SaaStr

MAY 21, 2024

So G2 put out a survey and report on customer success recently that was an eye-opener: 67% of CS execs report having a sales quota 53% of CS execs now view their job as primarily a sales role Now some of this may be semantics. Business software companies have had “account managers” responsible for upsell since the earliest days. As customer success came into its own, it was often seen as distinct from account management, focused on customer retention and happiness and NPS and CSAT.

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Predictable Revenue

MAY 21, 2024

Collin and Fred shared how an unusual path involving his battle with Lyme disease made him a better sales leader. The post The Power of Authenticity in Sales with Fred Diamond appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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SaaStr

MAY 21, 2024

Dear SaaStr: What Were the Biggest Mistakes You Made Getting Your Startups Going? The biggest two mistakes I made, I made twice, maybe thrice. They were: One, starting with too incomplete a management team. In my first start-up, while the core 3 co-founders were great, we needed an operational COO to really get to market with our customers. I closed arguably the best COO in the U.S. for the job — or so I thought.

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The Moz Blog

MAY 21, 2024

What good is winning the algorithm if you’ve lost the human? What would happen if you were OK with sacrificing a high ranking to get more people to thank you for how much you educated them? In this article, discover Wil’s two new approaches to SEO and content using social media.

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SaaStr

MAY 21, 2024

How do you build a culture of openness and collaboration as your company scales? Founder and CEO of Guru, Rick Nucci, and previously founder of Boomi, on track to IPO soon at $200m+ ARR, shares how to run all-hands meetings the right way. Guru is about a decade old and provides AI-driven search for companies where employees can ask questions and find knowledge to do their job.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MAY 21, 2024

We believe the most successful American Dynamism companies share a few common characteristics: They’re able to anticipate technological turning points and breakthroughs. They identify, recruit, and empower the world’s best engineers by giving them insanely hard, cross-disciplinary problems to own. They continuously push the limits of what’s possible with technology, and innovate quickly through both success and failure.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 21, 2024

Daniel Zarick is the Co-Founder and CEO of Arrows, a collaborative customer onboarding tool built specifically for teams using HubSpot. With funding from Gradient Ventures, HubSpot Ventures, and GTMfund, Arrows. is well-positioned to become a major player in the HubSpot ecosystem. Discussed in this Episode: The benefits and challenges of going to market in a single platform ecosystem like HubSpot How to gain traction and build relationships with key stakeholders in a crowded partner ecosystem St

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Kellblog

MAY 21, 2024

For no apparent underlying reason, a lot of the companies I have worked at over the years have been quite successful in Japan. Thus, while I don’t write about it much, I have a fair bit of experience working with Japanese subsidiaries and/or distributors in the enterprise software market. On a recent trip to Tokyo, I met with an old friend who’s lived in Japan for well over a decade and who is now the GM of Japan at a large enterprise software company.

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User Pilot

MAY 21, 2024

Following customer lifecycle management best practices can lead your company to retain more users and increase customer lifetime value. But what are these best practices and how can you implement them? Let’s explore customer lifecycle management (CLM), its phases, and the best practices you can apply in SaaS without coding! TL;DR Customer lifecycle management (CLM) is a strategic approach for tracking, analyzing, and optimizing customer interactions throughout their entire relationship with your

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ClinicSense is a SaaS platform that supports over 7,000 massage therapists who use it for appointment management, payments, scheduling, marketing activities and more. Despite having a relatively low payment failure rate, the company discovered that the failures disrupted the customer experience. This often led to churn as customers decided to cancel or abandon their account, preventing ClinicSense from realizing the full lifetime value (LTV) of its users.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MAY 21, 2024

Vineeta Agarwala, MD, PhD, joins Luke Timmerman’s The Long Run podcast on stage at the Life Science Innovation Northwest Conference. They discuss everything from AI for drug discovery to Vineeta’s ongoing clinical work as a physician and how that influences her perspective.

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User Pilot

MAY 21, 2024

Functionality is a must when it comes to attracting customers, but it’s user experience that helps you retain them. Wondering how to create an outstanding user experience ? Read this article to discover 17 UX design principles to drive customer satisfaction and loyalty. Let’s dive right in! TL;DR UX design identifies user needs, wants, and pain points and creates engaging products that enable them to achieve their goals.

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Groove HQ

MAY 21, 2024

The barrier to entry is lowering for many industries, and competition is growing on every corner. Amid so much noise, it’s becoming harder to perform customer acquisition efficiently. Fortunately, you’re not limited to just one marketing channel. There are many options for expanding your business, even if budget or time is short (or both!).

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Sales Hacker

MAY 21, 2024

If you’re not evolving your go-to-market strategy with the latest in content marketing, you risk being left behind. Whether you’re fine-tuning your current approach or overhauling your strategy, understanding the future of content marketing is essential – where we are now and where are we going. Join industry leaders Udi Ledergor, Jon Miller, and Pete Lorenco to stay up to date on the landscape of content marketing and how we’re evolving.

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Speaker: David Warren and Kevin O’Neill Stoll

Transitioning to a usage-based business model offers powerful growth opportunities but comes with unique challenges. How do you validate strategies, reduce risks, and ensure alignment with customer value? Join us for a deep dive into designing effective pilots that test the waters and drive success in usage-based revenue. Discover how to develop a pilot that captures real customer feedback, aligns internal teams with usage metrics, and rethinks sales incentives to prioritize lasting customer eng

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Nimble - Sales

MAY 21, 2024

Running a small business demands perpetual optimization for efficiency and effectiveness. Yet, suppose your company relies on manual outbound calls. In that case, you might hesitate to adopt a power dialing solution, fearing it could dilute the vital human touch essential for forging genuine business relationships. Technology has come a long way. There’s software on […] The post Top 5 Auto Dialer Software for Small Business appeared first on Nimble Blog.

