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I know someone. They are good and deliver on time. Highly recommended.

Hey I’m a webflow developer 
<https://adeshsonawane.com|https://adeshsonawane.com>

<@U02UJBF2Y4C> Could you please connect? 

Do we have any SharePoint developers here? Or if you know someone who's one, could you connect me? 

Have you given RPA tools like UIPath a thought?

Hi <@U03GDAXTSUD> - no haven't thought through on those lines. This requirement was more of my old colleague who runs an agency

<@U03GDAXTSUD> - do you have any article or link which can help automate the scraping work through uipath?

Not exactly, but you can find plenty on Youtube

Multiple launches :raised_hands::skin-tone-4:
*Outcomes are majorly dependent on what kind of product you’re launching and how much pre-launch work you put into it*

Two of my resources here that have been used by dozens of folks for their own launches:

1. My Product Hunt launch playbook doc: <https://aabhashk.notion.site/Product-Hunt-Launch-Playbook-by-AabhashK-306bf17938ee4c28aa1482080b3b0064>

2. link to the podcast video itself which is the high-level thinking required for the launch: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixnVP6seXFQ>

This should have you covered a 100% for any PH launch :raised_hands::skin-tone-4:

<@U031P56UZGR> Trust <@U02V9QUDK1Q>’s playbook on this one. :100:

Thanks <@U02V9QUDK1Q> and <@U030L29FSN4>…would you also know whats the typical audience here in terms of the company size and job titles?

share what you are launching, I can tell you if it’ll fly with that audience

<@U02V9QUDK1Q> is your man. <@U03208N6E2G> did a PH launch last week. #1 Product of the day.

<@U02V9QUDK1Q> is the OG here. He has helped me launch one of the products that I was working on. Thanks <@U02VBQCQ7EG> for the reference :raised_hands::skin-tone-2:. <@U031P56UZGR> happy to help in anyway.

Yep <@U02V9QUDK1Q> is the boss on this one!

Thank you for sharing, Rapti.

Glad to see SEO is still top channel in marketing channel.

<@U04H00JJV9U> no wonder this company also happens to sell SEO services, i'm sure just a random detail :P

<@U030L29FSN4> pure junk. completely overlooks the impact a company's brand might have on the overall equation or the competitiveness in your industry or even what price point or current scale you might be selling at. SaaS is a delivery model, just like online food ordering. averaging all companies/restaurants through this single lens just kills any credibility of these numbers whatsoever.

Fair. Follow up question: Do you ever look at benchmarks? If you do, what kind of business benchmarks/reports do you personally like to look at for SAAS?

i used to only at the behest of my clients. and overtime i have realised every company, every case is unique. i ask a question, am i doing the best work possible? if yes, then screw benchmarks. if no, then focus on doing my personal best. just because a benchmark says 'oh, my ctr needs to be 10%'. i will not wake up and say, 'damn, i need to stop being lazy and pull those tricks to improve ctr that i have been hiding all this while'.

great processes lead to great outcomes. so focus on building the best process possible for any work you do. outcomes are an outcome of the process.

some of their source are their own blogs that are 2 years old. If you are looking at benchmarks - you should look for one which is based on data which is credible.

Which are those credible ones <@U030SDYNX7V> 

for e.g Instapage <https://instapage.com/blog/google-ads-industry-benchmarks> reporst are likely more credible as they have access to a large amount of data courtesy their customers

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He could help. His personal site is built on Framer as well
<https://www.atulkhola.com/>

Sending you both LinkedIn connect requests.

Created a WA group here for some other folks as well. Please join :)

 <https://chat.whatsapp.com/ClET7ObKvRzCQGsSI0IBv2|https://chat.whatsapp.com/ClET7ObKvRzCQGsSI0IBv2>

Do you mean for CMS web designs and pages? Good to check with any hubspt agency they do this and have their own freemium design templates across Hubspot Marketplace.

no, i meant in terms of making their product available on Hubspot marketplace

The Shape of Work Community.  <@U03RNRABMT3> <https://www.springworks.in/the-shape-of-work-podcast/community/#:~:text=The%20Shape%20of%20Work%20community,tools%20and%20accessing%20exclusive%20experiences>.

Thanks, Devashree. 

