SaaStr

JULY 22, 2019

Hear from Roger Scott, New Relic’s EVP and Chief Customer Officer as he shares his 7 tips and tricks for keeping your customers happy— and how to do so at a large scale. That’s not a bad start. We work with mostly modern teams. We started out in the commercial SMB mid-market space. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

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SaaStr

MARCH 22, 2024

After switching to SaaS, she started as an SMB sales leader with no prior management or SMB sales experience. She wanted to jump into a full cycle capacity as a sales leader, but she said yes. The decision to leave a fairly scaled role leading 200+ AEs at LinkedIn to join a smaller-stage startup.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 11, 2019

But as the business becomes more successful – and there are resources to build a support team – additional layers begin to separate executives from their customers. If you’re a leader, he says, don’t try to scale your job. Here are five quick takeaways: Most sales and support teams talk about their jobs as a funnel.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 26, 2023

In a year like this, SMB is doing worse, with a lot more churn and startups going out of business. But in other years, SMBs are jumping in the boat, so you get amazing growth long-term with a multi-segment strategy. Sometimes, it might look like SMB churn when they’re really just moving into mid-market. They did it.

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SaaStr

JULY 10, 2021

So let’s take a look back to a deep dive with the CEOs on what they learned building their first senior teams: ———-. As a founder/CEO, building your first management team is something that you often lose sleep over. What makes you feel that you need to level up your management, set up your first management team?

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SaaStr

AUGUST 8, 2019

The first step in success with SMB clients is to recognize that it’s not a one size fits all scenario. Companies need a specialized approach for SMB accounts, different than the tactics used for Enterprise. Agnes Bazin | Chief Development Officer @ Doctolib. They’re the leading booking management platform for doctors.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 4, 2024

In today’s dynamic SaaS landscape of hyperfuncational SaaS, the journey of building a product that customers adore, while simultaneously scaling revenue to nearly $1B, is still quite a feat. They supply their customers with a full marketing suite and customer data software for thousands of SMB, e-commerce businesses.

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SaaStr

JULY 1, 2020

An open discussion with Sam Blond, CSO at Brex, and Kristen Habacht, VPS at Atlassian, about adjusting their sales process during Covid-19. Kristen Habacht runs EDR sales at Atlassian, which I got a check today, $40 billion-$50 billion company. She manages a huge global team. Four, people in the sale? Jason Lemkin: None.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 8, 2019

The first step in success with SMB clients is to recognize that it’s not a one size fits all scenario. Companies need a specialized approach for SMB accounts, different than the tactics used for Enterprise. Agnes Bazin | Chief Development Officer @ Doctolib. They’re the leading booking management platform for doctors.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

To retain more customers over time, you must invest heavily in understanding who your current and prospective customers are and what problems they’re trying to solve. 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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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

In this blueprint, we provide insight into where growth comes from and how to structure your sales approach to capture that growth. The Winning By Design Blueprint Series provides practical advice for every part of a SaaS sales organization. Traditional Sales Growth vs SaaS Sales Growth. SaaS Growth Rate.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 21, 2018

Whether you’re at an early-stage startup that’s just made its first sales hires, or part of a fast-moving sales team in a large organization, the key to success often comes down to efficiency. How can you capture, qualify and convert the right leads for your business while working within your means? Short on time?

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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. What “customer success” looks like evolves as your company and customers scale upmarket.

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SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2021

Turns out a founding team of six MBAs creating a full suite of products sold solely to SMBs can become a multi-million dollar public company in nine years – and continue growing rapidly ($77.6 This is the revenue growth for HubSpot leading up to the IPO. Dharmesh : …said, “This is a very bad idea.

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How To Buy Saas

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

A powerful CRM helps organize customer data, streamline sales pipelines, and automate marketing ultimately boosting revenue. Effective sales teams are also 81% more likely to be consistent CRM users , underscoring how vital these systems are for success. Lets dive in!

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

When it comes to launching sales teams in hyper-growth startups, few people have walked the walk as much as Maggie Hott. She “stumbled” into it, as she told us, first as one of the earliest sales hires of Eventbrite, where she stayed for four years, and then into Slack in early 2015 as the first sales rep in the Bay Area.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 25, 2019

My cost-conscious lens (plus our proven outbound sales program) has served my company, Leadium, well. I am passionate about helping small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) accelerate their growth with outbound sales. The SMB Decision: In-House vs. Outsourced Sales Development.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

374: ZoomInfo founder and CEO Henry Schuck shares how he built a business from scratch and grew it into one of the most successful IPOs of the 21st century—and what it was really like…the good, the bad, and most of all, the ugly. Even at spectacular scale, they’re still growing at 30%. They had to reinvent themselves.

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Baremetrics

AUGUST 29, 2021

An effective sales outbound strategy needs to balance two opposing elements: efficiency vs. personal touch. On the flipside, who has the time to spend ten minutes on each prospecting email with no guarantee of returns? On the flipside, who has the time to spend ten minutes on each prospecting email with no guarantee of returns?

