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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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

In B2B sales orgs, you’ll encounter two common models of the journey from prospect to closed deal. There’s sales pipeline , a 7-stage journey describing what your sales team must do to convert a lead to a customer. For your team, the goal is to share more information about your products without appearing overly promotional.

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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 And it makes up for a lot of bad product experiences, right?

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ChurnZero

JULY 22, 2022

Does your Customer Success team have a shallow view of onboarding? Q: What should you do if the team you’re onboarding wasn’t part of the buying decision and isn’t thrilled to be learning a new tool? I have the internal handoff from pre-sales to post-sales customer teams. I have two handoffs.

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Incredo

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

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. And this is a B2B partner program. In our case, we needed to invest a lot in product development.

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SaaStr

JULY 25, 2021

You can have the great product and a great team, but the market of small or very niche. The second one is the team, obviously depending on how earlier the team has a huge factor because you may be so early in your journey that there’s nothing else to point to, but the track record of the team. Jyoti Bansal: Yeah.

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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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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. A-B-C,” he says as he points to each letter. EHS Manager.

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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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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 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. Below, we’ll dive into how to develop a customer acquisition strategy from start to finish. . How to Develop a Customer Acquisition Strategy.

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ChurnZero

OCTOBER 5, 2022

This is a guest blog contributed by Emily Ryan, chief client officer at Valuize , a B2B consulting company that helps industry-leading technology organizations supercharge their customer lifecycle to drive best-in-class net dollar retention. Make your insights actionable for your team by consolidating them into an easy-to-digest scorecard.

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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. Poor distribution — not product — is the number one cause of failure.

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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…. What creates FinOps debt?

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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. So, how did it go?

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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. The audience is consumers looking for impartial, reliable reviews from an expert team. B2B Review Sites.

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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.

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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. So, how did it go?

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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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CustomerSuccessBox

MAY 25, 2022

Customer retention is an essential component of any successful B2B SaaS firm. A poor transition upsets CS professionals. However, if your teams are aligned and the handoff is seamless, you will be building a solid foundation for your partnership. Develop content that will help customers solve their problems on their own.

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Casey Accidental

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Let’s break down these definitions so we know where we’re at: SAAS: software that businesses access online and purchase via a subscription e.g. Slack, Adobe, Atlassian. SAAS-like: any number of different models where a business sells software to businesses online, but does not charge via a subscription e.g. transactional or pre-revenue.

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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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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. This go-to-market plan is used by product marketers and their team to ensure you smoothly launch your product to the right customers at the right time and stand out from the competition already existing in the market. GTM strategy.

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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.

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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. According to Will, this specific type of role playing helped CSMs develop stronger and deeper relationships with their customers.

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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. Poor distribution — not product — is the number one cause of failure.

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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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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.

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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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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. Software for hardware and low-level teams Someone has to build the hardware in the first place.

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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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SmartKarrot

DECEMBER 24, 2021

In a few years, we have seen lots of B2B SaaS businesses flourish. Running a B2B SaaS business requires a shift in metrics that founders rely upon. Most people run their SaaS business just like any other B2B business. After developing a hypothesis, you can test it by launching a Minimum Value Product (MVP).

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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. SOC 2 101.

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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.

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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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