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From Startup to $500M CARR: How Braze Scaled a Growth and CS Team

SaaStr

Hiring for Customer Success When Braze was looking for their first customer success hires, you couldn’t find a CSM with seven years of experience in software because those people didn’t exist yet. Think about what you want a CSM to be: technical, customer-facing, or have industry experience.

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Don?t Hire the Wrong Outsourced Sales Professionals: 6 Handy Tips

Sales Hacker

There are many levers a sales leader or organization may pull to gain scale, accelerate revenue, drive cost savings, or augment sales team structures. A viable and proven option is handing over some or all of your sales efforts to outsourced sales professionals. 5) DO ensure sales and marketing are aligned.

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How to Build a CSM Team That Generates 130% Net Retention with Talkdesk (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Gillian oversees Talkdesk’s Customer Success and Technical Support teams, partnering closely with customers to achieve their CX vision. You don’t want the customer to be perceiving your customer success manager as a salesperson, and it’s not a good use of your CSM’s time. First up, hiring well.

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Ready to scale your support? Here’s why you need a customer support operations team

Intercom, Inc.

It can seem like an impossible balancing act – but customer support operations can help. Every percentage point increase in ROAR means that we don’t need to hire an additional head. That said, your new support ops hire doesn’t have to come from a support background, either. Customer success? Use the right tools.

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The Top 5 Mistakes European Startups Make in US Expansion

Kellblog

I’ve seen US marketing heads incorrectly think they were responsible for global product launches and I’ve seen European technology startups offer US sales candidates options on 10 shares at €2,950 each. Hiring the wrong people. As alluded earlier, hiring is a veritable minefield and the list of possible mistakes is long.

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‘The Product’ in Product Led Growth (PLG)

Frontegg

In general, for those who didn’t catch my drift, we’re talking about a business movement primarily driven by user adoption of a product rather than being driven by the force of sales or marketing. Let the VP Marketing/Sales handle it…. ClickUp: An amazing account management experience. Money and Customers?

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PODCAST 36: How To Model Sales Productivity And Identify Opportunity For Marketing To Developers

Sales Hacker

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast , we interview Meghan Gill , VP of Sales Operations at MongoDB. . Meghan has been at Mongo almost 9 years and was the first non-technical hire at the company, helping them scale past an IPO in 2017 and transitioning from an early career in Marketing into Sales Operations. .