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A new dawn for the business messenger

Intercom, Inc.

Today is a big day for our customers. We’re releasing the biggest ever update to our Messenger. We’ve completely rethought how a messenger designed for business should work. And it goes way beyond chat. With over 500 million conversations every month, we’ve long known that our Messenger provides a personal, mutually beneficial experience for both our customers and their customers.

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Why I Overestimate My Contribution to My Team

Tom Tunguz

“When I die, I want all the people with whom I worked on group projects to lower me into my grave, so they can let me down one last time.” Someone once sent me this e-card as a joke. I laughed and laughed, and never forgot it. I can’t remember a school group project which teammembers contributed equally. Paradoxically, I bet everyone in the group felt the same way.

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Sales Performance Coaching: How To Grow By 50% With Effective Prioritization {Part 3 of 5}

Sales Hacker

As sales leaders, your job is to help members of your team get to their sales goals by prioritizing the path that will get them there. Part 3 of this sales coaching series focuses on getting the prioritization right with your sales team. There are a lot of possible ways to achieve a goal. Before that, here’s a story to help you understand why prioritization is key.

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Google’s New Strategy and How It Affects Aggregators

Casey Accidental

As someone who has had a lot of success using SEO as a tactic to grow companies (for Apartments.com, Grubhub, and Pinterest it was the dominant channel for new users), I get asked a lot of questions about SEO as a strategy today. Andrew Chen’s Law of Shitty Clickthroughs states that all acquisition channels have a shelf life and decay over time. SEO has had by far the longest shelf life of any major internet channel.

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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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Nir Eyal on designing healthy habits – and the psychology behind them

Intercom, Inc.

The most successful products aren’t always the ones that win. Often, it’s the products that are first to mind. The products that create habits. Some habits, however, are much healthier than others, so what’s the secret to designing healthy patterns of behavior? As author Nir Eyal has learned, it requires a rigorous commitment to ethics – and empathetically questioning even your best intentions.

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A Salesperson’s Go-To Guide To Improve Business Acumen

Sales Hacker

A lot’s been said about the skills and traits that will enable salespeople to perform at their optimum best. Among the most frequently mentioned are product knowledge, customer empathy, problem solving, persuasiveness, and sales methodologies. No sales leader in her right mind would let loose a sales rep who lacks every one of those crucial attributes on the floor.

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How to Choose a Pricing Strategy for Your SaaS Business

Entrepreneur - SaaS

It's not one-size-fits-all.

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Why your privacy ecosystem is crucial in the age of GDPR

Intercom, Inc.

When building your products, the security and privacy of your customers’ data needs to be a top priority. And that is also true when selling and marketing your product, particularly with the arrival of GDPR, which has brought the issue of data security and privacy to widespread public awareness. It is at this point that companies need to focus on bringing their privacy ecosystem up to the required standards.

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Here's how you REALLY know if a sales call went well

CloseSaaS

You hang up the phone… An hour long sales call is now in the books. It was a quality lead you’ve been trying to get time with for a while.

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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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How I Built a High-Performing Data Driven Sales Team [And How You Can Too]

Sales Hacker

As founding CEO of Datameer, I doubled revenue six years in a row, attracted $100M in venture capital and built a market-leading company. The secret sauce that led to my success? A data-driven sales approach. While a data driven sales coaching approach is still challenging to many sales leaders, the importance of chasing the right sales metrics is growing by the day!

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Add Context to Your HappyFox Tickets With ChartMogul

Chart Mogul

With this new integration, HappyFox and ChartMogul customers can empower their support team with relevant customer information, improving both the quality and speed of responses. At ChartMogul, we believe that everyone in your company should understand how their actions contribute to the bottom line. For many of our customers, that means giving their full team access to ChartMogul so they can explore revenue and customer data and support faster business growth.

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Product thinking: behind our new Messenger home screen

Intercom, Inc.

Yesterday marked one of our biggest releases yet – our all new messenger. One of the most exciting concepts is the customizable home screen, the start screen you see when you open the Intercom Messenger on an app or website. Think of it as the perfect front desk for your company. Using apps, you can create tailored experiences for leads and customers when they open the Messenger.

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Cold email teardown session from Enterprise Rising

CloseSaaS

Want to write better cold emails? Watch this cold email teardown session I conducted at Enterprise Rising in April 2018.

