Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 29, 2019

In this week’s episode we’ve dug down into the podcast vaults to bring you some of the best insights shared by our guests about scaling sales. It’s no surprise that one of the key levers for growth as you go from startup to scale-up is your sales team. John Barrows: Passion and work ethic.

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Stax

MARCH 18, 2025

However, a SaaS company providing global HR and payroll solutions may have a few hundred customers paying a monthly or annual feein other words, making recurring payments over a longer period of time. Churn is the percentage of customers that end their subscriptions within a certain amount of time. Churn rate.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 7, 2024

He previously built the pre and post sales solutions team at mParticle from zero to supporting hundreds of enterprise customers. Is there a lot of internal or customer work that needs to be done or managed by your team? While mParticle has a killer, commercially focused CS team, inertia affected the team as well early on.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2019

Businesses also win if, as a result of AI, teams are able to create more white-glove moments that turn users into customers for life. He joined me for a conversation on tackling issues that come up as you scale your customer experience. When scaling your customer experience, remember AI can’t simulate human empathy.

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SaaStr

MARCH 26, 2019

Scaling the company’s employee base, sales teams, marketing, and operations—all while preserving its culture—has required a laser focus on first principles, smart processes, and effective hiring. In this talk, Claire will share these and other lessons for scaling high-growth organizations. Our team is in Room 111.

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FastSpring

JANUARY 27, 2022

Note: FastSpring offers advanced subscription management services that support free trials, monthly and annual paid plans, proration, discount management, and more. How Castos upsells subscription tiers. His podcast hosting company uses data analytics that looks at which users are most likely to grow out of their current subscriptions.

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User Pilot

JANUARY 2, 2025

The survey aims to better understand users workflows and help prioritize product development initiatives, like new integrations, that add the most value to its users. The survey asks them how likely they are to recommend Wise to a friend on a scale of 010, which is quick to answer, making the feedback collection process frictionless.

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Stax

APRIL 15, 2025

For subscription-based businesses achieving consistent and predictable revenue growth is the holy grail. In fact, monthly recurring revenue (MRR) is one of the most important metrics subscription businesses should be aware of. Let’s get started. TL;DR MRR is the average revenue that a company expects to receive each month.

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SaaStr

JULY 25, 2021

As two CEO who love the art of sales and scaling, this one really was special. Jyoti Bansal : And then he started talking about sales and Dev during the breakfast he convinced me if you can marry the right kind of sales scaling and execution then that’s when your business will really, really take off.

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Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

MARCH 23, 2020

One of the biggest challenges businesses face when they grow is scaling effective , autonomous and quick decision-making. In short, they make it easy to see what each team, department and organisation is working on, omitting and their respective goals. Again, it was an easy to use model which scaled effective decision-making.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 3, 2018

Finding those problems to solve, however, becomes increasingly difficult as you scale – where the volume of feedback, and noise level of the vocal minority, compounds by the day. Rohini Pondhi , product management lead for Square’s Invoices product, knows this challenge well. At Square, I manage a product called Square Invoices.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 27, 2024

Speaking of the long game, Matt talks about the launch of the 100-year subscription plan last year. WordPress is its own ecosystem, a vibrant community of hundreds of thousands of people who create add-ons, plugins, and develop sites. He loves subscription models where people pay for something that gives them value.

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Neil Patel

APRIL 12, 2021

They offer some of the best-known subscription boxes around, reflecting an increasingly popular (and potentially lucrative) business model. Why Should You Launch a Subscription Box? According to MarketsandMarkets , the subscription and recurring billing market will grow to around $7.8 Recurring Business Revenue.

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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

So growth of the kind of subscription, eCommerce industry has been over 100% year on year for the past five years, according to McKinsey. The second constituent there is the developer. Why do developers love SaaS products? Low touch you’re gonna talk a lot about what we call customer success teams. Transcript.

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ChurnZero

JULY 22, 2022

Does your Customer Success team have a shallow view of onboarding? But when it feels like each customer has different goals and definitions of success, how do you create an onboarding program that caters to these individual needs and at the same time can scale? I have the internal handoff from pre-sales to post-sales customer teams.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

In an era when more and more businesses adopt a subscription model, strong customer retention is the key to sustainable long-term growth and requires a laser-like focus. . Tara joined the company in 2017 and has been instrumental in helping the company scale and retain more customers through a unique customer-centric approach to marketing. .

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ChurnZero

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Today’s customers recognize the competition in the subscription market and look for renewal-worthy experiences built upon enduring returns. To deliver on their expectations takes true customer-centricity and a strong customer success team who can do far more than “be there” for your customers. Set a baseline of service and scale it.

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Stax

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Here’s an interesting stat: 70% of businesses consider subscription and membership models indispensable for future commercial growth and expansion. They must engineer a well-rounded solution that makes handling subscriptions a breeze (and yes, it is as hard as it sounds). However, only 10% of them currently employ these models.

