SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2024

When sales slow how do you keep the team motivated and push through? Jason explains: “While YC is as hot as ever – I talked to two YC founders in this batch that got 40 VC offers before the batch started – a lot of folks in venture, even though it doesn’t look like it, they don’t have money to invest.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 12, 2023

Management teams must determine how to thrive in a downturn to position their businesses for profitable growth. However, management teams that pursued growth at all costs were punished severely. Strategy to win. Developing a strategic pricing model structure aligned with value helps maximize long-term value and near-term yield.

Consulting 49

Consulting Underperforming Technical Team Management Marketing 49

Neil Patel

OCTOBER 29, 2020

According to Smart Insights , 45 percent of companies don’t have a clearly defined digital marketing strategy; 17 percent of companies have a digital marketing strategy in place, but it’s separate from their marketing plan. They don’t have the strategy, tactics, or tools they need to market their business well.

Underperforming Technical Team 145

Underperforming Technical Team Strategy Development Payment Methods 145

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 23, 2019

This proves onboarding isn’t just good for your acquisition strategy — it’s also good for your wallet. How much have users invested upfront? A poor onboarding experience can lead to refunds or cancellations that you can’t afford. Team Onboarding templates. Here’s the proof.

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Onboarding Strategy Underperforming Technical Team Outsourced Development 199

Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

According to Smart Insights, 49 percent of organizations don’t have a clearly defined digital strategy. Choosing the right digital strategy for your business is essential. What’s more important is choosing a company that can execute that strategy. Here’s a list of our picks for the best digital strategy companies in the world.

Underperforming Technical Team 139

Underperforming Technical Team Strategy Content Marketing Scale 139

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Developing a sales strategy is one of the core activities every business will have to undertake. A well defined sales strategy is your path to meaningful, sustainable growth. When done correctly, your sales strategy will help your sales team execute with focus – SMB or enterprise, inbound or outbound, hunting or farming.

Scale 177

Scale Strategy Sales Underperforming Technical Team 177

Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Due to the competitive digital landscape , business owners need to chalk out entire outlines, strategies, and implementation within weeks – or even days. Having a carefully drafted digital strategy. Plus, a result-driven approach serves as the basis of digital strategy, which can be very beneficial for your company.

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Consulting Strategy Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team 123

SaaStr

JANUARY 2, 2024

You don’t want conflict with the sales team. How do you leverage that offer to develop relationships with partners? This is where they started, but startups weren’t adopting the product as much with a discount, and there was a lot of conflict with the sales team. During SaaStr Annual, Zendesk Sr. Do they have a CRO in place?

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Startup Scale Underperforming Technical Team AWS 262

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

If someone is working hard but isn’t working out, invest in them and see if you can get them into the high-performing category. The underperformers who aren’t putting in the effort get a conversation, and if things don’t change, it’s not a good fit. Others are doing little work and not working out. Guess what? Jameson called that guy.

Sales Hiring 281

Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Revenue Sales 281

Casey Accidental

MARCH 29, 2022

A common issue leaders in product management, design, or engineering face is justifying investment in the “non-sexy” stuff. Non-sexy things include general user experience improvements, performance, developer velocity, infrastructure, technical debt, and, fortunately less than it used to be, growth. User Experience.

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Investment Underperforming Technical Team Scale User Experience 139

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

They are hiring leaders, building teams, and attracting advisors in the US while devouring the SV SaaS playbook. AI is likely the next platform, dev tools are strategic given the scarcity of developers, cybersecurity is front and center for enterprises, and the data stack is still going strong. Proximity to customers helps too.

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Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Cybersecurity 293

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 20, 2021

As a result, much of the evaluation, investment, and rollout of virtual training technology in 2020 was rushed, limited in scope, and poorly planned. Businesses must take a step back, evaluate their software investments, and rework their implementations. How to maximize customer training investment. Today, not much has changed.

