SaaStr

APRIL 14, 2025

That full report here: 2025 Spending Benchmarks for Private B2B SaaS Companies The answer? Nor has sales & marketing ever really come down as you scale. Why Your Cost of Sales Generally Doubles As You Scale About the same as before In fact, the median amount spent on sales is up from a year before.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Hello and welcome to The GTM Newsletter by GTMnow – read by 50,000+ revenue professionals weekly to stay up-to-date and scale their companies and careers. According to HighAlpha’s 2024 SaaS Benchmarks Report , 76% of founders are most concerned about go-to-market execution. The future is so much bigger than SaaS for SaaS.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Hello and welcome to The GTM Newsletter by GTMnow – read by 50,000+ revenue professionals weekly to stay up-to-date and scale their companies and careers. Here’s how to drive early value effectively: In-product value Measure TTV : Set a quantifiable benchmark for how long it should take a new user to reach their first “aha moment.”

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BetterCloud

APRIL 30, 2025

Introducing the 2025 State of SaaS report ! This years survey of about 600 IT professionals reveals the latest challenges of managing SaaS at scale, particularly as AI causes a ripple effect as we step into SaaS 2.0. Industry benchmarks play a crucial role in these negotiations. Heres an excerpt from the report.

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How To Buy Saas

JUNE 10, 2025

Generative AI has exploded by 2025. To sort through the noise, we’ve evaluated the best AI tools of 2025 in each category, focusing on features, user feedback, and pricing. For example, we looked at benchmark tests (e.g. For example, it scored 90% on a math benchmark versus GPT-4o’s 75%, showing major gains. Pro Gemini 2.5

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Hello and welcome to The GTM Newsletter by GTMnow – read by 50,000+ to scale their companies and careers. By using these benchmarks, we ensure that the capital were allocating toward growth initiatives is efficient and keeps a longer-term view in mind: ARR Growth: How quickly are we growing and which growth levers do we need to add?

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 6, 2025

Hello and welcome to The GTM Newsletter by GTMnow – read by 50,000+ to scale their companies and careers. For example, reps getting to practice pitch delivery and objection handling at scale (not to eliminate reps, but to sharpen them). Then, AI scores or simulates those tasks against the benchmark, reinforcing human judgment.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Hello and welcome to The GTM Newsletter by GTMnow – read by 50,000+ revenue professionals weekly to stay up-to-date and scale their companies and careers. The goal is not to test every possible channel but to focus on the one or two that maximize your resources and scale your product for hypergrowth.

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User Pilot

MAY 30, 2025

Some made it easy to launch interactive product tours , leading to a successful product tour, but didnt scale. Cost-effective for mid-market and enterprise teams Userpilot includes premium features that other tools often lock behind higher plans: You can organize flows into folders, which makes content management easier at scale.

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Panintelligence

JANUARY 6, 2025

Now that we've stepped into 2025, let's hope for a better year and talk about the future. As we explore the top tech trends 2025 promises to deliver, here are my picks for what to watch. In 2025, it will be out with the hallucinations and in with trustworthy AI, or what I call a "truth engine."

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Buffer Resources

MAY 8, 2025

— Koenfucius 🔍 (@koenfucius) April 14, 2025 4. You’ll struggle to scale your social media efforts. But as you scale your marketing strategies, social media monitoring will become incredibly time-consuming — especially if you’re the solo social media manager of your brand.

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How To Buy Saas

MAY 27, 2025

In 2025, foundation models or generative AIs like GPT-4, Claude, Gemini, and open-source LLaMA are reshaping AI research, software development, and SaaS products. Below we survey the cutting-edge LLMs of 2025 both commercial and open-source highlighting their key features, performance benchmarks, and use cases in AI workflows.

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SaaStr

MARCH 28, 2025

As we gear up for 2025 SaaStr Annual, May 13-15 in SF Bay , we want to take a look back at a few of our top sessions from last year. For SMB SaaS, aim for 6 quarters of LTV:CAC, not 4 Ren adjusted the traditional benchmark because SMB customers stay longer than typically measured. SMB customers.

