Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 11, 2020

Intercom has responded by hiring a diversity and inclusion consultant, updating our recruitment strategy and hiring practices to reduce bias, scheduling allyship training for all employees, and amplifying Black voices in our podcast and blog. Think about the impact that racism has already had in tech.

Technical Review 289

Technical Review Software Review Systems Review CTO Hire 289

Stax

MARCH 16, 2025

Even if you believe your technology is easy to set up and use, it may not be for the average person. Your software has bugs Product bugs and software issues are bound to happen when youre using any kind of technology platform. Bad software user experience User experience is everything when it comes to SaaS platforms.

Payment Solutions 88

Payment Solutions Software Review Churn SaaS Payments 88

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

How To Build A High-Performing Team And Retain Top Talent. Every leader needs to have a strategic playbook to build high-performing teams and retain top talent,” says Guan Wang, Global Director of Market Intelligence for Snowflake. . Stage 3: Employee Development. The Playbook For Building And Retaining A High-Performing Team .

Underperforming Technical Team 246

Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Acquisition Company Culture 246

Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 8, 2021

According to one Microsoft Global State of Customer Service report , 90% of consumers surveyed said that customer service is an important factor in their choice of, and loyalty to, a brand, while nearly two-thirds (58%) would sever their relationship with a business due to poor customer service.

Technical Review 222

Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Customer Support Marketplace as a Service 222

FastSpring

JANUARY 23, 2025

They’re interested in the return on investment, they’re interested in the growth opportunities, they’re interested in the strategies and the synergies that those businesses can bring them, either as individuals or as companies. The cost of the technology is high, the cost of customer acquisition is high.

Scale 118

Scale Entrepreneurship Scaling Underperforming Technical Team 118

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?

Sales Hiring 261

Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Development Team Review CTO Hire 261

Stax

JANUARY 23, 2025

Key steps include application review, risk assessment, credit checks, and compliance verification. This process involves reviewing the businesss structure, financial health, industry type, and compliance with regulations. Keep in mind: Modern underwriting increasingly leverages technology to streamline processes and improve accuracy.

Merchant Services 68

Merchant Services Payment Services Payment Methods Development Team Review 68

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 8, 2020

But with so much data to consider, how can you define the help desk metrics that matter for your team? Help desk metrics are measurements that allow you to track your performance and effectively adjust your strategy to provide better customer support. What are help desk metrics?

Customer Support 211

Customer Support Metrics Technical Review Scale 211

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. Solution review. Playing the right roles.

Underperforming Technical Team 131

Underperforming Technical Team CTO Hire CTO Coach Technical Review 131

User Pilot

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Let’s review everything your customer success team has to do in the absence of any customer success tools. Ensure that your data is clean and easily accessible, as poor data quality undermines the value of even the best customer success tool.

Customer Success 105

Customer Success Enterprise Software Review Startup 105

Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Due to the competitive digital landscape , business owners need to chalk out entire outlines, strategies, and implementation within weeks – or even days. Having a carefully drafted digital strategy. Plus, a result-driven approach serves as the basis of digital strategy, which can be very beneficial for your company.

Consulting 123

Consulting Strategy Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team 123

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 4, 2019

More recently, however, I’ve realized that the technology industry at large struggles with such clarity and consistency – in marketing terms, there is often a difficulty developing a clear value proposition that aligns with product and brand identity. 1 Poor definition of value proposition and feature focus.

Branding 209

Branding Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Airlines 209

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

We are a tech startup, and in order to be successful, we expect you to put in a lot of hard work. The underperformers who aren’t putting in the effort get a conversation, and if things don’t change, it’s not a good fit. Now, it’s become a matter of resetting of expectations that they’re no longer measuring effort only.

Sales Hiring 281

Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Revenue Sales 281

Neil Patel

OCTOBER 29, 2020

According to Smart Insights , 45 percent of companies don’t have a clearly defined digital marketing strategy; 17 percent of companies have a digital marketing strategy in place, but it’s separate from their marketing plan. They don’t have the strategy, tactics, or tools they need to market their business well.

Underperforming Technical Team 145

Underperforming Technical Team Strategy Development Payment Methods 145

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Marketing and Sales Development groups tackle engagement, Sales covers execution, and Customer Success and Account Management handle continuity. Sales Operations (SOPs) entered the fray as technologies allowed sales leaders to bring technologies closer into their orbit and away from centralized IT. Simple right? Execute FAST.

Technical Review 138

Technical Review Development Team Review Systems Review Engineering 138

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.

SaaS Payments 246

SaaS Payments Metrics Payment Methods Scale 246

FastSpring

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Larger technology companies can pay more, offer more benefits, and provide a more marketable brand on a candidate’s resume. Note: David Vogelpohl was recently a guest on The Heres Waldo Podcast with Lizzie Mintus to discuss authentic D2C strategies for sustainable growth in gaming. Insights on why the best candidates say YES!

SMB 106

SMB Sales Recruiting Branding Sales Hiring 106

SaaStr

JULY 25, 2021

The reason I contemplated doing it because I really want to be involved in cutting edge technology and work with smart people. You can have the great product and a great team, but the market of small or very niche. How defendable is the technology of the product or the business model? So I think it plays on both dimensions.

Sales Recruiting 261

Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale VP of Engineering 261

User Pilot

APRIL 30, 2024

Wondering what a marketing growth strategy is? 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. Start building your marketing growth strategy by setting goals. If so, we’ve got you covered. Let’s get to it.

Underperforming Technical Team 105

Underperforming Technical Team Strategy Marketing Customer Lifetime Value 105

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. And then we’ll get into a little bit of the strategy discussions we talked about a minute ago.

