Chaotic Flow

AUGUST 18, 2015

SaaS businesses develop intimate, long term relationships with their SaaS customers. In fact, many public SaaS companies have yet to turn a profit. If they don’t keep their customers around for years, then all that capital invested in customer acquisition will have gone to waste.

Customer Success 138

Customer Success Underperforming Technical Team Scale SaaS 138

SaaSOptics

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

Getting SaaS Accounting and Financial Operations Right in 2022. According to Gartner, the SaaS industry is projected to grow to a staggering $121B in 2021, a 15% increase from 2020. So, what is SaaS accounting, and how will it affect your business? The Problem with Spreadsheets for SaaS Accounting . The result?

Payment Features 105

Payment Features Outsourced Development SaaS Software Review 105

Chart Mogul

OCTOBER 3, 2019

The customer acquisition cost can help you create, measure, and improve a business model that will put your business on the path to profitability. This is where the value of subscription metrics comes to the fore — and specifically the customer acquisition cost (CAC) and the customer lifetime value (LTV). Your technical infrastructure?

Acquisition 52

Acquisition Startup Underperforming Technical Team Customer Lifetime Value 52

Frontegg

MARCH 17, 2022

Product-Led Growth (PLG) is becoming the default strategy in modern SaaS organizations due to the plethora of operational, financial, and technical benefits it brings to the table. If you are working in a SaaS setting, chances are you have used applications like Slack, Zendesk, Zoom, Calendly, Dropbox, Figma, and Evernote extensively.

Scale 105

Scale Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Sales 105

User Pilot

MARCH 15, 2022

Why a go-to-market strategy plays an integral of your SaaS product success? We will cover what they are, why you need them, and how to create one for your SaaS business using real examples. We will cover what they are, why you need them, and how to create one for your SaaS business using real examples. Let’s get started!

Strategy 87

Strategy Marketing SaaS Customer Lifetime Value 87

Casey Accidental

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Founders have started reaching out asking for help converting their SAAS or SAAS-like business into a marketplace. Many of the terms we use to define businesses today are features of the business rather than an encompassing definition, like the words SAAS or platform, which makes them not very useful. 1 Saturated Growth in SAAS.

Marketplace as a Service 106

Marketplace as a Service Business Model Business Underperforming Technical Team 106

FastSpring

APRIL 4, 2024

As an experienced sales and GTM leader, John Eitel has more than witnessed how product-led growth (PLG) has affected the tech and SaaS space in the last few years — he and his teams have been up close and personal with how PLG increased in popularity as a sales strategy. “I Set up a demo or try it out for yourself.

Scale 130

Scale Sales Payment Methods Merchant Services 130

SaaSOptics

AUGUST 11, 2022

Seasoned industry vets may know what their next move should be, but navigating a changing market (especially one in a downturn) is an obstacle for any SaaS founder. In this article, we’ll help you determine the next best step for your business and provide guidance on whether you should raise, sell, merge, or scale your SaaS.

Scale 97

Scale Scaling Technical Review Venture Capital 97

FastSpring

APRIL 26, 2022

Last week, I canceled an annual SaaS subscription (I had three weeks left until renewal). In the language of SaaS, I churned. In part two, we’ll cover five churn-prevention strategies that have been successful in other SaaS businesses. Part I: SaaS Churn Benchmarks. Is There an Ideal Churn Rate for SaaS?

Benchmarks 123

Benchmarks Churn Payments SaaS Payments 123

CustomerSuccessBox

APRIL 19, 2022

In this hyper-competitive SaaS world, businesses that have enhanced customer experience make it to the top 10% of the SaaS businesses that are able to achieve 125%+ MRR(Monthly Retention Rate). Customer journey analytics gives teams a real-time comprehensive sight into customer behavior providing valuable insight into the journey.

Scale 52

Scale Metrics Underperforming Technical Team Customer Lifetime Value 52

User Pilot

MAY 18, 2023

Testings: UX testing focuses on evaluating the usability and efficiency of the product, while CX testing aims to assess overall customer satisfaction and identify strengths and weaknesses in customer workflows. It’s important to conduct multiple usability tests for different phases of your product development cycle.

User Experience 89

User Experience Underperforming Technical Team Customer Lifetime Value Retention 89

Chart Mogul

APRIL 29, 2021

It also extends to our customer acquisition and sales strategy. In a recent Act-On and Demand Metric study completed in Q2 of 2016, less than 20 percent of mid-size B2B companies relied on solely inbound or outbound strategies; 84 percent of respondents used some mix of both. More than 90% of our leads come through our 14-day trial.

