Stax

APRIL 15, 2025

There are some important variations to MRR that would be good for your sales team to be aware of, including new MRR, expansion MRR, and churn MRR. How To Calculate Other Types of MRR Now, while the above is the most basic form of MRR, there are some important variations to MRR that would be good for your sales team to be aware of.

Payments 88

Payments SaaS Payments Revenue Payment Services 88

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Scott’s newsletter makes a great point: as buying teams get bigger and bigger, our sales teams need to grow with them. In other words, the partners balance out each other’s strengths and weaknesses. First, identify your team member’s strengths and weaknesses. Business case development and IT/tech strategy.

Underperforming Technical Team 131

Underperforming Technical Team CTO Hire CTO Coach Technical Review 131

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.

Sales Hiring 171

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team Scale 171

Neil Patel

OCTOBER 25, 2020

But should you build your own in-house marketing team or hire an agency partner? Digital agencies are companies that help other businesses perform a specific function such as marketing, development, or design. They act as a substitute for an in-house team, serving the same labor function but outside of the organization.

Sales Hiring 145

Sales Hiring Outsourcing Services Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting 145

Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 7, 2018

This wasn’t just a line item on a goals sheet; it was written into Sean’s contract. Today he’s the founder and CEO at GrowthHackers , whose software, community and annual conference help teams work together to drive breakout growth results for “must have” products and services. Developing a growth culture at Dropbox.

VP of Engineering 196

VP of Engineering Growth Hacking Underperforming Technical Team Onboarding 196

SaaStr

AUGUST 8, 2019

Agnes Bazin | Chief Development Officer @ Doctolib. She’s part of the founding team Doctolib, and the current chief development officer for the company. Okay, it’s not bad. We split our sales organization into four different teams. So, two teams cater to practices. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

Sales Recruiting 123

Sales Recruiting SMB Scale Sales Hiring 123

Chaotic Flow

AUGUST 18, 2015

SaaS businesses develop intimate, long term relationships with their SaaS customers. There is very little uncertainty about the value of any new contract: it is the margin reaped between license revenue and acquisition costs. It might be as simple as an onboarding checklist and a formal meeting with all the relevant parties.

Customer Success 138

Customer Success Underperforming Technical Team Scale SaaS 138

SaaStr

AUGUST 8, 2019

Agnes Bazin | Chief Development Officer @ Doctolib. She’s part of the founding team Doctolib, and the current chief development officer for the company. Okay, it’s not bad. We split our sales organization into four different teams. So, two teams cater to practices. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

Sales Recruiting 110

Sales Recruiting SMB Scale Sales Hiring 110

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 19, 2018

It means reducing choices amongst engineering teams and standardizing technology, so our team can spend as much time as possible delivering value to customers. Our chat covers the origins of Run Less Software, how it has evolved at scale, and how it differs from the equally valid approaches of other engineering teams.

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Outsourcing Services Part-Time VPE Software AWS 192

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Sales leaders have a bad habit of dumping people into a new job without properly preparing them to succeed. Although I went through two weeks of training with my team, they were underwater too. I’m going to share my top 20 sales onboarding secrets to help your team beat their 30-60-90 day plan. So tune in….

Sales Hiring 91

Sales Hiring Onboarding Sales Recruiting Outsourcing Services 91

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 21, 2019

Imagine how motivated your team would be if you could get this tool for them.”. Contract – Using “contract” in sales dialogue lowers close rates by as much as 7%. Onboard” or “getting started” are better substitutes. It also makes your product “a necessary step in achieving those benefits.”.

Underperforming Technical Team 107

Underperforming Technical Team Artificial Intelligence Outsourced Development Communication 107

User Pilot

AUGUST 26, 2024

There are three main data capture methods: manual tracking, auto-capture and outsourcing. Let’s discuss these benefits in detail: Improve business decision-making : By tracking how customers interact with your software, it becomes easier to spot which features are resonating with customers and which ones are underperforming.

Outsourcing Services 105

Outsourcing Services Data Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 105

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

This is about making that connection with the customer and the limbic part of the brain, the emotional part of their brain to get that connection and to get them onboard, to get your employees connected to your purpose, to get them onboard with what you’re doing. Because it’s not so much focused around X, Y, Z NPS score.

