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Mental Models to Help You Grow

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

Companies which don’t use mental models risk unleashing mayhem with poor choices or becoming bloated and bureaucratic by reducing the volume and speed at which decisions are made - both scenarios are undesirable and will impact growth. OKRs are a useful mental model - they make it crystal clear what people and teams should be striving for.

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46 Bad Ass Sales Podcasts Every Sales Professional Should Follow in 2019

Sales Hacker

Take notes, highlight the best parts, and share important takeaways with your team. Catalyst Sale enables organizations to build and deploy top-notch sales teams through training and enablement. Learn how to develop a full array of selling skills: from asking the right questions to using the proper apps. Links: Website , iTunes.

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The Funnel is Dead. Long Live the Flywheel. With Hubspot CEO Brian Halligan (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Increasingly organizations talk about B2D marketing, to developers. Some developer’s tinkering with something. So product and the growth team within product really owns a lot of that. The growth team in product and the growth team in marketing kind of are mushed together. The handoffs were very bad.

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How to Think of R&D Spend

Andreessen Horowitz

Most growth-stage CEOs I work with know how to tell if they’re efficiently allocating capital in every part of their budget with one glaring exception: research and development (R&D). Focus on performance management of your product and engineering teams as early indicators for what R&D investments are working, and which aren’t.

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30 Ways to Become a More Successful Entrepreneur

Neil Patel

Entrepreneurs make decisions for themselves, realize their creative visions, and develop lasting relationships with other entrepreneurs, customers, and vendors. We all have a great team and support network behind us. If you don’t respect your partner(s), your team won’t last long. You can build things and watch them grow.

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Gina Gotthilf on growing Duolingo to 200 million users

Intercom, Inc.

Our chat covers how gaming principles influenced her growth experiments, her team’s most successful retention tactics, and much more. Adam: How was the transition from classic marketing to working more with designers and engineers on the growth team? My team would do things like assign games to different members of the team.

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How to Streamline PHP for SEO

Neil Patel

However, this flexibility is what gives developers room to work without too many restrictions. The goal of every SEO, site builder, and creator is to develop a website that is engaging, simple, entertaining, and effective at a certain goal. Still, there are some SEOs who think dynamic URLs are bad for SEO.