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Days Sales Outstanding Formula: What is DSO and How Do You Calculate It?

Stax

In an ideal world, all customers would pay an invoice the moment they receive it. But in reality, companies often have to spend considerable time and resources chasing down late payments that are stuck in Accounts Receivable. Promptly collecting payments from your customers is essential to run a sustainable business.

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??Shep Hyken on getting customers to come back again and again

Intercom, Inc.

And it’s not just about strong retention and recurring revenue, although that’s certainly a plus; it’s knowing the customer won’t quit you over a new competitor with better technology, lower prices, or even a more convenient service. ” “You can have the greatest technology, but I’ve got news for you.

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The Subscription Model is the New Standard

SaaSOptics

Magazines, newspapers, life insurance, phones, security services, and a long list of products and services have been sold for decades using the subscription model. The difference now is how important and meaningful the subscription model has become to the national economic engine. What has changed?

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The Subscription Model is the New Standard

SaaSOptics

Magazines, newspapers, life insurance, phones, security services, and a long list of products and services have been sold for decades using the subscription model. The difference now is how important and meaningful the subscription model has become to the national economic engine. What has changed?

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Shep Hyken on fostering the cult of the customer

Intercom, Inc.

What has changed, however, is the underlying technology that powers these interactions and, ideally, makes them a lot smoother than the bygone days of toxic hold music. Many view memberships and subscriptions as the model of the future. So the only thing that’s in between human and human is this new technology.

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In a world. where the subscriber is the center

ProfitWell

Your top subscription news. Recurly—provider of enterprise-class subscription billing management for thousands of businesses worldwide—raises $19.5 million to boost subscription revenue with machine learning. And Zuora's found the subscription usage ticking up more than 300% between 2012 and 2018. Recurly raises $19.5M.

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Intercom on Product: Accelerating your strategy after COVID-19

Intercom, Inc.

There have been two seminal memos that have, in a sense, rocked the tech industry. Unless you’re knowingly taking a wild bet at something like a big wild swing, there needs to be a business case behind it and some due diligence done. You need to do a bit of due diligence on the different types of products or features.

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