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How to Navigate Strategic Change for Growth with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin (Video + Podcast)

SaaStr

Q: When Should A Slow Growth Company Hire a Head of Sales? Whether you’re a slow-growth company or a rocketship, a great VP of Sales will make everything a little bit better quickly. For Jason, he doesn’t invest in a company before $10k MRR plus 10-15 customers. So, let’s jump right into Part Two. How do they succeed?

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At Least 20% of Your New Customers Should Come from Referrals and Word of Mouth

SaaStr

Ultimately, almost all software companies end up getting 20-50% or so of their new customers from their existing customers once they hit scale. Bill.com at IPO saw 50% of its new customers coming from word-of-mouth and second-time buyers. Even at $1B+ in ARR, 33% of HubSpot’s customers still come from word-of-mouth.

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What Are the Most Lucrative Ecommerce Niches in 2020?

Hubspot

In this article, we’ll look at the recent changes to the ecommerce landscape and what they mean for you as you start your online business journey or pivot into a new niche. More people are buying online than ever before, and industries that have traditionally struggled to break into ecommerce are seeing unprecedented growth.

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Scaling an agency: Lessons of growth and change

Search Engine Land

Over the past six years building Eyeful Media, I’ve leaned into my network and colleagues, specifically those with agency experience, to navigate our growth successfully. Go-Go growth. Many of the most critical growth opportunities that we were able to capitalize on were gathered from the feedback of our clients and employees.

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High-Growth Companies Canva, Headspace, and Torani Share Secrets to Success Now

Salesforce

At the SMB Main Show at Dreamforce this year , I had the pleasure of hearing how leaders at high-growth companies Canva, Headspace, and Torani transformed their operations and strategies to find success in an all-digital world. See these business leaders share their high-growth tactics at Dreamforce and get actionable takeaways today!

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5 Interesting Learnings From Bill at $1.2 Billion in ARR

SaaStr

So we’ve been fans of Bill.com for many years at SaaStr, and covered them from the very early days, as a niche product most hadn’t heard of. The rest of the growth is from its Divvy platform, which is bought in 2021 for $2.5 Well, fast forward to today and it’s truly an SMB powerhouse. Yes, 48% at $1.2

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The Expert Guide to Creating a Marketing Growth Strategy

ConversionXL

Rob Sobers said about the marketing growth strategy, “It’s not about tactics—it’s about people and process.”. Growth is everyone’s business. When it comes to process, growth marketers must learn to fail. A marketing growth strategy is about small and incremental wins that build up over time. And fail fast.

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