Investment 123

Investment Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Artificial Intelligence 123

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 4, 2019

More recently, however, I’ve realized that the technology industry at large struggles with such clarity and consistency – in marketing terms, there is often a difficulty developing a clear value proposition that aligns with product and brand identity. 1 Poor definition of value proposition and feature focus. 2 First-mover disadvantage.

Branding 209

Branding Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Airlines 209

User Pilot

APRIL 30, 2024

Wondering what a marketing growth strategy is? From this article, you will find out how to develop a strong growth marketing strategy and learn growth marketing tactics for different customer journey stages. Start building your marketing growth strategy by setting goals. If so, we’ve got you covered. Let’s get to it.

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Underperforming Technical Team Strategy Marketing Customer Lifetime Value 105

SaaStr

OCTOBER 30, 2021

A mentor of mine suggested that I reframe my search to seek out companies that I would invest in, instead of the other way around. He told me, you can invest time, talent, or treasure. Unfortunately for me, I had little experience, not much talent, and lacked the treasure/money to invest. It seemed like the best investment! .

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Scale Sales Hiring Sales Underperforming Technical Team 284

SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

The second constituent there is the developer. Why do developers love SaaS products? Customer acquisition is basically how much do you spend in terms of sales people, sales team, and in terms of marketing to acquire a new customer. Low touch you’re gonna talk a lot about what we call customer success teams.

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SaaS Payments Metrics Payment Methods Scale 246

Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

That’s because luxury marketing strategies don’t follow the same rules as mass-market brands. Today, I’m going to show you exactly how to take your luxury brand online with the best luxury marketing strategies. All that’s to say: digital marketing must be a key part of a luxury brand’s strategy going forward. Me neither.

Strategy 145

Strategy Marketing Social Media Underperforming Technical Team 145

SaaStr

JUNE 15, 2021

Twilio is a cloud communications platform that allows software developers to embed communications into the apps that they’re building. He said, “I feel so bad. Jeff : I felt really bad, because you plan way ahead. For real, why is the developer market bigger today? He’s the only CEO that ever called.

Scale 301

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Engineering Wireless 301

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2021

If you’re a senior engineer and want to further your career, what skills should you develop? Moving forward in your career, avoid the trap of doing work that feels high-impact, but it’s actually not , or work that makes you look good at the expense of the project and the team. How do people move into staff engineering roles?

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Technical Review Leadership VP of Engineering CTO Coach 274

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

MARCH 23, 2020

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. Strategy - annually changes. MSPOT stands for: Mission - rarely changes.

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Underperforming Technical Team Scale Sales Hiring Marketplace as a Service 213

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 4, 2019

The fastest growing software companies in recent years all have something in common – they started with little to no sales team. Yes, Slack started off with no sales team. Yes, Dropbox started off with no traditional sales team. billion in revenue) so it’s safe to say Jeanne and her team have helped do exactly that.

Scale 162

Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Payment Services 162

SaaStr

JULY 1, 2021

The second is pulling more around values, and how we approached team building. Even as a three person team, we went through an exercise to figure out what do we stand for, as a team? Sam : This is not my insight, but someone else says… I really do believe it, that the team you build is the company you build.

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VP of Engineering Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team 293

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

If your SaaS business has a sales team, there’s no way to grow 100% year-over-year without also growing your sales leadership. Knowing the common pitfalls won’t stop you or your team from making them, but it will help build the most important skill any manager can have: resiliency. Want to see more content like this? Overwhelmed.

Scale 183

Scale Sales Hiring Scaling Underperforming Technical Team 183

Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 12, 2019

A little over a year ago, I got the opportunity to start a new team within our sales organization – a team of Relationship Managers dedicated to growing our current customers at scale. To do the first, we had to hire, train, and write a playbook – the building blocks of any team. Relentlessly measure impact.

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Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team Scale 171

SaaStr

JULY 12, 2022

Now, I just invest in SasS companies. You have to create a repeatable process if you’re going to scale up the sales team. The Number One Job of a VP Sales is Recruiting a Great Team. Your VP of Sales’ number one job is getting eight to 10 great people on you team. That’s my background. laughter].

