Baremetrics
AUGUST 29, 2021
An effective sales outbound strategy needs to balance two opposing elements: efficiency vs. personal touch. There are dozens of templates out there for writing killer cold emails. But even the most brilliantly drafted email will remain ignored if the receiver doesn’t connect with its content. On the flipside, who has the time to spend ten minutes on each prospecting email with no guarantee of returns?
Neil Patel
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
B2B and B2C content marketing require entirely different strategies. However, whether you’re targeting businesses or individual consumers, one point remains the same: Content matters. Content is how you boost brand awareness , build trust in your company, and empower your customers to solve their problems. However, you can’t just create the occasional blog post or paid ad and hope to generate results.
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Sales Hacker
SEPTEMBER 2, 2021
“But we’re product-led. Our product is self-serve. We don’t need salespeople anymore, right?”. I’ve heard this too many times to count. Product-led is cool, and we have a desire to move away from sleazy sales tactics, don’t we? But it’s a false dichotomy: good salespeople don’t use unscrupulous methods to manipulate someone into buying something they don’t need.
SaaStr
AUGUST 30, 2021
Freshworks has filed to go public, one of a next wave of U.S.-Indian SaaS hybrid super success stories. Headquartered in the U.S., but with 3,800 of 4,300 employees in India, and customers spread across the globe — Freshworks is a great example of the future of SaaS. Started 10 years ago as “Freshdesk” and a low-end / SMB helpdesk to rival Zendesk, Freshworks has since expanded its product footprint across IT management (Freshservice) and CRM (Freshsales) to a stunnning 49% gr
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The Daily Egg
SEPTEMBER 2, 2021
Every employee dreams of setting their own hours and building a business for themselves. But business ideas are hard to come by, The post The Complete Guide to Freelance Business Ideas appeared first on The Daily Egg.
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Tom Tunguz
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
Amplitude, a leading provider of web analytics, filed their S-1 earlier this week. The company leverages novel storage techniques to scalably collect data on how users engage with mobile apps and web sites. Amplitude counts Cisco, Adidas, PayPal and CapitalOne amongst its customers. Amplitude offers three key products: analytics for measuring user behavior, experiment for testing new user flows, and recommendation which optimizes content for different user segments.
SaaStr
SEPTEMBER 2, 2021
Q: What do mediocre employees do that the best employees don’t do? My list of what mediocre employees do: Unable to hit deadlines. This is different than missing a few, with a proper heads-up. Get angry when they fall behind. Instead of quietly stepping up and just getting it done. Refuse to own a quantitative KPI or goal. They don’t want to own a number.
The Daily Egg
AUGUST 28, 2021
A business partnership agreement is a way to ensure both parties are protected as they step into a successful collaboration. This guide. The post The Complete Guide to Business Partnership Agreements appeared first on The Daily Egg.
Predictable Revenue
SEPTEMBER 2, 2021
Salespeople rely on old-school selling tactics where they were taught to “always be closing,” which creates sleazy salespeople. Learn how to ask for the sale without feeling sleazy with our guest Donnie Boivin. The post How to ask for the sale without feeling sleazy appeared first on Predictable Revenue.
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.
Tom Tunguz
AUGUST 28, 2021
Should you price your SaaS per seat or per use? That was one of the salient questions Madhavan Ramanujam answered in last week’s Office Hours at Redpoint. Madhavan provided an excellent framework for answering this question, in addition to a multitude of other insights. The first thing to state is that massive companies have been built using both pricing structures: Salesforce and Adobe bill per seat while Snowflake and Twilio charge per use.
SaaStr
AUGUST 31, 2021
There’s no question SaaS and Cloud companies scale faster than ever these days. Databricks just announced it was growing a stunning 75% at $600m+ in ARR ! And Zoom just passed a $1B quarter. 50%+ growth at $100m+ ARR seems to be the new normal, and a full 25% of the Cloud 100 was growing 100%+ at $100m in ARR! More on that here: The Top SaaS and Cloud companies are now growing 100% at $100m ARR.
The Daily Egg
AUGUST 31, 2021
Need help with registered agent compliance? This extensive guide covers the registered agent requirements in all 50 states. Regardless of your location. The post The Complete Guide to Registered Agent Requirements By State appeared first on The Daily Egg.
Intercom, Inc.
AUGUST 31, 2021
We’re excited to announce that you can now send transactional messages using Intercom, empowering you to send all your customer messages from one easy-to-use platform. And because it’s Intercom, we’ve reimagined what “transactional messaging” looks like. In addition to email, you can now choose from a range of conversational message types – like push notifications, in-product messages, banners – so you can engage and inform your customers in the right place, at the right time, using the channel
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
FastSpring
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
Value Added Tax (VAT) was introduced into Thailand in 1992 at 10%. Due to the impact of the pandemic, the country reduced its VAT rate from 10% to 7% through September 30, 2023. The country recently published guidance requiring providers of electronic services — select digital products and services — to register for VAT if they meet certain criteria and thresholds.
