SaaStr

OCTOBER 10, 2022

From the get-go, ensure alignment between sales and marketing teams on goals and anticipated outcomes. It’s estimated that only 35% of sales reps at US-based B2B tech firms are achieving their quotas. Create dynamic alignment on goals. Beyond that, it models a specific way of working together for the entire company to adopt.

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Scale Sales Hiring Venture Capital Marketing 328

SaaStr

JUNE 13, 2024

Every week, there are significant new developments in tech. If you go to a team and say, “I can do 70% of what your team is doing now automatically and at a fraction of the cost.” Classic B2B SaaS Last Year vs. Summer ‘24 Where are we today? It’s a playbook you’re developing, and it’s not easy. At Gong, yes.

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Scale AI Sales Underperforming Technical Team 311

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. Is there a lot of internal or customer work that needs to be done or managed by your team? How easy is it to implement your product?

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Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Sales Hiring Scale 122

SaaStr

OCTOBER 4, 2024

They built one platform that does it all, but also made it simple so that these small businesses they wanted to serve, could actually use it to grow revenue without needing a developer that they didn’t have. This is more normal in consumer land, but in the B2B / SaaS world, we forget that using software should be fun, not a grind.

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Revenue Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring 312

Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

B2B and B2C content marketing require entirely different strategies. Instead, you need a targeted B2B content marketing strategy to reach your marketing goals. Why Do You Need a B2B Content Marketing Strategy? As mentioned, B2B content marketing presents different challenges from B2C content marketing.

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B2B Strategy B2C Content Marketing 144

Kellblog

MAY 5, 2021

The other day I read a book on account-based marketing (ABM), entitled ABM is B2B , and I must say I disliked it. My Thoughts on the Book: ABM is B2B. Let me get this off my chest: ABM is not B2B. B2B means business-to-business [3]. Just as ABM is one type of B2B marketing. We call it the B2B Maturity Curve.

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B2B Marketing Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 143

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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Branding Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Airlines 209

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 13, 2019

As the head of our Support Ops team, I work daily with my teammates to develop automated solutions that don’t frustrate customers, but empower them. They can also route customer conversations to the team best equipped to handle their questions and can even provide answers to simple customer questions like, “How can I add more users?”.

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Underperforming Technical Team Customer Support AI Headcount 279

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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B2B Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales 135

ChurnZero

OCTOBER 25, 2024

There are so many questions to answer when considering how to scale a customer success team. What about team leads? When do I split my one team into two teams? How do I split one team into two? And I know you want to scale your customer success team in the right way. I know it’s a lot of pressure.

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Scale Underperforming Technical Team Customer Success Scaling 52

SaaStr

JANUARY 12, 2023

Management teams must determine how to thrive in a downturn to position their businesses for profitable growth. However, management teams that pursued growth at all costs were punished severely. For companies in B2B SaaS, it also means understanding to whom they’re selling. Strategy to win. Key takeaways.

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Consulting Underperforming Technical Team Management Marketing 49

Neil Patel

OCTOBER 13, 2021

I’ve compiled some of my top strategies which will help you increase B2B sales and smash your Q4 targets. Let’s dive in and open the B2B sales flood gates. 10 Ways to Increase B2B Sales. Use your results to prove you’re the best and develop a deeper know, like, and trust factor with your audience.

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B2B Social Media Sales Underperforming Technical Team 135

User Pilot

DECEMBER 31, 2024

While your product managers use our analytics reports to track product usage, your engineering teams can use our session replays to uncover bugs, and your customer support team may use our in-app help center feature to offer self-service and reduce support tickets. Userpilot is perfect for non-technical teams.

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Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Onboarding 105

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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B2B B2C Underperforming Technical Team Business 114

SaaStr

JULY 15, 2022

So how feasible do you think that works for a typical B2B SaaS business that probably our user-base is not too knowledgeable about [inaudible] on the internet for something specific in their day-to-day use case? But I almost never see mediocre outsource SEO really work for B2B. Jason Lemkin: But usually your teams can’t do that.

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Scale Outsourcing Services Sales Hiring VP of Engineering 298

SaaStr

JULY 25, 2021

You can have the great product and a great team, but the market of small or very niche. The second one is the team, obviously depending on how earlier the team has a huge factor because you may be so early in your journey that there’s nothing else to point to, but the track record of the team. Jyoti Bansal: Yeah.

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Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale VP of Engineering 264

User Pilot

APRIL 7, 2023

What are the different types of B2B customer insights for SaaS businesses? 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. What are B2B customer insights?

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B2B Underperforming Technical Team B2C Scale 98

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Take notes, highlight the best parts, and share important takeaways with your team. The Sales Hacker Podcast is carefully designed to give you tangible, practical insights about B2B sales. Get technical help and a dose of motivation from two of the leading B2B sales trainers, leadership coaches and business strategists on the market.

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Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Social Media 111

User Pilot

MARCH 24, 2025

Want to advance your career in mobile product management or find top talent for your team? You will collaborate with engineering, design, and business teams to deliver cutting-edge mobile solutions that improve efficiency, user adoption , and overall product performance. Who would be a BAD fit for this job?

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Underperforming Technical Team Scale Artificial Intelligence AI Search 52

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. The team has grown quite a lot, but it’s still tiny: we’re now close to 40 people in 13 different countries. On this week’s episode, I caught up with Steli to chat all things sales.

