Neil Patel

OCTOBER 29, 2020

According to Smart Insights , 45 percent of companies don’t have a clearly defined digital marketing strategy; 17 percent of companies have a digital marketing strategy in place, but it’s separate from their marketing plan. They don’t have the strategy, tactics, or tools they need to market their business well.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

In an era when more and more businesses adopt a subscription model, strong customer retention is the key to sustainable long-term growth and requires a laser-like focus. . No one knows this better than Sprout Social’s Director of Marketing Strategy, Tara Robertson. A different approach is the Jobs-to-be-Done framework.

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SaaStr

APRIL 14, 2023

Mistake #1: Viewing Investors Only As Capital As founders build a team, they focus on obtaining complementary skill sets. Of course, building great teams and finding product market fit is critical, but don’t forget about product investor fit. Many customers in SE Asia are budget-based versus subscription-based.

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FastSpring

MAY 20, 2024

Moving some, all, or simply more of your software offerings from a one-time perpetual license model to a software as a service (SaaS) subscription model can be daunting, but it’s so powerful for building dependable, recurring revenue. Letting FastSpring handle the subscription infrastructure.

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Payments SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions 129

User Pilot

APRIL 30, 2024

Wondering what a marketing growth strategy is? From this article, you will find out how to develop a strong growth marketing strategy and learn growth marketing tactics for different customer journey stages. Market penetration is about increasing existing market share with existing products. Let’s get to it.

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Neil Patel

APRIL 12, 2021

They offer some of the best-known subscription boxes around, reflecting an increasingly popular (and potentially lucrative) business model. Why Should You Launch a Subscription Box? According to MarketsandMarkets , the subscription and recurring billing market will grow to around $7.8 Recurring Business Revenue.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

In August of 2016, Rachel Hepworth embarked on a unique challenge: start a growth marketing team at one of the most successful startups of this generation – one that had long relied heavily on word of mouth. Adam: Rachel, you’re leading growth marketing at one of the fastest growing software companies of this generation.

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SaaStr

JULY 25, 2021

” And I told him we have a good market, we have a good product and because the product is good, that’s why our business is doing well. And what I was looking for was just working with smart people who had a really innate sense of a market opportunity, whether it was in the new market or a better alternative to the existing market.

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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. OKRs are a useful mental model - they make it crystal clear what people and teams should be striving for.

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Stax

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Here’s an interesting stat: 70% of businesses consider subscription and membership models indispensable for future commercial growth and expansion. In a saturated market, how do they distinguish themselves? They must engineer a well-rounded solution that makes handling subscriptions a breeze (and yes, it is as hard as it sounds).

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Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Shopify is a huge opportunity for developers looking to expand into the micro-SaaS space. The Shopify App Store brings together Shopify app developers and Shopify shop owners for their mutual benefit. Why you need to track business metrics for Shopify App Developers 10 business metrics for Shopify App Developers 1.

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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

Average Revenue per Customer. So growth of the kind of subscription, eCommerce industry has been over 100% year on year for the past five years, according to McKinsey. The second constituent there is the developer. Why do developers love SaaS products? Because they’re both recurring and predictable.

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Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Unfortunately, things only get more difficult when it comes to running the whole business as a Shopify app developer. This article will cover 10 business tips for improving your Shopify app’s development, marketing, and sales. 10 business tips for Shopify app developers 1. The Shopify QA team are your friends 6.

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Baremetrics

AUGUST 23, 2021

With more than 15,000 SaaS companies operating worldwide, the global SaaS market is constantly growing as new products continue to enter the market. You need to have a strategic approach that includes identifying your market fit, developing appropriate positioning and marketing strategies, and measuring performance.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 19, 2022

Jason Lemkin: Actually more than that, 10X revenues, only growing 22%. ZoomInfo, which probably all of us at least know if we don’t use, grew 54% last quarter at over a billion in revenue. Grew 33% year over year at almost 800 million in revenue. So the new sales leader is trying to figure out, can we go further up market?

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FastSpring

JANUARY 27, 2022

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 Note: FastSpring offers advanced subscription management services that support free trials, monthly and annual paid plans, proration, discount management, and more.

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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. At Square, I manage a product called Square Invoices. Iterate on process the same way you iterate on product.

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FastSpring

APRIL 26, 2022

Last week, I canceled an annual SaaS subscription (I had three weeks left until renewal). Interestingly, even though I paid for a year-long subscription, the company didn’t let me keep the last three weeks of access to its premium features. This action will immediately downgrade your subscription.

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Neil Patel

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Amazon’s so big that it has become an entire marketing channel. Find an Amazon marketing consultant. 3 Ways an Amazon Marketing Consultant Can Help Grow Your Business. And they do this with poor store setup and product listings. Amazon even developed its own SEO algorithm called A9. Many entrepreneurs do.

