SaaSOptics

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

Based on a 2019 survey, Gartner forecasts that eighty-four percent of new software will be delivered as SaaS , and this percentage is expected to increase as existing providers transition to a subscription-based model. The main difference between accounting for a subscription vs. a traditional business is the method used.

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Payment Features Outsourced Development SaaS Software Review 105

Blulogix

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

By BluLogix Team Strategically Aligning Your Business Needs with the Ideal Platform In the vast sea of digital transformation, selecting the right monetization platform can feel like navigating through uncharted waters. Regulatory Compliance and Security: Ensure the platform complies with relevant industry regulations (GDPR, PCI DSS, etc.)

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Payment Features Underperforming Technical Team Operational efficiency. Technical Review 52

Audacix

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Manual Penetration Testing: - Done by penetration testers who follow prescribed penetration testing methodologies to explore and exploit any potential vulnerabilities that can be a threat to web application's security. Organizations should not neglect penetration testing in the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).

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Underperforming Technical Team Software Development compliance Development 52

Neil Patel

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The bad news is that marketers waste 37 to 95 percent of their marketing budget. You’ll want to break each of these areas down in enough detail so you (and your team) can work with each of these areas properly. So to do that, you’ll need information on your customer’s demographics and psychographics.

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Underperforming Technical Team Strategy Development Payment Methods 145

ChurnZero

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Every Customer Success team focuses on keeping customers engaged and ultimately, preventing churn. There is a 12 percentage point increase in the median YOY product subscription growth rate when training is integrated into the Customer Success plan. The bad news: It’s tiresome to answer the same questions day in and day out!

Education 98

Education Customer Success Underperforming Technical Team Scale 98

ProfitWell

MARCH 12, 2020

The subscription-based economy boom has brought with it more competition than ever before, raising the bar for companies trying to offer recurring products or services to their customers. However, behind the boom lies the rising consumer demand for subscriptions. Payment processing. Customer support. Bookkeeping.

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SaaS Payments Subscription Payment Features Payments 59

Clouded Judgement

JANUARY 6, 2023

We know software is impacted from macro - but how bad will it get? Most public companies don’t report net new ARR, so I’m taking an implied ARR metric (quarterly subscription revenue x 4). Companies that do not disclose subscription rev have been left out of the analysis and are listed as NA.

Cloud 130

Cloud Azure AWS Underperforming Technical Team 130

User Pilot

MARCH 7, 2024

AI writing assistants help teams make their microcopies concise but informative and engaging. Your ability to engage users is evidence that you understand both your user preferences , needs, and pain points and the weak spots of your product experience. Good microcopy is succinct yet informative, engaging, and motivating.

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Engagement Metrics Underperforming Technical Team Scale 105

User Pilot

JANUARY 31, 2023

TL;DR At-risk customers are those who are showing signs of canceling their subscriptions. The main factors contributing to at-risk customers include poor onboarding process , lack of product value perception, lousy customer support, unfixed bugs, and no learning materials, resource center, and FAQs. What are at-risk customers?

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Churn Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 98

Scytale

MARCH 19, 2024

In this blog, we’ll walk through best practices for getting audit-ready, from getting your documentation together to prepping your team. Security: To validate your information security controls and ensure sensitive data and systems are properly protected. But first… What Are Third-Party Audits?

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Payment Services Payment Solutions Payments compliance 52

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

MARCH 23, 2020

Companies which don’t use mental models risk unleashing mayhem with poor choices or becoming bloated and bureaucratic by reducing the volume and speed at which decisions are made - both scenarios are undesirable and will impact growth. The same is true of data - data informs decision-making, but doesn’t replace it.

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Underperforming Technical Team Scale Sales Hiring Marketplace as a Service 213

Stax

JANUARY 29, 2024

Innovative ISVs and SaaS companies know that one of the best ways to provide value to merchants—while improving your bottom line—is to provide integrated payments. For example, if you’re an invoicing software provider that lets SMBs manage their billing, then it makes sense to add payment processing tools to your platform.

