OpenView Labs

JANUARY 29, 2020

Freemium Model for SaaS – The Good, The Bad, and The In-between. The basic premise that the freemium business model operates on is this: Several hundred thousands of users sign up for the freemium plan, and then a good cohort of them will convert into paying customers. Freemium: It’s About Acquisition, Not Revenue.

Pricing 82

Pricing Payments SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 82

User Pilot

MARCH 25, 2024

Because it improves your business’ profitability, understanding and reducing churn also gives you a better customer acquisition cost to customer lifetime value (CAC: CLV) ratio. To calculate the churn rate, divide the number of customers lost by the total number of customers at the beginning of that period.

Underperforming Technical Team 104

Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Methods 104

ProfitWell

MARCH 2, 2020

When a customer encounters an issue with a product or service, they’ll reach out to a customer service/support team to resolve them. It’s also an avenue for expressing their positive or negative feedback about the product and customer experience. Customer support vs. customer success via HubSpot.

Customer Success 72

Customer Success SaaS Payments Strategy Payment Services 72

ChurnZero

JANUARY 4, 2019

AI has been a buzzword for a while and many businesses jumped onto the bandwagon by integrating AI into the customer journey, but customers still want to deal with a human, particularly if they need advice or help with something complex that they cannot solve on their own (i.e. Increases self-service for customers across all segments.

Customer Success 73

Customer Success SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions 73

User Pilot

APRIL 15, 2024

Six common customer pain points. In-app support strategies to eliminate them. TL;DR Customer communication pain points refer to the problems customers encounter when trying to get help through your support channels. Benefits of addressing customer pain points: Improved customer experience.

Communication 105

Communication SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Methods 105

Upscope

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Upscope is a co-browsing solution. They're typically looking to buy our product for their customer success, account and support teams or to use our API to completely white label our solution for their own internal needs or as part of a product they sell to their customers. Do usage based pricing.

Enterprise 40

Enterprise SaaS Payments Pricing Payment Solutions 40

SmartKarrot

AUGUST 11, 2021

The lifeblood of the SaaS business is its customers. SaaS, or software as a service, is a subscription-based model where customers pay subscription fees for services such as Dropbox, CRM, or perhaps Mailchimp, and this is how the companies earn monthly recurring revenues (MRM). Payment Method may not work.

SaaS Payments 19

SaaS Payments Churn Underperforming Technical Team Payment Methods 19

ChurnZero

JANUARY 4, 2019

AI has been a buzzword for a while and many businesses jumped onto the bandwagon by integrating AI into the customer journey, but customers still want to deal with a human, particularly if they need advice or help with something complex that they cannot solve on their own (i.e. Increases self-service for customers across all segments.

Customer Success 49

Customer Success SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions 49

Stax

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Software as a Service (SaaS) has made business software more accessible by offering cloud-based, on-demand access to a range of solutions, from project management and collaboration to sales and marketing. Some solutions, like Slack or Microsoft, are useful for any kind of business. But not all SaaS products are alike.

SaaS Payments 88

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payments Payment Solutions 88

Outseta

MARCH 18, 2019

Wes Bush is a SaaS marketer who has quickly developed a reputation as “the free trial vs. freemium guy.” I caught up with Wes to talk about his free trial vs. freemium framework, our own customer acquisition process, and the start-up scene in Waterloo, Canada. When does it make sense to ask for payment information upfront?

Payment Methods 40

Payment Methods SaaS Payments Payments Payment Solutions 40

Outseta

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Before we get into the interview, a bit of background - I have hired Soren’s team at Working Planet multiple times. Even further up market and in my past engagements with Working Planet, there are a number of challenges related to paid search management that I’ve felt first hand and still don’t see a great solution to.

Interviewing 40

Interviewing SaaS Payments Payments Technical Advisors 40

User Pilot

MAY 9, 2024

Offer round-the-clock access to support materials via a resource center. Develop educational content, like webinars or courses, to help users discover new use cases and features. This increases product value and customer satisfaction. Like a customer profile template or an in-app survey template. Jobs-to-be-done.

SaaS Payments 52

SaaS Payments Payment Services Onboarding Payment Solutions 52

User Pilot

AUGUST 15, 2023

KPIs like customer acquisition cost , trial-to-paid conversion rate , customer engagement score , etc. It’s also important that you create excitement ahead of the launch and ensure synergy between your customer support and sales teams. for measuring success. What is a product launch marketing plan?

ChatGPT 98

ChatGPT SaaS Payments Marketing Social Media 98

ProfitWell

OCTOBER 23, 2019

A literal downfall, in poor Icarus’s case, after his wings melted mid-flight. They launch a product, start bringing in some solid revenue, and put all their efforts into acquiring new customers. Thankfully, you don’t need to end up like poor Icarus. 1: You’re attracting the wrong customers. He was excited to go flying.

Churn 56

Churn Payment Methods Payment Services SaaS Payments 56

Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Develop a Full Marketing Strategy 2. These types of customers are also usually price-inelastic and need tools within a specific budget. High churn is understandable for newer startups, but it does indicate that a tool may be a poor market fit, have limited demand, or struggle to compete against similar products. to 11.2%.

SaaS Payments 105

SaaS Payments Technical Review Development Team Review Software Review 105

Incredo

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Do you want to grow your SaaS sales team and improve your processes? maintain healthy atmosphere in your Smarketing team, make smart choices regarding your SaaS sales model, strategy, pricing, . Skills for SaaS Sales Team. 6 Essential skills for SaaS inside sales team to boost product’s sales. 3 examples for you).

SaaS Payments 157

SaaS Payments Payment Methods Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring 157

Baremetrics

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Sean Ellis, who ran growth in the early days of Dropbox, LogMeIn, and Eventbrite benchmarked nearly a hundred startups with his customer development survey. Customers given the survey could answer with “Very disappointed,” “Somewhat disappointed,” or “Not disappointed.”. survey User Churn and Revenue Churn Quick Ratio.

Retention 136

Retention Strategy Payment Solutions Technical Advisors 136

Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

And as Travis mentioned, we’ve had lots of great recent guests, Hollie Wegman, CMO at Segment, Adam, the head of developer relations at HashiCorp, G.C. And I joined as a customer support rep. Her team loved working for her. If not, you can send me bad pictures of dachshunds. It’s been a huge success.

CTO Coach 129

CTO Coach Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting CTO Hire 129

FastSpring

APRIL 30, 2024

If you’re selling your software, plugin, add-on, or other digital product for a one-time fee, you’re likely thinking about switching to a recurring subscription model. Are you looking for a merchant of record that will help you grow your subscription software business? We often see this in the software universe.

Subscription 149

Subscription Payment Features Payments Payment Solutions 149

Sixteen Ventures

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Customer Success is transformative. Whether you have a Software-as-a-Service, subscription or membership business or you sell one-off products or services and simply want to do business with your customer more than once, Customer Success should be your driving purpose. Customer Success Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs).

Customer Success 136

Customer Success SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services 136