Hey Ankit, here's the direct joining link: <https://join.slack.com/t/theshapeofwork/shared_invite/zt-1nj0rkgzp-G7Om6vf4Qu97fEzbdVjc4w|https://join.slack.com/t/theshapeofwork/shared_invite/zt-1nj0rkgzp-G7Om6vf4Qu97fEzbdVjc4w>

Hey everyone!
I'm writing an article on Campus Hiring, strategies, and best practices, and I'm looking to speak with professionals who've been part of Campus hiring and would love to give insight on the above.

It'll be a 30-40 minute chat or maybe even less.
Please feel free to reach out or book a time slot here- <https://calendly.com/devashreeofficial/40-minute-meeting>

P.S.- Let me know if this doesn't belong here.

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notifications are a bane of every product team's existence. nobody likes building them. on top of it they're hard to get right. slack is one of the few who got it right. they make sure you dont get the same notification twice.

correct, isn’t that reasonable enough? workforce doesn’t like to be nagged about work? unlike a food delivery, cab aggregator, e-commerce app. I’m inclined to believe it’s more to do with the fundamental user psychology itself so it’s an obvious thing to do.

Faced the same issue while setting up a new domain. Had to shift from web flow to wix.

However, one suggestion we got from the developer was to use an old card (3-4-year-old card) for the payment. Not sure if this works, but it can be tried.

Thanks for letting me know. Will try this out.

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I got this error with 3 different international credit cards

I remember solving this issue last year by just going with the one year payment. Does that no longer work?

Yep, tried for one year &amp; one month, not working at all

Been using One card for payments, 9 out of 10 the payment goes through. 

But I was facing the problem for last month’s payment so I wrote to their customer care team on Friday, got a reply with one month’s credit on Tuesday. 


The team is super helpful at Webflow. 

Thanks for the info. So they replied after 5 days and they are helpful. :) wow for me the site is delayed due to their non responsiveness and launch put on hold due to this dependency.

For organizations with paid plans is there  a faster support

Nope, we are paid customer for a different domain (CMS Plan) &amp; yet are still awaiting reply. Not sure if they have good support for enterprise plan

Webflow is too much for majority use-cases. A good VPS + WordPress does the job and you won't miss any Webflow features most of the time.

I've worked on sites that were migrated from Squarespace, Wix, Webflow and Ghost -&gt; WordPress and it only changed one thing -- it made the marketing team's lives easier.

Is there any reason why you all use Webflow or is it just the norm for all startups now?

Jayant try Parallel assisted dialers-There you can good churn of conversation

Apollo for North America
If you have budget, ZoomInfo

If you need mobile numbers in India, EasyLeadz

I appreciate your reply <@U03GDAXTSUD>, but I am using apollo now and it hasn’t been proven that good for me. I need a tool for bulk prospecting and have tried Snov, hunter, rocketreach and seamless.
Do you know any other tool apart from these?

Hi <@U03UPVDPYGH> - trust you have covered all the tools. Salesintel , Lusha are the ones that you might want to try and see if they fit well

Oh, okay!
Thank you <@U04K5BPEY79>.
Appreciate your reply.

How is the data quality for Europe with all these tools and which one is better?

Not quite sure <@U02UPASEMU4>. That is a great question though. I believe one has to test the data out and see. Every tool has a 10% error rate. You can claim back the credits if the email bounces etc.

<@U03RNRABMT3> I can help. :slightly_smiling_face: Not an expert, but have been doing SEO full time for a while. So can help.

I'd suggest to think from the user's/member's perspective to:

• list down the value they would get from such a community
• what is the frequency of this value delivery? If it is not too frequent then you may have people join up but become inactive - think college alum whatsapp group after 5+ years of graduation.
• why would they join the community? are there other communities that they use? If yes, why do they signup with them? so on and so forth.
You can get to the right answer thinking on these lines. Hope this helps.

Thanks for the great insights <@U02PDC6B0HH>

A few reasons that I can think of

1. Have you heard the phrase “Nobody ever gets fired for buying IBM” ?

It means that, rather than buy a more suitable or competitively priced product from a less well-known technology company and take the chance you’ll be in the firing line if something goes wrong, IBM was the tech industry’s safest bet. They had such a strong reputation that, if a problem with their product did occur, IBM would inevitably sort it out, and the purchaser would be shielded from any repercussions.

If you chose IBM and it didn't work out, well, it was a reasonable decision and people would just blame IBM. But if you deviated from the norm and chose something else that didn't work out, people would blame you for it.

Now replace IBM with Salesforce - same applies.

