FastSpring

APRIL 4, 2024

As an experienced sales and GTM leader, John Eitel has more than witnessed how product-led growth (PLG) has affected the tech and SaaS space in the last few years — he and his teams have been up close and personal with how PLG increased in popularity as a sales strategy. “I Set up a demo or try it out for yourself. Jump to video.

Scale 150

Scale Sales Payment Methods Merchant Services 150

Baremetrics

JANUARY 24, 2021

Our smallest self-serve plan was basically a revolving door, and users couldn’t upgrade or downgrade their plan without calling a sales person. Site traffic became leads, we nurtured leads to the point of booking calls with our sales team, and then we let the sales team take prospects through the point of conversion.

Churn 71

Churn SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payment Solutions 71

User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

The different roles in SaaS companies: Chief Executive Officer : As the highest-ranking executive, this person ensures the company runs smoothly and employees are happy and engaged. They also manage finances and supervise one or more engineering teams. Before hiring, assess your current needs and hire as your company grows.

Sales Hiring 97

Sales Hiring SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting CTO Hire 97

Baremetrics

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Your SaaS company likely uses a CRM and/or payment processing software, and the data required to compute these core metrics can be all over the place. Integrating innovative software that can cull MRR values from CRM and payment processing systems is a valuable shortcut. Thankfully, there is Baremetrics to do all of this for you.

Payments 98

Payments Payment Methods Payment Solutions Marketing 98

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 3, 2018

Here are five quick takeaways: Instead of relying on word of mouth to permeate the team, write things down. If Rohini’s team is making changes to the UI or the front end, they can test quickly and easily, but because their core product is payments-based, much more rigor is required compared to your typical software product.

Payment Methods 195

Payment Methods Merchant Services Scale Payment Features 195

FastSpring

DECEMBER 11, 2018

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). Understanding your customers’ motivations is key in developing content strategy, products and improving the customer journey. Improve the Customer Experience.

Payment Methods 62

Payment Methods Business Underperforming Technical Team Social Media 62

Buffer Resources

JANUARY 15, 2024

Inaccurate, packed with "filler," or completely AI-generated — bad B2B (business-to-business) content is easy to spot and even easier to find online. They actually produced an entire documentary called "We Sign Tomorrow," detailing their acquisition of ProfitWell. ."  Tough question.

B2B 57

B2B Technical Advisors SaaS Payments Underperforming Technical Team 57

CustomerSuccessBox

APRIL 7, 2022

Puneet Kataria shares his experience and observation on how customer success teams can be agile in the Customer Success Vodcast hosted by tl;dv! Every customer success team during the onboarding, buzz around the term “Early value”, the question is how does it all start and even delivered? You can listen to the full vodcast here.

Onboarding 52

Onboarding SaaS Payments Payment Methods Scale 52

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

One of the biggest decisions you can make when setting up your sales team is whether to focus primarily on inside or outside sales. They seem to be completely at odds, with one focused on clients with a high acquisition cost and high ACV (annual account value), the other focused on a high sales velocity. What is inside sales?

Sales Hiring 81

Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Payment Methods 81

Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Even if developers do come, and they happen to build integrations that help customers; if incentives aren’t aligned between the two companies, lasting investment will not happen, and the integrations will be poorly maintained. Incorrect incentives will lead to poor quality integrations. So, how do you create and manage the supply side?

Payments 56

Payments Business Model Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 56

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

As for Krish, under Krish’s leadership the team has grown to over 300 people and over 5,000 clients making it one of the next generation in truly global SaaS businesses started in India. * First, what is continuous customer development? Does it have to be in person? What is the process to do it efficiently?

Scale 126

Scale SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting Payment Services 126

Baremetrics

MAY 7, 2019

Choosing the right combination of funding for your business is just as fundamental as choosing the right co-founders (or not), the right market, the right product, and the right team. After seriously considering an acquisition offer, Wistia decided to take on $17.3M What do I need funding for? Buffer spent $3.3

Finance 111

Finance Startup SaaS Payments Payment Methods 111

User Pilot

JUNE 14, 2021

Acquisition stage automation examples: website chatbots, automated confirmation, and reminder emails. Referral stage automation examples: use NPS survey answers to personalize responses. You can’t give a $10/month client personalized live onboarding. Marketing automation strategy example for the acquisition stage.

