Tom Tunguz

JULY 10, 2024

Pricing an AI product will be a defining question in software for the next few years. AI products offer productivity gains. But greater productivity may reduce the demand for seats over time, ultimately decreasing the size of software markets. We can observe the market trends today across some of the larger SaaS companies who offer AI pricing. Company Product Base Price AI Price Ratio Github Github Enterprise 21 10 0.67 Gitlab GitLab Duo 19 20 1.05 Google Workspace Business Plus 18 20 1.11 Loom

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SaaStr

JULY 8, 2024

Dear SaaStr: How Can You Ensure a Smooth Transition When A New Team Member Takes Over a Customer Account? Add value in the first interaction. There’s nothing more frustrating than getting a random email, “Hi, Tony is gone from the company. I know nothing about you, but I’m your new rep. Can we schedule a call?” Find some way to add value.

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Predictable Revenue

JULY 11, 2024

Benjamin Dennehy brings his unfiltered approach to sales training, sharing insights on why salespeople struggle and how to turn things around. The post Why Most Salespeople Fail and How to Avoid It appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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Stax

JULY 9, 2024

It’s no question that the world has been digitally transformed — both in business and in life. We can hail a ride from a mobile app, and our transactions for all sorts of goods and services can be easily paid for from our phones. Physical wallets are phasing out, left behind in favor of digital wallets and other digital payment options. All you need to use a digital wallet is a smartphone.

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The Moz Blog

JULY 8, 2024

Tips applicable to local business marketing were wonderfully plentiful at this year’s MozCon. Today, Miriam shares the takeaways that rang bells and lit bulbs for her.

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User Pilot

JULY 10, 2024

You’ve probably heard the terms customer engagement and customer experience used interchangeably. The confusion makes sense, too, since the two concepts are similar, with both aiming to build customer loyalty. However, they’re not the same. Customer engagement focuses on active interactions between customers and your brand, while customer experience looks at the overall feelings a customer has throughout their entire journey.

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Nimble - Sales

JULY 10, 2024

Whether you’re a salesperson engaging with a lead or an accountant following up with invoices, establishing and nurturing relationships with contacts and clients is crucial for business success. Email sequences provide a structured and automated way to create and maintain The post Nimble Releases Email Sequence Templates for Seamless Campaign Building appeared first on Nimble Blog.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 8, 2024

David Greenberger leads CHEQ’s North America sales team. CHEQ is a cybersecurity platform primarily focused on protecting the Go-to-Market organization (preventing fake leads to sales team, skewed analytics from bots/malicious users etc). David is well-versed in building and perfecting Go-To-Market processes both from $0 and at 100 y/o companies. CHEQ is David’s 5th startup.

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ChurnZero

JULY 9, 2024

Last month, Jared Orr made three strong recommendations, from a CSM’s perspective, for customer success leaders looking to help their CSMs succeed. I wanted to complement his suggestions with three of my own, written from the perspective of a VP of customer success. In both cases, we’re addressing the findings of the 2024 CSM Confidential Report , which reveals that while CSMs are generally happy, motivated, and dedicated in their roles, the majority are struggling with heavy workloads and goals

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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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Clouded Judgement

JULY 12, 2024

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Follow along to stay up to date! Subscribe now The Red Queen Effect I strongly believe in two competing truths with respect to AI and its impact - the size of the prize will be bigger than we imagine now, BUT we’ll overestimate it in the short term. I believe this sums up a lot of the debates around “too much capex too little revenue.” It’s just too early draw any long term conclusions

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SaaStr

JULY 11, 2024

How do you raise funds beyond Series B? If you’ve made it that far, congrats! You’re one of the lucky 15% that raised seed funding and made it to Series B. It also means you’re highly likely to get an exit at some point. There’s only a small chance that it’ll be an IPO exit, and Stacey Bishop with Scale Ventures shares what it takes to get to that next level of funding.

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Tom Tunguz

JULY 7, 2024

The SQL statement above is a quote from our recent Office Hours with Benn Stancil. It’s not a SQL statement that would work today in a cloud data warehouse. But an LLM would understand it : summarize the book Moby Dick in two sentences. Sure enough, ChatGPT answers the question : This pseudocode blends the structured queries of data analysis with the unstructured data contained in a classic novel.

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FastSpring

JULY 11, 2024

The most common examples of successful CRO tactics provided at many conferences tend to focus on B2C ecommerce, but what are the proven winning tactics you can use in your B2B CRO strategy? In this episode of Growth Stage, we interview Sahil Patel of Spiralyze about his thoughts on: Special considerations for B2B CRO. The best way to think about your B2B test data approach.

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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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The Moz Blog

JULY 9, 2024

Does developing a link building plan sound daunting? Steal the blueprint I've used to create successful link building strategies for my clients.

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SaaStr

JULY 12, 2024

So I wondered how many of us still pay sales reps in SF and NYC more than the rest of the country. Or put differently, pay reps outside of the top most expensive tech centers … less. There are arguments on both sides on whether to pay reps the same everywhere across U.S. … or not: SF and NYC are much more expensive in terms of cost of living.

