SaaStr

MAY 4, 2022

These days, as the business lead for invoicing at Stripe, Xie has earned her own stripes in navigating the unique challenges of building and thriving in the SaaS marketplace. As difficult as SaaS companies can be to build, that can go double for things like setting up billing systems and automating revenue.

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Payrix

JANUARY 30, 2024

Checking all the boxes How Payrix is helping the leader in self-storage operations software unlock value for customers. Storable , the leading provider of all-in-one software for the self-storage industry, has a vision for its payments solution that is reminiscent of the industry it serves. It just happens.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

A recent Forrester Consulting study commissioned by Intercom, Drive Conversational Experiences For A Future-Ready Customer Support Strategy , revealed that 54% of teams can’t personalize support with their tech stack and 50% waste time jumping between tools. All without burning out your team or budget.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Robert Butler, Chief Commercial Officer at Payrix, has spent over 25 years in fintech and has most recently grown Payrix from $4 million to $100 million in ARR over the last four years, leading to a successful buyout and the launch of Worldpay for Platforms. Brex then scaled its payments business quickly.

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Casey’s first sequencing business models essay talked about the transition from a SaaS business model to marketplace business model, and why it’s so difficult. In this essay, we’ll go deeper into the gradients of marketplace models that a company can sequence to, and as a follow up, we will do the same for platforms.

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yoursales

JANUARY 28, 2022

Sales Stack 2022 Sales Tools for Professional B2B Sales SALES STACK 2022: Sales Tools for. Professional Sales SALES STACK. 2021: Sales Tools. Sales W hich challenges would you like sales technology to solve for your sales team? What is sales technology here to do?

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Stax

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Software as a Service (SaaS) has made business software more accessible by offering cloud-based, on-demand access to a range of solutions, from project management and collaboration to sales and marketing. Some solutions, like Slack or Microsoft, are useful for any kind of business. What is Vertical SaaS?

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How To Buy Saas

MARCH 12, 2021

Ecommerce, however, has understandably seen more aggressive change than most. SaaS technologies have powered this change to ecommerce, starting with who can sell, and then developing how. SaaS technologies have powered this change to ecommerce, starting with who can sell, and then developing how.

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How To Buy Saas

MARCH 6, 2024

Many of us happen to use WhatsApp to connect with businesses in real-time, but with the normal app, it does not have much impact. And that is why WhatsApp has launched the WhatsApp Business Service with a set of premium features for businesses to run without much hassle. WhatsApp Business is absolutely free. Delighted!!!!

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SaaStock

JANUARY 25, 2019

We will gather 300 leading SaaS founders, executives and investors for three days packed with opportunities and rich exchange of knowledge to push the whole ecosystem forward. ContaAzul was acquired by the collaborative software platform Wabbi Software S.A. Olist is an e-commerce solution for sellers based in Curitiba, Brazil.

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How To Buy Saas

MARCH 23, 2024

CRM software helps sales and service teams to satisfy and retain customers easily. There are two popular brands used in the CRM and customer service space – Zendesk vs Freshdesk. In this article, we’ll discuss and compare these CRM solutions. What is customer relationship management (CRM) software?

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 29, 2021

Partnerships are driving more leads and sales than ever before, and this is only projected to grow. PartnerOps (or ChannelOps) is newer than sales and marketing ops , but it is important to driving growth in the age of the ecosystem. Forrester estimates that 75% of world sales flows through indirect channels.

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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

When we announced a few weeks ago that we would be bringing our leading SaaS conference to Asia, and running it in Hong Kong, many locals thanked us for choosing the city. Their solutions span a wide range of verticals: from E-commerce, HR and Health to collaboration, infrastructure and AI. See our agenda and book tickets here.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 16, 2019

However, that doesn’t necessarily mean a “pivot”, but more often the evolution is a shifting business model as the company scales and the user base grows and changes. It’s all too easy to make the mistake of adopting a pricing model that is ill-suited to other aspects of your company, such as the go-to-market strategy or sales strategy.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 14, 2022

?. Regardless of the industry or the product you’re selling, the old sales playbook is falling short of customers’ expectations. For James Dyett , a customer-centric mindset shouldn’t just be the purview of post-sales departments. Sales, he thought, would do just the trick. Hire customer-centric salespeople.

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Despite the audience Amazon offers, you may want to look for other online venues to list your items. Second, selling on a wider range of marketplaces gets your products in front of a larger audience. We already touched on one of the main reasons to seek other venues: the perils of depending on one sales platform.

