Buffer Resources

AUGUST 2, 2024

But with all the bad comes so much good : the ability to share your life and work with billions of users all over the world, an outlet for creative expression, the possibility of monetizing your passion, and, perhaps, the most important of all: the ability to share and connect with family and friends.   Content, poof. Audience, bye-bye.

Social Media 111

Social Media Underperforming Technical Team Government Blockchain 111

Totango

MAY 17, 2024

CS professionals have a choice: Embrace AI and harness its potential to drive innovation and growth, or remain hesitant and risk falling behind in a rapidly evolving landscape. Slow support response times : When support teams are slow to respond, customers escalate concerns to CSMs, leading to increased workload and decreased efficiency.

Innovation 101

Innovation AI Underperforming Technical Team Scale 101

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

MARCH 23, 2020

Companies which don’t use mental models risk unleashing mayhem with poor choices or becoming bloated and bureaucratic by reducing the volume and speed at which decisions are made - both scenarios are undesirable and will impact growth. OKRs are a useful mental model - they make it crystal clear what people and teams should be striving for.

Underperforming Technical Team 213

Underperforming Technical Team Scale Sales Hiring Marketplace as a Service 213

SaaStock

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

The platform enables the two sides to better communicate via social media and messaging. was created by a team with 25+ years of experience in location-based tech, spanning various services and real-time asset tracking systems. It is a logistics and multi-selling platform which innovates how e-commerce can grow in the region.

SaaS Payments 225

SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Merchant Services Payment Methods 225

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. On innovative, beautiful design? Do you compete primarily on price? On simplicity?

Branding 209

Branding Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Airlines 209

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 11, 2019

But scaling a marketing team to the heights Segment have isn’t as simple as putting a bunch of A-players in a room and getting them to start churning out paid advertising. A slapdash approach to scaling marketing can result in confusion, frustration, conflict, turnover and ultimately poor business performance.

Scale 162

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Marketing Startup 162

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.

Sales Hiring 184

Sales Hiring Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales 184

Sales Hacker

APRIL 19, 2022

Outreach is the first and only engagement, and intelligence platform built by revenue innovators for revenue innovators. Outreach allows you to commit to accurate sales forecasting, replace manual process with real time guidance, and unlock actionable customer intelligence that guides you and your team to win more often.

Communication 104

Communication Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Startup 104

Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 15, 2018

Will Larson has managed infrastructure teams for some of the biggest names in software. Partnering with the Infrastructure, Data and Developer Productivity teams, his group builds the tools that support every Stripe engineer and keep Stripe reliable and performant. Making the shift from maintenance to innovation.

Engineering 214

Engineering Management Merchant Services DevOps as a Service 214

Neil Patel

OCTOBER 25, 2020

But should you build your own in-house marketing team or hire an agency partner? Digital agencies are companies that help other businesses perform a specific function such as marketing, development, or design. They act as a substitute for an in-house team, serving the same labor function but outside of the organization.

Sales Hiring 145

Sales Hiring Outsourcing Services Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting 145

User Pilot

MARCH 24, 2025

Want to advance your career in mobile product management or find top talent for your team? It represents a broad set of industries, including manufacturing, utilities, communications, consumer goods, and healthcare. Someone who understands the unique challenges of iOS and Android development, including offline-first applications.

Mobile 52

Mobile Underperforming Technical Team Management Scale 52

User Pilot

AUGUST 17, 2024

“How World-Class Product Teams Are Winning in the AI Era” is one of the talks at this year’s Product Drive Summit. Delivered by Carlos Gonzalez de Villaumbrosia, it tackles the challenges and opportunities AI-revolution poses for product teams. AI enables product teams to achieve more with fewer resources. Did you know?

Underperforming Technical Team 104

Underperforming Technical Team AI Technical Review CTO Coach 104

FastSpring

DECEMBER 11, 2020

You need something that makes you think about your digital business in a new way, renews your motivation, and helps you be more innovative. Communication. Communication is at the heart of e-commerce and community.” – Meg Whitman, President, and CEO of Hewlett-Packard. Communication is a two-way street.

