SaaStr

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Datadog CMO Alex Rosemblat took the stage at SaaStr Annual 2023 to share how marketing teams can get more deals done with less budget. At the same time, they got more than 20% more marketing-qualified leads for their sales team. In the pre-2023 column, the team produces 1,000 qualified leads per month. The good news?

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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.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 1, 2023

SaaStr’s own Jason Lemkin shares the top 10 mistakes he sees during the hiring process during Workshop Wednesday, held every Wednesday at 10 a.m. But for a non-sales or marketing product, a tech or development product, or products that are more complicated than the last sale are likely to implode because they can’t learn it on the fly.

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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.

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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. Competitor analysis enables PMs to find areas where rivals fail customers and develop sound positioning and differentiation strategies.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 19, 2022

This article is an excerpt from Outreach’s Unleash Customer Workshop: “Content Therapy.” Your content strategy evaluation should start with understanding your team’s current challenges. The entire sales team is clear on the plan, and it’s working. RELATED: Use Outreach?

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Valuize Consulting

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Forrester provided some illuminating – and sobering – data in their Customer Experience (CX) Index (2023) in which it found that 75% of companies fall into the “OK,” “poor,” or “very poor” categories when it comes to delivering what customers need across their lifecycle. Everyone celebrates.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Each person on your team has different needs, responds to feedback in different ways and evolves in different trajectories – and management should always reflect that. Even when you reach the perfect team dynamic – a new hire or budget cut can easily throw things off balance. It’s called Resilient Management.

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User Pilot

AUGUST 30, 2024

Book a demo now to discuss with our team! For example, Slack’s advertising frequently highlights the tool’s ability to improve communication and collaboration within teams, contrasting the traditional, often disorganized nature of email communication. Promote new features with in-app ads to upsell users. Ready to get started?

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Neil Patel

JULY 6, 2021

As you grow on your own, you’ll develop better habits that you can translate into business growth and monetary gain. When we’re aware of our strengths and weaknesses, it makes it so much easier for us to capitalize on what we’re good at and make the most of every step. A coach is going to look at your entire life: all aspects of it.

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Totango

DECEMBER 26, 2021

If you’ve noticed any signs of burnout within your team, it’s important to take action immediately to prevent any long-term consequences to the health of your employees as well as to your organization. Check out these five tips for how to fight burnout and keep your customer success team healthy and effective. . And vice-versa.

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User Pilot

APRIL 25, 2024

Userpilot is an all-in-one solution for product teams that allows you to build bespoke in-app surveys with open-ended, Likert scale, and multiple choice questions (among other things) without any coding. Specific open-ended questions such as ‘What did you appreciate most about your interaction with our team?’

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Sales Hacker

MAY 24, 2023

In this episode, we dive into this renewed trend with Tito Bohrt, the CEO of AltiSales, the one-stop shop for world-class sales development. He also shares how company culture impacts productivity and morale, primarily within sales teams. Company : AltiSales Noteworthy : Tito is an expert in sales development and all things sales.

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Valuize Consulting

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

A recent Towers Watson study revealed that businesses with a strong employee experience sustained a 4% bump in revenue while those with a poor experience saw revenue fall by 1%. Development Programs. 41% of employees consider career development and personal growth opportunities important to their job satisfaction ( SHRM , 2017).

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

The entire event takes place online, allowing attendees to get to know employers better, network with other job seekers, and attend workshops and guest speeches, all from the comfort of their own homes. Put a team together that shows off the best aspects of your business. Develop a Marketing Plan. Don’t underestimate this part.

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TriTuns

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

You and your team probably ask yourselves what you, as a customer success professional, need to do to ensure the customer is successful using your product. They probably have a lot of systems that are underused and/or underperforming. The post The Very First Question a Customer Success Team Needs to Ask appeared first on Tri Tuns.

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Unbounce

JUNE 24, 2020

According to them, AGI “controls itself autonomously, with its own thoughts, worries, feelings, strengths, weaknesses, and predispositions.” ” Teams across the world are working on AGI, but the closest to a consensus from researchers is that we might see it sometime within our lifetime. What can you do? Some still do.)

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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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Sixteen Ventures

AUGUST 1, 2018

You have Bad-fit Customers. Perhaps you have a lot of bad-fit customers, even more in the pipeline, and even more you’re currently paying to get in front of via SDRs or Marketing campaigns. As long as you keep bringing in customers that don’t have Success Potential, your churn will reflect this poor business decision.

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User Pilot

JULY 29, 2024

To create a successful product marketing strategy, you need to set tangible goals, create user personas to understand your target audience better, and develop messaging that showcases your unique value proposition. Userpilot is a product growth platform that allows product teams to: Create different UI patterns for in-app marketing campaigns.