SaaS Payments 52

SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Strategy Payment Methods 52

ProfitWell

MARCH 12, 2020

Payment processing. Almost half (49%) of American consumers switched companies in 2019 due to poor customer service. Up to 20%- 40% of churn is caused by failed payments , meaning customers who are trying to buy your products are being discouraged by technical problems and searching elsewhere. Customer support. Bookkeeping.

SaaS Payments 59

SaaS Payments Subscription Payment Features Payments 59

ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Building a strong pricing strategy starts with hiring a professional team to conduct a pricing audit. Conducting a pricing audit goes through five factors—acquisition, monetization, retention, pricing strategy, and discounts. Acquisition. Are your tiers set up for monetization or acquisition? What is a pricing audit?

Payments 45

Payments Pricing Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Payments 45

OPEXEngine

AUGUST 9, 2022

A Bain survey of sales operations executives, in partnership with Research Now SSI, found that only 43% of sales organizations develop plans for a recession well in advance of it. Yet too many sales teams use outdated practices in making account and territory assignments. Zero-base sales capacity. Know when to walk away.

Scale 59

Scale VP of Engineering Payment Services Underperforming Technical Team 59

FastSpring

APRIL 26, 2022

While it’s not a bad idea to be measuring both, your monthly churn rate should be much, much lower than your annual churn rate. When you’ve reached this point, you could continue losing customers with no new customer acquisition and still increase your revenue (at least for a while). What Is Negative Churn?

Benchmarks 141

Benchmarks Churn Payments SaaS Payments 141

ProfitWell

MARCH 2, 2020

When a customer encounters an issue with a product or service, they’ll reach out to a customer service/support team to resolve them. It relieves pressure on your acquisition team by optimizing the customer journey, builds retention efforts directly into the product, and makes it easy to showcase value at every touchpoint along the way.

Customer Success 72

Customer Success SaaS Payments Strategy Payment Services 72

User Pilot

MARCH 25, 2024

Because it improves your business’ profitability, understanding and reducing churn also gives you a better customer acquisition cost to customer lifetime value (CAC: CLV) ratio. Some effective strategies for reducing customer churn include: Personalize the onboarding for new customers to shorten the time to value.

Underperforming Technical Team 92

Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Methods 92

SmartKarrot

AUGUST 11, 2021

You need to put in countless hours of research and development, relentless marketing campaigns, and tireless sales effort to earn a paying customer. And nearly 60% switch companies based on poor customer service. It could affect your future customer acquisitions drastically. Payment Method may not work.

SaaS Payments 19

SaaS Payments Churn Underperforming Technical Team Payment Methods 19

OpenView Labs

JANUARY 29, 2020

Freemium Model for SaaS – The Good, The Bad, and The In-between. Freemium: It’s About Acquisition, Not Revenue. However, freemium is a really potent acquisition model. There are costs and benefits to the model — is the acquisition cost worthwhile for your company? Learn how to avoid catastrophe here.

Pricing 82

Pricing Payments SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 82

OpenView Labs

APRIL 11, 2019

My personal and professional backgrounds contributed to my tendency to see the world through many mental models. I was born in Bombay, but grew up in New Jersey and was acutely aware of the juxtaposition of those two places in terms of economic development, politics and culture. The Four Growth Levers – Foundational Building Blocks.

Strategy 64

Strategy Payment Solutions PayPal Underperforming Technical Team 64

SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC). & So growth of the kind of subscription, eCommerce industry has been over 100% year on year for the past five years, according to McKinsey. So growth of the kind of subscription, eCommerce industry has been over 100% year on year for the past five years, according to McKinsey. Transcript.

SaaS Payments 241

SaaS Payments Metrics Payment Methods Scale 241

User Pilot

APRIL 8, 2021

The “customers” part of this definition is important, since this is what differentiates customer analytics software from tools like Google Analytics, which look at data from website visitors as opposed to customers. Note: these methods are by no means mutually exclusive. Don’t be this person. Source: mywellnesshub.in.

Payment Solutions 52

Payment Solutions Software Review SaaS Payments Software 52

SaaStr

JUNE 14, 2019

In his most recent role, Dave was the CEO @ Host Analytics where he quintupled ARR, halved customer acquisition costs and increased net retention rates before selling the company to a private equity sponsor. Finally pre-Salesforce, Dave was CEO @ MarkLogic where he grew the team from 40 to 240 and revenues from $0 to an $80m revenue run rate.

