SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

In the past months, he has offered a pricing teardown to every subscription business you can think of, from Spotify and Netflix to NYTimes and Match.com.Patrick’s professional experience is diverse and curious: his first job was at the U.S. Then she joined Winning By Design in 2017 as Latin America Director.

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Buffer Resources

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

  For example, take a look at how our Content team worked together back in 2017 to plan our editorial calendar. But before sending the article off to my colleagues for review, I run a perfunctory check through Grammarly, for which we have a team subscription.

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Chart Mogul

JULY 24, 2018

Subscription businesses are experimenting with hybrid billing models, mixing recurring revenue with one-time payments. Here are some examples of successful hybrid billing strategies in the industry today. In the enterprise software market, the move to a recurring revenue model is effectively complete.

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Chart Mogul

APRIL 20, 2018

I sat down with Ulysses founder Max Seelemann to understand the thinking behind the company's move to a subscription-based model in 2017 which made waves in the software industry. Recurring payments give us planning security and enable deep thought. The economics of perpetual licensing vs. subscriptions.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 12, 2018

Most notably he led growth strategy at Creative Market (a global marketplace for design content that was acquired by Autodesk) and Hired.com. Dribbble was bootstrapped for nearly a decade before being acquired in early 2017, when Zack joined, and it was already profitable too. He’s also a mentor at Reforge and 500 Labs.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 29, 2019

As Intercom’s business grew rapidly in 2017, we found ourselves at this exact crossroads. Authoritative, actionable strategies on how to grow your business. A substitute for strategy or planning. For example, our leadership team might decide to focus our company strategy on targeting the segments with the best revenue retention.

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Chargify

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Over the last decade, recurring revenue has emerged as the preferred model for businesses moving beyond transactional commerce. While the first generation of recurring revenue was defined by simple subscriptions—think Netflix’s original “one-size-fits-all” $7.99 From Static Subscriptions To The Relationship Economy.

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Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 1, 2017

They sell their APM software as a perpetual software license in addition to a subscription (SaaS). First, Subscription generated 80% of the revenue in 2014. AppDynamics subscription revenue has three parts: time-bound licenses (42% of last 9 months’ revenue), SaaS (38.6% AppDynamics employed a top-down strategy.

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Chart Mogul

MARCH 6, 2018

Spotify's recent F-1 filing is packed full of metrics and insights into both consumer subscriptions and the streaming music industry. Spotify’s filing gives us a rare look into the metrics of a large-scale consumer subscription business. This is likely due to family subscriptions and internationalization. Customer Churn Rate.

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Neil Patel

AUGUST 27, 2021

In 2017, Substack took the market by storm by allowing creatives, journalists, and bloggers to make money from their own email newsletters. Substack provides a way to build an email marketing list, write newsletters, charge subscribers, and manage payments. This strategy allows you to continue to engage with your entire audience.

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Chart Mogul

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

In 2016, Apple rolled out expanded support for the subscription model in iOS apps — suggesting that subscriptions were the future for publishers on the App Store. Over 18 months have passed since this announcement, and native support for subscriptions on iOS is fully rolled out and available to app publishers.

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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.

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SaaSX

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

It could be argued that the biggest technological advance the 2010s brought was the rise of cloud computing and cloud-based subscription services. This is an extremely powerful approach, and more companies are switching to PLG strategies every day. As a result of this shift, software services as we know them were born. Camille Nicita.

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Navint

JUNE 25, 2019

Jeff Wissink shares what Navint has found to be the secret to establishing value-based subscription pricing, and it may surprise you. Whenever we work with clients on their recurring revenue businesses, the topic of subscription pricing inevitability comes up. A Streaming Service Story of Subscription Pricing.

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OpenView Labs

JULY 2, 2020

Nailing your SaaS pricing strategy requires more than just picking the optimal price and forgetting about it. B2B and B2C SaaS and Subscription Report. Updated weekly to show the impact of COVID-19, this resource from ProfitWell includes data from their subscription companies. Picking a Pricing Strategy for Your Product.

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 24, 2022

This is one of the key challenges we faced at Eventbrite when we radically shifted our strategy in 2020. This is a very common strategy for enterprise companies with large margins. I have written about this strategy before here. The pros of this strategy seem pretty obvious. Uber did the same exact thing with Uber Eats.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 10, 2018

First zero in on a strategy for achieving your desired outcome , and then pick high quality metrics to validate your tests. When I’m analyzing the growth strategy of a new product, I skip the homepage. That seems to be when they changed their strategy. Adam Risman: Andrew, welcome to Inside Intercom. Andrew: Totally.

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Neil Patel

DECEMBER 1, 2020

The numbers behind live streaming are impressive , and if you’re not already, you should be incorporating this medium into your marketing strategy. When you realize that the average NBA game in the 2017-18 season attracted 1.93 As with any marketing strategy, your success is going to be dependent on the quality of your content.

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Neil Patel

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Proximity.Directory’s Q1 2017 Report also noted that beacons are the most popular proximity technology in the industry. However, an estimated 90 percent of smartphone users have at least one subscription to a rewards program. One company that yielded pretty amazing results using a different strategy was NOMI.

