Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Why it’s hard to build a two-sided marketplace [13:38]. Managing a technical team as a non-technical person [24:13]. Okay, it’s not that easy, but Sapper Consulting has built REGIE to keep the promise of sales enablement alive and keep your team doing what they do best, which is winning. Sam’s Corner [33:50 ].

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

It’s time to start thinking about retention at scale and bring onboard a customer success team. She joined the company in 2007 back when it was just 30 people and has been instrumental in helping the company scale both its team and its market share over the years. Why you need a customer success team.

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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. I know we’re going to hear about your book. You see this headline here and it doesn’t sound so bad, 43 months. Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020.

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 22, 2020

We’ll go over each one’s strengths and weaknesses while making sure you find one that fits your exact business. That can be a developer, a Funnel designer/builder, an Ad specialist, or a CRO consultant. You can see the Get Response team are bold as they’re the only software in the industry that uses an interactive headline.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

So, Aaron and I wrote a book together in 2014 or something. We wrote a book together. 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. Aaron’s going to talk about what in a few minutes? Jason : All right. Aaron : No.

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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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Chart Mogul

MAY 7, 2020

Onboarding a new member of your sales team is challenging on its own, but especially so when they have to call prospects out of the blue. Providing the right cold calling training can make or break the success of a new team member. Nobody likes cold calling. But just because it isn’t fun doesn’t mean it isn’t effective.

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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

JANUARY 1, 2021

I definitely recommend reading reviews from actual customers about the kind of service they receive during and after implementation. If you are supposed to get a dedicated service rep, how dedicated are they? Clients can upload documents and even book their own appointments (on your terms, of course). That’s SimplePractice.

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Systems Review Healthcare Software Review Marketplace as a Service 143

Neil Patel

APRIL 20, 2021

That’s because Seth Godin has written over 20 bestselling books. In the book Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion , author Robert B. 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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FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

Ryan Austin had VP-level experience in training when he decided to start a consulting business to help enterprise-level companies with their corporate learning and development initiatives. Ryan and his team noticed so many inefficiencies across the L&D workflows. “It There are now over 150 enterprise companies using the platform.

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Payment Solutions Payment Services SaaS Payments VP of Engineering 133

Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Casey’s first sequencing business models essay talked about the transition from a SaaS business model to marketplace business model, and why it’s so difficult. In this essay, we’ll go deeper into the gradients of marketplace models that a company can sequence to, and as a follow up, we will do the same for platforms.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

Nick Mehta: Power of the developer, or the API economy, both of you play very much in both those trends. How do you help your team make that link to value? We’ve got a lot of training to do with our sales teams to get them to start to speak in these types of terms versus feature function.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Never believe that doubting yourself is a bad thing. That company only lasted another year before they were out of business, so it was a poor use of my energy, time, and being away from my family – a lesson I work to pass on to others new in roles today. Invest in your development internally and externally. Anita Nielsen.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 13, 2021

Although Linda started her career in sales, she has spent the past twelve years scaling post-sales teams and moving hyper-growth companies like Zendesk, Slack, and now Gong upmarket into the enterprise realm. So how do you create a strong, enterprise-ready team? Not just support on steroids: How to build a customer success team.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

I’ve been in software since the ’90s and for over 20 years, nearly that entire time, we’ve been talking about digital transformation, developing strategies, architecting new technologies, and moving beyond digitization to rethinking our businesses, our products, and our services in a way that’s optimized for a digital world.

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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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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 18, 2020

If you missed episode 122, check it out here: Tips for Building a Diverse Team of High-Quality Salespeople with Wesley Ulysse. Okay, it’s not that easy, but Sapper Consulting has built REGIE to keep the promise of sales enablement and help carry the load to help keep your team doing what they do best, winning. We’re on iTunes.

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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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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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User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Definition and Origin The concept of blue ocean strategy was first introduced in the 2005 book “ Blue Ocean Strategy : How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant” by professors W. The focus is on developing new demand and reconstructing market landscapes to make rivals obsolete.

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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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FastSpring

APRIL 13, 2023

When Justin and his initial team started looking for a way to capitalize on VR/AR technology, they focused their attention on the “made-to-order” industrial market. But Dopple’s team took the opposite approach. It starts with self service. We don’t call up travel agents, we book it ourselves.

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Payment Methods Marketing Payments SaaS Payments 147

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 8, 2020

How to build a more diverse team [24:50]. Through that, he went to university where he studied AI and cybernetics, ultimately leading big teams in EMEA for AppDynamics. Learn how modern sales teams with deals, win deals now. Modern sales teams, winning deals using 6sense. Show Introduction [00:09]. Sam’s Corner [34:03].

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Neil Patel

JANUARY 20, 2021

Post your team photos like Zappos. Don’t Just Promote Products and Services. Bombarding your fans with 10 poor-quality updates in an hour. Most people form groups around: Their brand/business Their products/services A specific lifestyle e.g. a book club or a journalling club Specific topics e.g. a content marketing group.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 20, 2020

If you missed episode 131, check it out here: Data, Set, Match: How to Build a Two-Sided Marketplace to Drive Revenue with Ryan Walsh. If RFPs are slowing down your sales team, you need to check out Loopio. I believe that developing a clear vision of where you want to be is the most important and vital aspect of that.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 24, 2018

In the above example, Jim Keenan of “A Sales Guy” has done the following: Used a cover image to showcase his book (authority). Uncover topics with customer development. For example, if I were doing this for my content marketing service, Grizzle , I would ask my clients questions like: What does your current PR system look like?

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Chart Mogul

MAY 7, 2020

Onboarding a new member of your sales team is challenging on its own, but especially so when they have to call prospects out of the blue. Providing the right cold calling training can make or break the success of a new team member. Nobody likes cold calling. But just because it isn’t fun doesn’t mean it isn’t effective.

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User Pilot

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Book a personalized demo now. 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.

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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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Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

No Wait, of Course That Is the Single Most Important SaaS Metric by Jason Cohen, A Smart Bear The purpose of a metric is to be a tool in service of your goals, timeline, size, circumstance, even philosophy, not as a master you are thoughtlessly obligated to obey. Keep an eye out as we will be making regular updates.

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User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Definition and Origin The concept of blue ocean strategy was first introduced in the 2005 book " Blue Ocean Strategy : How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant" by professors W. As the book Blue Ocean Strategy notes, blue oceans have always been a key engine of growth for companies and entire economies.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 3, 2020

Despite huge growth and development over the last ten years, there’s also been some disappointments. Emmet: So my job here is to run the Product Design team here in Dublin and London, and Figma clearly had the biggest impact on our team this year. If you enjoy our conversation, check out more episodes of our podcast.

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Payment Methods Payment Solutions Technical Review Technology 118

yoursales

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

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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SaaStr

MAY 15, 2020

Where do most teams go wrong in implementing the role out of their CS strategy? Does Bridget believe CS teams should be involved in the upsell process? I read a book, God, it was years ago, about Marriott. One thing we did as a company was … It was last Monday, our executive team said, “You know what?

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SaaStr

MARCH 20, 2020

317: Rachel Hepworth is VP of Marketing @ Pilot, the startup that offers the best bookkeeping, tax and CFO services for growing businesses. Before Slack, Rachel spent 4 years at LinkedIn where she led the product marketing team for content experiences. And so that’s when I went to Slack to start their growth marketing team.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Prior to joining the world of venture, Karen was a Senior Director at Apple and before Apple, Karen spent an incredible 9 years at Box as a founding member of the executive team, where she was responsible for defining and leading Box’s Industry GTM strategy. What is the ability of the company to continue to build an incredible team?

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