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Lessons from going to market with the Solutions team at mParticle

Sales Hacker

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? While mParticle has a killer, commercially focused CS team, inertia affected the team as well early on.

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8 Things to Review Before Accepting a Sales Commission Plan

Sales Hacker

That’s how my friend Stacey describes the way sales compensation plans have changed over the last 15 years of her SaaS career. Why do sales compensation plans have to be so complex? Sales compensation was set up to ensure that reps are suitably rewarded for their performance. Bookings vs. invoices. Ramp policy.

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The Rising Importance of Reseller Channels in SaaS

Tom Tunguz

Plus, value-added resellers charged buyers on a per-project basis which doesn’t align neatly with the recurring subscription intrinsic to SaaS. By leveraging another company’s sales team, your startup’s cost to book a marginal revenue dollar decline, as revenue scales and net margin increases.

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Do SaaS Affiliate Programs Work? [+7 Related Stories from SaaS people]

Incredo

4) Which compensation structures do SaaS companies usually follow? And end up wasting their time and resources with affiliates that underperform. I see many SaaS companies jump headlong into creating an affiliate program thinking it will bring in a large number of customers without much effort. But is your website ready?

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SaaStr Classic: Jyoti Bansal of Harness.io and AppDynamics; Dev Ittycheria of MongoDB (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

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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How the ‘Netflix for Mac apps’ plans to beat Apple at subscriptions

Chart Mogul

After several recent high-profile Mac apps pivoted to a subscription model, users are left feeling cheated. Developer MacPaw is planning to solve that, with Setapp - the first all-you-can-eat subscription service for Mac apps. So it’s not that we’re getting rich during the development period, and even richer after each update.

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A Step by Step Guide to Revenue Growth with Mark Roberge (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

We have the subscription revenue. The subscription economy. And we’ve got this megaphone called social media, that every single customer can talk about a great product experience, and they can also talk about a bad one. For Slack, it was one that a team sends 2000 messages. Totally changes the game. What happened?

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