SaaStr

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Stand Out by Being Concise and Easy to Understand Michael has done over 2000 YC interviews, and the one thing founders don’t understand is that if investors don’t know what your company does, they can’t fund you. “The Two sentence description of what Airbnb does: They let any home or apartment owner rent out their place online.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 30, 2023

They focused on building a payment platform that empowers international talent and independent contractors to get paid on time in a compliant way while also ensuring that companies can hire international talent and make payments efficiently. This insight led Deel to focus on solving payments and compliance.

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User Pilot

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Similarly, in-app behavioral data can help you to optimize the user experience, and event data can reveal areas of improvement in your conversion funnel. Userpilot provides you with different methods of collecting data, analyzing it, and acting on it. To learn how this can help your business, book a demo today. Gather data.

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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. More established professionals and businesses (less students and early-stage startups). That includes: A global focus.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 12, 2023

To answer that question, we interviewed leaders from many of the largest healthcare providers and insurers across the country. In Part A , we outlined the paths to generating unique value for the healthcare system and patients. Whether or not a program integrates AI is less important than quality, safety, usability, and cost.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 7, 2023

But if you’re not dealing in mergers and acquisitions every day like Carl is, you might have a lot of questions about how to best position your business if you’re interested in selling. How you should think about building a sellable business. What factors beyond financials makes a target even more valuable. Jump to highlights.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

About My First 16 Our new video podcast series My First 16 features interviews with founders and CEOs of fintech companies about how they acquired their initial customers and the hard lessons they learned along the way. And so it felt like it was a place that was ripe for new software products. And that was the origin story.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 8, 2022

As a former agency owner, now the Chief Marketing Officer at FastSpring, David Vogelpohl has helped many software companies scale around the world. I interviewed him for insights into how to build a global growth strategy, especially when it comes to localization. Watch the two minute clip for more details.

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Buffer Resources

JANUARY 18, 2023

These tools encompass everything from the social platforms you choose to build your presence on to the community-building app where you engage with your audience. Access is determined by the platform’s capacity, so you can’t rely on it too much. Content management system: Wordpress or Ghost Price : Free plans.

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FastSpring

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Interview with Fred Linfjard Is conversion rate optimization for SaaS different than traditional A/B testing for ecommerce? In traditional ecommerce, CRO is all about getting people to click the “buy” button. But for subscription-based software companies, that’s just the beginning. Our First Three Episodes 1.

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

You’d probably work on growing your business, right? Maybe you’d spend it creating new marketing campaigns to generate more revenue. Regardless, the average small business owner spends five hours every pay period running payroll. The best payroll services exist to simplify the process of paying your employees.

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User Pilot

MARCH 23, 2023

TL;DR Customer churn refers to the rate at which a business loses customers within a specific period. The key difference is that customer churn measures the number of customers a business lost, whereas revenue churn measures the revenue lost due to customer churn. moment faster. #3: Want to reduce customer churn?

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Neil Patel

JANUARY 4, 2021

With over a billion active users and growing, Instagram may already be one of your favorite places to promote your e-commerce store. What if you could take passive interaction to the next level and actually buy and sell directly from the platform? Instagram Shopping is a pretty simple process for Instagram users.

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Neil Patel

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Thankfully, there’s recruiting software that helps you do precisely that and then some. With so many recruiting software options to choose from, the problem is that it quickly becomes an overwhelming choice to make. No one wants to invest in tools that aren’t entirely useful to their process. You’re hardly alone in that camp.

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User Pilot

JUNE 12, 2024

But there are other additional payments, including bonuses, commissions, and profit sharing that can increase the salary by $43,582/year. Foster cross-functional collaboration : Work closely with marketing, sales, product , and other departments to ensure insights are effectively integrated into strategic decisions.

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Unbounce

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

PPC is a method of digital advertising in which you aim to get your ads to rank as the highest result displayed for user searches, and you, as the advertiser, pay a fee each time it’s clicked. This means that when a user types in words related to your business, your customized ad will be the first result they see— sometimes.

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User Pilot

JUNE 20, 2023

Some effective strategies for building user trust include: Mapping the customer journey to understand the difficulties users face as they progress through your app. Performing usability tests at different phases of your design process to help you identify and fix design problems. What is user trust?

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FastSpring

APRIL 13, 2023

From leading sales at Zillow to brand strategy at Tumblr to revenue at FiscalNote (a global policy platform), Justin Scott started noticing a trend. And we need platforms to be able to do that. In September 2022, Dopple publicly launched its new platform. They Launched With a Platform, Not a Product Another big advantage?

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Incredo

DECEMBER 3, 2019

And you look for ideas on how to promote your software for these holidays. Or maybe you are curious whether Christmas marketing works at all? We have interviewed tens of SaaS community members to understand how they perceive SaaS Christmas promotions. And we do not really fit perfectly with our SaaS.

