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. This is the first challenge facing enterprise SaaS sales teams. Challenge 2: Sales Cycles Are Longer.

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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. As two CEO who love the art of sales and scaling, this one really was special. You can have the great product and a great team, but the market of small or very niche. Jyoti Bansal: Yeah.

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Chart Mogul

APRIL 29, 2021

Over the last six months, we built and refined a dedicated outbound sales strategy. 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. It also extends to our customer acquisition and sales strategy.

Scale 59

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Incredo

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

If sounds like this topic can help you generate more SaaS sales with less risk, we are starting! And end up wasting their time and resources with affiliates that underperform. I see many SaaS companies jump headlong into creating an affiliate program thinking it will bring in a large number of customers without much effort.

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SaaS Payments Payment Methods Merchant Services Sales Recruiting 139

Chart Mogul

APRIL 29, 2021

Over the last six months, we built and refined a dedicated outbound sales strategy. 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. It also extends to our customer acquisition and sales strategy.

Scale 52

Scale Sales Hiring Strategy Underperforming Technical Team 52

ChurnZero

JULY 22, 2022

Does your Customer Success team have a shallow view of onboarding? But what I am seeing is that there is a correlation between the time that it takes to sell your product, so the sales cycle, and the time to deliver value and ideally be onboarded. I have the internal handoff from pre-sales to post-sales customer teams.

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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.

Scale 93

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting Software Review 93

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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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.

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SaaSOptics

MAY 19, 2022

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. At what point will you introduce Sales into the buyer’s journey? . Metrics: What’s your target win rate for sales opportunities?

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 16, 2021

If you missed episode 151 check it out here: Leads Don’t Matter: Moving From a Sales-led to a Product-growth Orientation with Stephanie Cox. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. From Neuroscience to RevOps: How Sara used her brain to start her sales career [5:56]. They create sales engagement software. We’re on iTunes.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

As Head of Sales for Spendesk, Nico was initially inspired by the vision of founder Rodolphe Ardant who had spotted a gap for ‘spend management’ in the B2B market based on personal banking trends. So they created a software that provides control, visibility, and payment methods for corporate finance teams.

Scale 162

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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. Let’s play a little thought experiment. You’re starting a new business.

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Acquisition Underperforming Technical Team Startup Customer Lifetime Value 91

Neil Patel

MARCH 2, 2021

Over 41 percent of businesses use review websites before purchasing software—so reviews matter for B2B work, too. To help, I’ve broken this list into B2C and B2B review sites, depending on your target buyers. Amazon deducts a referral fee from every sale you make through the platform. Brand Awareness. Let’s start with B2C.

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Software Review Technical Review Scale Merchant Services 127

User Pilot

MARCH 15, 2022

Focusing on the proper metrics at this stage is crucial to how successful or bad your GTM plan will be. It covers everything from who your potential customer or target market is, where they are, the best marketing efforts and sales strategy to reach them, your positioning tactics, pricing strategy, and more. GTM strategy.

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Strategy Marketing SaaS Customer Lifetime Value 87

CustomerSuccessBox

MAY 25, 2022

Customer retention is an essential component of any successful B2B SaaS firm. Collect information from Sales and conduct research before speaking with the customer to ensure that the entire experience is tailored to their goals and wants, which have already been discussed during the sales process. Customization.

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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. What Is Negative Churn?

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Benchmarks Churn Payments SaaS Payments 115

ProfitWell

APRIL 3, 2020

Listen wherever you get podcasts: Top B2B SaaS news. Pluralsight is the technology skills platform that helps companies skill up their teams and increase their engineering impact. The Pluralsight team will help users build up those tech skills with expert knowledge-based courses, skill assessments, and paths.

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CustomerSuccessBox

APRIL 7, 2022

Puneet Kataria shares his experience and observation on how customer success teams can be agile in the Customer Success Vodcast hosted by tl;dv! Every customer success team during the onboarding, buzz around the term “Early value”, the question is how does it all start and even delivered? We live in a subscription economy.

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TriTuns

JANUARY 21, 2020

The birth of Software as a Service (SaaS), which brought us the great promise of the subscription revenue business model, was closely followed by the inevitable afterbirth – customer churn, revenue destruction, and slow or negative growth. With subscription software, they only keep paying (renewing) when they are getting value.

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TriTuns

JANUARY 21, 2020

The birth of Software as a Service (SaaS), which brought us the great promise of the subscription revenue business model, was closely followed by the inevitable afterbirth – customer churn, revenue destruction, and slow or negative growth. With subscription software, they only keep paying (renewing) when they are getting value.

