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Dear SaaStr: How Can I Give Better SaaS Product Demos? One simple answer: train your reps more. A lot more. With most SaaS companies, for a while, demos get worse:…
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Blog Posts, Marketing, Marketing, Sales, Sales, Videos
Wherever you are in your revenue journey, adopting certain growth strategies can help you keep growing fast. Robert Butler, Chief Commercial Officer at Payrix, has spent over 25 years in…
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The two biggest mistakes business leaders can make in a competitive space are thinking their competitors are too smart or, alternately, too dumb. The game on the field has shifted…
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Since the start of 2022, the focus of SaaS leaders has changed from growth at all costs to sustainable growth and being default alive. Often, leaders struggle to choose between…
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Learn how SaaS companies can find success in an everchanging economic market with critical insights on gross margins and hiring a great team.
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Dear SaaStr: Should I Start My SaaS App Off Totally Free? Almost always — no matter how freemium you want to go in SaaS, you should at least have a…
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AI-powered communication technology is helping people improve the quality and impact of their communication. Grammarly CEO Brad Hoover shares the keys to unlocking product-led growth in the enterprise through learnings…
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Blog Posts, Early, Marketing, Marketing, SaaS Product Pricing, Sales, Sales, Videos
Developers act, think, and behave differently than your average customer. So selling, marketing, and supporting them should be different too. As an API-first company, WorkOS focuses on selling primarily to…
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Blog Posts, Growth, Sales
We all want to push, push, push. To make the month and the quarter. And you have to. But there’s a lot of stuff you also need to hold back…
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Dear SaaStr: At What ACV Can We Afford a Sales Team? Even with a very efficient team, it’s tough to afford a sales team much below $299 a month /…
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All companies depend on growth, and growth has to come from somewhere. How do companies that rely on hypergrowth—expanding as much as 100% yearly—achieve this kind of success? Celonis’ COO,…
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Dear SaaStr: Why would any big business take a risk on a start-up? They wouldn’t. Unless, the gain way outweighs the risk. And yet … they do all the time….
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Anu Hariharan works with hundreds of startups annually as Managing Director at Y Combinator. Through experience, she explains five company-altering learnings from B2B startups that founders should consider at the…
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Blog Posts, Early, Sales
Want to get outbound going, for the first time? What almost never works, somewhat surprisingly, is hiring a Director of Outbound as your first outbound hire. I see many startups…
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Dear SaaStr: How Do Startups Really Sell to Big Enterprises Before They’re Proven? You solve their problems. And you solve a specific problem that is important to your buyer —…
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