SaaSOptics

APRIL 7, 2022

How do they benefit SaaS companies, and what tools are needed to implement a successful freemium offering? Here’s everything you need to know about freemium offers in product-led SaaS. Even the most SaaS-savvy users require a human touchpoint at some point in the buyer’s journey. What is Product-Led Growth (PLG)?

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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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FastSpring

APRIL 26, 2022

Last week, I canceled an annual SaaS subscription (I had three weeks left until renewal). Interestingly, even though I paid for a year-long subscription, the company didn’t let me keep the last three weeks of access to its premium features. This action will immediately downgrade your subscription. Table of Contents.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 14, 2020

We all know and could name several successful B2C and B2B companies. My co founders and I were software developers, so we knew how to write the code, to build the website, to build the learning platform, to build the video distribution model. Want to see more content like this? Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

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SaaSOptics

MAY 19, 2022

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. For subscription-based SaaS businesses, your customer acquisition metrics indicate how effectively you acquire new users via sales, marketing, or a product-led approach like a free trial.

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OPEXEngine

JUNE 8, 2021

In the movie Glengarry Glen Ross, Blake, a successful salesperson, visits the real estate sales team and gives them a blistering motivational speech that has gone down in history as one of the best of all time. But in the world of enterprise SaaS, it’s not accurate. Enterprise SaaS, by definition, is also complex.

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Chargify

MARCH 25, 2019

Recurring subscriptions are becoming the norm in the business world, and for good reason. Subscription services give the end user control over costs and employee access, without the cumbersome contracts. But some software-as-a-service (SaaS) companies struggle with how to sell subscriptions.

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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! Develop a Full Marketing Strategy 2.

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Frontegg

MARCH 17, 2022

Product-Led Growth (PLG) is becoming the default strategy in modern SaaS organizations due to the plethora of operational, financial, and technical benefits it brings to the table. If you are working in a SaaS setting, chances are you have used applications like Slack, Zendesk, Zoom, Calendly, Dropbox, Figma, and Evernote extensively.

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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, . maintain healthy atmosphere in your Smarketing team, make smart choices regarding your SaaS sales model, strategy, pricing, .

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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. Let’s get started!

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SaaStr

JULY 15, 2022

So how feasible do you think that works for a typical B2B SaaS business that probably our user-base is not too knowledgeable about [inaudible] on the internet for something specific in their day-to-day use case? But I almost never see mediocre outsource SEO really work for B2B. This always works. So, thanks man.

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Frontegg

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

This is creating more and more friction during logins or after inactive sessions, something that has a direct effect on customer churn and subscription metrics. With password authentication, there is always additional stress on IT and support teams. Improved Security Standards. Passwords hurt business.

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Chargify

JULY 30, 2019

Growing a SaaS company is an uphill battle, but it shouldn’t be impossible. It might be your subscription model. But how do you know if your current subscription model is working or failing? We’ll cover the three most important metrics for judging your subscription model’s success: Free to paid conversion rate .

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ProfitWell

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Ever since John Koenig first coined the term “SaaS” back in 2005, the software-as-a-service industry has been one of the fastest-moving and creative in the world. The SaaS business model powering all of this activity is startlingly unique, still young, and inextricably tied to the power of cloud computing. What is SaaS?

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Jos White of Notion and Christian Lanng of Tradeshift team up to show you how to work within, and sometimes around, rules in the workplace. I’m an entrepreneur-turned-investor, co-founder of an early generation one, SaaS company called Message Labs that we founded in 2000. Work smarter, not harder. Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020.

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FastSpring

APRIL 4, 2024

As an experienced sales and GTM leader, John Eitel has more than witnessed how product-led growth (PLG) has affected the tech and SaaS space in the last few years — he and his teams have been up close and personal with how PLG increased in popularity as a sales strategy. “I Set up a demo or try it out for yourself.

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Chart Mogul

JULY 1, 2020

Customer interviews are a powerful tool that can help you better position your B2B product to attract and retain more customers. B2B marketing is much more complicated than consumer marketing. That’s because B2B businesses address particular niches, where customers don’t spend as much time online. You identify customer pains.

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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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Casey Accidental

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Founders have started reaching out asking for help converting their SAAS or SAAS-like business into a marketplace. Many of the terms we use to define businesses today are features of the business rather than an encompassing definition, like the words SAAS or platform, which makes them not very useful. 1 Saturated Growth in SAAS.

