Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

For years we have been reading and hand-picking the best SaaS blog posts to share with 24K+ SaaS Roundup subscribers. Subscriber or not, anyone who wants to increase their SaaS knowledge will benefit by reading the curated posts below. In all seriousness though, that’s kinda what Horizontal SaaS promises (or tries) to be.

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Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Whether you created your SaaS product to help solve a problem you had or because you wanted some extra income, the truth is that your SaaS business is a valuable asset. Running a profitable SaaS business allows you to take control of your own schedule - some would even say your life! Table of Contents.

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SaaSOptics

MAY 19, 2022

Customer Acquisition is the process of acquiring new customers in a business. Not only is it one of the main drivers of revenue growth for early-stage companies, but it’s a primary goal for SaaS businesses across market stages. How to Develop a Customer Acquisition Strategy. More customers = more revenue.

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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, . If you look through the contents, you will notice that we cover pretty much all important aspects related to SaaS sales.

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TriTuns

JANUARY 21, 2020

*This is an updated version of the article , “The Big Bold Future Of SaaS Growth Is Customer Success” that I originally published on Software Executive Magazine in May 2019. Do you want to boldly grow your SaaS company in 2020 – and beyond? This is fundamentally changing your business model and your mindset.

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TriTuns

JANUARY 21, 2020

*This is an updated version of the article , “The Big Bold Future Of SaaS Growth Is Customer Success” that I originally published on Software Executive Magazine in May 2019. Do you want to boldly grow your SaaS company in 2020 – and beyond? This is fundamentally changing your business model and your mindset.

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Chart Mogul

OCTOBER 3, 2019

The customer acquisition cost can help you create, measure, and improve a business model that will put your business on the path to profitability. You’re starting a new business. How about your business model ? Every team has their own slightly different way of calculating the cost of customer acquisition.

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SaaStr

JULY 25, 2021

They talked about product adoption, sales alignment, freemium models and lessons they have learned throughout their successful SaaS careers. You can have the great product and a great team, but the market of small or very niche. How defendable is the technology of the product or the business model?

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User Pilot

MARCH 15, 2022

Why a go-to-market strategy plays an integral of your SaaS product success? We will cover what they are, why you need them, and how to create one for your SaaS business using real examples. We will cover what they are, why you need them, and how to create one for your SaaS business using real examples.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Before Optimizely, Travis spent 6 years at Salesforce in a number of sales roles including building the first Platform Sales team. What does Travis advise founders when it comes to uniting customer facing teams? * Why does Travis believe that SaaS has upended the economic model but not the engagement model?

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SmartKarrot

JULY 14, 2020

The B2B Tech world is booming with SaaS business models. Statistics claim that about 50% of the enterprises run their operations by depending on a SaaS platform, of which 38% work exclusively on the SaaS module. Let us dive right into this article and explore the world of SaaS and its facets deeply.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

If talent acquisition, development, and retention are top-of-mind for you as a sales leader, here are 40+ of the best sales training programs to check out! Only a team of superb talent can move your business ahead of the competition. The same calculus especially applies the sales team. ASLAN Training & Development.

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CustomerSuccessBox

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

CustomerSuccessBox is an outcome-driven Customer Success software for B2B SaaS, which helps maximize retention, drive product adoption, and grow revenue for your B2B SaaS. Here are some of the top-rated posts: Three Quarterly Business Review examples. Role of Customer Success Manager in a SaaS Company.

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Chart Mogul

OCTOBER 3, 2019

The customer acquisition cost can help you create, measure, and improve a business model that will put your business on the path to profitability. You’re starting a new business. How about your business model ? Every team has their own slightly different way of calculating the cost of customer acquisition.

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ProfitWell

MAY 12, 2020

The three major cloud service models are SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS. Many business owners do not know the difference between these offerings and are therefore unaware of which option is best for their company. In this article, we'll break down the difference between the three models and help you decide which fits your needs best.

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SaaStr

JULY 29, 2022

Jason Lemkin: One is, how do you penetrate tiny SMBs that aren’t Googling, searching, that don’t have time, and two, how do you subsidize hardware costs in SaaS? But the lazy approach, the content marketing approach, it has some benefits but it really is tough to penetrate these traditional offline businesses.

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SmartKarrot

DECEMBER 24, 2021

In a few years, we have seen lots of B2B SaaS businesses flourish. This has resulted in many entrepreneurs jumping on the bandwagon to try luck in the SaaS business. Although you might see VC funding rounds and acquisition news on the internet, the hard truth is that businesses do not take off or fail miserably.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 19, 2020

Meaning, you’re not in the business of predicting the future, but you should really in the business of doing a scenario planning to say, “Hey, what’s the worst case? ” And then we debated like how across the leadership team to say, “Hey, can we afford this or not?” What’s the base case?”

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Point Nine Land

JUNE 22, 2023

SaaS companies in particular have high gross margins (no IT admin) and recurring revenues (subscriptions), a combination which means they can re-invest a substantial piece of their revenue into (hopefully) predictable growth. Some pure hardware businesses have capex requirements that would break a typical venture fund’s model.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 9, 2019

Once you understand how to create a fair compensation plan for your sales team, you can check out some examples: Sales Development Rep (SDR) Compensation Plan Example. Here’s an example of OTE levels for a SaaS business hiring salespeople in the Bay Area: Table 2. Example Compensation Plans. Step 5: Set Targets.