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Merchant Services Payment Services SaaS Payments Payments 88

CustomerSuccessBox

JUNE 17, 2022

How unfortunate is it to see a subscriber canceling their recurring payment! This enables your product team to identify and track engagement data and optimize the product. Unexpected developments can invalidate previous models and cause businesses to make terrible mistakes. This information comes from product analytics.

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Churn SaaS Payments Underperforming Technical Team Payment Features 52

User Pilot

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Customer intent helps product teams understand customer needs and build solutions that delight users. Use content like informative blog posts, product demos , and user reviews to address the needs of customers with buyer intent. Churn intent : This is felt when users show signs of disengagement or a desire to cancel their subscription.

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Scale Underperforming Technical Team Churn Trends 105

User Pilot

JANUARY 16, 2024

Perform a SWOT analysis, identify the strengths and weaknesses of your top competing products, etc. Find the top competing products in your sector, identify alternatives, get market size information, perform a SWOT analysis, etc. You may want to learn who your top competitors are, their value proposition , and their weaknesses.

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ChatGPT Management Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 105

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 22, 2020

This is especially true in the Software as a Service (SaaS) industry, in which the subscription-based sales model means prospects are typically committing to a product for months or years at a time. It’s also one of the hardest to teach and develop. Tell me about a time you collaborated within the sales team and with other teams.

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Sales Hiring Interviewing Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting 76

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

There’s sales pipeline , a 7-stage journey describing what your sales team must do to convert a lead to a customer. For your team, the goal is to share more information about your products without appearing overly promotional. For your team, this step is about making your prospects realize they need your products or service.

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Sales Funnel Outsourcing Services Underperforming Technical Team Social Media 119

User Pilot

OCTOBER 6, 2022

These interactions include engaging with the onboarding checklist, clicking, hovering over a particular feature, canceling a subscription, and more. Product teams collect and measure such customers’ activities to understand and act on customers’ behavior patterns. For instance, subscriptions to Ahrefs or Netflix.

Payment Solutions 98

Payment Solutions Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Payments Customer Lifetime Value 98

Totango

JANUARY 26, 2021

For example, if you sell a subscription SaaS product, a simple procedure for calculating your monthly churn rate would be: Take how many subscribers canceled their subscriptions that month. The retention rate is calculated in a similar way, except you start with how many subscribers renewed their subscription that month.

Churn 90

Churn Retention Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 90

User Pilot

AUGUST 14, 2023

Analyzing user sentiment is an essential step for all product developers and marketers to take. Whenever survey respondents fail to answer honestly, the most likely outcome is that you'll need to repeat the online survey in order to collect more accurate feedback the next time around — costing you more time, money, and team resources.

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Underperforming Technical Team Scale Technical Review Systems Review 93

Baremetrics

DECEMBER 28, 2020

If you’re running a subscription or SaaS business, you know that at the end of the day your chief metric is monthly recurring revenue (MRR). Churn occurs when an existing subscription is canceled, downgraded, paused, or becomes delinquent. You may be thinking, “How bad can it be?” Think about that. Let’s be real.

SaaS Payments 105

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions Payments 105

User Pilot

APRIL 7, 2023

When your product is catering to other businesses, it can be difficult for sales reps and other teams to understand the needs and experiences of the clients, especially if the client company sells multiple products. However, customer insights can help your teams understand all aspects of your B2B partners.

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B2B Underperforming Technical Team B2C Scale 98

User Pilot

OCTOBER 10, 2022

In this article, we’ll cover the key metrics you need to develop an informed feature adoption strategy and discuss how you can improve them. Feature adoption allows you to separate the successful features from the underperforming ones. Uncover weak spots and improve feature adoption. We’ve got you covered!

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Metrics Strategy Underperforming Technical Team Onboarding 97

User Pilot

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

The goal is to get valuable insights into customers’ needs and use this information to improve retention. With the right survey questions , businesses can get valuable insights into customer needs and use this information to continuously better their product and improve customer satisfaction. A survey created with Userpilot.

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Retention Scale Underperforming Technical Team Churn 98

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 3, 2018

Rohini Pondhi , product management lead for Square’s Invoices product, knows this challenge well. Here are five quick takeaways: Instead of relying on word of mouth to permeate the team, write things down. It’s like rewriting your notes in school: the information sticks, and you can communicate it effectively to others.

