesses?

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ChatGPT Management Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 101

SaaStr

JULY 25, 2021

They talked about product adoption, sales alignment, freemium models and lessons they have learned throughout their successful SaaS careers. As two CEO who love the art of sales and scaling, this one really was special. You can have the great product and a great team, but the market of small or very niche. Jyoti Bansal: Yeah.

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Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale VP of Engineering 242

Totango

JANUARY 26, 2021

For example, if you sell a subscription SaaS product, a simple procedure for calculating your monthly churn rate would be: Take how many subscribers canceled their subscriptions that month. The retention rate is calculated in a similar way, except you start with how many subscribers renewed their subscription that month.

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Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

MARCH 23, 2020

Companies which don’t use mental models risk unleashing mayhem with poor choices or becoming bloated and bureaucratic by reducing the volume and speed at which decisions are made - both scenarios are undesirable and will impact growth. OKRs are a useful mental model - they make it crystal clear what people and teams should be striving for.

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Underperforming Technical Team Scale Sales Hiring Marketplace as a Service 213

User Pilot

APRIL 7, 2023

When your product is catering to other businesses, it can be difficult for sales reps and other teams to understand the needs and experiences of the clients, especially if the client company sells multiple products. However, customer insights can help your teams understand all aspects of your B2B partners.

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Kellblog

JULY 8, 2020

” Mark’s been a startup CEO twice, selling two companies in strategic acquisitions, and he’s run worldwide sales and channels a few times. 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.

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Sales Hiring Startup Software Review Enterprise 140

Frontegg

DECEMBER 2, 2021

In addition, we are excited to welcome our new partners – the visionary team from Insight Partners, led by Praveen Akkiraju, Daniel Aronovitz, and Jeff Horring. Additionally, our diversity-first team has grown to more than 30 top-notch talents (you are an incredible team of people, each and every one of you!)and

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Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring DevOps as a Service Scale 93

Chart Mogul

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Getting a new customer on board is a happy time for every sales team, but it’s not quite the end of the road. The final step is the sales to customer success handoff process that lays the foundation for retaining customers successfully. This sales to customer success transition is a delicate balancing act.

Underperforming Technical Team 52

Underperforming Technical Team Customer Success Outsourced Development Sales 52

Incredo

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

If sounds like this topic can help you generate more SaaS sales with less risk, we are starting! And end up wasting their time and resources with affiliates that underperform. I see many SaaS companies jump headlong into creating an affiliate program thinking it will bring in a large number of customers without much effort.

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SaaS Payments Payment Methods Merchant Services Sales Recruiting 139

User Pilot

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Customer intent helps product teams understand customer needs and build solutions that delight users. It's a crucial point in the sales funnel where prospects are evaluating your product and comparing you with other companies. You’ll also learn: What customer intent means, along with the three major types.

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ProfitWell

MARCH 27, 2019

On this episode of the ProfitWell Report, Sarah Bedrick , Co-Founder and Head of Marketing at Compt , is curious to know if we have any data on how open offices impact subscription growth. We studied just over one thousand subscription and SaaS companies who had teams that were co-located in the same location.

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Unbounce

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Nobody wants a crowd of people rushing around their store in 2020, and small businesses already feeling the pinch from months of lower sales volumes aren’t gonna be able to offer the same level of discounts. Every year, online sales for Black Friday and Cyber Monday break new records. Online shopping though? Source: Statista ).

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Sales Branding Underperforming Technical Team Subscription 145

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. Many companies lack differentiation strategies and drive product development by copying competitors.

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Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting Software Review 101

Chart Mogul

APRIL 29, 2021

Over the last six months, we built and refined a dedicated outbound sales strategy. We spend most of our waking hours thinking about how to build a reliable, beautiful product that helps subscription businesses grow faster using their customer and billing data. It also extends to our customer acquisition and sales strategy.