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Tom Tunguz

JULY 11, 2024

In a world where AI agents are 2.5-3x as productive as humans, which would parallel mechanical robots, how does a software company price? Building on yesterday’s post , pricing in software companies may change significantly when AI agents become the norm. The SaaS business model of the last 20 years for SaaS is a beautiful one. Annual prepaid contracts are free loans to software companies ; seat-based pricing is a tangible metric for pricing ; as a client grows so does this account, produc

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Buffer Resources

JULY 11, 2024

As a professional, there’s no better way to future-proof your career than building your personal brand on LinkedIn. Establishing yourself as a thought leader and building an engaged audience on the platform can help generate new customers for your business, exciting job opportunities, and even paid side projects as a B2B (or B2C) creator.  I’ve been focused on building a personal brand on LinkedIn since mid-2022 (that’s just about two years at the time of writing this),

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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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Stax

JULY 11, 2024

1.3 billion. That’s the estimated number of iPhone users as of 2024. With Apple capturing 62% of the smartphone market share in the United States, it’s clear as day that the iPhone is a leader when it comes to mobile technology It’s no wonder that Apple Pay continues to gain traction. Research from TechReport shows “507 million global Apple Pay users, of which the US accounts for 45.4 million.” Another interesting fact?

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SaaStr

JULY 9, 2024

So venture capital turns out to be a pretty tough business. Imagine a $150m seed VC fund that buys 15% stakes in each startup. They write some follow-on checks, but ultimately, typically get dilutive to about 10% ownership. Then one start-up in the fund is sold for $500m. An epic amount! How much does that return for the VC fund? $50m. A lot. But … but … it’s only 33% of the $150m fund.

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The Moz Blog

JULY 12, 2024

Emma shares how to cater to user behavior shifts during times of economic turbulence using thorough research and user journey mapping.

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Buffer Resources

JULY 12, 2024

⚡ At Buffer, we’re committed to full transparency — which means building in public and sharing how our engineers work. You’ll find more content like this on our Open Blog here. We’ve all experienced it at some point — a change is deployed to an API and suddenly, clients stop working. User experience deteriorates, negative reviews start coming in, customer advocacy starts dealing with requests, multiple engineers start digging into the issue, and it quick

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Stax

JULY 9, 2024

More and more, cash-only businesses are falling by the wayside, unable to keep up with consumer demand for convenient electronic payments. The world of Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) payments is vast, spanning just about every payment method you can think of. This post covers everything you need to know about EFT payments. TL;DR An Electronic Funds Transfer is an umbrella term for payments that are conducted electronically—essentially, any payment method except for cash and paper checks.

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SaaStr

JULY 12, 2024

Scaling to $150M ARR and beyond is no simple task. Grafana Labs co-founder and CEO Raj Dutt and Partner at Lightspeed Alex Kayyal answer the most popular questions about Grafana Labs’ rocketship growth journey at this year’s SaaStr Europa. First, let’s rewind the clock and look at Grafana Labs’ origin story. How did it come to be? Grafana Labs Origin Story Grafana Labs started as an open-source project back in 2014 with three co-founders, including Raj.

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User Pilot

JULY 9, 2024

What is a customer experience management strategy? Why is it important? How to create it? These are some of the questions this article covers, so if you’re after the answers, you’re in the right place! We also share best practices for product teams seeking to optimize their strategies and enhance customer engagement throughout their journey with the product.

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Buffer Resources

JULY 8, 2024

I have been baking sourdough bread for a bunch of years and when the pandemic hit, I was one of those people who was getting calls for sourdough baking advice. I remembered the challenges of learning to bake and creating my first starter, and that turned into a new product idea — a warming device to keep sourdough starter consistently at the right temperature.

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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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Groove HQ

JULY 12, 2024

Are you tired of struggling to get consistent traffic and sales? Pay-Per-Click (PPC) campaigns put your business in front of relevant customers just as they’re looking to buy. However, many PPC ads are unsuccessful due to a lack of information or time investment (or both). That’s where this guide comes in. We’re going to equip […] The post A Beginners’ Guide To Implementing PPC for Your Small Business appeared first on Groove Blog.

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SaaStr

JULY 6, 2024

Most sales leaders and sales teams talk about using Spiffs to hit certain goals. To incent a certain revenue goal this month, to try to incent selling a new product, a new add-on, etc. Sometimes, to incent folks to help others on the team. A spiff — an extra bonus for achieving a goal beyond just their core bookings targets. “Let’s Do a Spiff!

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User Pilot

JULY 10, 2024

Customer experience (CX) is central to product management and the success of your SaaS platform. It can help retain customers and gain loyal brand advocates. And that’s why the customer experience software solutions you choose matter greatly. But what are they all about, and which ones should you choose for your SaaS platform? Here’s all you must know.

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