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Payment Methods Merchant Services Scale Payment Features 195

User Pilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

TL;DR Regular roadmaps kill outcomes by forcing teams to think in the categories of features and timelines. It’s difficult to implement outcome-based roadmaps because stakeholders don’t trust product teams to deliver on business goals. Many companies lack differentiation strategies and drive product development by copying competitors.

Scale 105

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting Software Review 105

Chargify

MARCH 25, 2019

Recurring subscriptions are becoming the norm in the business world, and for good reason. Subscription services give the end user control over costs and employee access, without the cumbersome contracts. But some software-as-a-service (SaaS) companies struggle with how to sell subscriptions.

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SaaS Payments Payment Methods Subscription Payment Features 54

Totango

JULY 28, 2021

Encouraging subscription renewal. While the conventional approach has been to assign one customer success manager per customer account, digital customer success platforms now make it possible for teams to administer success at scale by leveraging automation to deliver one-to-many success management. Suggesting upsells.

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Customer Success Management Underperforming Technical Team Scale 118

Totango

JULY 8, 2021

To move away from this pattern, we suggest organizations put in place an early customer warning system that enables their customer success team focus on proactive customer retention. We find this solution works best for teams operating in a high- to medium-touch engagement model. How to Build An Early Customer Warning System.

Systems Review 65

Systems Review Underperforming Technical Team Payment Features Churn 65

Chart Mogul

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Getting a new customer on board is a happy time for every sales team, but it’s not quite the end of the road. Poor handoff practices also have a much broader impact than just making a few customers unhappy — they dramatically affect retention and your company’s bottom line. Set expectations from the start.

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Underperforming Technical Team Customer Success Outsourced Development Sales 80

Baremetrics

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Stripe's Features The most important Stripe features to know about are: Large Ecosystem The Stripe payment processor is just one part of the Stripe ecosystem, which also includes solutions such as Stripe Terminal (for in-person payments) and Stripe Billing (for subscriptions and invoicing). User Elizabeth S.

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Payment Methods Payment Services Technical Review Merchant Services 75

Baremetrics

OCTOBER 18, 2021

These industrious developers have even developed apps to calculate, track, and project all manner of metrics for Shopify shopkeepers, in addition to apps targeted at every other need imaginable. Baremetrics can calculate MRR for Shopify Partner Apps One of the most important metrics is monthly recurring revenue ( MRR ).

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Outsourced Development Underperforming Technical Team Churn Systems Review 98

User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

They also manage finances and supervise one or more engineering teams. Product Marketing Manager: This person is tasked with developing product marketing campaigns , crafting compelling marketing messages, and coming up with ideas to retain customers. They also manage finances and supervise one or more engineering teams.

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Sales Hiring SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting CTO Hire 98

Totango

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

They can store customer contact data, identify sales opportunities, schedule sales appointments, record notes from sales meetings and manage sales teams. Another sign you need to upgrade CS software is when your current system isn’t providing enough data to make informed decisions about customer success actions.

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Software Underperforming Technical Team Churn Customer Success 92

Totango

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Hiring team members with the right customer success manager skills is critical for the effectiveness of your CS team and strategy. We’ll cover these below, along with five best practices to follow when bringing a new customer success manager aboard your team. What Is a Customer Success Manager (CSM)?

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Sales Hiring Customer Success Sales Recruiting Technical Review 92

User Pilot

MARCH 14, 2024

You can use customer analytics to create targeted marketing campaigns, inform product development, and reduce churn , among other things. Teams across your business can benefit from customer data. Product teams can build features that solve real pain points. Support teams can proactively address issues that lead to churn.

Customer Lifetime Value 105

Customer Lifetime Value SaaS Underperforming Technical Team Churn 105

OPEXEngine

JUNE 8, 2021

In the movie Glengarry Glen Ross, Blake, a successful salesperson, visits the real estate sales team and gives them a blistering motivational speech that has gone down in history as one of the best of all time. This is the first challenge facing enterprise SaaS sales teams. A-B-C,” he says as he points to each letter. EHS Manager.

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Enterprise Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Sales 52