Payment Methods 148

Payment Methods Underperforming Technical Team New CTO Payment Services 148

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.

Underperforming Technical Team 134

Underperforming Technical Team Communication Development Benchmarks 134

User Pilot

APRIL 30, 2024

In many ways, he has shaped how successful products are built and how teams can be organized to work toward excellence. He’s had a hand in some of tech’s biggest success stories, including Hewlett-Packard, Netscape Communications, and eBay. Marty Cagan is a popular name in the product management world. Who is Marty Cagan?

Management 105

Management Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Consulting 105

SaaStr

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Companies that have access to more accurate financial data have the ability to develop seamless exchanges of information, providing consumers with improved ways to manage their finances. “Well, fintech might be bad in the margins for me, but I can actually profit from this so let’s embrace it.”

Payments 214

Payments SaaS Payments Banking Underperforming Technical Team 214

User Pilot

JULY 22, 2024

Let’s explore the steps to develop a solid positioning statement and some examples of successful brand positioning from other companies. TL;DR Developing a solid product positioning strategy involves several key steps. Here are the steps to develop your positioning effectively: Conduct thorough market research.

Underperforming Technical Team 103

Underperforming Technical Team Market Research Technical Review Interviewing 103

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 12, 2018

The reasons for this growth – high-velocity economics of software innovation, the migration of money from old media to new media, etc. 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.

Technical Review 223

Technical Review Technology Scale Marketing 223

Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

ML teams tend to invest a fair share of resources in research that never ships. If you want to invest in ML, hire someone with experience on both the tech and the operational side so they can start working with the product team from day one. I think this is important for product teams for two reasons. ” Des Traynor: Yeah.

Artificial Intelligence 249

Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning AI Search AI 249

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

In sales, sellers who cite convoluted reasons to explain poor performance, rather than proactively doing something about it often remain — unsurprisingly — at the bottom of the success ladder. Our marketing team sucks. Variants : We have a weak pipeline. Our Marketing Team Sucks. Winners make things happen.

Underperforming Technical Team 100

Underperforming Technical Team Sales CTO Coach New CTO 100

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. In 2012, Patrick co-founded ProfitWell (previously known as Price Intelligently), it offers an innovative price setting tool that helps businesses price their products and services according to their true value.

Technical Review 207

Technical Review Scale Entrepreneurship Sales Hiring 207

User Pilot

AUGUST 30, 2024

Assess whether they are targeting different market segments with different pricing plans and how they communicate value at each price point. Conduct a SWOT analysis Perform a SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) analysis for each competitor. Create a competitive analysis report template. Competitor analysis for Slack.

Underperforming Technical Team 105

Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Benchmarks Scale 105

ChurnZero

DECEMBER 19, 2024

They’re creative, data-driven, customer-centric, innovative, and impactful. For the fifth year running, we’ve recognized five customer success teams who achieved remarkable results in one of five categoriesonboarding, adoption, renewals and expansion, advocacy, and innovation.

Customer Success 52

Customer Success Scale Underperforming Technical Team Innovation 52

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. Good product positioning is as much about identifying those needs, as communicating how they can be met by the product. Strong positioning makes the work of the marketing and sales teams easier.

Underperforming Technical Team 98

Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Software Review Marketplace as a Service 98

ChurnZero

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Every Customer Success team focuses on keeping customers engaged and ultimately, preventing churn. Customer Success teams typically answer the same questions over and over again as they gain new clients. The bad news: It’s tiresome to answer the same questions day in and day out! Lighten the load CSM’s normally carry.

Education 98

Education Customer Success Underperforming Technical Team Scale 98

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Here are five quick takeaways: The founders of Spendesk noticed that, while the B2C space was innovating with peer-to-peer quickpay options, nothing like that existed in the B2B space (which often lags a few years behind the consumer market). Instead, focus on fostering a culture of communication and feedback loops between the team.

