SaaStr

OCTOBER 11, 2023

That’s not just pretty epic growth at almost $7 Billion in revenue, it’s one heck of a comeback. But a Smaller and Smaller Percentage of Revenue. Overall subscription solutions revenue is up just 21%, while payments and merchant solutions are up 35% — from a much, much larger base. #2. A tough transition.

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Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Revenue 231

Predictable Revenue

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Predictable Revenue has been called “The Sales Bible of Silicon Valley”. This summary outlines key strategies to grow revenue without relying on cold calls. The post 15-Minute Summary of Predictable Revenue appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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Revenue Strategy Sales Development 262

SaaStr

APRIL 24, 2022

Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: 1. Navigating the CRO and CMO Relationship with G2 and SalesLoft: Mike Weir, Chief Revenue Officer, G2; Steve Goldberg, Chief Revenue Officer, SalesLoft; Amanda Malko, CMO, G2. BowtiedCocoon: Top SaaS SMB AEs have $125k OTEs.

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Sales Hiring Revenue Scale SMB 268

SaaStr

OCTOBER 15, 2023

This week we have Robby Allen, Chief Revenue Officer at AgentSync! #1. During Robby’s tenure as CRO, AgentSync has grown revenue 27x, raised over $150M, and was most recently valued at $1.2B. The post My App Stack: Robby Allen, Chief Revenue Officer of AgentSync appeared first on SaaStr. What’s your core stack of apps today?

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Revenue Forecasting Sales Enablement Customer Success 224

Totango

JANUARY 3, 2024

Totango now offers integrations with leading revenue intelligence platforms Gong and Chorus to help teams enhance operational efficiency and leverage the insights gleaned from customer interactions to drive strategic decision-making.

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Revenue Operational efficiency. Scale Customer Success 102

Predictable Revenue

AUGUST 23, 2021

Ole Dallerup, Founder of Dreamdata, explains why revenue attribution is so important, how to build an in-house revenue attribution system, the impact of effective revenue attribution, and much more! The post B2B Revenue Attribution: Build vs Buy appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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SaaStr

APRIL 4, 2022

Jess Weimer, Senior Vice President of Revenue Marketing at Podium, discusses why it’s time to pivot from demand generation to revenue marketing and best practices for making that pivot. Pillars of Revenue Marketing . Evolving to Revenue Marketing . Organizing your teams for revenue marketing. Here’s how: .

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

These are highly effective ways to keep momentum going, even if your smallest customers become a smaller and smaller percent of your revenue. Datadog is at $1.2B+ in ARR now, and 80% of its revenue now comes from its largest customers. Be careful abandoning the low-end of the market and/or a Free edition. They keep you in the game.

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Predictable Revenue

MARCH 9, 2022

Leah Chaney joins the Predictable Revenue podcast to discuss why customer success needs to work with outbound sales and be given a seat at the revenue table. The post How Customer Success Generates Revenue appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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Totango

APRIL 4, 2024

Revenue retention hinges on the collaborative efforts of CS and sales teams as they collectively shepherd customers throughout the lifecycle journey, from acquisition to retention and expansion. Share responsibility: CS and sales both need skin in the game “Who’s in charge of sustainable revenue growth within an organization?”

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Predictable Revenue

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Christina del Villar joins the Predictable Revenue podcast to discuss how a go-to-market strategy can help you boost outbound sales and hit your revenue target. The post Go-To-Market Strategies to Reach Revenue Targets appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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Predictable Revenue

AUGUST 25, 2022

Tayler Barron joins the Predictable Revenue podcast to discuss breaking down the silos between marketing, outbound sales, and customer success in your organization. The post The Financial Impact of Breaking Down Your Revenue Organization Silos appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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Revenue Customer Success Sales Marketing 258

SaaStr

JANUARY 8, 2023

Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: Capital Efficiency is Back in Fashion. SaaStr 621: Big Numbers from Small Customers: How DigitalOcean Accelerated at Scale with DigitalOcean Senior Vice President of Revenue Cliff Bockard.   . But … You Still Gotta Grow.

