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9 essential sales steps you need to grow your SaaS startup

Intercom, Inc.

In the early stages of most SaaS startups’ lives, the CEO or founder often acts as the initial head of sales. It is important that these friendly connections represent the target persona market you have outlined, as otherwise, the feedback loop is likely to be weak. Iterate the product based on feedback.

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Sales Hacker?s Max Altschuler on selling more with less

Intercom, Inc.

Whether you’re at an early-stage startup that’s just made its first sales hires, or part of a fast-moving sales team in a large organization, the key to success often comes down to efficiency. That means your focus should be on building the right customer profile and developing precise messaging to reach them.

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How to build, manage and scale a sales team – 12 strategies from the experts

Intercom, Inc.

Growing a sales team isn’t as simple as putting a bunch of A players in a room and getting them to start selling your product. When done right, your sales team won’t just accelerate your company’s growth; they’ll enrich your company’s culture and help build a better product too. 12 steps to build a world-class sales team.

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Clearbit’s Matt Sornson on driving growth with data and content

Intercom, Inc.

As the Head of Growth Marketing at Clearbit , and previously a co-founder and CEO of more than a few startups (including WorkMob, ApiXchange, and GoFlow), Matt Sornson knows these pitfalls intimately and how to avoid them. This allowed a passionate audience to develop – and built enthusiasm ahead of the books’ full release.

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Spendesk’s Nicolas Marchais on evolving with your market

Intercom, Inc.

As Head of Sales for Spendesk, Nico was initially inspired by the vision of founder Rodolphe Ardant who had spotted a gap for ‘spend management’ in the B2B market based on personal banking trends. So they created a software that provides control, visibility, and payment methods for corporate finance teams.

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A Lean Alternative to a Business Plan: Documenting Your Product/Market Fit Hypotheses

Sachin Rekhi

The customer development and lean startup methodologies evangelized by Steve Blank and Eric Ries brought us a better approach that favored experimentation over elaborate planning, customer feedback over intuition, and iterative design over traditional “big design up front” development. Target Audience.

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Product evangelist John Cutler on becoming a catalyst for change

Intercom, Inc.

As his Twitter bio reads, he quite likes “the beautiful mess of product development.”. Why does it matter for the business, for investors, for the community, or people on your team? Customer success, support, and sales teams can be great allies in providing good insights or helping make higher-quality decisions.