Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

These acquisitions, which focus more on scope than scale, accounted for 90% of tech deals in 2019 , which is a 40% increase from 2015. In 2019, Facebook quickly snapped up a visual search startup called GrokStyle , who developed an app that can automatically detect decor and home furniture from a photo. Micro Acquire. Who Is It For?

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Technical Review Payment Methods Acquisition Development Team Review 144

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Software as a Service is currently taxable in about one-third of US states, and that number is only growing as outdated state sales tax laws slowly catch up with the way we’re doing business today. . Mark was named 2019’s number one Small and Mid-Sized CEO by Comparably. Understand your sales tax responsibilities. Mark earned his B.A.

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Merchant Services Scale Technical Review Sales Hiring 169

Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 10, 2019

Des: We’re going to talk entirely about 2019, and this will be mostly looking forward. Do you think that will keep going in 2019, or have we seen as much as you expect here? I remember when I wrote that blog post in 2014, Google Now had just been announced. What’s ahead in 2019. Des: They have, what, 800 million users?

Scale 143

Scale Banking Technical Review Systems Review 143

CloudGeometry

MARCH 22, 2022

In this blog series, we explore how these three dimensions figure into key technical recommendations which enable scale in pursuit of SaaS business growth. The intensity of competition in the SaaS marketplace puts a premium on new, stable, and reliable features. The winners offer a better and faster way to solve customer problems.

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DevOps as a Service Software Delivery Well Architected Framework AWS 130

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

268: Ryan Bonnici is the CMO @ G2, the company that allows you to get the right software and services for your business with over 897,000 user reviews to help you make smarter buying decisions. This podcast is an excerpt of Romain’s session at SaaStr Annual 2019. How does Ryan think about the relationship between the two?

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Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale Software Review 129

OPEXEngine

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

SMB customers will want high-touch sales engagement and service delivery but SMM SaaS companies will likely not have the budget necessary to justify providing this level of sales support. The most common strategies are Direct Sales, Inside Sales, eCommerce Marketplaces, and Partnerships. eCommerce Marketplaces. Direct Sales.

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SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Methods Marketplace as a Service 52

Neil Patel

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Are you looking to monetize your blog or earn a passive income? An affiliate network connects publishers, like blog owners or influencers, with companies looking to promote their products or services. Affiliate networks work as a marketplace for affiliate programs. What is an Affiliate Network? Networks can vary widely.

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Merchant Services Payments Payment Methods Marketing 140

User Pilot

MARCH 29, 2024

Digital marketing : Target potential customers online by attracting them to your online marketplace or website. Every usage of Calendly's service, thus, becomes a promotion of its brand. It combines a regularly updated blog with a targeted newsletter for product analysts and managers.

Branding 86

Branding Social Media Technical Review Software Review 86

FastSpring

DECEMBER 18, 2020

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. As of 2019, B2B ecommerce sales globally have surpassed $12 trillion in revenue. According to Statista, B2B sales are now 6X larger than the business-to-consumer (B2C) market.

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Payment Methods B2B Outsourcing Services Payment Services 148

The Marketing & Growth Hacking Publication

FEBRUARY 3, 2019

OTT (Over the Top) streaming services like Netflix, Hulu, Spotify, and a plethora of others have pushed subscriptions past an industry fad and into becoming an industry onto itself that is very likely to grow. Stripe is a payment processing service that helps small business owners get paid for their products or services.

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Payment Methods Payments Payment Features Subscription 40

Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 23, 2020

Take HubSpot, for example: over the last five years, they’ve grown their app marketplace from 40 to 350 integrations. In a 2019 earnings release, HubSpot CEO Brian Halligan characterized the company’s evolution as one from “an all-in-one suite to an all-on-one platform.”. They email. Acquire large customers and retain small ones.

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Underperforming Technical Team Scale Payments Payment Services 183

SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2019

Your Customer Should Be the Priority in 2019. jack (@jack) January 18, 2019. These sessions will optimize your team for customer outcomes in 2019. Gillian Heltai, SVP of client services at Talkdesk, will walk you through how to build a high-performing CSM team. Louis Square Customer Success team! Wednesday, February 6.

