Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Why it’s hard to build a two-sided marketplace [13:38]. Managing a technical team as a non-technical person [24:13]. Okay, it’s not that easy, but Sapper Consulting has built REGIE to keep the promise of sales enablement alive and keep your team doing what they do best, which is winning. Sam’s Corner [33:50 ].

Marketplace as a Service 113

Marketplace as a Service CTO Hire Sales Recruiting Scale 113

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.

Underperforming Technical Team 98

Underperforming Technical Team Marketing Scale B2C 98

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 13, 2021

Although Linda started her career in sales, she has spent the past twelve years scaling post-sales teams and moving hyper-growth companies like Zendesk, Slack, and now Gong upmarket into the enterprise realm. These evolving demands from enterprise customers bring with them different skillsets customer success managers need to hone.

Scale 177

Scale Customer Success Sales Hiring Strategy 177

BetterCloud

MARCH 17, 2025

SaaS budgeting is the process of planning, allocating, and managing financial resources for acquiring and using Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions within an organization. Maybe youre spending the right amount of money, but you need more seats, or you might be paying for a service that nobody uses. What is SaaS budgeting?

Technical Review 52

Technical Review Strategy Marketplace as a Service SaaS 52

User Pilot

DECEMBER 9, 2021

In the competitive world of SaaS products, product positioning is definitely something your product marketing team can’t afford to ignore. Product positioning is a process that aims at determining how the service or product is situated on the market and why it is superior to those of your competitors. What is product positioning?

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Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Software Review Marketplace as a Service 98

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. This is a very common strategy for enterprise companies with large margins. We work with small businesses and independent creators.

Scale 139

Scale User Experience Underperforming Technical Team Marketplace as a Service 139

User Pilot

MARCH 5, 2025

Best for: SaaS product teams who want a powerful but easy-to-use platform to improve onboarding, increase product adoption, and drive user engagement. Ease of use and implementation Userpilot is known for its intuitive, no-code builder, making it easy to create and customize in-app experiences without needing developers.

Software Review 52

Software Review Engagement Software Scale 52

Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

If you could visualize your data and share your findings with key team members? The interface allows you to bring unconnected sources together, like data from spreadsheets or online services, and turn them into rich, interactive reports. per user per month, Power BI Pro gives you access to the cloud-based service.

Marketing 114

Marketing Social Media Marketplace as a Service Underperforming Technical Team 114

Neil Patel

JANUARY 21, 2021

As a result, there’s no room in the budget for expensive enterprise tools. These tools are often just as powerful as enterprise-level tools while helping you remain cash flow positive and maximize your runway. Wrike also makes collaboration seamless with shared calendars, file sharing, and team reports time tracking.

Payment Methods 110

Payment Methods Payment Solutions Outsourcing Services Payments 110

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. Because horizontal SaaS companies serve both startups and enterprise businesses, scalability is a key selling point.

SaaS Payments 88

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payments Payment Solutions 88

Neil Patel

MARCH 2, 2021

The more (positive) reviews and testimonials you have, the more likely prospective customers are to put their faith and money in your services. Instead, pursue the ones best aligned with the services you offer and your target audience. B2C” businesses sell goods and services directly to consumers. Let’s start with B2C.

Software Review 127

Software Review Technical Review Scale Merchant Services 127

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Congratulations you’ve built a product that’s proven itself in the marketplace! At Twilio, I think my entire job there my first two years was throwing t-shirts at people, because everyone had a Twilio t-shirt I think in the developer community in 2010, and that was our marketing strategy. I have a team of people who work on numbers.

Investment 113

Investment Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring Software Review 113

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Historically, growth of a sales team was based on the revenue starting with $0M on day 1 of the year. However, in a SaaS model , the customer acquisition team can grow revenue to $1M in year 1. If the same team keeps performing at the same growth it will achieve $2M in year 2 – whilst the renewals come in at 100%.

Scale 101

Scale Growth Hacking Scaling Sales Hiring 101

Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Casey’s first sequencing business models essay talked about the transition from a SaaS business model to marketplace business model, and why it’s so difficult. In this essay, we’ll go deeper into the gradients of marketplace models that a company can sequence to, and as a follow up, we will do the same for platforms.

Marketplace as a Service 40

Marketplace as a Service Business Model SaaS Payments Payments 40

OpenView Labs

APRIL 13, 2020

Proliferation of iterative, experiment-driven, nimble approaches to product development (also known as Agile). The convergence of these changes has led many to realize that “growth” is a team sport. Decisions made within the product can dramatically impact the success of a marketing team and the growth of a company.

Systems Review 98

Systems Review Technical Advisors Scale Technical Review 98

Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 19, 2020

As digital first companies (and teams) we are in a really good position to get creative about fostering community online whether with clients, colleagues or family. Can you elaborate a little bit for our audience about how exactly you guys work and what exactly are the services that you offer? We come in and really help people do that.

Underperforming Technical Team 37

Underperforming Technical Team Interviewing Scale Investment 37

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’m curious about the transition and journey of big enterprise sales to joining a smaller organization.

Scale 113

Scale Payments Technical Advisors Sales Recruiting 113

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.

