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How to Calculate LTV (And Why It’s Important)

FastSpring

It’s called Lifetime Value (LTV), and it’ll tell you how much a customer will spend during their time with your business. Depending on what calculation you use, LTV can paint an honest picture of whether your customers are spending and staying long enough to cover acquisition costs and hopefully—make you a profit.

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Is Strategy Dead in Tech? The Winners Don’t Think So

OPEXEngine

It often seems as if traditional strategy development processes have no place in the fast-moving, always changing technology industries. It’s not really surprising that so many tech company executives punt on the traditional corporate strategy process. What they don’t do is get bogged down in process or complexity. At a Glance.

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What Are The Top 50 SaaS Companies in 2020?

SmartKarrot

SaaS companies have transformed the way global businesses work. Ever since its inception in the 1960s, SaaS has evolved from a mere time-sharing system to innovative and efficient applications that can be accessed on multiple computers. In this blog we’ll talk about SaaS business and top 50 SaaS companies in 2020.

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The Ultimate SaaS Pricing Resources Guide

OpenView Labs

Pricing is a SaaS company’s most efficient profit lever, but it’s also one of the easiest things to screw up. Nailing your SaaS pricing strategy requires more than just picking the optimal price and forgetting about it. It includes the latest and greatest SaaS pricing resources, as well as some timeless staples.

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The Comprehensive Guide to Subscription Revenue

FastSpring

The way we purchase products is changing—and so are our business models. When it comes to software and online purchases, those transactions are increasingly moving to a subscription-based model, where customers put their purchases on autopilot so they can have continuous access to SaaS products. The best part?

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Matching Price to Value: 3 Lessons in Monetization from Menlo Ventures (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

SaaS is about creating long-term value for your customer, and being compensated appropriately for that value as a business. I began my career in new product development and starting in 2011 got really excited about the high growth phase of a company. Monetization had 4X the impact compared to acquisition. Hi, everybody.

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7 Subscription Billing Models To Consider in 2019 For Your SaaS Business

Chargify

“Launching their “forever free” plan helped MailChimp grow their profit (yes, profit – not revenue) 650% in one year by lowering their customer acquisition costs,” says Chris Von Willpert from Sumo. Then they gradually increased it to the current 2000 subscriber limit which was introduced in 2011. Pay-per-seat. image source).