Chart Mogul

JUNE 23, 2022

In the SaaS world, that means the consumer-facing apps & marketplace SaaS have a tougher time ahead. You might be hard-pressed by your AWS bill but you’re not going to start replacing the engine to lighten the load mid-flight. Trust us, we did it recently and you can read more about our migration here.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Befofe 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. 293: Congratulations you’ve built a product that’s proven itself in the marketplace! Loving our podcast content?

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Chargify

AUGUST 17, 2020

Backed by an army of developers, data engineers, and finance professionals, this events-based billing model allowed these large companies to directly link the value that their services provided with the cost presented on a customer’s invoice. What Amazon Web Services and Twilio Get Right. What Amazon Web Services and Twilio Get Right.

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SaaStr

JUNE 3, 2020

The SaaS Trust Crisis is making it harder to market and sell software and services than ever before. Then we went on to build another company called SteelBrick, another SaaS configure price quoting solution. com, where we’re building, deleting software marketplace, we’re also seeing software booming.

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OpenView Labs

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Pricing wars are another source of margin compression. While it’s true that there are no bad margins, you maximize them when your product ranks high on the buying hierarchy of functionality, reliability, convenience, and price. Creating a marketplace does just that. This begins early in the product’s design. Not always.

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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

It wasn’t the case 20 or even 10 years ago, where the business models of the internet were more focused on eCommerce, marketplaces, or even advertising. We look at annual churn, given the nature of those businesses that have annual or multi annual contracts with much bigger price items and tickets. This wasn’t the case.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Congratulations you’ve built a product that’s proven itself in the marketplace! They told us they would do tons of all this pricing stuff and help us with hiring and introduce us to customers, and all of these things. Self-service freemium to feed the funnel. That’s how you can grow more quickly. SaaS, right?

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SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

And I remember being at that Dreamforce in 2009, which was awful. Our monthly self-service churn went from like 3% to like 9%, right? ” I’m like, that sounds awful. And he increased the price from 12K to 18K during the buying process because he said the discount expired, which she didn’t know about.

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SaaStr

MAY 15, 2020

So, our products and services are around how can we help companies utilize open source more effectively, more securely, more responsibly, as well as contribute. And then, it’s a two-sided marketplace, so we’ve got subscriber companies that we provide support for the open source that they use. Keep it, keep, keep, keep it.

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Neil Patel

JANUARY 1, 2021

This so-called “ pajama time ” has become an awful reality for every physician stuck using a well-intentioned but poorly-performing EMR system. I definitely recommend reading reviews from actual customers about the kind of service they receive during and after implementation. And it’s not just doctors who are affected by this.

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SaaStr

MAY 3, 2019

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. CEOs everywhere are seeking to innovate, but 81% say their teams are not equipped to meet the challenges needed to compete in today’s marketplace.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 20, 2022

consumer price index (CPI) increase in April. This is an awful place from which to make decisions. In a recession, there will be a lot of “noise” in the media and marketplace. Recessions are times when you must have an elevated view of yourself and the value of your products and services. Don’t panic.

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ProfitWell

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

One of the most famous lines from Citizen Kane is, “It's no trick to make an awful lot of money, if that's all you want is to do is make a lot of money.” It is vital for mapping out values: what value to offer in the market, how it’s priced, and how it’s paid for by your customers. If only that statement were as true as it seemed.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 3, 2020

They charged what might be considered a pathological price for an email client where everyone’s base price is zero and they came in saying it’s $29 a month and people are like, “What the hell? Des: I guess the pushback for Superhuman might be at the actual price point rather than there being a price.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The best products, services, and ideas are nothing without a way to turn them into currency, and sellers are a big part of making commerce happen. Cassie spent the first pre-SaaS chapter of her tech career in growth roles in subscription and marketplace businesses (TheLadders.com, GLG). Anita Nielsen. Anne Slough. Beth Sunshine.

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OpenView Labs

JANUARY 24, 2022

So, it’s no wonder that it has been a massive year in the Cloud Marketplace business. We thought it would be great to take a look back at our State of the Cloud Marketplaces Report and share some of the key findings for those who may be planning to launch their Cloud Marketplace business in 2022. .

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OpenView Labs

JUNE 4, 2019

Our culture is fascinated with underdogs and overnight successes— companies, products, or services that seem to rise out of nowhere and completely change their respective industries. But these established companies drive what’s called “sustaining innovations,” which are modifications and improvements on existing services.

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