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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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The future of customer acquisition with HubSpot’s Meghan Keaney Anderson

Intercom, Inc.

How do you keep up with such breakneck development? By building a nimble, swashbuckling team that relishes tackling new challenges on the high seas of marketing. During the course of her time there, she’s seen HubSpot grow from a small, plucky startup into a billion dollar household name.

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The ultimate marketing technology stack for 2019

Intercom, Inc.

By early 2018, Brinker had updated it with almost 2,000 more vendors — that’s nearly 7,000 marketing software companies fighting for the same buyers’ attention. The reasons for this growth – high-velocity economics of software innovation, the migration of money from old media to new media, etc. Alternatives: AdRoll, Quantcast.

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Reflecting on the Intercom journey – Karen Peacock and Des Traynor in conversation

Intercom, Inc.

Think about what you could be doing to bring more diversity into your teams and be more inclusive as a company, and go actively out of your way in order to achieve set goals. I usually do them with Paul or people from the product teams – it’s much more fun to be on a podcast with your boss. Be open-minded.

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Finding & Nurturing Top Talent | Elpie Bannister & Alex Yang | BoS Europe 2019

Business of Software Conference

In this informative BoS Talk, Alex Yang and Elpie Bannister take us through the Simprints’ method of finding, hiring, nurturing, and developing top talent and explain a few of the processes they had to go through to hone this skill. So, against this calibre of competition how does a small startup managed to remain competitive?

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Customer Education & Training: The Investment That Keeps on Giving

Gainsight

Technology companies are producing more complex software, which can often overwhelm customers during the onboarding process. Sam Mallikarjunan, Head of Growth at HubSpot, a leader in inbound marketing and sales software, explains that teaching the user in this example to create an email campaign isn’t good enough.

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Understanding your ideal customers and how to sell to them

Intercom, Inc.

As part of the process, we’ve spent a lot of time reviewing who we should be selling to these days, and how we should be selling to these customers. 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. Speed is everything.