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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Underperforming Technical Team Marketplace as a Service Outsourced Development Development 170

Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

Sales Development and Prospecting. The Sales Development Playbook. The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team. Wooden on Leadership. Here are the best books on selling (and related disciplines) that can help you hit your goals and develop your career. Selling to Big Companies. The Pirate’s Guide to Sales. B2B Is Really P2P.

Scale 143

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Sales 143

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 11, 2019

In a company’s early days as a lean, mean, business machine, it’s fairly easy for leadership to stay in sync with their users. 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. Speak the customer’s language.

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Scale Scaling Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team 188

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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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. So how do you create a strong, enterprise-ready team? Not just support on steroids: How to build a customer success team.

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Scale Customer Success Sales Hiring Strategy 177

Chart Mogul

MAY 7, 2020

Onboarding a new member of your sales team is challenging on its own, but especially so when they have to call prospects out of the blue. Providing the right cold calling training can make or break the success of a new team member. Explain their existing sales process and what they learned in the course of developing it.

Sales Hiring 121

Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Marketplace as a Service Headcount 121

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 even developed its own SEO algorithm called A9. Basically, they’ll help you develop and implement marketing strategies to drive sales and revenue. Find an Amazon marketing consultant.

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Consulting Outsourcing Services Marketing Underperforming Technical Team 112

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?

Sales Hiring 214

Sales Hiring Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting 214

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?

Scale 219

Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team 219

Chart Mogul

APRIL 24, 2020

With a pandemic underway, software-as-a-service businesses, in normal times the beneficiaries of relatively stable compounding growth, are now facing an existential threat: recurring revenue streams are drying up, at least in part. Was that the last wave of bad news?’ ‘I’m How bad will it get? Arrested attention. Click To Tweet.

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Forecasting Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Marketplace as a Service 98

Neil Patel

OCTOBER 24, 2020

Unfortunately, your in-house team doesn’t have the required expertise to push through change. Our team at Neil Patel Digital has compiled the ultimate guide below to help you understand the nuances of working with a consultant for the best results. Spot knowledge gaps and weak points in strategy, and ask for alternatives.

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Consulting Sales Hiring Technical Review Sales Recruiting 132

SaaStr

AUGUST 6, 2019

” So we wanted to create essentially … Well, you can probably describe it the easiest way as an anti-SAP of supply chains, something that was easy, simple, free to use, open, and easy to develop for. Third parties are developing apps for our platform. Tradeshift Buy, which is essentially what we call private marketplaces.

Payment Solutions 156

Payment Solutions Payments Outsourcing Services SaaS Payments 156

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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Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payment Services 125

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%.

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Scale Growth Hacking Scaling Sales Hiring 93

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.

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Systems Review Technical Advisors Scale Technical Review 98

Sales Hacker

MARCH 30, 2021

Neil’s experience includes a long history of sales leadership, primarily in the Salesforce ecosystem, and is now running revenue for Revenue Grid. How to build a winning sales team. Developing A Winning Sales Team [16:24]. It was relatively new to that marketplace at the time. Scaling sales during the pandemic.

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Scale Payments Technical Advisors Sales Recruiting 108

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.

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Customer Success Sales Hiring Headcount Scale 98

A Smart Bear

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

The implication is that this was unknowable or bad luck, but the truth is, this was a predictable result of not understanding the market. Sometimes that’s a dream team that weathers the storm that sinks the other boats. The bad news is, you don’t know ahead of time what that thing will be. Multitasking is bad.

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Underperforming Technical Team Scale Sales Hiring Startup 64

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.

Payment Services 133

Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payments 133

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.

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Investment Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring Software Review 100

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.

Payment Solutions 91

Payment Solutions Payment Services SaaS Payments VP of Engineering 91

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 18, 2020

If you missed episode 122, check it out here: Tips for Building a Diverse Team of High-Quality Salespeople with Wesley Ulysse. Okay, it’s not that easy, but Sapper Consulting has built REGIE to keep the promise of sales enablement and help carry the load to help keep your team doing what they do best, winning. We’re on iTunes.

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Payment Features Subscription Scale Underperforming Technical Team 113

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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Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring Branding 169

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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Payment Methods Merchant Services Scale Payments 196

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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Scale Scaling Underperforming Technical Team Company Culture 98

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. In that priority meeting we look at, these are the customer requests, this is the number of developers, we can do five things, which are they?

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Payment Methods Merchant Services Payments Payment Services 147

OPEXEngine

MARCH 9, 2021

“I’ve talked to countless entrepreneurs who are anxious about the next step—first seed round, hiring a team, landing a board member, etc.,” That’s exactly what got the former Zenefits leadership team into trouble. As you start to develop a go-to-market strategy, “make sure to think through the process holistically,” says Jay.

Scale 52

Scale Sales Hiring Marketplace as a Service Underperforming Technical Team 52

Chart Mogul

APRIL 24, 2020

With a pandemic underway, software-as-a-service businesses, in normal times the beneficiaries of relatively stable compounding growth, are now facing an existential threat: recurring revenue streams are drying up, at least in part. Was that the last wave of bad news?’ ‘I’m How bad will it get? Arrested attention.

Forecasting 52

Forecasting Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Marketplace as a Service 52

OpenView Labs

JUNE 16, 2020

As the marketplace shifts, new constraints are giving rise to new opportunities. Out of anything I could ever say, please know that your marketplace will always speak the loudest. In good times or bad, your go-to-market strategy must change with the demands of your market. The marketplace is flooded with people.

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Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting SaaS Payments Underperforming Technical Team 54

Chart Mogul

MAY 7, 2020

Onboarding a new member of your sales team is challenging on its own, but especially so when they have to call prospects out of the blue. Providing the right cold calling training can make or break the success of a new team member. Explain their existing sales process and what they learned in the course of developing it.

Sales Hiring 52

Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Marketplace as a Service Headcount 52

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. Leadership should then make it clear to every department how each employee plays an important role in helping customers succeed with your product.

Scale 53

Scale Sales Hiring Artificial Intelligence SaaS 53

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

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 24, 2018

Headline: Demonstrate your thought leadership. 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.

Sales Recruiting 91

Sales Recruiting Sales Underperforming Technical Team Social Media 91

OPEXEngine

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

These companies have figured out a new paradigm: They are using scale to generate the benefits of leadership economics for their customers and they are combining an insurgent mission with technology to better understand (and deliver) what individual customers want. Ditto for leaders like Apple, Vanguard and Salesforce. Scale and intimacy.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 20, 2020

If you missed episode 131, check it out here: Data, Set, Match: How to Build a Two-Sided Marketplace to Drive Revenue with Ryan Walsh. If RFPs are slowing down your sales team, you need to check out Loopio. I believe that developing a clear vision of where you want to be is the most important and vital aspect of that.

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Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Outsourced Development 78

User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

The focus is on developing new demand and reconstructing market landscapes to make rivals obsolete. The Significance of the Blue Ocean Strategy In an increasingly crowded marketplace, the blue ocean strategy offers companies the opportunity to break out of hypercompetitive red oceans. Provide sufficient training and incentives.

Strategy 60

Strategy Technical Review Business Innovation 60

User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

The focus is on developing new demand and reconstructing market landscapes to make rivals obsolete. The Significance of the Blue Ocean Strategy In an increasingly crowded marketplace, the blue ocean strategy offers companies the opportunity to break out of hypercompetitive red oceans. Provide sufficient training and incentives.

Strategy 52

Strategy Technical Review Business Innovation 52