ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Plus, sales advice from a master and why the freemium model isn’t going anywhere. Your top subscription news. And the team at Trustpilot researched how social proof influences a buyer’s purchasing process, and how you should leverage social proof in your marketing strategy. Why do indie hackers give up on sales too soon?

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ProfitWell

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Today, we see an NPR-owned app go freemium , a social media management platform is sprouting an IPO (although not a profit), and Vendr raises $2 million to replace your enterprise sales team. Your top subscription news. monthly subscription that allows you access to more features and storage space. NPR looks to freemium.

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ProfitWell

APRIL 15, 2019

An Intercom Updated Intercom launches new features to class up the customer journey, not least of which is an integration with Chargebee so you can sync subscription info directly into your account, enhance customer support, automate workflows, and convert leads faster. Bullhorn Stacked with Recruiting Automation.

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User Pilot

JUNE 28, 2023

Stripo offers a pre-sign up interactive demo that brings prospects to their ‘Aha’ moment before they even create an account. Kommunicate drives sales-less product adoption through product experiments and tracking adoption rates with Userpilot.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 3, 2021

And so, now’s the time to start thinking about accelerating our business strategies and grabbing the opportunities it brings. Now that the worst seems to be over, what exactly should your strategy look like? But if the strategy was good to begin with, keep at it. How can we accelerate our current strategy? Paul: Yeah.

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ProfitWell

JANUARY 23, 2020

Your top subscription news. Now that billing is in a really good place —one of the most under appreciated yet important parts of any subscription business—we have the ability to get super close to the customer and price on where the customer finds value. In product-led growth, product leads and sales follows. Empathy in design.

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SmartKarrot

APRIL 13, 2020

SaaS businesses are organizations that provide subscription-based software applications that are centrally hosted on their servers over the internet. Instead of buying and installing the infrastructure, customers can simply bear the subscription costs of the functionalities they use. Source: Byteant , December 2019. Customer Support.

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User Pilot

JULY 22, 2023

What is a land and expand strategy? In this guide, we’re going to show you how a land and expand strategy can help you grow your revenue generation from existing clients by deploying a foot-in-the-door approach with your sales team! Use growth loops, content marketing, and referral programs to drive user acquisition.

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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. Customer acquisition. The key here is knowing what your sales model is. And there are basically two sales models out there. Transcript.

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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. This creates an intensely competitive landscape with a higher churn rate, but greater customer acquisition opportunities.

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Unbounce

JUNE 16, 2020

I think channel distribution is one of the most promising and untapped acquisition channels for SaaS?—?especially Over the long term, it can also deliver increased revenue, higher customer lifetime value (LTV), and reduced customer acquisition costs (CAC). This generates recurring revenue. especially for SMB SaaS startups.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 28, 2019

SaaStock is a gathering of SaaS Sales Leaders, Founders, VCs, and anybody passionate about building a SaaS business. And make sure you’re following Sales Hacker on Instagram , Twitter , and LinkedIn. So how do you design a go-to-market strategy that ensures product-market fit stays strong? How Can I Get Live Updates?

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Women in sales often have a polarizing experience. In the Sales Hacker video series Aha Moments , I asked 10 women: “What is one ‘aha moment’ you’ve had in your sales career?”. The conversations that followed were so authentic and encouraging that we decided to expand this conversation to other badass women in the sales world.

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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, . build smoother connections both with your prospects through optimized sales process. And from SaaS sales models to SaaS pricing.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

It might be the same core product, but it’s a completely different strategy. At the helm of Udemy for Business’ customer acquisition machine is their VP of Marketing Yvonne Chen. When Yvonne joined in 2016, the business unit consisted of just 10 people across product, engineering, sales, and marketing.

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Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 7, 2015

LinkedIn attracts hundreds of millions of consumers to post resumes online and sells this data and access to its audience to advertisers and recruiters and salespeople. Unlike most SaaS companies who offer a single product, LinkedIn offers three: Talent Solutions, Premium Subscriptions and Marketing Tools.

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SaaStr

JULY 1, 2020

An open discussion with Sam Blond, CSO at Brex, and Kristen Habacht, VPS at Atlassian, about adjusting their sales process during Covid-19. Kristen Habacht runs EDR sales at Atlassian, which I got a check today, $40 billion-$50 billion company. She manages a huge global team. Four, people in the sale? Jason Lemkin: None.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

As for Nick, prior to Gainsight he was the CEO @ LiveOffice where he grew cloud archiving ARR from $2m in 2008 to $25m in 2011 and drove and negotiated the acquisition by Symantec for $115m in cash. Nick has previously said, “Burying customer success under sales does not work.” What tangible actions are on offer? What works?

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Buffer Resources

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Meta's Subscription Model WSJ unveils Meta’s ad-free subscription pricing, impacting ad visibility on Instagram and Facebook – this may affect ad engagement rates. It might be time to re-evaluate your advertising strategies on these platforms. Ad-Free Subscription Plan TikTok tests a $4.99

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ChurnZero

APRIL 27, 2021

Their strategy is simple. Account expansion is often a more telling metric at this stage as those companies with high-growth potential will often see off-cycle expansion just a quarter or two into a new customer subscription – the proverbial land and expand. . ChurnZero raised a $2.5

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ProfitWell

DECEMBER 4, 2019

SaaS, or software as a service, is a delivery model in which a centrally hosted software is licensed to customers via a subscription plan. Recurring payments. Recurring payments take the form of monthly recurring revenue, otherwise known as MRR. What is the SaaS business model. Mature stage.

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ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Your top subscription news. Impact Pricing launches an online course —Accelerate Your Subscription Business—claiming it will be “your blueprint to packaging and pricing for growth.". Because their team also knows subscription business models are new and… can be confusing. Impact Pricing drops the knowledge.

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Outseta

JANUARY 20, 2020

I was one of the first 10 or so employees at the company, and over the next five years I was given a remarkable amount of freedom to try new growth strategies, to succeed, and to fail. In light of the sale of Buildium last month I figured now is as good of a time as any to reflect on the most important ones. We mostly succeeded.

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OpenView Labs

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR). The value of your contracted subscriptions taking into account revenue added/lost from components such as new sales, renewals, upsells, churn, etc. It excludes indirect costs such as sales and distribution costs. Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC). Average Time to Recover CAC.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Prior to its July 2002 acquisition by Novell, SilverStream was a public company that had reached a revenue run rate in excess of $100M, with approximately 800 employees and offices in more than 20 countries around the world. * How does David think about scaling sales teams? How should founders think about sales rep compensation?

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SmartKarrot

JANUARY 18, 2022

Found by Manohar Chapalamadugu in 2013, Agile CRM is an Indian SaaS company known for its sales and marketing solutions designed for SMBs. The company aims at providing a single platform for automated marketing, sales, and other services. Agile CRM offers lead generation, contact management, and integrated telephony services.

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SmartKarrot

JUNE 25, 2020

It depends on month-on-month and year-on-year continued subscriptions. No wonder, we see SaaS CEOs taking a personal interest in everything that marketing and sales do. And that includes cost per lead, content marketing, and customer retention strategies. Yes, SaaS marketing and sales budgets are always under great scrutiny.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 25, 2020

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we’ve got Alyssa Merwin , Vice President of Sales Solutions for LinkedIn, North America. She runs Sales Navigator and is perhaps one of the most important people selling sales engagement and sales software in the world. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Today on the show, we’ve got Brian Litvack, the first person that ever hired me as a sales consultant and my fast friend. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Sam Jacobs: Today on the show, we’ve got Brian Litvack, the first person that ever hired me as a sales consultant and my fast friend. We’re on iTunes.

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