Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 7, 2019

Onboarding 162

Onboarding Retention 162

OpenView Labs

MARCH 6, 2019

Trends in marketing, like those in fashion and design, are circular. Ten years ago, marketing automation’s promise to turn the craft of business-to-business marketing into a hard science was precisely the message executives had longed to hear. Seemingly overnight, quant marketing was hot, brand marketing was not. John Bigay, CMO of iZotope, an audio tech company for music professionals, described being perceived as a brand marketer during the rise of marketing automation as “walking into brain s

Branding 63

Branding Customer Success Advertising Startup 63

TriTuns

MARCH 6, 2019

My how quickly things have changed. It seems like only yesterday SaaS vendors were worried that getting the Customer Success (CS) teams involved in the sales process would only slow things down and prevent a sale from closing. Today, it is increasingly the case that SaaS vendor need to showcase their customer success services in order to win a sale!

Customer Success 40

Customer Success SaaS Sales Marketing 40

The Daily Egg

MARCH 6, 2019

There’s no doubt that personalization helps boost conversions. The proof is in the numbers: Econsultancy found that 93% of companies experienced a raise in conversion rates after personalizing their search engine marketing The same was true for 94% of companies that personalized their websites And 92% of companies that personalized their emails saw a boost […] The post 6 Personalization Techniques That Will Boost Your Conversion Rate appeared first on The Daily Egg.

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Engineering Marketing 279

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SaaStock

MARCH 8, 2019

We want to think of International Women’s Day as a day to celebrate women – their power and glory – rather than their difficulties in navigating a male-dominated world. We would like you to meet a few extraordinary women who have the impressive task of driving tech in Asia, a part of the world that could be even more challenging to women.

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VP of Engineering CTO Coach Venture Capital SaaS 264

Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 4, 2019

How can you make sure, on a Monday, you’re doing the right things all week long – not just as an individual, but as a manager, across your team and organization? How do you help your team focus and make meaningful progress, so that at the end of the week, you go home knowing you spent energy on the most important work? Finding the answers to these questions and putting them into practice is critical to scaling your impact as a manager and individual.

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Management Interviewing Leadership Engineering 202

The Daily Egg

MARCH 7, 2019

Our co-founder, Neil Patel, once asked 208 companies one simple question: “Which marketing strategy has provided you with your biggest return on investment?” As a click-bait article might say, THE ANSWER WILL SHOCK YOU. It wasn’t SEO. They said they were actually getting the highest ROI from CRO (conversion rate optimization). And what’s fascinating is […] The post Tools, Tips, And Getting Ready For Testing: A Quick-Start Guide To CRO appeared first on The Daily Egg.

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Investment Strategy Marketing 266

SaaStock

MARCH 5, 2019

Christina Villa had a simple launch plan for Cledara: do it at the SaaStock Startup stage on October 16th, 2018. She had quit her job four months earlier and incorporated the company in London. Cledara was going to solve the problem of companies having too many SaaS subscriptions that were increasingly difficult to keep track of. Cledara would serve as their home and the payment hub powered through a digital Mastercard.

Startup 152

Startup SaaS Payments Payments Payment Services 152

SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2019

We’re running our own interesting NPS study at SaaStr Inc. labs ??. ’18-’19 represented an interesting NPS point for our events. Our first ever SaaStr Europa in Paris generated our highest NPS ever. But the 2018 SaaStr Annual was a bit of an NPS setback. In ’18, we had the best speaker line-up ever (the CEOs of Slack, Atlassian, MongoDB, Box, Marketo, Qualtrics, Blackline, Trello and so much more), and better mentorship than ever.

Sales 226

Sales Engagement Revenue Data 226

Advertiser: ZoomInfo

As prospects define their problem, search for solutions, and even change jobs, they are generating high-value signals that the best go-to-market teams can leverage to close more deals. This is where signal-based selling comes into play. ZoomInfo CEO Henry Schuck recently broke down specific ways to put four key buying signals into action with the experts from 30 Minutes to President’s Club.

