SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Track retention carefully. Learn about your investors previous bad investments (this could determine your fate!). Track retention. Causes: Weak previous relationship. 5 Slow product development. Bad co-founder relationships. Discouraged or disengaged engineering team. Cap your burn. Keep a low burn.

Underperforming Technical Team 239

Underperforming Technical Team Startup Engineering Retention 239

SaaStr

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Developers act, think, and behave differently than your average customer. As an API-first company, WorkOS focuses on selling primarily to developers. Doing Business with Developers. Developers haven’t typically been the buyers in enterprise software, so why should you build for developers?

Outsourced Development 214

Outsourced Development Underperforming Technical Team Development Part-Time VPE 214

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

One of our mantras here at Intercom is that customer retention is the new conversion. 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. . The ultimate goal is retention, not activation.

Retention 34

Retention Scale Marketing Underperforming Technical Team 34

Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 1, 2021

Most support teams have seen an influx of support queries since COVID-19 hit – and those issues are more complex than ever. According to recent research, however, many teams aren’t sufficiently equipped to meet these new challenges. Challenge #1: Limited team bandwidth, resources, and budget. Sound familiar?

Underperforming Technical Team 232

Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Scale Headcount 232

Totango

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

To make it to the Super Bowl, a football team must have two things: a strong defense and a strategic offense. The defense maintains a good field position and prevents the opposing team from scoring points, while the offense orchestrates smart plays to gain additional yards and score points. What is gross retention? Calculate it!

Retention 115

Retention Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Churn 115

User Pilot

OCTOBER 19, 2024

Satisfaction in SaaS, therefore, isn’t simply about developing a nice product and launching it in the market. For instance, you can launch a CSAT survey after a customer interacts with your support team. They include metrics like the Net Promoter Score , Customer Effort Score , Customer Churn/Retention Rates , etc.

Business 111

Business Underperforming Technical Team Customer Lifetime Value Systems Review 111

Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 14, 2018

Looking for an example of a happy, high performing product team? I hosted Laura on our podcast to learn everything from why assembling a great product team is like pulling off a heist, to tips for improving collaboration and marrying business needs with user goals. If you enjoy the conversation check out more episodes of our podcast.

VP of Engineering 190

VP of Engineering Underperforming Technical Team CTO Coach New CTO 190

Sales Hacker

JULY 15, 2020

But we can share some of the habits the best salespeople in the business have developed to guide them to success. So strap in, and get ready for the 17 sales habits you need to develop to crush it in Sales. That’s why developing good habits is so important. Function as an individual and as part of a team. Avoid bad leads.

Underperforming Technical Team 135

Underperforming Technical Team Development Sales Technical Review 135

User Pilot

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

All of which are essential for improving user satisfaction, building loyalty, and boosting retention rates. Teams can use Fullstory’s session replay to: Identify frustration signals like rage clicks or dead clicks to uncover UX pain points. Fullstory session replay. How can Fullstory session replays help analyze user behavior?

Underperforming Technical Team 105

Underperforming Technical Team compliance Software Review AI 105

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

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.

Underperforming Technical Team 122

Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Sales Hiring Scale 122

User Pilot

DECEMBER 31, 2024

While your product managers use our analytics reports to track product usage, your engineering teams can use our session replays to uncover bugs, and your customer support team may use our in-app help center feature to offer self-service and reduce support tickets. Userpilot is perfect for non-technical teams.

Technical Review 105

Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Onboarding 105

User Pilot

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Let’s review everything your customer success team has to do in the absence of any customer success tools. Collect customer data to calculate complex formulas for tracking metrics, monitor customer health scores, and resolve support tickets while continuously trying to improve retention and expansion. G2 rating : 4.8

Customer Success 105

Customer Success Enterprise Software Review Startup 105

SaaStr

JULY 1, 2021

The second is pulling more around values, and how we approached team building. Even as a three person team, we went through an exercise to figure out what do we stand for, as a team? Sam : This is not my insight, but someone else says… I really do believe it, that the team you build is the company you build.

VP of Engineering 299

VP of Engineering Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team 299

SaaStr

JANUARY 12, 2023

Management teams must determine how to thrive in a downturn to position their businesses for profitable growth. However, management teams that pursued growth at all costs were punished severely. A simple way to achieve this is to align sales compensation with LTV to reward good behavior and disincentivize poor behavior.

Consulting 49

Consulting Underperforming Technical Team Management Marketing 49

SaaStr

JANUARY 5, 2023

They can also help secure the data, reporting, process, and discipline a business need to evaluate progress so it can develop the accountability necessary to drive operational excellence. Employee Retention. Gross Retention. Developing a robust forecast is imperative for your future success. Workplace Productivity.

Sales Hiring 49

Sales Hiring Acquisition Forecasting Outsourced Development 49

SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2019

Awesome revenue growth on the X axis, awesome revenue retention on the Y. Hundred percent revenue retention, 200% revenue growth. Option A is we can go have awesome revenue retention, 100% revenue retention, but mediocre growth. Option B is awesome revenue growth, 200%, but mediocre revenue retention, 70%.

Scale 265

Scale Sales Hiring Revenue VP of Engineering 265

Baremetrics

OCTOBER 9, 2021

Here’s a guide on boosting your customer retention rates through the use of positive habit creating techniques. In other words, if you fixed the specific issue(s) that made customers in that bracket leave, would their collective LTV justify the additional costs in development and overhead? What can you do to reverse this trend?

Retention 114

Retention Underperforming Technical Team Churn Acquisition 114

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

We know that moving at speed is all about making decisions quickly and acting on them – but quick decisions get a bad rap. . Still, effective, quick decision-making is a skill we crave and can increase agility, energy, and momentum within any team. . Stage 4: Identify your decision choices. Stage 6: Review the decision.

