Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

These acquisitions, which focus more on scope than scale, accounted for 90% of tech deals in 2019 , which is a 40% increase from 2015. For example, when Instagram bought Luma (its first acquisition), the tiny three-person team was part of the deal. It’s a clear indicator that businesses want to expand their offerings and capabilities.

Technical Review 144

Technical Review Payment Methods Acquisition Development Team Review 144

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

I used to have cuter blog titles. So hire that person as early as you can find her or him. Audience Member 2: You recently wrote an article that said when the phone rings, pick it up. I invested in Talkdesk, which is worth 10 billion now, to do phone contact center. It Wasn’t a Week Too Early. But I hired at 20K MRR.

Sales Hiring 228

Sales Hiring VP of Engineering Payment Methods Scale 228

SaaStock

JANUARY 25, 2019

The main target customers of Olist include online shops, retailers seeking better placement, importers and distributors, but the platform is also useful for end customers. Listing your online business on Olist is compared to having your shop in the largest department store in the region. CEO : Tiago Dalvi. Founded : 2015.

SaaS Payments 257

SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Methods Payments 257

SaaStr

JULY 20, 2022

Weave started off as a dental ERP and comms platform (including VoIP / phone), and then expanded beyond that as it scaled. Weave has a base to build on, and has done a good job steadily increasing NRR, up from 97% in 2019. #2. Historically, Weave gave away several “free” phones with each new account.

SaaS Payments 247

SaaS Payments Scale Payment Methods Payments 247

Unbounce

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

PPC is a method of digital advertising in which you aim to get your ads to rank as the highest result displayed for user searches, and you, as the advertiser, pay a fee each time it’s clicked. In 2019, small businesses spent between $9,000 and $10,000 per month on PPC , with Google making an average of $116.5

Payment Methods 145

Payment Methods Payment Solutions Payments AI Search 145

SaaStr

JANUARY 30, 2023

They focused on building a payment platform that empowers international talent and independent contractors to get paid on time in a compliant way while also ensuring that companies can hire international talent and make payments efficiently. This insight led Deel to focus on solving payments and compliance. Listen to your team.

Sales Hiring 235

Sales Hiring Payment Services SaaS Payments Scale 235

Stax

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Accepting payments is the most important functionality that a business needs to start selling. But to accept payments seamlessly and securely, you need a merchant account. A merchant account refers to a business bank account that allows businesses to accept electronic payments for goods and services.

Merchant Services 88

Merchant Services Payment Methods Payment Services Payment Solutions 88

Baremetrics

OCTOBER 12, 2021

According to the 2019 CSO Insights by the Miller Heiman Group, 37.8% It could be a piece of educational content on your website, social media posts, or even a direct referral from your existing customers. job title, the lead magnet that attracted them, all the pages they visited, and where they existed on your website).

Payment Methods 98

Payment Methods SaaS Payments Payment Services Sales Hiring 98

Neil Patel

APRIL 14, 2021

Work on this initiative allegedly began in October of 2019, with a tentative launch date of September 2021. With the looming advent of LinkedIn Marketplace, LinkedIn is now in direct competition with both Upwork and Fiverr, publicly-traded online freelance job boards. It will support payment via a digital wallet offered by Microsoft.

Marketplace as a Service 144

Marketplace as a Service Payment Methods Payments Social Media 144

Neil Patel

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Are you looking to monetize your blog or earn a passive income? An affiliate network connects publishers, like blog owners or influencers, with companies looking to promote their products or services. This makes them one of the most straightforward ways to monetize a blog or earn passive income. What is an Affiliate Network?

Merchant Services 140

Merchant Services Payments Payment Methods Marketing 140

Buffer Resources

AUGUST 16, 2023

Merchant Fees At Buffer, we rely on Stripe, Google, and Apple for our payment processing needs. Stripe payments make up 98.5 Google and Apple payments make up 2.5% We are also working with several outside marketing consultants to help with content for our blog and Search Engine Optimization (SEO) work.

Merchant Services 78

Merchant Services Payment Services Payment Features Payments 78

SaaStr

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Bill.com is a bit — OK, maybe a lot — more lower profile than many of the SaaS Unicorns to IPO lately, but it’s one of my personal favorites. It is also increasing Net Revenue Retention, from 106% in 2018 to 110% in 2019. Bill.com only grew its customer count 21% in 2019, but grew its revenue 56%.

Payment Services 220

Payment Services Payments Payment Methods SMB 220

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

The first thing SMBs did was look at their credit card payments and cancel everything they could. Even in the darkest days of 2019, enterprises still. They still needed to process payments, track orders, ship orders, run financials, sign contracts, store data, etc. Almost irrationally. Almost all of them. functioned.

