Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 23, 2024

Whether it’s creating better tools to write code and test code, better tools for customers to engage with reps, better tools for sales teams to engage with their prospects, all those things are happening inside of Bill. The opportunity is to leverage that trust factor to drive customer acquisition, and it has worked for us.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

PST, Stephanie Opdam, Partner at Notion Capital, shares four business model changes that will allow SaaS companies to build resilience and staying power over time. This is where traditional SaaS methods like subscription pricing only, driving growth through headcount only, or a pure sales GTM strategy only live.

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Subscription Flow

MAY 10, 2024

To keep up with the modern donors’ purchasing habits, nonprofit organizations or NPOs can set-up recurring donation systems in-line with these donors’ spending preferences. Subscription-based business models have increased in number as media streaming platforms like Netflix and delivery services like Amazon have risen in popularity.

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FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Revenue vs. profit vs. income: The terms may seem synonymous and are sometimes even used interchangeably, but they tell different stories about a company. Revenue growth suggests an expanding business and in-demand product, but whether there is any financial gain for the business is determined by the income.

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Stax

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

So, of course when it came to revenue-driving activities, Ford knew that success in marketing—and business—wasn’t about how much your marketing spend is, but how efficiently you spend it. Enter the SaaS Magic Number, which measures the return on sales and marketing spend in generating new subscription revenue.

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Incredo

JULY 14, 2019

Whether you are a startup owner, a manager of a growing business or the CEO of an established company, you might find yourself asking questions like “ Should our SaaS subscription model be monthly, annually or both ?” or “ What are the best tips I can get in terms of annual vs monthly subscription models ?”.

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Blulogix

JANUARY 5, 2024

Key Definitions in Subscription Billing: Demystifying the Jargon By BluLogix Team Welcome to the fourth installment of our comprehensive guide on selecting the right subscription billing platform. Before we go much further, let’s go deep into essential definitions and concepts in the world of subscription billing.

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ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

The subscription revenue model is hardly new. But in the past few years, subscriptions have seen a bit of a resurgence. In fact, you'd be hard-pressed to find an industry that hasn't seen at least one subscription success story: Cars. Even the humble houseplant doesn’t seem immune to the subscription economy.

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User Pilot

APRIL 3, 2024

Prioritizing user experience optimization in product-led growth is crucial for creating intuitive, enjoyable products that retain customers and drive revenue growth. PLG and SLG differ in focus: PLG centers on product appeal for growth, while SLG relies on sales strategies and personal interactions. Is product-led growth right for you?

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Baremetrics

MARCH 16, 2021

When choosing the right billing software for your subscription businesses, there are many things to consider. Baremetrics is a tool that integrates with Recurly , as well as other tools such as Stripe and Chargebee. Both also accept multiple forms of payments, including credit cards. Want to Reduce Your Churn?

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FastSpring

JULY 12, 2019

Since most SaaS and subscription-based businesses depend on recurring payments to sustain themselves, it can pay dividends to keep a close eye on lifetime value and customer retention rates. Here’s one simple formula for calculating CLV: CLV = Average recurring revenue per account * length of the partnership (lifetime).

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The Marketing & Growth Hacking Publication

FEBRUARY 3, 2019

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.

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FastSpring

MAY 14, 2019

Here’s how your company can benefit from switching from a perpetual license to a subscription plan. Reason #1: Subscriptions support product innovation. In fact, there are plenty of successful businesses using FastSpring’s full-service ecommerce platform to enable one-time purchases. Your pricing may be the culprit.

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ProfitWell

JUNE 27, 2019

From CRM software to coffee beans, shaving blades to designer gowns, recurring billing is the lifeline for every subscription business. It’s easy to see why—automatic charges for subscriptions are simple and convenient for customers and predictable and sustainable for companies. What is recurring billing?

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Neil Patel

JANUARY 1, 2021

It offers a way to bring down customer acquisition costs and has been proven to keep users in a game for far longer than the pay-to-play method. Games as a Service acts as a continuous revenue service for developers, allowing them to break their reliance on the one-time purchase. Games as a Service Payment Options.

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FastSpring

MARCH 9, 2022

Note: FastSpring offers advanced subscription management services that support free trials, monthly and annual paid plans, proration, discount management, and more. For PLG-centered companies in particular, the pricing page often serves as: A way to enter the sales funnel through a free trial or freemium plan. Learn more here.

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 27, 2020

In that essay , we also talked about how a more common route for a SaaS business is to become a platform. Platforms can create an immense amount of long-term value for companies, or be a minor component of their product strategy to maintain product/market fit. The Types of Platforms. Integration Platforms.

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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 What success looks like for using both together.

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Baremetrics

OCTOBER 8, 2021

To run a business online, you probably need a customer relationship management ( CRM ) software package and/or payment processor to manage your customers and their invoices. Stripe is often the payment processor of choice for SaaS businesses because it can handle recurring revenue streams.

