Sat.Jan 13, 2018 - Fri.Jan 19, 2018

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Ten Year's Worth of Learnings About Pricing

Tom Tunguz

Last week, I shared a presentation with an executive team at a large public SaaS company on everything I’ve learned about pricing. Here’s a summary of the frameworks and theory that I’ve aggregated over a decade of investing in startups. Why do we set prices? Setting aside the important reasons of generating revenue and maintaining solvency for a business, there are many other reasons to set price.

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Recreating ERP in the Cloud – A Guest Commentary in Datamation

Think Strategies

Now that moving to the Cloud has become mainstream, it’s time for organizations to confront their biggest enterprise application challenge in the era of digital disruption – revamping their enterprise resource management (ERP) systems to keep up with the times. A clear indication of the shifting tides in the ERP market is the growing number of organizations that are replacing their installed systems with a new Cloud-based solution.

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Sales Conferences 2018: The Top 10 Events You Can’t Miss This Year!

Sales Hacker

Sales conferences hold a very special place in my heart. This is not only because I am the Director of Sales at an event software company, but also because I know I have a lot learn—and in-person events are my favorite way to get that learning done. Sure, there are plenty of great resources on the internet but nothing beats getting face time with prospects, peers and colleagues about their latest success and failures when it comes to working in this field we call sales.

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How Should You Price OEM Bundle Deals?

FastSpring

If you're considering creating an OEM bundle (or budles), but you're not sure how to fairly price it, you're not alone. It's a tough needle to thread, and you don't want to cheat your customers— or your business.

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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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Yearning for the Vast and Endless Sea

Tom Tunguz

“My goal is to make you love rowing.” That’s how my first rowing started. I had never picked up an oar or stepped into a racing shell before. With 100 other freshman men, I had assembled at the boathouse along the maple and conifer lined Connecticut River. I’ll never forget those words. I had played many sports before. In every other case, the focus, the mission, the motivation had always been to win.

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The Ultimate Guide to Lead Qualification for Inbound & Outbound SDR Teams

Sales Hacker

In this guide, I will teach you the fundamentals of Lead Qualification for inbound and outbound sales development, and give you actionable steps you can take to maximize your Revenue per Lead. What Is Lead Qualification? Lead qualification is the process of using metrics, scoring, and other criteria to ascertain whether or not a given sales prospect fits your ideal customer profile (ICP), and has strong mathematical probability of becoming a long term customer.

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How inMusic, an Audio Software Company, Increased Customer Conversions 30% With FastSpring

FastSpring

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Why Successful Sales Leaders Embrace Vulnerability

CloseSaaS

Leaders like to communicate strength. In good times and bad, they project confidence almost by default. Whether they’re founders, CEOs, or sales managers, they operate as if they’re powered by unending supplies of courage.

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What No One Tells You About Managing SaaS Environments: 6 Guiding Principles for IT Success

BetterCloud

Today, SaaS is the system of record. Organizations are trusting their mission critical data—like employee, customer, identity, and finance data—to SaaS applications. But as the world shifts to SaaS, IT is finding that SaaS best practices do not exist. There’s no ITIL for the modern SaaS environment; there’s nothing to learn from. And there’s a lot that nobody tells you about SaaS management. .

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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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Outbound Sales Science: How Growlabs Went From $0 to $2.5M ARR in 6 Months

Sales Hacker

A proper outbound sales strategy has real science behind it. You can’t just start pounding the pavement with no direction and expect to achieve growth. Wanna know the secret sauce behind a scalable outbound process that leads to significant growth? Market Segmentation combined with tailored messaging. The key to achieving explosive growth is to start by identifying your Ideal Customer Profiles (ICPs) via segmentation, reaching out to them with personalized targeted messaging while building

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How to Find the Right Influencers for Your Ecommerce Store

FastSpring

Right at this moment, millions of people are making ecommerce decisions based on recommendations from people you’ve never even heard of: YouTubers, Instagrammers, Yelp reviewers, reality TV show contestants, and more. In fact, some marketers are calling 2018 “the year of the influencer.” Online influencers - people who affect buyer behavior - make endorsements that send droves of fans straight into the shopping carts of ecommerce companies around the world.

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SaaS and software platforms: Moving from Startup to Growth

wepay

A key phase for any SaaS or software platform business is when they move beyond the idea, startup and product fit stages of their business to growing successfully. It’s one of the hardest transitions to make and a key hurdle to reaching real revenue and eventually profitability. To help illustrate the challenges and some of the strategies to succeed in the transition, we’ve curated nine articles plus a couple of Quora threads.

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How we use ChartMogul at Livestorm

Chart Mogul

Livestorm CEO Gilles Bertaux gives his take on the two biggest use cases for ChartMogul, and how it has allowed the team to make more informed decisions. Livestorm is the modern software you need to run a webinar or any live session such as a product demo or customer training call. Livestorm’s vision is to be the best integrated live conferencing suite and is designed to make webinars enjoyable from start to finish.

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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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99 Motivational Sales Quotes To Inspire Your Team

Sales Hacker

I love reading sales books just like most sales nerds. That said, most salespeople are very busy and don’t have time to read books. With the swamped salesperson in mind, I’ve compiled 99 of my favorite motivational sales quotes to allow you to quickly gain knowledge from the greatest sales books of all time. Sales is an extremely tough grind.

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Announcing The Sales Hacker Top 50 Awards!

Sales Hacker

2017 was an incredible year for sales and marketing, and WE KNOW 2018 will be even better ! With that in mind, we wanted to start a new tradition here at Sales Hacker, of rewarding the best in class practitioners from the year before. Introducing, our 1st Annual Sales Hacker Top 50 Awards ! We’ve seen many other industry awards become popularity contests between influencers and thought leaders, (which is well deserved) but we wanted to provide an opportunity to finally show love and appreciation

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How to Execute Key Predictions on the Future of Sales Tech

Sales Hacker

The post How to Execute Key Predictions on the Future of Sales Tech appeared first on Sales Hacker.

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