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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ProfitWell

MARCH 9, 2020

The subscription business model has seen an immense rise in popularity in recent years, and with good reason. 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.

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Chart Mogul

MARCH 9, 2020

We spoke to Buffer’s CEO Joel Gascoigne about his experience building Buffer and the role and place subscription data plays for the company. For the first 2-3 years of Buffer’s existence, Joel and his team did not need a specialized solution for subscription analytics. Early in 2019, I had an epiphany moment. Click To Tweet.

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Frontegg

MAY 27, 2021

Besides it’s proven business results, this strategy helps empower end-users to get the best possible product for their needs. In a nutshell, companies adopting the PLG strategy need to solve the users’ problems instantly – look at it as an on-demand demo that needs to convince the end-user.

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FastSpring

JUNE 28, 2019

When companies look at strategies to scale their business there’s almost always a prevalent focus on customer acquisition. Businesses are always on the lookout for ways to expand their user base, attract new customers, and generate new leads. Customers may choose to opt out of a subscription service.

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ProfitWell

JULY 22, 2020

This is why the direct-to-consumer (DTC) strategy is gaining traction fast. In 2019, the total global e-commerce sales amounted to $3.53 However, e-commerce revenues are projected to rise to $6.54 Their strategy was simple. This strategy helped Away generate revenue of $125 million in less than three years.

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ProfitWell

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Recur 2019 is over, but the journey toward subscription truth is not. We gathered in Boston to discuss all things subscription—kicking off with our Pricing and Monetization Workshop. Our hallmark conference followed, featuring insights and inspiration from some of the brightest in the subscription space.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 18, 2020

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. It comes down to having an online presence, understanding buyers’ needs, and, most importantly—a platform that can handle transactions.

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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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Unbounce

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Thousands of businesses are willing to spend unbelievable amounts of money to rank at the top of search engine results pages (SERP) and in the most relevant places for their users around the web. In 2019, small businesses spent between $9,000 and $10,000 per month on PPC , with Google making an average of $116.5 Retargeting.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2019

What ratio of revenue is healthy for professional services to account for? This podcast is an excerpt of Eyal and Megan’s session at SaaStr Annual 2019. But I think what it boils down to is also how newer technology is being developed and the ability for it to inter-operate with other platforms. Missed the session?

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OPEXEngine

JULY 28, 2020

It often seems as if traditional strategy development processes have no place in the fast-moving, always changing technology industries. The critical difference is that they’ve discovered how to make strategy development faster, pragmatic and more agile by focusing on four key principles. At a Glance.

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ProfitWell

JULY 27, 2020

MRR gain , representing upgrades and new revenue, is lookin’ extra fresh today—growth going up 2.05% in 24 hours. MRR gain is new revenue from either acquired customers or upgrades in a given month. *MRR MRR gain is new revenue from either acquired customers or upgrades in a given month. rise from 2019. MRR Gain +2.05%.

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Chart Mogul

MARCH 9, 2020

We spoke to Buffer’s CEO Joel Gascoigne about his experience building Buffer and the role and place subscription data plays for the company. For the first 2-3 years of Buffer’s existence, Joel and his team did not need a specialized solution for subscription analytics. Early in 2019, I had an epiphany moment. Tweet this quote.

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OPEXEngine

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Small and Mid-Market (SMM) SaaS Companies serve customers with annual revenues of $1 million to $1 billion and with a typical employee base of 100 to 1,000. This reality influences their go-to-market (GTM) strategy, which relies on a lower overall sales and marketing budget and a higher mix of marketing to sales spending.

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OpenView Labs

JANUARY 29, 2020

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. They also better understand how to measure the success of freemium and strategies to convert free users into paying customers (hint: product qualified leads are your friend).

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FastSpring

JUNE 19, 2019

Data is now fundamental to how people work & the most successful companies have intelligently integrated it into everyone’s daily workflow,” he said. And ecommerce sales overall are continuing to climb, reaching nearly $140B in Q1 or 2019 in the US alone. The World’s Advertising Game is Getting Smarter. The reason?

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FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

“It got us thinking: Why is there no purpose-built operating system for corporate learning and development teams, when their jobs are so strategic to the business, and they’re managing massive budgets, but they can’t track things like ROI?” There are now over 150 enterprise companies using the platform.

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Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The ultimate goal of any developer with an idea for some useful software is monetization. Software monetization is simply the act of generating revenue from software. 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.

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Neil Patel

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

In 2019, it had over 45 million buyers , a notable increase from 2018. Like any sales platform , Etsy works best when you research the competition, understand your buyers, and focus on a niche. Research also helps you discover selling strategies and potential areas where you can outperform your competitors. Delve Into Etsy Data.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

How can a simple offering be transformed into its own platform? Renaud Visage, Co-Founder of Eventbrite, and Romain Huet, Head of Developer Relations at Stripe, know what it takes to effectively evolve your offering into a platform without losing what made offering appealing in the first place. Want to see more content like this?