Software Review 148

Software Review Technical Review Development Team Review Branding 148

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. His first career steps were at Seer Technologies and Monitor Company in the 1990s. Afterward, Patrick founded several businesses in diverse sectors, including tech, healthcare, and finance.

Technical Review 207

Technical Review Scale Entrepreneurship Sales Hiring 207

Sales Hacker

APRIL 10, 2023

Too often, I see sales teams thinking of their “ sales process ” as a set of stages in their pipeline and maybe a bunch of fields to complete at each stage. We were weak on some key functionality areas where the winning vendor was strong. Bad news from left field There was a change in company direction. It happens.

Technical Review 113

Technical Review Development Team Review Underperforming Technical Team Systems Review 113

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 23, 2018

Most sales and support teams are already well versed in conversations about data deletion, risk assessments and security frameworks, but those issues are going to become an even more prominent part of the discussion once GDPR comes into effect. What is a ‘privacy ecosystem’ and why it matters. Choose vendors/partners that you trust.

Underperforming Technical Team 220

Underperforming Technical Team compliance Systems Review Marketplace as a Service 220

Neil Patel

MARCH 2, 2021

What’s in a review? Reviews aren’t just about finding out what consumers think you’re doing right or where you can improve. Let me show you why you should be scoping out reviews for your business. Why It’s Important for Your Business to Get Reviewed. Why It’s Important for Your Business to Get Reviewed.

Software Review 127

Software Review Technical Review Scale Merchant Services 127

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 293

VP of Engineering Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team 293

Neil Patel

APRIL 12, 2021

Their success is a direct result of their marketing strategies. In fact, Apple relies most on two completely different strategies: product placement (especially with celebrities and in popular shows) and the buzz created by positive reviews in the media. This isn’t a difficult component of your marketing mix to develop.

Strategy 141

Strategy Marketing Technical Review Social Media 141

BetterCloud

MARCH 17, 2025

SaaS tools are fantastic, but keeping your tech stack from turning into a financial snowball can be tough. ets break down smart SaaS budgeting , so you can make your tech work for you, without blowing the bank. Therefore, shadow AI is just another thing to keep in mind when taking inventory of your tech stack.

Technical Review 52

Technical Review Strategy Marketplace as a Service SaaS 52

User Pilot

AUGUST 17, 2024

“How World-Class Product Teams Are Winning in the AI Era” is one of the talks at this year’s Product Drive Summit. Delivered by Carlos Gonzalez de Villaumbrosia, it tackles the challenges and opportunities AI-revolution poses for product teams. AI enables product teams to achieve more with fewer resources. Want to learn more?

Underperforming Technical Team 104

Underperforming Technical Team AI Technical Review CTO Coach 104

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Why your sales team is losing deals in 2022. It’s a strategy that privileges volume over quality. It alienates buyers and wastes valuable time for sellers that should be spent collecting the necessary data for crafting a keenly informed sales strategy. 43% cited poor timing or insufficient data on when to reach out.

Scale 127

Scale Technical Review Development Team Review Underperforming Technical Team 127

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 20, 2021

As a result, much of the evaluation, investment, and rollout of virtual training technology in 2020 was rushed, limited in scope, and poorly planned. And it culminates in leveraging that understanding to find and deploy the right technology. This will provide the basis for your entire strategy. Today, not much has changed.

Investment 124

Investment Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Artificial Intelligence 124

User Pilot

MARCH 30, 2025

But is your mobile user acquisition strategy strong enough? The odds are inherently against you, and without a proactive marketing strategy, youre turning those odds into impossibilities. There are many ways to approach each, so lets go over nine of the most effective strategies for mobile user acquisition: 1.

Mobile 66

Mobile Acquisition Software Review Social Media 66

GetUplift

JULY 4, 2024

They’re truly partners and an extension of our team. Michela Fossati-Bellani VP of Growth Marketing , Strata Identity Optimizing your website, campaigns and marketing strategy for conversion — regardless if it’s to a free trial, a paid plan, a demo, a sales call or a sign up for the company newsletter — is never easy.

Scale 75

Scale Technical Review B2B Strategy 75

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. Strategy - annually changes. MSPOT stands for: Mission - rarely changes.

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Underperforming Technical Team Scale Sales Hiring Marketplace as a Service 213

Stax

JANUARY 8, 2024

Not only must PayFacs safeguard themselves and their clients against potential threats like fraud or cybersecurity breaches but also ensure PCI compliance , customer due diligence, and adherence to card regulations. Reputational risks Risks associated with things like data breaches, poor customer service, company controversies, etc.

Merchant Services 88

Merchant Services Payfac Payment Services SaaS Payments 88

User Pilot

APRIL 22, 2024

Technical support. Any help that involves the technical team. Whether it’s through developer’s docs, tweaking the code, or providing integration assistance. Examples of end-user support strategies include: Interactive walkthroughs. Here’s an example of a technical support offer from Appcues.

Strategy 105

Strategy Technical Review Technical Support Systems Review 105

Scytale

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

They highlight key aspects of your systems and controls without getting into the detailed technical specifics (yawn!) Level of Detail Detailed review of security controls including auditor’s opinion and management’s assertion. It helps spot gaps or weaknesses in your SOC 3 controls before the final audit takes place.

compliance 52

compliance Underperforming Technical Team Scale Technical Review 52

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. Now, without further adieu, let’s look at 14 retention strategies you’ll wish you’d have implemented a year ago. Bad pricing practices are easy excuses for customers to cancel.

Retention 136

Retention Strategy Payment Solutions Technical Advisors 136