SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

In this Ask Me Anything Part 1, Lemkin answers the questions: Many VCs talk about funding, yet you’re so focused on sales. How do you build high-quality content that’s consistent and repeatable? Question #1: Why Are You So Focused On Sales When Other VCs Are Focused On Funding? That VP of Sales came out of Salesforce.

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SaaStr

MAY 31, 2024

1: How Sales and Marketing Have Shifted Since 2020 Expectations and the types of people working in SaaS have shifted over the past few years, and much more in sales, marketing, and customer success. . #1: At scale, this is a jigsaw puzzle,” he said. Many folks who generate content aren’t writers.

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SaaStr

JULY 15, 2022

Jason recently opened up an AMA on Twitter Spaces to answer questions about scaling from $1M to $10M. We did a good AMA on this scaling at SaaStr Europa in Barcelona, a couple weeks back. That will scale, and then take those emails after four great pieces of content and do a weekly webinar and do a weekly get-together for them.

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SaaStr

JUNE 4, 2019

Here’s a little bit of my marketing experience, but I need to back up a little bit and go off slide to tell you about my pre-marketing experience. I actually worked in sales for five and a half years and that’s probably why I have tended to gravitate to B2B marketing. Worked as an AE and then a sales manager.

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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Talk: Scaling & Exiting: Dreams, Designs & Dramas. The company’s best-selling book, Predictable Revenue , details the hugely successful outbound process and sales created specifically for Salesforce. Starting as VP of Sales, in less than two years he became CEO. Talk: SaaS.City Bootcamp: Sales Leadership.

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FastSpring

JUNE 11, 2024

Affiliate marketing can be a great growth lever to scale your digital product business, but how can you drive meaningful growth with the right affiliates without losing out to fraud or shady attribution schemes? How to go about recruiting the RIGHT affiliates to help drive meaningful growth in your business.

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 25, 2020

If you are looking to scale up your marketing, you will need talented people that can take charge of and execute your strategy. But should you build your own in-house marketing team or hire an agency partner? The Benefits of Working With a Digital Marketing Agency. Scaling a business isn’t easy.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

Even at spectacular scale, they’re still growing at 30%. Still has some market share to go, but is providing a fantastic offering that many of you benefit from. Law number one, in the cloud economy, scale wins. If you look at the IAS vendors, they passed $130 billion revenue milestone this year. It is staggering.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

With the rise of AI, new sales technology and automation at the forefront of the sales echo chamber these days, we thought we’d take a moment to bring it back to BASICS – that’s why we’ve rounded up this complete glossary of sales terms and definitions to help you remember where it all started.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

According to Harvard Business Review , companies that were instrumental in creating their categories accounted for 53 percent of incremental revenue growth and 74 percent of incremental market capitalization growth. Naturally, this can also lead to more market share and higher valuation multiples. .

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 19, 2018

We invested in more social and video content as well to connect with more of you. Lessons learned from scaling a team. Scaling a company inherently means getting further away from our initial skill set, the actual abilities that got us up and running in the first place. ” On Sales. LB Harvey, VP of Sales.

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FastSpring

MARCH 16, 2023

Andrew is the founder and CEO of AdPipe , a SaaS platform that repurposes and repackages your existing videos into custom bite-sized content for any channel. I spoke to Andrew about what he calls the “great underutilization of content.” ” To stay relevant, content marketers need to keep publishing content.

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 12, 2020

If you no longer have to spend time finding relevant content to share with your audience or scrolling through countless Instagram profiles to find the “perfect” influencer for your next campaign, you get to focus on what you do best: Creating, implementing, and fine-tuning your marketing strategy. The best part? The result?

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 28, 2019

This is in large part a reflection of marketing today, a world where the scope of marketing activities has broadened significantly. The most sophisticated marketing plans today deploy at least nine disciplines which range from content marketing, to evangelist recruitment, to customer lifecycle marketing and beyond.

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Neil Patel

DECEMBER 23, 2020

That’s invaluable if you’re trying to identify the next big trend in your market. Scaling Content Creation. Artificial intelligence is capable of writing fiction and plausible news stories , so it’s no surprise that it’s also capable of much simpler content creation tasks. What about content creation at scale though?

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Casey Accidental

JANUARY 23, 2019

Once Uber had initial liquidity in these markets though, it ran into decentralization problems. Uber started to build up world class acquisition teams in HQ that didn’t have full control on how to scale customer acquisition. Local teams were still doing scrappy tests that didn’t scale, and not managing budgets as efficiently.

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yoursales

JANUARY 28, 2022

Sales Stack 2022 Sales Tools for Professional B2B Sales SALES STACK 2022: Sales Tools for. Professional Sales SALES STACK. 2021: Sales Tools. Sales W hich challenges would you like sales technology to solve for your sales team? What is sales technology here to do?

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yoursales

JANUARY 29, 2021

Sales Stack 2021. Sales Tools for Professional Sales. SALES STACK 2020: THE TOOLS SALES STACK 2020: THE TOOLS. Sales technology for professional sales will be more important than ever. In 2020 almost every single Sales Professional was forced inside. Same goes for Sales Professionals.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

And so, she can, and Anthony just finished up basically going from the first sales hire at Gainsight at almost 100 million in revenue and has just retired. So now, you’ll be able to go upstairs and you’ll hear the honest stories, right, of how a marketing leader, the CMO, works with the CCO. You just don’t know when.

