OPEXEngine

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Business to Consumer (B2C). An additional non-financial constraint is a fact that these customers typically lack experience in software procurement and implementation, and this adds friction to the sales cycle. The typical SMM SaaS company will use a portfolio of sales strategies designed to fit the average ACV of the sale.

SaaS Payments 52

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Methods Marketplace as a Service 52

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Time for Sales Hacker’s Annual Top 10 Sales Trends and Predictions for the Future of Sales in 2019. Due to the proliferation of modern sales technology and people’s love of it, I added a new element this time. You know, since it’s extremely apparent that the sales technology landscape keeps growing like wildfire.

Trends 104

Trends Technical Review Artificial Intelligence Sales 104

Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

E-commerce is the future, but it isn’t just for B2C. B2B brands are finding huge success in the digital marketplace industry and everyone wants a piece of the pie. Globally, B2B marketplaces make up a $31 billion market. While competition is intense in the mainstream, niche B2B marketplaces are showing real promise.

Marketplace as a Service 136

Marketplace as a Service Merchant Services B2B Construction 136

Sales Hacker

APRIL 1, 2021

It’s a driving factor for how the world gets work done and where future sales potential lies. While that can feel like a B2C trend, your B2B shoppers and targets are doing much the same thing. As they move further down your sales funnel and process, these preferences grow.

Outsourcing Services 67

Outsourcing Services Payment Services SaaS Payments Transportation 67

Chart Mogul

OCTOBER 19, 2018

GymForLess is a desktop and mobile marketplace that gives fitness enthusiasts instant access to thousands of gyms across Spain. Services like this are a natural fit for subscriptions, but that’s not where GymForLess started. With a subscription service, there’s no registration fee, no permanence. So why the change?

Merchant Services 40

Merchant Services Payment Services Marketplace as a Service Churn 40

User Pilot

MARCH 20, 2024

The open-source model creates revenue by charging for beyond-the-basics services. This multifaceted approach extends beyond the initial sale of the software and explores avenues for sustained income. The product model monetizes user-generated data for targeted marketing , creating revenue without direct charges.

Software 59

Software Revenue Strategy Advertising 59

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Seeing a real demand for business courses in their consumer marketplace, the team identified an opening in the market to disrupt corporate training and hypothesized that employers would be more than willing to pay. When Yvonne joined in 2016, the business unit consisted of just 10 people across product, engineering, sales, and marketing.

Marketplace as a Service 243

Marketplace as a Service Scale Sales Recruiting Business 243

Chart Mogul

JUNE 23, 2022

In the SaaS world, that means the consumer-facing apps & marketplace SaaS have a tougher time ahead. The last 2 years of SaaS twitter summed up sales into two simplistic formulas for achieving growth: PLG & raising prices. Trust us, we did it recently and you can read more about our migration here.

SaaS 52

SaaS DevOps as a Service Marketplace as a Service Forecasting 52

FastSpring

APRIL 13, 2023

From leading sales at Zillow to brand strategy at Tumblr to revenue at FiscalNote (a global policy platform), Justin Scott started noticing a trend. But they quickly realized the market was too small and that there was a bigger opportunity elsewhere — in wider B2B and B2C commerce. It starts with self service. Jera Brown Yeah.

Payment Methods 124

Payment Methods Marketing Payments SaaS Payments 124

Point Nine Land

MAY 22, 2020

Businesses, on the other hand, are stuck in the dark ages, often relying on the phone, email, fax and even pen and paper when it comes to ordering goods or services. Whilst consumer-facing marketplaces have become an essential part of our daily lives, business-to-business marketplaces are only just beginning to emerge.

Marketplace as a Service 83

Marketplace as a Service B2B Payments SaaS Payments 83

ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Leading a team of innovators and experts in their Customer Success, Professional Services, and Support organization, Amanda’s goal is to ensure that every customer optimizes the business impact of Lucidworks search and analytics deployments. “My Under her direction, marketplace utilization grew 39% in one year.

VP of Engineering 53

VP of Engineering Customer Success Scale Marketplace as a Service 53

OpenView Labs

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Now—a happy consequence—cloud marketplaces are on a similar trajectory of growth and have opened up a powerful go-to-market channel for sellers that you probably haven’t heard of yet. Not to mention 73% of B2B buyers prefer the convenience of digital buying through ecommerce, web direct or marketplaces (more on that later). .

Marketplace as a Service 52

Marketplace as a Service Cloud Scale B2B 52

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

268: Ryan Bonnici is the CMO @ G2, the company that allows you to get the right software and services for your business with over 897,000 user reviews to help you make smarter buying decisions. Before Hubspot, Ryan was Head of Marketing @ Salesforce (APAC) where he led his team to achieve 227% YoY net-new sales sourced through marketing.

Sales Hiring 136

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale Software Review 136

The Angel VC

AUGUST 25, 2017

Just like it’s crucial for sales teams to have clear qualification and disqualification criteria, it’s important for us to focus our time on “higher probability deals”. We will continue to focus on two business models: SaaS and marketplaces SaaS We use a broad definition of SaaS. They will continue to transform entire industries.