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Neil Patel

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Some of the most recognizable brands in the world include memes in their content marketing strategy. Subscription service BarkBox has based their Instagram account on all those funny little quirks about dogs that only dog lovers know. Here’s why: Memes Increase Engagement. Memes are very shareable and help people connect through humor.

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Neil Patel

DECEMBER 8, 2020

In 2017, Facebook launched its answer to the burgeoning streaming video market: Facebook Watch. In 2019, Facebook’s head of global creative strategy Rick Van Veen told Variety , We’re still figuring it out and learning. They can also set a price and collect payment easily. Fan Subscriptions. Use the Subscription Function.

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FastSpring

MARCH 6, 2019

In addition, PayPal made it easier for merchants to send and monitor invoices to their customers by consolidating all financial data in one location. Yes, Paypal’s popularity with buyers and ease of integration make it an ideal candidate to consider when your online store is in need of an online payment processor. Probably not.

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ChurnZero

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Between 2017 and 2022, the venture capital & principal trading market in the US grew at an annualized rate of more than 11%. Companies are seeing the writing on the wall and investing in strategies to drive those necessary efficiencies—one of those ways is by investing in Customer Success and other strategies that improve CX. .

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Outseta

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Subscription management widget A huge part of our value prop hinges on reducing the amount of time SaaS start-ups spend managing the technology infrastructure that their businesses depend on. With that in mind, we built a feature we’re calling our subscription management widget. So what is it?

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Unbounce

MARCH 2, 2020

If you’re curious, you can take a look at the 2017 version in the meantime.). Strategy, emotion, persuasion, and most importantly—creating a customer-centric landing page. million conversions. Get hyped—it’s coming soon to a marketing inbox near you. But there are other parts they miss out on ALL THE TIME. Sound cool?

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User Pilot

JULY 12, 2021

In this guide, we’ll provide step-by-step processes to generate hard, actionable data and clear strategies for making the most of your relationship with your customers. Customer retention analytics are doubly important as they support your strategy to help avoid customer loss and maximize customer potential.

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ChurnZero

APRIL 27, 2021

million round of financing led by Grotech Ventures in 2017. Their strategy is simple. Account expansion is often a more telling metric at this stage as those companies with high-growth potential will often see off-cycle expansion just a quarter or two into a new customer subscription – the proverbial land and expand. .

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Valuize Consulting

DECEMBER 7, 2021

In the subscription economy, there’s no debate about whether or not to invest in Customer Success (CS); 70% of rapidly growing businesses say that Customer Success is extremely important ( Hubspot , 2017). Level Up Your Customer Success Organization. The second challenge organizations face is two-pronged: segmentation and engagement.

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Baremetrics

JULY 29, 2021

Lack of Post-engagement Strategy 3. Lack of Post-engagement Strategy When users are actively using your product during a trial period, they are exponentially more likely to become paying customers. This is why post-engagement strategies are a must. During the 2017 last holiday season. Try Baremetrics free.

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Chart Mogul

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Designing and defining the pricing for your SaaS product may be one of the most difficult aspects of building a subscription business. ” is a tough question to answer, but that doesn’t cover even half of it… there are many similar questions on the road to defining subscription pricing, including: Should my pricing scale?

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Chargify

AUGUST 6, 2019

Welcome to the Subscription Rockstars series! And, of course, we will pay special attention to how their subscription billing models and pricing strategies contributed to their growth. And, of course, we will pay special attention to how their subscription billing models and pricing strategies contributed to their growth.

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ChurnZero

AUGUST 25, 2020

Twitter can be a goldmine for discovering the latest Customer Success trends and strategies. Her focus is on capital-efficient , go-to-market strategies across sales, marketing, customer success and support. But do you know where to look for them? .

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OpenView Labs

MARCH 10, 2019

I’ve been a part of building freemium strategies at three companies: Pure Chat (seed round), Profitwell (bootstrapped) and Pluralsight (Nasdaq: PS). Why freemium is an acquisition strategy, not a revenue model. For the year that followed, annual recurring revenue grew 230%. Traditional freemium is an acquisition strategy.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

I took a quick break to go to business school, and then from there, I joined LinkedIn, initially to grow their subscriptions product, and then moved around to various different functions like consumer marketing for the home page. It’s what we spent most of 2017 building out.

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Outseta

JANUARY 10, 2020

Our strategy across these dimensions has been singularly focused on building a company that’s lean, healthy, and sustainable. Forte fees are payment processing expenses that have grown significantly over 2018 as we’ve processed more subscription payments. 2017 2018 2019 Total. We became a Stripe Verified Partner.

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ProfitWell

MARCH 6, 2020

Listen wherever you get podcasts: Your top subscription news. When Autodesk set the goal of moving to a subscription-based business, company leadership knew change was necessary because the company as a whole would be engaging with customers differently.". That’s it for your March 6 episode of Recur Now. Canada and U.K.

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How SaaS Works

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Architecting an effective, long running content marketing strategy has proven difficult for most companies. One of the best ways to learn how to create such a strategy comes from studying the content marketing successes and failures of others. We had settled on a bottom-up sales strategy?—?get

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