Sales Hiring 139

Sales Hiring Payment Services SaaS Payments Underperforming Technical Team 139

ChurnZero

JANUARY 4, 2019

No matter how deeply you gaze into the crystal ball wondering what this new year has in store for you or your business, the only thing you’ll know for sure is that despite your careful planning, some things will change. But what if you could have a better idea of the changes 2019 has in store for Customer Success professionals?

Customer Success 73

Customer Success SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions 73

Point Nine Land

MARCH 7, 2019

Lemkin recently posted a tweetstorm about his observation that most startups are bad at finance. is but an experienced finance person can play a vital role in internationalisation as well. are usually also things such a person could take care of instead of the founders. Like, all of them.

Sales Hiring 72

Sales Hiring Outsourcing Services Payment Services Finance 72

User Pilot

APRIL 15, 2024

Generic support without any personalization. Steps to eliminate customer pain points: Offer personalization with omnichannel support. Based on this, you can optimize your support channels and resources to provide proactive and personalized customer support. Delayed replies to user queries. Users stuck in AI response loops.

Communication 102

Communication SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Methods 102

ChurnZero

JANUARY 4, 2019

No matter how deeply you gaze into the crystal ball wondering what this new year has in store for you or your business, the only thing you’ll know for sure is that despite your careful planning, some things will change. But what if you could have a better idea of the changes 2019 has in store for Customer Success professionals?

Customer Success 49

Customer Success SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions 49

Outseta

MARCH 18, 2019

Wes Bush is a SaaS marketer who has quickly developed a reputation as “the free trial vs. freemium guy.” I caught up with Wes to talk about his free trial vs. freemium framework, our own customer acquisition process, and the start-up scene in Waterloo, Canada. When does it make sense to ask for payment information upfront?

Payment Methods 40

Payment Methods SaaS Payments Payments Payment Solutions 40

How To Buy Saas

DECEMBER 1, 2020

With so many SAAS getting visibility in online marketplaces, we found that new saas businesses are struggling hard to make it to the right set of customers. In saas marketing, you generally use online marketing strategies to generate more leads and conversions in your saas business. Setup Pricing model and payment gateways.

Growth Hacking 105

Growth Hacking Payment Methods SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 105

SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2019

How does Vikas see the space play out in the coming years when it comes to acquisitions? Here’s what Eyal and Megan talk about: How to develop software faster. You’ve seen SalesForce with a number of significant acquisitions in the last 12 months, as an example. Does this not lead to a consolidatory environment?

SaaS Payments 130

SaaS Payments Cloud Technical Review Scale 130

Stax

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Some examples of niches targeted by vertical SaaS providers include healthcare, eCommerce, finance, and education. Where vertical SaaS targets specific industries with purpose-built tools, horizontal SaaS companies develop more generic solutions that are relevant to many different types of businesses. Consider the following.

SaaS Payments 88

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payments Payment Solutions 88

Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

Sales Development and Prospecting. The Sales Development Playbook. The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team. If you truly want to be a better leader, better salesperson , better speaker, better writer, or just a better person, you need to study the craft. Selling to Big Companies. The Pirate’s Guide to Sales. B2B Is Really P2P.

Scale 141

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Payment Methods 141

Outseta

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Before we get into the interview, a bit of background - I have hired Soren’s team at Working Planet multiple times. Soren Ryherd: We build profitable customer acquisition programs using paid digital advertising. Soren: This was 2003, and I was working as Head of Business Development for a web engineering company in Boston.

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Interviewing SaaS Payments Payments Technical Advisors 40

Point Nine Land

JUNE 18, 2023

Cohort analysis is a powerful method used to analyze groups of customers and their behavior over time. If you’re acquiring a lot of new customers quickly, metrics like “usage from repeat users” or “payments from repeat customers” may go up nicely, even if your retention rate sucks. of the guide. Basics What is a cohort analysis?

SaaS Payments 128

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payments SaaS 128

Incredo

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Do you want to grow your SaaS sales team and improve your processes? maintain healthy atmosphere in your Smarketing team, make smart choices regarding your SaaS sales model, strategy, pricing, . Skills for SaaS Sales Team. 6 Essential skills for SaaS inside sales team to boost product’s sales. 3 examples for you).

SaaS Payments 157

SaaS Payments Payment Methods Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring 157