Underperforming Technical Team 257

Underperforming Technical Team Construction Benchmarks Data 257

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 5, 2018

For Duolingo, the world’s most downloaded education app, growth is fundamentally about retention. As VP of Marketing and Growth at Duolingo through 2017, improving retention was the top priority of Gina Gotthilf. Adam: How was the transition from classic marketing to working more with designers and engineers on the growth team?

Underperforming Technical Team 223

Underperforming Technical Team Retention Engineering Metrics 223

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

MARCH 23, 2020

Companies which don’t use mental models risk unleashing mayhem with poor choices or becoming bloated and bureaucratic by reducing the volume and speed at which decisions are made - both scenarios are undesirable and will impact growth. OKRs are a useful mental model - they make it crystal clear what people and teams should be striving for.

Underperforming Technical Team 213

Underperforming Technical Team Scale Sales Hiring Marketplace as a Service 213

User Pilot

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Looking for some great customer retention survey questions to include in your feedback form? Customer retention surveys are the lens through which you can see how people are feeling about your brand. The goal is to get valuable insights into customers’ needs and use this information to improve retention. Look no further!

Retention 98

Retention Scale Underperforming Technical Team Churn 98

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 2, 2020

But obsessing over efficiency can mask what’s most important, and most rewarding, to support teams – actually helping customers. Support teams exist to solve customers’ problems, not to deflect them or find the fastest way to hit the “close” button. The evolution of customer support. Customers] just want to use the solution.

Outsourcing Services 253

Outsourcing Services Investment Underperforming Technical Team Outsourced Development 253

Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

It’s an approach that’s served him well along the road to building the HubSpot sales team, where he was CRO for nine years. This has created large amounts of data for running teams. . According to Mark, customer retention is a far better indicator of success: . And the teams now need a more defined structure.

Scale 226

Scale Scaling Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring 226

User Pilot

APRIL 22, 2024

Increase user retention. Extract feature development insights. Involve cross-functional collaboration with the sales team, product team, engineering, and other relevant stakeholders. Increase user retention : Continuous product refinement based on insights from feature analysis contributes to increased user satisfaction.

Underperforming Technical Team 105

Underperforming Technical Team Software Review User Experience Retention 105

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 4, 2018

Imagine walking into the office one morning and having your star team member ask if you have a few minutes to talk. These create more meaningful relationships with people on your team, uncover what motivates them and as a result increase their impact and engagement in their current role. What’s your current development focus?

Underperforming Technical Team 223

Underperforming Technical Team compliance Development Engineering 223

FastSpring

JANUARY 23, 2025

Cost of acquisition, LTV, retention rate, churn obviously. So assuming somebody’s sort of got their business in a place, they’ve got realistic expectations, they have some growth going on or at least flat line performance that they’re not in this kind of bad situation of being in decline and then deciding.

Scale 93

Scale Entrepreneurship Scaling Underperforming Technical Team 93

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?

Mobile 52

Mobile Underperforming Technical Team Management Scale 52

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

It’s time to start thinking about retention at scale and bring onboard a customer success team. She joined the company in 2007 back when it was just 30 people and has been instrumental in helping the company scale both its team and its market share over the years. Why you need a customer success team.

VP of Engineering 108

VP of Engineering Customer Success Churn Scale 108

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Our retention rate working with companies like yours is 87% after 2 months because we keep bringing them new customers. We bolted onto their outbound team. As a result, their team had to 2x to manage the qualified inbound. Has your team done any outbound for this yet? Will, I wanted to follow up on my last email.

Scale 98

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Outsourced Development Growth Marketing 98

User Pilot

MARCH 13, 2024

TL;DR Feature ideation is a process through which product teams brainstorm ideas for new features to introduce to their product. A SWOT analysis helps discover gaps and opportunities in your product for new feature development. Why do you need feature ideation in your product development process?

Underperforming Technical Team 105

Underperforming Technical Team Scale User Experience Interviewing 105

User Pilot

MARCH 25, 2024

While acquiring new customers is important, it’s more expensive than customer retention. Various factors could cause customer churn, including bad product-customer fit , poor user onboarding experience , poor customer service , and weak customer relationships. Put simply, the loss of a customer is expensive.

Underperforming Technical Team 104

Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payment Solutions 104

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 19, 2022

As the president of Sales Xceleration, a firm specializing in assessing and implementing sales strategy , sales processes, and sales execution to drive growth, I’ve seen how job hopping can affect otherwise stable sales teams. But also the cost it has on their careers — and your sales team. This trend especially impacts sales teams.

Sales Hiring 105

Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting Compensation 105

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

BetterCloud

JANUARY 15, 2025

This is why security teams require SaaS security assessments. It gives the bad actor access to a users browser, hijacks the session, and then redirects the user to malicious sites. Stolen credentials: Stealing user access permissions or exploiting weak passwords, is another threat to all organizations. But whats in them?

Payment Solutions 52

Payment Solutions Payment Services SaaS Payments Payment Methods 52

User Pilot

OCTOBER 20, 2024

This is every product manager’s nightmare – an onboarding failure that cripples customer retention. While at it, you may even identify weaknesses in the current journey. How can I reduce the workload for my team? Test it in-house with team members cosplaying as customers to see if it runs smoothly and accurately.

Onboarding 105

Onboarding Underperforming Technical Team Transportation Scale 105

User Pilot

APRIL 30, 2024

From this article, you will find out how to develop a strong growth marketing strategy and learn growth marketing tactics for different customer journey stages. TL;DR A marketing growth strategy is a comprehensive business growth approach focusing not only on customer acquisition but also on long-term engagement and retention.

Underperforming Technical Team 105

Underperforming Technical Team Strategy Marketing Customer Lifetime Value 105