FastSpring

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Cyber Weekend — the weekend encompassing Black Friday and Cyber Monday — is a great time for businesses to slash prices and increase sales volume as the year wraps up. Are you looking for a merchant of record to help you grow your business internationally? Set up a demo or check out our platform yourself.

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FastSpring

AUGUST 11, 2021

In Malaysia, Sales and Service Tax (SST) is a consumption tax imposed on a wide range of goods and services. is much simpler for businesses compared with the previous Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime it replaced and the old SST framework that preceded GST. Service tax on digital services (SToDS).

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OpenView Labs

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Every year we ask the OpenView network to weigh in, and this time around many folks unsurprisingly made predictions around a trend most of us in SaaS had to adapt to (and, to be honest, are still figuring out) in 2020: remote work. SaaS companies will evolve their products and messaging to support a fluid hybrid working model—office/home.

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FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

In our first post about our online community , we mentioned launching the Global SaaS Leaders Slack group because we saw a need for the kind of software-and-SaaS-focused community we’d want to be a part of. More established professionals and businesses (less students and early-stage startups). That includes: A global focus.

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FastSpring

AUGUST 11, 2021

In Malaysia, Sales and Service Tax (SST) is a consumption tax imposed on a wide range of goods and services. is much simpler for businesses compared with the previous Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime it replaced and the old SST framework that preceded GST. Service tax on digital services (SToDS).

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 18, 2020

It’s easy to think of online sales as a marketplace where we buy items for ourselves, but more and more B2B and SaaS sales are now happening online. As of 2019, B2B ecommerce sales globally have surpassed $12 trillion in revenue. According to Statista, B2B sales are now 6X larger than the business-to-consumer (B2C) market.

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User Pilot

MARCH 24, 2024

Looking for user flow examples to inspire your UX design process ? Review generation user flow. Here’s a user flow example depicting the user journey from login to successful credit card payment. For a B2C company like Spotify, they’ll need a music app user flow, an e-commerce payment flow, and so on.

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ProfitWell

JANUARY 2, 2020

Subscriptions are built on ongoing relationships with customers, so companies selling subscriptions need to understand how to monetize this relationship on a recurring basis. We’ll talk through the importance of audience targeting, the kinds of resources that are helpful, and the ways to differentiate between B2C and B2C sales.

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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. Leave the technical challenges of selling around the world to us. Watch the two minute clip for more details.

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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. So clearly there are areas of our economy that are slow growing and B2C has its challenges.

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FastSpring

JANUARY 8, 2019

A type of performance-based marketing in which a business rewards partners (also known as affiliates) for each visitor or customer brought by the affiliate’s marketing efforts. The largest 3rd party ecommerce platform. They also offer Fulfillment by Amazon, where they handle the fulfillment process for your business at extra cost.

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Kellblog

JANUARY 30, 2021

I certainly didn’t have “global pandemic” on my 2020 bingo card and, even if I somehow did, I would never have coupled that with “booming stock market” and median SaaS price/revenue multiples in the 15x range. That said, I’m back on the proverbial horse, so let’s dig in with a review of our 2021 predictions. Business dinners?

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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. And from SaaS sales models to SaaS pricing.

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OpenView Labs

JULY 2, 2020

Pricing is a SaaS company’s most efficient profit lever, but it’s also one of the easiest things to screw up. Nailing your SaaS pricing strategy requires more than just picking the optimal price and forgetting about it. It includes the latest and greatest SaaS pricing resources, as well as some timeless staples.

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OPEXEngine

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

There are many ways to classify SaaS companies, but differentiating companies based upon who their customers are presents the best approach for measuring performance and driving success for SaaS businesses. Business to Consumer (B2C). SMM SaaS Company Overview & Market Dynamics. Enterprise.

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Point Nine Land

APRIL 9, 2021

Over the last few years, we’ve published a number of SaaS funding napkins as well as marketplace napkins. So if you’re a US-based startup, you might be able to shoot slightly higher ;) Unlike SaaS companies which have been around for years, B2B marketplaces are a relatively new category and not many investors have invested in them yet.

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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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ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Taking advantage of SaaS tools will help you accomplish this. If you aren’t using SaaS tools yet, by the end of this article you’ll understand why you should. There are a wide number of reasons why SaaS tools are taking over. SaaS tools are easy to use and come equipped with updated features. Avoiding SaaS tool bloat.

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OPEXEngine

JANUARY 18, 2022

The impact of the pandemic was quite dramatic as we literally lost all of our revenue from one week to the other,” said Marcus Tillmann, CFO of online travel site Trivago. “We Robust technology. Another component was ensuring the company had the technology to conduct business and continue to support clients.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 26, 2019

There is no shortage of options when it comes to building your marketing technology stack. I’ve worked at multiple high growth SaaS businesses as a growth leader, and the data we’re seeing right now … This is from … is that CAC is increasing both in B2B and B2C, and you’re going to see how that relates, right?

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ProfitWell

OCTOBER 16, 2019

It’s the question on every SaaS founder’s lips: Is my churn rate too high? So how do you know what a healthy churn rate is for your SaaS company? Why is it so hard to define an average churn rate—and what does that mean for your subscription business? Subscription service Recurly reports an average monthly churn rate of 5.6%

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Chart Mogul

MARCH 6, 2018

Average Revenue Per Account (ARPA). This is likely due to family subscriptions and internationalization. ARPA is the lifeblood of any subscription business. In the SaaS world, businesses generally aim to drive higher ARPA through add-ons and paid upgrades as the product matures. TL;DR: ARPA is down from €6.84

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ChurnZero

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Whether Customer Success or Sales should own the renewal, expansion, and upsell is a hot-button issue in today’s SaaS sphere. As such, we decided to tap industry experts for a verbal duel on the subject where the winners take home the esteemed (and priceless) prize of bragging rights and SaaS street cred. Enter the Sales Manager.

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ProfitWell

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

I love reading stories of SaaS companies that truly get it when it comes to renewal rates. Companies like Front , the shared inbox service that keeps growing like a weed every month , despite having average user churn rates. Having a good handle on your renewal rate is crucial for every SaaS company. Retain more customers.

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SmartKarrot

MARCH 8, 2022

An exceptional thought leader and a brilliant coach to thousands of executives, Allison Pickens, is a leading expert on recurring revenue growth. Her blog posts continue to serve as a valuable resource for people who seek to understand and master customer success processes. Allison Pickens. Amarachi Ogueji. Annette Franz.

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Software Platform Consulting

NOVEMBER 25, 2014

The vast majority of tech press is about B2C software companies or software for IT department (e.g., But, there are a few good b2b blogs and newsletters those of you interested in enterprise cloud business applications should follow for inspiration. Platform Economics and Strategy. Openview Labs. PMNTS.com B2B Site.

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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. Introduction.

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SmartKarrot

JUNE 1, 2020

As the term goes, the subscription economy deals with the business of rendering subscriptions to the customers. All SaaS companies, including Netflix, Hotstar, or Spotify’s entire range of businesses rely on a subscription model. There is now a teeming inclination from the product economy towards the subscription business model.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

With the rise of AI, new sales technology and automation at the forefront of the sales echo chamber these days, we thought we’d take a moment to bring it back to BASICS – that’s why we’ve rounded up this complete glossary of sales terms and definitions to help you remember where it all started. AB Testing.

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User Pilot

AUGUST 30, 2021

A product analytics tool is a type of software that enables you to measure and visualize user data. It helps you gain actionable insights into your customers' behavior – enabling you to create meaningful experiences for your users, identify opportunities for product growth and development, and fix pain points in the user journey.

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