Scale 59

Scale Sales Hiring Strategy Underperforming Technical Team 59

User Pilot

MARCH 18, 2021

A successful customer retention strategy requires constant iteration and innovation to keep up with an ever-changing SaaS market environment. But how the marketing team decides to tell your story will determine who it connects with. vs. The Product Growth Tool for Product Teams. Marketing + Acquisition Strategist.

Retention 52

Retention Strategy Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 52

Chart Mogul

APRIL 29, 2021

It also extends to our customer acquisition and sales strategy. In a recent Act-On and Demand Metric study completed in Q2 of 2016, less than 20 percent of mid-size B2B companies relied on solely inbound or outbound strategies; 84 percent of respondents used some mix of both. More than 90% of our leads come through our 14-day trial.

Scale 52

Scale Sales Hiring Strategy Underperforming Technical Team 52

Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 30, 2024

ABOUT IN THE VAULT “In the Vault” is a new audio podcast series by the a16z Fintech team, where we sit down with the most influential figures in financial services to explore key trends impacting the industry and the pressing innovations that will shape our future. for cloud SaaS software at Global Payments.

Payment Solutions 84

Payment Solutions Payments Payment Services SaaS Payments 84

SmartKarrot

DECEMBER 24, 2021

In a few years, we have seen lots of B2B SaaS businesses flourish. This has resulted in many entrepreneurs jumping on the bandwagon to try luck in the SaaS business. Although you might see VC funding rounds and acquisition news on the internet, the hard truth is that businesses do not take off or fail miserably.

Underperforming Technical Team 10

Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review SaaS Systems Review 10

SaaStr

APRIL 17, 2019

Prior to Harness, Stephen was VP of Marketing at Glassdoor, managing a team of 52 in product marketing, helping grow B2B revenue from $19m to $90m in just 2 years, leading to their $1.2Bn acquisition. Steve has previously said, “Sales and marketing must be one team.” Does it differ from traditional dev teams?

DevOps as a Service 100

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OpenView Labs

JANUARY 19, 2022

Product-led growth (PLG) is an end-user-focused growth model that relies on the product as the primary driver of customer acquisition, conversion, and expansion. This also means that the typical go-to-market playbook SaaS experts used to follow (below) isn’t as relevant as it used to be. As with anything, frameworks aren’t universal.

Scale 72

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring Marketing 72

ChurnZero

AUGUST 11, 2020

Did you know that 60% of SaaS companies reported a negative impact on customer retention and upsell deals due to the pandemic? Customer retention, along with new customer acquisition, has been challenging for most companies when the pandemic hit. Customer Success teams are in a unique position to listen to their customers’ challenges.

Retention 97

Retention Strategy Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 97

CustomerSuccessBox

APRIL 7, 2022

Puneet Kataria shares his experience and observation on how customer success teams can be agile in the Customer Success Vodcast hosted by tl;dv! Every customer success team during the onboarding, buzz around the term “Early value”, the question is how does it all start and even delivered? You can listen to the full vodcast here.

Onboarding 52

Onboarding SaaS Payments Payment Methods Scale 52

SaaStr

DECEMBER 31, 2019

With the complexity of multiple stakeholders and the increasing purchasing influence of end users, the bar is higher than ever for enterprise UX as companies pioneer business models beyond traditional SaaS. She founded Box’s growth team as well as the product operations team. Want to see more content like this?

Enterprise 132

Enterprise Underperforming Technical Team Scale B2B 132

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.

Pricing 82

Pricing Payments SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 82

SmartKarrot

JUNE 30, 2022

Customer success is one aspect of corporate SaaS mergers and acquisitions that is sometimes overlooked. During mergers and acquisitions, even the slightest operational change can significantly influence both the staff and the clients. Reasons that make customer success essential during mergers and acquisitions.

Acquisition 10

Acquisition Customer Success Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team 10

Totango

JULY 1, 2022

For B2B SaaS companies, customer loyalty drives subscription renewals and brand advocacy, making it a critical component of a profitable business model. This blog will look at why customer loyalty is vital for B2B SaaS businesses and how successful companies effectively cultivate it. What Is Customer Loyalty?