Scale 239

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring Software Review 239

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 4, 2020

A sales dashboard gives your team a fast and efficient way to see all the data that is most important to doing their job effectively. Most customer relationship management (CRM) tools have the built-in ability to create dashboards for your team. Your dashboard should consist of KPIs or metrics that define success for you and your team.

Underperforming Technical Team 136

Underperforming Technical Team Data Sales Metrics 136

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Scaling a support team is challenging enough as it is. Maybe you’ve just extended support hours and it’s becoming harder to plan shifts for different time zones; maybe you’re spending hours figuring out schedules for the week ahead; maybe the inflow prediction was a bit off and now your team is under or overstaffed.

Scale 206

Scale Outsourcing Services Software Sales Hiring 206

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

In August of 2016, Rachel Hepworth embarked on a unique challenge: start a growth marketing team at one of the most successful startups of this generation – one that had long relied heavily on word of mouth. I stumbled upon Eric Ries and Steve Blank, the concept of customer development – it was a revelation. We got sales leads.

Growth Marketing 174

Growth Marketing Scale Marketing Outsourcing Services 174

Chart Mogul

JANUARY 9, 2025

Self-service sales model This is when customers explore and experience your product independently without needing hands-on help from your sales team. Your sales team may need to map out all potential targets and how to access potential buyers within those larger businesses. What does “Qualified really mean for your team?

Scale 52

Scale Sales Hiring Startup Sales Recruiting 52

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

There’s sales pipeline , a 7-stage journey describing what your sales team must do to convert a lead to a customer. For your team, the goal is to share more information about your products without appearing overly promotional. For your team, this step is about making your prospects realize they need your products or service.

Sales Funnel 133

Sales Funnel Outsourcing Services Underperforming Technical Team Social Media 133

User Pilot

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

A market gap can be caused by missing functionality or poor user experience. Canva identified a market need for a user-friendly graphic design tool for non-designers and DocuSign for a secure solution to sign and manage digital documents and contracts. As such, product gaps are opportunities for SaaS products to improve and grow.

Underperforming Technical Team 105

Underperforming Technical Team Marketing Market Research Outsourced Development 105

Totango

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Onboarding is defined as the actions your company takes after a customer signs up to use your product. A successful onboarding experience can lay the foundation for a loyal lifetime buyer, while a negative experience can push your new customer directly into the hands of a competitor. The Three Stages of Onboarding .

Onboarding 72

Onboarding Underperforming Technical Team Scale Systems Review 72

User Pilot

MARCH 9, 2023

The key causes of customer churn are poor customer support , buggy product, wrong product-market fit, bad user experience, poor onboarding process, high pricing, and long time-to-value. Use welcome screens to segment customers and understand their jobs-t0-be-done to personalize their onboarding.

Underperforming Technical Team 98

Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services 98

Chart Mogul

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Getting a new customer on board is a happy time for every sales team, but it’s not quite the end of the road. Poor handoff practices also have a much broader impact than just making a few customers unhappy — they dramatically affect retention and your company’s bottom line.

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Underperforming Technical Team Customer Success Outsourced Development Sales 80

Sales Hacker

MAY 9, 2019

Plan Compensation for Onboarding and Training. Create a 2-Page Contract and Get Mutual Commitment [TEMPLATE PROVIDED]. Once you understand how to create a fair compensation plan for your sales team, you can check out some examples: Sales Development Rep (SDR) Compensation Plan Example. Set Targets.

Compensation 110

Compensation Sales Hiring Development Team Review Sales Recruiting 110

Neil Patel

APRIL 20, 2021

Turns out one of the agencies you outsource to overseas increased their rates, and it’s cutting into your bottom line. You can now handle the situation by either increasing your rates, renegotiating your contract with your vendor, or shopping around for someone more affordable. Get Creative With Reducing Expenses.

Outsourcing Services 119

Outsourcing Services Business Underperforming Technical Team Outsourced Development 119

SaaStr

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Lots of us fantasize about moving upmarket, but are unsure of how to get started, is it just a matter of hiring a team of SDRs and getting them to hit the phones? You don’t want to fall into a trap of building all this custom stuff, I think you guys all know why that’s a bad idea.

