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Who hates annual employee performance reviews? Everyone, that’s who. Employees hate them, managers hate them. HR probably hates them. There are plenty of studies and articles and trends to back this up. Like this one.  And this one. Publications like The New York Times and The New Yorker are spreading the word. And there’s even a […] The post Please, No More Annual Performance Reviews! first appeared on SaaSX.

A sales methodology is just a standard approach to selling. It’s the how.  Not to be confused with a sales process that describes the steps in the methodology. It’s the what.  Do you need a sales process? Yes. Do you need a sales methodology? Yes. They go hand in hand. Without a sales methodology, your sales team […] The post What’s a sales methodology and do you need one? first appeared on SaaSX.

Customer success is your product. Your product is customer success. Period, end of story. It’s time to change the culture of expectation for customer success. Having worked with products that had incredible product-market fit (PMF) and products that didn’t, I can tell you that perfectly executed customer success plays do not make or break a […] The post Customer success IS product. first appeared on SaaSX.

Growing a SaaS company at >50% YOY (at scale) is hard. If it was easy, everyone would do it. One of the big reasons it’s so hard is that you’re constantly trading off between short-term results and long-term scalability. This is true in technology, where there’s constant angst around amassing tech debt in the name […] The post SaaS Strategy: Balancing and Managing Short- and Long-Term Tradeoffs first appeared on SaaSX.

Nurturing the characteristics of a charismatic company to inspire devoted, loyal advocates to provide social proof. Social proof is huge in SaaS marketing. What people think and say about your SaaS has a lot to do with its momentum and market fit. But how they feel about your solution has wider implications. Real advocacy comes […] The post Is Your SaaS Charismatic Enough to Build a Tribe? first appeared on SaaSX.

Many SaaS companies go through due diligence in a less-than-ideal state. That’s a lot less stressful when you know what that means. A while back I wrote about what to expect in SaaS due diligence and provided an interactive institutional readiness report card to help you prepare, but today I want to address the consequences […] The post Unprepared for SaaS Due Diligence? first appeared on SaaSX.

A commented Google Slide Org Chart Template to help you look at SaaS marketing roles and responsibilities from the CMO to the coordinator. I’ve been working a lot recently with SaaS marketing org charts. That work has been in the form of growth planning, organizational design, and talent evaluation. Scale matters a lot in thinking […] The post SaaS Marketing Org Chart first appeared on SaaSX.

A lot of SaaS marketing is made up. The best marketing is not. And the reasons for that may be way deeper than you think. Yes, this is another post espousing the value of authenticity in SaaS marketing. But it’s much more than that. Storytelling in tech marketing is critical because what we’re marketing is […] The post The Power of SaaS Storytelling Versus Storymaking first appeared on SaaSX.

I have been thinking a lot about the continuum of maturity in SaaS customer success organizations. It really boils down to degrees of a spectrum ranging from reactive to proactive. Here are the 11 areas I evaluate when assessing a customer success organization for strengths and weaknesses. How well they execute against these usually indicates […] The post 11 Steps to SaaS Customer Success first appeared on SaaSX.

Even experienced leaders can easily forget that one voice shouldn’t drive change. I try and write from recent inspiration and this post is far from an exception. Over the last few weeks, several of the CEOs we work with have all reinforced the problem of the lone voice driving change, which is a symptom of […] The post SaaS Feedback Lifecycle: Listen to all. Act only on consensus. first appeared on SaaSX.