User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

They also manage finances and supervise one or more engineering teams. Product Manager : In charge of creating product strategy and overseeing the design process, among other things. What is a SaaS business model? Before the hiring process, take some time to decide on your current needs and hire as your company grows.

Sales Hiring 98

Sales Hiring SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting CTO Hire 98

FastSpring

APRIL 26, 2022

It’s likely that a finance or sales tools will be less susceptible to churn than a marketing tool, simply because it’s perceived to be more directly responsible for revenue.”. If your market is small, then churn matters significantly more. Next, let’s look at how to develop a churn-reduction action plan.

Benchmarks 141

Benchmarks Churn Payments SaaS Payments 141

Buffer Resources

JANUARY 15, 2024

Inaccurate, packed with "filler," or completely AI-generated — bad B2B (business-to-business) content is easy to spot and even easier to find online. This article includes their advice for any B2B brand looking to get real results from content marketing , plus nine must-haves for B2B content to be considered good. 

B2B 120

B2B Technical Advisors SaaS Payments Underperforming Technical Team 120

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. Jump to video.

Scale 150

Scale Sales Payment Methods Merchant Services 150

ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Building a strong pricing strategy starts with hiring a professional team to conduct a pricing audit. A pricing audit assesses your subscription business’ pricing process to ensure consistency across similar accounts, maximize profitability, and benchmark against other companies. Acquisition. Monetization.

Payments 45

Payments Pricing Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Payments 45

Frontegg

AUGUST 19, 2021

Users don’t want to write emails or engage with support teams anymore. PLG is spiking largely because of market saturation (end-users now have multiple options) and rising customer acquisition process costs that are hindering growth and scalability. There’s no two ways about it. The answer is simple.

SaaS Payments 98

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions Underperforming Technical Team 98

ProfitWell

MARCH 12, 2020

Looking at the market today, one might feel a little overwhelmed, and understandably so. To tap into the market, companies need to gain an edge over their competitors in all aspects of their business. Payment processing. However, behind the boom lies the rising consumer demand for subscriptions. Customer support.

SaaS Payments 59

SaaS Payments Subscription Payment Features Payments 59

Baremetrics

JANUARY 24, 2021

Transitioning to SaaS On January 1st 2020, we transitioned the company out of a strategic partnership (we were operating the platform under a non SaaS business model!). We were looking to relaunch the user-driven, SaaS side of our businesses. This means that our revenue churn was very low.

Churn 71

Churn SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payment Solutions 71

Buffer Resources

JANUARY 15, 2024

Inaccurate, packed with "filler," or completely AI-generated — bad B2B (business-to-business) content is easy to spot and even easier to find online. This article includes their advice for any B2B brand looking to get real results from content marketing , plus nine must-haves for B2B content to be considered good. 

B2B 57

B2B Technical Advisors SaaS Payments Underperforming Technical Team 57

OpenView Labs

JANUARY 29, 2020

HubSpot now offers freemium versions of their CRM, Marketing and Sales products. CEO Brian Halligan describes their revamped go-to-market motion as “ a flywheel where the customers are the main driver that pulls new prospects in ” and boasts that half of HubSpot’s new customers use the free product before they buy. Freemium benchmarks.

Pricing 82

Pricing Payments SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 82

The Angel VC

DECEMBER 12, 2018

The main reason is that your customer acquisition costs are highly front-loaded. While this is generally true for most companies, it’s particularly true for SaaS businesses, which invest heavily in product development, sales, and marketing upfront and get payments from customers over a delayed period of time, usually several years.

Sales Recruiting 106

Sales Recruiting SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Scale 106

OPEXEngine

AUGUST 9, 2022

Editor’s note: According to a new Bain brief, there are 3 time-tested principles to navigating changing market conditions, or a recession and using data and analytics to thrive. The three principles to follow are: Aligning resources with market opportunity. Advance planning helps companies cut costs and gain market share.

Scale 59

Scale VP of Engineering Payment Services Underperforming Technical Team 59

Neil Patel

APRIL 12, 2021

According to MarketsandMarkets , the subscription and recurring billing market will grow to around $7.8 Recurring Business Revenue. Plus, since your customers pay the same price each month, a subscription box offers some degree of stability in your revenue stream, which helps you predict your finances more accurately.

Outsourcing Services 123

Outsourcing Services Payment Methods Subscription Payment Features 123

Chargify

APRIL 23, 2019

We found ourselves asking this question in a marketing meeting not too long ago. The “primary risk [during pre-startup] is the failure to design a business plan and strategy that will enable the company to become profitable as it makes sales and earns revenue. Finding channel/market fit. How long is a startup a startup?

Scale 74

Scale SaaS Payments Scaling Payment Services 74

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. * What does Krish mean when he says, “In SaaS, you either sell to one of 2 customer profiles”? First, what is continuous customer development?

Scale 128

Scale SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting Payment Services 128

SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2019

To date they have raised over $113m in financing from some of the best in the business including Tiger Global, Battery Ventures, Boldstart, Canaan, Cisco, and Redpoint, just to name a few. How does Vikas see the space play out in the coming years when it comes to acquisitions? Does this not lead to a consolidatory environment?

