SaaStr

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Do your best so that customers can find and experience your product’s value quickly and let your product and pricing sell themselves. Atlassian has also cultivated an enormous online and in-person community where customers turn to other customers when they need help. This makes it easy for customers to expand their use cases.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Sell to more existing customers. It’s one thing to bring the customer over the line and sell for the first time. Your selling team will 3x, and sales will become codified. When scaling from founder-led sales to another person selling the product, customers become more demanding. The solution?

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FastSpring

AUGUST 2, 2023

Selling Software Internationally With FastSpring Croatia is a relatively small country with a population of only 4 million people. “We We do less than 1% of our business in Croatia, so it’s not really a big market for us,” added TestDome’s head of customer success and sales Igor Novosel. Set up a demo or try it out for yourself.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

While we use Zapier here at SaaStr and are super familiar with it, for those who don’t use the tool, it’s a workflow automation platform that connects your data sources and apps to help maximize the efficiency of your teams, tools, and processes without relying on a developer team. Simply put the product does the selling.

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FastSpring

APRIL 18, 2024

These include how to account for local pricing and preferred local payment methods, varied buyer behaviors, how to display checkouts with local languages, and much more — all of which can be different for every country you want to sell into. Validate problem-solution fit of your product (and how it might differ in different markets).

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Not only have these tips helped grow my agency, but these are tried-and-true methods we use for our clients as well. Whether you’re an SME or a massive conglomerate, you can use these strategies to increase your sales and give your Q4 pipeline a kick in the direction. Leverage Social Selling. What is social selling?

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 18, 2020

While we’ve been shopping for items like clothes or shoes online for years, another trend is now emerging—business-to-business (B2B) ecommerce. It’s easy to think of online sales as a marketplace where we buy items for ourselves, but more and more B2B and SaaS sales are now happening online. Let’s get selling!

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FastSpring

JANUARY 10, 2023

There are tons of monthly recurring billing software solutions available, so it can seem difficult to determine which one is right for your business. The second factor to consider is whether or not the solution was built for your type of business. FastSpring: All-in-One Billing Solution for SaaS. Case Study Examples.

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Buffer Resources

APRIL 2, 2024

My mom and I were both obsessed with using cold temperatures to increase cellular turnover, reduce inflammation, and firm the skin, but I hated the experience of having to hold an ice cube in my hands for minutes at a time. I just stood in our living room explaining why I created the product and how to use it.

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Subscription Flow

MARCH 28, 2024

In this blog, keeping all this mind, we examine the crucial roles that MoRs play for SaaS companies, supported by actual case studies that demonstrate the advantages of these collaborations. How It Can Become the Backbone of Your Online Transactions Section 1: Why you may need a merchant of record for SaaS companies?

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 9, 2022

In this piece, we’ll be comparing 7 SaaS billing solutions that we separate into three categories: Subscription management: This type of software lets you automate free trials, recurring payment schedules, and the dunning process. You’ll still need a separate solution for payment processing, taxes, chargebacks, and more.

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Stax

JANUARY 28, 2024

Long before the digital age, newspaper and magazine companies have been using the subscription model to create and retain a consistent readership for their publications. Implementing a robust, automated recurring billing solution with subscription-based businesses in mind. The alternative? What Is Recurring Billing?

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Neil Patel

MARCH 1, 2021

One solution to this problem may be productized services. When we outline precisely what a customer will get and at what price, we can market and sell this “product” many times. Once you productize your service, you can sell it to multiple customers. For even more predictability, you can sell subscriptions to your services.

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SaaStr

JUNE 8, 2022

They’re forced to choose between continuing to use inefficient email clients or customer service software built to replace the human touch instead of amplifying it. . Or are you in a saturated market that addresses a commonly accepted problem where you need to really emphasize that your solution is different from the competition?

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Neil Patel

APRIL 20, 2021

Selling can be challenging because it involves s a complex process of human behavior and cognition. Whether you’re selling a digital product online or you run a brick-and-mortar business, these behavioral neuroscience principles will work for you. You see, influential people tend to sell more product. Cialdini, Ph.D.,

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FastSpring

JANUARY 19, 2023

When NitroPack was first getting started, they used PayPal to accept and process payments. “It It was out of the box for us, and we didn’t want to spend time integrating anything,” Nitropack cofounder Georgi Petrov explained. This solution lasted less than a month. Using PayPal, software companies can send U.S.-style

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Use timing as a forcing function. Accordingly, the recruiting of beta customers and roadmap selling happen earlier, providing for customer quotes as part of the launch. Frame solutions, rather than features alone. For example, updates on more customers using the product. Start early! Make sure your message lands.

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Neil Patel

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Small businesses or brand-conscious entrepreneurs will love Wix with its easy-to-use, cheap features, and greater design flexibility. But if you’re looking for a serious ecommerce solution to scale and sell worldwide and have the bigger budget and technical knowledge to flatten the learning curve, stick with Shopify.

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Neil Patel

APRIL 7, 2020

From having to practice social distancing and getting used to life without the outdoors to continually washing our hands and wearing masks and seeing loved ones and friends getting sick, the Coronavirus is something none of us expected. In all cases that I have seen, the result is more traffic. Even our businesses are suffering.

