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Four Sales Compensation Tactics for Consumption-Based GTM with MongoDB’s SVP of Sales

SaaStr

Meghan Gill, SVP of Sales Ops and Sales Dev at MongoDB, shares different consumption-based compensation models that drive the right behaviors. Compensation will drive it and have unexpected results. If you want to get rid of the cobras, paying for every cobra killed clearly wasn’t the right behavior to compensate.

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Playbook: Scale to $100M+ ARR with a Usage-Based Pricing Model

OpenView Labs

This is why we’re seeing more and more SaaS companies—Datadog, Twilio, AWS, Snowflake, and Stripe, to name a few—find success with product led growth paired with usage-based pricing. Usage-based pricing will be the key to successful monetization in the future. Then they tell their boss what to buy. Land-and-expand is real.

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Consumption-based pricing models: transition guidance for CFOs

OPEXEngine

Additionally, it is a flexible model that allows customers to buy only what they need (i.e., There are many vendor benefits, too — it is easier to sell and it embodies a customer success solution orientation that drives high customer lifetime value and revenue. Pay for performance compensation plan.

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5 Best Practices for Effective Customer Escalation Management

Totango

That is, right after they post on social media about the awful company that sold them a bad, unsupported product. Instead, have best practices for customer escalation management in place and be ready to resolve your customers’ problems fast and effectively. 1: Listen to the Customer. Then refund the customer.

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4 Traits of Fast-growing SaaS Companies

OpenView Labs

Usage-based pricing (UBP) , also known as consumption-based pricing, allows customers to pay for products according to how much they use. AWS and other infrastructure providers have been using UBP for nearly a decade. Fast growers retain and expand new customers, resulting in net negative churn.

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The Art of Ensuring Customer Success During Mergers and Acquisitions

SmartKarrot

Customer success is one aspect of corporate SaaS mergers and acquisitions that is sometimes overlooked. Organizations are guilty of putting it on the back burner even though it is one of the most crucial factors in success. Maintaining the focus on customer success throughout the mergers and acquisitions process is difficult.

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How Top Sales Leaders are Adjusting their Sales Process (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

We can save companies $100,000 on their AWS bill. Everybody wants to save $100,000 on their AWS bill right now. We want to tell anybody that listens, you can save $100,000 on your AWS bill and demos are actually as high as they’ve ever been in late stage tech. Jason, you spent some time talking about like AE compensation.