Neil Patel

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

As an ecommerce seller, you’ll find yourself making a lot of choices. But out of the plethora of answers you need to figure out, choosing the best ecommerce platform remains the most crucial. Although Shopify and Wix have overlapping features, Shopify edges forward in the race if you’re specifically looking for ecommerce functionality.

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Subscription Flow

MAY 16, 2024

Did you know that the value of all card payments grew to more than $8 trillion in 2018? A major payment gateway that handled all this was CardConnect. Founded by the payment platform CardConnect, CardPointe is a payment gateway that processes the payments made by your end consumer. What is CardPointe?

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FastSpring

JUNE 11, 2019

To help you accomplish this, we’re sharing a short list of helpful ebooks, webinars, podcasts, books, and blog posts to help you kick off your growth plan for 2019. Ways to improve ecommerce conversion rates. Podcast: Ecommerce Conversations by Practical Ecommerce. Podcast: Voices of Search by Searchmetrics.

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Neil Patel

JANUARY 8, 2021

You want a quick and easy way to start a website yet have no clue how web hosting works. The good news is you can get a website up and running without spending a dime. Free web hosting enables you to set up a website with a few clicks, but don’t expect anything fancy. The bad news is also the fact that it’s free.

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Chart Mogul

DECEMBER 4, 2020

And is Stripe a good choice as your billing and payment provider? When Stripe was launched in 2010, dealing with payments online wasn’t a straightforward matter. Fast forward 10 years and setting up shop and accepting payments has become a lot easier, thanks to a large extent to Stripe.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Toast is a vertical software embedded payments solution for restaurants in the U.S. Any city block in Miami or San Francisco may have a pet store, a drug store, or a salon, and then you’ll have four restaurants. The ones they met in person closed at a 3x rate. and across the globe. Because of restaurant density.

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Affiliate marketing is a way for online publishers (including bloggers) to make passive income by recommending products and services they love. Like most methods, this takes plenty of strategizing and hard work. The official Amazon Associates page created the pay scale table below. Buy in 24 Hours or No Commission Rule.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Remember when it seemed like websites were just a commodity? They want a slick site that does more, from eCommerce to payments to marketing and more. eCommerce and Business Tools Are Key Drivers to Accelerating Growth. Not surprisingly, Wix has benefitted from the eCommerce explosion since Covid.

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Subscription Flow

DECEMBER 13, 2023

B2B payments enable the smooth flow of transactions between businesses of all sizes. But what’s changing in the B2B payments landscape and what should you be on the lookout for? But what’s changing in the B2B payments landscape and what should you be on the lookout for? What Makes B2B Payments Different? Let’s dive in!

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Brex then scaled its payments business quickly. Shopify identified its ICP as individuals and businesses looking for easy tools to start an online e-commerce store. Then, it built an entire ecosystem around it, soon launching Shopify payments, an embedded payment tool that quickly became the largest piece of the business.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

David describes their method as Extreme Product Design (EPD), a modification of the Extreme Programming approach popularized by Kent Beck. For instance, their earliest product responded to the online payment problem startups were experiencing. Understanding the assumptions that color this perception.

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Stax

JANUARY 3, 2024

In this blog, we will cover what your small business needs to consider when implementing self-checkout. Request Quote Understanding Self-Checkout Systems Self-checkout systems are automated hardware and software solutions that enable customers to process their purchases at retail stores, rather than needing the assistance of a cashier.

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Chart Mogul

DECEMBER 4, 2020

And is Stripe a good choice as your billing and payment provider? When Stripe was launched in 2010, dealing with payments online wasn’t a straightforward matter. Fast forward 10 years and setting up shop and accepting payments has become a lot easier, thanks to a large extent to Stripe.

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SaaStr

MARCH 26, 2019

Formerly a senior leader at Google, Claire Hughes Johnson is now Chief Operating Officer at Stripe, where she’s helped guide the online payments firm through rapid growth. In this talk, Claire will share these and other lessons for scaling high-growth organizations. I’m an execution person. Manual processes first.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 26, 2022

That’s Freemium at scale. Payments and e-commerce drag blended gross margins down to 60%. Wix along with Squarespace and also WordPress / Automatic have pushed deeply into e-commerce and as part of that, payments. It makes sense, as ecomm adds a ton of value to a standard website. 5 Interesting Learnings: #1.

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Baremetrics

JANUARY 25, 2022

FinOps, which stands for Financial Operations, combines the latest technologies and methods to help businesses scale their financial processes adequately and efficiently. In this blog post, we’ll be covering some of the FinOps fundamentals and exploring how FinOps can help businesses optimize their cloud usage and expenditure.

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Buffer Resources

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

But, she’s also made the intentional decision to scale back over the past couple of years, stopping her work with subcontractors, cutting down client projects to what she could manage on her own, and reducing her revenue by over $100,000. (I I also received a $20,833 PPP ( paycheck protection program ) loan during the pandemic.

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Natalia Luneva

JANUARY 8, 2022

Facebook and Slack used to be the best community platforms for online businesses: they are free, everyone is using them, and they are easy to use. However, new online community platforms emerged to offer better interface, more customization opportunities, and the chance to create your own mini social network.

