FastSpring

MARCH 15, 2024

Todd recommends that game devs consider those larger platforms as part of a video game marketing strategy that includes multiple channels for selling games , but that they not rely solely on them. “The The first phase is focusing on your own community,” Todd explains, citing Discord as a great platform on which to do so.

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Chart Mogul

MARCH 30, 2020

How do you manage the process of accepting money from your customers? Building your own billing system can be a world of pain, risk and complexity, so what options are out there for integrating a third party product? This guide serves as a comprehensive overview of the options available for SaaS businesses.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

And they are both incredibly impressive — 118% growth at $3B run-rate and $500m in ARR in software alone may be an all-time record — but also, perhaps not SaaS? #1. With gross margins of only 21%, is Toast really a software company? Wix just has more software revenue to blend the total margins higher.

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wepay

AUGUST 5, 2020

Vagaro providing resources to reopening, physical changes, and safety measures to its customers for contactless payments, virtual check-in capabilities, revamped floor plans, and other necessary business changes. We also discussed the findings from our State of Small Business Payments 2020 survey.

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SaaStr

MARCH 29, 2021

Salesforce’s biggest source of new revenue isn’t CRM or even support. It’s partners and platform. It took more than a decade after Salesforce was founded: Shopify’s partner ecosystem is also huge, comprising 20% of its revenue in 2020. And it has been since 2017 or so! But that took time.

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Stax

JANUARY 24, 2024

There’s been a lot of discussion in recent months about the apparent phase-out of QuickBooks Desktop software. Will I still be able to use my existing QuickBooks Desktop software? Do I need to transition to a new system altogether? QuickBooks Enterprise solutions for desktop will not be affected.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The goal was to build safe AGI — AGI being autonomous systems that can perform work as well or better than humans. In June 2020, they launched GPT3 — its first state-of-the-art large language model. After digging into the platform and appreciating its capabilities, she found OpenAI. From there, the pace picked up rapidly.

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How To Buy Saas

APRIL 3, 2024

In this blog, I will inform you about all the features and functions you get if you choose Wati, and also some alternatives that you can surely look into. Wati is a popular end-to-end WhatsApp API solution that helps businesses access WhatsApp API and boost their marketing and sales. Offers centralized CRM integrations.

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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. When you add in payments, i.e. merchant services, NRR for 2018+ is about 110%, based on the below new chart.

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Chart Mogul

MARCH 30, 2020

How do you manage the process of accepting money from your customers? Building your own billing system can be a world of pain, risk and complexity, so what options are out there for integrating a third party product? This guide serves as a comprehensive overview of the options available for SaaS businesses.

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 27, 2020

In that essay , we also talked about how a more common route for a SaaS business is to become a platform. Platforms can create an immense amount of long-term value for companies, or be a minor component of their product strategy to maintain product/market fit. The Types of Platforms. Integration Platforms.

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Buffer Resources

APRIL 10, 2024

Fast-forward a decade, and the landscape of creator monetization has changed completely.   Whether you have 3,000 or 300,000 followers, you can monetize your Instagram with the right strategy. And this might be where your next monetization idea comes from. Let’s get into it.

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How To Buy Saas

JANUARY 1, 2021

The new lifestyle that we experienced in 2020 has taught us a lot. Well, that’s enough to motivate yourself to start creating your first course using the best online course platforms. Why Choose an Online Course Platform? You can create your online course website or integrate your course website with these platforms.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

How can a simple offering be transformed into its own platform? Renaud Visage, Co-Founder of Eventbrite, and Romain Huet, Head of Developer Relations at Stripe, know what it takes to effectively evolve your offering into a platform without losing what made offering appealing in the first place. Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020.

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yoursales

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Sales Stack 2020. SALES STACK 2020: THE TOOLS SALES STACK 2020: THE TOOLS. W elcome to "Sales Stack 2020 - Sales Tools for Professional Sales". Enabling the right customer journey with sales tools that power your sales process has been high on our agenda for years. Sales Tools for Professional Sales.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 22, 2021

It was just amazing that when iPhone launched, you could now take a picture of receipts and have them somewhat automatically “expensed” A jaw dropping, amazing use of the first generation on mobile apps. Growth of only 10% in 2019 to 2020 — but then exploded! based revenue. We can’t all do this.

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SaaStr

MARCH 19, 2019

Niall Wall, Box SVP of Business and Corporate Development alongside Vicki Lin, Stripe’s Head of Ecosystem and Cecilia Stallsmith, Slack’s Director of Platform Marketing discuss scaling your revenue via indirect channels and platform ecosystems. Join us for SaaStr Annual 2020. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

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yoursales

DECEMBER 23, 2019

SALES STACK 2020. W elcome to "Sales Stack 2020 - Sales Tools for Professional Sales". Enabling the right customer journey with sales tools that power your sales process has been high on our agenda for years. Now, in 2020, there really aren't any reasons to believe that will change. Sales Tools for Professional Sales.

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Buffer Resources

AUGUST 16, 2023

This means our software is hosted on the cloud and used over an internet connection via a web browser or mobile app. Merchant Fees At Buffer, we rely on Stripe, Google, and Apple for our payment processing needs. Stripe payments make up 98.5 percent of our total revenue and 83 percent of our fees.

