December, 2020

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Sales Processes Research 2020 – Something Old, Something New

Sales Hacker

Despite the huge growth in marketing and sales automation, along with the growing popularity and acceptance of self-service sales processes, reports of the death of the salesperson are greatly exaggerated, to paraphrase Mark Twain. Higher value B2B sales still need a competent salesperson to close the deal. But how have the processes and techniques of salespeople changed in the modern world?

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How to Improve HubSpot Sales Forecasting…Quickly

InsightSquared

Ready to improve your HubSpot Forecast accuracy? . Do you have confidence in your sales forecast? Are you prepared to make critical business decisions such as new headcount, market expansion or product development? . As B2B revenue leaders, you’re consistently looking for ways to predict the future with increased accuracy. You may still be relying on spreadsheets to build your forecasts.

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How to Overcome 5 Common B2B Sales Challenges

Predictable Revenue

Generating and retaining business customers makes you deal with longer (and more complicated) sales cycles, more demanding customers, and huge amounts of data. But don't worry! Here's a little help. The post How to Overcome 5 Common B2B Sales Challenges appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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If You’re Going to Do a SaaS Start-Up … You Have to Give it 24 Months

SaaStr

It took us 2 years just to figure out our ultimate business model. What you think you do on day 1 may look very different by day 365. [link]. — Aaron Levie (@levie) September 11, 2020. It seems like everyone wants to be a SaaS founder these days. I meet with great VPs of Sales and Product in particular who are Ready. It’s time. To go out on their own.

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SaaS Essentials: Failed Payment Solution Guide

For SaaS businesses, improving retention is one of the easiest and most effective ways to drive revenue and profits. With a clear link between failed payments and customer churn, having a robust failed payment recovery solution isn’t optional—it’s essential. Achieving your retention goals starts with the right solution.

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Best SEO Tools

The Daily Egg

SEO is a vital process for any business hoping to attract traffic online these days. But the SEO process itself is a vast undertaking, involving everything from keyword research to data analysis to active outreach. Managing all of those tasks yourself is a tall order—one you probably don’t have a ton of bandwidth for while […]. The post Best SEO Tools appeared first on The Daily Egg.

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2020 on Inside Intercom

Intercom, Inc.

This was a year when it felt like history was unfolding in real time – rather than the narrative of our time taking shape gradually over months and years, events were seemingly getting inscribed straight into the collective memory every day, or sometimes every hour. Such turbulence is never pleasant to live through – we crave a steady, predictable pace of progress, and above all we crave a sense of control over that progress.

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The Basics Of Making an Ebook

FastSpring

If you’ve been dreaming of creating an ebook about something you’re fiercely passionate about and want to share your expertise with the world, you’ve come to the right place. Heck, you’ve come to the right place even if you’re not sure what you want to write about; you just know you want to know how to make an ebook. Who can blame you, since ebook sales continue to dramatically increase annually and aren’t showing any signs of slowing down.

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How to Scale Your Business So It Sells Like a Fortune 500, With The Culture And Agility of a Startup

Predictable Revenue

Having worked with many diverse corporations, Claire Chandler has experienced most companies fall apart once they start to scale. As a solution, she created a revolutionary way to align your leaders and teams around a unifying vision that attracts, retains, and motivates the right talent to achieve your mission. The post How to Scale Your Business So It Sells Like a Fortune 500, With The Culture And Agility of a Startup appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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If You Don’t Think You Need a VP of Product, VP of Marketing, Etc. — Then You Haven’t Worked With a Great One

SaaStr

I hear again and again from SaaS founders growing to $5m, $10m ARR or even more that they don’t need a certain VP — with the exception of a VP of Sales. That they can get away without no one in the role, or a just a junior person in marketing, in product, in success, in biz dev, etc. Basically, in SaaS, everyone “gets” that they need a VP of Sales.

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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 Data Loss Prevention Software

The Daily Egg

What do you do to take care of your health? Perhaps you drink lots of water, exercise regularly, and avoid McDonald’s. But as a business owner, what initiatives have you taken to protect your business health? Are you safeguarding data? Are your passwords strong? Does your company have data loss prevention software? Considering that 77% […]. The post Best Data Loss Prevention Software appeared first on The Daily Egg.

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Rediscovering the Power of the Command Line

Tom Tunguz

I remember sitting in the second floor of the engineering building late into the night in front of an SGI Indigo workstation during grad school. The machine was a deep purple, and the keyboard was gray, and the screen showed a terminal with a little blinking green box. I spent many nights trying to figure out how to complete work with that little prompt.

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Solving the customer success equation: Nick Mehta on delivering value at scale

Intercom, Inc.

Few are better placed to explain the concept of customer success than Nick Mehta. As CEO of Gainsight , he has done more than most to popularize the category in the B2B SaaS world, and these efforts recently culminated in the company being acquired by Vista Equity Partners for $1.1 billion. Nick’s belief that business is personal underpins his outlook, and he takes a “human-first” approach in his role.

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24 Best Ecommerce Quotes for Digital Sellers

FastSpring

Everybody likes a good quote. Whether it’s a simple self-care reminder or a cheesy line from a movie. We love reading and sharing these small snippets with one another. But as a digital seller and online business owner, sometimes you need a quote that gives you more than warm, fuzzy feelings. You need something that makes you think about your digital business in a new way, renews your motivation, and helps you be more innovative.

