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What Happened at SaaSiest 2023 (What I’ll Do Different Next Year)
Does taking over 30 thousand steps in 2 days justify eating doughnuts for breakfast? I hope so … my feet are sore but I’m feeling optimistic after spending 2 days at SaaS Nordic’s Saasiest2023 conference in Malmo, southern Sweden. I attended to get a live sense of how SaaS companies are feeling about the technology […]
My Top 5 Prospecting Apps for the Lean Start-Up
There is a county in Ireland with a reputation for being cheap (you know who you are ;-)). They say people from this county can peel an orange in their pockets. There’s also a (hopefully) apocryphal tale of a man from the county who eats his dinner in a drawer (if anyone calls around, he […]
‘A beginning is a very delicate time.’
This blog post represents the start of what will most certainly be an exciting journey. While clicking “Publish” only took a single click, the action marked the end of one phase of my life and the beginning of a new and exciting phase.
The 7 Steps to SaaS Growth in an Economic Downturn
[TLDR … You can watch a webinar I gave covering the same ground as this post at the bottom of the page ] It’s a scary time for SaaS. With continued pressure from investors to grow in the face of plummeting demand and no real understanding of when or how the economy is likely to […]
How Frequently Akita App Syncs Your Data?
In a previous post, we looked at How We Built More Than 100 Customer Success-Integrations between Akita and apps like Hubspot, Salesforce, Intercom and Zendesk. We outlined our 3-step process for keeping data in sync: Schedule, Retrieve, and Process. The Scheduler kicks everything off and is responsible for determining which data needs retrieving at any […]
How We Built More Than 100 Integrations for Our Product
If there is one thing that sets Akita apart from its competitors in Customer Success software, it is our ability to ingest data from virtually any data source a customer may have. This includes: If the data is out there, Akita can usually import it and use it to transform your Customer Success department into […]
Why and How CSMs Should Segment Their Customer Base
We all know that it is important to segment your customer base in Customer Success… But why? Like all things in business, the ultimate answer is—to generate more revenue. But how?
20 Reported Problems with Customer Success Software (and How Akita Resolves Them)
As part of Akita’s recent re-launch, we have been looking at the channels where potential customers (and the CS community in general) can educate themselves about our solution. G2 crowd is a key player in the review/social proof space and forms an important part of most companies evaluation process when shopping for B2B software. It’s […]
5 Customer Success Software with Publihed Pricing
Did you know there are now over 30 dedicated Customer Success platforms! This makes the challenge of evaluating your options quite daunting. If you don’t want to juggle a ton of discovery calls with vendors just to find out what you can or can’t afford, this post is for you. The following is a list […]