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The Keys to Getting to $500M ARR In Just 7 Years with Attentive’s CEO

SaaStr

Turn Your Customers Into Your Marketing Engine The second breakthrough was making customer success the core growth engine. The KPI Alignment System Have customers email explicit performance expectations Build custom reporting dashboards Weekly cross-team optimization meetings Formal performance reviews 2.

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How to Bridge the Gap Between Sales and Tech Teams to Drive Customer Success with HashiCorp’s CTO and VP

SaaStr

How can you bridge the gap between sales and tech to drive customer success? The 3 Building Blocks The three building blocks that bridge the gap between sales and Field CTOs are: Product knowledge Balance Trust Building Block #1: Product Knowledge Field CTOs must work closely with sales from a customer perspective.

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The Enterprise Journey: 8 Keys to Going Upmarket Successfully with Workiva’s CEO Julie Iskow

SaaStr

Build the Right Team for Enterprise Success Enterprise selling requires a fundamentally different skillset. If one does and one doesn’t, you know it’s the person not the motion. Master Enterprise-Grade Operations The operational bar is much higher in enterprise.

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Avoid Global Tax Headaches With FastSpring: A Customer Success Story

FastSpring

When working with a payment service provider directly, like Stripe, they’ll warn you of potential tax pitfalls and compliance obligations, but ultimately leave you to develop and implement your own global tax strategy, which can be overwhelming for small businesses. RH: Correct. It’s all included as part of the MoR offering.

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Assume the Customer Knows Everything

SaaStr

Customer success can be tempted to overstate how secure and reliable the app is to nervous customers. There’s one rule I’ve come up with to help unite sales, customer success, marketing and product: Assume Every Customer Knows Everything. Is your HIPAA compliance pretty barely there?

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From Startup to $500M CARR: How Braze Scaled a Growth and CS Team

SaaStr

From startup to $500M CARR, Spencer Burke, SVP of Growth at Braze, shares how Braze scaled a growth and customer success team. This shifted from doing odd jobs to a deep focus on customer success and scaling teams around customer success. You don’t have to leave as the organization scales.

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Five clear signs your customer success technology needs an upgrade.

ChurnZero

Too many customer teams are still relying on mismatched technologyand it’s holding them back. ChurnZeros latest Customer Success Leadership Study found that technology adoption shifts depending on company size by revenue. A CRM is a great tool for sales operations, but it falls short for customer success needs.