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Finding Product-Market Fit – Expert Advice From Prowly’s CEO Joanna Drabent

Userpilot

Joanna founded and ran the Kolko PR agency from 2010 to 2016 where she noticed there was a need to automate the PR processes and there was no tool on the market to make that possible. Before co-founding Prowly, Joanna founded and ran Kolko PR agency from 2010 to 2016. Joanna is the Head of the Prowly Unit at Semrush.

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Growth is getting hard from intensive competition, consolidation, and saturation

Andrew Chen

Facebook and Google now control most of the Top 10 apps in the mobile ecosystem: Source: Nielsen, Dec 2016. During its Q1 2017 earnings call, Facebook told investors that it expected ad revenue was approaching a saturation point, despite major growth in Q1 2017 earnings as compared to 2016. Outbound used to be painstaking and manual.

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Chili Piper’s Co-Founder Alina Vandenberghe on bootstrapping your way to success

Intercom, Inc.

In 2016, she created Chili Piper with her husband Nicolas and poured in everything she had learned over the years. In today’s episode, we sat down with Alina to chat about starting a company from scratch, the importance of a marketing strategy that drives growth, and the perks of being remote-first. Alina: Yeah, that’s right.

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How to build a billion dollar sales team like Stripe

Intercom, Inc.

Back in 2016, this is exactly the situation Stripe found themselves in. Using data to drive outbound sales. This meant that when Jeanne wanted to get an outbound sales program off the ground, she had to get creative. The first stage is building an organic growth engine. We just were never going to get that headcount.

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How to Think About Scaling Your Customer Success Team

Gainsight

At Pulse 2016, SaaStr’s Customer Success for Start-ups track was one of the most popular series of sessions in the entire conference. For SMB you want to have more of a one to many strategy. A million things going on outbound-driven, rapidly changing. Jason: I’m super excited about this next session.

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Kevin Indig on searching for meaning and the meaning of search

Intercom, Inc.

And I’m a writer of a newsletter called Tech Bound, in which I hone in on marketing strategies and customer acquisition. I’d love to dive into what those strategies were like, especially first at Atlassian, particularly because they had no sales team. Atlassian does not have an outbound sales team. Kevin: Absolutely.

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Webflow’s Maggie Hott on building a scaleable sales team from the ground up

Intercom, Inc.

Back in 2015 or 2016, we learned at Slack that we were going to be hiring a VP of Sales. I helped to build out our EDU org, our non-profit org, our SMB org, our compete programs, our outbound motion, and all of these things are actually all now full functions today at Slack. We’re doing so well.