SaaS Payments 132

SaaS Payments Cloud Technical Review Scale 132

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. Before that Dave was SVP/GM of Service Cloud @ Salesforce where he led the $500m line of business for customer service applications.

Sales Hiring 142

Sales Hiring Payment Services SaaS Payments Underperforming Technical Team 142

Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Conversion rates can vary widely by channel and lots of poor traffic isn’t worth the effort. Spifs or sales incentives If you are considering a distribution or sales channel partnership, spiffs or sales promotion incentive funds ensure that sales teams working for your partner are paid to sell your product. Deal Terms. Avoid them.

Startup 100

Startup Underperforming Technical Team Scale Payment Services 100

Baremetrics

MAY 7, 2019

Company C was funded by pre-orders from customers, a friends and family round, and then through revenue-based financing for a period of time. Every business, every founder, and every market is different and requires a unique approach. After seriously considering an acquisition offer, Wistia decided to take on $17.3M

Finance 111

Finance Startup SaaS Payments Payment Methods 111

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 3, 2018

Here are five quick takeaways: Instead of relying on word of mouth to permeate the team, write things down. Iterate on process the same way you iterate on product. If a process doesn’t stick, don’t hesitate to move from it. Rohini: Sometimes the word “process” gets a bad rap. Michelle: I find that, too.

Payment Methods 195

Payment Methods Merchant Services Scale Payment Features 195

OpenView Labs

APRIL 11, 2019

I was born in Bombay, but grew up in New Jersey and was acutely aware of the juxtaposition of those two places in terms of economic development, politics and culture. I started the growth team and scaled Dia&Co’s customer acquisition and retention strategies. The Four Growth Levers – Foundational Building Blocks.

Strategy 64

Strategy Payment Solutions PayPal Underperforming Technical Team 64

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.

Customer Success 73

Customer Success SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions 73

FastSpring

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Although, I’m sure your marketing budget feels like it’s getting a workout. What we really want to talk about are resolutions that will make your digital business better than it was last year. That means looking at past failures and victories to create a better marketing strategy for 2019. Improve the Customer Experience.

Payment Methods 62

Payment Methods Business Underperforming Technical Team Social Media 62

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. Use email marketing to win back churned customers. Outside of the lost revenue that comes from losing customers (and that is a lot!),

Underperforming Technical Team 104

Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Methods 104

Point Nine Land

DECEMBER 12, 2018

The main reason is that your customer acquisition costs are highly front-loaded. While this is generally true for most companies, it’s particularly true for SaaS businesses, which invest heavily in product development, sales, and marketing upfront and get payments from customers over a delayed period of time, usually several years.

Sales Recruiting 61

Sales Recruiting SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Scale 61

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

How can a simple offering be transformed into its own platform? 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. Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020.

Payments 120

Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payment Services 120

SmartKarrot

AUGUST 11, 2021

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). And nearly 60% switch companies based on poor customer service. Payment Method may not work.

SaaS Payments 19

SaaS Payments Churn Underperforming Technical Team Payment Methods 19

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. Enter the platform company. Zach : So in our back end, we’ve integrated with about 10,000 financial institutions in the U.S.

Payments 146

Payments SaaS Payments Banking Underperforming Technical Team 146

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. By serving common business needs, horizontal SaaS platforms have a very wide target audience. What is Horizontal SaaS?

SaaS Payments 88

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payments Payment Solutions 88

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.

Customer Success 49

Customer Success SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions 49

User Pilot

APRIL 8, 2021

If you’re looking for quality customer analytics software for your business, you’re in the right place. Allow us to walk you through the best solutions on the market at the moment, and the criteria by which you should choose between them. How do you choose the best Customer Analytics Software for your Business?

Payment Solutions 52

Payment Solutions Software Review SaaS Payments Software 52

Point Nine Land

MARCH 7, 2019

Lemkin recently posted a tweetstorm about his observation that most startups are bad at finance. If there’s a trade-off between hiring a CFO and, say, a marketing leader or 1–2 developers, most founders will understandably go for the latter. Like, all of them. just one or two days before Jason unleashed his tweetstorm.

Sales Hiring 72

Sales Hiring Outsourcing Services Payment Services Finance 72

SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

Average Revenue per Customer. Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC). & The second constituent there is the developer. Why do developers love SaaS products? The last kind of constituent here is investors and business owners. And basically SaaS revenue models is just magical for investors and for businesses.

SaaS Payments 237

SaaS Payments Metrics Payment Methods Scale 237

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. All of that said, I am constantly getting questions around paid search management for start-ups and I continue to see significant challenges at this end of the market. Soren: It really is a tough question.

Interviewing 40

Interviewing SaaS Payments Payments Technical Advisors 40

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. CRM platforms.

Sales Hiring 81

Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Payment Methods 81

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. ” — Wes Bush.

Payment Methods 40

Payment Methods SaaS Payments Payments Payment Solutions 40

Point Nine Land

JUNE 18, 2023

However, even though everyone is now aware of cohort analyses, and every major web, product, or revenue analytics product offers features for cohort analysis, it still requires time to fully comprehend everything you need to know about cohort analyses and, perhaps more importantly, to utilize them to obtain real, actionable insights.

SaaS Payments 128

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payments SaaS 128