FastSpring

MAY 14, 2019

You’d park your car, mosey on into the store, and then go through the process of scouring the shelves for the pristine cardboard box that housed a physical copy of your application. Any updates to the software meant that you’d repeat the entire buying process (including the trip to the store) all over again. And that was it.

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SaaStock

MARCH 1, 2019

What is far more valuable is a focused market strategy beyond initial scattered foray. BEENEXT is a Singapore-based VC investing in fintech, platforms, payments and SaaS businesses. The company has invested in ride-hailing, retail, online media, and electric car makers both inside and outside China. Founded: 2017.

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Unbounce

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

/ Landing page optimization Mastering ecommerce conversion rate optimization: expert tips and inspirational examples By Alan O’Sullivan. 37 min read If you work on ecommerce projects and you’re not already BFFs with conversion rate optimization (aka “CRO”), you’re really missing out. What is a good ecommerce conversion rate?

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Unbounce

JUNE 1, 2021

Experiences like this can make you think that retargeting ads—those ads that resurface products and services you looked at but didn’t take action on—are too pushy and sales-y to be worth including in your marketing strategy. View multiple pages on your website. Nobody wants to be that type of marketer.). Subscribe to your newsletter.

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SaaStr

APRIL 23, 2019

” The whole point of building a corporation, is not having personal liability attached to it. So, there’s all these people who are just using debit cards, and just walking around with debit cards with 120 000 in the bank, or just using their personal card for all these things. We know a lot about payments.

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Blulogix

MAY 16, 2025

Maybe even macros from 2017. Devices are online, services are running, but invoices? How to Fix It Fixing your IoT monetization strategy doesnt mean overhauling your tech stack overnight. Put the Customer in Control A customer portal isnt just about payments. But back at HQ? Your billing process lives in Excel.

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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. Don’t use Substack in a vacuum; pair it with a website.

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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. Firstly, here are the subscription features Apple currently supports on the App Store: Auto-renewable subscriptions (user automatically remains subscribed until cancellation).

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User Pilot

JULY 23, 2020

You’re leaving cash on the table for your competitors to sweep up if you don’t have a strategy for retention marketing. So, in this blog we’ll show you how to keep your customers happy with a targeted retention strategy. So promoting usage will be the centrepiece of our retention strategy. Congratulations! Day 1 Retention.

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Buffer Resources

JUNE 22, 2023

👀 To keep up with Jahleane, check out her website and follow her on TikTok and LinkedIn. She's found success in creating content that reflects her personal experiences, challenges, and aspirations, resonating deeply with her audience. In this article, learn from Jahleane’s experiences and her advice for creators.

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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. Personalized email is a safe tunnel to reach your customers’ hearts.

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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. About half of respondents, evenly distributed across size or industry, were offering temporary relief on payment terms. Why You Need to Review Your Pricing Strategy Today (and How to do it Right). SaaS Pricing Basics.

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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. Hyper-Personalized Content. Paid Online Events. They can also set a price and collect payment easily.

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SaaStr

MARCH 17, 2020

Another way that customers become advocates is a personal relationship with the account team. We can also ask informally during a catch-up call, a site visit, personal email out to a ballgame, would you be willing to be an advocate for Talkdesk? One the first one, online reviews is a huge area of focus for our customer marketing team.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

If you look back on February 5th, 2019, which was the SaaStr Annual, hopefully many of you were there in person, we gave the state of the cloud presentation and talked about the power of the industry, and the power that’s been building in terms of market capitalization of just the public cloud companies and what they show.

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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. Physical subscriptions (ecommerce + subscription box). Example: Under Armour. The move to a hybrid model can work both ways.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 22, 2018

Upon joining that team, I led online marketing and user acquisition growth for about a year. There are trade-offs between the two, and clearly their method won out. There was one other person inside the company already digging into this lever, so we connected and really hit it off. We raised a $1.5-million

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Buffer Resources

AUGUST 16, 2023

For us, that’s a rewarding indication we’ve stayed true to our mission and strategy to support small businesses. Merchant Fees At Buffer, we rely on Stripe, Google, and Apple for our payment processing needs. Stripe payments make up 98.5 Google and Apple payments make up 2.5%

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ProfitWell

JULY 18, 2019

Pricing discrepancies and extra costs were the primary cause of abandoned carts for 60% of respondents in a 2017 survey from Baymard. A pricing discrepancy (sometimes referred to as a rate discrepancy) happens when a customer goes to the checkout page on your website and finds a different price than they expected for their order.

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Outseta

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Account registration For the very first time, our product is publicly available - you can create a free account on our website and check out the product for yourself. Our subscription management widget is a javascript widget that can be dropped into any website in a matter of minutes. ” — Outseta Beta User. So what is it?