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Baremetrics

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Solution: They signed up for Baremetrics. Right away, its toolkit replaced their in-house solution and made it easy to track metrics and segment customers. UXPin is a code-based design tool that simplifies and unifies product development process by bringing code components to the design stage.

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Baremetrics

APRIL 25, 2021

SOLUTION They signed up for a free trial of Baremetrics. RESULTS Within just one month of using Baremetrics, Cancel Timeshare has saved hours of manual entry, recovered over $680 in failed payments, and supported their customer service goals. million American households owned at least one timeshare in 2020. Table of Contents.

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yoursales

JANUARY 28, 2022

Connect with Jakob on LinkedIn to stay updated on all things sales and let's dive into looking at the sales tools, which will power your sales process and take you to your next level of growth. Do you know of software, which belongs on this list? Drive Revenue. Terminus - Account-Based Marketing Platform for Quality Growth.

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OPEXEngine

APRIL 16, 2020

OPEXEngine fielded a second quick poll to the SaaS Finance community between April 2-April 14, 2020 – over 60 individual companies participated, ranging from companies with under 100 employees to companies with more than 5000 employees. For all other size ranges, 30 – 35% of companies are planning to change FY 2020 Sales Quotas.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

With that being said, if you have the world’s best payroll app, you can absolutely still talk to Craft. Sacks suggests thinking of every major platform shift as a pond. Pre-AI SaaS — Pre-AI SaaS apps get turbo-charged in value by adding AI functionality. Sacks calls it a software recession. Software isn’t going away.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

We can’t believe it’s already November and there are only four months until SaaStr Annual 2020 , we’re already looking at an awesome speaker line-up this year. We’ll be back at the San Jose Convention Center, March 10-12th, 2020. At the time the duo had founded Pagar.me, a payment processor.

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SaaSOptics

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Get to Know the 5 Steps of Revenue Recognition. Revenue recognition, affectionately referred to as “rev rec,” is a process that outlines when and how revenue should be recognized within a company’s accounting cycle. Why Does Revenue Recognition Matter? What Are the Five Steps of the Revenue Recognition Process?

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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. ” But it’s also a reminder how hard it is to combine services, hardware and software and make money from SMBs. #3. 907 employees at IPO, so about $150,000 revenue per employee. Series C ($5.35

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 29, 2019

SaaS is about creating long-term value for your customer, and being compensated appropriately for that value as a business. Learn actionable monetization tips from a Product/Growth operator turned VC. Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020. This is a mobile solution for SMB’s to send an invoice and get paid. Hi, everybody.

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Incredo

DECEMBER 3, 2019

And you look for ideas on how to promote your software for these holidays. And here are the best answers we have received. #1 Denis Lunev Founder at DepositFix , Payment Integration for HubSpot “ The most expensive time of year to advertise on Google and Facebook is Black Friday and Christmas.

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yoursales

JANUARY 29, 2021

SALES STACK 2020: THE TOOLS SALES STACK 2020: THE TOOLS. Even more important than it clearly was in 2020. In 2020 almost every single Sales Professional was forced inside. As in 2020 the focus for 2021 is going to follow this prioritized order: Which customer journey experience are you creating? Sales Stack 2021.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 18, 2019

To recap a fantastic year at FastSpring, we want to take a look back at our top 10 blog posts from 2019. As a partner in growth for thousands of software companies around the world, one of our goals is to provide blog content that is helpful, interesting, and informative. How Localization for SaaS Pricing Can Boost Your Revenue.

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Incredo

DECEMBER 3, 2019

And you look for ideas on how to promote your software for these holidays. And here are the best answers we have received. #1 Denis Lunev Founder at DepositFix , Payment Integration for HubSpot “ The most expensive time of year to advertise on Google and Facebook is Black Friday and Christmas.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

360: Digital transformation marks a radical rethinking of how companies use tech, people, and operations to fundamentally change their business performance. Coupa CEO, Rob Bernshteyn, and SaaStr CEO, Jason Lemkin, will discuss how the Cloud has changed in 2020. Matt Garratt: If you just look at Vlocity and nCino, amazing businesses.

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Buffer Resources

JUNE 22, 2023

Jahleane Dolne started creating content a year after college graduation in 2020, but it was the $20 she spent on a LinkedIn optimization course that really changed her life. Diversify your platforms in anticipation of change The Internet is always changing, and staying ahead of the curve is a must for any creator.

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Point Nine Land

JUNE 18, 2023

Everything you always wanted to know about cohort analysis (but were afraid to ask) Back in 2012, I wrote a blog post titled “Know your user cohorts” , which began like this: “One of the most important tools to better understand the usage of a web application — or a service, a game or a mobile app, it doesn’t matter — is a cohort analysis.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Enter the platform company. Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020. Or if you’ve ever gotten a 2 cent and a 4 cent deposit into your account as you’re trying to set up direct deposit or payments transfers, that’s a pre-Plaid world. So, 90 new people coming on and figuring out how to do that integration.

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Baremetrics

MARCH 16, 2021

This allows anyone building an app that applies blockchain technology to do so by building directly on top of QuikNode’s globally distributed Web3 infrastructure. This unbalanced cycle of blockchain app developers not having the infrastructure they need is happening again today. Table of Contents.

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