Growth Hacking 105

Growth Hacking Payment Methods SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 105

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. Yes, maybe an enterprise in the US for eight billion I’m like, well, the Dutch company literally have a 14 billion, it started, now 22 billion plus.

Payment Methods 164

Payment Methods Merchant Services Payments Payment Services 164

Totango

JANUARY 17, 2019

In order to run a successful enterprise, you have to think in terms of customer growth and expansion. Support across your enterprise. You can consider your customer to be in the onboarding phase right up until they start to gain value from your products and services. Customer retention is vital to the health of your business.

SaaS 74

SaaS Marketplace as a Service Underperforming Technical Team Scale 74

How To Buy Saas

JANUARY 1, 2021

Your course gets the advantage of getting promoted in these online course platform marketplaces. Online Course Marketplace. E-Learning WordPress Plugins or Themes Enterprise LMS Platforms. Online Course Marketplaces. Enterprise LMS Platforms. Let’s give a quick check. Dedicated Course platform.

Payment Methods 98

Payment Methods Payments Payment Solutions Marketplace as a Service 98

SaaSOptics

APRIL 7, 2022

A free trial is often seen as the quickest way to get customers signed up and using a SaaS product/service, but it comes with several strings attached. SaaS companies commonly implement this in two different ways: Free Trial: Users only have access to the product/service for a limited time (e.g. What Does Freemium Mean in Business?

Business Model 74

Business Model Payment Features Business SaaS 74

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.

Software Review 52

Software Review DevOps as a Service Software Underperforming Technical Team 52

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 8, 2020

How to build a more diverse team [24:50]. Through that, he went to university where he studied AI and cybernetics, ultimately leading big teams in EMEA for AppDynamics. Learn how modern sales teams with deals, win deals now. Modern sales teams, winning deals using 6sense. Show Introduction [00:09]. Sam’s Corner [34:03].

Scale 117

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Technical Review 117

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Here are five quick takeaways: When evaluating clients, the biggest thing Bailey and her team look for is whether the organization is willing to give up control. Find the people who are 10-out-of-10 passionate about your product or service , because they will evangelize your brand more powerfully than you can do alone.

Underperforming Technical Team 116

Underperforming Technical Team Interviewing Marketplace as a Service Investment 116

Totango

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

By implementing customer education best practices that drive the onboarding process, you will set your customers—and your enterprise— up for success. A good first impression is integral to establishing trust in your team and confidence in your product’s ability to deliver value. . Why Onboarding Matters. Standardized Practices.

Education 64

Education Onboarding Underperforming Technical Team Marketplace as a Service 64

ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

And yet, downplaying your team’s needs undermines CS’s current impact and future revenue-driving potential. According to our 2022 Customer Success Leadership Study, CS teams are already underfunded and under-resourced. My job is to continually inform and share knowledge that’s going out in the marketplace.

Customer Success 98

Customer Success Sales Hiring Headcount Scale 98

OpenView Labs

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

This then-wild product positioning was not the only achievement that propelled Atlassian to the big league of enterprise software. It was an important realization because the great weakness of typical enterprise software is that it’s overcomplicated. to Atlassian and focus on building great products.

Payment Solutions 47

Payment Solutions Outsourcing Services Payment Methods Marketplace as a Service 47

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

According to Salesforce’s recent State of Service report, more than half of service providers will be adding chatbots to their lineup in the next year and a half. This is a start, but to stay ahead of the competition in today’s sales world, sales teams need to start utilizing AI much more than that. Salespeople are busy.

Scale 103

Scale AI Search AI Artificial Intelligence 103

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.

Acquisition 59

Acquisition Scale Strategy Software Review 59

OpenView Labs

JUNE 16, 2020

As the marketplace shifts, new constraints are giving rise to new opportunities. For example, a client of mine who deals in the enterprise had a 30-day out-clause for six-figure+ deals that take months to onboard. Out of anything I could ever say, please know that your marketplace will always speak the loudest. Image source.

Sales Hiring 54

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting SaaS Payments Underperforming Technical Team 54

Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 10, 2019

They got a bad rep, but they’ve come through the other end, I think. We’re going to invest and invest and invest in the developer side of it and help external developers get value from building an app in the Intercom ecosystem. Paul: It might be interesting to distinguish between the consumer side and the enterprise side.

Scale 143

Scale Banking Technical Review Systems Review 143

User Pilot

OCTOBER 31, 2022

You might also want to set up a comprehensive in-app resource center to help users solve their own problems – and reduce the burden on your support team. You need to understand how customers are responding to using your application or service and build up an idea of their loyalty over time. Geoffrey Moore.

Onboarding 98

Onboarding Software Review Marketplace as a Service Underperforming Technical Team 98

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.

Sales Recruiting 100

Sales Recruiting Sales Underperforming Technical Team Social Media 100

Chargify

AUGUST 17, 2017

NPS and raising NPS scores usually falls to your customer success team, but in times of stalled growth it is important for customer success to start at the executive level. The enterprise choice? Enterprise customers have higher Average Revenue Per User (ARPU) and Lifetime Value (LTV). Go upmarket. What are you? The web choice?

Scale 53

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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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Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Outsourced Development 88

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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