B2B

Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 5, 2019

Historically, the role of the sales development representative (SDR) has been to collect qualification criteria so they can determine if a prospect is promising enough to be introduced to an account executive. However, SDRs today, especially at Intercom, are doing much more than that – they are accelerating the sale by providing prospects with value early on. “Now sales teams can automate away so many of the tasks that used to be manual and repetitive” Thanks to automation technology

Development 138

Development Sales Education Technology 138

Predictable Revenue

MARCH 7, 2019

On this edition of The Predictable Revenue Podcast, co-host Collin Stewart welcomes Margaret Weniger, executive director of #GirlsClub, a growing mentoring and training organization focused on expanding the presence of women in sales. The post Developing diversity on sales teams: in conversation with #GirlsClub’s Margaret Weniger appeared first on Predictable Revenue - The Outbound Success Company.

Development 133

Development Sales Revenue 133

SaaStock

MARCH 7, 2019

On this month’s episode of The Struggle, we speak with Hannah Chaplin, Co-Founder, and CEO of Receptive, a SaaS company that helps other SaaS companies make the most of the product feedback they get and turn it into insights that can help them grow. Receptive is Hannah’s fourth company, the second which is SaaS. She has been an entrepreneur since the age of 21 and knows all too well the struggles of starting a company.

SaaS 130

SaaS Pricing Metrics Development 130

SaaStr

MARCH 7, 2019

This year, in celebration of International Women’s Day , we are launching our SaaStr Europa 2019 Equality, Diversity and Inclusion program. We believe that true innovation depends on hearing from, meeting with, and listening to people with a variety of perspectives and diverse backgrounds. We strive to make all of our events, and the community and companies who participate in them, inclusive and encourage, and recognize people of all races, ethnicities, genders, ages, abilities, religio

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SaaS Payments

Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 8, 2019

Today we celebrate International Women’s Day, when the world acknowledges the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. The first International Women’s Day (IWD) took place in 1911 and was supported by more than 1 million people in Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland. Today, IWD belongs to everyone, everywhere – including everyone at Intercom!

Sales 128

Sales Business 128

Unbounce

MARCH 7, 2019

The worst-kept secret, once upon a time. Step into my time machine , and let us take a journey. It’s 2015. You’re studying PPC best practices, looking for ways to level up your SEM campaigns and boost ROI from Search. You stumble upon a “hack” for optimal keyword performance, your elusive unicorn: the SKAG (Single Keyword Ad Group). You immediately apply the philosophy to your Adwords (now Google Ads) campaigns and, for a while, things go rather well.

Advertising 111

Advertising Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Technical Review 111

Neil Patel

MARCH 5, 2019

When you look at the chart above, what do you see? A site that gets a ton of traffic, right? I am a marketer, so I should be somewhat decent at getting traffic… or so you would hope. But here is the thing, just because I am decent at marketing doesn’t mean my Google traffic keeps climbing up and to the right. Just like you, I face challenges. I have ups and downs, I can also get penalized, and I have to continually battle algorithm updates.

Metrics 111

Metrics Engineering Software Branding 111

SaaStr

MARCH 4, 2019

Absolutely not. Here’s a discussion Aaron Levie and I had on the topic back in 2015: “If we just sold to end users and silos, We’d Only Be a $25,000,000 Business” — Aaron Levie. Every company is different. Box started off as a cool but relatively undifferentiated consumer play, with many competitors. And realistically, in the early days, it lacked some of the core sync technology of Dropbox for Dropbox’s core early consumer use cases (especially pre-mobile).

Mobile 30

Mobile Content Marketing Cloud Technology 30

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

MARCH 5, 2019

Entering its seventh year, Social Media Marketing World is among the largest gathering of thousands of marketers and influencers from around the world who travel to San Diego each year to learn business-building ideas. Attending Social Media Marketing World is a must for anyone in the social business space, and is a great environment for […]. The post Top 50 Speakers to Connect with at #SMMW19 appeared first on Nimble Blog.

Social Media 111

Social Media Travel Marketing Business 111

Unbounce

MARCH 4, 2019

If you’ve read Unbounce’s 2019 Page Speed Report (and you really should), then you already know why speed is so important this year. Slow-loading landing pages have always been an obstacle to higher conversions, and now Google is punishing poor mobile load times in its search rankings. To be successful in 2019, we—marketers—need to be thinking fast.

