SaaStr

JUNE 19, 2024

The three core areas to focus on are: Evolving your growth engine Building and solving for when to become a multi-product platform Investing in your people and team #1: Evolving Your Growth Engine Let’s start with some context for Bitly’s journey. You might have to rebuild your marketing team. Optimize your acquisition funnel.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 26, 2022

In today’s modern age, support teams simply need to redefine what being “personal” means. But with the development of automation, like bots and contextual help content, we’ve significantly changed our perception of what being personal means. If your team is pondering whether to use “bots versus humans?” What will they choose?

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Underperforming Technical Team Customer Support Scaling Development 209

Scytale

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

As technology continues to evolve, compliance industry trends and requirements adapt accordingly. Compliance trends in 2025 continue to be influenced by emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, blockchain, and cloud computing. What role does AI play in compliance trends?

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compliance Artificial Intelligence Trends Cybersecurity 52

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.

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User Pilot

APRIL 2, 2025

In this article, I’ll show you how Userpilot helps product teams cut through the noise and understand what really matters in mobile user behavior: no data science degree required. The platform’s code-free implementation makes it accessible for product managers who want insights without constantly relying on developers.

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SaaStr

JUNE 7, 2021

If you don’t have tickets, lock in Early Bird pricing today and bring your team! If you take this ability to not follow the herd and the experience, you can spot trends. When you think about it, when a trend is early, everybody thinks you’re wrong. I was a software developer, a product person. Get tickets here.

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Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Headcount 340

SaaStr

OCTOBER 26, 2023

If one resume says software engineer and the other says developer, AI can converge these skills so people don’t slip through the cracks because they typed a title incorrectly. Leveraging Your Team When You’re Away As a CEO of a company with $200M in revenue, you have to leverage your team.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 21, 2020

If it’s one of the most common elements in our designs, why is it so often the last thing most teams focus on – if they focus on it at all? Otherwise, they’re flying in the face of a clear trend present in popular apps across the globe in many common use cases. Measuring the letters. The write stuff. of its first screen to show text.

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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. The first stage of an ideation technique involves gathering ideas from different sources such as feature usage trends, feature requests , customer reviews, user behavior, and competitor analysis.

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SaaStr

JUNE 13, 2024

Every week, there are significant new developments in tech. If you go to a team and say, “I can do 70% of what your team is doing now automatically and at a fraction of the cost.” Gong monitors how many upgrades and expansions they’re seeing, and it’s showing a positive trend. It’s not a bad thing. At Gong, yes.

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Scale AI Sales Underperforming Technical Team 311

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. This will allow teams to identify at-risk accounts and prioritize proactive outreach.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 19, 2021

And for your support team, using the right conversational support tool and framework allows them to maximize their resources, so they can focus on solving complex queries and building long-term customer relationships. But conversational support doesn’t just benefit your support team. Teams that benefit: Sales, marketing.

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Underperforming Technical Team Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting 129

User Pilot

APRIL 22, 2024

Extract feature development insights. Involve cross-functional collaboration with the sales team, product team, engineering, and other relevant stakeholders. This type of analysis helps identify which features contribute positively to your product’s value and which might be redundant or underperforming.

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Underperforming Technical Team Software Review User Experience Retention 105

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. . What would a better option look like? Stage 6: Review the decision.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 13, 2019

In a recent talk at UX London , I discussed some lessons learned while growing the design team at Intercom, reflecting on the technology industry’s obsession with tools, and pointed out how our sense of tools as objects or apps blinds us to the reality that the processes we adopt and develop are also, in effect, tools.

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Underperforming Technical Team New CTO CTO Hire Technology 223

SaaStr

JULY 25, 2021

You can have the great product and a great team, but the market of small or very niche. The second one is the team, obviously depending on how earlier the team has a huge factor because you may be so early in your journey that there’s nothing else to point to, but the track record of the team. Jyoti Bansal: Yeah.

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Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale VP of Engineering 264

Neil Patel

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The bad news is that marketers waste 37 to 95 percent of their marketing budget. You’ll want to break each of these areas down in enough detail so you (and your team) can work with each of these areas properly. Web developers spend their time on sites like ArsTechnica, Reddit, SitePoint, etc.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

For example, if you’re getting ready to close the deal, sales team’s pretty darn excited. How is it trending? And every question you ask yourself, you have to ask yourself, how is it trending? How is that trending? What does our customer lifetime value, how is that trending? Are there particular trends?

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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.

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Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting Compensation 107

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 4, 2020

A sales dashboard gives your team a fast and efficient way to see all the data that is most important to doing their job effectively. Most customer relationship management (CRM) tools have the built-in ability to create dashboards for your team. Your dashboard should consist of KPIs or metrics that define success for you and your team.