SaaS 71

SaaS Underperforming Technical Team Customer Success Business Model 71

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. Let’s play a little thought experiment. You’re starting a new business.

Acquisition 52

Acquisition Startup Underperforming Technical Team Customer Lifetime Value 52

ChurnZero

AUGUST 11, 2020

This article shares three successful approaches B2B SaaS companies took to retain customers in the first wave. Customer Success teams are in a unique position to listen to their customers’ challenges. I’ve had a few situations where the person was more interested in the sale than truly helping me find the right solution.

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SaaStr

MARCH 20, 2020

Before Slack, Rachel spent 4 years at LinkedIn where she led the product marketing team for content experiences. With the rise of product-led growth, are we seeing a fundamental shift in the structure of sales and marketing? Loving our podcast content? How does Rachel think about the optimal ratio of paid to organic in growth?

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ProfitWell

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Today, eBay may be looking to subscription to amp up its ecommerce reach. Plus, Pipe, a B2B SaaS financial platform, raises $6 million. Listen wherever you get podcasts: Your top subscription news. And a subscription offering may just be the way to do so. Needless to say, we encourage the subscription embracement.

Payment Methods 52

Payment Methods Payments Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 52

FastSpring

JANUARY 31, 2023

Paddle vs. FastSpring, this guide compares: What areas of the payment lifecycle each one provides a solution for (e.g., payment processing, gathering and remitting taxes, and subscription management) and what additional software you’ll need to add to your tech stack. Flexible subscription management and recurring billing tools.

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Payment Services Payment Methods Merchant Services Payment Features 112

Audacix

MARCH 20, 2020

When we're busy helping our teams, our customers, our neighbours, our families, it's easy to lose sight of the fact we also need to position our SaaS businesses to come out of this period stronger and ready to pounce on the opportunities that will present themselves. If you chose number 2, welcome to the club.

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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 There are now over 150 enterprise companies using the platform.

Payment Solutions 91

Payment Solutions Payment Services SaaS Payments VP of Engineering 91

SmartKarrot

JULY 14, 2020

The B2B Tech world is booming with SaaS business models. The SaaS business model is basically a subscription-based service. You will only have to worry about the recurring payments, which is otherwise known as MRR, monthly recurring revenue. Factors Favouring B2B Technology SaaS Now.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

After working on NASA’s Space Shuttle Main Engine, he went on to develop Portfolium, a social networking platform that allows students and graduates to showcase skills beyond the traditional resume to potential employers. But before universities would do business with them, they needed assurance on their security posture.

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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

If B2B SaaS were on a dating site, it’d be looking for a lifelong commitment; a scary thought for potential suitors when there are plenty more fish in the sea. With fierce competitors vying for your customers’ hand in subscription, you need to show them you care—and not just about their income ( goal diggers wanted). This is important.”

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User Pilot

MARCH 18, 2021

There has to be cross-departmental and cross-functional cooperation between product, sales & marketing, customer success, and customer support to implement a successful customer retention strategy. Customer Retention Strategies for Your Marketing & Sales Departments. Marketing and sales are the engines of your growth.

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SaaStr

JUNE 4, 2019

I actually worked in sales for five and a half years and that’s probably why I have tended to gravitate to B2B marketing. Worked as an AE and then a sales manager. So, they’re a B2B piece. We were monitoring it of course for both good and for bad. So, it was literally a little bit crap campaign.

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Sales Recruiting Scale Underperforming Technical Team Pricing 182

ProfitWell

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Your top subscription news. In a similar realm, we found an episode of Escape Velocity by our friend Dan Martell , on helping leaders get team feedback—all in the name of faster growth. In it, Dan interviews Claire Lew , the CEO of Know Your Team , the software that essentially saves managers from becoming bad bosses.

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Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team Interviewing Scale 40

FastSpring

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Start with your existing sales and see where there’s interest from existing buyers. Note: FastSpring’s Revenue and Subscription Dashboards quickly show our customers where their revenue is coming from, the average order value or MRR per country, promotions performance per country, and more. David used the U.S.

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Payment Methods Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Software Review 78

FastSpring

JANUARY 27, 2022

Note: FastSpring offers advanced subscription management services that support free trials, monthly and annual paid plans, proration, discount management, and more. How Castos upsells subscription tiers. His podcast hosting company uses data analytics that looks at which users are most likely to grow out of their current subscriptions.

Merchant Services 111

Merchant Services Payment Services SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 111

SmartKarrot

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

To develop excellent customer experiences , consultants have worked hard to assist businesses in recognizing the magnitude of customer scores. The objective is to develop a strong customer base. The foundation of your customer health score is determined by the objective your team is aiming for using the customer success health score.

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