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Neil Patel

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Reducing the amount of variation from one project to another is an important key to scaling any business. MLOps help do this by creating reproducible models you can use as a benchmark at the beginning of each new project. MLOps is a new but colossal industry expected to hit $4 billion by 2025.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

We brought together some of the best AI founders and leaders—from those scaling the underlying foundation models to those building products that could transform entire industries—for a series of conversations on where we are, where we’re going, and the big open questions in the field. . You have this perverse economy of scale.

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InsightSquared

JULY 1, 2021

In fact, according to Gartner , by 2025, 75% of the highest growth companies in the world will deploy a revenue operations (RevOps) model. Whether you’re just starting your journey or on a team that’s scaling, we’ve created this comprehensive RevOps overview and glossary of revenue operations terminology and KPIs for your reference. .

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Valuize Consulting

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

In fact, McKinsey & Company predicts that by 2025, nearly ? While partner programs offer vast and untapped opportunities to drive recurring revenue, you need to be able to build, scale and optimize them correctly. Introducing, growing and scaling a partner program successfully requires constant iteration and change management.

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Valuize Consulting

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

In fact, McKinsey & Company predicts that by 2025, nearly ? While partner programs offer vast and untapped opportunities to drive recurring revenue, you need to be able to build, scale and optimize them correctly. Introducing, growing and scaling a partner program successfully requires constant iteration and change management.

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ChurnZero

MARCH 6, 2020

above industry benchmarks” according to research shared by Growth Everywhere. The program’s goal is to have 25,000 Starbucks partners graduate by 2025. Scaling with Digital Customer Success – One of the biggest challenges facing Customer Success leaders is how to effectively scale.

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Customer Success Software Review Scale Sales Recruiting 69

SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2025

Max: Outperforms both DeepSeek and ChatGPT on key benchmarks Baidu Ernie 4.5: The Pattern: AI is solving workflow problems that humans literally cannot scale. DeepSeek R1 scores 93% vs. OpenAI o3-mini’s 95% on math benchmarks. But once proven, it scales with compounding advantages. downloads in 10 weeks (3.4x

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How To Buy Saas

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

CRM is now expected to reach more than $80 billion in revenues by 2025. There are a lot of variations in choosing a CRM tool for large scale business, the enterprise CRMs comes with a lot of integrated features that have the ability to add features into the functionality of your CRM. Let Us understand these categories in detail.

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Panintelligence

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

When in fact, it’s estimated that 85% of business apps will be SaaS-based by 2025. The key to success, then, is finding technology solutions that are easy to embed, modify, and scale in-house. The benchmark for consumer experience is now constantly evolving, and technology providers play a big part in the evolution.”

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SaaStr

JUNE 5, 2025

We even discussed this in our SaaStr + AI Summit 2025 opener. It’s often not enough anymore to raise VC funding: With AI startups seemingly materializing overnight and scaling to nine-figure ARR in record time, there’s a growing narrative that blitzscaling to $100M is the only path to generational outcomes.

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Scaling AI Enterprise Benchmarks 186

SmartKarrot

JANUARY 4, 2023

According to Gartner, “over 75% of companies will abandon as a measure of success for customer service and support NPS measurement by 2025”. The customer answers on a scale of 0–10, where 9 or 10 scoring customers are promoters, 0–6 are detractors, and 7 and 8 are considered passives. Benchmark against internal metrics.

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Customer Success Strategy Benchmarks B2B 10

Buffer Resources

JUNE 3, 2025

The best social media scheduling tools in 2025 There’s no shortage of social media scheduling tools out there, but not all of them are built the same. As of 2025, Hootsuite no longer offers a free plan. Some focus on visual planning, others on deep analytics, and a few try to do it all. Is Hootsuite no longer free?

