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Prospecting 101: Sales Hacker’s Scott Barker shares his sales tips and tricks from the trenches

Predictable Revenue

On this edition of The Predictable Revenue Podcast, co-host Collin Stewart welcomes Scott Barker, Head Of Partnerships at Sales Hacker. The post Prospecting 101: Sales Hacker’s Scott Barker shares his sales tips and tricks from the trenches appeared first on Predictable Revenue - The Outbound Success Company. We help companies grow faster with Outbound Sales.

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How To: Burn the Churn

ProfitWell

On this episode of the ProfitWell Report, Nathan Beckord , Co-Founder and CEO of Foundersuite , wants to know the best ways to combat churn, and we think it's safe to assume Nathan isn't the only one on the churn-solving mission. So to locate the best tactics to combat churn, we studied and gathered data from just over eight thousand subscription companies.

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In SaaS, Renewal is Everything: Is Your Process Working?

OpenView Labs

Most of us know that one of the keys to thriving in the SaaS landscape is getting customers to renew subscriptions. According to Totango , 56% of SaaS companies treat renewals as a high priority. However, when it comes to actually documenting, streamlining and perfecting that renewal process, far too many of us are looking at courting customers into renewal as a perfunctory obligation, which could be the reason customers are walking away.

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Do SaaS Startups Still Require Less Capital than 10 Years Ago?

Tom Tunguz

In 2014, I published a post called Do Startup Require Less Capital to Succeed than 10 Years Ago ? It’s been five years and time to see how things have changed. In the analysis, I created a metric, the return on invested capital (ROIC). ROIC is the number of revenue dollars that one venture dollar bought. In other words, at IPO, how much revenue per VC dollar did the company generate.

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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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6 Ways to Make Your Prospects HATE Your Website

The Daily Egg

You have a formidable task ahead of you. How can you make it so that all of your prospective customers really, really hate your website and in turn, despise your company? Why would you want to do that? Isn’t there a competition going on? When you look on the internet, it sure seems like it. […] The post 6 Ways to Make Your Prospects HATE Your Website appeared first on The Daily Egg.

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How to build a billion dollar sales team like Stripe

Intercom, Inc.

The fastest growing software companies in recent years all have something in common – they started with little to no sales team. They relied on a great product, with a passionate userbase that helped kickstart an organic growth engine which sold the product for them. But even for companies with this early viral growth, there comes a point in time when this organic growth needs to be supplemented with formal sales.

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Viewing Valuation as a Discount of Future Value

Tom Tunguz

Why does growth rate matter so much? Why does growth rate influence valuation so much? I was reading a book recently written by a hedge fund manager who discussed valuation frameworks. His explanation was one of the best I’ve come across. If your business is growing at 100% next year, then 90% the year after, and then about 80% the year after, the business will have grown by 3.4x.

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Converting More Customers For The Elephants: A Homepage Analysis

The Daily Egg

Marketing for the greater good gives me the warm fuzzies, so today I’m very pleased to be running a homepage analysis for Ele and Phant — an ecommerce company that donates 30% of its profits to saving the elephants in Kenya. Before we dive in, I’m going to provide a little context. Here’s what their […] The post Converting More Customers For The Elephants: A Homepage Analysis appeared first on The Daily Egg.

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Scaling from $1MM to $500MM ARR: 5 Strategies to Drive Your Next Wave of Growth with Intercom (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Karen Peacock, COO of Intercom, one of the fastest growing SaaS businesses of all time, has led businesses of all sizes through massive growth. She will share her top 5 lessons learned in building and scaling SaaS businesses from $1M to $500M in ARR including expanding to serve upmarket customers, moving from product to platform, and how to hire well to drive breakthrough customer experiences and business growth.

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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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Remind customers why they're paying you

Practical Advice on SaaS marketing

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A product manager walks into a bar…

Intercom, Inc.

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Mobile Landing Page Examples That Seriously Set the Bar

Unbounce

We’ve all had frustrating experiences browsing the web on our phones: load times that seem to carry on forever; pages that are cluttered and difficult to navigate; long, rambling blocks of text that make it tough to understand what you’re even looking at. Well, at Unbounce, we’re putting our foot down. We’re tired of junky mobile landing pages. We want to celebrate the pages that do mobile right, with easy-to-follow copy, super-sleek designs, and crazy-fast load times.

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25+ Must-Watch Videos From Legendary SaaS Leaders

SaaStr

From Atlassian to Zendesk — we’ve had the world’s greatest SaaS CEOs and Founders share their inside playbook with the SaaStr community throughout the years. . If you’ve ever wanted to learn how Stewart Butterfield built Slack to $100mm ARR without a sales team; or the inside story of how a pre-IPO Aaron Levie took Box upmarket and started selling to the enterprise; or if those two playbooks aren’t even to get you hooked, how about a masterclass with Meagen Eisenberg, CM

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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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5 Key Psychological Biases That You Can Leverage to Drive Sales

InsightSquared

Our biases can make us do silly things. Our biases can also be leveraged to influence our decision-making. The best sales professionals and marketers understand how important it is to study human psychology and use that knowledge to create stories, messages and strategies that drive results. Psychological or cognitive biases are subjective perceptions that we fall back on as we process information.

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3 career tips for SDRs who want to become AEs

Intercom, Inc.

