Sales Hacker

APRIL 25, 2019

And while strategy is incredibly important, considering the cost of every piece of that strategy can be a game-changer to your bottom line. The SMB Decision: In-House vs. Outsourced Sales Development. Without a sales development team, you can find yourself struggling when it comes to pipeline generation.

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Outsourcing Services Sales Hiring Sales Outsourcing Outsourced Development 98

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 23, 2019

This proves onboarding isn’t just good for your acquisition strategy — it’s also good for your wallet. A poor onboarding experience can lead to refunds or cancellations that you can’t afford. In some teams, I have even seen these pieces outsourced or delegated to a single engineer or designer to figure out on her own.

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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

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.

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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.

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Underperforming Technical Team CTO Hire CTO Coach Technical Review 131

Sales Hacker

MARCH 22, 2018

In this article, I will summarize what I’ve learned about B2B sales outsourcing. W hat is Sales Outsourcing? Sales outsourcing gives parts of your own sales process to others (individuals or agencies). Reasons to outsource include: Lack of expertise and experience in some sales functions (e.g. Lead Generation).

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Outsourcing Services Sales Outsourcing Outsourced Development Scale 100

Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 13, 2018

To do that, it’s not enough to replicate textbook marketing strategies. You can’t just lock yourself in a room or outsource it to some agency. That means from day one, your strategy to meet and spend time with your audience is about dividing and conquering. When resources are low, impact is key. or “What could be different?”.

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Branding Outsourced Development Scale Travel 205

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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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 25, 2020

If you are looking to scale up your marketing, you will need talented people that can take charge of and execute your strategy. 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.

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Sales Hiring Outsourcing Services Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting 145

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Modern sales teams need competent professionals with a variety of talents, skills and abilities. But in a hyper changing landscap e, which are the most crucial sales skills and traits that reps must possess (or develop) in order to exceed targets and deliver consistent sales success? Sales teams rarely operate as a one-person army.

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Underperforming Technical Team Outsourced Development Development Social Media 107

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. Jyoti Bansal: Yeah.

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Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale VP of Engineering 258

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

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

FastSpring

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

In this episode of Growth Stage, we interview Lizzie Mintus Founder and CEO of Here’s Waldo Recruiting and host of The Heres Waldo Podcast about her thoughts on: The most effective recruiting strategies for SMBs. You get to work with a lot of different teams. Insights on why the best candidates say YES! Listen or watch now!

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SMB Sales Recruiting Branding Sales Hiring 107

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.

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Sales Recruiting SMB Scale Sales Hiring 122

FastSpring

APRIL 26, 2022

In part two, we’ll cover five churn-prevention strategies that have been successful in other SaaS businesses. Part I: SaaS Churn Benchmarks Part II: 5 Proven Strategies for Reducing SaaS Churn Part III: Churn Definitions and Additional Resources. In part one, we cover benchmarks and common churn formulas. Table of Contents.

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Benchmarks Churn Payments SaaS Payments 147

OpenView Labs

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Most companies quickly realize that getting a strategy in place can actually be quite hard. But, it’s possible to successfully to develop an effective short and long-term data strategy. These tools then go unused until it is time to renew those contracts. How Your Analytics Strategy Changes Over Time.

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Underperforming Technical Team Outsourced Development Development Data 65

SaaStr

JUNE 7, 2021

While this talk really shows his love of thinking about the bigger picture – this is the Strategy stage after all – Peter actually spends 90% of his time on execution. If you don’t have tickets, lock in Early Bird pricing today and bring your team! I was a software developer, a product person. Get tickets here.

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Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Headcount 337

BetterCloud

MARCH 17, 2025

SaaS budgeting checklist In addition to the amount of money you already spend on SaaS, you should also check: Term lengths of your current contracts How many seats do you get for each application How often these applications are used Who manages the application for each department This will give you a more clear snapshot of your SaaS situation.

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Technical Review Strategy Marketplace as a Service SaaS 52

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. Or, you might create teams that link specific sales reps to specific account managers and success reps.

