Remote teams can be a nightmare to manage.
The distance (and potential time zones) between each team member mean that everyone has to be trusted to work on their own without constant supervision. To successfully do that, they need to have as few roadblocks as possible.
The way customers see it, your software release cycle looks like this: take ages developing the software, beta test it, add a few features, fix a few bugs, and ship. That is not real life. Beta testing is only one type of software testing your product needs before customers trust it.
Software testing works best as a layered system. Unit tests catch flaws inside small pieces of code. Integration tests catch broken handoffs. System tests check the whole product. User acceptance testing confirms real users can do the job the software was built for.
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Guest post by Nathan Sykes. Nathan is the founder of Finding an Outlet, a site dedicated to B2B IT news and trends.
SaaS companies live in a regulated market even when they do not think of themselves as regulated companies. A subscription product can create tax obligations in dozens of jurisdictions, carry customer data across borders, trigger customer audit requirements, and expose the provider to privacy, security, accessibility, and sector-specific rules.
The following is a guest post from Etee Dubey, a full-time content marketer at Outgrow and part-time dreamer. In her free time, she catches up with her reading and often finds herself explaining the meaning of her eccentric name to people around her.
Every interactive marketing trends list has one thing in common: the dilemma of choice for marketers. And frankly, we understand if you get a bit confused with so many options flying around. Which content marketing trend will give you the best ROI? Which one suits your company the best? What is a trend, anyway?
This article was originally contributed by Shayla Price.
SaaS customer experience is the full path a customer takes from the first promise to the renewal decision. It includes the content they read, the support they receive, the community they trust, and the operational follow through that proves your product is worth keeping.
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Every entrepreneur has a mistake that changed how they build. Some waited too long to systematize the business. Some underinvested in marketing. Some spent money in the wrong place, trusted the wrong shortcut, kept the wrong person, or launched before the revenue model was real.
When entrepreneurs tell the truth about what went wrong, the lessons tend to stick. These six entrepreneurs shared the biggest mistakes they made and the lessons that followed. The details are different, but the pattern is clear: common mistakes entrepreneurs make are rarely abstract. They show up in hiring, systems, marketing, search, budgets, and the way a startup turns attention into revenue.
Teams are like families.
No, not in the cheesy “we are family” way that makes everyone roll their eyes. I mean it in the practical sense: people are thrown together with different backgrounds, work habits, communication styles, and levels of confidence, then expected to make decisions together every day.
One big thing startups do differently from big companies is experimentation. Startups are less like finely tuned money machines and more like laboratories. They have less to lose from a wrong test and everything to gain from one that works.
At Process Street, we have had our share of surprisingly strong marketing experiments, plus a few that went nowhere. The useful part is not copying the exact winner. It is seeing how the test was framed, what changed, and how the result was tracked.
Automation is on everyone’s lips right now, and for good reason.
Deciding to automate tasks in your workflow can free you to focus on the things you want to be doing: the things which really create value for your business.
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Process Street and Buildium work well together because they solve different parts of the same property management problem. Buildium keeps property, resident, owner, accounting, leasing, and maintenance data organized. Process Street turns the recurring work around that data into auditable workflow runs your team can follow every time.
These 5 Buildium checklists help property managers run core rental processes with less guesswork: late rent, lease renewal, tenant move-in, tenant move-out, and upcoming lease expiration. For superior management of core rental processes, the useful pattern is simple: keep Buildium as the property management system of record, then run each repeatable action in a workflow your team can see and trust.
