Predictable Revenue
SEPTEMBER 4, 2020
Accept the new normal, and keep your sales team calm and motivated during difficult times. The post How to Keep Your Sales Team Calm and Motivated During Difficult Times appeared first on Predictable Revenue.
SaaStr
SEPTEMBER 17, 2020
One of our top sessions from our recent Annual at Home event was from GitHub’s COO, Erica Brescia. For those unfamiliar with her background, Brescia started off as the founder and COO of Bitnami, a 75 person startup. Just over a year ago, she sold to VMware and the company has since doubled in size. In her session, Erica shares her hard-earned leadership lessons– from selling her company to what she’s learned at Github, we’ll share her most essential leadership principle
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Predictable Revenue
SEPTEMBER 3, 2020
How prospecting has changed in the absence of trade shows and travel, and how your marketing style needs to shift to fill in the gap. The post How to build a content strategy to replace trade shows and travel appeared first on Predictable Revenue.
Tom Tunguz
SEPTEMBER 30, 2020
I’ve been steadily progressing through the excellent books in the Stripe Press catalog. First, I read High Growth Handbook. Most recently, I read An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management by Will Larson. It’s the best book I’ve read on engineering management. Will has worked at Digg, Uber, Stripe, and is now at Calm and has seen many engineering teams endure and thrive through hypergrowth.
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The Daily Egg
SEPTEMBER 11, 2020
Are you looking for ways to simplify routine business tasks? Workflow management software is the solution. Businesses across all industries have been using workflow management tools to improve efficiencies in various departments. These tools leverage automation for project management, one-off tasks, and other work-related scenarios. Essentially, workflow management software eliminates the wasted time your team […].
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Practical Advice on SaaS marketing
SEPTEMBER 1, 2020
One thing I’ve learned in talking with customers: People have a high threshold for pain. It’s really difficult to get them to move away from whatever system they’re using to handle some task in their organization – no matter how bad that system is - and adopt a new one. When I talk with customers that have recently purchased a new software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution for their organization, I always ask “What system did you have before, and why did you decide to change.
SaaStr
SEPTEMBER 13, 2020
90% of my evaluation of any leader that works for me is the quality of people they can get to work for them. This could be wrong… Maybe it should be 95%. — Todd McKinnon (@toddmckinnon) September 13, 2020. Recruiting is tough. I certainly don’t do it well enough. But to be a great CEO, you need to find a way to force yourself to be a great recruiter.
Predictable Revenue
SEPTEMBER 2, 2020
Co-Founder and CEO of Lemlist, the coolest sales automation platform ever created, shares tips and tricks to grow a SaaS company in a B2B space, from scratch! The post Building a Successful B2B Outbound Sales Strategy From Scratch appeared first on Predictable Revenue.
Tom Tunguz
SEPTEMBER 21, 2020
High growth software companies are valued based on forward revenue multiples. In other words, to calculate the enterprise value of a business, you multiply the revenue by the forward multiple. But, how does the market set the multiple? What predicts the forward multiple, or correlates with it? I pulled together the data for the basket of the roughly 60 publicly traded SaaS companies and ran a linear regression to understand the predictive power of the many key metrics reported by public companie
Speaker: Pete Uselman, Director of Partner Experience at Wind River Payments
Most integrated payments providers share a percent of the payment revenue with their software partners. But, oftentimes, that revenue share is only a fraction of the true income potential software providers can realize. If you want to maximize income opportunities from your payments program, check out Wind River Payments’ webinar-on-demand.
The Daily Egg
SEPTEMBER 28, 2020
What if you could send a handful of emails on autopilot (without lifting a finger) and generate more than $40,000 in revenue without annoying your audience? That’s exactly what Yaro Starak does year after year. He created one automated workflow that segments his audience depending on their actions and level of interest. So, the right […]. The post Best Email Autoresponders appeared first on The Daily Egg.
Intercom, Inc.
SEPTEMBER 15, 2020
Customer engagement has never been more essential to business survival. Retaining your hard-won customers is the difference between success and failure for online businesses, and the key to retention is excellent customer communication. Successful customer engagement depends on sending the right message, at the right time, and in the right place. Getting this delicate dance right, however, requires careful choreography, with every step considered and planned.
FastSpring
SEPTEMBER 23, 2020
As the FastSpring team has adjusted to the new reality of remote work and continues to support our growing customer base, we have not lost sight of the importance of supporting our local community. Giving Back to Our Local Community is Part of Our DNA. At FastSpring, we define success as more than making a positive impact on our business and supporting our customers.
SaaStr
SEPTEMBER 11, 2020
My Top 10 take-aways from talk with @benchestnut this morning: 1/ Yes, bootstrapping can take 3-4 years longer. 2/ You may not need a moat. Maybe let them go if they aren't happy. Happiness is a moat. 3/ Phase 2 might take 12 years to get to. It's OK. Talk to more customers. — Jason ?BeKind? Lemkin ?? (@jasonlk) September 2, 2020. So the recent SaaStr Annual 2020 at Home was a smashing success. 3 days, 100s of roundtables and sessions, and 1000s of 1-on-1s.
Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage
When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m
Predictable Revenue
SEPTEMBER 9, 2020
Keeping your existing users is much more cost effective that finding and converting new leads. Despite this, the average business mailing list loses 25% of its subscribers every year. Reactivating your lapsed customers is key to preventing them from becoming lost customers. The post 6 Most Effective Reactivation Strategies for Lapsed Customers appeared first on Predictable Revenue.