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Sales Hiring Part-Time VPE VP of Engineering Sales Recruiting 284

SaaStr

JULY 15, 2022

Jason Lemkin: Yeah, I think if you ask how applicable is SEO, programmable is maybe a different question, but I tell you every single SaaS company I have invested in or worked with that has made a commitment to building at least one high quality piece of content per week has seen significant ROI from SEO over a period of months or a year.

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Scale Outsourcing Services Sales Hiring VP of Engineering 293

SaaStr

OCTOBER 26, 2023

A Multi-Segment Strategy You have to be intentional in your strategy to solve for the long tail. But in other years, SMBs are jumping in the boat, so you get amazing growth long-term with a multi-segment strategy. Leveraging Your Team When You’re Away As a CEO of a company with $200M in revenue, you have to leverage your team.

Sales Hiring 281

Sales Hiring AI SMB Scale 281

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 4, 2018

Imagine walking into the office one morning and having your star team member ask if you have a few minutes to talk. Regular, open career conversations can be an effective strategy for this. Once you’ve had the first conversation, it’s up to you and your team member to decide how frequent or formal these meetings should be.

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Underperforming Technical Team compliance Development Engineering 223

BetterCloud

MARCH 17, 2025

Get ready to turn those monthly charges into strategic investments that fuel your business growth. Shadow AI, aka the unsanctioned artificial intelligence based applications that are in your tech stack, is often adopted by individual teams or employees for perceived productivity gains. lack of training, poor usability).

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Technical Review Strategy Marketplace as a Service SaaS 52

Scytale

JANUARY 21, 2025

The breach was attributed to vulnerabilities in the platform, specifically weak API security. From weak encryption to insider threats, each incident provides valuable lessons on how businesses can strengthen their defenses and avoid becoming the next victim. Automated monitoring also eases the burden on your team.

Payment Services 52

Payment Services Payment Methods SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 52

Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

B2B and B2C content marketing require entirely different strategies. Instead, you need a targeted B2B content marketing strategy to reach your marketing goals. Let me show you why a strategy is so important and help you figure out how to reach those valuable business prospects. Why Do You Need a B2B Content Marketing Strategy?

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B2B Strategy B2C Content Marketing 144

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. So how do you create a strong, enterprise-ready team? For Linda, it all comes down to your approach to customer success.

Scale 177

Scale Customer Success Sales Hiring Strategy 177

SaaStr

JULY 25, 2021

You can have the great product and a great team, but the market of small or very niche. The second one is the team, obviously depending on how earlier the team has a huge factor because you may be so early in your journey that there’s nothing else to point to, but the track record of the team. So that’s easy.

Sales Recruiting 261

Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale VP of Engineering 261

Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

According to a recent survey from the DMEXCO, 70 percent of executives worldwide expect the pandemic to accelerate the pace of digital strategy. Today, businesses are expected to outline, plan, implement the digital strategy in a matter of days or weeks. Not if you have the right digital strategy agency. Here are a few examples.

Strategy 124

Strategy Underperforming Technical Team Advertising Scale 124

Neil Patel

AUGUST 16, 2021

You’ve still got to turn the lead into a customer, but it’s the starting point, and once you’ve got a sales pipeline full of leads, it’s much easier to tweak your sales strategies. Naturally, your blog readers, email subscribers, and customers might have developed an emotional connection with your content.

Strategy 145

Strategy Social Media Underperforming Technical Team Development Team Review 145

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 23, 2018

Most sales and support teams are already well versed in conversations about data deletion, risk assessments and security frameworks, but those issues are going to become an even more prominent part of the discussion once GDPR comes into effect. Invest in your security program. What is a ‘privacy ecosystem’ and why it matters.

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Underperforming Technical Team compliance Systems Review Marketplace as a Service 220

Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 23, 2020

The businesses who are thriving right now, despite increasing support volume and a mandate to cut costs, are the ones investing in this new way of doing customer support. Once every decade or two, developments in technology trigger monumental changes in an industry. There are massive risks for those who don’t follow.

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