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 8, 2022

I interviewed him for insights into how to build a global growth strategy, especially when it comes to localization. Note: FastSpring’s Revenue and Subscription Dashboards quickly show our customers where their revenue is coming from, the average order value or MRR per country, promotions performance per country, and more.

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ProfitWell

MARCH 12, 2020

And Rent the Runway adds a new membership option to amp up its presence in the subscription clothing space. Listen wherever you get podcasts: Your top subscription news. We’ve had our eyes on Rent the Runway on the show before , as one of the more popular clothing subscriptions out there. They’re calling it Walmart+.

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ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Today, we have the world’s largest list of branded podcasts and video shows , a fresh drop for Webflow users, and more sports entering the subscription space. Your top subscription news. According to Jay, they define a "brand" as companies that sell products as their primary revenue source. Amid my Twitter scroll this a.m.,

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 11, 2018

What we really want to talk about are resolutions that will make your digital business better than it was last year. That means looking at past failures and victories to create a better marketing strategy for 2019. Create a marketing strategy that drives more traffic. Increase Web Traffic.

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ProfitWell

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Why is it so hard to define an average churn rate—and what does that mean for your subscription business? Some companies report revenue churn, others only share customer or user churn numbers, and often there’s no distinction between whether churn numbers are annual or monthly. Let’s find out. What is the average churn rate?

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SmartKarrot

APRIL 13, 2020

SaaS businesses are organizations that provide subscription-based software applications that are centrally hosted on their servers over the internet. Instead of buying and installing the infrastructure, customers can simply bear the subscription costs of the functionalities they use. Source: Byteant , December 2019.

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ProfitWell

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

What is up my subscription fam? Let’s get started with another minute of subscription. Get down to business at Subscription60.com. Check out these strategies from CartHook on how to use post-purchase workflows to upsell with low pressure. Slack Forgoes IPO Messaging platform Slack makes moves toward going public.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 29, 2019

SaaS is about creating long-term value for your customer, and being compensated appropriately for that value as a business. Learn actionable monetization tips from a Product/Growth operator turned VC. This is a mobile solution for SMB’s to send an invoice and get paid. Want to see more content like this? Hi, everybody.

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Outseta

JANUARY 9, 2019

Forte fees represent payment processing costs associated with one of the payment gateways we support, Forte Payment systems. Dave, Dimitris, and myself will begin paying ourselves a nominal salary in 2019 - more on that in our next company update. 2017 was spent entirely focused on delivering our MVP.

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Baremetrics

MARCH 23, 2020

They all used sustainable strategies to reduce churn while also growing their business. In this guide, we’re going to go over seven strategies to reduce churn, with real-life examples from SaaS companies that have successfully done it. But there’s also revenue churn, which is arguably even more important. Not necessarily.

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ProfitWell

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Your Daily Top Subscription News. Gartner recognizes Attivio , leading provider of AI-powered insights, as a leader in their 2019 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Insight Engines. Simplified product, pricing, and onboarding processes. Subscription Sapiens. Attivio leads as Insight Engine. Lookiero is the Euro Stitch Fix.

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Casey Accidental

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Format changes are usually only required around platform shifts already occurring or platform shifts a larger company is trying to drive. This is creating a new value proposition for your existing audience so that you can acquire, retain, and/or monetize them better. I have written more about platforms here.

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Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

However, even with its’ new embedding capabilities, it doesn’t come close to Google Sheets in team collaboration. As their name suggests, Forecasting Models are used to forecast out a specific area of your business, such as revenue or payroll. For most businesses, this means at least their revenue and hiring plans.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

As for Travis, prior to joining Redpoint, Travis was head of Customer Growth at Front, after spending 5 years building the global Sales organization at Optimizely, the world’s most popular experimentation platform. This podcast is an excerpt from Aydin and Roelant’s session at SaaStr Annual 2019. Loving our podcast content?

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Outseta

APRIL 30, 2019

We deliberately set out to build tools to serve the lower end of this market, intercepting companies shortly after they’re founded and scaling with them until they reach about $5M in annual recurring revenue (ARR). And your customers will be subjected to pricing increases less frequently as you work to monetize your customer base.

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FastSpring

OCTOBER 13, 2022

We confirmed this by reviewing sales data from over 300 SaaS and software companies that use our billing platform. We discovered that Q4 is by far the best-performing quarter of the year for both business and consumer sales. In November, software companies see 11% to 24% over the average monthly revenue. About Our Data.

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