FastSpring

DECEMBER 8, 2022

I interviewed him for insights into how to build a global growth strategy, especially when it comes to localization. Look for existing ecosystems of websites, communities and social presence that exist in that geography around your topic. “So Leave the technical challenges of selling around the world to us.

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Natalia Luneva

JANUARY 13, 2021

The period refers to a month or year depending on which payment option you offer or which of them is more popular. I also interviewed dozens of SaaS founders and marketers to understand the main factors behind high SaaS churn rate. Your social network accounts, website, ads are visible to everyone who is browsing the internet.

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SaaS Payments Payment Methods Churn Payment Services 105

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. Know who is the foundation of your product and build your product for that user (in Stripe’s case, developers). I’m an execution person.

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Scale Payment Services Payment Methods Scaling 157

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 3, 2018

Here are five quick takeaways: Instead of relying on word of mouth to permeate the team, write things down. If Rohini’s team is making changes to the UI or the front end, they can test quickly and easily, but because their core product is payments-based, much more rigor is required compared to your typical software product.

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Payment Methods Merchant Services Scale Payment Features 195

FastSpring

JANUARY 26, 2024

In this episode of Growth Stage, host and CMO of FastSpring David Vogelpohl interviews Jake about his thoughts on: What Customer Success is at a high level. But the support team are responsible for first response times, for things like NPS, whereas what we’re responsible for is, ultimately, outcomes.” And much more!

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FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

Ryan Austin had VP-level experience in training when he decided to start a consulting business to help enterprise-level companies with their corporate learning and development initiatives. Ryan and his team noticed so many inefficiencies across the L&D workflows. “It There are now over 150 enterprise companies using the platform.

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Payment Solutions Payment Services SaaS Payments VP of Engineering 108

FastSpring

DECEMBER 11, 2018

For those of you who need some new ideas to boost sales, we just posted some fool-proof tactics to boost online sales here (link to the New Year Deal post). Understanding your customers’ motivations is key in developing content strategy, products and improving the customer journey. Improve the Customer Experience.

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SaaStr

MARCH 18, 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. Our team is in Room 111. They were self taught developers. Payments has been around for thousands of years. Dare I say SaaS. Your registration.

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Scale Payment Services Payment Methods Sales Hiring 119

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. Interview them. "AI-developed content can’t touch it [original research] on quality and value for a B2B audience," she says. 

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B2B Technical Advisors SaaS Payments Underperforming Technical Team 56

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2021

If you’re a senior engineer and want to further your career, what skills should you develop? Moving forward in your career, avoid the trap of doing work that feels high-impact, but it’s actually not , or work that makes you look good at the expense of the project and the team. How do people move into staff engineering roles?

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

One of the biggest decisions you can make when setting up your sales team is whether to focus primarily on inside or outside sales. We’ll look at the strengths of each type of sales, why you need both of them in your team, and how to determine the best balance for your organization. What is inside sales? What is outside sales.

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Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Payment Methods 82

User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

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. They also manage finances and supervise one or more engineering teams. Before hiring, assess your current needs and hire as your company grows.

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CustomerSuccessBox

JULY 11, 2022

Such as the conclusion of a project, a poor match, or a firm changing course are considered non-regrettable churn. You may deal with each of these situations by developing a customer offboarding procedure. Exit Interview or phone call: Calling clients could add a more personal touch. Step 2: Learn from the Churn.

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FastSpring

APRIL 26, 2022

While it’s not a bad idea to be measuring both, your monthly churn rate should be much, much lower than your annual churn rate. Quantitative Data Gathering: Website and Product Data. Qualitative Data Gathering: Surveys and Exit Interviews. Next, let’s look at how to develop a churn-reduction action plan.

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Benchmarks Churn Payments SaaS Payments 139

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Acknowledge what the customer is saying and be as personal and specific as you can. Liam: So, you are the absolute perfect person to talk to then about effective customer messaging and engagement. It’s an error and maybe has cost me double payment. Use plain language. You must acknowledge that. What would that involve?

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Payment Methods Airlines Branding Communication 118

FastSpring

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Barriers are anything that stop a buyer from converting, such as website usability, solution fit, or pricing. But he explains that what happens on the website is such a small and early part of the entire customer relationship. Stream the entire conversation or read the highlights below. Jump to highlights. But sign-ups went down.

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Payment Methods SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payments 178

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

It’s been 10 years since co-founders Eoghan McCabe , Des Traynor , David Barrett , and Ciaran Lee sat in a small Dublin coffee shop and dreamed of making internet business personal, and we’re still every bit as excited. Later’s Farhan Virji on adapting B2C support strategies for B2B teams. 10 years of making internet business personal.

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VP of Engineering Scale Technical Review Outsourcing Services 118

OPEXEngine

MAY 4, 2021

He started out in the late 1980s researching technology companies for Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, then for Morgan Stanley, and then for Salomon Brothers before jumping to the corporate side as finance head for the online job-search site Monster. Hopefully it will be communicated during the interview process.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 30, 2021

How to build a winning sales team. Developing A Winning Sales Team [16:24]. Leveraging the next generation of artificial intelligence, the platform allows sales reps to deliver consistent, relevant, and responsible communication for each prospect every time, enabling personalization at scale previously unthinkable.

