Neil Patel

DECEMBER 30, 2020

An affiliate network connects publishers, like blog owners or influencers, with companies looking to promote their products or services. Publishers or site owners sign up, choose the products or services they want to promote and receive custom links that track how many people purchase from their sites. What is an Affiliate Network?

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SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2019

In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Vikas made his way into the world of SaaS and came to be at the rocketship that is Kustomer. * Why does Vikas believe that a wave of SaaS incumbents are about to be displaced or disrupted? Why is it so crucial to invest in enablement in the early days? What is a good payback period? *

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OpenView Labs

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

And there’s more and more bifurcation between the ‘haves’ – the fast growers – and the ‘have nots’ of SaaS than ever before. The new data reveals a similar picture for private SaaS startups. . That’s triple the rate of 2020 (100%) and double that of 2019 (165%). . Today growth appears to be all that matters.

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Unbounce

MAY 27, 2021

That means anyone can use their service—from Grammy-winning artists to newbies who recorded a song on their laptop. Artists upload their music, send all the metadata required for proper tracking and payment, and the rest happens on the CD Baby portal. After more than 20 years in the business, independence still matters for CD Baby.

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ProfitWell

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Recur 2019 is over, but the journey toward subscription truth is not. Patrick went through the history of SaaS, and Neel broke down some of our latest innovations. December 12, 2019. December 12, 2019. December 12, 2019. December 12, 2019. December 12, 2019. Tune in live below ??

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 4, 2019

Let’s talk 2019 predictions. No matter how deeply you gaze into the crystal ball wondering what this new year has in store for you or your business, the only thing you’ll know for sure is that despite your careful planning, some things will change. In 2019, not only will this trend increase, it will become much more mindful.

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Baremetrics

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Even before Shopify released the Shopify Partners API, Baremetrics has been taking care of metrics for Shopify business owners. Baremetrics is a SaaS metrics monitoring tool that pulls information about your business into an easy-to-read actionable dashboard. At the end of 2019, Shopify released their new Shopify Partners API.

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Kellblog

JANUARY 30, 2021

I certainly didn’t have “global pandemic” on my 2020 bingo card and, even if I somehow did, I would never have coupled that with “booming stock market” and median SaaS price/revenue multiples in the 15x range. I loved Manav’s vision for securing the set of cloud-based data services that we can collectively call the “data cloud.”

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ProfitWell

MARCH 9, 2020

The subscription-based economy grew 350% between 2012 and 2019, and subscription businesses grew revenues about five times faster than S&P 500 company revenues during that time. Companies selling physical goods, digital products, and services of all kinds have turned to this business model as a way to secure repeat customers.

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ProfitWell

MARCH 12, 2020

The subscription-based economy boom has brought with it more competition than ever before, raising the bar for companies trying to offer recurring products or services to their customers. Payment processing. 10 of the best subscription business tools for SaaS products. Some examples of common pain points include: Churn.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 26, 2019

I’ve worked at multiple high growth SaaS businesses as a growth leader, and the data we’re seeing right now … This is from … is that CAC is increasing both in B2B and B2C, and you’re going to see how that relates, right? Pauline : Yeah, so I work at OpenClassrooms, which is a European leader in online education.

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ProfitWell

OCTOBER 16, 2019

It’s the question on every SaaS founder’s lips: Is my churn rate too high? So how do you know what a healthy churn rate is for your SaaS company? The fact that there’s no standard reporting method for churn doesn’t help. Subscription service Recurly reports an average monthly churn rate of 5.6% Let’s find out.

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Outseta

JANUARY 9, 2019

I hope this is a useful barometer of progress for other bootstrapped SaaS start-ups with equally ambitious projects. we spent on consulting services was primarily design related expenses, as James Lavine began working with us. Let’s get right into it starting with how much we’ve spent on the business. The $11,123.75

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OpenView Labs

JANUARY 29, 2020

Freemium in SaaS is old news. The much-discussed pricing strategy took over the SaaS world and helped fuel the phenomenal success of SaaS pioneers like Dropbox, Evernote, SurveyMonkey and Hootsuite. Freemium appeared to be declining in popularity and, when it was in place, drove next to zero new ACV for most SaaS companies.

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ProfitWell

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Here are our takeaways: Ecommerce is massive and growing (and it’s only 15% of addressable retail today). Ecommerce enablement tools are powering the segment. Laura linked to the full slide deck, which is full of insights regarding D2C and ecommerce. Ecommerce is massive and growing. Ecommerce sales in the U.S.

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SaaStock

MARCH 20, 2019

As we wrote in our launch post about expanding SaaStock New York into SaaStock East Coast , our main aim is to foster a community of top SaaS companies that spans all the way from Florida to Quebec. The SaaS industry’s beating heart will probably always be New York, and it will also be the home of SaaStock East Coast on June 4-6.

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OPEXEngine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

It was one instance in which the company adjusted EBITDA to meet its short-term needs while masking a longer-term leverage problem that came to a head in 2019 when it had to pull its IPO because of valuation concerns. Extreme case. You want to be clear what it is,” Holmes said. Non-GAAP measure. So, add those back in,” Holmes said.