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Scale Marketplace as a Service Customer Success Scaling 106

Neil Patel

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

My blog attracts millions of viewers, and accolades have stacked up for entrepreneurship, marketing, and influence. NP Digital is a performance marketing agency built by marketers, and our global offices allow us to deliver our specialized services to clients worldwide. Meet our Co-Founders: Neil Patel and Mike Kamo.

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VP of Engineering Marketing Marketplace as a Service Social Media 126

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

Rob Gonzalez: Operationally, I look at, in particular, my experience at Endeca, but also another startup that sold to pharmaceutical companies and other life sciences businesses and financial services companies called Cambridge Semantics. And there’s a lot of benefit to running a software as a service, in general.

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SaaS Payments Scale Payment Services Payment Solutions 264

Chargify

AUGUST 17, 2020

Backed by an army of developers, data engineers, and finance professionals, this events-based billing model allowed these large companies to directly link the value that their services provided with the cost presented on a customer’s invoice. What Amazon Web Services and Twilio Get Right. How AWS Does It.

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AWS Payment Services SaaS Payments Payments 98

yoursales

JANUARY 28, 2022

With the launch of the Pipedrive Marketplace a very wide range of third party apps & integrations. Mimiran – More Leads and More Deals for SMB Services Business. ZeroBounce - Award-Winning Email Validation Service. Originating from customer service, Intercom increasingly are finding their way into the funnel.

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Scale Payment Methods Payment Solutions Sales Recruiting 111

Neil Patel

MARCH 4, 2023

As of 2019, people can now read languages like Hebrew or Arabic with right to left language support. Given the global nature of Airbnb’s services, communication is essential amongst hosts and guests. Think about which regions have a demand for your products or services. Errors = not what we want.

Strategy 81

Strategy Sales Hiring Marketplace as a Service Scale 81

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 27, 2022

After running the first editions of the conference by himself, Alex sold B2B Rocks and, in 2019, he founded Collect , a platform that helps businesses collect and manage client documents, in the hopes that by putting this process on autopilot, teams can be more productive and focus their energy on bigger things. What is the next step?

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Technical Review Software Review Development Team Review Systems Review 118

OpenView Labs

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Though 2019 has been “slow” relative to years prior, headlines and financial experts everywhere are predicting U.S. An increase in competitiveness in the marketplace means candidates have more choices than ever. They want a product/service that’s doing something powerful. Marketing and candidate experience will be table stakes.

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Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale Trends 53

Backlinkfy

JULY 30, 2019

as of May 2019. Amazon also hosts a marketplace wherein other Internet purveyors may display and sell products, and offers several software-as-a-service and infrastructure-as-a-service solutions for business. The marketplace charges a fee for merchants based on the sell of a listed item.

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Payment Methods Merchant Services Payment Services Payment Solutions 40

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

We’re basically the world’s biggest business marketplace. We help buyers of software and services find the best vendors or the best sellers of the products they need. So we’re really interested in building guided buying services through our site where you could say, “My challenge is to increase leads.”

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Education Sales Hiring Software Review Sales Recruiting 123

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Romain Huet : Of course, besides the brand I mentioned earlier like, Google, Apple and Facebook, and so on, a lot of marketplaces also like Uber and Airbnb they tend to think of themselves as platform because they have the buyers and the sellers connecting to each other. Let’s start with our five key steps.

Payments 120

Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payment Services 120

SaaStr

JUNE 3, 2020

It’s 2020 and SaaS buyers are more skeptical and suspicious, more disbelieving, more unconvinced than they were in 2019. The SaaS Trust Crisis is making it harder to market and sell software and services than ever before. com, where we’re building, deleting software marketplace, we’re also seeing software booming.

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Software Review Scale Technical Review SaaS 180

SaaStr

JANUARY 5, 2023

Founded in 2019, Laika (an enterprise-ready compliance platform) closed a $50MM Series C by the summer of 2022. Looking back on its explosive growth, however, the company realized just how badly it needed the valuable services of a Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Key takeaways.

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Sales Hiring Acquisition Forecasting Outsourced Development 43

Navint

JANUARY 29, 2019

Tien Tzuo was the featured speaker for the Executive’s Club of Chicago inaugural program of its 2018-2019 Signature Series. You can read more about the event in our blog post, 3 Insights from Tien Tzuo’s Fireside Chat on the Subscription Economy. ? So this, this is the never ending game it gets is also a dynamic marketplace.