Investment 118

Investment Marketplace as a Service Blockchain Machine Learning 118

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Women in sales often have a polarizing experience. In the Sales Hacker video series Aha Moments , I asked 10 women: “What is one ‘aha moment’ you’ve had in your sales career?”. The conversations that followed were so authentic and encouraging that we decided to expand this conversation to other badass women in the sales world.

Scale 130

Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring VP of Engineering 130

Unbounce

JUNE 16, 2020

These are often built with agencies, consultants, and managed-service-providers (MSPs) in mind. These partners resell your product and benefit from offering ongoing services, usually on a retainer basis. Your partners act as an outsourced sales and marketing team. Is your sales process simple and streamlined?

Outsourcing Services 131

Outsourcing Services Sales Recruiting Scale SaaS 131

FastSpring

JANUARY 8, 2019

Amazon Marketplace. Selling on the Amazon Marketplace can significantly boost volume through your store. Amazon charges fees on every sale through the Marketplace. The AOV can be calculated by dividing the total number of orders received by the total sales revenue. Business to consumer (B2C). Back office.

Payment Methods 62

Payment Methods Merchant Services Payment Services Outsourcing Services 62

Neil Patel

AUGUST 18, 2021

Offer Coaching Service to Motivated Clients. It doesn’t matter when you started blogging or how much experience you’ve gained in that time — offering a coaching service to motivated clients can bring in money. Coaching services are in demand because of the dramatic results the process can bring.

Scale 145

Scale Outsourcing Services Merchant Services Social Media 145

Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

You can think of Horizontal SaaS as broad-based tech that is industry agnostic; a sales person at a Cybersecurity company can use HubSpot the same way a sales person at a Health Supplements company might use it. Here is a comprehensive list of SaaS blogs that goes through the most common metrics and terms.

Scale 52

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring SaaS 52

OpenView Labs

MAY 12, 2020

loyal customers, how the company differentiates its brand in the marketplace, and why they founded a thriving user community. Small businesses or teams who adopt it self-service. Enterprises that use it department- or company-wide and typically interact with Notion’s sales team. Ben Lang runs Notion’s B2C community.

Underperforming Technical Team 98

Underperforming Technical Team Marketing Scale B2C 98

Buffer Resources

AUGUST 23, 2023

When you’re managing everything from strategy to sales, adding a dozen social media accounts into the mix is just not sustainable. While social media is a powerful marketing tool, plenty of entrepreneurs have proved that quality over quantity is key when it comes to using social media to maximize their reach – and sales.

Social Media 81

Social Media Business B2C Branding 81

Chargify

MARCH 28, 2018

While the convenience of combo meals abounds in all fast food restaurants today, in 1958 the opportunity to purchase a main dish, side, and drink for a set price (and less than if all the items were purchased individually) was a novel idea, and one that helped them stand out in a very competitive marketplace. TV is a great example.

Pricing 47

Pricing Innovation Scale SaaS 47

SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Software as a Service (SaaS) is currently the most practical model of software distribution. It is the model in which a cloud service provider hosts software or application and makes them available for the end-user. The cloud service provider can either be a third party or the software vendor itself. Headquarter: Paris.

SaaS Payments 10

SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Methods Sales Recruiting 10

SmartKarrot

APRIL 23, 2020

Customer success is fast becoming one of the most vital functions for software as a service (SaaS) companies providing subscription solutions that deliver personalized services to customers for minimal investment. It spans the entire customer journey, from product development and adoption to customer retention and growth.

Customer Success 10

Customer Success Marketplace as a Service Travel B2C 10

SaaStock

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

The platform integrates with 100+ shipping services and ensures discounts for many of them. was created by a team with 25+ years of experience in location-based tech, spanning various services and real-time asset tracking systems. Fadada is a SaaS-based provider of electronic signature services. Funding to Date : $1.3M

SaaS Payments 225

SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Merchant Services Payment Methods 225

SaaStr

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Prior to founding Outgrow, Randy co-founded VenturePact, an invite-only marketplace that connects companies with trusted software development firms. How does Randy think about using interactive content to maximize sales rep efficiency? What can be done to make the sales and customer success teamwork so well together?

Scale 223

Scale Sales Hiring Mobile Marketplace as a Service 223

Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 22, 2018

Fast forward to today, and Eventbrite is the world’s largest self-service event ticketing and registration platform – processing more than 3 million tickets each week. Going back a bit, Brian was a co-founder at SkillSlate, a local services marketplaces similar to Thumbtack. We raised a $1.5-million

Marketplace as a Service 189

Marketplace as a Service Scale Payment Solutions Payment Services 189

Point Nine Land

APRIL 21, 2021

There are many posts out there explaining how startup co-founders should “land the first sales, then hire the first 2 sales and when to hire a VP sales”. Just like your first sales are being done by one of the co-founders, the first product concepts are being done by one of the co-founders. In SaaS vs. marketplaces?

Sales Hiring 52

Sales Hiring Startup Scale Software Review 52