SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

Our monthly self-service churn went from like 3% to like 9%, right? If something bad happens, you’re going to have to cut your burn, probably. There is one thing, I love this quote and it’s a little bit of a crude quote, not that it’s bad language-. What do you do with that lightly toxic person on your team?

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

I am ready to make this bet because I know that Neil Patel Digital is the world’s best choice when it comes to Search Engine Optimization combined with Conversion Rate Optimization. That’s all because of our ability to constantly optimize and improve our methods according to the current trends in the marketplace.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

And it’s not without good reason: nearly all software products with dominant market share started as apps but grew to the point where third-party developers began building valuable integrations on top of what these companies had already created. New Relic’s General Manager, Mark Weitzel, weighs in on how you can support your developers.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 11, 2019

But as the business becomes more successful – and there are resources to build a support team – additional layers begin to separate executives from their customers. As the General Manager for HubSpot’s Service Hub , Michael knows a thing or two about keeping customers close. Michael Redbord has an answer for that.

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Everything from a site builder, perhaps using a website template to web design and using social media to develop your new business website. This is just as bad as not having a website in the first place. Hosting Factor #2: Customer Service. Let’s go… Why You Shouldn’t Rely on Third-Party Sites to Build a Website.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Maria and Anthony present the CEO and CMO playbook of how the CEO and CMO can partner with other members of the team to grow sales and marketing. Maria : Not too bad. You see this headline here and it doesn’t sound so bad, 43 months. It’s the entire executive team. Want to see more content like this?

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OpenView Labs

MAY 12, 2020

Those are some pretty great results for a small team—only about 50 people in the whole company—that needs to navigate the challenges of selling a horizontal product serving multiple audiences from single-player scenarios to enterprise deployments. Small businesses or teams who adopt it self-service.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Renaud Visage, Co-Founder of Eventbrite, and Romain Huet, Head of Developer Relations at Stripe, know what it takes to effectively evolve your offering into a platform without losing what made offering appealing in the first place. Romain Huet | Head of Developer Relations @ Stripe. Want to see more content like this?

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

Sales Development and Prospecting. The Sales Development Playbook. The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team. Here are the best books on selling (and related disciplines) that can help you hit your goals and develop your career. SPIN Selling is essential reading for anyone involved in selling or managing a sales team.

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Neil Patel

DECEMBER 4, 2020

How do you stand out in such a highly-competitive marketplace? And they do this with poor store setup and product listings. Amazon has become a search engine for products. Amazon even developed its own SEO algorithm called A9. What would make us a bad fit to work together? Find an Amazon marketing consultant.

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 24, 2022

This isn’t a bad idea, and why companies like Facebook continued to grow despite adding more and more complexity over time. Eventbrite was historically a 50% sales and 50% self-service business. Eventbrite now caters toward more modern music creators that share the need for intuitive and self-service experiences.

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FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

Ryan Austin had VP-level experience in training when he decided to start a consulting business to help enterprise-level companies with their corporate learning and development initiatives. Ryan and his team noticed so many inefficiencies across the L&D workflows. “It There are now over 150 enterprise companies using the platform.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Congratulations you’ve built a product that’s proven itself in the marketplace! ” Was obsessed with mathematics, went to college at 16, became an engineer. Thought I wanted to be an engineer, quickly realized I actually prefer the customer facing side of the startup world. I have a team of people who work on numbers.

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Neil Patel

APRIL 20, 2021

Until that happens, you’ll find it difficult to sell your actual products or services. Most people and companies think products and services sell because of their great features. Let’s look at an example in the world of marketing consulting services and products. service, program, online course, etc.) That’s not the case.

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Stax

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Software as a Service (SaaS) has made business software more accessible by offering cloud-based, on-demand access to a range of solutions, from project management and collaboration to sales and marketing. As such, they can face less competition because of the high barrier of entry that comes with developing specialist SaaS products.

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OpenView Labs

APRIL 13, 2020

There are new job titles—growth marketing, growth product manager, growth engineer, head of growth—and new opportunities that have changed the way companies think about how to grow their revenue or users. Proliferation of iterative, experiment-driven, nimble approaches to product development (also known as Agile). Monetization.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

Nick Mehta: Power of the developer, or the API economy, both of you play very much in both those trends. How do you help your team make that link to value? We’ve got a lot of training to do with our sales teams to get them to start to speak in these types of terms versus feature function.

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Neil Patel

APRIL 5, 2023

Spying on your competitors can strengthen your position in the marketplace, but not without having three crucial factors in play: First, what are you looking for? Google Alerts Google Alerts is a free service offered by Google to keep you up-to-date on the latest news, conversations, and web content.