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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

We conducted intensive market research with SaaS practitioners across LatAm to dig into the reasons behind the region’s hypergrowth, and worked with the progressive global VCs who are fuelling the SaaS boom to understand the key players and the scope of the opportunity. Aaron Ross, Co-CEO, Predictable Revenue.

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User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Now, imagine applying this level of understanding and customization to your marketing strategy. A customer-led marketing strategy is about transforming your approach to reflect the same level of personalization. Customer-led marketing puts your customers’ needs and preferences at the center of all marketing efforts.

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Tom Tunguz

MAY 4, 2016

Plus, value-added resellers charged buyers on a per-project basis which doesn’t align neatly with the recurring subscription intrinsic to SaaS. First, channels can generate more new business and increase revenue without the need to hire more sales people. So there hasn’t been a great fit.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 18, 2020

We’ve got an interview with Brandon Meyers , the chief revenue officer of ADARA. He even managed to help pivot the company from a programmatic transactional revenue model to a subscription model over the course of, not just the last three months during COVID, but over the course of the last few years. We’re on iTunes.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 26, 2021

All additional clauses in your plan were probably introduced because of a bad past incident by a rep. Revenue vs. non-revenue goals. Non-revenue goals or components of your commission plans are not very lucrative as they don’t get the same commission rates as closures. Bookings vs. invoices.

Software Review 110

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Incredo

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Passive income, flexible working hours, result-based remuneration, etc. Our today’s topic somehow evolves around this concept because we are going to write and talk about affiliate marketing. Software to track analytics, transfer payments, manage inventory, create videos and for many other things. 5) Everyone minds his own business.

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SaaS Payments Payment Methods Merchant Services Sales Recruiting 139

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 29, 2021

And so, Mark Rudden and his team had to figure it all out by themselves. Fortunately, Mark had quite a bit of experience working and scaling teams in demanding, hypergrowth environments. SaaS is the subscription business. Building a great sales team: How Intercom fosters and maintains its sales culture.

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Neil Patel

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Email beats all other marketing channels and can generate $37 for every $1 you invest. Even though email marketing can generate a ton of revenue, it’s still not easy. Even for fully-staffed marketing teams, it can be overwhelming. Even for fully-staffed marketing teams, it can be overwhelming.

Marketing 111

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Baremetrics

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Inbound marketing is the process of getting potential clients to find your company. Both of these tasks can rely on content marketing , for example events, podcasts, blogs, and social media posts. Whatever marketing strategy you choose, use Baremetrics to monitor your sales data. Table of Contents.

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SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2021

In 2016, Hubspot was still a scrappy player that had only recently IPO’d, with a market cap around $1B. In this top-rated session Dharmesh Shah, cofounder and CTO of HubSpot, shares how he and his co-founders broke all of the “rules” and ended up creating an entirely new category of marketing software.

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User Pilot

MARCH 23, 2023

And how can customer success teams address them to ensure product growth? 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. 3: Poor customer service or experience with the sales teams can make customers churn.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Jos White of Notion and Christian Lanng of Tradeshift team up to show you how to work within, and sometimes around, rules in the workplace. Exited to Semantic in 2008 and had a good exit for the early SaaS businesses then set up Notion and we focus on SaaS companies, mainly in Series A in the European market. Work smarter, not harder.

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Chart Mogul

OCTOBER 12, 2017

After several recent high-profile Mac apps pivoted to a subscription model, users are left feeling cheated. Developer MacPaw is planning to solve that, with Setapp - the first all-you-can-eat subscription service for Mac apps. So it’s not that we’re getting rich during the development period, and even richer after each update.

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Building on the definitions from that essay and introducing a few new ones, here are the types of business models we’ll cover: SaaS: software that businesses access online and purchase via a subscription e.g. Slack, Adobe, Atlassian. It depends on the willingness of the market to pay for a more sophisticated offering. We’re not sure.

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Marketplace as a Service Business Model SaaS Payments Payments 141

User Pilot

OCTOBER 19, 2024

Unlike traditional businesses, most SaaS businesses operate the subscription pricing model. Satisfaction in SaaS, therefore, isn’t simply about developing a nice product and launching it in the market. For instance, you can launch a CSAT survey after a customer interacts with your support team. Userpilot review on G2.

Business 111

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 22, 2020

As a result, sales interview processes extend way longer than necessary, with the company losing out on closed-won revenue until an offer is finally accepted. Knowing the best questions to ask in a sales interview is essential to zeroing in on the right people faster and hitting your revenue goals as soon as possible.

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Totango

JULY 1, 2022

For B2B SaaS companies, customer loyalty drives subscription renewals and brand advocacy, making it a critical component of a profitable business model. Finally, we’ll show you how you can leverage customer loyalty to promote B2B referral programs that expand your customer base and increase your revenue. What Is Customer Loyalty?

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2019

Businesses also win if, as a result of AI, teams are able to create more white-glove moments that turn users into customers for life. Here are five quick takeaways: Businesses focused on scaling need to think of customer support as a revenue team , not a cost center. How did you all get to product-market fit ?

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