SaaS Payments 276

SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Scale SMB 276

FastSpring

DECEMBER 11, 2018

That means looking at past failures and victories to create a better marketing strategy for 2019. For those of you who need some new ideas to boost sales, we just posted some fool-proof tactics to boost online sales here (link to the New Year Deal post). Guest blogging is also a great way to get inbound links and traffic.

Payment Methods 62

Payment Methods Business Underperforming Technical Team Social Media 62

Casey Accidental

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

I never posted my talk from last year, so I’m adapting it into a blog post here, and will do the same for this year’s talk in the following weeks and as well as some follow up questions from the Summit I’ve had a chance to ruminate on. Also, I publish on Substack now! We think of this as sequencing different S-curves of growth.

Payments 63

Payments Scale Payment Methods Underperforming Technical Team 63

SaaStr

MARCH 19, 2021

Shopify, since last year, has nearly tripled in market cap driven by the rise of e-commerce, but also the digital payments and the QR code system they provide for contactless payments. Then if we look at the top five public cloud companies. Then if we look at the top five public cloud companies.

Cloud 204

Cloud Scale Payment Methods Payment Solutions 204

Subscription Flow

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

In this blog, keeping this context in mind, we will first go over what exactly entails effective subscription revenue management, before going over a list of best subscription revenue management software to help you decide which you should then opt for. Stripe: Billing clients quickly and easily is possible with Stripe Billing.

Payments 59

Payments Payment Features Payment Services Subscription 59

ProfitWell

MARCH 9, 2020

The subscription-based economy grew 350% between 2012 and 2019, and subscription businesses grew revenues about five times faster than S&P 500 company revenues during that time. Businesses will often sell subscriptions at a discounted price, making it cheaper to buy products via subscription than buying in the store. Replenishment.

Subscription 64

Subscription Payment Features Payment Methods Marketing 64

Unbounce

MAY 27, 2021

Artists upload their music, send all the metadata required for proper tracking and payment, and the rest happens on the CD Baby portal. In 2019, CD Baby was home to more than 650,000 artists and made nine million tracks available to over 100 digital services and platforms worldwide. That’s our “why.”

Artificial Intelligence 139

Artificial Intelligence Scale SaaS Payments Payment Methods 139

OPEXEngine

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The most common strategies are Direct Sales, Inside Sales, eCommerce Marketplaces, and Partnerships. eCommerce Marketplaces. An eCommerce Marketplace refers to an automated, self-provisioning ordering process for low ACV customers. Some SMM companies may use all four depending upon the business model. Direct Sales.

SaaS Payments 52

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Methods Marketplace as a Service 52

Baremetrics

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Evaluate your new plan Expense breakdown Comparison to 2019 Comparison to 2020 Target Quarterly view % of Revenue 6. Other things to consider Loans Payment terms Annual plans 7. You can see that Algolia was paid $125,000 in April 2019, which means the renewal is likely hit soon. Delaying raises has been commonplace.

SaaS Payments 52

SaaS Payments Payment Services Sales Hiring Payments 52

SaaStr

DECEMBER 26, 2019

So if we can pop up the Slido slide and I want to invite you all to take your phone and go on slido.com for this session so that you can start asking the panel questions. Pauline : Yeah, so I work at OpenClassrooms, which is a European leader in online education. I want to invite you all to go on Slido. Pauline : Oh yeah.

Sales Hiring 156

Sales Hiring Payment Methods Payment Solutions Marketing 156

ProfitWell

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Stripe, the online payment processing system for internet businesses, is expanding across Europe. Stripe wrote in a blog post , "Since Stripe launched in 2011, tens of thousands of businesses across Europe have asked us to expand Stripe to their countries. Today's Top Subscription News. Stripe Expands Across the Pond.

Payment Solutions 40

Payment Solutions Payment Methods Payments Entertainment 40

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 4, 2023

I was the eighth hire and the first person focused exclusively on scaling the sales side of the business. I started writing about my sales hacks on my first blog, maxtalkshacks.com. And we had our conference in eight months, also with nothing planned yet other than the down payment. Unleash 2019 was a whole new event.

Scale 62

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Payments 62

Outseta

JANUARY 9, 2019

Forte fees represent payment processing costs associated with one of the payment gateways we support, Forte Payment systems. Dave, Dimitris, and myself will begin paying ourselves a nominal salary in 2019 - more on that in our next company update. 2017 was spent entirely focused on delivering our MVP.

Content Marketing 40

Content Marketing SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payment Services 40

yoursales

DECEMBER 12, 2018

SALES STACK 2019 SALES TOOLS FOR. PROFESSIONAL SALES SALES STACK 2019: THE TOOLS SALES STACK 2019: THE TOOLS I t’s 2019 and we’re back at the sales tools workshop, working out the best sales tools for your sales process. The 2019 Sales Stack Tools List CRM CRMs We Use. Sales Stack Graveyard.