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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.

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Sales Recruiting SMB Scale Sales Hiring 109

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

If you’ve used big-name prospecting tools before, you know that they all share one, massive problem: Bad data. Break Through with The Sales Email Noise Use these 4 sales email strategies to break through the noise #1 Focus on relevance The effectiveness of an email campaign is fundamentally linked to its relevance. Let’s get into it.

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Sales Recruiting Strategy Systems Review Sales 124

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.

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Scale Customer Success Sales Hiring Strategy 177

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 22, 2020

They understand that, while getting a contract signed is what gets them to their quarterly number, it could ultimately be a loss for the company if the product isn’t the right fit for that customer. It’s also one of the hardest to teach and develop. Tell me about a time you collaborated within the sales team and with other teams.

Sales Hiring 102

Sales Hiring Interviewing Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting 102

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

If you sat and you said, “Okay, we sign a customer, we process their contract, we have to get them provisioned. For example, if you’re getting ready to close the deal, sales team’s pretty darn excited. They got a verbal, they’re like, we’re going to get a contract this is a scrape. Maybe, maybe not.

Scale 238

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring Software Review 238

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.

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VP of Engineering Growth Hacking Underperforming Technical Team Onboarding 196

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.

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Outsourcing Services Data Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 105

Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Even for the most competitive keywords, such as “ SEO Strategies ”, you’ll find 2 of his posts ranking TOP 5 on the first page. Plus the proven conversion optimization strategies that are going to convert your traffic into actual customers…. For that amount, you can look forward to a big team entirely focused on your results.

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Sales Hiring Outsourcing Services Social Media Underperforming Technical Team 144

Baremetrics

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Sean Ellis, who ran growth in the early days of Dropbox, LogMeIn, and Eventbrite benchmarked nearly a hundred startups with his customer development survey. And the Quick Ratio tells you at a glance if your business is growing or contracting. means you’re growing, below, and you’re contracting. Do you feel stuck?

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Retention Strategy Payment Solutions Technical Advisors 136

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

In this article, I’ll walk you through: What a sales funnel is, The elements of a high-performing sales funnel, And finally, strategies to create sales funnels that get results. There’s sales pipeline , a 7-stage journey describing what your sales team must do to convert a lead to a customer. What is a sales funnel? A whopping 67.6%

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Sales Funnel Outsourcing Services Underperforming Technical Team Social Media 133

Tom Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

Because vertical SaaS companies limit their potential market size by focusing on just one type of customer, they must employ a differentiated strategy to win disproportionate share of smaller market. These are the strategies I’ve observed: All vertical software companies develop uniquely focused products.

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Startup SaaS Underperforming Technical Team Marketing 124

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 14, 2019

“Successfully managing complex sales requires a different level of visibility into your deals” To get visibility into large deals, I developed a visual framework – which I call the Agile Arrow – that applies popular project management principles to the work that we do as salespeople. 2 critical security and compliance inquiries.

Scale 147

Scale Management Underperforming Technical Team Sales 147

SaaSX

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

The following are our picks for the top five ways to get your channel partner strategy off the ground in 2020…and to keep it going well into the next decade. Plus, you’ll also be obliged to bring your entire team on board by encouraging your colleagues to roll out the welcome mat and adopt some partner-friendly best practices.

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Outsourcing Services Strategy Underperforming Technical Team Technical Advisors 93

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. Talk to the developers and engineers. What are examples of market gaps?

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Underperforming Technical Team Marketing Market Research Outsourced Development 105

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

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. Want to see more content like this?

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Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring SMB Enterprise 213

Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 26, 2020

Creating great content is key to an SEO strategy. Technical SEO encompasses the “behind the scenes” elements of an SEO strategy that speaks directly to search algorithms. But there are quite a few things to optimize for when building out a technical SEO strategy. 6 Ways a Technical SEO Consultant Can Help Grow Your Business.

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Technical Advisors Consulting Underperforming Technical Team Mobile 145