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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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A Look Back: Slack at $30,000,000 in ARR

SaaStr

I met you probably before that, you come out of PayPal and all this, and it’s a change. Then we needed a customer success team to make sure that customers were successful with the product and therefore renewed, so we ended up rebuilding all these functions out of Salesforce. You have to get it right.

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The Double-Stretch Hire Rarely Works Out

SaaStr

A customer success leader that was good at upsells — which is sort of, but not really, sales — that insists on being your VP of Sales. A director of sales with some team management experience that wants to be your CRO, and own the entire number, including renewals, success, everything.

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Everyone in SaaS Needs to Do Customer Support. At Least Until You Have 50-100 Employees. But Ideally, Forever.

SaaStr

A ways back we noted a great rant by David Marcus , now of Facebook, and previously President of PayPal. Complaining his employees weren’t using PayPal apps. But PayPal isn’t Google. Well — what did he expect? Yes, he was right. It’s not cool if your team doesn’t use your app every day.

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How NitroPack Grew by 628% With FastSpring

FastSpring

When NitroPack was first getting started, they used PayPal to accept and process payments. “It Why NitroPack Couldn’t Scale PayPal NitroPack faced two issues trying to scale using PayPal. With PayPal, You’re Not Automatically Sales Tax and VAT Compliant The biggest issue was tax compliance. The problem?

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FinTech Onboarding: 13 Best Practices for Customer Success

User Pilot

Personalize the customer journey Before you begin the onboarding process, though, you need to learn about the user’s main goal with your product. For example, a payment app like PayPal can be used for either shopping or money transfer. The PayPal community forum.

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Top 25 SaaStr Podcast Episodes from 2020

SaaStr

Learn how Anthony used brand marketing to place Gainsight as the category leader in customer success, how he’s approaching brand marketing at Front, and how you can effectively leverage brand marketing programs in your marketing strategy. . David Sacks is best known as the Founder and CEO of Yammer or the product lead at Paypal.

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