SaaStr

JUNE 10, 2021

So the whole world of software as a service and cloud has just exploded and will continue to grow enormously. And if we look at the specifics of the word SaaS, software as a service. And service many times means it’s human beings doing it. So how does this even work with software as a service.

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Outsourcing Services Marketplace as a Service Outsourced Development Scale 162

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 7, 2020

I have been an early employee at a very successful start-up (and several not-so-successful ones), and I’ve also been in Sales and Management at large, enterprise corporations. And although Sales is Sales, there are several big differences. Start-ups often develop informal workflows from “scratch.” Sales Support.

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Tom Tunguz

AUGUST 2, 2016

He and his team were instrumental in developing the explosive growth potential of the channel in serving the SMB. Many start by following self-service distribution models as a route to market, which have served as the de facto standard for helping cloud businesses grow. Thomas Hansen was Worldwide Vice President of SMB at Microsoft.

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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. Your first SaaS customer success hire. The Davidson Hang Podcast with Linda Lin.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 1, 2025

The GTM Podcast is available on any major directory, including: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Hayden Stafford is the President and Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) at Seismic, where he oversees the global go-to-market (GTM) organization, including pre-sales, sales, customer success, services, partners, and more.

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Hiring a social media marketing consultant could be a game-changer for your business. Develop a High-Performing Social Media Strategy. From there, they’ll develop a custom social media strategy to help you smash your goals. Project Management. Consider a social media marketing consultant your business’s Yoda.

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Out of this, only 10% generate annual sales of more than $100,000. By partnering with a top Amazon marketing agency, you can improve the visibility of your store, reach more buyers, and drive sales. To help you get started, let’s explore some scenarios when you should hire an Amazon marketing agency. It doesn’t work that way.

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FastSpring

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

As an Ecommerce Manager, you typically oversee Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Pay Per Click (PPC), Customer Management Systems (CMS), web development, social media, email marketing, the checkout, payments , and other ecommerce-related solutions. Each of these aspects requires its own management software.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Sam Jacobs: This week on the show, we’ve got Luke Rogers, the Vice President of Sales at Instabase. He now leads the sales function at a really promising and high-growing unicorn called Instabase. Learn how modern sales teams with deals, win deals now. We’re on iTunes.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

My classmates moved back into their childhood bedrooms, fought for part-time jobs in retail and food service. But this August I hosted a Sales Hacker panel with four sales leaders who guided their teams and companies through ‘08 and beyond, and what they said lightened something in my chest: Don’t panic. Hiring freezes.

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Neil Patel

JANUARY 21, 2021

Bootstrapped companies must focus relentlessly on sales, cash flow, and profit because they don’t have the luxury of VC investments to fall back on. One option is Webflow , which was labeled “the development platform of the future” by Smashing Magazine. You don’t need any SEO or developer experience to use it.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 21, 2021

Do you love chasing down the sale? What about using data analysis to create sales strategies? Revenue operations (RevOps) is a centralized org within a company that supports all revenue-generating business operations including Sales Ops, Marketing Ops, Customer Success Ops, and systems management. Unified data problems.

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Scale Sales Recruiting Technical Review Technical Advisors 117

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

In this blueprint, we provide insight into where growth comes from and how to structure your sales approach to capture that growth. The Winning By Design Blueprint Series provides practical advice for every part of a SaaS sales organization. Traditional Sales Growth vs SaaS Sales Growth. Understanding Growth Potential.

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FastSpring

JANUARY 8, 2019

Amazon Marketplace. Selling on the Amazon Marketplace can significantly boost volume through your store. Amazon charges fees on every sale through the Marketplace. The AOV can be calculated by dividing the total number of orders received by the total sales revenue. Customer relationship management (CRM).

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Neil Patel

DECEMBER 17, 2020

A sales rep completes their proposal and it’s automatically routed to the right manager for review and approval. Not only is that rep moving on to their next task, the pending approval is queued up exactly where it needs to be for the manager. Workflow Management Software. Low-Code Application Development.

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Payments Payment Solutions Software Review Payment Services 131

ChurnZero

JANUARY 13, 2022

Amir will lead all post-sales functions, helping customers use the full scope of their products and services to unleash the power of CentralSquare in their communities. In her expanded role, Ellen will continue to lead global system engineering and enablement and will add professional services and customer support to her team.

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OpenView Labs

APRIL 13, 2020

Proliferation of iterative, experiment-driven, nimble approaches to product development (also known as Agile). It is no longer the job of Marketing or Sales to solely own revenue, nor Product the core user experience. Is monetization a freemium, free trial, sales-driven, or hybrid model? Are there marketplace dynamics?

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How To Buy Saas

JULY 2, 2024

So, if you are looking for the perfect match talent for your specific requirements, let’s show you where to find and hire a certified email marketing specialist with the chops to craft emails that get noticed (and clicked)! Top Spots to Find Them Freelance Marketplaces and Platforms to Hire Email Marketing Specialists 1.