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Subscription Flow

JANUARY 26, 2024

When evaluating the growth and valuation of SaaS businesses, Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR) is arguably the most commonly used SaaS metric out of all of them. Read more: Metrics that Matter: A Deep Dive into MRR, ARR, Churn, and ARPU for Subscription Business Models What is SaaS MRR growth?

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Baremetrics

APRIL 6, 2021

When you’re looking at your business goals, you need to consider not only your existing monthly revenue but your contraction monthly recurring revenue (MRR). Contraction Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR) is an extremely important metric for subscription businesses. Want to Reduce Your Churn?

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FastSpring

APRIL 26, 2022

Last week, I canceled an annual SaaS subscription (I had three weeks left until renewal). Interestingly, even though I paid for a year-long subscription, the company didn’t let me keep the last three weeks of access to its premium features. This action will immediately downgrade your subscription.

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Baremetrics

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) is the amount of money a company can expect to bring in from subscriptions on an annual basis. Subscription businesses rely on their sales and marketing teams to bring money into the company in two ways: by selling new subscriptions and by selling upgrades to existing subscribers.

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CustomerSuccessBox

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Customer Success has become a must for every SaaS business with the advent of the subscription economy. The success of your business goes hand in hand with the success of your customer. For so many years, SaaS has focused so strongly on the acquisition that they have been blind to other aspects of the customer journey.

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OPEXEngine

AUGUST 17, 2021

With the explosive growth of the SaaS business model impacting businesses worldwide, many are navigating SaaS financial operations and subscription management for the first time. When you move away from spreadsheets to a subscription management platform, make sure it is tailored for B2B SaaS. Think long-term.

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User Pilot

OCTOBER 5, 2023

TL;DR The CAC payback period measures the time it takes for a company to recover the money invested in new customer acquisition. This metric helps SaaS companies choose the most effective customer acquisition channels , diagnose inefficiencies in customer retention strategies , and inform pricing decisions. Book the demo to see how!

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OPEXEngine

JUNE 11, 2020

You hear the terms SaaS, subscription, term licenses and perpetual license software tossed around frequently. At OPEXEngine, we pull apart the different nuances of each business model to make sure we are benchmarking companies correctly. It changes sales and marketing organizations and their execution.

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User Pilot

MARCH 23, 2023

TL;DR Customer churn refers to the rate at which a business loses customers within a specific period. The key difference is that customer churn measures the number of customers a business lost, whereas revenue churn measures the revenue lost due to customer churn. moment faster. #3: Want to reduce customer churn?

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 20, 2018

SaaS Pricing can be difficult to determine for many digital businesses. First, you need to be sure that you’ve priced your product fairly, and second, you want to offer the payment option that will appeal to the largest number of users. What’s the story with subscriptions? Some buyer personas prefer certain services over others.

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Aysling

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

To be an ERP or Enterprise Resource Planner, a software platform needs to contain accounting and inventory functionality. Now, Aysling does have snippets of both of those features, it can manage your project accounting , invoicing, billing, etc.; Aysling is not a Marketing Acquisition tool. Aysling is not really an ERP.

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Neil Patel

APRIL 12, 2021

They offer some of the best-known subscription boxes around, reflecting an increasingly popular (and potentially lucrative) business model. Why Should You Launch a Subscription Box? According to MarketsandMarkets , the subscription and recurring billing market will grow to around $7.8 Recurring Business Revenue.

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Buffer Resources

MARCH 5, 2024

The customers who did find our product loved it, but sales were slow, and working with big distributors and retailers was challenging for our small company. On the financial side, distributors took a chunk of our already tight margins, and the 90-day payment terms from most retailers made cash flow difficult.

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ProfitWell

MARCH 25, 2020

Acquisition is the weakest growth lever. We studied the levers—acquisition, retention, and monetization—of 512 SaaS companies. We found that monetization and retention have much higher revenue impacts than acquisition when considering the same level of impact across each growth lever. Convert more sales.

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Baremetrics

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Most online businesses use a customer relationship management ( CRM ) software package and/or payment processor to manage their billings because handling many customers across regions by hand is difficult, and in a competitive market there is no room for errors. For many SaaS enterprises, Stripe is the payment processor of choice.

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Chargify

OCTOBER 21, 2020

As many leading companies know, customer subscription management isn’t a “set it and forget it” concept. It is important for businesses to constantly analyze the health of their subscription model to make sure it is truly working for their customers and their bottom line. Objectively Measuring Your Subscription Business.

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FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Depending on what calculation you use, LTV can paint an honest picture of whether your customers are spending and staying long enough to cover acquisition costs and hopefully—make you a profit. Lifetime Value (LTV) is a metric that shows the average revenue generated by a customer before they churn. Focuses on Loyal Customers.

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Payrix

MARCH 12, 2024

Embedded Payments have become a popular initiative among vertical specific software companies looking to deliver a more seamless customer experience, introduce new revenue into the business, and stay competitive in today’s digital world. How do they think about attaching payments to those existing customers?

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