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yoursales

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Sales Stack 2020. Sales Tools for Professional Sales. SALES STACK 2020: THE TOOLS SALES STACK 2020: THE TOOLS. W elcome to "Sales Stack 2020 - Sales Tools for Professional Sales". Next to that we'll continue to have the full list of sales tools available right here.

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yoursales

DECEMBER 23, 2019

SALES STACK 2020. Sales Tools for Professional Sales. SALES STACK 2019: THE TOOLS SALES STACK 2019: THE TOOLS. W elcome to "Sales Stack 2020 - Sales Tools for Professional Sales". Next to that we'll continue to have the full list of sales tools available right here.

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yoursales

DECEMBER 12, 2018

SALES STACK 2019 SALES TOOLS FOR. PROFESSIONAL SALES SALES STACK 2019: THE TOOLS SALES STACK 2019: THE TOOLS I t’s 2019 and we’re back at the sales tools workshop, working out the best sales tools for your sales process. Which sales tools best support your sales process?

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Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

But sales is the one thing founders cannot oversee — without it your startup will die. But the one thing you must think about is sales. Without sales, your startup dies. Yet, sales is all too often a dirty word. They go for the sale without caring about what the customer needs in the first place. Coach regularly.

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yoursales

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Sales Stack 2023 Sales Tools for Professional B2B Sales SALES STACK 2023: Sales Tools for. Professional Sales SALES STACK. 2022: Sales Tools. Sales share this with your network S ales tools and figuring out what your sales stack 2023 should look like is as challenging as ever.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Learn what it takes to create your own category, achieve scale in a niche SaaS vertical and how it requires more than just discovering an unmet need. Want to see more content like this? Then I went over to the sales department. They said, well Nancy, that marketing machine you just met, they generate all these consistent leads.

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Point Nine Land

MAY 10, 2022

To achieve its ambitious growth targets, Acme is going to spend aggressively on sales and marketing while continuing to invest in R&D. 1) Until they have experienced sales, marketing, and finance leaders, most companies project to grow exponentially. But let’s dig in a bit deeper. month-over-month.

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User Pilot

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Determine whether you’ll adopt the product-led growth strategy or the sales-led strategy. Choose specific and relevant marketing platforms to help you reach your target market. A go-to-market (GTM) strategy is a comprehensive business plan for bringing a new product or service to market.

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ProfitWell

DECEMBER 13, 2019

The goal in SaaS sales is not to convince your customer to buy your product there and then—it’s to win that customer over to your product for a lifetime. We’ll tell you how to use your understanding of a prospect to turn them into a delighted customer, what metrics to lean on, and how to build the perfect SaaS sales team. What is SaaS?

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OpenView Labs

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The exciting thing about prototypes is that large-scale experiments can be built through open-source projects , which companies like Netflix and Linkedin will do as a strategic way of recruiting top talent. . If none exist, pick a price where the scaling mechanism is clearly tied to the buyer’s perception of value.

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Outseta

JANUARY 20, 2020

In light of the sale of Buildium last month I figured now is as good of a time as any to reflect on the most important ones. There was no strike price or vesting schedule associated with these units—they were simply granted to employees based on performance or as a recruiting tool. The business was structured as an LLC.

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SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

On either a scale of 1 to 10 or a percentage basis, where is seed investment? Because it’s still been a rarity to build a really successful scaled company without having formative team members live and work in the same place and be next to each other. ” From a sales perspective, how is that going to change sales?

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SaaStr

APRIL 11, 2019

” Or, “You are the next generation account management software.” ” And for us, the piece that was missing was that there was a job that existed called the customer success manager. Sometimes we, I think, feel like a recruiting arm too just in-. Number four, being authentic at scale.

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yoursales

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Sales Stack 2023 Sales Tools for Professional B2B Sales SALES STACK 2023: Sales Tools for Professional Sales SALES STACK 2023: Sales Tools for Professional Sales share this with your network S ales tools and figuring out what your sales stack 2023 should look like is as challenging as ever.

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Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

But sales is the one thing founders cannot oversee — without it your startup will die. But the one thing you must think about is sales. Without sales, your startup dies. Yet, sales is all too often a dirty word. They go for the sale without caring about what the customer needs in the first place. Coach regularly.

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ChurnZero

JULY 9, 2020

But if you’re like most companies, when it comes to attracting your customers, the only thing your marketing’s dropping is the ball. Sure, you won customers over to get the initial purchase, but what about your post-sale courting? Product Usage – is the account above 80% license utilization with high usage across all features?

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Point Nine Land

JANUARY 30, 2019

To sum it up, I believe the winners of this “installation phase” were the companies which managed to overcome these three challenges and which have picked the right early “use case” (sales pipeline management for Salesforce, content marketing for Hubspot, HR for Workdays…). The timing aspect is crucial.

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Neil Patel

JANUARY 20, 2021

It also happens to be the linchpin of any successful marketing campaign. You need to attract potential buyers and funnel them into your sales funnel. 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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