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. If a product or service is being sold online—regardless if the sale itself happens through a sales-rep assisted process, online shop, or platform—it’s considered B2B ecommerce.

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

These acquisitions, which focus more on scope than scale, accounted for 90% of tech deals in 2019 , which is a 40% increase from 2015. For example, HR and finance SaaS vendor Workday bought Scout RFP (a San Francisco startup with a team of 8) for $540 million. Micro Acquire is a marketplace that connects startups to buyers.

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SaaStr

MARCH 19, 2019

Niall Wall, Box SVP of Business and Corporate Development alongside Vicki Lin, Stripe’s Head of Ecosystem and Cecilia Stallsmith, Slack’s Director of Platform Marketing discuss scaling your revenue via indirect channels and platform ecosystems. Vicki, if you’d give us your intro. Vicki Lin : Great. Thank you Ceci.

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Chargify

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Many SaaS entrepreneurs don’t spend much time considering which billing software will fit their needs for the long-term. The problem is that they often don’t realize just how quickly they’ll need a billing platform that can handle the complex billing needs of a growing SaaS business. The Complexity of SaaS Billing.

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 27, 2020

In part two of our Sequencing Business Models series , we talked about the different types of marketplaces and what needs to be built to be effective in each of them. This builds on the first essay in the series of how there has been an increase in interest of SAAS-like models interested in becoming marketplaces over time.

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Stax

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Software as a Service (SaaS) has made business software more accessible by offering cloud-based, on-demand access to a range of solutions, from project management and collaboration to sales and marketing. But not all SaaS products are alike. Other types of SaaS are relevant only to companies in specific industries.

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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

It wasn’t the case 20 or even 10 years ago, where the business models of the internet were more focused on eCommerce, marketplaces, or even advertising. So the first question is what made SaaS so successful. Customers love SaaS products and tools because it simply works. Why do developers love SaaS products?

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How To Buy Saas

DECEMBER 1, 2020

SaaS is a global software solution created by different businesses in order to improve human activities in a matter of clicks. SAAS is also abbreviated as software as a service. In this saas marketing strategy guide, we are going to tell you everything about saas marketing. What is SAAS marketing?

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

And then on the other side, once you have that, you’ve basically turned the internet or turned people’s phones or whatever it is into a button that gives people what they wan, and I think that model applies whether you’re thinking about SaaS companies, whether you’re thinking about consumer.

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How To Buy Saas

MARCH 6, 2024

And that is why WhatsApp has launched the WhatsApp Business Service with a set of premium features for businesses to run without much hassle. So, put on your seatbelt, as our blog will let you discover the blueprint of WhatsApp business with total insight to empower you to reach the full potential of a WhatsApp Business. Delighted!!!!

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Rob made his way into the world of SaaS as a product manager and how that led to his founding Salsify over 8 years ago. * How does Rob think about the bundled vs unbundled thesis within SaaS? When is it right for SaaS companies to turn down potential customers? Harry Stebbings: Not at all.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

In SaaS, #1 most common misfire, with a bullet, is the VP/head of sales. Because in SaaS start-ups, it seems like the majority of first VP Sales fail. First, in this post, I want to outline what a VP of Sales in a SaaS company actually does. In fact, there’s a VC saying that I used to really hate. Recruiting.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Romain Huet : See how you can turn like a SaaS business, or a core product you have and make it a very successful developer platform. Like, how can we provide economic infrastructure for developers to build applications and services and in a weird way, future proof? Let’s start with our five key steps. Romain Huet : Right.

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yoursales

JANUARY 28, 2022

When it comes to sales technology quite often sales tech isn't picked based on what YOU need, but based on what your network have been using for their sales process. What you should be making decisions based on is, which sales processes generates the best outcomes you're after - and for your customers.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

Strategy and Process. Sales Enablement. The Sales Enablement Playbook. Enablement Mastery. Blueprints for a SaaS Sales Organization. Applying a sales methodology to your selling gives you a tried and true advantage, and enables you to plan your work and work your plan. Insight Selling. Spear Selling.

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SaaStr

MAY 14, 2023

Here’s a chance to look back at 4 pre-IPO SaaS leaders today, and how they were doing and what they were thinking in the run up to $10m ARR. Algolia went from zero to seven figures in revenue in 12 months, and the launch of their search as a service product, and grew pricing from $19 a month to $100,000, which sounds amazing.

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

For example, blogs, ecommerce sites, and portfolio sites won’t have the same needs. But these platforms typically have an extensive marketplace with a plethora of plugins—so it shouldn’t be too difficult, even though it requires an extra step. But if you’re using a site builder or SaaS CMS, you can usually expect 24/7 support.

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Chargify

AUGUST 17, 2020

Backed by an army of developers, data engineers, and finance professionals, this events-based billing model allowed these large companies to directly link the value that their services provided with the cost presented on a customer’s invoice. What Amazon Web Services and Twilio Get Right. How AWS Does It.

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How To Buy Saas

JANUARY 7, 2021

In this blog, we are going to share your quick hacks to find the best software for dropshipping in 2021. If you hit a google search to find the best dropshipping saas, you will find a lot of plugins, tools, and web applications that would claim to be the best in the industry. I have shared that list in the next block of this blog.

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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. Tradeshift Buy, which is essentially what we call private marketplaces. Tradeshift Pay is an entrant payment solution for supply chains, meaning no matter where your supplier is in the world, we can make sure they get paid.

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SaaStr

JUNE 16, 2020

Leveraging survey data from 66+ enterprise SaaS companies, Matt Garratt, Managing Partner of Salesforce Ventures shares the landscape of how businesses are shifting their sales & GTM strategies to react to today’s uncertain times. So I think that is somewhat of a good news in this in that SaaS businesses are sticky.

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ProfitWell

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Choosing which revenue model works best for your SaaS business, though, is not easy (even if that's all you want to do is choose a revenue model for your SaaS business). The subscription model is the “vanilla” SaaS revenue model, not that there’s anything boring about a well-worked subscription plan. Advertising. Pay-Per-User.

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All that Saas

MAY 1, 2021

To save your time and make your decision process easy we have reviewed some of the best platforms. It includes followers, engagement scale, contact, and more. Manages your campaigns on Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Twitch, Snapchat, Pinterest, Blog, Facebook and more. Scale – contact sales for price.

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Chargify

MARCH 6, 2018

This blog post is part of our Customer Spotlight series. UK online education company EdPlace has emerged as a “parent champion,” providing online tutorial services designed to help parents support their children in their education (specifically Math, English, and Science) at an affordable price. Provides excellent customer service.

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SaaStr

MAY 4, 2022

No matter how innovative a product might be, a business can only succeed if it enables its customers. Suzanne Xie kicked off her journey in SaaS as the Founder and CEO of Lightwell. What makes a SaaS business so hard? You can deploy subscriptions as a service, billing as a service, fraud prevention as a service.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 23, 2020

The faster you grow, the more likely you are to achieve long-term success (and actually survive long enough to scale). Just look at subscription analytics startup ChartMogul whose brand and product are now a household name in the SaaS community. This is Season Two of Scale , Intercom’s podcast series on moving from startup to scale-up.

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