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.” Gong monitors how many upgrades and expansions they’re seeing, and it’s showing a positive trend. It’s not a bad thing. At Gong, yes.

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Scale AI Sales Underperforming Technical Team 311

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 13, 2019

In a recent talk at UX London , I discussed some lessons learned while growing the design team at Intercom, reflecting on the technology industry’s obsession with tools, and pointed out how our sense of tools as objects or apps blinds us to the reality that the processes we adopt and develop are also, in effect, tools.

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Underperforming Technical Team New CTO CTO Hire Technology 223

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

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

For example, if you’re getting ready to close the deal, sales team’s pretty darn excited. How is it trending? And every question you ask yourself, you have to ask yourself, how is it trending? How is that trending? What does our customer lifetime value, how is that trending? Are there particular trends?

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Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring Software Review 241

SaaStr

APRIL 5, 2023

A bad experience with a revenue operations leader might taint your view of the position at all future companies, but that would be a mistake, as CRO Confidential podcast host Sam Blond learned first-hand. These leaders act as partners and build out a strong team. Not every leader is created equally.

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Sales Hiring Education Scale Strategy 245

Blulogix

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

By BluLogix Team Best Practices for Revenue Management What are the best practices for effective revenue management to support growth and profitability? Businesses need to predict future revenue streams based on historical data, market trends, and customer behavior.

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Revenue Management Underperforming Technical Team compliance 52

SaaStr

JANUARY 21, 2020

Justin used Sales Culture to grow a successful PatientPop team to 140 employees and 55 million in revenue. When I was hired, I came in with one salesperson and zero dollars in recurring revenue and over the next four years grew the sales team to over 140 employees and 55 million in recurring revenue. Want to see more content like this?

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Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale Sales 332

Incredo

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Have you noticed one of the latest and growing trends in the worklife? Affiliate partners write and distribute copies, create videos or blog posts, introduce the software, direct users to software company’s landing page. In our case, we needed to invest a lot in product development. 5) Everyone minds his own business.

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SaaS Payments Payment Methods Merchant Services Sales Recruiting 139

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

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. "  B2B brands can follow Dock’s lead by reaching out to their customers and internal teams to find experts who might want to showcase their points of view.

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B2B Technical Advisors SaaS Payments Underperforming Technical Team 138

Neil Patel

JUNE 22, 2021

That’s a lesson for you when developing a sound content marketing strategy: when creating more landing pages, think strategically about keywords and build your content around the right ones. Segmentation is crucial for one simple reason: some of your blog readers aren’t buyers, but others are. Not too bad! Results are relative.

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Content Marketing Marketing Social Media Underperforming Technical Team 145

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

We’re seeing larger numbers of people work in the industry, more companies investing in sales enablement teams and numerous tools being developed to solve sales enablement challenges. Financial services (75%), high tech (70%) and telecommunications (67%) have the highest saturation of dedicated sales enablement teams ( Quark ).

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Sales Enablement Sales Hiring Sales Telecommunications 189

Totango

JULY 28, 2021

In this blog we’ll share five of the most important best practices for hiring a customer success manager. Totango’s dynamic assignment feature lets you scale your customer success management by automatically matching team members to customers who need assistance based on fit, skill and availability. What Is a Customer Success Manager?

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Only 48% of SDRs consistently reach their targets according to TOPO’s 2019 Sales Development Benchmark Report, 48%… that’s it. So why is quota attainment so bad for so many SDRs? These two channels have been used for decades, but that means prospects have developed strategies to avoid being disturbed by pushy salespeople.

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Underperforming Technical Team Communication Development Benchmarks 134

User Pilot

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Social listening tools : Software for monitoring online conversations, brand mentions, and trends. Feedback management tools : Apps for organizing, categorizing, and analyzing feedback from multiple sources to guide decision-making and product development. UserTesting allows teams to gather real-time user feedback from usability tests.

Software Review 52

Software Review Software Social Media Underperforming Technical Team 52

User Pilot

JANUARY 16, 2024

From analyzing market trends to churning user needs and technical feasibility into golden product ideas, there are many benefits of ChatGPT for product managers. Perform a SWOT analysis, identify the strengths and weaknesses of your top competing products, etc. Data analysis : Feed data into ChatGPT to identify patterns and trends.

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ChatGPT Management Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 105

User Pilot

JANUARY 31, 2023

The main factors contributing to at-risk customers include poor onboarding process , lack of product value perception, lousy customer support, unfixed bugs, and no learning materials, resource center, and FAQs. Bad customer support: Poor customer support leaves customers without help or thinking their complaints are not taken seriously.

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Churn Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 98

Full Session

DECEMBER 23, 2024

FullSession Capture all user interactions, visualize trends and patterns, analyze user behavior, and optimize your site’s interface, usability, experience and performance with FullSession , our user behavior analytics software. Pricing info is unavailable. Take some time to check out each option and see which one feels right for you!

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Payment Services Payment Solutions Software Review Payments 52

Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

Luxury Marketing Trends. The first step in developing a luxury marketing strategy is to understand your audience. If several different groups of people buy your products, you’ll need to develop a buyer persona for each of them. Develop Your Digital Luxury Marketing Strategy. Or they can do both, like Supreme.

