FastSpring

DECEMBER 11, 2018

For those of you who need some new ideas to boost sales, we just posted some fool-proof tactics to boost online sales here (link to the New Year Deal post). Understanding your customers’ motivations is key in developing content strategy, products and improving the customer journey. Improve the Customer Experience.

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Baremetrics

MAY 7, 2019

Choosing the right combination of funding for your business is just as fundamental as choosing the right co-founders (or not), the right market, the right product, and the right team. After seriously considering an acquisition offer, Wistia decided to take on $17.3M Build your startup in a way that you don’t need investment.

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Even if developers do come, and they happen to build integrations that help customers; if incentives aren’t aligned between the two companies, lasting investment will not happen, and the integrations will be poorly maintained. Incorrect incentives will lead to poor quality integrations.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

As for Krish, under Krish’s leadership the team has grown to over 300 people and over 5,000 clients making it one of the next generation in truly global SaaS businesses started in India. * First, what is continuous customer development? Does it have to be in person? What is the process to do it efficiently?

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OPEXEngine

AUGUST 9, 2022

By benchmarking critical go-to-market KPIs, like the Magic Number – which measures how many new dollars of revenue growth are obtained getting from your sales and marketing investment compared to your competitors. Yet too many sales teams use outdated practices in making account and territory assignments. Know when to walk away.

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ProfitWell

MARCH 12, 2020

Payment processing. Almost half (49%) of American consumers switched companies in 2019 due to poor customer service. Up to 20%- 40% of churn is caused by failed payments , meaning customers who are trying to buy your products are being discouraged by technical problems and searching elsewhere. Customer support. Bookkeeping.

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SmartKarrot

AUGUST 11, 2021

You need to put in countless hours of research and development, relentless marketing campaigns, and tireless sales effort to earn a paying customer. And nearly 60% switch companies based on poor customer service. It could affect your future customer acquisitions drastically. Payment Method may not work.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 4, 2019

No matter how deeply you gaze into the crystal ball wondering what this new year has in store for you or your business, the only thing you’ll know for sure is that despite your careful planning, some things will change. But what if you could have a better idea of the changes 2019 has in store for Customer Success professionals?

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SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2019

How does Vikas see the space play out in the coming years when it comes to acquisitions? Why is it so crucial to invest in enablement in the early days? Here’s what Eyal and Megan talk about: How to develop software faster. What have been the dramatic changes that have happened in sales over the last few years?

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SaaStr

JUNE 14, 2019

In his most recent role, Dave was the CEO @ Host Analytics where he quintupled ARR, halved customer acquisition costs and increased net retention rates before selling the company to a private equity sponsor. Finally pre-Salesforce, Dave was CEO @ MarkLogic where he grew the team from 40 to 240 and revenues from $0 to an $80m revenue run rate.

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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC). & So growth of the kind of subscription, eCommerce industry has been over 100% year on year for the past five years, according to McKinsey. So growth of the kind of subscription, eCommerce industry has been over 100% year on year for the past five years, according to McKinsey. Transcript.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 4, 2019

No matter how deeply you gaze into the crystal ball wondering what this new year has in store for you or your business, the only thing you’ll know for sure is that despite your careful planning, some things will change. But what if you could have a better idea of the changes 2019 has in store for Customer Success professionals?

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Stax

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Some examples of niches targeted by vertical SaaS providers include healthcare, eCommerce, finance, and education. Where vertical SaaS targets specific industries with purpose-built tools, horizontal SaaS companies develop more generic solutions that are relevant to many different types of businesses. Consider the following.

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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. Soren Ryherd: We build profitable customer acquisition programs using paid digital advertising. Soren: This was 2003, and I was working as Head of Business Development for a web engineering company in Boston.

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How To Buy Saas

DECEMBER 1, 2020

With so many SAAS getting visibility in online marketplaces, we found that new saas businesses are struggling hard to make it to the right set of customers. In saas marketing, you generally use online marketing strategies to generate more leads and conversions in your saas business. Setup Pricing model and payment gateways.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

Sales Development and Prospecting. The Sales Development Playbook. The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team. If you truly want to be a better leader, better salesperson , better speaker, better writer, or just a better person, you need to study the craft. Selling to Big Companies. The Pirate’s Guide to Sales. B2B Is Really P2P.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 4, 2019

The fastest growing software companies in recent years all have something in common – they started with little to no sales team. Yes, Slack started off with no sales team. Yes, Dropbox started off with no traditional sales team. billion in revenue) so it’s safe to say Jeanne and her team have helped do exactly that.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Companies that have access to more accurate financial data have the ability to develop seamless exchanges of information, providing consumers with improved ways to manage their finances. Quovo had focused on investment accounts and allowing you to programmatically interact with your investment accounts through third-party applications.

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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).