Underperforming Technical Team 112

Underperforming Technical Team Mobile Consulting Development 112

Sales Hacker

MARCH 5, 2019

Last year, we started a new Sales Hacker tradition: the Top 50 Awards. We received over 5000 nominations , and this year was even bigger! Most other sales awards end up going to the most popular influencer. The Sales Hacker Top 50 is different. These awards go to practitioners: people who not only did a fantastic job, but also elevated the sales profession through their actions last year.

Sales Hiring 110

Sales Hiring Scale Sales Leadership 110

SaaStr

MARCH 2, 2019

They already know. In a small company, everyone already knows. Not 100% of everything, but most everything. Just tell them. Tell them what you can do to rally them. Tell them what you can cut to make it / stretch it out. Or if it’s really, truly over — thank them. They already know. But if they are still there, you may still have a shot. View original question on quora.

Business 133

Business 133

Speaker: Pete Uselman, Director of Partner Experience at Wind River Payments

Many software companies are exploring PayFac-as-a-Service providers in an effort to drive more embedded payments revenue and gain greater control over the customer experience. But there are nuances in a PayFac relationship that often get downplayed – nuances that can impact the risk and resource responsibilities of software providers. In this webinar, integrated payments veteran, Pete Uselman discusses the following: What is a PayFac?

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InsightSquared

MARCH 8, 2019

My transition into a BDR role at InsightSquared came shortly after spending my first few post-grad years gaining experience in a highly transactional, customer-facing sales role. If you’re late to the game like I was, life as a BDR is one hell of a grind. That’s not a gripe, either. It’s a fact. Believe it or not, the grind is the reason why I love my job.

Underperforming Technical Team 106

Underperforming Technical Team Sales Sales Enablement Engagement 106

Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 2, 2019

Today, some of the most valuable corporations in the world today are “network operators”. Thanks to network effects, these platforms become more valuable to existing users as each new user joins.

Government 106

Government Blockchain 106

Groove HQ

MARCH 6, 2019

How to continue winning with content, when writing great blog posts is no longer enough Content has helped us grow Groove to $5m in annual revenue and form some great relationships with some of our most loyal customers. I guess you could say content is a big deal to us, which is why we’ve always […]. The post Content Distribution: The Missing Piece in Your Marketing Strategy appeared first on Groove Blog.

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Strategy Marketing Revenue Content Marketing 99

SaaStr

MARCH 2, 2019

Hire someone just to deal with them. That specifically handles the small headache customers. And outsource it if you have to. The small, complaining customers are always the ones everyone wants to get rid of. They consume so much oxygen. They take up all of support’s time. They escalate things to the CEO. Too much drama for too little revenue. But the thing is, often the customers that complain the most are the most engaged.

Outsourcing Services 133

Outsourcing Services Engagement Revenue 133

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Savvy B2B marketers know that a great account-based marketing (ABM) strategy leads to higher ROI and sustainable growth. In this guide, we’ll cover: What makes for a successful ABM strategy? What are the key elements and capabilities of ABM that can make a real difference? How is AI changing workflows and driving functionality? This Martech Intelligence Report on Enterprise Account-Based Marketing examines the state of ABM in 2024 and what to consider when implementing ABM software.

Enterprise

Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 6, 2019

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Nimble - Sales

MARCH 6, 2019

Attending conferences provides you with the opportunity to meet people in person you’ve built relationships with online over the years — as well as making new connections. Whether you’re a social marketer who’s outgoing, loves meeting new people wherever you go, or an extremely introverted person, I hope this guide helps take your networking game […].

Social Media 94

Social Media Marketing 94

FastSpring

MARCH 6, 2019

One challenge many online merchants face after they’ve finished developing their product is figuring out how to easily accept payments on their online store. But navigating the complex world of online payments for the first time is challenging work. The landscape is riddled with technical jargon and software companies are shocked to find that online payment facilitation actually involves many key players working in tandem behind the scenes.

Payment Methods 90

Payment Methods Payment Services Merchant Services SaaS Payments 90