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User Pilot

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Actually, there are multiple types of personas for different teams, levels of research, and use cases—which you need to understand if you want to connect with customers. So let’s cover each of them and see what you can do to improve your team’s effectiveness. What is a persona?

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GetUplift

JULY 4, 2024

They’re truly partners and an extension of our team. And your website and marketing campaigns have to intrigue and interest all of these decision makers — enough to either take the next step or to give the green light so that someone on their team can take that next step. in overall conversions +72.8% They’re a great partner.

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Getting executives out of the 1:1 interview process and into a whiteboard session can help you assess their core competencies and how they’ll work with your team. How can we help the team get calibrated on the role? Matt Oberhardt: So, we have metrics that kind of roll up as a team. It’s just poor form.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 28, 2019

To begin, perform an audit of your own sales team, and answer these questions: How are women compensated in comparison with men of their same role level? By the way, even if you don’t find there are gender differences on these three criteria (good job), this exercise can help you improve how you manage your team in myriad other ways.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

With so many moving parts in the creation process, from visual design to content or front-end development, what’s the one universal model all of these can apply to ensure the interaction in the end is more human and humane than machine-like? I know the workshops at Mule Design have taken off. Conversation is the original interface.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

SaaSy Sales Management runs in-person, public, and private workshops to teach go-to-market SaaS leaders how to produce the best outcome for their company and their people. If you missed episode 94, check it out here: PODCAST 94: Expert Management of a Remote Sales Team w/ Ellie Tamari. What You’ll Learn. Advice on How to Train [3:48].

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 19, 2018

After coaching 100+ tech leads, managers, directors, VPs, and CTOs, Jean and Edmond are distilling their most valuable lessons into workshops and online courses. Jean: Especially with engineering teams. Edmond: That reminds me of the workshop we ran a while back with members of the engineering team from Medium.

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User Pilot

JANUARY 10, 2024

Book a demo to discuss your needs with our team and get tailored solutions. It’s a critical part of the product development process that helps inform design decisions and ensure the final product aligns with user expectations. Your product team can work on identifying areas of the onboarding flow they can cut off.

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Buffer Resources

MAY 9, 2024

This is both a good and a bad thing – if there’s something else you’d like to be known for, you have a lot more work ahead of you than if your content is centered around what you say your expertise is. Content showcasing your industry authority ranks higher in the algorithm.

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SaaStr

MAY 24, 2023

In this week’s Workshop Wednesday — held every Wednesday at 10 a.m. Most of the time, a missing teams view or the ability to integrate with one more system isn’t the answer. Founders have many jobs: to build a product, get customers, stand up a marketing function, manage a team, manage your burn, fundraise, and get an office space.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 15, 2021

With a Master’s degree in human-computer interaction and over two decades of experience in user research and user experience in companies like Oracle, he now leads the design team across all product offerings at IBM. Arin has even successfully conducted customer workshops with Lego bricks. Prototype it til you make it.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 10, 2021

Know why you’re training your team before you start. Learn how the team follows up with every lead in record time after virtual events and turns them into revenue. Building those kinds of processes and then developing that training. powered by Sounder. What You’ll Learn. Keep the four S’s in mind when setting goals.

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FastSpring

JUNE 11, 2024

I need to find somebody that can actually manage it for me so I can do the things that I love, which is the marketing and working with my team where I fall flat is working with the clients because I, as you said, I tend to be a little bit hard headed and I get a bit passionate and that’s not always a good thing. They make more money.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

Sales Development and Prospecting. The Sales Development Playbook. The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team. Here are the best books on selling (and related disciplines) that can help you hit your goals and develop your career. SPIN Selling is essential reading for anyone involved in selling or managing a sales team.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 12, 2020

And perhaps more importantly, how can you develop it? There’s only really one way to develop product judgment and that’s through direct interaction with your customers. Create a safe environment for sound product judgment to develop by ensuring feedback is immediate, clear and concrete. ” What is it?

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 28, 2018

The best sales conferences enrich your team, build knowledge, and offer plenty of networking opportunities (and fun)! Bad sales conferences just feel like a huge waste of time away from you prospects. We are leaving with new friends, new knowledge and new ideas.” – Team Microsoft. Director of Business Development.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 26, 2018

I hosted Nir on our podcast to learn how to create healthy habits, how to avoid bad ones, what questions thoughtful product designers should be asking themselves, and much more. Here are five quick takeaways: We have good habits and bad habits , which are very different from addictions. For me, that was a bad habit.

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