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

For Dan Gingiss , at least, investing in your defense – the customer experience – is the smartest move you can make. He’s also a keynote speaker and CX expert with over 20 years of experience in the field, having led teams in social media, marketing, and customer experience at companies such as Humana, McDonald’s, and Discover.

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Outseta

JANUARY 20, 2020

What started as Dimitris (now my Co-founder at Outseta ) writing a few lines of code to collect rent payments from tenants he had living in a duplex in Providence, Rhode Island, turned into something worth hundreds of millions of dollars 15 years later. I was managing a team of 15 and the company had grown to about 140 employees.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Renaud Visage, Co-Founder of Eventbrite, and Romain Huet, Head of Developer Relations at Stripe, know what it takes to effectively evolve your offering into a platform without losing what made offering appealing in the first place. Romain Huet | Head of Developer Relations @ Stripe. Want to see more content like this?

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SmartKarrot

JULY 14, 2020

You will only have to worry about the recurring payments, which is otherwise known as MRR, monthly recurring revenue. You will now have to raise some substantial amount of funds, you will have to increase the team members, invest in product development, and scale-up. What Is the SaaS Business Model?

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

374: ZoomInfo founder and CEO Henry Schuck shares how he built a business from scratch and grew it into one of the most successful IPOs of the 21st century—and what it was really like…the good, the bad, and most of all, the ugly. This episode is sponsored by Outgrow. They had to reinvent themselves.

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ProfitWell

OCTOBER 23, 2019

A literal downfall, in poor Icarus’s case, after his wings melted mid-flight. Thankfully, you don’t need to end up like poor Icarus. Your product is only part of that equation—your onboarding process, customer success teams, and self-service education also play a huge role. He was excited to go flying.

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Baremetrics

MARCH 23, 2020

For example, a churned user on a $50/mo plan isn’t nearly as bad as a churned user on a $500/mo plan. One thing I do to build that personal relationship is send every new trial a one minute personalized video to introduce myself and welcome them to the trial. It’s an app store optimization tool. First, is MobileAction.

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ChurnZero

APRIL 27, 2021

As ChurnZero recently secured a Series B investment bringing our total funding that has been raised to date to $35 million, we thought we’d take a look back and see the role that Customer Success plays at each respective stage of funding for SaaS companies. And we thought, who better to ask than those that chose to invest in us along the way.

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ProfitWell

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Recurring payments. The software-as-a-service business model involves providing a subscription service, so you will have to worry about getting payments every month/year as opposed to only once. Recurring payments take the form of monthly recurring revenue, otherwise known as MRR. In SaaS, clients do not buy hardware.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 10, 2019

WePay CEO Bill Clerico and COO Tina Hsiao discuss how the company went from launch to acquisition. WePay is a payments company for platform businesses like marketplaces, crowdfunding sites & small business software. I think on the plus side, coming into a firm like JPMorgan, we were a 200 person company when we were acquired.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 29, 2019

It’s no surprise that one of the key levers for growth as you go from startup to scale-up is your sales team. How quickly you’re able to accelerate growth depends on your ability to build a nimble sales org and develop a strong sales strategy. These lay the foundation that enables your team to run as efficiently as possible.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Join this panel of investors from Connect Ventures, Blossom Capital, Dawn Capital, The Family, and Indico Partners as they provide an overview of the current investment landscape, and discuss whether the seed stage is emerging as the new Series A. Emilie Maret | Fellowship Team @ The Family. Emilie Maret | Fellowship Team @ The Family.

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ProfitWell

MARCH 11, 2020

For years, aggressive customer acquisition strategies have dominated the marketing space. Why spend all of your time and energy creating costly customer acquisition-focused marketing campaigns if you aren't going to spend time keeping them around? Customer acquisition is a fantastic way to grow your business in the short-term, fast.

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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. Her team loved working for her. Leadership, she’s been on the leadership team for two massive businesses, and so who better to hear from on that topic than Claire.

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BrightBack

AUGUST 19, 2019

Subscription businesses can't survive on acquisition alone. Organize your teams around the customer relationship. A subscription business model requires proving a consistent return on investment (ROI) to your customers. It's critical for companies to place just as much emphasis on retention as they do on acquisition.

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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. strong acquisition and retention) almost always exceeded that threshold. Bad pricing practices are easy excuses for customers to cancel.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Jos White of Notion and Christian Lanng of Tradeshift team up to show you how to work within, and sometimes around, rules in the workplace. Jos White : We were fortunate enough to lead a Series A investment into Tradeshift back in 2010, I think. Notion Capital was really the first fund to have the guts to invest in Tradeshift.

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User Pilot

JANUARY 15, 2021

It’s the tools and methods you use to understand user behavior within your app. The way a user gets to a website is infinitely less complex than the ways a user can interact with a product. 51% of people will never return to a company that they’ve had a bad experience with. Efficiency. Source: mixpanel.com.

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