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ProfitWell

AUGUST 18, 2020

Sarah experienced the pain of an old business paradigm—a model where customers are at the mercy of companies. In this model, customer opinions and their experiences are secondary to those of the company. As more companies move to SaaS and subscription-based models of revenue, this old paradigm is crumbling.

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User Pilot

MAY 30, 2023

Put simply, user personas impact your entire business model. Userpilot is a product growth and user onboarding tool designed to drive user adoption for SaaS companies. As a result, one of its primary customer personas is a Product Manager from a B2B SaaS company. User persona example for Userpilot.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

B2B Is Really P2P. Sales Development and Prospecting. The Sales Development Playbook. The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team. Blueprints for a SaaS Sales Organization. Here are the best books on selling (and related disciplines) that can help you hit your goals and develop your career. Sales Models and Fundamentals.

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FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

Ryan Austin had VP-level experience in training when he decided to start a consulting business to help enterprise-level companies with their corporate learning and development initiatives. Ryan and his team noticed so many inefficiencies across the L&D workflows. “It That’s really when it got us thinking about that.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

The Winning By Design Blueprint Series provides practical advice for every part of a SaaS sales organization. Traditional Sales Growth vs SaaS Sales Growth. Historically, growth of a sales team was based on the revenue starting with $0M on day 1 of the year. SaaS Growth Rate. Calculating Growth Potential.

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OPEXEngine

MARCH 9, 2021

“I’ve talked to countless entrepreneurs who are anxious about the next step—first seed round, hiring a team, landing a board member, etc.,” However, if the basic ingredients for growing a sustainable, high-performance business are missing, you’re setting yourself up for frustration.”. However, this model was unsustainable.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 31, 2019

With the complexity of multiple stakeholders and the increasing purchasing influence of end users, the bar is higher than ever for enterprise UX as companies pioneer business models beyond traditional SaaS. She founded Box’s growth team as well as the product operations team.

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SaaSOptics

MARCH 1, 2022

What makes finance teams throw up their hands and say, “I just need a tool that can do X!” finance teams are responsible for planning the financial roadmap of an organization and keeping everything in balance. Most finance teams are familiar with enterprise and integrated solutions (think Netsuite, Sage Intacct.).

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SaaStr

AUGUST 6, 2019

We have a lot of SaaS companies, by the way, from Denmark if you haven’t noticed. Third parties are developing apps for our platform. Obviously, we were also doing what you’ve got to do when you have a SaaS company. I hope you’ll enjoy that with me as well. Really, a little bit about my story and our story.

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Totango

JULY 1, 2022

Customer loyalty is a key to repeat business and referral generation for any business model. For B2B SaaS companies, customer loyalty drives subscription renewals and brand advocacy, making it a critical component of a profitable business model. Loyal customers help grow SaaS brands through referrals.

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OpenView Labs

JANUARY 29, 2020

Freemium in SaaS is old news. The much-discussed pricing strategy took over the SaaS world and helped fuel the phenomenal success of SaaS pioneers like Dropbox, Evernote, SurveyMonkey and Hootsuite. Freemium appeared to be declining in popularity and, when it was in place, drove next to zero new ACV for most SaaS companies.

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SaaStr

APRIL 17, 2019

Prior to Harness, Stephen was VP of Marketing at Glassdoor, managing a team of 52 in product marketing, helping grow B2B revenue from $19m to $90m in just 2 years, leading to their $1.2Bn acquisition. Steve has previously said, “Sales and marketing must be one team.” What does this mean for the processes used by marketing teams?

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 21, 2018

Whether you’re at an early-stage startup that’s just made its first sales hires, or part of a fast-moving sales team in a large organization, the key to success often comes down to efficiency. How can you capture, qualify and convert the right leads for your business while working within your means? Short on time?

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SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

Prior to Crossbeam, Bob founded Stitched, a powerful ETL service built for developers that was acquired by Talend in 2018. In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Bob made his way into the world of SaaS and came to found Crossbeam. * Loving our podcast content? Listen to the start of the episode for a promo code to our upcoming events!

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Navint

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Earlier this year, we welcomed Sean Joyce to the Navint team. Sean has over 15 years of expertise in recurring revenue technologies, most recently hailing from Salesforce where he was a senior member of the product marketing team responsible for Salesforce CPQ & Billing. Niche vendors span the spectrum in this middle office.

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Chargify

AUGUST 17, 2017

It is a difficult business fact that sometimes the elements that initially ignite massive growth don’t continue to provide growth throughout the life of the company. In the world of SaaS it is common for sustaining growth to be harder than attaining initial growth. SaaS Growth Ceiling. Actionable Ways To Reignite SaaS Growth.

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SaaStr

JULY 10, 2020

352: Decacorns ($10B+ valuation) are everywhere in SaaS, despite the downturn. SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin discusses what the new landscape of SaaS means for you in 2020. ” And invest your team’s time and energy to say, “Hey, if this, then that. And what’s the best case? What’s the base case?”

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