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Scale Sales Hiring Strategy Underperforming Technical Team 59

ChurnZero

JULY 22, 2022

Does your Customer Success team have a shallow view of onboarding? But what I am seeing is that there is a correlation between the time that it takes to sell your product, so the sales cycle, and the time to deliver value and ideally be onboarded. I have the internal handoff from pre-sales to post-sales customer teams.

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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.

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Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team 223

SaaSOptics

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

Based on a 2019 survey, Gartner forecasts that eighty-four percent of new software will be delivered as SaaS , and this percentage is expected to increase as existing providers transition to a subscription-based model. The main difference between accounting for a subscription vs. a traditional business is the method used.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

SaaS companies, who often have complex sales cycles coupled with small but agile sales teams, can especially benefit from lead scoring, since it allows small teams to punch well above their weight class. Unfortunately, the number of leads that are actually sales-ready is fewer than we’d like to think. Probably not.

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Incredo

OCTOBER 17, 2019

or “how long should I spend on developing my software ?”. To answer your questions correctly, we need to ask for clarification and more details about your software, its complexity and company goals. If you search on Google, Youtube or Quora, answers will tell you that 7%, 9%, 10% or more is the common approach. See below!

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SaaS Payments Compensation Payment Services Sales Recruiting 150

Totango

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

They can store customer contact data, identify sales opportunities, schedule sales appointments, record notes from sales meetings and manage sales teams. However, these are primarily sales functions, not customer success functions. You Can’t Evaluate Customer Health.

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Chart Mogul

APRIL 29, 2021

Over the last six months, we built and refined a dedicated outbound sales strategy. We spend most of our waking hours thinking about how to build a reliable, beautiful product that helps subscription businesses grow faster using their customer and billing data. It also extends to our customer acquisition and sales strategy.

Scale 52

Scale Sales Hiring Strategy Underperforming Technical Team 52

Incredo

OCTOBER 17, 2019

or “how long should I spend on developing my software ?”. To answer your questions correctly, we need to ask for clarification and more details about your software, its complexity and company goals. If you search on Google, Youtube or Quora, answers will tell you that 7%, 9%, 10% or more is the common approach. We will write about: 1.

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SaaS Payments Compensation Payment Services Sales Recruiting 144

Chargify

MARCH 25, 2019

Recurring subscriptions are becoming the norm in the business world, and for good reason. Subscription services give the end user control over costs and employee access, without the cumbersome contracts. But some software-as-a-service (SaaS) companies struggle with how to sell subscriptions. Have a Trial or Freemium Offer.

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SaaS Payments Payment Methods Subscription Payment Features 54

User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

They also manage finances and supervise one or more engineering teams. Product Marketing Manager: This person is tasked with developing product marketing campaigns , crafting compelling marketing messages, and coming up with ideas to retain customers. They also manage finances and supervise one or more engineering teams.

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Sales Hiring SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting CTO Hire 98

Frontegg

AUGUST 19, 2021

Users don’t want to write emails or engage with support teams anymore. Onboarding, user management, subscriptions – let’s take a closer look at the potent self-service and PLG combo. This results in constant engagement with support and sales teams, something that puts them under pressure and leads to frustration.

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SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions Underperforming Technical Team 98

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 16, 2019

The secret may surprise you… It’s as simple as a solid sales-to-service handoff. I’ve seen lots of good AND bad handoffs, and learned what to look for the hard way. When we succeeded, it was because of the process and close communication we built between sales and customer service. But I’m getting ahead of myself.

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Underperforming Technical Team Sales Outsourced Development Onboarding 50

SaaSOptics

MAY 19, 2022

For subscription-based SaaS businesses, your customer acquisition metrics indicate how effectively you acquire new users via sales, marketing, or a product-led approach like a free trial. At what point will you introduce Sales into the buyer’s journey? . Metrics: What’s your target win rate for sales opportunities?

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 16, 2021

If you missed episode 151 check it out here: Leads Don’t Matter: Moving From a Sales-led to a Product-growth Orientation with Stephanie Cox. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. From Neuroscience to RevOps: How Sara used her brain to start her sales career [5:56]. They create sales engagement software. We’re on iTunes.

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