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Sales Hiring Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales 184

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 30, 2020

B2B sales is always changing, but nothing could’ve quite prepared us for the wild ride that 2020 ended up being. That’s why the team at Sales Hacker decided to put together a statistics round-up showcasing how things changed in this year and where they’re likely headed in the future. Best Sales Statistics to Know in 2021.

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Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team Revenue 133

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 Interviewing 600+ Sales Reps Taught Me About Team Building.

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Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting B2B 80

FastSpring

JANUARY 23, 2025

So assuming somebody’s sort of got their business in a place, they’ve got realistic expectations, they have some growth going on or at least flat line performance that they’re not in this kind of bad situation of being in decline and then deciding. Blake Hutchison (29:53) Our churn rate is poor, but we actually know why.

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Scale Entrepreneurship Scaling Underperforming Technical Team 93

Sales Hacker

MARCH 9, 2023

Click To Tweet How to ask for a B2B email introduction 1. How to make a B2B email introduction 2. You may not want to vouch for that person again if they made you look bad by standing someone up. It makes the introducer look bad if ball is dropped after intro is made. It’s simple. Follow these points. No excuses!

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B2B Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Sales 121

SaaStock

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

was created by a team with 25+ years of experience in location-based tech, spanning various services and real-time asset tracking systems. Launched in 2005 in New York and Guangzhou, Gizwits has become the largest IoT development platform in China, as well as its first PaaS and SaaS platform. Founders : Max Armbruster. Founded : 2014.

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SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Merchant Services Payment Methods 225

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. Eduardo Müller, Founder & CEO, B2B Stack. in 2016, he co-founded Vendas B2B Summit, the largest Brazilian B2B sales online event. She’ll be talking about her approach to sales as a team sport.

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Technical Review Scale Entrepreneurship Sales Hiring 207

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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Technical Review Technology Scale Marketing 223

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 21, 2019

Imagine how motivated your team would be if you could get this tool for them.”. But top-producing B2B sales professionals talk just 43% of the time! The post Persuasive Words and Phrases: the Good, the Bad, and the Silent appeared first on Sales Hacker. It also makes your product “a necessary step in achieving those benefits.”.

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Underperforming Technical Team Artificial Intelligence Outsourced Development Communication 107

SaaStr

MARCH 8, 2019

People talk about B2B marketing. Increasingly organizations talk about B2D marketing, to developers. Brian Halligan: Now, those examples are all B2C, but this is very much coming to B2B. But in B2B, the train’s at the station ready to leave, and so you need to match your go to market by the way people buy.

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Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Social Media 55

Sales Hacker

MARCH 27, 2018

Every business runs like a B2B sales prospecting operation. You head out to a territory (market) where you can mine (generate) something valuable, then sift (qualify) good finds from the bad. For B2B organizations, customers now represent the new gold to be desired and the sales team’s pipeline the new gold mine to be developed.

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B2B Strategy Sales Underperforming Technical Team 104

Frontegg

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

This coverage is allowing SaaS developers to create better user experiences and improved customer satisfaction. OIDC is responsible for letting users access SaaS applications by using login credentials from the social platforms that have been enabled by the developers. Poor password practices can still impact social login pipelines.

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Underperforming Technical Team Social Media Azure Mobile 105

SaaStr

AUGUST 19, 2022

But maybe in SaaS and B2B things are pretty good. And also on the side, doing a strategy of pure, just changing our ICP and fully picking it and making it super narrow and super focused, and having 25% of the team doing that. And 75% of the team continuing business as usual. So much talk about doom and gloom. Jason Lemkin: Yep.

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Scale Sales Hiring Scaling VP of Engineering 277

Buffer Resources

JANUARY 15, 2024

Inaccurate, packed with "filler," or completely AI-generated — bad B2B (business-to-business) content is easy to spot and even easier to find online. But what makes B2B content good ? According to one study, it also costs over $50 billion annually due to wasted resources alone. Tough question. Interview them.

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B2B Technical Advisors SaaS Payments Underperforming Technical Team 85

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 19, 2022

As the president of Sales Xceleration, a firm specializing in assessing and implementing sales strategy , sales processes, and sales execution to drive growth, I’ve seen how job hopping can affect otherwise stable sales teams. But also the cost it has on their careers — and your sales team. This trend especially impacts sales teams.

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Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting Compensation 105

Sales Hacker

MAY 8, 2019

A successful close is the end goal that every sales team guns for. But despite a focus on closing sales, it remains one of the biggest issues for teams. In fact, 36% of sales teams regard it as the most challenging part of the sales process, and 28% say it’s their top priority. Giving your sales team highly qualified leads.

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Underperforming Technical Team Sales SaaS Forecasting 111

Sales Hacker

JUNE 5, 2019

Work with Marketing to develop high-value content in a range of formats that your reps can use in every touch. A huge piece to a B2B sales enablement strategy is being active on social media. This means your company needs to value social media and enable you and your sales team to be active on these networks. Example #1.

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Sales Enablement B2B Strategy Social Media 110

Sales Hacker

MARCH 22, 2018

In this article, I will summarize what I’ve learned about B2B sales outsourcing. Sales outsourcing agencies tend to outperform your own team with: Proven experience in exactly the sales functions they offer. You don’t want that kind of bad reputation. W hat is Sales Outsourcing? Challenging your own sales force.

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Outsourcing Services Sales Outsourcing Outsourced Development Scale 100