Scale 99

Scale Payment Methods Payment Solutions Outsourcing Services 99

ProfitWell

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Focus State by LogRocket Making your website accessible to everyone seems like a no-brainer, but when your business is in all-hands mode (we know it well), something like adding in a focus state slips through the cracks. I’m a firm believer that learning about accessibility has to be rooted in empathy for the people using your websites.

Payment Methods 45

Payment Methods SaaS Payments Payments Subscription 45

yoursales

JANUARY 28, 2022

It'll track any Google-based Sales Professional's efforts across email, calendar, and phone, and share interaction clients have had with emails, websites, or when they've called back. hyperise - Hyper Personalize your sales funnel and grow your sales conversions. vidREACH.io - Personal, Video-powered Email Outreach.

Scale 111

Scale Payment Methods Payment Solutions Sales Recruiting 111

yoursales

DECEMBER 12, 2018

SALES STACK 2019 SALES TOOLS FOR. PROFESSIONAL SALES SALES STACK 2019: THE TOOLS SALES STACK 2019: THE TOOLS I t’s 2019 and we’re back at the sales tools workshop, working out the best sales tools for your sales process. The 2019 Sales Stack Tools List CRM CRMs We Use. Let’s not wait any further.

Scale 99

Scale Payment Methods Payment Solutions Sales Recruiting 99

OPEXEngine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

It was one instance in which the company adjusted EBITDA to meet its short-term needs while masking a longer-term leverage problem that came to a head in 2019 when it had to pull its IPO because of valuation concerns. “People didn’t believe in community-adjusted EBITDA,” he said, but that didn’t stop them from investing in the company.

Payment Methods 52

Payment Methods SaaS Payments Payments Payment Services 52

FastSpring

OCTOBER 13, 2022

For example, hobby, toy, and game stores earn 35% of their total annual revenue around the holidays. We then looked at their revenue from 2019, 2020, and 2021 to identify trends. Use the holidays to show appreciation to your existing or VIP customers through extra generous promotions, gifts, giveaways, or personalized offers.

Payment Methods 146

Payment Methods Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Software Review 146

SaaStr

APRIL 29, 2021

Shopify’s first quarter revenue: Q1 2021: $989 million Q1 2020: $470 million Q1 2019: $321 million Q1 2018: $214 million Q1 2017: $127 million Q1 2016: $73 million Q1 2015: $37 million Q1 2014: $19 million Q1 2013: $9 million. Cloud and ecommerce may end soon, but it hasn’t ended yet. NRR of 110%+ since 2018 — sort of.

Merchant Services 246

Merchant Services Payment Methods SaaS Payments Payments 246

OPEXEngine

JULY 28, 2020

That has helped insurgents like Zalando, the European e-commerce platform based in Berlin, and Paytm, the Indian e-commerce payment system, scale an innovative idea rapidly, allowing them to challenge incumbents and disrupt entire industries. That has turned into a big win for Google.

Payment Solutions 52

Payment Solutions Strategy Payment Services Scale 52

SaaStr

APRIL 17, 2021

Perhaps the most interesting thing is just how similar both these website-builder-plus-ecommerce companies are. It’s growing at the same rate (~30%), booming from ecommerce (+78% for Squarespace, +60% for Wix). Monetizing ecommerce via subscriptions, but not payment processing. 85% NRR.

Payment Methods 336

Payment Methods Merchant Services Payments Payment Services 336

yoursales

DECEMBER 23, 2019

During 2019 many of the larger providers of sales solutions have spoken of a "rapid consolidation" happening in the sales tools space. Over the course of 2019 we saw the opposite happening: an ever-increasing flood of sales tools seem to hit the market and our own 2019-list grew significantly compared to the 2018-version.

Scale 102

Scale Payment Methods Payment Solutions Sales Recruiting 102

Buffer Resources

OCTOBER 2, 2023

While out in the fields, she started thinking about passive income, and it occurred to her that she could teach grant writing online. After learning about the true cost of being in business, my co-founder and I realized we needed to triple our prices and switch to a monthly payment plan option that provided monthly recurring revenue.

Payment Methods 114

Payment Methods Sales Hiring Payments Business 114

yoursales

JANUARY 29, 2021

It'll track any Google-based Sales Professional's efforts across email, calendar, and phone, and share interaction clients have had with emails, websites, or when they've called back. Capsule CRM - The smart simple online CRM. SugarCRM – CRM Software & Online Customer Relationship Management. Streak – CRM for Gmail.

Scale 104

Scale Payment Methods Payment Solutions Sales Recruiting 104