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FastSpring

APRIL 4, 2024

As an experienced sales and GTM leader, John Eitel has more than witnessed how product-led growth (PLG) has affected the tech and SaaS space in the last few years — he and his teams have been up close and personal with how PLG increased in popularity as a sales strategy. “I And I won’t give away too much of the lead here.

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FastSpring

JANUARY 27, 2022

However, if you do ask for a credit card number, those who provide one are more qualified prospects. And in cases where our customers get stuck, our support team responds in a timely manner with personalized video. Make it easy for prospects to see which tier works best for them. How FastSpring simplified the signup process.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 1, 2021

Because we’re Sales Hacker (and it’s literally our job), we decided to take matters into our own hands: we talked to the experts. A made-up role so companies can hire more people to tell sales how best to do their job.” — Jason Henson , Manager, SMB Sales Development at Lytx, Inc. . Like a dope sneaker collection.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

One of the biggest decisions you can make when setting up your sales team is whether to focus primarily on inside or outside sales. They seem to be completely at odds, with one focused on clients with a high acquisition cost and high ACV (annual account value), the other focused on a high sales velocity. Hiring guide.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 6, 2019

For instance, many teams build apps on Intercom so users can leverage their workflows and services within our live chat Messenger and messages. A predictive lead scoring tool for B2B SaaS companies, MadKudu’s strategy is all about integrating with other platforms – including Intercom – to link customer intelligence and customer engagement.

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Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

It’s natural to lose interest or just not have the resources to keep a startup going or scaling. Scalability Other Factors That Affect the Sales Multiple How to Make Your SaaS Business More Attractive and Valuable 1. Develop a Full Marketing Strategy 2. The issue comes when you haven’t prepared for an exit. to 11.2%.

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Casey Accidental

MARCH 29, 2022

Non-sexy things include general user experience improvements, performance, developer velocity, infrastructure, technical debt, and, fortunately less than it used to be, growth. But I urge everyone I can in product to develop the intuition to support these initiatives without making teams jump through hoops to justify these investments.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 18, 2019

But how could I choose between an opening keynote announcing some extremely exciting news for the world of sales tech (can you say Outreach Galaxy?), A lot has changed since I got into the world of sales/marketing technology almost 5 years ago. Why is this a good thing for sales? Here’s what I learned.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 7, 2023

As the Director of Corporate Development & Strategic Partnerships at WP Engine , Carl has worked on many acquisitions and partnerships, including brands like Flywheel, Perfect Dashboard, Block Lab, and recently, Delicious Brains. This leaves the sale of the business a lot more vulnerable to the market.

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Sales wants more features. In this conversation recorded at ELC 2023, Segment’s former CRO Joe Morrissey and former chief product development officer Tido Carriero discuss how they turned sales-product tension into a successful $3.2B The problem is the sales team. Progress and growth grinds to a halt.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Before I joined the venture capital industry many years ago, I was a software developer, and I worked for a startup around the 2000 time period. I think that’s probably the fastest we’ve ever seen a company get to that scale. I think the reason this is important is two reasons. We talked about growth.

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OpenView Labs

JANUARY 12, 2022

Take Stack Overflow , the world’s largest software developer network, community, and platform, serving close to 100 million monthly visitors. In fact, the team intentionally takes a non-dualistic approach that relies more on empathy, flexibility, and context than on the concept of right versus wrong. .

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ChurnZero

JUNE 11, 2021

Customer health scores give Customer Success teams a deep understanding of a customer’s health and are a leading indicator that there may be an issue with an account or customer. Another example is creating a health score based on tiered implementation: SMB onboarding versus Enterprise onboarding.

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FastSpring

JUNE 11, 2024

Affiliate marketing can be a great growth lever to scale your digital product business, but how can you drive meaningful growth with the right affiliates without losing out to fraud or shady attribution schemes? Adam Riemer (05:29) So the way that we define value adding is would the sale have occurred without the affiliate touch point?

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 16, 2023

One of the toughest challenges for founders — and especially technical founders who are used to focusing so much on product features over sales — is striking “product-market fit”. So in that shift from product-market fit to product-market-SALES fit, how much should you optimize your go-to-market for product… and even the other way around?

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 30, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Justin Welsh , Founder at The Official Justin. Justin is the former SVP of sales at PatientPop and a current advisor to it, as well as a tremendous number of SMB SaaS companies. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Sam Jacobs: Welcome to the Sales Hacker Podcast!

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ChurnZero

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Businesses were forced to wise up to this fact during the pandemic when new sales shriveled. Once you do, you’ll get allotted more budget, you’ll get more space in the decision-making rooms, and you’ll get more time from internal teams to dedicate to customer needs. Your team will start to get pushed on the money side of things.

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Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

You can think of Horizontal SaaS as broad-based tech that is industry agnostic; a sales person at a Cybersecurity company can use HubSpot the same way a sales person at a Health Supplements company might use it. We trust leaders to make decisions on what tools they need to get the most out of their teams.

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