LSA Global

APRIL 16, 2021

A Sales Leader’s Dilemma – Top Ways to Grow Revenue There are only so many actions available to a sales leader to profitably grow revenue. The art is identifying, agreeing to, and committing to top ways to grow revenue for you and your sales team. Which sales growth lever should you pull?

Revenue 36

Revenue Sales Sales B2B 36

LSA Global

JUNE 17, 2024

How to Increase the ROI of Sales Training Even though $20 billion is spent on business sales training per year, more than a third of sales leaders admit that they do not have a clear idea of what measurable return they are looking for on sales training. All those sales skills make sense.

ROI 44

ROI Sales Sales Sales Management 44

15Five

MAY 19, 2023

sales revenue, customer service ratings, etc.). Revenue-per-employee Revenue-per-employee is the amount of money each employee generates for the company, on average. You can calculate it by dividing total revenue by the current number of employees. Think of revenue-per-employee as a productivity ratio.

Metrics 105

Metrics Retention Revenue Recruitment 105

Chief Executive

MARCH 3, 2023

It is rooted in two pervasive problems that characterize virtually every company: (1) maximizing sales does not maximize net profits; and (2) maximizing gross margin does not maximize net profit. Diminishing unit costs, in turn, meant more revenues and profits. People imagine that they would prefer variety more than they do.

Metrics 98

Metrics Cash Flow ROI Revenue 98

Help Scout Leadership

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

While the original driver for the role was to grow relationships and increase revenue, the customer success specialist job description has changed quite a bit since then. Assist the sales team in driving and managing renewals. Experience working with SaaS products. The first named customer success group was created in 1996.

Sales 104

Sales Sales Onboarding Education 104

Andrew Chen

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Since the 2014 article, Uber has blown past his estimate by 10X, with top line revenues to support it. Then people asked if I could pass on a post about a job or something for sale. Today, Craigslist in over 57,000 cities, generating $700M in revenue per year (on job listings fees!) with just 50 employees.

Marketing 0

Marketing Revenue A/B Testing Workflows 0

Chief Executive

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

These high-revenue, high-profit customers are generally very service-sensitive, and relatively price-insensitive if you provide a compelling value proposition. They reported these observations to the customer’s sales rep, and this very often led to more sales. These customers are low-revenue, low-profit.

Hospitality 97

Hospitality Assets Sales Sales 97

Chief Executive

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

When I looked into it, the Sales VP beat her budget, but the new customers were buying products that were not available in the nearby distribution center and had to be expedited from a distant central warehouse. I spent a few days riding with several sales reps to understand their situation. One-by-one, the VPs said, “I made budget.”

Sales 52

Sales Sales Operations Revenue 52

Brian Balfour

JUNE 20, 2017

By the same token, a high-converting step could actually result in turning away the right Creators, because suddenly there would be lots of live Patreon pages with uninspiring revenue results (Creator earnings are publicly visible on each Patreon page). engineers led by Raviv and inspired by their colleagues in sales, support, and community.

Onboarding 84

Onboarding SaaS Metrics Sales 84

Brian Balfour

AUGUST 3, 2017

Evidence of the four Fits is most apparent in the SaaS space. We can look at almost any category in SaaS and find multiple $1B+ companies who all essentially have the same core product. Because of that, they use Outbound Sales to sell (Product Channel Fit). We can play this scenario out in almost any SaaS Category.

Marketing 57

Marketing SaaS Scaling Small Business 57

LSA Global

MAY 13, 2024

Our organizational alignment research found that having the right talent to execute your business strategy accounts for 29% of the difference between high and low performing companies in terms of: Revenue growth Profitability Leadership effectiveness Customer loyalty Employee engagement The symbiotic relationship between talent and strategy matters.

SaaS 36

SaaS Digital Transformation Sales Sales 36

Vantage Circle

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

These areas can be on sales, performance, marketing, HR support, etc. Revenue versus Target. Revenue vs. Target helps you establish a relationship between your projected revenue and actual revenue. Regional Sales. This KPI helps you ascertain the sales of your products and services in different regions.

KPI 52

KPI Sales Sales Revenue 52

Chief Executive

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

That’s why, in a time when growing revenues and profitability are top of mind for every CEO and board member, the ability of your management team to create real customer loyalty is the most essential strategy for success, says Reichheld.

