Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

Sales Development and Prospecting. The Sales Development Playbook. The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team. Here are the best books on selling (and related disciplines) that can help you hit your goals and develop your career. I’ve followed Jill Konrath since 2007, when I subscribed to her “Selling to Big Companies” blog.

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User Pilot

DECEMBER 9, 2021

In the competitive world of SaaS products, product positioning is definitely something your product marketing team can’t afford to ignore. Product positioning is a process that aims at determining how the service or product is situated on the market and why it is superior to those of your competitors. What is product positioning?

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Neil Patel

APRIL 20, 2021

Reply to comments, answer questions, and, every so often, visit a reader’s blog and give them some free feedback or tips on how to improve their site. Until that happens, you’ll find it difficult to sell your actual products or services. Most people and companies think products and services sell because of their great features.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

Our monthly self-service churn went from like 3% to like 9%, right? If something bad happens, you’re going to have to cut your burn, probably. There is one thing, I love this quote and it’s a little bit of a crude quote, not that it’s bad language-. What do you do with that lightly toxic person on your team?

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Stax

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Software as a Service (SaaS) has made business software more accessible by offering cloud-based, on-demand access to a range of solutions, from project management and collaboration to sales and marketing. As such, they can face less competition because of the high barrier of entry that comes with developing specialist SaaS products.

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Neil Patel

JANUARY 21, 2021

Wrike also makes collaboration seamless with shared calendars, file sharing, and team reports time tracking. Their free version includes unlimited tasks per team, projects in the board or list view, unlimited file storage, an activity log, and more. You don’t need any SEO or developer experience to use it. per user per month.

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Neil Patel

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

You can use Domain Wheel , a free website name generator, to develop more ideas if you’re looking for some inspiration. Since we all love free things, you can register your domain free of cost when subscribing to a web hosting service. But wouldn’t it be more convenient to choose a company that offers you both services?

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Maria and Anthony present the CEO and CMO playbook of how the CEO and CMO can partner with other members of the team to grow sales and marketing. Maria : Not too bad. You see this headline here and it doesn’t sound so bad, 43 months. It’s the entire executive team. Want to see more content like this?

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 23, 2019

Needless to say, this made him look bad in my eyes. This left a bad taste in my mouth as the company clearly valued new business more than existing customers. When the customer journey isn’t well-orchestrated, Marketing and Sales can do serious damage in the marketplace. I mean, why did I know more about his company than he did?

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How To Buy Saas

DECEMBER 1, 2020

SAAS is also abbreviated as software as a service. With so many SAAS getting visibility in online marketplaces, we found that new saas businesses are struggling hard to make it to the right set of customers. SaaS as we already understood is a software as a service. Start Listing your saas on Software and saas Marketplaces.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 6, 2019

” So we wanted to create essentially … Well, you can probably describe it the easiest way as an anti-SAP of supply chains, something that was easy, simple, free to use, open, and easy to develop for. Third parties are developing apps for our platform. Tradeshift Buy, which is essentially what we call private marketplaces.

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Neil Patel

APRIL 5, 2023

Spying on your competitors can strengthen your position in the marketplace, but not without having three crucial factors in play: First, what are you looking for? More specifically, we’ll explore how you can get an inside look at your competitors on each of the following fronts: SEO and web traffic Social media PPC and ads Blog content 1.

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Neil Patel

AUGUST 4, 2021

If you’ve been creating educational content on your blog, your best bet would be to start with educational video content and see if that resonates with your audience in the same way. As time goes on, you’ll develop a stronger understanding of what type of video content works and what doesn’t. Stick with what you know. The best part?

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 24, 2020

Unfortunately, your in-house team doesn’t have the required expertise to push through change. Our team at Neil Patel Digital has compiled the ultimate guide below to help you understand the nuances of working with a consultant for the best results. Spot knowledge gaps and weak points in strategy, and ask for alternatives.

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Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

For years we have been reading and hand-picking the best SaaS blog posts to share with 24K+ SaaS Roundup subscribers. Subscriber or not, anyone who wants to increase their SaaS knowledge will benefit by reading the … For years we have been reading and hand-picking the best SaaS blog posts to share with 24K+ SaaS Roundup subscribers.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Renaud Visage, Co-Founder of Eventbrite, and Romain Huet, Head of Developer Relations at Stripe, know what it takes to effectively evolve your offering into a platform without losing what made offering appealing in the first place. Romain Huet | Head of Developer Relations @ Stripe. Want to see more content like this?

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Congratulations you’ve built a product that’s proven itself in the marketplace! At Twilio, I think my entire job there my first two years was throwing t-shirts at people, because everyone had a Twilio t-shirt I think in the developer community in 2010, and that was our marketing strategy. I have a team of people who work on numbers.

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Neil Patel

JANUARY 20, 2021

Don’t just schedule your latest blog links and product updates. Post your team photos like Zappos. Don’t Just Promote Products and Services. Bombarding your fans with 10 poor-quality updates in an hour. Prime example: Problogger consistently publishes a Reading Roundup of posts related to blogging.