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How To Buy Saas

DECEMBER 1, 2020

SAAS is also abbreviated as software as a service. With so many SAAS getting visibility in online marketplaces, we found that new saas businesses are struggling hard to make it to the right set of customers. SaaS as we already understood is a software as a service. Start Listing your saas on Software and saas Marketplaces.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 30, 2021

How to build a winning sales team. Developing A Winning Sales Team [16:24]. It provides the information that helps me succeed, translating down into my sales team as I’m coaching and mentoring them. I did a couple of startups from there, in the CRM ecosystem, then got into TOA, which was field service in the cloud.

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SaaStr

JUNE 20, 2019

I grew up in the Netherlands, people in Germany, people are being taught when they’re young to stay away from credit, it’s a bad thing, you want to avoid it. We started a company with engineers and a few sales people and for a long time that’s the only two major roles we have in the company.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

I’ve been in software since the ’90s and for over 20 years, nearly that entire time, we’ve been talking about digital transformation, developing strategies, architecting new technologies, and moving beyond digitization to rethinking our businesses, our products, and our services in a way that’s optimized for a digital world.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 10, 2019

WePay is a payments company for platform businesses like marketplaces, crowdfunding sites & small business software. We grew our team by 50% this year, continuing to grow. Chase Merchant Services that we’re now a part of processes $1.2 So I think like anything it’s been good and bad. Tina Hsiao : Yeah.

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Scytale

JULY 23, 2024

That’s where PCI penetration testing comes in – it’s like having a top-notch security team constantly trying to break into your systems and steal your data. Think of it as a full-body scan for your digital defenses, ensuring no cracks for the bad guys to slip through. Having a solid game plan is key.

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OPEXEngine

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Over the past decade, software has created tremendous value for investors and businesses, thanks largely to its transformative effect on the economy , its role in developing new cloud-based business models, and its ability to increase efficiency in operations. Sticky after all. Four ways to drive value. Embrace the cloud operating model.

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 27, 2020

In part two of our Sequencing Business Models series , we talked about the different types of marketplaces and what needs to be built to be effective in each of them. This builds on the first essay in the series of how there has been an increase in interest of SAAS-like models interested in becoming marketplaces over time.

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OpenView Labs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Culture helps a company define itself, attract the right team members and customers, and differentiate in the marketplace. It’s the “why” behind the mission and the glue that holds everyone together in good times and bad. Every day, our teams are sending signals out, internally and externally,” Kristin said.

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Neil Patel

JANUARY 20, 2021

Post your team photos like Zappos. Don’t Just Promote Products and Services. Bombarding your fans with 10 poor-quality updates in an hour. Most people form groups around: Their brand/business Their products/services A specific lifestyle e.g. a book club or a journalling club Specific topics e.g. a content marketing group.

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OpenView Labs

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

It was an important realization because the great weakness of typical enterprise software is that it’s overcomplicated. Using APIs, smaller software companies or indie developers around the world were able to extend Atlassian products with pluggable components to solve different use cases.

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SaaSOptics

MAY 19, 2022

Below, we’ll dive into how to develop a customer acquisition strategy from start to finish. . How to Develop a Customer Acquisition Strategy. Funneling time, energy, and resources into developing a stellar customer acquisition strategy is only helpful if it’s designed with your target market in mind.

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User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

As the book Blue Ocean Strategy notes, blue oceans have always been a key engine of growth for companies and entire economies. The focus is on developing new demand and reconstructing market landscapes to make rivals obsolete. With globalization and advancing technology, products and services are becoming commoditized faster than ever.

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ProfitWell

MARCH 11, 2020

But as cost containment becomes a priority for businesses looking to thrive in the modern digitally-transformed marketplace, keeping existing customers happy and loyal is now a primary concern. the percentage of customers who continue to use and resubscribe to your service over time) is your golden ticket to profits.

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yoursales

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Which problems are the most pressing for your and your B2B sales team? Which processes can and need to be powered by technology for you and your team to sell more? Trends which MAY impact your Sales Stack in 2023 Sales is in constant development. What customers want is help solving problems. Being a B2B buyer isn't easy.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 24, 2018

Uncover topics with customer development. For example, if I were doing this for my content marketing service, Grizzle , I would ask my clients questions like: What does your current PR system look like? Your marketing team has already profiled your ideal clients. For professional services, there’s a sweet spot.

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Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

No Wait, of Course That Is the Single Most Important SaaS Metric by Jason Cohen, A Smart Bear The purpose of a metric is to be a tool in service of your goals, timeline, size, circumstance, even philosophy, not as a master you are thoughtlessly obligated to obey. Keep an eye out as we will be making regular updates.

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Unbounce

JUNE 23, 2023

Through a lively and insight-filled conversation, this episode explores burning questions like: What happens to SEO if search engine results are replaced by AI chatbots ? Will AI ever be able to replace marketers—or even an entire marketing team (gulp)? What if an AI were tasked with, say, destroying the human race?

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User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

As the book Blue Ocean Strategy notes, blue oceans have always been a key engine of growth for companies and entire economies. The focus is on developing new demand and reconstructing market landscapes to make rivals obsolete. With globalization and advancing technology, products and services are becoming commoditized faster than ever.

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