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Inturact

MAY 21, 2024

If you’re like most SaaS companies we interact with, you wish you had a crystal ball that could show you exactly what your customers want and how to keep them coming back for more. What if we told you that SaaS data science can provide that crystal ball for you?

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Scytale

MAY 21, 2024

You walk into the office and all everyone can talk about is AI. As AI continues to grow and transform industries, keeping company and personal data secure has never been more important. And that’s where ISO 42001 comes in. This international standard provides a comprehensive framework for tackling the unique challenges of AI data security. This quick read will get you up to speed on ISO 42001 – what it is, who’s responsible for what, and why it matters.

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Buffer Resources

MAY 21, 2024

We’re always adding new features and updates to Buffer. This year, we've introduced several new additions, and we're excited to give you a sneak peek at what's coming next. Here's everything you need to know about our latest updates and what to look forward to. Already released in 2024 Notification Publishing for Instagram Buffer can either auto-post on your behalf or you can choose to get notifications to finish the post yourself.

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Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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Groove HQ

MAY 21, 2024

The barrier to entry is lowering for many industries, and competition is growing on every corner. Amid so much noise, it’s becoming harder to perform customer acquisition efficiently. Fortunately, you’re not limited to just one marketing channel. There are many options for expanding your business, even if budget or time is short (or both!).

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Buffer Resources

MAY 21, 2024

For years, I struggled to grow my audience on Instagram. After 6 years of trying hard to build my fitness-focused account, I only had 2,300 followers to show for it. While I do believe follower count is a vanity metric, I couldn’t help feeling frustrated and like a failure. Realizing I needed a change, I revamped my strategy based on my experience to grow a new Instagram account Not Bored in DC to over 20,000 followers in just 9 months while also getting paid to create content.

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CloudKettle

MAY 21, 2024

Revenue Lifecycle Management (RLM) is a new revenue solution from Salesforce, offering a combination of Salesforce processes and technologies that help businesses manage Sales and Finance in a single unified system. It provides a solution to manage and increase revenue by streamlining and automating the sales process, from generating quotes to managing subscriptions.

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Zuora

MAY 21, 2024

Data professionals face a crucial challenge in today’s fast-paced modern businesses, where data is key to making informed decisions: accessing and integrating data from various platforms quickly and accurately. As a data analyst, engineer, or business intelligence specialist, you’ve likely experienced the struggle of juggling multiple data sources and dealing with slow or manual integration […] The post Streamline Data Integration with Zuora for Better Insights appeared first on Zuor

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Chargebee

MAY 21, 2024

Chargebee is leading the charge in revolutionizing subscription management, arming you with a powerful suite tailored to create a seamless subscriber experience. With Chargebee Retention, we’re not just reactive; we’re proactive. By ramping up subscriber engagement, automating financial processes, and boosting revenue retention, we empower you to tackle churn head-on.

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Zuora

MAY 21, 2024

Revenue Operations leaders have been tracking KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) like “ARR”, “MRR”, and “Churn Rate” since the early aughts when SaaS models first started gaining steam amongst software companies. These metrics were a great starting point for plotting year over year trends, but how much can they really tell you? They can’t answer deeper […] The post Beyond KPIs: Benchmarks that Empower Modern Businesses appeared first on Zuora.

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User Pilot

MAY 21, 2024

What is churn ? Simply put, churn measures how many customers businesses are losing over time — a central concern for companies dependent on customer retention , like those in the SaaS industry. Additionally, the annual churn rate is a critical metric that quantifies the percentage of customers lost over a year, offering insights into long-term customer satisfaction and loyalty.

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Zuora

MAY 21, 2024

Data professionals face a crucial challenge in today’s fast-paced modern businesses, where data is key to making informed decisions: accessing and integrating data from various platforms quickly and accurately. As a data analyst, engineer, or business intelligence specialist, you’ve likely experienced the struggle of juggling multiple data sources and dealing with slow or manual integration […] The post Streamline Data Integration with Zuora for Better Insights appeared first on Zuor

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Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, and Terrence Sheflin

As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.

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Chart Mogul

MAY 21, 2024

Set up automations in your account to make repetitive tasks easier, cut down on mistakes and help your team work faster. Automations are helpful workflows that kick into gear based on specific conditions you set. They’re perfect for saving time by handling repetitive tasks and speeding up everyday processes. Plus, they cut down on mistakes made by human error and keep your ChartMogul account constantly up-to-date.

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Zuora

MAY 21, 2024

Customer retention is more than just a metric; it’s a strategic imperative for businesses seeking sustainable and recurring growth. While reactive customer support – fixing problems as they arise – remains essential, a paradigm shift is underway. Forward-thinking businesses are realizing that the key to keeping customers happy and loyal lies in understanding and paying […] The post Proactive support: The secret weapon to beat customer churn appeared first on Zuora.

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Chart Mogul

MAY 21, 2024

We’ve released three new integrations that enhance your ability to segment your customer base and provide visibility over lead and trial data. We’re excited to announce three new integrations with HubSpot, Segment and Intercom which automatically import customer and lead data into ChartMogul. Now, segmenting your data is more powerful, and getting started with ChartMogul CRM is even easier.

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