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Strategy Marketing Social Media Underperforming Technical Team 145

SaaStr

JULY 29, 2022

If we want to queue up the conversation, we did a blog post on SaaStr last week, about how everyone from Salesloft, to Zendesk, to Salesforce, Workday said they’re really seeing no slow down. And we’re about to add basically a team collaboration tier on top of the product. Jason Lemkin: Okay. Let’s get it going.

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Scale Scaling Sales Hiring Enterprise 277

Totango

JANUARY 26, 2021

When you know why customers are leaving you, you can develop appropriate preventive measures. Escalation stage: Slow response time or weak communication to a support request. Poor Customer Fit. Improving your customer success team to better help customers achieve their goals . Poor customer experience promotes churn.

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Churn Retention Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 94

User Pilot

APRIL 21, 2023

The aim of product analysis is to better understand its strengths and weaknesses, to evaluate how effective it is at satisfying user needs , and to identify areas for improvement. Product analysis benefits teams from across the organization, including your product , marketing , customer success , and UX design colleagues.

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Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Onboarding Retention 98

User Pilot

JUNE 20, 2023

TL;DR Product idea validation is a process during which product teams test and tweak the product concept to ensure it satisfies a real market need. Apart from testing the demand for the product, idea validation helps teams assess if they have the necessary expertise and resources to build the product. Let’s get straight into it!

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Underperforming Technical Team Social Media Scale Interviewing 98

Buffer Resources

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The AI assistant can also create personalized posts for different social media channels and audiences, capitalizing on the latest trends. Narrato AI Content Genie - Social media (and blog) content on auto-pilot Narrato AI Content Genie is your personal content marketer that auto-generates social and blog content every week.

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Social Media AI Search AI Artificial Intelligence 133

User Pilot

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Examine each segment to identify trends and create a customer persona. Product teams collect and measure such customers’ activities to understand and act on customers’ behavior patterns. Moreover, consumer behavior analysis helps to identify positive behavioral trends and enhance in-app experiences. That’s it.

Payment Solutions 98

Payment Solutions Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Payments Customer Lifetime Value 98

User Pilot

JUNE 8, 2023

How can product and marketing teams leverage customer journey analytics to make data-driven decisions and build delightful customer experiences? In addition to increasing customer satisfaction and reducing customer churn , customer journey analytics helps teams boost customer lifetime value. How could the team diagnose the problem?

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Underperforming Technical Team Customer Lifetime Value SaaS Software Review 97

User Pilot

JANUARY 8, 2021

Before we get into what is considered a good NPS score, we have some good news and some bad news. What Is Considered Good NPS Score, and What Is a Bad NPS Score? The metric was developed by Bain and Company in 2003 and has since been adopted by millions of businesses. What is a Bad NPS Score? Table of Contents.

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Underperforming Technical Team Benchmarks Onboarding SaaS 93

User Pilot

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Customer intent helps product teams understand customer needs and build solutions that delight users. Use content like informative blog posts, product demos , and user reviews to address the needs of customers with buyer intent. You’ll also learn: What customer intent means, along with the three major types.

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Scale Underperforming Technical Team Churn Trends 105

Neil Patel

APRIL 5, 2023

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. Below is my search for SEO in 2023: As you can see, my initial search shows some news pieces and competitor articles and gives me a few ideas for blog topics.

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Payment Methods Social Media Payment Services AI Search 133

Totango

MAY 17, 2024

Leading companies and CS teams are paving the way by providing innovative solutions that leverage AI technologies to accelerate impact and drive customer retention and growth. Slow support response times : When support teams are slow to respond, customers escalate concerns to CSMs, leading to increased workload and decreased efficiency.

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Innovation AI Underperforming Technical Team Scale 101

User Pilot

JULY 31, 2023

TL;DR Pendo is a product growth platform for product , marketing , customer success , and UX design teams. Pendo is currently developing AI features to enhance experience personalization , product discovery and accelerate product-led growth. We also have a quick look at Userpilot as a worthy Pendo alternative. Why should I use Pendo?

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Underperforming Technical Team AI Scale Onboarding 97

Totango

MAY 5, 2021

Develop training modules to address weak points, as well as fix software bugs. A quality customer success platform will centralize customer experience data and discern patterns from it, allowing customer success teams to engage clients in personalized terms. Identify bottlenecks in your customer journey.

Data 118

Data Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Technical Review 118

Neil Patel

APRIL 22, 2021

One of the main reasons why most landing pages and sales pages are not converting leads into customers is a weak call to action with no sense of urgency. According to Small Biz Trends, 70% of small business B2B sites lack a call-to-action. Developing a sense of urgency versus being pushy is a fine line. Forget freemium.

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Underperforming Technical Team Social Media Sales Hiring Telecommunications 145

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.

Scale 52

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Neil Patel

JANUARY 18, 2023

Companies that ignore marketing trends may leave thousands (or millions) of dollars on the table. Here’s the thing: Trends matter. Understanding these trends and the strategies to take advantage of them applies to other engines like Bing, Naver, Baidu, Yandex, and others. What Search Engine Trends Shaped 2022? It happens.

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VP of Engineering AI Search Engineering Social Media 113

User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

To improve its blog strategy, Better Proposals asked its subscriber base which blog types they read the most so they could focus on creating more. Understand Customer Needs and Optimize the Product Development Process : Concept testing lets you pinpoint exactly what features resonate with your audience.

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Underperforming Technical Team B2C SaaS Pricing 105

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

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. Your sales team becomes more efficient, your customer success team becomes efficient, your customers like you more.

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Investment Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring Software Review 113