B2B 107

B2B B2C Underperforming Technical Team Business 107

Chart Mogul

JULY 8, 2020

SaaS companies dedicate a lot of time and money to the same goal — they want to give customers a reason to stay and reduce churn. Or opened up Microsoft’s website for its headlines to tout Teams as “On Fleek” and “Mad Sexy”? Luckily, that’s a lot easier to manage in a SaaS product than with a bag of flour. Click To Tweet.

Branding 133

Branding Churn Underperforming Technical Team Retention 133

SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The struggle to convince your senior leadership team to invest in customer experience has always been there for decades. A CX Value framework will help define value on and across different stakeholder groups, build connections, ensure teams are aligned, and more. Several CX experts have themselves struggled in this endeavor.

Leadership 21

Leadership Underperforming Technical Team Investment Scale 21

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? How does Vikas see the space play out in the coming years when it comes to acquisitions?

SaaS Payments 132

SaaS Payments Cloud Technical Review Scale 132

SmartKarrot

JULY 14, 2020

The B2B Tech world is booming with SaaS business models. Statistics claim that about 50% of the enterprises run their operations by depending on a SaaS platform, of which 38% work exclusively on the SaaS module. Let us dive right into this article and explore the world of SaaS and its facets deeply.

Business Model 10

Business Model B2B SaaS Payments Payment Features 10

SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

Prior to Crossbeam, Bob founded Stitched, a powerful ETL service built for developers that was acquired by Talend in 2018. Before that Bob co-founded RJ Metrics, where he built a global base of online retailers leading to their acquisition by Magento Commerce in 2016. Loving our podcast content? What did he mean by this? Why is this?

Sales Hiring 132

Sales Hiring Scale Outsourcing Services CTO Hire 132

SaaStr

MARCH 20, 2020

Before Slack, Rachel spent 4 years at LinkedIn where she led the product marketing team for content experiences. Before Slack, Rachel spent four years at LinkedIn, where she led the product marketing team for content experiences. And so that’s when I went to Slack to start their growth marketing team. Happy to be here.

SMB 180

SMB Scale Startup Marketplace as a Service 180

Point Nine Land

JUNE 18, 2023

More than ten years later, cohort analyses have become an essential part of most SaaS companies’ toolkits. I have written this guide specifically for first-time SaaS founders with limited experience. This is why it’s so essential to use cohort analysis, especially in SaaS, where it’s all about retaining customers and revenue.

SaaS Payments 128

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payments SaaS 128

SaaStr

MARCH 8, 2019

People talk about B2B marketing. Increasingly organizations talk about B2D marketing, to developers. My perspective is a logo is probably a term one uses to describe market share acquisition, but at the essence of any acquired customer, there is a human. Some developer’s tinkering with something.

Scale 107

Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Social Media 107

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Samuel Hulick: I actually started as a full stack developer. Back in those days, and this was like over 10 years ago, the developer would get a Photoshop file that had all of the different interface elements. So, growth team, in this quarter, we want you to go and try to pull the levers to increase day seven engagement.”

Onboarding 254

Onboarding Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team 254

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

One of the biggest decisions you can make when setting up your sales team is whether to focus primarily on inside or outside sales. They seem to be completely at odds, with one focused on clients with a high acquisition cost and high ACV (annual account value), the other focused on a high sales velocity. What is inside sales?

Sales Hiring 81

Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Payment Methods 81

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 15, 2018

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we interview well-known SaaS executive & Gainsight CEO, Nick Mehta. Nick is a two-time entrepreneur, previously having started a SaaS platform called Live Office. Through its acquisition by Symantec, he was Vice President at Veritas Software and Symantec Corporation. What You’ll Learn.

Customer Success 47

Customer Success Scale Underperforming Technical Team Retention 47

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 1, 2020

If you missed episode 137, check it out here: Team Selling: A Comeback Story for 2021 with Trish Bertuzzi. Learn how modern sales teams win deals now at 6sense.com/saleshacker. It’s a bad look, it’s a bad way to end your relationship. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. We’re on iTunes. And on Stitcher.

VP of Engineering 63

VP of Engineering Branding Scale Marketing 63

SmartKarrot

AUGUST 9, 2022

Software As A Service (SaaS) is a cloud-based method of delivering on-demand software to users. Instead of building, developing, and implementing enterprise applications, SaaS users can simply license and subscribe to them. Using remote cloud servers, users can access and utilize SaaS applications from any web-enabled device.

Scale 10

Scale Sales Recruiting Business SaaS 10