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How to Drive Revenue With PartnerOps

Sales Hacker

As a result, more products are being discovered and sold through online marketplaces, like the Salesforce AppExchange and the AWS Marketplace. Partner acquisition. There are three different types of products designed to enhance partner acquisition. Many also allow partners to find each other in a marketplace.

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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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Facebook Workplace’s Julien Codorniou on turning companies into communities

Intercom, Inc.

Whereas Facebook’s overall vision relies heavily on third-party developers having access to user data, Workplace wants to be the app that’s connected to all your other apps and a highly curated marketplace that has the best SaaS applications in the world. It’s about turning companies into communities.

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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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Using Product Led Growth as an Indicator for Investment w/OpenView Venture Partner, Ashley Smith (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Congratulations you’ve built a product that’s proven itself in the marketplace! At GitHub, I was in the last 18 months coming into acquisition, which is a nightmare, but I was one of 5 people running the company. billion acquisition more so than GitHub. Its product drives the acquisition, retention and expansion.

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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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A Look Back: “SaaS Metrics Masterclass: Key Business Metrics, Pricing Strategies and Billing Models with Stripe’s Head of France and Southern Europe, Guillaume Princen” (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC). & It wasn’t the case 20 or even 10 years ago, where the business models of the internet were more focused on eCommerce, marketplaces, or even advertising. Customer acquisition. But also generally pretty high CAC, customer acquisition costs. Or maybe ARR, depending on your model.