SaaStr

DECEMBER 29, 2022

At Maxio , we help B2B SaaS companies unlock their next stage of growth. Our financial operations platform is designed to meet the unique financial challenges of B2B SaaS, including billing, subscription management, revenue and expense recognition, and SaaS analytics. Get the Best B2B Data Available with SalesIntel.

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FastSpring

JULY 11, 2024

The most common examples of successful CRO tactics provided at many conferences tend to focus on B2C ecommerce, but what are the proven winning tactics you can use in your B2B CRO strategy? In this episode of Growth Stage, we interview Sahil Patel of Spiralyze about his thoughts on: Special considerations for B2B CRO. Jump to video.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 4, 2024

In today’s dynamic SaaS landscape of hyperfuncational SaaS, the journey of building a product that customers adore, while simultaneously scaling revenue to nearly $1B, is still quite a feat. At the time, Shopify was still a new player. They really wanted people to build around them, so they asked Andrew, “How can we help promote?

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SaaStr

JULY 10, 2021

So let’s take a look back to a deep dive with the CEOs on what they learned building their first senior teams: ———-. As a founder/CEO, building your first management team is something that you often lose sleep over. What makes you feel that you need to level up your management, set up your first management team?

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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.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Stacks can be developed at the project, team, or functional level and are regularly used to improve internal collaboration, measure the impact of marketing activities and reach customers in new ways. Without this foundation, your marketing stack can become a set of siloed tools that will bog your team down in complexity.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

This is the recipe for a mediocre sales team. Like a sports franchise, a top team should be both collaborative and competitive. On this week’s episode, I caught up with Steli to chat all things sales. When not writing his sales handbook, he’s been overseeing the change from Close.io to Close.com. Short on time?

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SaaStr

JANUARY 14, 2020

We all know and could name several successful B2C and B2B companies. My co founders and I were software developers, so we knew how to write the code, to build the website, to build the learning platform, to build the video distribution model. So, let me walk you through that. We said, “Well, we think we can do that.

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Neil Patel

MARCH 9, 2021

The biggest brands in the world understand one simple truth: Not all leads are created equal. Having the ability to find and convert high-quality leads is what keeps these brands successful. The best and brightest aren’t just focused on volume; they want to sell to the best possible prospects. What is Lead Scoring?

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

In this blueprint, we provide insight into where growth comes from and how to structure your sales approach to capture that growth. The Winning By Design Blueprint Series provides practical advice for every part of a SaaS sales organization. Traditional Sales Growth vs SaaS Sales Growth. SaaS Growth Rate.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 7, 2024

Paul Mander currently leads all of go-to-market for B2B at Optery. He previously built the pre and post sales solutions team at mParticle from zero to supporting hundreds of enterprise customers. Should your sales engineers also implement the software? How easy is it to implement your product?

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

To retain more customers over time, you must invest heavily in understanding who your current and prospective customers are and what problems they’re trying to solve. Tara joined the company in 2017 and has been instrumental in helping the company scale and retain more customers through a unique customer-centric approach to marketing. .

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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

The SaaStock team will be landing in São Paulo to run the region’s first Pan-Latin American SaaS conference, SaaStock LatAm. We’ve gathered LatAm’s leading SaaS founders, executives, and investors – as well as a few international faces – for an unbeatable few days of knowledge and networking.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 22, 2018

I run a European-based sales agency for software and technology companies. In this article, I will summarize what I’ve learned about B2B sales outsourcing. W hat is Sales Outsourcing? Sales outsourcing gives parts of your own sales process to others (individuals or agencies). Lead Generation).

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

In these challenging economic times, business as usual has been anything but – and like many sectors, B2B sales is in the midst of transition. A recent survey of B2B sales professionals commissioned by my company, Lusha, sheds light on the extent to which this critical industry is in a state of flux.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 21, 2018

Whether you’re at an early-stage startup that’s just made its first sales hires, or part of a fast-moving sales team in a large organization, the key to success often comes down to efficiency. How can you capture, qualify and convert the right leads for your business while working within your means? Short on time?

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OpenView Labs

MARCH 8, 2021

B2B sales involves one business selling its product to another business. Those with experience in both B2B and B2C sales know that B2B is a lot tougher—the deals are bigger, there’s often more than one decision-maker, and the competition is intense. What’s your biggest weakness? Conducting interviews.

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ChurnZero

JULY 22, 2022

Does your Customer Success team have a shallow view of onboarding? As Donna Weber , the world’s leading expert in customer onboarding, knows, onboarding is about more than completing product training and filling out checklists. You have about half of the time of how long the average sales cycle is to start delivering value.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 8, 2020

Michael is a member of Revenue Collective, but perhaps most importantly, he’s the chief sales and strategy officer for Compass, that fast-growing real estate behemoth. Michael talks about how he does that at scale and how he thinks about scale. Michael talks about how he does that at scale and how he thinks about scale.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Lead generation is the lifeblood of any business. As a business grows, so will its lead generation channels and strategies. Without automation, optimization and growth will suffer, ultimately resulting in poor ROAS. What is lead generation automation? What is lead generation automation? In short, all of them.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 4, 2019

More recently, however, I’ve realized that the technology industry at large struggles with such clarity and consistency – in marketing terms, there is often a difficulty developing a clear value proposition that aligns with product and brand identity. 1 Poor definition of value proposition and feature focus. 2 First-mover disadvantage.