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Stax

JANUARY 8, 2024

Common risk management strategies for PayFacs include proper merchant vetting and onboarding, transaction monitoring and fraud prevention, chargeback mitigation, KYC/AML compliance, and data breach prevention. Reputational risks Risks associated with things like data breaches, poor customer service, company controversies, etc.

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OpenView Labs

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Making their product accessible on their website instead of hiring an army of salespeople was a disruptive idea in the early 2000s. The rationale behind Atlassian’s go-to-market strategy was threefold: If we don’t have sales staff, the product must sell itself. to Atlassian and focus on building great products.

Payment Solutions 47

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SaaSOptics

MAY 19, 2022

For subscription-based SaaS businesses, your customer acquisition metrics indicate how effectively you acquire new users via sales, marketing, or a product-led approach like a free trial. At what point will you introduce Sales into the buyer’s journey? . Metrics: What’s your target win rate for sales opportunities? .

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Point Nine Land

APRIL 21, 2021

There are many posts out there explaining how startup co-founders should “land the first sales, then hire the first 2 sales and when to hire a VP sales”. But, in my experience, there’s very little written about what is the equivalent for Product Management. In SaaS vs. marketplaces?

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Point Nine Land

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Both Jack and Rian had tech backgrounds and at the time were providing consulting services to the legal industry. A missed clause in a contract can mean the difference between a healthy profit and a client losing millions of dollars. Now they needed money to start hiring people. Again, this was 2007.

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Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

You can think of Horizontal SaaS as broad-based tech that is industry agnostic; a sales person at a Cybersecurity company can use HubSpot the same way a sales person at a Health Supplements company might use it. To make things easier, you can use this board deck template that my team and I developed with Quaestor.

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All that Saas

MAY 1, 2021

This all-in-one tool helps you discover influencers, manage campaigns, and negotiate contracts. Manages your campaigns on Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Twitch, Snapchat, Pinterest, Blog, Facebook and more. Manages budget per client and also keeps track of the payment sent to the hired influencer. Key Features.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

And so, she can, and Anthony just finished up basically going from the first sales hire at Gainsight at almost 100 million in revenue and has just retired. Maria : It’s like saying, “Hey, you want a sales rep to carry 10 times the quota they do today. You can’t, you have to invest in that sales infrastructure.”

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SaaStr

MAY 14, 2023

Algolia went from zero to seven figures in revenue in 12 months, and the launch of their search as a service product, and grew pricing from $19 a month to $100,000, which sounds amazing. web services. Daniel, you grew to 3 million in ARR before you hired a VP of Sales. How’d you manage all that? Pro Harbaugh?

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SmartKarrot

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

It is a sign of development, showing that the business has effectively transitioned from an R&D organization dependent on venture capital to an autonomous, long-lasting enterprise. . It is challenging and labor-intensive to develop a product that meets all the requirements of an enterprise organization.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 5, 2023

Looking back on its explosive growth, however, the company realized just how badly it needed the valuable services of a Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Hiring a CFO. First: Why hire a CFO, anyway? . A CFO can help you safely manage your growth during times of increasing business complexity without overextending your runway.

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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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SaaStr

MAY 15, 2020

333: Bridget Gleason is the Head of Sales and Customer Success @ Tidelift, the company providing managed open source, backed by maintainers. Before Tidelift, Bridget was VP of Sales @ Logz.io and before that was VP of Corporate Sales @ Sumo Logic where she drove ARR up by a record 237%. What core elements does it change?

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

How should sales and marketing work together on pricing? Rob Gonzalez: Operationally, I look at, in particular, my experience at Endeca, but also another startup that sold to pharmaceutical companies and other life sciences businesses and financial services companies called Cambridge Semantics. What does it take to expand effectively?

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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.

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Payment Solutions Payments Outsourcing Services SaaS Payments 179

Unbounce

JUNE 16, 2020

These are often built with agencies, consultants, and managed-service-providers (MSPs) in mind. These partners resell your product and benefit from offering ongoing services, usually on a retainer basis. They often have developed personal relationships with a degree of instant trust that’s hard to replicate from afar.

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Outsourcing Services Sales Recruiting Scale SaaS 131

SaaStr

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Prior to founding Outgrow, Randy co-founded VenturePact, an invite-only marketplace that connects companies with trusted software development firms. How does Randy think about using interactive content to maximize sales rep efficiency? What can be done to make the sales and customer success teamwork so well together?

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SaaStr

JULY 26, 2019

Prior to founding Zylo, Eric was the VP of Sales @ Sprout Social leading the revenue operations for over 11,000 customers. Before Sprout Social he was VP of Sales at Shoutlet, responsible for global direct and channel sales teams and developing and managing strategic relationships. Does that work for you, Eric?

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How To Buy Saas

MARCH 2, 2025

Choosing the right SaaS (Software as a Service) tool can make or break a business in today’s digital age. With nearly 99% of businesses now using at least one SaaS solution the marketplace is overflowing with options. and beware of long-term contracts that lock you in if youre not ready for that commitment.

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