SaaStr
AUGUST 31, 2021
Q: When should a CEO walk away from an acquisition? I’ve thought about this a lot. I’ve walked from acquisitions where I, to be honest, did want the money but still walked. And I’ve taken several offers, too, sometimes when it turned out to be the wrong choice. You have (at least) 4 constituencies in an acquisition: You and your co-founders. Your employees.
The Daily Egg
SEPTEMBER 2, 2021
If you’re organized, like numbers, and enjoy helping people, a career in bookkeeping might be an excellent fit for you. Bookkeepers help. The post 6 Easy Steps to Start a Bookkeeping Business appeared first on The Daily Egg.
Intercom, Inc.
SEPTEMBER 2, 2021
At a product-first company like Intercom, our product marketing team has always had a crucial role – and over the years, we have often discussed how we approach product marketing. Of course, not all companies go about product marketing in the same way. Some product marketing managers focus on the pre-launch strategy, others on the go-to-market strategy and marketing campaigns for nearly finished products, At Intercom, however, our approach is what we call full-stack product marketing.
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IT World
SEPTEMBER 3, 2021
Disclosure: The vendors mentioned are clients of the author. Conversational AI is, at heart, a new interface in computing where the computer learns how to best work with a human rather than the reverse. While primarily focused for now on tele-sales, it has several other potential uses, including personal tutors or virtual bosses. Being a digital boss myself, this last may be particularly critical during the pandemic because those working from home can get distracted by things that might not hav
SaaStr
AUGUST 31, 2021
There’s something really magical that happens when you gather with your peers. People with the same interests, the same challenges, the same unknowns. Folks who not only understand you, but also thrive in the same state of startup terror or euphoria. . While SaaStr Annual has massively grown over the past few years, the core of what makes it great remains the same – gather with your tribe, share that knowing nod, and learn from each other.
The Daily Egg
AUGUST 29, 2021
Platformly will turn your mundane marketing tasks into opportunities for growth, insight, and income. This all-in-one marketing automation system will reduce the. The post Platform.ly Review appeared first on The Daily Egg.
Neil Patel
SEPTEMBER 2, 2021
There’s no hiding it, Instagram is one of my favorite social media channels. Not only is it a great way to share your life with friends and family and promote your business, but it’s also a great way to make a lot of money. Best of all, you don’t need a big following and there are several different ways to earn an income. In this article, I’m going to show you how to make money on Instagram using seven of my favorite strategies: Get paid for sponsored posts.
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IT World
SEPTEMBER 2, 2021
Private browsing. Incognito. Privacy mode. Web browser functions like those trace their roots back more than a decade, and the feature — first found in a top browser in 2005 — spread quickly as one copied another, made tweaks and minor improvements. Protect Your Privacy. Online privacy: Best browsers, settings, and tips. How to protect your privacy in Windows 10.
SaaStr
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
Recently, I got a stunning investor update from a unicorn that grew 194% YoY last quarter. Pretty incredible at scale. But what’s more incredible the year prior, they were only growing 67%. What changed? A new revenue team. One that knew the next stage, col d. You see this time and time again in startups that are late to “top” their first set of VPs.
The Daily Egg
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
You may be the owner of a registered business, an ecommerce seller, or a freelancer. In the eyes of the law, however, The post The Complete Guide to Self-Employment Taxes appeared first on The Daily Egg.
Neil Patel
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
Artificial intelligence (AI) tools for media let you create content at scale in a previously impossible way and you don’t even need design experience to create something impressive. AI isn’t new. The film and gaming industries both use it regularly, for instance. But, these sectors have only scratched the surface of AI capabilities. On a seemingly daily basis, new AI tools emerge to help people create articles, video scripts, logos, and more.
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IT World
AUGUST 30, 2021
Office 365 and Microsoft 365 subscribers always have the latest version of Microsoft Office — currently Office 2019. They also get more frequent software updates than those who have purchased Office 2019 without a subscription, which means subscribers have access to the latest features, security patches and bug fixes. But it can be hard to keep track of the changes in each update and know when they’re available.
SaaStr
SEPTEMBER 3, 2021
Q: How Do VCs Mitigate Investment Risks? There are a number of slightly subtle things the best VCs do, and the rest really don’t: Getting other investors to carry their “Yellow Lights” You’ll end up with investments sort of doing OK, with customers, but really burning too much cash to justify another check. The best VCs find Another VC to put in 90% of the Next Check here.
The Daily Egg
AUGUST 30, 2021
There are endless opportunities to make money in the crypto world. This in-depth guide will provide you with tips and strategies for. The post The Complete Guide to Crypto Business Ideas appeared first on The Daily Egg.
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