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SaaStr

JUNE 26, 2023

Some examples: HubSpot gets 54% of its revenue from outside the U.S. Asana gets 39% of its revenue from outside the U.S. Monday gets 47% of its revenue from outside the U.S. Zendesk gets 49% of its revenue from outside the U.S., The top quartile have 28% of their revenue from EMEA/Europa, and the median is 19%.

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Sales Hiring Revenue SaaS Scale 285

Predictable Revenue

JANUARY 27, 2022

Mary Grothe joins the Predictable Revenue podcast to discuss how CEOs can remove friction from the outbound sales process in order to scale revenue holistically. The post How CEOs Should Improve the Buying Process to Scale Revenue appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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Scale Scaling Revenue Sales 259

SaaStr

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Q: Dear SaaStr: How Do VCs Verify a Startup’s Revenue? If they do, the financials and revenue are likely at least 90% accurate, which is good enough for seed stage. They also often recognize revenue too early. Round trip deals, pseudo-revenue, and more. It can happen. What can you do, after all? (Is

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SaaStr

MAY 13, 2022

There are many ways to track your marketing performance, but if you want to understand how effective it is, one metric reigns supreme: revenue. The most successful marketing strategies achieve short-term and long-term growth by driving revenue year after year. What is revenue marketing? Overcome GTM fragmentation.

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Revenue Scale Engineering Marketing 215

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

So I remember the first time I saw a CEO fire their entire revenue team. I’d invested in a PLG-first company that was transitioning at millions in revenue to being more sales-led. The company hit a wall on revenue growth. If you’re going to fire your whole revenue team, you better have a real plan.

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Revenue Sales Hiring Sales Investment 200

Predictable Revenue

JULY 21, 2021

The post Building a RevOps structure to increase revenue and customer LTV appeared first on Predictable Revenue. Erol Toker and Rachel Haley explain why RevOps is important, how its evolution is reminiscent of the dot com boom, common mistakes leaders make when building out the RevOps function, and more!

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Revenue Strategy Marketing Sales 264

SaaStr

JANUARY 24, 2024

Solving High Volume, Low Conversion at Lattice Dini Mehta joined Lattice at $3M in revenue when it had just 10 people in seat for Go-To-Market and 7 salespeople. Joining Box as CRO When They Had a Churn Issue Mark joined Box four years ago at $600M in revenue and 4-5 years past IPO.

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Scale Sales Hiring Scaling Revenue 217

Predictable Revenue

AUGUST 21, 2020

Nathan Latka explains how he grew his dorm room business to $5M in revenue when he was 21, and the key to launching a successful podcast. The post Utilizing Audience Engagement to Boost your SaaS Company Revenue appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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Engagement Revenue SaaS Business 277

SaaStr

JULY 19, 2023

In a special workshop, Sam shares advice on how to spot bottlenecks, reallocate the right resources, and grow revenue in 2023. Step Two: Diagnose the Bottleneck to Closing More Revenue When your company doesn’t hit target revenue, it can be tempting to zero in on conversion rates. Sign up for free. Are the AEs outbounding?

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Revenue Acquisition Technical Review Systems Review 204

Predictable Revenue

OCTOBER 31, 2022

We’re sharing our best sales coaching tips, along with nine key metrics to assess if you want to boost revenue. The post Maximize Revenue by Effectively Coaching Your Sales Team appeared first on Predictable Revenue. What does it take to be a great sales coach?

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Revenue Sales Metrics Development 147

SaaStr

APRIL 12, 2022

The majority of its revenue is now from Bitcoin transactions, not “traditional” payments and software. And while growth has slowed a bit, its net revenues are still growing an impressive 29% at a $16 Billion run-rate. Only 9% of Square’s revenue is international, but going up. So is Square a SaaS company?

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Payments SaaS Payments Payment Services Revenue 258

Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Have you ever wondered how to make money blogging about the things you love? What if I told you it’s possible to write about your passions and make money with a blog? Let’s talk about how you can make money blogging. Blogging is not dead , and it’s not too late for you to start one. Why Do Some Blogs Fail to Make Money?