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Social Media Mobile AI Branding 74

Teamgate

JUNE 5, 2025

Integrations +1 725-254-2694 Start Free Trial Login Log in Sign up REQUEST A DEMO --> Sales Management CRM Data Hygiene Checklist for Sales Teams Chase Horn June 5, 2025 Ensure your sales team’s success by maintaining clean CRM data with this essential checklist and insights on data hygiene benefits. trillion annually in the U.S.

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Unbounce

DECEMBER 1, 2024

/ Landing pages How to create a landing page that converts in 2025 (+ templates) By Banafshe Salehi and Josh Gallant. In the 2024 Conversion Benchmark Report , we also dug into the actual data to see which channels led to the highest conversion rates at the industry level. Updated on December 1, 2024. But don’t stop there.

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SaaStr

MARCH 4, 2025

What we’re seeing in 2024-2025: Average NRR varies significantly by company size Smaller companies typically show lower NRR Most concerning: NRR is down 3 points year-over-year across the board Some startups are seeing 10-20 point drops in NRR 2. If they spent $100 last year and $102 this year, that’s 102% net retention.

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Clouded Judgement

APRIL 9, 2025

Through these interactions, I’ve built up mental benchmarks for metrics on which I place extra emphasis. As a public company with significant scale, it’s hard to grow quickly if you have to rely solely on new customers for that growth. net retention and CAC payback).

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Cloud Software Benchmarks Retention 157

Buffer Resources

JANUARY 30, 2025

This checklist is your blueprint for momentum in 2025. Define your goals for 2025 If you don’t know what you’re aiming for, you’ll waste time posting without purpose. Whether it’s the first week of January or the last day of October, the best time to get your social media on track is right now.

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How To Buy Saas

JUNE 3, 2025

Once-dominant ChatGPT (GPT-4) sparked a global AI race, and by 2025 there are powerful new alternatives. LLM Performance Benchmark Comparison (2025) Model MMLU HumanEval GSM8K / AIME Context Window Token Speed Pricing (per 1M tokens) DeepSeek R1-0528 84.9% As a result, GPT alternatives now come with trade-offs. SWE-bench: 72.5%

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Artificial Intelligence Software Review Development Team Review Technical Review 59

Buffer Resources

APRIL 30, 2025

Keeping up with Instagram in 2025 feels a bit like running a marathon. Best for: Benchmarking your growth and spying on competitor performance Buffer’s Free Hashtag Generator If you want a quick, AI-powered way to generate Instagram hashtags based on your content, Buffer’s free hashtag generator is a great place to start.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 24, 2025

Hello and welcome to The GTM Newsletter by GTMnow – read by 50,000+ to scale their companies and careers. If yours doesnt, youll need a different approach to scaling. Set clear failure benchmarks to cut ineffective programs early. Invest in at least two people to create benchmarks and knowledge-sharing.

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Buffer Resources

DECEMBER 5, 2024

  Price : Starts at $6 per month; 14-day free trial Get started with Buffer As an agency, we've been able to scale up and double our size. The competitor tracking and benchmarking features help you compare your performance with other brands in your industry. Great for sharing with CEO's and brand sponsors. 

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Social Media AI Search Scale Pricing 106

BetterCloud

MARCH 5, 2025

While sometimes a sore spot, SaaS vendor management is a necessary evil for companies to tackle in 2025 and beyond. SaaS vendor management best practices When youre ready to scale your SaaS vendor management strategy, there are some best practices that you should keep front and center. Is the energy heated or calm, cool, and collected?

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ChurnZero

MAY 2, 2025

Its how you prove and scale your impact. ” This, from Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke’s now famous April 2025 memo , encapsulates the new era of leaner teams and investor expectations of efficiency. If your finance team wont share internal averages, use public benchmarks and adjust them.

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Valuize Consulting

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

In 2025, many organizations face a pivotal moment in their AI journey. From AI Experimentation to Enterprise-Wide Adoption In 2025, executive priorities are shiftingfrom AI experimentation to enterprise-wide adoption. Your business plan, built with deep research and external insights, once felt solid when consensus was reached.

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