Baremetrics

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Before reading through yet another “Top-29 SaaS billing platforms” feature comparison post, decide how you want the billing tool to play with the rest of your operations stack. This post is part of an ongoing series for SaaS founders and CEOs on setting up their financial stack in a scalable manner.

Payment Solutions 52

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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. " Her favorite example of a B2B brand putting this mantra into practice is the payments infrastructure provider Paddle and their content marketing project Paddle Studios. 

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Baremetrics

JANUARY 24, 2021

Anyone managing a SaaS or subscription business is aware of customer churn. That means achieving any essence of “growth” requires replacing lost customers faster than the rate at which they churn. Managing churn is much like a constant game of plugging holes in a bucket so that you can eventually have a “rising tide” of water.

Churn 71

Churn SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payment Solutions 71

User Pilot

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Spot account expansion opportunities, and locate friction points to prevent churn. Product teams collect and measure such customers’ activities to understand and act on customers’ behavior patterns. Poor customer service — leads to negative word-of-mouth, dissatisfaction, and churn. That’s it.

Payment Solutions 98

Payment Solutions Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Payments Customer Lifetime Value 98

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. " Her favorite example of a B2B brand putting this mantra into practice is the payments infrastructure provider Paddle and their content marketing project Paddle Studios. 

B2B 58

B2B Technical Advisors SaaS Payments Underperforming Technical Team 58

Baremetrics

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Inbound marketing is the process of getting potential clients to find your company. Both of these tasks can rely on content marketing , for example events, podcasts, blogs, and social media posts. Integrating innovative software that can cull MRR values from CRM and payment processing systems is a valuable shortcut.

Payments 98

Payments Payment Methods Payment Solutions Marketing 98

User Pilot

AUGUST 14, 2023

For most SaaS businesses, a product satisfaction survey can be the heart of a user research process. TL;DR A product satisfaction survey is a type of survey that measures your customer’s overall satisfaction with a product or service. Which measures the customer’s experience with a specific product, feature, or team interaction.

Scale 97

Scale SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services 97

Chargify

APRIL 23, 2019

There are specific stages a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company moves through during its life cycle. Understanding which stage your SaaS business is in can help determine the appropriate time to scale to the next phase—and do so successfully. The four major SaaS life cycle stages we’ll cover: Pre-startup. Pre-Startup.

Scale 74

Scale SaaS Payments Scaling Payment Services 74

User Pilot

MAY 14, 2021

Growing numbers of SaaS companies are adding an onboarding survey to their customer sign-up flows. What types of questions should SaaS include, and why? They make a good impression on your customer, and the insights gathered, if filed correctly, can be useful for your product and marketing teams. What is an onboarding survey?

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Onboarding SaaS Payments SaaS Underperforming Technical Team 52

ChurnZero

APRIL 15, 2022

Bad timing sticks out a mile.”. If your Customer Success (CS) teams doesn’t possess ESP, you need tools to identify a customer’s buying signals, usage behavior, and ROI to break the endless cycle of trial and error with your expansion outreach. As the team expanded, so too did the need for automated, scalable processes and engagements.

Payments 98

Payments SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payment Services 98

User Pilot

JUNE 14, 2021

Retention stage automation examples: use in-app micro-surveys to improve user retention and reduce churn. Why is having a marketing automation strategy important for SaaS? SaaS users prefer to get answers fast and to figure things out on their own. What is marketing automation? Self-serve is now more essential than ever.

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SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Strategy Payment Methods 52

User Pilot

APRIL 8, 2021

Here’s a sobering truth: if you run a SaaS company and don’t use customer analytics software , you probably won’t be in business very long. Customer Analytics Software is designed to facilitate the collection, sorting and analysis of data from customers. We live in an era of big data. Well, if so, you’re certainly in a minority!

Payment Solutions 52

Payment Solutions Software Review SaaS Payments Software 52

Chargify

OCTOBER 4, 2017

There’s a self-service page, which allows clients to update information on their own. Time is money (especially in the SaaS world), and whether you’re an early stage startup or an established business, development resources are almost always at a premium. costs money and 2. costs money and 2.