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TrackStreet

OCTOBER 11, 2023

No brand protection strategy can keep your brand 100% safe at all times—especially if you sell through online resale channels. But that’s not a priority for your distributors and retail partners; they need to think about selling the inventory they’ve purchased from you, so they can turn a profit.

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Neil Patel

DECEMBER 10, 2020

How do you successfully manage your online reputation, too? But if you’re already managing a lot, your best bet is outsourcing it to an ORM, or an online reputation manager. Your online image can determine how long you stay in business and if your profits grow year after year. The Top 4 Options For Online Reputation Management.

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Neil Patel

MARCH 7, 2021

One platform where you can sell just about anything to anyone anywhere? Whether you’re a small business starting up or you’re already raking in millions in sales, Shopify is an extremely powerful ecommerce website builder that helps your online business empire run smoothly, capture sales, and grow. That’s Shopify in a nutshell.

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Stax

JANUARY 24, 2024

Before 2013 though, credit card brands like Visa and Mastercard didn’t allow surcharging because they didn’t want to discourage customers from using credit cards as a preferred mode of payment. However, after a 2013 lawsuit, card companies started allowing businesses to charge customers a fee for using credit cards.

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Stax

JANUARY 24, 2024

Before 2013 though, credit card brands like Visa and Mastercard didn’t allow surcharging because they didn’t want to discourage customers from using credit cards as a preferred mode of payment. However, after a 2013 lawsuit, card companies started allowing businesses to charge customers a fee for using credit cards.

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Neil Patel

JUNE 8, 2021

Have you defined the distribution channels that will be used by your company? Distribution channels are the path products take from their initial manufacturing stage to selling them to consumers. This is the case with people who do catalog sales, for example. Basically, they concern who will be allowed to sell your products.

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Neil Patel

JANUARY 8, 2021

Ads, a cap on how much traffic you can get, sudden downtimes, and little to no customer support are just some of the trade-offs that come with using a free host. In the case of a free web host, it has limitations that don’t appeal to everyone. Use the following parameters to figure out whether a free web hosting service is worth a try.

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FastSpring

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Epic Games wants to take control of their online sales with its own marketplace. Why this isn’t a reasonable solution for all companies. Smartphones are essential computing devices that people use to live their lives and conduct their business. Epic Games Wants to Take Control of their Online Sales with its Own Marketplace.

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FastSpring

JANUARY 26, 2024

Jake says that since the current trend is to measure their success through the customer’s success, they use three key value drivers: employee engagement, engagement in a transformation (within a period of change), and continuous improvement. What was the first thing you bought online? Listen to the episode to hear more details.

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Subscription Flow

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

This can be done through a variety of platforms, including social media, email marketing, online ads, and content marketing. This indicates that the clients are typically businesses in need of specialized solutions for various aspects of their business operations, including project management, marketing, accounting, and so on.

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User Pilot

OCTOBER 26, 2023

We also look at examples of companies that have managed to ace product-led growth for complex software solutions. TL;DR Product-led growth is a strategy that uses the product as the main source of growth. Personalized onboarding allows users to learn how to use the product and reduce time to value. Let’s get right to it!

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Stax

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

They must engineer a well-rounded solution that makes handling subscriptions a breeze (and yes, it is as hard as it sounds). But if you’re a B2B solution, there’s a high likelihood that businesses will be interested in being able to accept customer payments, rather than just sending them a PayPal link or to a generic payment gateway.

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FastSpring

APRIL 30, 2020

Mailbird is an easy-to-use email management software for Windows users around the world. The Mailbird team reviewed many different options to find a solution for their business needs, but they quickly realized solutions like Stripe and PayPal weren’t enough to help them to be successful in selling globally.

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Natalia Luneva

JUNE 2, 2021

I interviewed 10 SaaS companies asking them: Why they use event marketing in their strategy; . 10 SaaS online event marketing examples. Like everyone, with the shut-down of in-person events for 2020 and into 2021 we pivoted to an online summit. By doing this, our registrations increased 200% from previous (in-person) years.

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Neil Patel

JANUARY 4, 2021

Have you used shops on Instagram? What if you could take passive interaction to the next level and actually buy and sell directly from the platform? What if you could take passive interaction to the next level and actually buy and sell directly from the platform? Be selective about the images you are using for your products.

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Neil Patel

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Online shopping is more convenient than ever, and so is building an ecommerce store. If you’ve ever considered launching your own online business, chances are you’ve thought about the required tools. Cutting right to the chase, you have to consider your use-case scenario to choose between the two.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 16, 2023

One of the toughest challenges for founders — and especially technical founders who are used to focusing so much on product features over sales — is striking “product-market fit”. AppDynamics was building, monitoring and troubleshooting solutions for complex software apps. the night before it was to IPO).

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Today, with 11 percent of all shopping is done online , it’s vital you know the digital platforms that will give your B2C niche service brand the reach it needs to flourish. A B2C niche marketplace is an online platform that matches vendors who provide specialized service providers with their ideal customers. Special Guest App.

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