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Approaching Half a Million Customers: How to Win in SMB with BILL CEO and Founder René Lacerte

SaaStr

A mobile phone is their dominant source of managing business activities. When you get bigger, say 20 to 50 to 100 monthly transactions, you probably have an accounting person in BILL daily. Then, in 2017, with around $50M in revenue, BILL added payment capabilities. If you screw up one payment, customers are going to be angry.

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Micro Startup Acquisition: The Definitive Guide to Buying and Selling Small Startups

Neil Patel

Micro startup acquisitions. But before we dive into that, we need to look into what micro startup acquisitions are and why you need to sit up and take notice. Micro Startup Acquisitions: What Are They, and Why Should I Care? Micro Startup Acquisition Trends. That’s an expensive mistake if you make the wrong investment.

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The Marketer’s Guide to Gain Brand Mileage on Google Maps

Neil Patel

After making a series of company acquisitions, Google started its desktop web mapping service in 2005. While optimizing your website for Google search results is a good start, there’s still a disparity between map and web search results. Google Maps actually started as a C++ program at Where 2 Technologies. But, guess what?

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How To Grow Your Startup By Asking Better Questions

Hitenism

Google Analytics didn’t keep track of users over time which meant it was virtually impossible to track multiple visits, purchases, and subscription payments. When we started Crazy Egg in 2005, it was pretty hard to get new customers without spending money on paid acquisition. Talk To Your Customers. How do we engage them?

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Finding the Next Wave of Growth: S-Curves and Product Sequencing

Casey Accidental

Most companies have a primary acquisition loop that drives this scalable growth, and unfortunately, there aren’t that many acquisition loops that really scale. And you start being able to acquire more of them in a scalable way i.e. an acquisition loop. In fact, they complain more, because they like the product enough to care.

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Subscription Management and What You Should Know

Baremetrics

Many products and services online are beginning to adopt subscription-based systems for their billing processes. Subscription management defines a range of operations revolving around the customer lifecycle, including handling refunds, assigning credits, handling adjustments to subscription models mid-cycle, payment methods, etc.

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Understanding the SaaS business model

ProfitWell

Ever since John Koenig first coined the term “SaaS” back in 2005, the software-as-a-service industry has been one of the fastest-moving and creative in the world. Recurring payments. Recurring payments take the form of monthly recurring revenue, otherwise known as MRR. In SaaS, clients do not buy hardware. Growth stage.