Scale 162

Scale Payment Methods Payment Solutions Marketing 162

Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

In other words, if different people or teams in your company aren’t on the same page about everything that’s going on, they might end up doing a worse job. Silos can make your company seem less innovative and damage your employee engagement , resulting in lowered productivity. Because it’s bad for business.

Marketing 142

Marketing Business Underperforming Technical Team Content Marketing 142

Sales Hacker

MARCH 24, 2021

The key to unlocking a stronger opportunity pipeline and an increase in qualified leads is a unified, cohesive marketing and sales team. Only 46 percent of business owners describe their marketing and sales teams as “highly aligned,” meaning it’s time to get back to the drawing board for the other 54 percent.

Marketing 125

Marketing Sales Underperforming Technical Team Acquisition 125

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

We use it to explore over 50 data fields each day, research up to 20,000 leads every week, and constantly make content for email-outreach campaigns and customer communication. In the world of sales development, nothing stays a novelty for long. In the world of sales development, nothing stays a novelty for long.

Social Media 132

Social Media Technical Review Sales Underperforming Technical Team 132

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

MAY 22, 2017

It will evolve over time, but for now it offers much needed clarity and perhaps more importantly, answers the basics of who we are as a sales enablement team, what we do and how we do it. I would also recommend persona development , so the sales organisation clearly understands who they’re selling to.

Marketplace as a Service 112

Marketplace as a Service Sales Enablement Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team 112

Neil Patel

JUNE 17, 2021

No matter how innovative your product or competitive your pricing, if your customers are ultimately unhappy, they’re not going to stick around. It can be influenced by any number of factors, such as: perceived product quality perceived product value convenience customer expectations communication complaint handling.

Underperforming Technical Team 139

Underperforming Technical Team Social Media Technical Review Software Review 139

User Pilot

APRIL 6, 2023

Developing and releasing sophisticated products with all the bells and whistles imaginable might seem like a great idea. Developers tend to overcomplicate code when they don’t have enough experience or want to show off their skills. Poor prioritization and external pressure are also common causes. Book the demo!

Underperforming Technical Team 105

Underperforming Technical Team Management Interviewing Scale 105

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 19, 2018

It means reducing choices amongst engineering teams and standardizing technology, so our team can spend as much time as possible delivering value to customers. Our chat covers the origins of Run Less Software, how it has evolved at scale, and how it differs from the equally valid approaches of other engineering teams.

Outsourcing Services 192

Outsourcing Services Part-Time VPE Software AWS 192

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Given our cadence of launches and updates, we’ve developed a pretty well-oiled launch machine over the past few years. Our go-to-market teams have grown immensely, meaning more specialists and larger cross-collaborative teams for each launch. Is it a differentiator for us or something innovative in the market?

Underperforming Technical Team 170

Underperforming Technical Team Social Media Product Marketing Churn 170

User Pilot

DECEMBER 13, 2023

How do you develop a robust UX strategy? TL;DR UX strategy provides guidance to the UX design team on how to create and improve experiences that satisfy user needs. TL;DR UX strategy provides guidance to the UX design team on how to create and improve experiences that satisfy user needs. This is the main focus of the article.

Strategy 104

Strategy Underperforming Technical Team User Experience Technical Review 104

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Whereas, those with fixed mindsets believe their talents are an innate gift and cannot be developed further. Importantly, having a growth mindset or put another way an openness to continual development, as well as an understanding of where your strengths and weaknesses lie is no longer a nice to have.

Underperforming Technical Team 138

Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring Communication Advertising 138

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The GTMfund team has been spread across the globe lately, big things happening! The rest of the team is playing catch-up from SaaStr followed by our annual GTMfund retreat in Napa. Because Innovation inevitably (but not exclusively) goes down as you scale. Solution: Build functional teams that drive innovation.

Sales Hiring 123

Sales Hiring Technical Cofounder Scale Sales Recruiting 123