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Branding Education Revenue Engineering 80

Totango

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

We believe these collaborations are cornerstones for enterprises to deliver seamless experiences for their customers and to create the interconnectedness with cross-functional partners and systems needed to drive long-term revenue growth.

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Enterprise Revenue Scale Innovation 113

Blulogix

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Channel Partner Collaboration: Sealing Revenue Leaks By BluLogix Team In the dynamic world of usage-based pricing, managing revenue can be like trying to capture a moving target. While usage-based models offer numerous benefits, they also present challenges, especially when it comes to revenue leakage.

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Revenue Payment Features Subscription Pricing 52

SaaStr

APRIL 9, 2022

With that, Women in Revenue had a great recent 2022 Annual Report you should download here on how things have, and haven’t, changed in the workplace since Covid, The Great Resignation, and more. And one-quarter of women in professional services and revenue operations roles listed sexual harassment as one of their top three challenges.

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Revenue Sales Hiring Compensation Startup 249

SaaStr

APRIL 11, 2020

Some of you won’t be able to grow revenue at all for now. Grow something that matters, so that when we pull out of this, you’ll grow revenue again, and maybe even faster than before. What can you grow besides revenue? You may be able to grow them a lot faster right now, even if the revenue lags.

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Revenue Healthcare B2B Branding 301

Blulogix

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Stopping Revenue Leakage in Managed Services: A Comprehensive Guide By BluLogix Team In the ever-evolving landscape of Managed Service Providers (MSPs) , the intricate nature of usage charges often poses a significant billing challenge. Our client was facing a significant revenue leakage issue due to inefficient billing processes.

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Revenue Payment Features Management Software Review 59

Predictable Revenue

JULY 29, 2020

The post Post-COVID trends: How to return to predictable revenue appeared first on Predictable Revenue. LinkedIn research and extensive reports on the impact of COVID-19 on the sales pipeline, demonstrates some of the ways that companies can evolve.

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Trends Revenue Sales 239

SaaStr

OCTOBER 26, 2020

If you’ve been around since the earlier days of the internet , a certain phrase may send shivers up your spine — “Roundtrip Revenue.” ” People went to jail at AOL for this , overstating revenue by as much as $1 billion that wasn’t really real. But you’re not AOL, back in the day.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 15, 2021

25% of revenue from professional services may sound high, but it’s a fairly standard ratio in true enterprise software. And isn’t services revenue a friction-full waste of time anyway? And plan for charging, and delivering, additional services revenue in mid-five figure and larger deals. 10-25% more revenue.

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Revenue Pricing Enterprise SaaS 295

Blulogix

JANUARY 6, 2024

Unlocking Revenue Potential with a Robust Subscription Billing Platform By BluLogix Team Welcome to the fifth installment of our series on selecting the right subscription billing platform for your business. Today, we’re focusing on the critical role a robust subscription billing platform plays in unlocking your revenue potential.

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Payments Subscription Payment Features SaaS Payments 52

Blulogix

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

How Recurring Revenue Sustains Modern Businesses Amidst Uncertainty By BluLogix Team The Vital Role of Recurring Revenue In an era marked by rapid technological advancements and shifting consumer preferences, recurring revenue models have become the lifeline for modern businesses.

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Revenue Business compliance B2B 52

SaaStr

MARCH 25, 2022

Tracking business performance through revenue targets remains one of the most valuable ways to measure company success. According to Blond, there are two main components to creating the perfect revenue goal: “There are two variables to hitting targets. At this stage, you don’t need a revenue target quite yet.

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Sales Hiring Revenue Finance Startup 255

Predictable Revenue

MAY 10, 2022

Matt Melymuka, Founder of PeakSpan Capital, joined the Predictable Revenue podcast to discuss what’s wrong with the revenue growth at all costs model. The post What’s Wrong with the Revenue Growth At All Costs Model appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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