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

The solution? While it’s a trend across sectors, it’s picking up steam in tech where companies are looking to deliver more complete solutions to consumers. These acquisitions, which focus more on scope than scale, accounted for 90% of tech deals in 2019 , which is a 40% increase from 2015. Micro startup acquisitions.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 22, 2018

Fast forward to today, and Eventbrite is the world’s largest self-service event ticketing and registration platform – processing more than 3 million tickets each week. Going back a bit, Brian was a co-founder at SkillSlate, a local services marketplaces similar to Thumbtack. We raised a $1.5-million We raised a $1.5-million

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SaaStr

JULY 9, 2019

Join Anish Shivdasani, CEO of Giraffe, as he provides unique African experiences learned from scaling to 1M users. I’m probably the most hated person in the room right now, but please indulge me. I think if we had focused on solving a niche problem, the market’s simply not big enough to scale. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

So growth of the kind of subscription, eCommerce industry has been over 100% year on year for the past five years, according to McKinsey. It wasn’t the case 20 or even 10 years ago, where the business models of the internet were more focused on eCommerce, marketplaces, or even advertising. This wasn’t the case.

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SaaStr

MARCH 19, 2021

Shopify, since last year, has nearly tripled in market cap driven by the rise of e-commerce, but also the digital payments and the QR code system they provide for contactless payments. We’re seeing more and more companies, particularly cloud companies with the ability to scale, and grow even more rapidly in the new normal.

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How To Buy Saas

DECEMBER 1, 2020

SaaS is a global software solution created by different businesses in order to improve human activities in a matter of clicks. SAAS is also abbreviated as software as a service. SaaS as we already understood is a software as a service. These saas can be either web or app-based or even both.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

As businesses grow, their software requirements grow as well. At this point, a business needs to look for an enterprise solution that can support its growth. As businesses grow and adapt, software shouldn’t hold them back. It might sound like a simple task, but choosing an enterprise CRM solution is difficult.

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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. The Top Recruiting Software Options For 2020. How to Choose The Best Recruiting Software For You.

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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. It can also appear on websites that have similar content and keywords to your business. Image courtesy of Bloomberg Wealth.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

How should sales and marketing work together on pricing? I was working on a startup that was an early mobile payment platform. It was basically using Bluetooth and an app on PalmPilots to do wireless payments in restaurants. It just made it a lot easier for us to scale up Salsify as we found success.

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How To Buy Saas

JANUARY 7, 2021

Software for dropshipping is a must if you are planning to start this e-commerce business model. To Be very sure about owning a profitable dropshipping business, you need to be wise enough with the software you are using for dropshipping. In the end, you shall also get to know the top 10 softwares for dropshipping store.

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FastSpring

APRIL 7, 2022

Learn more about how FastSpring helps SaaS and software companies collect and remit taxes globally or localize and accept global payments. How Messente scaled with no funding. They also noticed a lack of transparency and efficiency in the services that were being provided at the time and decided to fix that problem.

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SaaStr

MAY 14, 2023

You have a presentation online that’s called Unsexy, which you’ll have to explain to me later. Algolia went from zero to seven figures in revenue in 12 months, and the launch of their search as a service product, and grew pricing from $19 a month to $100,000, which sounds amazing. web services. Nick : Pretty good?

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Casey’s first sequencing business models essay talked about the transition from a SaaS business model to marketplace business model, and why it’s so difficult. In this essay, we’ll go deeper into the gradients of marketplace models that a company can sequence to, and as a follow up, we will do the same for platforms.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

And for leveling up your sales skills, nothing beats a good sales book. So what are the best sales books for helping you reach peak performance? Have been recommended by sales professionals. Here’s how you can find the sales books that are most relevant to you. Here they are… The 97 Best Sales Books in 2020.

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 14, 2023

A double-booking problem emerges Named for a character role in the Netflix series, Game of Thrones , Squire set out to be a reservation system for barbershops: “Open Table for barbers”, as some have put it. In a sense, it was originally more like a lead generation service, or marketplace for barbershops.

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SaaStr

MARCH 19, 2019

Niall Wall, Box SVP of Business and Corporate Development alongside Vicki Lin, Stripe’s Head of Ecosystem and Cecilia Stallsmith, Slack’s Director of Platform Marketing discuss scaling your revenue via indirect channels and platform ecosystems. Vicki, if you’d give us your intro. Vicki Lin : Great. Thank you Ceci.

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Backlinkfy

JULY 30, 2019

Let’s help you understand these terms as you take action to improve your online business marketing strategy. Affiliate: A publisher or website owner that forwards qualified or targeted audience web traffic to an online merchant on a pay-for-performance basis is called an affiliate in the context of online marketing.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

Has been CEO before, was CEO of Alfresco Software and long career in software and comes in, I think, with a lot of passion for customers and customer success, which I’m excited to hear about and also comes in live streaming, my understanding is from a boat right now, right Bernadette? You need to discover in the sales process.

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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. They Formed a Strategic Partnership With an Agency to Work On Their Brand Positioning Dopple’s team worked with Tomorrow , an ecommerce-focused agency, to shape their positioning. “We

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 23, 2020

The faster you grow, the more likely you are to achieve long-term success (and actually survive long enough to scale). Along the way, they’ve become something of a leading authority on subscription businesses. This is Season Two of Scale , Intercom’s podcast series on moving from startup to scale-up. Poor marketing.

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