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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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How to Get The Attention of Any Decision-Maker to Expand Your Sales Within An Enterprise Account

Predictable Revenue

Troy Angrignon has sold into huge companies in every space imaginable, from IT, to state government, to Fortune 100 oil and gas. Over 25 years he has come up with some indisputable tactics on what exactly you need to do to get a meeting with any decision-maker at a large account. The post How to Get The Attention of Any Decision-Maker to Expand Your Sales Within An Enterprise Account appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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Turns Out, 85% of the World Likes “Contact Me”. Even Though You Don’t.

SaaStr

I know you are probably like me. You go to a web service. What do you do? Free trial. Sign Up Now. The very, very last thing I am going to click is “Contact Me.” The last thing I want, as a web-centric small customer/user, is some sales rep selling me on some product I just want to try for 20 minutes and see if it works for me. You and I are like that.

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Best Membership Management Software

The Daily Egg

Want to cut right to the chase? Our top picks for best membership management software are Personify Wild Apricot, MemberSpace, or MemberClicks. The right membership management software should feel like the extra staff member you never knew you needed. One that doesn’t take sick days or needs vacations. It can make mundane administration tasks incredibly […].

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Top 10 Learnings from Startups to a $100M+ ARR General Manager, Linda Tong

Tom Tunguz

Recently, we welcomed Linda Tong, GM of AppDynamics to Redpoint Office Hours. This iis a summary of what we learned from that conversation. Linda’s professional journey has taken her across businesses of all sizes — from startups in hypergrowth mode to mature, multi-hundred million-dollar businesses. She started off in product marketing at Google, helping launch Google Chrome and Android.

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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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What we learned from Scale in 2020

Intercom, Inc.

This year, we launched Scale , a new content strand focusing on how industry leaders are propelling their companies forward by keeping their customers front and center. . When we created Scale, we had no idea what the year would hold in store; we simply knew that investing in long-term customer relationships was the key to success. As it happens, 2020 has only reinforced this, by highlighting again and again the importance of strong customer relationships as the structural foundation on which so

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A Vendor’s Guide to B2B Ecommerce

FastSpring

While we’ve been shopping for items like clothes or shoes online for years, another trend is now emerging—business-to-business (B2B) ecommerce. It’s easy to think of online sales as a marketplace where we buy items for ourselves, but more and more B2B and SaaS sales are now happening online. As of 2019, B2B ecommerce sales globally have surpassed $12 trillion in revenue.

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5 Ideal Customer Profile Mistakes That Break B2B Sales Strategies

Predictable Revenue

When running a business, you need a thorough understanding of your customers and how you can reach them effectively. Learn how to avoid some common mistakes! The post 5 Ideal Customer Profile Mistakes That Break B2B Sales Strategies appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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Big Companies Don’t Churn. They Quit You.

SaaStr

“Churn” is a term we all use in SaaS as a core metric, but its roots, as near as I remember and can tell, come from our B2C colleagues. Folks churn out of their Verizon plan, their Netflix subscription, etc. In a low-end subscription model for a tool, not a solution (e.g., semi-commodity storage, semi-commodity hosting, etc. etc.), the dynamics are similar.

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

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, Terrence Sheflin, and Mahyar Ghasemali

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 Website Monitoring Services

The Daily Egg

A lot can happen to your website behind your back. So many things can stop working at a moment’s notice you might not be aware of. This can mean site downtime, excessive bandwidth usage, or traffic changes for one reason or another. This is a huge problem if you’re trying to grow your online brand […]. The post Best Website Monitoring Services appeared first on The Daily Egg.

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You Should Be Recruiting Different Types of Leaders for Remote Teams

Tom Tunguz

Erica Brescia, the COO of Github, a company in which 70% of the workforce has worked remotely for a decade, wrote in the Economist about how remote working is different and better. There have been many perspectives shared on remote work, but Erica’s adds an intriguing detail. Managers tasked with creating a culture of collaboration within a distributed team will find the profile of a leader changes.

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Help desk metrics: Elevate your customer support with the right insights

Intercom, Inc.

Modern customers expect quick, personal, and effective service. To provide this, you must understand how your customer experience stacks up against these expectations. This is where metrics can be invaluable, giving clarity on performance, and circumventing potential issues. But with so much data to consider, how can you define the help desk metrics that matter for your team?

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The State of Crypto: A Builder’s Guide From Crypto Startup School

Andreessen Horowitz

Crypto has gone through an eventful year. Decentralized exchanges and platforms that allow users to trade, loan, or borrow cryptocurrency have soared in volume. Developers are taking advantage of the flexible, interlocking nature of blockchains to create new applications that … The post The State of Crypto: A Builder’s Guide From Crypto Startup School 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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Lessons Learned Sending A Million Emails

Predictable Revenue

CEO and Founder of Close, Steli Efti, explains some of the strategies that companies can implement to successfully traverse the crisis, while maintaining an effective sales team. The post Lessons Learned Sending A Million Emails appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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If You Leave the Low End of the Market … You Probably Can’t Go Back

SaaStr

As we begin strategic planning season for next year, there one topic a lot that comes up a lot: Should We Just Let Our Smallest Customers Go? Even once you hit just $2m-$3m ARR — fairly early — the trade-offs start to become clear for startups with customers both Smaller and Larger: Small customers consume just as many sales, success, and marketing resources.

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Best Order Management Software

The Daily Egg

Order management is the Atlas shoulders on which the entire order-to-cash cycle rests. A poorly designed order-to-cash process reflects badly on your business. Customers don’t get their orders on time, get the wrong order, or worse, both. You might also find staff duplicating efforts, poor communication between sales reps, and cash flow problems due to […].