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Underperforming Technical Team Data Sales Metrics 136

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 5, 2018

Our chat covers how gaming principles influenced her growth experiments, her team’s most successful retention tactics, and much more. Adam: How was the transition from classic marketing to working more with designers and engineers on the growth team? What follows is a lightly edited transcript of the interview.

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Underperforming Technical Team Retention Engineering Metrics 223

SaaStr

APRIL 5, 2023

A bad experience with a revenue operations leader might taint your view of the position at all future companies, but that would be a mistake, as CRO Confidential podcast host Sam Blond learned first-hand. These leaders act as partners and build out a strong team. Not every leader is created equally.

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Sales Hiring Education Scale Strategy 245

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. . And the teams now need a more defined structure. Instead, Mark advocates grouping teams by customer type or geography.

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Scale Scaling Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring 226

FastSpring

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

You get to work with a lot of different teams. Is your big company doing a return to office and you have to badge in for four hours every day to sit on Zoom with your team that lives in Virginia? And so you want to make sure that your team is also aligned on what they’re looking for and also where your company is going.

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SMB Sales Recruiting Branding Sales Hiring 106

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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Mobile Underperforming Technical Team Management Scale 52

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 30, 2020

That’s why the team at Sales Hacker decided to put together a statistics round-up showcasing how things changed in this year and where they’re likely headed in the future. Still curious which sales trends will be on the rise in 2021? Keep reading for the most important sales trends your revenue organization should keep a close eye on.

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Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team Revenue 134

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

How do you build out a Sales Development (SDR) function at your SaaS company? Establishing a baseline for successfully doing outbound with the existing sales team you have is critical before investing in a dedicated SDR function. The first hire after six AEs was a senior hire, Ashley Kelly, as Senior Director of Sales Development.

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Sales Hiring Scale Underperforming Technical Team Revenue 189

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?

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Underperforming Technical Team AI Technical Review CTO Coach 104

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. Key takeaways from this example Multimedia support adds clarity: Allowing users to attach screenshots or videos ensures developers get precise insights into user challenges.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 31, 2019

And as the organization grows, the work involved to get teams aligned on who you’re selling to and how you’re selling is not something to be taken for granted either. Ambient Strategy founder and CEO April Dunford on the symptoms of weak positioning. When you’re a small team, your time is everything. Speed is everything.

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Underperforming Technical Team Scale Benchmarks Sales 165

SaaStr

JANUARY 21, 2020

Justin used Sales Culture to grow a successful PatientPop team to 140 employees and 55 million in revenue. When I was hired, I came in with one salesperson and zero dollars in recurring revenue and over the next four years grew the sales team to over 140 employees and 55 million in recurring revenue. Want to see more content like this?

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Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale Sales 332

Incredo

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Have you noticed one of the latest and growing trends in the worklife? And end up wasting their time and resources with affiliates that underperform. I see many SaaS companies jump headlong into creating an affiliate program thinking it will bring in a large number of customers without much effort. But is your website ready?

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SaaS Payments Payment Methods Merchant Services Sales Recruiting 139

Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 23, 2020

The current pandemic is dramatically accelerating all of these epic trends, as businesses are being forced to do more with less. Once every decade or two, developments in technology trigger monumental changes in an industry. There are massive risks for those who don’t follow. Customer support is undergoing massive, irreversible change.

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User Pilot

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

A market gap can be caused by missing functionality or poor user experience. Tracking user behavior in-app enables product teams to find ways to improve product experience. Keyword research and industry reports are two ways to track market trends and identify arising opportunities. Talk to the developers and engineers.

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Neil Patel

JANUARY 11, 2021

Follow this up by building your team and finding a location if you’re opening a physical store. After all, your customers would prefer more of a good thing and less of a bad thing. The whole point of conducting market research is to understand typical consumer behavior , pain points, and relevant market trends in your chosen niche.

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Underperforming Technical Team Business Sales Hiring Scale 128

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

I was also a Creative Director for the digital design team at O’Reilly Media and then I moved full-time to teaching as a professor at NYU, now in Shanghai. In my teaching, I tend to take a step back and look at the broader piece of history and trace back the trends we’re seeing today with what happened before the computer.

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User Experience Underperforming Technical Team Mobile Telecommunications 191

Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 18, 2021

In previous episodes, we’ve talked about how customer feedback and cross-team collaboration play a crucial role in the features and updates we build here at Intercom. “How do you make sense of and identify the trends in the many conversations your team is having with your customers?” What does success look like?

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