For many Sales Development Representatives, the natural next step in your career is to move into an Account Executive role. But bridging the gap from SDR to AE and proving you’re ready to take the next step isn’t always straightforward. The skills and mindset required to be an AE are quite different from that required of an SDR. While SDRs play an important role in acquiring and qualifying new sales opportunities , AEs are tasked with taking that initial interest from a prospect and turnin

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How To Choose the Right Ad Platform for Your Business

Unbounce

When you’re just starting out, it can be a struggle to find simple advice about where you should be advertising your business online. The digital marketing world can be noisy, after all, and everyone has an opinion. Your friend tells you that Google Ads is just too expensive. The blogs all say Facebook is for old people. You’re hearing from others that you simply must be on Instagram.

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Top Global SaaS Trends You Should Know with Google Cloud and Zenoss (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

As a global technology provider powering thousands of SaaS companies, Google is at the forefront of driving exciting and innovative technologies to market. Join us for a fireside chat between Google Cloud and Zenoss, a leader in software-defined IT operations, as we discuss the most common and emerging challenges facing SaaS companies today for both technical and non-technical backgrounds.

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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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How to Map the Customer Journey Stages to Foster Lifetime Value

Totango

From the moment a customer buys your product or subscribes to your service, they’ve chosen to take a journey with your brand. It’s a journey that promises recurring value, and it’s your job to make sure that every step of the way leaves a positive impression on the customer. So, how can you understand the customer experience and know when to offer extra support to grow your relationship?

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What we shipped: 8 new features to create a best-in-class customer journey

Intercom, Inc.

In the past few years, companies have increasingly realized the value of personalization in acquiring and retaining customers. Adding a personal touch shows your visitors and customers that you care, making visitors more likely to become customers and customers more likely to become advocates for your brand. At Intercom, personalization is at the heart of our product – we help companies engage with their customers in a more personal way.

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How To Crack The Marketing Code: Influencing The Data-Driven Buyer

Nimble - Sales

The Modern Workplace 365 is a five-part series on the evolution in the way customers buy and how Modern Sellers need to shift to stay relevant. This Modern Workplace series was commissioned by Nimble and the International Association for Microsoft Channel Partners (IAMCP). It’s designed to help small business teams and workgroups understand the […].

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More speakers have arrived! Here’s who is coming to SaaStr Europa 2019!

SaaStr

The countdown is on!! We’re less than 71 days away. Are you coming to Europa 2019 ? Take a look at some of the all-star unicorn CEOs and founders, investors and accelerators joining us in Paris June 12-13th. The Unicorns ??. Top lessons learned from our best and worst marketing experiments with Lucidchart Co-Founder and CEO Karl Sun and Lucidchart COO and President Dave Grow.

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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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Has a Prospect Ghosted You? Here’s What to Do Next

Sales Hacker

Ghosting: The practice of ending a personal relationship with someone by suddenly and without explanation withdrawing from all communication (Oxford Dictionary). “Ghosting” has become a hot topic in the world of dating in recent times, with bizarre stories emerging of people wiping their digital slates clean, simply to avoid the awkward break-up conversation.

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Predictable Ramp: It’s Not Just a Pipedream

InsightSquared

“How am I doing?”. Most sales reps are genuinely driven not by money, but by success. They are dying to know how they are doing. Regardless of their generation or experience, your reps want to know if they are on the right track to hit their goals. So, how do we do this? Because this is a huge topic, we are going to focus this blog specifically on ramping your reps.

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Nimble + Simply Mail Solutions Delivers Simple, Smart CRM for Office 365 to UK

Nimble - Sales

We’re pleased to announce a partnership with Simply Mail Solutions, (SMS) Ltd., a Microsoft Gold Distribution Partner and world-class managed cloud service provider. The partnership addresses small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) or small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) need for an easy-to-implement, easy-to-use contact relationship manager.

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When is SalesForce going to buy Oracle?

SaaStr

I think it is unlikely. Salesforce had several discussions over the years re: selling itself to Oracle — when Salesforce was much smaller. But times have changed, the Cloud has exploded, and now it’s too late for either to acquire the other. both to merge. Salesforce is now worth $123b and growing 25%+ a year. Oracle can’t afford Salesforce anymore.

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Evaluating Embedded Payment Providers For Your Software? Get The Evaluation Scorecard Today

Choosing the right Embedded Payments partner can feel overwhelming. This evaluation scorecard and comprehensive buyer’s guide simplifies the process by breaking down key criteria to consider. Learn how to assess partners that align with your goals, offer personalized support, and drive long-term success. This guide and scorecard equip software companies with the insights to make confident, informed decisions that enhance customer experience and fuel business growth.

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Brand vs. Subscription: Apple Plus

Andreessen Horowitz

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10 Companies Show you their Go-To-Market Strategy as Examples

Upscope

When a serial entrepreneur building yet another great company says he wished he'd known to work on his go-to-market strategy (GTM) before anything else, it stopped me in my tracks. What is a go-to-market strategy? What are the different ways companies think about go-to-market? Below you'll see the major components of a go-to market strategy and 10 examples of how companies did it for their business as a whole, a new feature, expansion into a new country and more.

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How to Transform and Grow Your CSP Practice Using Nimble + Microsoft Office 365

Nimble - Sales

This is the second webinar of a three-part series designed to help CSP and MSP partners build your digital transformation practice and modernize your go-to-market strategy using Nimble CRM + Office 365. Eamon Moore, CEO and founder of Hikari Data Solutions and former Microsoft Partner of the Year for Small & Midmarket Cloud Solutions for his […].

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