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Chart Mogul

MARCH 6, 2018

Increased product personalization — This can lead to a stickier product with more invested, engaged users. Undoubtedly, Spotify’s array of personalized playlists (especially Discover Weekly) keep people subscribed. year-over-year in Q4 2017). These grew by 27% year over year in 2017. TL;DR: ARPA is down from €6.84

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Casey Accidental

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

It looked like this: We eventually re-architected our engagement loops to be based around personalization instead of around friends. We think of this as sequencing different S-curves of growth. billion exit, Grubhub made a lot of mistakes. billion exit, Grubhub made a lot of mistakes.

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

So, I co-founded another payments company called PropertyBridge, which allowed you to pay rent electronically. And I wanted to do another payments company, but I didn’t know what I wanted to do. You’re a payment nerd. I’m more of an infrastructure person. Why don’t you put them on a card?

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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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Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Since the original version of this post from early 2017, we’ve worked with many more SaaS companies and a common theme has been moving companies from a starter template to a more robust financial model. The first method is error-prone to say the least, and the second is just too time-consuming (and still error-prone). Even the 1.0

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ChurnZero

APRIL 27, 2021

million round of financing led by Grotech Ventures in 2017. Their strategy is simple. They in hindsight realize they’ve been entirely focused on optimizing the go-to-market motion and refining the sales strategy that they have completely ignored the “Customer Success” function. Early-Stage Funding & Customer Success.

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Outseta

JANUARY 9, 2019

2017 2018 Total. building Outseta - roughly $8,000 in 2017 and $24,000 in 2018. The majority of our expenses in 2017 were related to software and development infrastructure required to build the product. Forte fees represent payment processing costs associated with one of the payment gateways we support, Forte Payment systems.

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ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

The article by Zuora nods to the success of the Financial Times —whose business is so booming that it’s now sharing its subscription learnings with the world via something called “FT Strategies.”. Putting readers’ preferences and interests first should be the core of any subscription strategy, because simply put: it pays off.

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Kraftblick

JULY 11, 2018

Feinman became a public example of a ghostwriter—a specialist hired to create books, articles, speeches or other written pieces that are credited to another person as the author. They are a product of a well-thought marketing strategy, well-tuned processes, and well-deserved experience. Image source: brainlesstales.com. We have it all.

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SmartKarrot

APRIL 13, 2020

As companies are increasingly interested to use SaaS as a winning strategy, several recent trends in 2020 have been observed amongst top SaaS businesses: In 2020, it is very important for SaaS businesses to create customer-success functions and take a more proactive approach towards customer success management. billion in 2017.

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SmartKarrot

JANUARY 18, 2022

Found by Abhijit Pattanaik in 2016, Playtonia is an e-sports platform technology company that helps online gamers connect and develop communities. Visual Website Optimiser (VWO). Found by Prabhu Ramachandran, Yogendra Babu, Rajavel Subramanian, and Krishnamoorthi Rangasamy in 2017, Facilio Inc is another popular SaaS startup.

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Incredo

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

maintain healthy atmosphere in your Smarketing team, make smart choices regarding your SaaS sales model, strategy, pricing, . SaaS Sales Strategy. Do you also ignore these 5 sales strategies like most of the SaaS CEO’s do? 8 Smart tactics for your SaaS customer acquisition strategy. SaaS Pricing.

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SaaStr

MAY 27, 2020

Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. If you look at this graph, it simply plots out how many people filed in the weeks before 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020. So the ability for people to store oil doesn’t exist. I’ll give you an example in your personal life.

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Casey Accidental

DECEMBER 11, 2023

And if the market is growing fast, market growth can frequently drive enough company growth on its own, like, say, Shopify with ecommerce. Their retention strategies were also different. I was an advisor to Canva starting in 2017, and got to work with Figma while I was a growth advisor at Greylock, which led the series A investment.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 17, 2018

P-MAP and other qualification methods. For example: I know Coca-Cola can help me when I’m thirsty, I know a drill can help me with holes in the wall to hang my TV, I know IKEA has some dresser where I can store clothes. Finally you get a signature or receive payment! P-MAP and other Lead Qualification Methods. Conclusion.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 29, 2020

In this very special episode of Inside Intercom, I sat down with Des, our co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer, for a wide-ranging conversation about our respective journeys so far, our thoughts on Intercom through the years, and what the future holds. Short on time? Here are a few quick takeaways: Focus on your customers.

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SaaStr

JUNE 14, 2019

What does Dave believe is crucial to achieve in these in person meetings? But to our episode today and an individual that I’ve learned so much from in the past, both personally and through his writing, and so I could not be more thrilled to welcome back Dave Kellogg to the hot seat today. How long do they last?

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