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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. This model allowed me to work with dozens of SaaS startups using spreadsheets, while we built our financial modeling software Flightpath.

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SaaStock

MARCH 20, 2019

As we wrote in our launch post about expanding SaaStock New York into SaaStock East Coast , our main aim is to foster a SaaS community that spans from Florida to Quebec. The SaaS industry’s beating heart will probably always be New York, and it will also be the home of SaaStock East Coast on June 4-6. Funding to date: $234M.

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Chart Mogul

MARCH 9, 2020

An early entrant to the SaaS field, the company has pioneered a number of fields that are now commonplace in the industry — content marketing, the transparent startups movement, and remote work. Early in 2019, I had an epiphany moment. I realized we had a moving target for the most important metric in our company.

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Baremetrics

MARCH 23, 2020

I spent over a week speaking with different SaaS founders and marketers about how they successfully reduced churn for their business. churn by doing something every SaaS business should be doing, but most don’t. The reason why it’s such a vital metric is that it has a greater affect on your business. of his customers.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Why does Travis believe that SaaS has upended the economic model but not the engagement model? What metrics must you look for? This podcast is an excerpt from Aydin and Roelant’s session at SaaStr Annual 2019. Which was that pioneering inside sales motion driving a lot through online and through WebEx at the time.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Romain Huet : See how you can turn like a SaaS business, or a core product you have and make it a very successful developer platform. Like, how can we provide economic infrastructure for developers to build applications and services and in a weird way, future proof? Let’s start with our five key steps.

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Incredo

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Do you want to grow your SaaS sales team and improve your processes? maintain healthy atmosphere in your Smarketing team, make smart choices regarding your SaaS sales model, strategy, pricing, . build smoother connections both with your prospects through optimized sales process. And from SaaS sales models to SaaS pricing.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 21, 2019

As for Robert, prior to MessageBird, he was co-founder and CEO of Zaypay.com which focused on driving mobile payments into 50+ countries, enabling 1.5bln users to pay for virtual goods through their phones (sold to Mobile Interactive Group (MIG). How did he see his decision-making process change post raise? Robert Vis.

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Chart Mogul

DECEMBER 20, 2019

I am really proud to once again be able to say that 2019 was the best year for ChartMogul up to date. We also updated our popular SaaS Metrics Refresher email course. Our SaaS Resources library grew with another piece of content when we added The Ultimate Failed Payments Cheat Sheet to the collection.

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Chart Mogul

DECEMBER 20, 2019

I am really proud to once again be able to say that 2019 was the best year for ChartMogul up to date. We also updated our popular SaaS Metrics Refresher email course. Our SaaS Resources library grew with another piece of content when we added The Ultimate Failed Payments Cheat Sheet to the collection.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Rob made his way into the world of SaaS as a product manager and how that led to his founding Salsify over 8 years ago. * How does Rob think about the bundled vs unbundled thesis within SaaS? When is it right for SaaS companies to turn down potential customers? Harry Stebbings: Not at all.

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Hull

JANUARY 22, 2019

The explosion of SaaS tools (and with it, data silos) together creates a need for a cross-functional, operations role to support go-to-market teams. Their job is to enable go-to-market teams through "joining the dots" between tools, teams & data, optimizing the business rules that drive growth.

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ProfitWell

DECEMBER 4, 2019

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. The SaaS business model powering all of this activity is startlingly unique, still young, and inextricably tied to the power of cloud computing. What is SaaS?

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Outseta

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

This post is for other early stage SaaS companies who are similarly considering whether some of these new forms of capital make sense for their business. Indie.VC (V3) Website: [link] Key Personnel: Bryce Roberts Revenue Requirement: Post revenue, but no minimum requirement. Mentors are available during scheduled office hours calls.

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Outseta

APRIL 14, 2020

You’ve built a successful business and have a repeatable customer acquisition process that you’ve already demonstrated can scale with access to more capital. Do I sell services or SaaS? If cash flow is an immediate concern, consider selling your services. Think SpaceX. You need to integrate Stripe with your product.

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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 Twilio Does It.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 3, 2020

If you’re short on time, here are some quick takeaways: From Superhuman to bedside lamps, we look at the products and technology that defined 2019. Brands are now building physical stores that act as real-world ads for products you purchase online. The products that defined 2019. Des: You are very specially welcome.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 17, 2019

This is Zach from Plaid and I guess … well, it’s interesting because you’re not a SaaS company, we’re at Saastr … but we’ll talk about what it’s like to not be a SaaS company at SaaStr. Zach : SaaS-ish. Ari : SaaS-ish. That’s pre-Plaid.

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Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Baremetrics provides an easy-to-read dashboard that gives you all the key metrics for your business, including MRR, ARR, LTV, total customers, and more. Payment ii. Upgrades and support What are other software monetization methods? Since 2013, Microsoft has released two new versions, Office 2016 in 2015 and Office 2019 in 2018.

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Outseta

APRIL 30, 2019

Our approach to pricing experimentation By Geoff Roberts When we began working on Outseta our product vision was fairly straightforward—bring together the core software tools that all early stage SaaS start-ups need. Outseta Pricing Experiments (April 2019) I then shared this document with the following groups and asked for their feedback.

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