Tom Tunguz
SEPTEMBER 20, 2020
The Economist ran a story about the future of work this week. Working remotely, we have reduced meeting length by about 15% and increased our total time at work by 2 hours per day. We might declare we have found an extra 10 hours in the workweek from nothing. This productivity boost might seem universally positive, but there’s a catch. One of the critical topics in many boardrooms today is managing employee burnout.
The Daily Egg
SEPTEMBER 24, 2020
What if you could hire a robot to take over repetitive tasks and manage essential parts of your business without you (or another human) having to lift a finger? It sounds like a futuristic, far-fetched idea, but thankfully it isn’t. In fact, leveraging the best business process management software is exactly like hiring a robotic […]. The post Best Business Process Management Software appeared first on The Daily Egg.
Intercom, Inc.
SEPTEMBER 10, 2020
What kind of information drives that decision: is it subjective and qualitative, or objective and quantifiable? It’s the classic conflict: left brain versus right brain; art versus science. Mark Roberge knows which he prefers. As an engineer by training, in pressure situations he tends to “lean to the quant.” It’s an approach that’s served him well along the road to building the HubSpot sales team, where he was CRO for nine years.
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FastSpring
SEPTEMBER 17, 2020
Following the success of the Pressing Matters podcast episode featuring FastSpring Seller, Nelio, we met up with Jack McConnell and Iain Poulson again to chat about WordPress plugins. Tune in to the latest episode where Jack and Iain chatted with our Solutions Architect, Jon Tewes, about how FastSpring’s WordPress plugin can integrate with other businesses’ WordPress websites.
SaaStr
SEPTEMBER 30, 2020
A bit of Mary Poppins, when her work is done the wind will shift and she'll be off to the next place that needs her ??. Appreciate the moments you have with folks; especially if they or the combination of them together are truly special. It's never forever. [link]. — stacie frederick (@staciefrederick) September 29, 2020. Especially now that dozens of next-generation SaaS companies have IPO’d, you can start to see the turnover more viscerally than you can observe at quieter,
Predictable Revenue
SEPTEMBER 10, 2020
Why crisis is the death of transactional sales, the metaphorical mint for bad “commission breath”, how to sellers can find their own noble purpose, the impact that has on the business and seller, and much more! The post Nailing your team’s talk-track, doubling numbers and finding their purpose appeared first on Predictable Revenue.
Tom Tunguz
SEPTEMBER 23, 2020
On Wednesday, October 7th at 9:30 AM PT, Redpoint Office Hours will welcome Kaz Nejatian , the VP & GM of Shopify Financial Solutions (including Shopify Capital). Prior to Shopify, Kaz was the Product Lead for Payments and Billing at Facebook and was the former CEO of Kash, a payment technology company that he founded and which was acquired in 2017.
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The Daily Egg
SEPTEMBER 18, 2020
Imagine moving thousands of articles, pages, images, and videos from one place to another. It sounds like an extensive, time-consuming mess because it is. But that’s exactly what you have to do if you choose the wrong content management system. A few years ago, I decided to switch one of my websites from WordPress to […]. The post Best Content Management Systems appeared first on The Daily Egg.
Intercom, Inc.
SEPTEMBER 8, 2020
We recently shipped a suite of new features to dramatically uplevel Intercom’s support capabilities, including advanced ticketing workflows and richer reporting. In addition to those features, we also took the opportunity to improve the main product navigation of the Intercom app in order to make it more usable, intuitive, and polished. The main navigation is a critical area of the Intercom app, and it helps ensure Intercom feels simple to use.
FastSpring
SEPTEMBER 2, 2020
When you’re trying to decide how to scale your business and how to calculate profits, there are tons of metrics out there you can use. In fact, it’s easy for businesses to get overwhelmed by metrics and not know which ones to prioritize. One of the most critical areas to get a grasp of, however, is how much a customer is worth to your business.
SaaStr
SEPTEMBER 10, 2020
Perhaps the single most important thing you can ever do in SaaS, at least after $1m in ARR or so, is hire the best VPs you can. We’ve talked a lot over the years about how not to hire a wrong VP of Sales — 70%+ of the first VPs of Sales don’t make it even 10 months. But there’s a related, larger issue for basically all your first VPs of Every Area.
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
Neil Patel
SEPTEMBER 29, 2020
Did you know TikTok has around 100 million monthly active users within the US? If you own a business, TikTok marketing can be a great channel for your brand, as there is relatively little competition on the platform. However, if you’re new to TikTok, you may not know how you can use it to market your company. Below we’ll explore how and why you should use TikTok as a marketing channel to take your business to the next level.
Tom Tunguz
SEPTEMBER 28, 2020
Recently, we welcomed Kimber Lancaster to Office Hours at Redpoint to discuss running successful virtual events. It was a fantastic session in which Kimbre surfaced counterintuitive insights about one of the most critical marketing channels of 2020. Below, I’ve summarized some of my notes from the session. First, there’s much more crossover between physical and virtual events than most people think.
The Daily Egg
SEPTEMBER 23, 2020
Human resources is one of the most important departments of any business. From employee onboarding to training, risk and compliance, payroll, and benefits administration, HR departments are the backbone of businesses. But having an in-house HR staff is expensive. Many companies don’t have the budget, resources, or knowledge to efficiently run a human resources department. […].
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