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Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring SMB Enterprise 216

Neil Patel

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Even for fully-staffed marketing teams, it can be overwhelming. In this case, look for an email marketing agency that is exceptional at developing strategies and tactics to help increase your open and click-through rates. Align your in-house team. Doing this ensures team alignment between the agency and your company.

Marketing 111

Marketing Outsourced Development Underperforming Technical Team Scale 111

Baremetrics

OCTOBER 7, 2021

For example, if your conversion ratio is low, is that because your marketing team is bringing in poor leads, your sales team isn’t succeeding in converting high-quality leads, or your development team hasn’t put the best parts of your platform at the front for a successful free trial?

Payments 98

Payments Sales SaaS Payments Underperforming Technical Team 98

User Pilot

MARCH 29, 2023

If you’re after the answer to this question, here’s our in-depth comparison of 4 different user onboarding platforms : Userpilot Appcues UserGuiding Chameleon Let’s check out which of them offers the best features for your use case and the most competitive pricing plans! Userflow NPS dashboard. according to G2 reviewers.

Software Review 98

Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Onboarding 98

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 3, 2022

Those are resources that most sales teams do not have, and resources that most marketing teams need to protect. To meaningfully speed up your content creation process without sacrificing quality or quantity, though, you also need to look closely at how your team approached sales enablement. Develop T-shaped professionals.

Sales Enablement 113

Sales Enablement Scale Sales Hiring Outsourcing Services 113

SaaStr

DECEMBER 1, 2023

We’re still learning what world we’re in — some people interview over Zoom, some are focused on how to build teams in the current age, and many are dealing with a weird overhang from the SaaS explosion of 2021, quiet quitting, layoffs, and team turnover. The last thing a VP of Sales wants to do is start without a team.

Sales Hiring 154

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Sales Interviewing 154

Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

Our team at Neil Patel Digital vetted hundreds of email marketing companies based on their brand reputation, client portfolio, ratings, and their areas of expertise. Bad content! For in-house teams looking for rapid email marketing turn around, InboxArmy comes highly recommended. How do I know this? The result?

Software Review 102

Software Review Marketing Technical Review Outsourced Development 102

User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

They also manage finances and supervise one or more engineering teams. Customer Onboarding Specialist: Responsible for helping new customers get up and running with the company’s products. Much of the success here depends on how competent and motivated the CTO and their team is. Average salary: $192,383/yr.

Sales Hiring 98

Sales Hiring SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting CTO Hire 98

Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Develop a Full Marketing Strategy 2. High churn is understandable for newer startups, but it does indicate that a tool may be a poor market fit, have limited demand, or struggle to compete against similar products. A business with high MRR won’t be worth as much if the churn rate is through the roof and your retention rate is poor.

SaaS Payments 105

SaaS Payments Technical Review Development Team Review Software Review 105

Neil Patel

OCTOBER 4, 2020

A Well-rounded Team. For that reason, the analytics agency that you work with will need to have a diverse set of team members who are both analytical but also creative. For that reason, the analytics agency that you work with will need to have a diverse set of team members who are both analytical but also creative.

Artificial Intelligence 136

Artificial Intelligence Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Machine Learning 136

Point Nine Land

JUNE 18, 2023

Revenue churn is negative if the expansion ARR from your retained customers more than offsets the churn ARR from lost customers and contractions. You can also see right away that, for instance, month 5 was an unusually bad month for the April 2020 cohort. Customer churn (AKA logo churn) cannot be negative.

SaaS Payments 128

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payments SaaS 128

FastSpring

APRIL 26, 2022

Ryan points out that many of the largest SaaS companies target enterprise customers that use longer contract lengths, so their churn rate will be lower. So the flip side is that SaaS companies targeting individuals or small businesses with a larger customer base and shorter contract lengths will naturally have higher churn rates.

Benchmarks 147

Benchmarks Churn Payments SaaS Payments 147

SaaSOptics

MAY 2, 2022

In a sales-led model, sales processes and teams are the primary drivers of revenue growth. Whereas, in a product-led model, the product itself is used to acquire, onboard, and retain new users. Each has its strengths and weaknesses, but neither is better or worse than the other. Here’s what it looks like in practice.

Scale 97

Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Sales 97