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What Brands Look for When Considering Acquiring Software Companies

FastSpring

As the Director of Corporate Development & Strategic Partnerships at WP Engine , Carl has worked on many acquisitions and partnerships, including brands like Flywheel, Perfect Dashboard, Block Lab, and recently, Delicious Brains. WP Engine, we’re the world’s most trusted platform for WordPress. Carl Hargreaves Yeah.

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Understanding Risk Management Strategies as a PayFac

Stax

For SaaS companies, becoming a payment facilitator (or PayFac) offers a ton of advantages—including but not limited to—boosting retention and profitability while exercising greater control over the customer experience. However, several complex types of risks come along with this. Let’s get started.

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Here’s What Investors Look for in SaaS Businesses

Baremetrics

Scalability Other Factors That Affect the Sales Multiple How to Make Your SaaS Business More Attractive and Valuable 1. Develop a Full Marketing Strategy 2. Churn Rate Churn rate basically defines the long-term trajectory of a business. The amount of annual revenue your business generates will determine which formula to use.

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Pros and Cons of Point Solutions for Billing & FinOps

SaaSOptics

What makes finance teams throw up their hands and say, “I just need a tool that can do X!” finance teams are responsible for planning the financial roadmap of an organization and keeping everything in balance. Most finance teams are familiar with enterprise and integrated solutions (think Netsuite, Sage Intacct.).

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How to Build Effective Sales Compensation Plans for Any Customer Facing Role

Sales Hacker

Once you understand how to create a fair compensation plan for your sales team, you can check out some examples: Sales Development Rep (SDR) Compensation Plan Example. It ties payment to the achievement of specific objectives that have been pre-determined and communicated to the employees that are on the incentive plan.

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Successfully Switching From One-Time Fees to Subscriptions

FastSpring

Are you looking for a merchant of record that will help you grow your subscription software business? FastSpring provides an all-in-one payment platform for SaaS, software, video game, and other digital goods businesses, including software management, VAT and sales tax management, global payments, and consumer support.

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Customer Success: The Definitive Guide to Customer-centric Growth 2020

Sixteen Ventures

In 2016, I co-authored a book for Wiley called “ Customer Success: How Innovative Companies Are Reducing Churn and Growing Recurring Revenue ” ( Também está disponível em português! ) and we’re getting some great reviews, which is awesome. How to Develop a Customer Success Strategy. Sales Process Engagement.