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What’s Holding Up Buyers And How To Meet Them Where They Are With Chris Perrine, Vice President of G2 Asia Pacific (Pod 643 + Video)

SaaStr

Should you purchase through a third-party marketplace? Do you need extra services that a Value-Added Reseller can provide? Now, they’re service providers bringing SaaS into their portfolio of products and services to serve their customers better. The VARs of old are no longer — the ones who just implement software.

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25% of B2B SaaS Sales Are Headed to Cloud Marketplaces

OpenView Labs

Now—a happy consequence—cloud marketplaces are on a similar trajectory of growth and have opened up a powerful go-to-market channel for sellers that you probably haven’t heard of yet. Not to mention 73% of B2B buyers prefer the convenience of digital buying through ecommerce, web direct or marketplaces (more on that later). .

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Using Gross Margin to Score Your Product’s Maturity

OpenView Labs

Offering free usage is par for the course as a SaaS customer acquisition strategy. Creating a marketplace does just that. For example, when coming to a cloud vendor, deciding to be vendor agnostic at the time of product design ensures you aren’t tied down to AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud. Not always.

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