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Outbound Always Works. If You Do It Right. And You Put In The Time.

SaaStr

The old sales playbooks of 2009 and even 2019 may not work as well in 2021. These days, it can really feel like the Old Bag of Sales Tricks is starting to just not work anymore: With maybe 500x the SaaS vendors of 10 years ago, there’s so much noise. Emails get blocked, spam filtered. No one even has voice mail anymore.

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The decade software ate the world

Intercom, Inc.

When Apple started using the catchphrase “There’s an app for that” in 2009 to convey the breadth and variety of apps available in its App Store, we could barely begin to picture just how true that would become – well over half the time spent online in the US is spent on smartphone apps. . And then there’s messaging.

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Q&A with Maria Pergolino, Anthony Kennada, Aaron Ross and Jason Lemkin (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

I remember about three years ago, Marc Benioff gave some interview and he said his biggest regret was not continuing to hire sales professionals through 2009, his number one regret. And I remember being at that Dreamforce in 2009, which was awful. ” I’m like, that sounds awful. I mean, literally.

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Top 10 Tools to Get Your App PLG-d

Frontegg

Founded : 2011 Known customers: Facebook, IBM, Microsoft, AWS, Unity, Udemy, Shopify Price starts at: $38/month per user. #2 Founded: 2009 Known customers: Amazon, Slack, Zoom, Lyft, Google, Shopify, Salesforce Price starts at: 2.9% + 30 Cents. #6 Best For: Product Adoption. 6 ChargeBee. Best For: Subscription Management, Billing.

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27 Sales Interview Questions (and How to Answer Them Like a Boss!)

Sales Hacker

A disorganized, negative and indecisive manager makes sense to be awful! For example: “2009 was an awful year. Stories about awesome and awful interview experiences are also appreciated. If you had a manager from Hell, you can say so, as long as you speak factually, and not negatively, about the person. Unthinkable!”.

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After Selling For $580M, Here’s What I Learned About SaaS During My Time At Buildium

Outseta

In this post I’m going to share the most important lessons about growing a SaaS business that I learned at Buildium—collectively, these things had an awful lot to do with the company being valued so highly. My role at Buildium In late 2009 the economy had tanked and I had a newly minted MBA but no real job experience.

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SaaSOps: A Practice to Discover, Manage & Secure Your SaaS Apps (Oktane20 Live Session Recap)

BetterCloud

AWS was launched in 2006, and the term “DevOps” was first used in 2009. We run Okta and most of our apps are run in AWS and GCP, so it wasn’t too difficult for us. The people who have been able to do it, including our customer panelists today, have been trailblazers over the last five to 10 years. All of this is SaaSOps.