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Trying to “go enterprise” too early in SaaS can kill an entire year of growth or more if you’re not ready for it. Enterprise customers can hold your product roadmap hostage. They’ll ask for new features, more integrations, enterprise level security, etc. You’ll rationalize it by saying that your Mid Market and SMB customers will also benefit, but realistically they might not actually care that much and maybe it has no material impact on retention or new sales. Expectations of service will be on another level. They’ll want executive level involvement. Dedicated onboarding resources. Much more sophisticated post-sale solution engineering. The works. You’ll feel like you have no choice but to do whatever they want because they’re paying you maybe $500k-$1m per year and meanwhile you’re in some weekly or bi-weekly sync with half of your exec team trying to figure out how to balance and keep your 2-3 enterprise customers happy because you’re worried they might churn. While you were busy spending a year building your enterprise team some small competitor(s) that you had never lost a customer to before is starting to pick up steam with a pretty strong offering to your original core segment, they’ve ripped off a few of your best features and are undercutting on price and you’ve lost a considerable amount of your lead in the market. Happens all the time. So unless you absolutely need it for growth then maybe wait another year. 

Product-Led vs. Sales-Led: Street Fighter Edition Who will win? The strengths of product-led growth (PLG): ✅ Shorter sales cycle ✅ More product feedback ✅ Lower Customer Acquisition Costs (CACs) The strengths of sales-led growth SLG): ✅ Close enterprise deals ✅ Relationship-driven approach ✅ Stronger customer relationships The winner? A hybrid approach! The companies that we think are classic examples of PLG businesses (Calendly, Dropbox, and yes, even Grammarly) employ sales-led tactics to: - Help close enterprise deals. - Guide users in the buying process. - Facilitate product penetration and expansion. At the same time, classic sales-led companies like Salesforce, Atlassian, and IBM (with their Cloud product) adopted product-led tactics to create better user experiences. So, let's stop arguing which one is better. It's clear that combining the strengths of both approaches leads to the ultimate victory. 💪

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Outdated customer support systems can make it hard for even the most successful companies to deliver exceptional service. Limited features, lack of automation, and complex case management processes leave support teams struggling to keep up with growing demands. For businesses with extensive product portfolios, this can mean longer resolution times and frustrated customers. When a Fortune 50 semiconductor giant faced these challenges, they turned to a trusted Salesforce partner to transform their customer contact center. By migrating their legacy system to Service Cloud, we empowered over 1,300 service agents across the globe to handle 65,000+ service tickets each month seamlessly. The new system offers multiple integrated support channels, automated case handling, and AI-driven insights, all from a single, intuitive console. Find more details at - https://bit.ly/45Ukyka. #Accellor #SuccessStory #CaseManagement #TechTransformation #BusinessSolutions

In theory, SMB > Enterprise More customers, much faster sales cycles, faster PLG and viral cycles But even 100% NRR is tough to hit with SMBs, While 120%-140% common in Enterprise Most SMB SaaS goes at least bit enterprise or at least into more “bigger deals” to balance it out

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