FastSpring

APRIL 26, 2022

Last week, I canceled an annual SaaS subscription (I had three weeks left until renewal). In the language of SaaS, I churned. In part two, we’ll cover five churn-prevention strategies that have been successful in other SaaS businesses. Part I: SaaS Churn Benchmarks. Is There an Ideal Churn Rate for SaaS?

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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 Cognota didn’t necessarily start as a software business.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

359: The Secrets to Vertical Growth, What it Really Takes to Build a $1B SaaS Company with Matt Garratt, SVP, Managing Partner @ Salesforce Ventures, Trisha Price, Chief Product Officer @ nCino and David Schmaier, CEO & Founder @ Vlocity. There’s a lot of services. This episode is sponsored by Linode.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2019

Prior to Kustomer, Vikas spent over 20 years implementing, consulting, marketing, and selling CRM and ContactCenter solutions with companies like LivePerson and Oracle. In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Vikas made his way into the world of SaaS and came to be at the rocketship that is Kustomer. * What is a good payback period? *

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Chargify

MARCH 25, 2019

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. To help, we’ve put together a list of the four strategies that are key to selling SaaS.

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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? You can listen to the full vodcast here.

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FastSpring

JANUARY 27, 2022

Small tweaks to your SaaS billing practices can make a huge impact on the customer experience. For example, Jon Torres — a digital marketing consultant specializing in SaaS commerce — noticed that, for some of his clients, refund requests spiked around renewal time. “It 7 growth hacks from the SaaS experts. Learn more here.

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ChurnZero

APRIL 15, 2022

Bad timing sticks out a mile.”. If your Customer Success (CS) teams doesn’t possess ESP, you need tools to identify a customer’s buying signals, usage behavior, and ROI to break the endless cycle of trial and error with your expansion outreach. SalesIntel is a leading sales intelligence platform and B2B contact data provider.

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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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FastSpring

APRIL 13, 2023

When Justin and his initial team started looking for a way to capitalize on VR/AR technology, they focused their attention on the “made-to-order” industrial market. But they quickly realized the market was too small and that there was a bigger opportunity elsewhere — in wider B2B and B2C commerce. But that’s not where they started.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 30, 2021

They’ve built a new process of guided selling, which Neil discusses during the show. How Revenue Grid enables smarter selling. How to build a winning sales team. Developing A Winning Sales Team [16:24]. If you missed episode 153, check it out here: Learning Drives Sales Effectiveness with Paul Fifield?.

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ProfitWell

AUGUST 13, 2020

But first, the B2B SaaS index. CEOs are often reluctant to share bad news because they suffer from positivity delusion. That’s why he calls it a delusion: employees can handle bad news. There are many factors in being a great CEO, one of them comes down to being transparent with your team during turbulence.

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ProfitWell

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Plus, Pipe, a B2B SaaS financial platform, raises $6 million. It also included questions about the possibility of a monthly flat payment to increase the number of "free" listings that would be month to month with no contract or yearly obligation. Choosing the right SaaS metrics for different stages of your company.

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User Pilot

MAY 9, 2024

The customer onboarding process is essential for product success. The article will teach you how to design an onboarding strategy for your SaaS. TL;DR Customer onboarding helps new users understand and engage with a SaaS product effectively. Like a customer profile template or an in-app survey template.

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FastSpring

JANUARY 31, 2023

To help you choose between Stripe vs. 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.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

One of the biggest decisions you can make when setting up your sales team is whether to focus primarily on inside or outside sales. We’ll look at the strengths of each type of sales, why you need both of them in your team, and how to determine the best balance for your organization. What is inside sales? What is outside sales.

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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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Point Nine Land

JUNE 18, 2023

Everything you always wanted to know about cohort analysis (but were afraid to ask) Back in 2012, I wrote a blog post titled “Know your user cohorts” , which began like this: “One of the most important tools to better understand the usage of a web application — or a service, a game or a mobile app, it doesn’t matter — is a cohort analysis.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 12, 2022

I think it’s a challenge to folks that think we are in some sort of terrible downturn for SaaS and cloud. While Azure and Google Cloud grew at record rates, Shopify for example, its SaaS business only grew 10% last quarter. Colin here, CEO of a startup, B2B SaaS, and raising a seed round right now.

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Outseta

MARCH 18, 2019

Wes Bush is a SaaS marketer who has quickly developed a reputation as “the free trial vs. freemium guy.” He helps SaaS leaders launch and optimize free trial and freemium models via his consultancy, Traffic is Currency , and is also the founder of the Product-Led Summit. Geoff Roberts: Good analogies.

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FastSpring

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

That’s the philosophy behind SEM International , the firm he founded that specializes in multilingual internationally-based digital marketing services. Needless to say, Michael knows a thing or two about helping software and big tech manage their global marketing presence. How do we help our people?” 00:01:00] Enjoy.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

The New Solution Selling. Strategy and Process. B2B Is Really P2P. Sales Development and Prospecting. The Sales Development Playbook. Sales Enablement. The Sales Enablement Playbook. Enablement Mastery. The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team. Blueprints for a SaaS Sales Organization.

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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. So, where do point solutions fit into all this? . On the other hand, point solutions (QuickBooks, Xero, etc.)

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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, . build smoother connections both with your prospects through optimized sales process. SaaS Sales Models.

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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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Sales Hacker

MAY 9, 2019

The Process for Creating a Sales Compensation Plan. 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.

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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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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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GetUplift

DECEMBER 12, 2021

This guide provides a detailed breakdown of my emotional marketing process. It’s a process that my team and I at GetUplift have used to 10x our clients’ conversion rates. The process for using your research to create social media ads, landing pages, and email sequences that actually convert. So, let’s dive in.

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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. We have a background doing software and standards for trade, and we thought that there’s a massive opportunity in this space. Third parties are developing apps for our platform. I hope you’ll enjoy that with me as well.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Think about what you could be doing to bring more diversity into your teams and be more inclusive as a company, and go actively out of your way in order to achieve set goals. I usually do them with Paul or people from the product teams – it’s much more fun to be on a podcast with your boss. Be open-minded.

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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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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Emilie Maret | Fellowship Team @ The Family. We’re a team of former investors and operators from the likes of Facebook, Deliveroo, and the Swedish payments company Klarna. We are a purely B2B fund, focused on software and fintech. So if you’re a software founder in that stage, come talk to us.

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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. Navint sees across the entire spectrum.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 17, 2020

These tools have a profound impact on free ing up team member time.? . That being said, if you apply the right tactics, supercharging your CS efforts can be a simple process. Take comfort in the fact that every CS team must start somewhere! Take comfort in the fact that every CS team must start somewhere! .

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 3, 2020

Despite huge growth and development over the last ten years, there’s also been some disappointments. What about software products that have characterized 2019? Emmet: So my job here is to run the Product Design team here in Dublin and London, and Figma clearly had the biggest impact on our team this year.

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SaaStr

MAY 27, 2020

We woke up February 2020 with a shock to the system and no idea what it would mean for our business. So we had a shock to the system with no idea what it actually meant. They see it where SaaS companies might trade at 13 times, 15 times, 17 times trailing. Mark Suster | Managing Partner @ Upfront Ventures. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

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