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How SMB Digital Brands Can Win the Best Talent

FastSpring

If you’re running a smaller digital business, you may find it challenging to hire great talent. In this episode of Growth Stage, we interview Lizzie Mintus Founder and CEO of Here’s Waldo Recruiting and host of The Heres Waldo Podcast about her thoughts on: The most effective recruiting strategies for SMBs.

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30+ Tough Learnings from Losing a Top Customer

SaaStr

Another top mistake SMB folks make trying to sell enterprise. And you lose renewals when you didn’t engage enough of the stakeholders. You have to be careful to pair that with someone strong to manage the relationship, that has more time and that also can be trusted. They just don’t map out all the stakeholders.

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What’s New at ZoomInfo with CEO Henry Schuck

SaaStr

So to serve both segments at the simultaneously, ZoomInfo has been rolling out a Product-led sales motion, that gives the ability for an SMB customer to sign up directly on their website for a free trial and grow into a paid customer, without ever having to talk to an sales rep or go through a demo process.

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Dharmesh Shah of HubSpot: From Day 0 to IPO. What Went to Plan. What Most Certainly Didn’t (Video, Podcast + Transcript)

SaaStr

Co-founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah shared with us how they got there — and the top mistakes they made — just 3 quarters after their IPO. You will fail if you: 1) try to build a suite of products out of the gate, 2) focus solely on SMBs, or 3) have an MBA. But of course, it wasn’t always quite that big!

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Here’s What Enterprise Buyers Look for When Evaluating Software

OpenView Labs

While the CTOs may be directly involved in the purchase decision-making at the startup and SMB organizations, the role of the CTO at larger organizations can be very different, and not all CTOs look the same. “A A lot of our clients want to target CTOs or C-level executives,” said Valentino Volonghi, CTO of AdRoll.

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PODCAST 93: The Journey from 2x Founder to VC with Angus Davis

Sales Hacker

SMB Sales & SDRs at (Smaller) Scale [18:20]. Today’s sponsor is Outreach , the leading sales engagement platform that enables sales reps to humanize their communications at scale, from automating the soul-sucking manual work that eats up selling time to providing action-oriented tips on what communications are working best.

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Product-Led Growth (PLG) For Startups

Mucker Capital

Obviously if you target enterprise customers, you usually have a very large ACV (Annual Contract Value) and the product usually is complex. We talk about using the product complexity, your target customer size, your contract value, and whether there's individual use case–those four things--to help you decide if PLG is a fit.

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