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SaaSOptics

AUGUST 11, 2022

Raise, Sell, Merge, or Scale? In this article, we’ll help you determine the next best step for your business and provide guidance on whether you should raise, sell, merge, or scale your SaaS. The acquirer gets an opportunity to grow market share without doing the heavy lifting of growing and scaling an existing business.

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GetUplift

JULY 4, 2024

They’re truly partners and an extension of our team. Michela Fossati-Bellani VP of Growth Marketing , Strata Identity Optimizing your website, campaigns and marketing strategy for conversion — regardless if it’s to a free trial, a paid plan, a demo, a sales call or a sign up for the company newsletter — is never easy.

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Aaron Beashel

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Just a few months into my stint at Campaign Monitor, a new CEO joined to lead the company. Alex co-founded the well-known SaaS company Desk.com before selling it to Salesforce and becoming the VP of Service Cloud (their second largest business unit, behind Sales Cloud). How to create a V2MOM framework for your company or team.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 11, 2019

This week on Scale , we’re getting an inside look at how marketing helped them grow to a $1.5 But today, marketing is the primary driver of revenue at your typical, fast growing B2B startup. A slapdash approach to scaling marketing can result in confusion, frustration, conflict, turnover and ultimately poor business performance.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 24, 2018

When used correctly, data can powerfully enrich sales and marketing efforts and help any business fuel growth. This allowed a passionate audience to develop – and built enthusiasm ahead of the books’ full release. They allow for massive scale and provide a captive subscriber audience that you can upsell. Short on time?

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 18, 2025

The GTM Podcast is available on any major directory, including: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Jaleh Rezaei is the CEO & Co-founder of Mutiny, a company reimagining the B2B buying experience by transforming transactional relationships into meaningful connections through AI-powered personalization.

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How To Buy Saas

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

A powerful CRM helps organize customer data, streamline sales pipelines, and automate marketing ultimately boosting revenue. Effective sales teams are also 81% more likely to be consistent CRM users , underscoring how vital these systems are for success. Lets dive in!

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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. These companies also scale up with a CAC payback that’s lower than the market average in general. What is Sales-Led Growth? Is it still relevant?

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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

When we announced a few weeks ago that we would be bringing our leading SaaS conference to Asia, and running it in Hong Kong, many locals thanked us for choosing the city. was created by a team with 25+ years of experience in location-based tech, spanning various services and real-time asset tracking systems. Founders : Max Armbruster.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

The clock starts ticking as soon as a lead engages with one of your marketing campaigns. But the average response time for B2B companies (those that bothered to reply at all) was a massive 42 hours— almost two full days. At Outreach, we have designed an efficient inbound lead workflow. What is an inbound lead workflow?

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FastSpring

APRIL 4, 2024

As an experienced sales and GTM leader, John Eitel has more than witnessed how product-led growth (PLG) has affected the tech and SaaS space in the last few years — he and his teams have been up close and personal with how PLG increased in popularity as a sales strategy. “I And I won’t give away too much of the lead here.

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Chaotic Flow

AUGUST 18, 2015

SaaS businesses develop intimate, long term relationships with their SaaS customers. It is typical in B2B software for customer acquisition to eat up 50% or more of total costs. Separating hunters and farmers is a common SaaS sales best practice. As much as we love our teams, they don’t have economies of scale.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

They sell that product to general councils, operations teams, and deal desks. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Keys to success when scaling a company [10:56]. They sell that product to general councils, operations teams, and deal desks. We’re on iTunes. We’re on iTunes.

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Teamgate

JULY 1, 2020

You have amazing content and all looked fine except the sales. The sales suck and it’s not promising. They have good content and good traffic but no conversion and sales. Definitely there is a good number of posts on the marketing funnel, but I will make this as simple and effective to get you rolling in sales.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 7, 2019

Did you know the probability of selling to a new prospect is only 5-20% ? If an email even remotely resembles bad outreach emails, it gets deleted. Account-based marketing is the idea of treating each prospect or target client as a market of one. You end up losing a lot of leads that could have (or should have) converted.

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Totango

JULY 1, 2022

For B2B SaaS companies, customer loyalty drives subscription renewals and brand advocacy, making it a critical component of a profitable business model. This blog will look at why customer loyalty is vital for B2B SaaS businesses and how successful companies effectively cultivate it. First, we’ll discuss what customer loyalty is.

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