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Incredo

OCTOBER 2, 2019

ur development ?tr?t?g? You already estimate how many new team members you should hire and how much new equipment you should acquire to produce high-quality pieces of video & audio content (not to mention about time, consistency, and having fresh ideas). . SaaS companies fighting f?r ur share in the m?rk?t. nt relies on d?f?n?ng

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Tom Tunguz

MAY 4, 2016

Plus, value-added resellers charged buyers on a per-project basis which doesn’t align neatly with the recurring subscription intrinsic to SaaS. By leveraging another company’s sales team, your startup’s cost to book a marginal revenue dollar decline, as revenue scales and net margin increases.

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Building on the definitions from that essay and introducing a few new ones, here are the types of business models we’ll cover: SaaS: software that businesses access online and purchase via a subscription e.g. Slack, Adobe, Atlassian. Payments also allow the company to enforce policies that build trust in the marketplace. Refund Policy.

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ChurnZero

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Every Customer Success team focuses on keeping customers engaged and ultimately, preventing churn. But as a company scales and brings in new accounts, CSMs can start to feel like Lucy and Ethel in the chocolate factory—the customers keep rolling along faster than CSMs can properly manage them! Lighten the load CSM’s normally carry.

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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

The SaaStock team will be landing in São Paulo to run the region’s first Pan-Latin American SaaS conference, SaaStock LatAm. Talk: Scaling & Exiting: Dreams, Designs & Dramas. In 2010, he founded Influitive, which helps B2B companies employ brand advocates for faster growth and development. Talk: Sales is a Team Sport.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

So they created a software that provides control, visibility, and payment methods for corporate finance teams. Spendesk thinks about building its company in three stages: startup, growth, and scale. Instead, focus on fostering a culture of communication and feedback loops between the team. Nico: Correct.

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User Pilot

MARCH 24, 2025

Want to advance your career in mobile product management or find top talent for your team? You will collaborate with engineering, design, and business teams to deliver cutting-edge mobile solutions that improve efficiency, user adoption , and overall product performance. Who would be a BAD fit for this job?

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How To Buy Saas

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Effective sales teams are also 81% more likely to be consistent CRM users , underscoring how vital these systems are for success. By the end of this guide, youll have a clear understanding of each platforms strengths, weaknesses, and ideal use cases. Startups, SMBs, and mid-market; teams wanting all-in-one marketing + sales.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

So how can you leverage that product’s success to obtain the valuation and funding you need to scale? Everyone’s always like, “how did you guys scale so quickly,” and like, everyone loves this product. Your sales team becomes more efficient, your customer success team becomes efficient, your customers like you more.

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SaaSOptics

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

Based on a 2019 survey, Gartner forecasts that eighty-four percent of new software will be delivered as SaaS , and this percentage is expected to increase as existing providers transition to a subscription-based model. The main difference between accounting for a subscription vs. a traditional business is the method used.

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Baremetrics

MARCH 23, 2021

Introduction You want a subscription model for your business that increases revenue and keeps customers. You think about either Stripe , a payment platform, or Recurly , a customer-driven one to handle your billing. Let's jump right in and get you going towards picking the best subscription billing platform for you.

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Totango

JULY 28, 2021

Encouraging subscription renewal. While the conventional approach has been to assign one customer success manager per customer account, digital customer success platforms now make it possible for teams to administer success at scale by leveraging automation to deliver one-to-many success management. Suggesting upsells.

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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.

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Totango

JULY 1, 2022

For B2B SaaS companies, customer loyalty drives subscription renewals and brand advocacy, making it a critical component of a profitable business model. In a B2B SaaS context, SaaS customer loyalty is expressed primarily through actions like subscription renewals, upsell purchases, referrals and product engagement.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

After working on NASA’s Space Shuttle Main Engine, he went on to develop Portfolium, a social networking platform that allows students and graduates to showcase skills beyond the traditional resume to potential employers. But before universities would do business with them, they needed assurance on their security posture.

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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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Baremetrics

AUGUST 23, 2021

You need to have a strategic approach that includes identifying your market fit, developing appropriate positioning and marketing strategies, and measuring performance. Leading SaaS and subscription businesses rely on Baremetrics to track the success of product launches, essential business metrics, and more. Table of Contents.

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User Pilot

MARCH 25, 2024

Various factors could cause customer churn, including bad product-customer fit , poor user onboarding experience , poor customer service , and weak customer relationships. However, most customer churn falls under one of four categories: Bad product-customer fit Several factors could lead to a poor product-customer fit.

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Frontegg

MARCH 17, 2022

These companies also scale up with a CAC payback that’s lower than the market average in general. Sales-Led Growth is all about marketing and sales teams. Unfortunately, these pipelines are rigid and work in a way that doesn’t really allow smooth scaling. What is Sales-Led Growth? What is Product-Led Growth?

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