FastSpring

MARCH 8, 2024

SocialBee , a social media management platform and SaaS based in Romania, first started using FastSpring in 2018. However, as SocialBee utilizes many different ways to package and monetize their software as a service subscriptions, they began discovering new ways to test the FastSpring platform’s capabilities.

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Tom Tunguz

DECEMBER 31, 2022

Just how big is the current web3 B2B SaaS total addressable market (TAM)? In the last six months, 103 web3 companies generated revenue on-chain, the smallest of which recorded a few hundred dollars of sales & the largest, Ethereum, tallied $401m. Most software companies also include customer success in COGS.

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User Pilot

MAY 9, 2024

The customer onboarding process is essential for product success. From initial sign-up to renewals and upgrades, it guides customers to ensure they have a seamless experience and can easily achieve their goals. The article will teach you how to design an onboarding strategy for your SaaS.

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FastSpring

JANUARY 27, 2022

Small tweaks to your SaaS billing practices can make a huge impact on the customer experience. For example, Jon Torres — a digital marketing consultant specializing in SaaS commerce — noticed that, for some of his clients, refund requests spiked around renewal time. “It 7 growth hacks from the SaaS experts.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 30, 2023

20X year 1⃣ 12X year 2⃣ 5X year 3⃣ #deelspeed @deel [link] — Shuooo (@shuoshuooshuooo) January 23, 2023 When we look at SaaS companies’ success stories, everything looks great on their growth maps. However, the truth is that every company has tried, failed, and restarted before getting to success.

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Totango

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Customer success tools extend the functionality of your CS platform, multiplying its value. By connecting data from other success tools to your CS tool, you can view and manage all your customer data from one place instead of leaving it isolated in separate information silos. Workflows: Zapier, Segment.

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CustomerSuccessBox

APRIL 7, 2022

It’s undeniable that the SaaS model works differently and attracts revenue on a monthly or annual basis, unlike the on-premise software that deals with one-time payments. So, it’s legit to have a customer success team in hand. Stay tuned and read on to incur extra SaaS revenue.

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Subscription Flow

JANUARY 30, 2024

SaaS renewal management’s primary goal is to increase customer retention and in turn, recurring revenue growth. To encourage your customers to renew their subscriptions at the end of their term, a number of procedures and tactics are involved in devising your B2B SaaS renewal strategy.

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Subscription Flow

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

A major issue that arises, especially in the B2B SaaS business model, is how to break into the upmarket market as startups develop into scaleups that are primarily focused on increasing their market capitalization. In their early stages, SaaS software startups typically target the early adopters in the tech or mid-market segments.

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Sixteen Ventures

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Customer Success is transformative. Whether you have a Software-as-a-Service, subscription or membership business or you sell one-off products or services and simply want to do business with your customer more than once, Customer Success should be your driving purpose.

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Totango

AUGUST 21, 2020

In our latest installment in the CXO Series , we sat down with Keith Strodtman, COO, Customer First and Shelby Czarnota, Vice President, Customer Success Business Solutions at SAP as we discussed SAP’s Transformation and Innovation in Customer Success and why they deployed Totango as their One Customer Success Platform.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 28, 2023

At a recent Workshop Wednesday , SaaStr founder and CEO Jason Lemkin answered the community’s most pressing questions about SaaS — from investor appetites and IPOs in 2024 to managing and hiring a Head of Sales as a solo founder to AI and the future of customer success. Let’s jump right into part one.

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SaaStr

JUNE 17, 2022

The reality is though, in SaaS, especially if you are primarily sales-driven, that’s often gonna be tough. So if you’re building a model for your SaaS start-up, or thinking about cash-flow positive as a goal, let me offer a few learnings about how we got there faster: Land A Few Whales. Big Customers) in SaaS.

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Totango

AUGUST 16, 2022

Customer Retention Software Cuts Down Client Churn. Customer retention software has become essential for effective SaaS customer success strategies. A winning SaaS business model must prioritize retaining customers, which is far more cost-efficient than acquiring new clients to offset churn.

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Stax

JANUARY 28, 2024

This business model has now been adapted very well in the internet age, especially in the SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) and eCommerce industries. The most potent benefit of the subscription-based business model is that companies are guaranteed a fixed revenue stream—if they can retain their customers or subscribers.

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CustomerSuccessBox

MARCH 10, 2022

In this day and age, all B2B SaaS firms want to optimize Automation to scale Customer Success in their organizations. Why is Automation important to scale Customer Success? Especially if you’ve thousands of customers. Managing your customers and their success path as a SaaS company is a meticulous process.

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Totango

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Customer success tools extend the functionality of your CS platform, multiplying its value. By connecting data from other success tools to your CS tool, you can view and manage all your customer data from one place instead of leaving it isolated in separate information silos. Workflows: Zapier, Segment.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Understanding your ICP is a foundational and organization-wide decision because it impacts your downstream sales and marketing efforts. . Build your sales, marketing, customer success, and product development efforts around the needs of your ideal client.”. Brex then scaled its payments business quickly.

