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Outsourcing Support is a Lot Better Than Not Providing Support at All

SaaStr

Q: What are your thoughts on outsourcing customer support? There are certainly cons to traditional outsourced support vs. highly trained support that works right inside your company. At least you know the vendor is there, but many of your customers will need more than just … a frustrating bot. Still awful.

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Hey, partner! Introducing new programs for app and service partners

Intercom, Inc.

And as businesses, we could all use partners to forge stronger relationships with our customers. So today we’re excited to announce two new programs for Intercom app builders and service providers: the App Partner Program and the Service Partner Program. That’s what we’ll do as partners.

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SaaStr Podcast 459 (and Video): The Role of Partners to Scaling to $15 Billion With ServiceNow

SaaStr

Aneesa Sayall (VP of Strategic Operations Customer & Partner Org at ServiceNow) interviews Lara Caimi, the ServiceNow Chief Customer & Partner Officer, about the journey to $15 billion and how building partnerships help propel the business. They are critical in getting our customers to success.”.

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Scaling from $1 to $10M, an AMA with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin (Pod 573)

SaaStr

And each of those webinars will probably produce at least one customer if you do it every single week in scale. But I almost never see mediocre outsource SEO really work for B2B. Fergal Kerins (@FergalKerins): What if the customers you are trying to reach are all giants? So, thanks man. So hope that’s helpful.

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SaaStr Podcast 748: Fundraising & for Hiring in 2024 and Much More with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

He recommends that heads of product, sales, and customer success should spend their initial weeks meeting customers to understand their needs and challenges. software, services) and being honest with investors about the composition of your revenue. He suggests breaking down revenue into categories (e.g.,

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Braindates Are Open for SaaStr APAC 2023!

SaaStr

with Olivier Adam, Chief Growth Officer at ReferralCandy Successful Scaling Across Markets, Lessons in Marketing & Building GTM with IvyCap’s MP with Ashish Wadhwani, Co-founder and Managing Partner. And thanks to our partners at Globalization Partners for helping bring Braindates to SaaStr APAC.

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Avoid Global Tax Headaches With FastSpring: A Customer Success Story

FastSpring

It became complicated quickly, but by partnering with FastSpring as a merchant of record , we were able to simplify it back down for them. What could have been a long and expensive process for the customer, was handled in just days by FastSpring’s tax experts, and all part of the MoR service when you partner with FastSpring.