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A Smart Bear

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

The implication is that this was unknowable or bad luck, but the truth is, this was a predictable result of not understanding the market. Sometimes that’s a dream team that weathers the storm that sinks the other boats. The bad news is, you don’t know ahead of time what that thing will be. Multitasking is bad.

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How To Buy Saas

JANUARY 1, 2021

Your course gets the advantage of getting promoted in these online course platform marketplaces. Online Course Marketplace. Online Course Marketplaces. In a course marketplace, the course you create becomes part of a catalog and you get an existing student base to sell online courses to. Let’s give a quick check.

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Totango

JANUARY 17, 2019

You can consider your customer to be in the onboarding phase right up until they start to gain value from your products and services. After all, you want them extract value out of the products and services you sold them. #2. Every interaction your customer has with your team is an opportunity for conversation.

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Scytale

JULY 23, 2024

In this blog, you’ll learn what PCI penetration testing is, why it’s the key to bulletproof data security, the testing process, the main benefits, and best practices for effective testing. Think of it as a full-body scan for your digital defenses, ensuring no cracks for the bad guys to slip through.

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ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

And yet, downplaying your team’s needs undermines CS’s current impact and future revenue-driving potential. According to our 2022 Customer Success Leadership Study, CS teams are already underfunded and under-resourced. My job is to continually inform and share knowledge that’s going out in the marketplace.

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 27, 2020

In part two of our Sequencing Business Models series , we talked about the different types of marketplaces and what needs to be built to be effective in each of them. This builds on the first essay in the series of how there has been an increase in interest of SAAS-like models interested in becoming marketplaces over time.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 24, 2018

A blog: to create and showcase content that solves your prospect’s pains. Brian Dean boosts credibility on his homepage by including blogs where he’s featured, as well as testimonials from other marketing influencers: Remember the recommendations you gathered when optimizing your LinkedIn profile? Create how-to blog content.

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OpenView Labs

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

In a recent article on the OpenView blog , Blake Bartlett frequently advises to “be like Slack!,” It was an important realization because the great weakness of typical enterprise software is that it’s overcomplicated. The Marketplace today is a professional app discovery website, generating $300 million in purchases annually.

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OPEXEngine

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Over the past decade, software has created tremendous value for investors and businesses, thanks largely to its transformative effect on the economy , its role in developing new cloud-based business models, and its ability to increase efficiency in operations. Sticky after all. Four ways to drive value. Embrace the cloud operating model.

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SaaStr

JUNE 20, 2019

I grew up in the Netherlands, people in Germany, people are being taught when they’re young to stay away from credit, it’s a bad thing, you want to avoid it. In that priority meeting we look at, these are the customer requests, this is the number of developers, we can do five things, which are they?

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SaaSOptics

MAY 19, 2022

Below, we’ll dive into how to develop a customer acquisition strategy from start to finish. . How to Develop a Customer Acquisition Strategy. Funneling time, energy, and resources into developing a stellar customer acquisition strategy is only helpful if it’s designed with your target market in mind.

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OPEXEngine

MARCH 9, 2021

“I’ve talked to countless entrepreneurs who are anxious about the next step—first seed round, hiring a team, landing a board member, etc.,” That’s exactly what got the former Zenefits leadership team into trouble. As you start to develop a go-to-market strategy, “make sure to think through the process holistically,” says Jay.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 10, 2019

WePay is a payments company for platform businesses like marketplaces, crowdfunding sites & small business software. We grew our team by 50% this year, continuing to grow. Chase Merchant Services that we’re now a part of processes $1.2 So I think like anything it’s been good and bad. Tina Hsiao : Yeah.

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yoursales

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Which problems are the most pressing for your and your B2B sales team? Which processes can and need to be powered by technology for you and your team to sell more? Trends which MAY impact your Sales Stack in 2023 Sales is in constant development. What customers want is help solving problems. Being a B2B buyer isn't easy.

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User Pilot

OCTOBER 31, 2022

You might also want to set up a comprehensive in-app resource center to help users solve their own problems – and reduce the burden on your support team. You need to understand how customers are responding to using your application or service and build up an idea of their loyalty over time. Geoffrey Moore.

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Chargify

AUGUST 17, 2017

NPS and raising NPS scores usually falls to your customer success team, but in times of stalled growth it is important for customer success to start at the executive level. The company recently released the beta of their ‘ developer toolkit.’ Expanding your team when your SaaS growth has stalled may seem contradictory and risky.

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OpenView Labs

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Editor’s Note: This post was first published on Irrational Lab’s blog here. Product developers and UX designers can all agree — reducing the number of steps in a sign-up flow is Product Design 101. These are three examples that suggest we should rethink this notion that friction is always bad. median effect.

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OPEXEngine

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

They are innovators, to be sure, but what sets them apart is the ability to develop go-to-market models that create economic advantage at the level of gross margin and—eventually— operating margin. Discovery Group, a South Africa-based financial services firm, is another great example. Scale insurgents are business builders.

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Unbounce

JUNE 23, 2023

Will AI ever be able to replace marketers—or even an entire marketing team (gulp)? and how the key to making your brand stand out in a crowded, AI-dominated marketplace just might be summed up in three simple words: be more human. So certainly it’s challenging to stay on top of just this wave of AI news and development. [00:02:21]

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