2. Once you get past a certain point - the business reaches a certain size/level of complexity - purchasing decisions are less about "what is the best solution?" and more about "what will look the best to the various stakeholders within the org?"

This is the same reason you have these big consultancy firms coming in and charging five or six figure sums when smaller/cheaper ones will do the same job.

Hence why the expensive, massively over-spec'd solution sometimes winds up getting preferred over the substantially cheaper - but perfectly adequate - solution.

3. The SF sales rep isn't afraid to play dirty and take your CTO &amp; CIO out for 18 rounds at a country club, then go out for a $1k-per-head dinner at a restaurant, then follow up with hospitality/VIP room tickets to whatever sports team is biggest in your area. They'll happily spend tens of thousands of dollars on entertainment to snag a multi-million dollar sale.
#GandaHaiParDhandaHai

`"…..purchasing decisions are less about "what is the best solution?" and more about "what will look the best to the various stakeholders within the org?"` 

<@U032MN1BESJ> Thank You so much this detail reply. Make so much sense now!
And thanks for IBM phrase:100:

Also the level of customization you do is unmatched and out of the box which in otherwise would need lot of heavy lifting

Another big reason is a lot of sales hires/employeea would likely have worked in Salesforce in their previous jobs so training is comparatively easier.

<https://www.linkedin.com/posts/maxlmaeder_dont-buy-salesforce-if-you-arent-prepared-activity-7028767924509110273-ul_8?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=member_android|https://www.linkedin.com/posts/maxlmaeder_dont-buy-salesforce-if-you-arent-prepared-activity-7028767924509110273-ul_8?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=member_android>

Anuj is spot on! In the startup world after series B (sometimes A too), startups don't want to do any major experiment and that too with rev ops as now they are neck deep in the game of funding.

The set of questions revenue leaders and CEOs get from the investors make them think if they have the proper tech stack and data architecture for revenue. And the next suggestion from investors is obvious - get Salesforce. They even suggest consultancies that can help setup Salesforce properly.

Also, scalability seems a bit easier with the level of customization, integrations and vast Salesforce consultancies network. Not sure but sometimes I think this partnership strategy with consultancies is one big lever for Salesforce

<@U030SDYNX7V> How/What do you define customisation here? Customisation is terms of query to fetch any particular data or something else?

custom sales flows - lead assignment etc - custom logic for lead assignment - deal flows - they have in house programmatic access - provision to create custom data structure within CRM

Understood. Make sense :white_check_mark:

these are the under the hood reasons but in reality i think primary drivers are the ones mentioned by Anuj

Yes. Especially the point `what will look the best to the various stakeholders within the org?`

“Nobody ever gets fired for buying Salesforce”

and sales team will have 1 less reason to blame - agar salesforce hota toh macha dete

*Is anyone looking out to build a SaaS product here...? I can help you out.* 

I am solo entrepreneur and technology expert. I am having 10+ years of experience in SaaS product development. I run a micro SaaS company called HikeOrders. Currently I am looking out to take up a project.

More work for SEOs :smiling_face_with_tear:

Actually <@U02VA7QD8UB> I was worried if there would be any work left :joy: Informational queries won't be needing optimization any more imo. Plus I'm still confused how Google ads will be used here

Why do you like to be a part of SaaS slack communities ?

<https://quorablog.quora.com/Poe-1>

One more AI in the news!

Hello Folks,

Doing user research on Retnsion on Food ordering platforms Swiggy and Zomato  and would love to know your insights on it this would really help me, It would only take 2-5 mins to answer (No personal Information taken, your response is anonymous)

<https://forms.gle/8WEYzonNGzXxHn6S7> ( Please fill the survey this would really help me )

Please dont' spam in this community. i see same posts in multiple channels

Sure. Going forward I will post relevant post in right channel

How often do you feel a need of custom back office application in your organisation ?

What did you do about it last time ?

On technology side of things you should first decide on what features you need out of e-commerce solution.

If you could tell me that, I can help you further.

I am a software developer and have worked in B2B e-commerce space for long time.

Can connect you with a friend whose company manages a few of such live performance I think

Please do! DMing Rishabh and Kattu :) appreciate it!

A good friend from undergrad is big in Goa’s jazz and bossanova scene. Can connect, if you still need to.

<@U02UJ3N39PF> possible to please forward these contacts to me too?

Yes, I do actually. 
If you can share context, I can make an intro. 
This is a former leader in Creative Advertising, Sports, and Brand Creation/Licensing. He's also a writer and filmmaker.