Revenue 40

Revenue SaaS Metrics Marketing 40

Walk Me

JUNE 14, 2023

According to Statista , the software as a service (SaaS) market is estimated to be worth around 197 billion U.S. In 2019, spending on Software as a Service (SaaS) reached approximately $42 billion, as predicted by Gartner. Automated sales processes can free up time for sales teams to focus on building relationships and closing deals.

Implementation 52

Implementation Software Sales Sales 52

Chief Executive

AUGUST 8, 2022

The reason for this seeming paradox is that some revenues are very costly to serve, while other revenues are ample to support higher costs. In our experience accelerating the profitability of tens of billions of dollars of client revenues, we have found that gross margin does not predict net profits.

Revenue 52

Revenue Manager Marketing Advertising 52

Vantage Circle

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Bambu by Sprout Social makes it easy for your employees to share selected content across their social networks, increasing reach, engagement, and attracting more qualified sales leads. Sociabble is a SaaS-based mobile-first solution for internal communication, employee advocacy, and employee engagement. Employee-centric gamification.

Media 52

Media Marketing Sales Sales 52

Chief Executive

JULY 8, 2022

This situation occurs in company after company because in our prior Age of Mass Markets, profitability was a function primarily of sales volume, which created economies of scale in everything from production to distribution to advertising. Enterprise Profit Management SaaS systems can be configured in a few weeks.

Marketing 52

Marketing SaaS Manager Advertising 52

Andrew Chen

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Growing your startup’s users and revenue is so critical that it makes sense to hire someone to run it, and to potentially add a team underneath them to support this goal. Direct sales and product-led viral growth for most B2B collaboration apps. It’s asked often for good reason. Hitting the Ceiling.

Scaling 82

Scaling Marketing Recruitment B2B 82

Walk Me

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

With one central source of information, there is no question about where managers need to go to find out about staff, inventory, or sales. Organizations like Nike, the US National Grid, and Haribo can tell you the pain of millions of dollars in lost revenue. Reduced confusion around data. Lower risks around data security. The outcome?

Software 52

Software Implementation Digital Transformation Change Management 52

Andrew Chen

DECEMBER 13, 2018

We actually talked to this close friend of mine who’s a founder who, built his company and scaled it to revenue, pretty substantial revenue in the Bay Area. And so you end up with the, the mullet, but just like kind of, but now you do it in reverse.

Engineering 79

Engineering Scaling Marketing Workflows 79

Andrew Chen

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

So not revenue per CAC is that you know typically there’s cost associated to user. One of the things that we covered very early on is that with SaaS, you always wanna try to take existing users and upsell them because it’s way more expensive to acquire a new customer in that context. (I LTV is lifetime value.

Marketing 75

Marketing Metrics Retention eCommerce 75

Andrew Chen

DECEMBER 13, 2018

We actually talked to this close friend of mine who’s a founder who, built his company and scaled it to revenue, pretty substantial revenue in the Bay Area. And so you end up with the, the mullet, but just like kind of, but now you do it in reverse.

Engineering 40

Engineering Scaling Marketing Workflows 40

Vantage Circle

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

The transition period between losing a staff member and onboarding a replacement can lead to substantial losses in productivity and revenue. As the seventh-largest private firm in the nation, Publix boasts impressive sales totaling $27.5 And that's a situation no organization desires.

Benefits 64

Benefits Insurance Diversity Inclusion 64

Chief Executive

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

How can they champion projects that contribute to revenue growth? Because their modeling failed to account for changing customer behavior, retailers like Target struggled to move excess inventory causing them to rely on premature holiday sales to clear shelves ahead of the 2022 gifting season.

SaaS 98

SaaS Cash Flow Advertising Revenue 98

Chief Executive

JANUARY 31, 2023

And Liberty Mutual is among those companies that have been slashing costs significantly by shifting to a cloud environment amid extreme revenue pressures in the insurance industry. We’re using previous sales as an input to do a better job of predicting quantities at any given time so that our accuracy cuts down on food waste.

Cash Flow 97

Cash Flow Software Travel Marketing 97