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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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How to Lose a Bad Sales Pitch in 6 Ways

Sales Hacker

Okay, maybe you don’t have a bad sales pitch. Perhaps it could use just a bit of refining. Or maybe it really does suck. Well, whether you pitch in an actual elevator—or, like me, you’ve pitched hundreds of times on trade show floors around the world, there are some tried-and-true best practices, tactics, and “tricks” that have I learned. These have worked for me and they just might work for you too!

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Blind Spots in Slack: 5 Things You Didn’t Know Your End Users & Admins Could Do

BetterCloud

Slack, the wunderkind team messaging app, is on the up and up. Forbes called it the fastest growing workplace software ever. With six million daily users , it has surpassed $5 billion in market value. But while its ability to reduce email and boost collaboration has made headlines, a few security incidents have also made the headlines. In 2016, employees at 18F (a tech consulting team within the General Services Administration ) shared Google Drive documents through Slack.

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Rapid response: How we fixed our on call process to avoid engineer burnout

Intercom, Inc.

Intercom’s mission is to make internet business personal. But it’s impossible to be personal when your product is broken. Uptime is critical to the success of our business, and not just because our customers are paying us, but also because we heavily dogfood our own product. If our product is down, we acutely feel our customer’s pain. Being on call out of office hours is inherently disruptive to your life.

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Why I prefer the Time Decay attribution model

Claudiu Murariu

In this issue I decided to try something new: to record the audio version of this week’s newsletter. So, here we go. Enjoy! Using a different attribution model for each marketing campaign is like cheating. I know, I know, I get it. If you are the newsletter guy, you’ll definitely want to report 10 new leads instead of the actual 8, by using the last click Interaction attribution model.

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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 Turbocharge Conversions by Adding a Human Layer to Your Sales Stack

Sales Hacker

The post How to Turbocharge Conversions by Adding a Human Layer to Your Sales Stack appeared first on Sales Hacker.

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Secure Your Data: Where to Start When There Are 1 Million Threats

BetterCloud

There are seemingly a million security threats and exposures everywhere today. There’s ransomware, malware, phishing, and DDoS attacks, just to name a few — and it’s getting worse. 2017 was the worst year ever for data loss and breaches, and reports reveal that data breaches are happening at a record pace. These attacks also have a serious impact on your business.

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OpenView Leads $10.5M Series A in GitPrime

OpenView Labs

OpenView is excited to announce our $10.5M Series A investment in GitPrime , the leading provider of engineering productivity analytics. The Durango, Colorado-based company serves hundreds of customers including both tech and traditional businesses alike, such as Disney, Mattel, Cigna and Dell. As every company becomes a software company, the work of software engineers has never been more important.

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3 Leading SEO Experts On Link Building and Keyword Research For SaaS Start-ups

Outseta

By Geoff Roberts 8 min read At Outseta almost all of our customers are early stage SaaS start-ups; in many cases just a single Founder or a small group of Co-founders. Every single one of these companies knows they “should be doing SEO,” but between building your product, incorporating your business, testing other marketing channels, and hustling to make some early sales SEO too often gets pushed by the wayside.

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Buyer’s Guide: Finding The Best Payment Provider For Your Software

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

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PODCAST 04: How to 10x Your Business with Customer Success

Sales Hacker

On this episode of the Sales Hacker podcast, we talk with Emmanuelle Skala , VP of Customer Success at Toast. We talk about how to increase revenue from existing customers with a strong customer success team. What You’ll Learn. How to organize and structure a Customer Success team with a specific focus on Customer Experience. The transformative moments in customer experience that driver customer delight.

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How to Become a Midas VC: Just The Data

Mucker Capital

By William Hsu. The annual Forbes Midas list just came out. Which reminded me that I put together the following data for last years list for a blog post I planned for a while. Not having the time, I thought I just share the raw data for those interested. Data compiled via [link].

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Who should own Expansion Revenue?

Valuize Consulting

In Your B2B SaaS company, is it clear what role or team can be most successful at expanding revenue from your existing customer base….and therefore who should be accountable and incentivized to do so? No? First, it’s worth acknowledging that you’re not alone in being unsure. There is a raging debate among Sales, Customer [.].

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Google's G Suite redesign draws on AI to kill email clutter

ITPro

News. Confidential mode also aims to protect personal data and reduce risk of user error.

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, and Terrence Sheflin

As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.

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How Sales/Marketing Experts are Skyrocketing their Productivity

Sales Hacker

The post How Sales/Marketing Experts are Skyrocketing their Productivity appeared first on Sales Hacker.