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SaaStock

JANUARY 25, 2019

The main target customers of Olist include online shops, retailers seeking better placement, importers and distributors, but the platform is also useful for end customers. Listing your online business on Olist is compared to having your shop in the largest department store in the region. CEO : Tiago Dalvi. Founded : 2015.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

You’ll never scale revenue if you can’t get two people to hit quota. I used to have cuter blog titles. So hire that person as early as you can find her or him. Audience Member 2: You recently wrote an article that said when the phone rings, pick it up. If you don’t have two, who do you hire?

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Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Most SaaS businesses adopt a subscription-based model supported by a recurring payment system. Setting up a recurring payment system can be complicated and requires the right tools to measure, manage, and review payments regularly. Processing such payments can be complex. Table of Contents. What is Recurring Billing?

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SaaStr

MARCH 25, 2021

BigCommerce is an interesting eCommerce case study on many levels. BigCommerce, like many SaaS vendors at scale, is doing a better job at getting more revenue out of existing accounts than adding new ones. Payments partners are the biggest part of this. Driving existing customer revenue up more than new logos.

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SaaStr

JULY 20, 2022

Weave started off as a dental ERP and comms platform (including VoIP / phone), and then expanded beyond that as it scaled. It’s a tough outcome for a team that is working hard to scale well into the nine figures of ARR. Historically, Weave gave away several “free” phones with each new account.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 30, 2023

They focused on building a payment platform that empowers international talent and independent contractors to get paid on time in a compliant way while also ensuring that companies can hire international talent and make payments efficiently. This insight led Deel to focus on solving payments and compliance. Trust the process.

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SaaStr

JULY 9, 2019

Join Anish Shivdasani, CEO of Giraffe, as he provides unique African experiences learned from scaling to 1M users. I’m probably the most hated person in the room right now, but please indulge me. I think if we had focused on solving a niche problem, the market’s simply not big enough to scale. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

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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, when Instagram bought Luma (its first acquisition), the tiny three-person team was part of the deal. It’s a clear indicator that businesses want to expand their offerings and capabilities.

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Unbounce

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

PPC is a method of digital advertising in which you aim to get your ads to rank as the highest result displayed for user searches, and you, as the advertiser, pay a fee each time it’s clicked. It can also appear on websites that have similar content and keywords to your business. Image courtesy of Bloomberg Wealth.

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Baremetrics

JANUARY 18, 2022

Price localization can be done on its own or as part of an ecommerce personalization strategy. Ecommerce personalisation is a popular strategy for driving business growth by engaging more with your customers’ needs and giving them a unique shopping experience. Don’t Forget About Packages Bundle pricing.

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Stax

JANUARY 24, 2024

Existing QuickBooks Desktop users face the choice of upgrading to a newer version, switching to QuickBooks Online, or exploring alternative accounting software. Not only that, but Intuit has made it clear that the future of the QuickBooks system lies with their online version.

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SaaStr

APRIL 24, 2021

50% revenue from software (recurring), 50% from payments (not-recurring). . You pay a subscription for websites to help you sell stuff. But as Shopify scaled, its revenue as a percent of commerce on its sites — “Merchant Solutions” — began to eclipse its recurring SaaS revenues.

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Stax

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Accepting payments is the most important functionality that a business needs to start selling. But to accept payments seamlessly and securely, you need a merchant account. A merchant account refers to a business bank account that allows businesses to accept electronic payments for goods and services.

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User Pilot

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

TL;DR Funnel analysis helps map out all the steps website visitors and in-app users take to achieve conversion goals , like signing up for your tool or completing the onboarding process. Google Analytics – Best tool for tracking website conversion funnels. Funnel analysis allows you to: Measure company performance. Review funnel.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Freemium can help software companies gain users quickly—but what happens when it’s time to scale back or up? Join Joaquim Lecha, CEO at Typeform, and Christoph Janz, Managing Partner at Point Nine, as they delve into freemium at scale. The second one is customer feedback at scale. Want to see more content like this?

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Casey Accidental

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

I never posted my talk from last year, so I’m adapting it into a blog post here, and will do the same for this year’s talk in the following weeks and as well as some follow up questions from the Summit I’ve had a chance to ruminate on. Even when they scale, they eventually asymptote, and companies need to find new ways to grow.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 12, 2022

But once you begin to scale your business, you realize that you also need principles in place to strengthen your appetite for growth and expand profitably. This immediate time-to-value applies to your product and the content you share on your website. As soon as users land on your website, they should get the value quickly.

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How To Buy Saas

MARCH 21, 2024

In this blog post, we’ll try to answer these questions and explain which solutions may be helpful to your business. Startup businesses usually look towards SaaS when they need to scale quickly, reduce IT overhead, or access sophisticated tools without huge costs. What Is SaaS? Well, that depends on the industry, in the first place.

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Neil Patel

APRIL 28, 2021

In addition to a massive audience, Shopify offers users a simple, streamlined experience that allows store set up in record time. When you join the Shopify platform, you have immediate access to functionality that allows you to: build a website create a domain multiple payment options order receiving and processing.

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