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Subscription Payment Features Marketplace as a Service Scale 53

Navint

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Tien Tzuo was the featured speaker for the Executive’s Club of Chicago inaugural program of its 2018-2019 Signature Series earlier this month. We can see how the customer is interacting with and using our service, therefore we have no choice but to make them happy. So, Fender launched digital services targeted to first-time players.

Subscription 40

Subscription Payment Features Marketplace as a Service Scale 40

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

And our job is to basically find a way to bring that to life, be ambassadors of the brand and bring it out to the marketplace. We didn’t have a blog the first two years I was there. There are a lot of great sort of organic channels that do drive growth and talk about blog posts and whatnot. Don’t get me wrong.

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Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team 213

Point Nine Land

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Both Jack and Rian had tech backgrounds and at the time were providing consulting services to the legal industry. Law practice management software existed, but it required on-premise service and tens of thousands of dollars in annual upkeep, which meant only the big law firms had access to it. Again, this was 2007.

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Neil Patel

JANUARY 21, 2021

The best knowledge we have of Google’s algorithm comes in the form of major algorithm updates like: Mobile-first update (July 2019): Googlebot now looks at all websites as a smartphone, prioritizing sites that work well on mobile devices. You can get a quick fix through services like Mobify or Duda Mobile.

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Outsourcing Services Social Media Mobile Software Review 145

Unbounce

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

In 2019, small businesses spent between $9,000 and $10,000 per month on PPC , with Google making an average of $116.5 As the name implies, purchase intent is when a consumer shows signs of being ready to buy a product or service. Throughout this guide, we’ve been talking as if you’re selling a product or service.

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Payment Methods Payment Solutions Payments AI Search 145

The Marketing & Growth Hacking Publication

DECEMBER 29, 2018

Instead, you create and spread “content” online (blogs, articles, social media) to attract people … because online target audiences want information. Instead of pitching your products or services, you are providing truly relevant and useful content to your prospects and customers to help them solve their issues. and benefits?—?for

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Content Marketing Marketing Entertainment Advertising 40

SaaStr

JULY 11, 2019

What we try to do is this integration between two or three companies to be so flawless that for the customer seems like it’s only one application, but you are taking advantage of the best E-mail service, the best chat service, the best voice service. Look, it’s 2019, we’re using Slack and E-mail and WhatsApp.

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Sales Hiring SMB Scale Cloud 264

SaaStr

DECEMBER 10, 2019

WePay is a payments company for platform businesses like marketplaces, crowdfunding sites & small business software. Chase Merchant Services that we’re now a part of processes $1.2 Well, let’s look ahead to the rest of 2019. Want to see more content like this? A lot of companies show trillion dollar market sizes.

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Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payments 136

SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

Our monthly self-service churn went from like 3% to like 9%, right? It’s just a superpower in 2019. We’re seeing that the marketplace is becoming like more and more noisy, right? AUDIENCE QUESTION 3: We’re seeing that the marketplace is becoming like more and more noisy, right? We were wrong.

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Sales Hiring Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting 203

Unbounce

JUNE 16, 2020

These are often built with agencies, consultants, and managed-service-providers (MSPs) in mind. These partners resell your product and benefit from offering ongoing services, usually on a retainer basis. Or, you might want to partner with agencies that have existing clients and want to make your product part of their service offering.

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Outsourcing Services Sales Recruiting Scale SaaS 131

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The best products, services, and ideas are nothing without a way to turn them into currency, and sellers are a big part of making commerce happen. Cassie spent the first pre-SaaS chapter of her tech career in growth roles in subscription and marketplace businesses (TheLadders.com, GLG). Anita Nielsen. Anne Slough. Beth Sunshine.

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Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring VP of Engineering 130

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Outreach’s annual sales industry summit, Unleash, has a speaker lineup for 2019 that is absolutely packed with genius-level sales insights. Rob Jeppsen is a high-energy dealmaker with an emphasis on technology & financial services sectors, and has trained over 900 organizations and speaks at leading events across the country.

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VP of Engineering Sales Hiring Sales Underperforming Technical Team 11