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ChurnZero

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Whether Customer Success or Sales should own the renewal, expansion, and upsell is a hot-button issue in today’s SaaS sphere. As such, we decided to tap industry experts for a verbal duel on the subject where the winners take home the esteemed (and priceless) prize of bragging rights and SaaS street cred.

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FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

In our first post about our online community , we mentioned launching the Global SaaS Leaders Slack group because we saw a need for the kind of software-and-SaaS-focused community we’d want to be a part of. The group is professionally moderated, there’s no cost, and you don’t need to be a FastSpring customer to apply.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

The promise at the heart of the SaaS business model has always been that by sacrificing relatively large one-time payments, you’d maximize revenue over the long-term lifetime of the customer. In four letters, the promise of the SaaS model is CLTV (Customer Lifetime Value). The Customer Success Paradox.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

So, despite SaaS multiple and the public markets being at near record highs, we’ve seen things start to … wobble a bit overall in tech: The WeWork IPO simply failed , and the Peloton and Direct Smile IPOs were broken. One of the greatest SaaS companies of all times, but still, it turned out to be mortal. Slack is mortal.

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User Pilot

MARCH 23, 2023

What are the reasons for customer churn in SaaS? And how can customer success teams address them to ensure product growth? As a SaaS company, your ultimate goal is to retain customers and keep them happy with your product. However, sometimes things don’t go as planned, and customers churn.

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CustomerSuccessBox

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Customer Success has become a must for every SaaS business with the advent of the subscription economy. But just having a customer success department does not solve issues with your churn rate, customer lifetime value, retention rate, or MRR/ARR. It starts by understanding why customer success is important.

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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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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. One is customers. Customers love SaaS products and tools because it simply works. Why is that?

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SaaStr

APRIL 1, 2023

Throw in the rise of social media and mobile web payment systems like Stripe and Braintree, and something revolutionary was at our doorstep. Instead of walking into places or calling on the phone to speak to someone, businesses could reach customers through social media and other software. And then the iPhone changed everything.

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ChurnZero

AUGUST 14, 2020

At ChurnZero, we’re humble enough to admit that Customer Success software can’t do it all, and quite frankly, it shouldn’t. We stick to our circle of competence and focus on our area of expertise: Customer Success software. It’s Customer Success for us. Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Software.

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FastSpring

MAY 14, 2024

FastSpring provides an all-in-one payment platform for SaaS, software, and digital products businesses, including VAT and sales tax management, payment localization, and consumer support. The key components of a payout statement are: Orders: Total processed orders during the period. Need FastSpring support?

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Totango

JUNE 3, 2022

Customer success email templates form a foundation for effective CS automation. While customer success management can result in a rewarding payoff, it can also be very time-consuming if you don’t use the right strategies. Customer check-ins. Sales to Customer Success Handoff Email Template.

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SaaStr

JULY 20, 2021

Cecily Sackey, Senior Customer Success Manager @ Capchase & Alex Pedraza, Head of New Business @ Capchase. Emerging Insurance Disruptors: Are they Really SaaS? The financial services industry – banking, lending, insurance – has long benefited from deep competitive moats that limited competition and stifled innovation.

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SaaStr

MAY 8, 2021

I felt like when I was a SaaS CEO and had to go profitable, they helped saved my rear. Close say a $125k contract, even after a healthy sales commission, that’s $100k+ in the bank right now! bills, “payment terms”, and often, repeated follow-up. Annual deals can create unnecessary customer friction.

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OpenView Labs

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Every year we ask the OpenView network to weigh in, and this time around many folks unsurprisingly made predictions around a trend most of us in SaaS had to adapt to (and, to be honest, are still figuring out) in 2020: remote work. SaaS companies will evolve their products and messaging to support a fluid hybrid working model—office/home.

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User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

Confused about trying to understand SaaS roles? SaaS companies have many moving parts, and it can be difficult to determine who does what. TL;DR SaaS, or “Software as a Service,” is a business model that delivers centrally hosted software to subscribers over the internet. What is a SaaS business model?

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FastSpring

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Elevate Your Business With FastSpring Contextual Customer Churn: Turning the Tide With Proven Retention Strategies The Only Thing That’s Constant With Tax Law Is Change Need FastSpring support? FastSpring is ready, and we want to ensure your success by providing key steps you can take to ensure a smooth and successful peak sales season.

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FastSpring

AUGUST 2, 2023

When TestDome was created, CEO and co-founder Mario Zivic knew the pre-employment testing software company wouldn’t be able to rely on domestic sales to succeed. “As We do less than 1% of our business in Croatia, so it’s not really a big market for us,” added TestDome’s head of customer success and sales Igor Novosel. “We

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User Pilot

JUNE 19, 2023

There’s no magic number when it comes to conversions, but knowing B2B SaaS funnel conversion benchmarks can benefit any SaaS product manager. In this article, we will discuss the most common B2B SaaS conversion rate metrics and their benchmarks. Education-related SaaS platforms come second with 7.5% adoption rate.

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