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Sequencing Business Models: Can That SAAS Business Turn Into a Marketplace?

Casey Accidental

As someone who has spent a lot of time building marketplaces in my career, a curious thing has happened over the last couple years. Founders have started reaching out asking for help converting their SAAS or SAAS-like business into a marketplace. I’ve helped their business, but they’re asking for help driving more customers.

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Maximize Revenue with the Customer Engagement Model

Subscription Flow

How do you keep increasing your revenue in a marketplace that has reached its point of saturation? In such a scenario, what subscription-based businesses like these dating apps usually do is they redirect their energies into improving their customer lifetime value by reworking their customer engagement model.

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Customer Acquisition Strategy for SaaS Companies: A Complete Guide

SaaSOptics

What Is Customer Acquisition? Customer Acquisition is the process of acquiring new customers in a business. For subscription-based SaaS businesses, your customer acquisition metrics indicate how effectively you acquire new users via sales, marketing, or a product-led approach like a free trial. Plain and simple.

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How to Crush Your Enemies with Expensify’s CEO: David Barrett (Video)

SaaStr

How do you make your fledgling business seen and heard in a competitive business marketplace? These professionals had to earn their spot by selling Expensify subscriptions. Nobody wants to refer a service that may not be able to deliver. Conan Economics or How to Crush Your Enemies with Expensify’s CEO: David Barrett.

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Embracing Flexible Pricing Models to Unlock SaaS Success

Subscription Flow

Having a flexible pricing strategy allows SaaS providers to cater to different customer segments and needs by offering different pricing models such as subscription, usage-based , freemium, or hybrid. While this strategy may result in lower profits or even a loss, it may help limit competition and maximize customer acquisition and retention.

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The Most Successful SMB SaaS Acquisition Channel Ever Built

Tom Tunguz

Channel distribution represents one of the biggest and most important changes in customers acquisition for SMB SaaS startups in quite a while. As many of these channel partners move to newer distribution models, the brokerage channel model in particular, they represent an efficient and leveraged customer acquisition channel.

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What are the best eCommerce subscription platforms for 2019? |

The Marketing & Growth Hacking Publication

They expect an end-to-end shopping “experience” and this is where eCommerce subscription has a chance to shine by developing long term relationships with consumers. And subscription eCommerce seems to be the answer. The subscription eCommerce market has grown by a whopping 100% year-over-year for the past five years.