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Scale Payments Technical Advisors Sales Recruiting 103

SmartKarrot

AUGUST 11, 2021

You need to put in countless hours of research and development, relentless marketing campaigns, and tireless sales effort to earn a paying customer. And nearly 60% switch companies based on poor customer service. The competitors might have developed something that closely matches the needs and wants of your target users.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

As for Krish, under Krish’s leadership the team has grown to over 300 people and over 5,000 clients making it one of the next generation in truly global SaaS businesses started in India. First, what is continuous customer development? Does it have to be in person? How does he think about the mortality rate of SMBs?

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Scale SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting Payment Services 132

ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Building a strong pricing strategy starts with hiring a professional team to conduct a pricing audit. In these three steps, you’ll align pricing with your goals, review current strategies, and identify potential weaknesses. Identify weaknesses and opportunities. What is a pricing audit? How to perform a pricing audit.

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Payments Pricing Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Payments 45

Chargify

OCTOBER 4, 2017

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. Using precious development resources to build and maintain your own recurring billing code, and all the complexities that arise, 1. costs money and 2.

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User Pilot

APRIL 8, 2021

The “customers” part of this definition is important, since this is what differentiates customer analytics software from tools like Google Analytics, which look at data from website visitors as opposed to customers. Note: these methods are by no means mutually exclusive. Don’t be this person. Source: mywellnesshub.in.

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Payment Solutions Software Review SaaS Payments Software 52

SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

Jay Snyder: Got hotspot on my phone, so hopefully we’ll hold still. Nick Mehta: Power of the developer, or the API economy, both of you play very much in both those trends. How do you help your team make that link to value? Nick Mehta: I got to say pretty good internet up there on the Italian Alps, so I’m impressed.

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Payment Methods Merchant Services Scale Payments 196

Outseta

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Before we get into the interview, a bit of background - I have hired Soren’s team at Working Planet multiple times. Soren: This was 2003, and I was working as Head of Business Development for a web engineering company in Boston. The company is focused on “putting the math behind advertising for data-driven, profitable results.”

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OpenView Labs

APRIL 11, 2019

My personal and professional backgrounds contributed to my tendency to see the world through many mental models. I was born in Bombay, but grew up in New Jersey and was acutely aware of the juxtaposition of those two places in terms of economic development, politics and culture. The Four Growth Levers – Foundational Building Blocks.

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Strategy Payment Solutions PayPal Underperforming Technical Team 64

Point Nine Land

MARCH 7, 2019

Lemkin recently posted a tweetstorm about his observation that most startups are bad at finance. is but an experienced finance person can play a vital role in internationalisation as well. are usually also things such a person could take care of instead of the founders. Like, all of them.

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SaaStr

JUNE 14, 2019

Finally pre-Salesforce, Dave was CEO @ MarkLogic where he grew the team from 40 to 240 and revenues from $0 to an $80m revenue run rate. Does Dave agree that if the money is on the table founding teams should take it? What are the clear differences between a good book and a bad book? Who is involved? How long does it take?

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Sales Hiring Payment Services SaaS Payments Underperforming Technical Team 146

GetUplift

DECEMBER 12, 2021

It’s a process that my team and I at GetUplift have used to 10x our clients’ conversion rates. I spent years researching the psychology behind purchase decisions and used that knowledge to develop a four step conversion optimization process deeply rooted in emotional marketing. The article was only written to drive website traffic.

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Payment Methods Marketing Payment Solutions Underperforming Technical Team 122

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Bringing salespeople in for an interview before you’ve figured out exactly how you’ll compensate them for their work leaves you in a tongue-tied, unenviable position when eager candidates ask about things like quotas, sales incentives, what data you use to set goals, and how often your team exceeds those goals.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2019

Here’s what Eyal and Megan talk about: How to develop software faster. Below, we’ve shared the full transcript of Harry’s interview with Vikas Bhambri. I do want to break the interview today up into a couple of different parts really. This podcast is an excerpt of Eyal and Megan’s session at SaaStr Annual 2019. Eyal Manor.

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SaaS Payments Cloud Technical Review Scale 137

Neil Patel

APRIL 5, 2023

However, verified website owners can get free access to a comprehensive set of Webmaster Tools , including backlink analysis. Type in a website of your choice. For pricing info, click on the ‘build a package’ link online, and you’ll get sent an email. Conversation-focused (interview pieces and quotes).

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Payment Methods Social Media Payment Services AI Search 133

Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

Sales Development and Prospecting. The Sales Development Playbook. The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team. If you truly want to be a better leader, better salesperson , better speaker, better writer, or just a better person, you need to study the craft. Selling to Big Companies. The Pirate’s Guide to Sales. B2B Is Really P2P.

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Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Payment Methods 141

How To Buy Saas

DECEMBER 1, 2020

With so many SAAS getting visibility in online marketplaces, we found that new saas businesses are struggling hard to make it to the right set of customers. In saas marketing, you generally use online marketing strategies to generate more leads and conversions in your saas business. Setup Pricing model and payment gateways.

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User Pilot

MAY 9, 2024

Develop educational content, like webinars or courses, to help users discover new use cases and features. Reduce the workload of the customer success team. Use the insights from market research , surveys and interviews, and conversations of your customer-facing teams to create user personas representing main user types.

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SaaS Payments Payment Services Onboarding Payment Solutions 52

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? * Below, we’ve shared the transcript of Harry’s interview with Travis. Loving our podcast content? Aydin Senkut.

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Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Payments Payment Services Technical Advisors 163