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User Pilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

TL;DR Regular roadmaps kill outcomes by forcing teams to think in the categories of features and timelines. It’s difficult to implement outcome-based roadmaps because stakeholders don’t trust product teams to deliver on business goals. Many companies lack differentiation strategies and drive product development by copying competitors.

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CustomerSuccessBox

MAY 25, 2022

Customer retention is an essential component of any successful B2B SaaS firm. Be aware of what and how to avoid these 7 SaaS customer onboarding mistakes to optimize your customers’ journeys. 7 SaaS Customer Onboarding mistakes to avoid. A poor transition upsets CS professionals.

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User Pilot

OCTOBER 6, 2022

These interactions include engaging with the onboarding checklist, clicking, hovering over a particular feature, canceling a subscription, and more. Product teams collect and measure such customers’ activities to understand and act on customers’ behavior patterns. For instance, subscriptions to Ahrefs or Netflix.

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SaaSOptics

MAY 2, 2022

There are several different ways to successfully launch and scale a SaaS company. In a sales-led model, sales processes and teams are the primary drivers of revenue growth. Each has its strengths and weaknesses, but neither is better or worse than the other. Why the Hybrid Model Is the Future of Saas.

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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Latin America is undergoing a digital transformation, and the SaaS community is exploding as a result. The SaaStock team will be landing in São Paulo to run the region’s first Pan-Latin American SaaS conference, SaaStock LatAm. Its focus is on businesses in Big Data, mobile, and SaaS.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Highlights from Our Conversation Where Should SaaS Companies Localize [2 min clip] David walked through a step-by-step process to assess where SaaS and software companies should consider localizing. Start with your existing sales and see where there’s interest from existing buyers. Watch the two minute clip for more details.

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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? THE BROKEN SAAS BUSINESS MODEL. This is very bad news for SaaS vendors.

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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? THE BROKEN SAAS BUSINESS MODEL. This is very bad news for SaaS vendors.

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ChurnZero

JULY 22, 2022

Does your Customer Success team have a shallow view of onboarding? The webinar’s Q&A session covered popular onboarding questions in SaaS like how long it should take a customer to reach first value, what should you do when a customer disengages, and how to hold customers accountable at scale. I have two handoffs.

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Chart Mogul

JULY 1, 2020

Customer interviews are a powerful tool that can help you better position your B2B product to attract and retain more customers. B2B marketing is much more complicated than consumer marketing. That’s because B2B businesses address particular niches, where customers don’t spend as much time online. You identify customer pains.

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Chart Mogul

OCTOBER 3, 2019

This is where the value of subscription metrics comes to the fore — and specifically the customer acquisition cost (CAC) and the customer lifetime value (LTV). Every team has their own slightly different way of calculating the cost of customer acquisition. Why CAC is so important for SaaS businesses. How to calculate CAC.

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CustomerSuccessBox

MARCH 10, 2022

To deliver the service to the clients which a company’s sales team laid out has a real thing to deal with. If not met, it’s just up for a downfall while creating a poor experience for the clients. Developing and managing the protocols of client service processes. Training the team to meet the goals set. How to become one?

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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? We made every month.

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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. And then what’s your unique advantage as a company, as the team? Jyoti Bansal: Yeah.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 19, 2022

But maybe in SaaS and B2B things are pretty good. This morning, a pretty slow growing player, Ping Identity, slow to move to SaaS, slow to move to the cloud, struggled in some ways to compete with Okta and others, was acquired for 2.3 Michiel Rauws (@michielrauws2): So, my question is, we’ve been scaling our SaaS business.

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SaaSOptics

JULY 7, 2021

For many early-stage B2B SaaS companies, this occurs in both their software development efforts and their FinOps. An example of creating technical debt: A software developer needs to write a bit of code to do something. But our developer has a deadline tomorrow. And the vicious cycle continues….

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Chart Mogul

APRIL 29, 2021

We spend most of our waking hours thinking about how to build a reliable, beautiful product that helps subscription businesses grow faster using their customer and billing data. We decided to focus our efforts exclusively on our best-fit customers: B2B SaaS. ChartMogul is a product-led business. TechnologyAdvice.

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