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FastSpring

APRIL 26, 2022

“It’s likely that a finance or sales tools will be less susceptible to churn than a marketing tool, simply because it’s perceived to be more directly responsible for revenue.”. Because word-of-mouth for us is actually much bigger fuel than the revenue that we’re collecting or churning or dropping or whatever.”.

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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 But really excited about this interview. Jump to video.

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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. Gone are the days when business leaders can afford to make decisions solely on the basis of intuition. What is Customer Analytics Software? Best Customer Analytics Software 1.

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Buffer Resources

DECEMBER 14, 2023

0:00 / 0:17 1× They also tend to perform quite well – I’ve only posted a few, but they tend to be one of my top-performing formats, a win for my personal branding efforts. For example, you could create a carousel that walks users through setting up a specific software or tool.

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Natalia Luneva

JANUARY 13, 2021

This obsession with getting new customers is natural: the more customers you convert, the more revenue you will make. However, the subscription business model can’t survive if you keep on acquiring new custo mers but the old ones keep on walking away. Software companies that serve large organizations experience a 6-10% churn rate.

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Buffer Resources

JUNE 22, 2023

Welcome back to Creators Unlocked , a series where we interview creators about their best practices and advice for other creators. 👀 To keep up with Jahleane, check out her website and follow her on TikTok and LinkedIn. She has since gone on to speak on panels, host workshops, and launch The PostGrad Playbook.

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User Pilot

JUNE 28, 2023

Platformly uses a progress bar and empty state CTAs to simplify the onboarding process for their complex product. Split-test your upsell pop-ups to maximize expansion revenue. Segment users by their role or goal as soon as possible to provide a personalized onboarding experience. Get a demo now! Source: Osano.

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Incredo

DECEMBER 3, 2019

And you look for ideas on how to promote your software for these holidays. Or maybe you are curious whether Christmas marketing works at all? We have interviewed tens of SaaS community members to understand how they perceive SaaS Christmas promotions. And we do not really fit perfectly with our SaaS.

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Neil Patel

JANUARY 31, 2022

There are an estimated 12 to 24 million e-commerce stores. Online retailers can sell just about anything—from shoes or baked goods to software and coaching sessions. Most e-commerce store owners have no idea how to effectively market their business. Selling products or services online requires a special touch.

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FastSpring

JANUARY 26, 2024

And at a company like Sideways 6 — whose product is an idea management software to help organizations engage people and foster innovation — that emphasis on collaboration gets even louder. What was the first thing you bought online? Jake Dipple 3:15 It was probably the last thing I bought online as well. And much more!

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FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

“It got us thinking: Why is there no purpose-built operating system for corporate learning and development teams, when their jobs are so strategic to the business, and they’re managing massive budgets, but they can’t track things like ROI?” There are now over 150 enterprise companies using the platform.

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ProfitWell

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Today, we’re all about ecommerce. We have a list of podcasts for the ecommerce-righteous crew out there, plus 2Checkout hosts a webinar, and Rewind partners with BigCommerce to bring you a Black Friday playbook. The pods on ecommerce. In 2007, he and his wife started their own online store. Noah Kagan Presents.

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SaaStr

MARCH 26, 2019

Formerly a senior leader at Google, Claire Hughes Johnson is now Chief Operating Officer at Stripe, where she’s helped guide the online payments firm through rapid growth. Stripe today has more than 1,400 employees and processes billions of dollars for millions of users worldwide. I’m an execution person.

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GetUplift

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

While staring at a blank google doc trying to come up with smart and effective copy that will help prospects understand what it is you do — and why they should choose you over someone else — you probably find yourself almost automatically gravitating towards your competitors’ websites.

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Buffer Resources

JANUARY 18, 2024

It’s not the first time I’ve tried out LinkedIn Premium — but it is the first time I’m approaching the platform’s paid subscription as a creator.  I landed several interviews thanks to the service and would highly recommend it to those looking for a new opportunity. 

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User Pilot

AUGUST 10, 2023

How to use relational and transactional NPS data to drive business growth: Segment detractors and reach out to them to offer personalized help. Invite passives to interviews to learn more about their expectations. an invoicing app. How to use relational and transactional NPS data to drive business growth?

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User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

TL;DR SaaS, or “Software as a Service,” is a business model that delivers centrally hosted software to subscribers over the internet. 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.

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User Pilot

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

It enables businesses to make data-driven decisions. Also, it helps to personalize the customer experience and boost customer loyalty. Send out personalized content to different user segments. Userpilot is a product growth platform that can help you collect and act on your customer data. Check it out today !

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