August, 2020

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6 Proactive B2B Sales Strategies to Implement Right Now

Predictable Revenue

When you take a more proactive approach, you are able to guide the pace of the sales process to better support your company’s bottom line. You can also ensure you are working with the right decision maker who can move through the sales process with you, resulting in a win. The post 6 Proactive B2B Sales Strategies to Implement Right Now appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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The secret to customer engagement success? Gamification

DeepStream

What can you learn from video games to engage your customers and get them addicted to your products? Gamification Gamification is to key to successful engagement

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What’s More Important, New Customers or Retention? It’s a Trick Question

SaaStr

Q: What is more important, getting new customers or customer retention? It’s a trick question, of course — the crazy high net negative churn of top SaaS companies means that of course retention matters more than new customers. If you have 140% net revenue retention at, say, $100m ARR and want to grow 50% that year … well, 80% of that growth will come from your base and existing customers!

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Asana S-1 Analysis - Comparing One Productivity Powerhouse to Another

Tom Tunguz

Asana filed their S-1 this week. Asana builds productivity and task management solutions. When they launched, their vision of eliminating email through task management made big waves in the market. Today, the company is a massively successful SaaS business and another example of the flywheel business model that creates demand at the individual user and leverages that interest to sell department and company-wide contracts.

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An Omnichannel Payment Solution––Without the Complexity

Simplify omnichannel payments with a solution that unifies every channel through your platform. By integrating front-end systems like online, mobile, and in-store payments with robust back-end infrastructure, you can deliver a seamless payments experience without the need for heavy engineering. Omnitoken technology enhances security by tokenizing card transactions for reuse, enabling merchants to drive cross-selling opportunities.

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Best Cheap Web Hosting

The Daily Egg

When you’re just getting started, saving money is critical. You can’t afford to waste a single penny. But you also know you need fast, reliable, and trustworthy hosting for your first (or next) website. And with hundreds of options to choose from, making that crucial decision isn’t easy. The good news is I did the […]. The post Best Cheap Web Hosting appeared first on The Daily Egg.

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A Tactical Approach to Refreshing your Sales Strategy with Dynamic Guided Selling

Predictable Revenue

In a digitally transforming landscape, your sales solutions can guide you towards a more effective way of winning each deal. This kind of support is particularly crucial in a world rocked by a global pandemic. The post A Tactical Approach to Refreshing your Sales Strategy with Dynamic Guided Selling appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

Strategy 290
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Building software: what you want vs what you need

DeepStream

Developing reliable, high-quality software which solves real problems is already a tough enough. Map that onto procurement and it seems impossible.

Software 141
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The 7 Best Pieces of Business Advice I Was Ever Given

SaaStr

Here’s my list of the best golden advice I was given as a first-time — and second-time — CEO: Manage People — In General, and Earlier. The earlier in your career you can learn how to manage people, the faster you can excel in learning to scale. Managing people isn’t always fun. But embrace it if you want to be a CEO, a founder, and/or be a part of something bigger.

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Inside Rounds Have Become a Sign of Strength at the Series B

Tom Tunguz

In my recent post about the fundraising market during COVID, I wondered aloud about inside rounds. Inside rounds, new financing rounds led by existing investors, have historically been primarily the territory of companies who cannot raise from outside investors at attractive terms. But recently, insiders have been leading the most competitive rounds in their portfolio companies.

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How Clinic Sense Reduced Churn and Unlocked More Revenue

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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Best Employee Scheduling Software

The Daily Egg

Managers waste over 140 hours a year manually creating schedules for their employees. Furthermore, manual scheduling errors can increase your turnover rate by as much as 174%. The good news is that’s not what your scheduling process has to look like. The best employee scheduling software helps you save time, minimize errors, and give your […].

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Words matter: Removing exclusionary terminology from our codebase

Intercom, Inc.

In the past few months, the world has changed in many ways. The Black Lives Matter movement has sparked a much-needed dialogue about diversity and inclusion in the workplace. Intercom has responded by hiring a diversity and inclusion consultant, updating our recruitment strategy and hiring practices to reduce bias, scheduling allyship training for all employees, and amplifying Black voices in our podcast and blog.

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5 Steps to Become an Effective Leader of a Culture-Driven Organization

Predictable Revenue

Having a culture-driven organization is nothing if you do not have practical leadership skills to keep workplace performance culture alive. The post 5 Steps to Become an Effective Leader of a Culture-Driven Organization appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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Getting Started with a Customer Success Program at Lucid

Totango

In our latest installment in the CXO Series , we sat down with Stephanie Comardelle, Vice President of Customer Experience, Success, and Solutions at Lucid to discuss what it takes to implement a stakeholder engagement plan at a time when there is so much going on as well as how they are managing their new customer success program. . Lucid bridges the gap between global questions and human answers by connecting buyers and sellers in one central location for survey sample groups.

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Usage-Based Monetization Musts: A Roadmap for Sustainable Revenue Growth

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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Yes, Your VP of Sales Also Has to Be a Great Salesperson Herself

SaaStr

A mistake many founders make is hiring a VP of Sales who has many strengths — but not at sales per se. A VP of Sales who is smart, polished, and worked at the right place, in a management-level position. That can talk about quota attainment and sales operations and scaling and number. But actually isn’t great at … sales itself. I can tell you empirically the best VP of Sales I know were strong salespeople in the early career.

