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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. Pick the right usage metric. 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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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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4 Traits of Fast-growing SaaS Companies

OpenView Labs

Fast-growers are extremely efficient at acquiring new customers. As investors, we keep a close eye on customer acquisition cost (CAC) payback. This metric represents how long it takes, in months, to pay off the costs of acquiring a given customer on a gross margin basis. Here’s what we learned: 1.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week: May 3, 2019

SaaStr

Before that Manny was a Senior Product Manager @ Amazon where he engineered the compensation system for Amazon Associates and Web-Services which accounts for 15% of Amazon’s traffic. Why does Manny believe it is so important to track pipeline coverage as one of your core metrics? Innovation is about empathy with your customers.

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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. The metrics have changed on top of the funnel.