Merchant Services 51

Merchant Services Subscription Payment Features SaaS Payments 51

Stax

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Software as a Service (SaaS) has made business software more accessible by offering cloud-based, on-demand access to a range of solutions, from project management and collaboration to sales and marketing. But not all SaaS products are alike. Other types of SaaS are relevant only to companies in specific industries.

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SaaS Payments Payment Services Payments Payment Solutions 88

SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

So the first question is what made SaaS so successful. If you kind of that question, thinking about the stakeholders and the decisions and companies of using SaaS products, there’s kind of three types. Customers love SaaS products and tools because it simply works. The second constituent there is the developer.

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SaaS Payments Metrics Payment Methods Scale 233

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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SaaS Payments Payment Services Payments SaaS 128

Baremetrics

MARCH 23, 2020

I spent over a week speaking with different SaaS founders and marketers about how they successfully reduced churn for their business. churn by doing something every SaaS business should be doing, but most don’t. And one showed me a simple tactic their company used that helped reduce churn from 9% to 7.5%

Churn 145

Churn Payment Methods Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 145

User Pilot

MARCH 9, 2023

Want to improve the current customer attrition rate in your SaaS company? Customer attrition is one of the main problems for SaaS companies. In this article, we’ll discuss customer attrition in depth and discuss the strategies you can use to reduce churn and increase customer retention and loyalty.

Underperforming Technical Team 98

Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services 98

ProfitWell

OCTOBER 23, 2019

A literal downfall, in poor Icarus’s case, after his wings melted mid-flight. Too many SaaS companies end up in the same situation. Their success blinds them to the hidden dangers every SaaS company faces—dangers like high customer churn. Thankfully, you don’t need to end up like poor Icarus. Image via Groove.

Churn 56

Churn Payment Methods Payment Services SaaS Payments 56

Baremetrics

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Once users are in a position to invest in such a service, your SaaS should be the first that comes to mind. Anyone who searches for keywords related to your field should immediately come across your service. For other businesses, an expansive blog-style platform reaps the full benefits that content marketing has to offer.

Content Marketing 113

Content Marketing SaaS Payments Investment Marketing 113

SaaStr

AUGUST 12, 2022

I think it’s a challenge to folks that think we are in some sort of terrible downturn for SaaS and cloud. While Azure and Google Cloud grew at record rates, Shopify for example, its SaaS business only grew 10% last quarter. Colin here, CEO of a startup, B2B SaaS, and raising a seed round right now. Take the meeting.

Scale 191

Scale SaaS Payments Scaling SaaS 191

SaaStr

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Companies that have access to more accurate financial data have the ability to develop seamless exchanges of information, providing consumers with improved ways to manage their finances. Zach : SaaS-ish. Ari : SaaS-ish. Fortunate to have a really great set of investors and the process was going quite well.

Payments 144

Payments SaaS Payments Banking Underperforming Technical Team 144

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Before Optimizely, Travis spent 6 years at Salesforce in a number of sales roles including building the first Platform Sales team. What does Travis advise founders when it comes to uniting customer facing teams? * Why does Travis believe that SaaS has upended the economic model but not the engagement model?

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Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Payments Payment Services Technical Advisors 158

Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Whether you created your SaaS product to help solve a problem you had or because you wanted some extra income, the truth is that your SaaS business is a valuable asset. Running a profitable SaaS business allows you to take control of your own schedule - some would even say your life! Develop a Full Marketing Strategy 2.

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SaaS Payments Technical Review Development Team Review Software Review 105

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, . build smoother connections both with your prospects through optimized sales process. SaaS Sales Models.

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SaaS Payments Payment Methods Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring 157

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Rob made his way into the world of SaaS as a product manager and how that led to his founding Salsify over 8 years ago. * How does Rob think about the bundled vs unbundled thesis within SaaS? When is it right for SaaS companies to turn down potential customers? Harry Stebbings: Not at all.