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Conflicting Data on the State of the US Early Stage Market

Tom Tunguz

After I wrote a post on the health of the seed market during COVID , the Angellist team emailed me saying they observed different patterns in their early-stage data and offered to collaborate. This data set is unique because it records transacted deals on the Angellist platform. The first post highlighted a 40% reduction in seed investment in Q2 2020 and 42% increase in Series A investment, quarter over quarter.

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Best Data Visualization Tools

The Daily Egg

By 2025, we’re projected to produce 463 exabytes (4,630,000,000,000,000,000 bytes) of data every day. Everything you do online leaves a digital trail. Which is cool and all… but what does that mean for business owners, digital marketers, bloggers, and data engineers? It’s a massive opportunity. Big data presents an unprecedented level of insight into your […].

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Not investing in localization is costing you more than you think

Intercom, Inc.

For many companies, the word localization typically prompts two thoughts: it’s costly, and it’s time-consuming. Localizing a product for international expansion means making all aspects of that product accessible to the market you’re looking to enter – from language translation and adapting product UX to offering multilingual customer support, and beyond.

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

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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Utilizing Audience Engagement to Boost your SaaS Company Revenue

Predictable Revenue

Nathan Latka explains how he grew his dorm room business to $5M in revenue when he was 21, and the key to launching a successful podcast. The post Utilizing Audience Engagement to Boost your SaaS Company Revenue appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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The PYMNTS Cross-Border Merchant Friction Index 2020

FastSpring

One of the most significant causes of abandoned digital product purchases is friction within the checkout process. The good news is there’s an opportunity for software and saas companies to streamline their checkouts to drive more revenue. That is why we would like to introduce the PYMNTS Cross-Border Merchant Friction Index, a resource analyzing the key friction points experienced by the global consumer.

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5 Pieces of Advice Entrepreneurs Never Hear. That They Need to Hear.

SaaStr

My top list of advice founders never hear: Slow it down if you don’t have a great co-founder. We all get excited to “get going” with a start-up. But if your co-founder isn’t great, if they don’t have the right skills to complement yours, and/or if they aren’t committed enough … it won’t work out. More here: A Simple Commitment Test For You And Your Co-Founders | SaaStr.

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Month Zero Cash-on-Cash Payback - A Metric for Judging Sales Team Growth

Tom Tunguz

Rippling published their fundraising deck. Within it, Adil Syed, (a former Redpoint VC!), introduced a gem of a new metric : month zero cash-on-cash payback. It’s not a metric one sees very often in pitch decks. But it’s another metric to add to the toolkit. Month Zero Cash-on-Cash Payback is a mouthful. Let’s dub it ZCP for Zero Cash Payback to save us from the more evident but unwieldy MZCoCP.

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

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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Best Inventory Management Software

The Daily Egg

Inventory management is more than just keeping track of the items in your warehouse and storefronts. It’s about maintaining adequate stock levels and yielding maximum profitability. The best inventory management solutions offer features for things like asset tracking, order management, supplier relations, and so much more. All of these components can help you avoid overstocking […].

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Take back your time: How to unlock the hidden value in your calendar

Intercom, Inc.

One of the most finite resources we have is time. And as an Executive Assistant, one of my top priorities is to ensure my leaders not only have enough time in the day, but are able to be effective, efficient, and productive. Helping them accomplish this isn’t an easy task, but it’s fundamental to their success. Allow too many meetings to pile on to their calendar, and they face some serious hydration and bladder issues.

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The 2 personalized touches that generate 80% of Chili Piper’s opportunities

Predictable Revenue

Learn how, in the middle of Covid-19, Michael’s team had their best month ever, Michael’s philosophy on cadences, writing the first email, how to find the right messaging for your company, and much more! The post The 2 personalized touches that generate 80% of Chili Piper’s opportunities appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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In Defense of the IPO, and How to Improve It

Andreessen Horowitz

There’s a popular narrative that evil investment bankers are intentionally underpricing traditional IPOs to steal from companies, lining banker pockets and those of their fatcat Wall Street clients. The proof is seemingly obvious: IPOs are 50x oversubscribed! The price explodes … The post In Defense of the IPO, and How to Improve It appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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Launching LLM-Based Products: From Concept to Cash in 90 Days

Speaker: Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health and Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health, is here to take us through how he guided his company's recent experience of getting from concept to launch and sales of products within 90 days. In this exclusive webinar, Christophe will cover key aspects of his journey, including: LLM Development & Quick Wins 🤖 Understand how LLMs differ from traditional software, identifying opportunities for rapid development and deployment.

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5 Very Good Days, and 5 Pretty Bad Days, as a SaaS CEO

SaaStr

A ways back, Forbes was kind enough to pick up a thread I did on Quora about my 5 favorite good days, and 5 most visceral bad days, in the early days, of getting from $0 to $10m in ARR. Let me expand on it here since the original answer. Maybe it will be cathartic for you. And I’m also going to throw in a few small moments from running “SaaStr Inc” now to almost $20m in annual revenue, and investing in a handful of awesome unicorns.

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A Quick Diagnostic to Determine if Your Sales & Marketing Teams are Aligned

Tom Tunguz

How do you tell if your sales team and marketing team are working well together? There’s a simple diagnostic that I’ve come to use. Compare the slopes of marketing’s lead generation efforts to sales’ bookings trajectory. The marketing pipeline trend should be the pipeline for this quarter, pipeline that’s available to close (ATC).

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Best ERP Software

The Daily Egg

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) software combines multiple business-critical tools into a single platform. It’s common for ERP software to include functionality for human resources, accounting, supply chain management, business intelligence, customer relationship management, and more. The best ERP solutions can be tailored to meet the specific needs of individual organizations and industries.