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SaaS Payments Scale Payment Services Payment Solutions 255

User Pilot

JULY 24, 2023

What is SaaS marketing? We’re all familiar with the basics of SaaS product marketing such as attracting users to a SaaS product with a subscription business model. That said, there are key differences between a SaaS marketing strategy and standard digital marketing. Offering self-service support.

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SaaS Payments Marketing Payment Solutions SaaS 94

User Pilot

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Looking for a good user engagement analysis tool and wondering which one of Heap, Pendo, and Baremetrics is the best option for your SaaS company? In this post, we’ll discuss exactly that – which tool is best for user engagement analysis depending on the different criteria that different SaaS companies may have.

Engagement 52

Engagement Payments SaaS Payments Payment Services 52

User Pilot

MARCH 14, 2024

Looking for an effective event tracking tool and wondering if Heap is the best option for your SaaS company? We’ll explore its features, pricing, and offer a comprehensive review to aid in your decision-making process. If your team members come from non-technical backgrounds, they might struggle to use Heap to the fullest.

Technical Review 52

Technical Review Software Review Systems Review Pricing 52

User Pilot

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Looking for a good user behavior analysis tool and wondering which one of Heap, Pendo, and Baremetrics is the best option for your SaaS company? In this post, we’ll discuss exactly that – which tool is best for user behavior analysis depending on the different criteria that different SaaS companies may have.

Payment Solutions 52

Payment Solutions Payments Payment Methods Payment Services 52

ChurnZero

JANUARY 17, 2020

Blog Author: Alex Weihmann. These tools have a profound impact on free ing up team member time.? . That being said, if you apply the right tactics, supercharging your CS efforts can be a simple process. Take comfort in the fact that every CS team must start somewhere! Curious where your team should begin?

SaaS Payments 72

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payments Underperforming Technical Team 72

Baremetrics

DECEMBER 18, 2019

How do we reduce churn? survey User Churn and Revenue Churn Quick Ratio. Sean Ellis, who ran growth in the early days of Dropbox, LogMeIn, and Eventbrite benchmarked nearly a hundred startups with his customer development survey. Thus, the early churn. Why are customers canceling? Do you feel stuck?

Retention 136

Retention Strategy Payment Solutions Technical Advisors 136

SaaStr

MAY 27, 2020

They see it where SaaS companies might trade at 13 times, 15 times, 17 times trailing. They don’t want to p**s off management teams that face dilution from down rounds. I don’t think we really know how bad things can be. So what can you expect for SaaS businesses next year? I suggest we probably aren’t.

Technical Review 193

Technical Review Payment Services Payment Methods Development Team Review 193

User Pilot

JANUARY 15, 2021

The Best Product Analytics Tools for SaaS. Product analytics is the process by which you collect, inspect and analyze data about users’ interactions with your product. This blog from Semetic has a nice illustration of this point: Source: mixpanel.com. You need to make sure they are SMART, quantitative and benchmarked.

SaaS Payments 90

SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payments Underperforming Technical Team 90

SaaStr

AUGUST 6, 2019

We have a lot of SaaS companies, by the way, from Denmark if you haven’t noticed. ” So we wanted to create essentially … Well, you can probably describe it the easiest way as an anti-SAP of supply chains, something that was easy, simple, free to use, open, and easy to develop for. I come from Denmark.

Payment Solutions 147

Payment Solutions Payments Outsourcing Services SaaS Payments 147

Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 23, 2020

The situations that portend failure are varied and unfortunately common – no product-market fit, no cash, bad product, burnout, to name just a few of the most obvious. Just look at subscription analytics startup ChartMogul whose brand and product are now a household name in the SaaS community. Poor marketing.

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Underperforming Technical Team Scale Payments Payment Services 183

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Retention truly is the foundation of growth for software as a service (SaaS) companies, but oftentimes, it is overlooked and undervalued. High SaaS churn is a corollary of poor retention - but it can creep up unannounced, and rather than deal a single fatal blow, it causes death by a thousand small cuts.

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