Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Casey’s first sequencing business models essay talked about the transition from a SaaS business model to marketplace business model, and why it’s so difficult. In this essay, we’ll go deeper into the gradients of marketplace models that a company can sequence to, and as a follow up, we will do the same for platforms.

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Marketplace as a Service Business Model SaaS Payments Payments 141

Subscription Flow

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Before we jump to the meat of the blog, let us quickly go over the bare-bones definition of what exactly is automated billing software and why most small businesses require it. Small businesses require automated billing software because while getting paid is great, sending out invoices is frequently a laborious process.

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

However, it can be hard for smaller businesses to compete with well-known brands in their market. Alongside customer choice, brand awareness and visibility are critical to business success. Niche marketplaces allow businesses to leverage the power and branding of larger platforms to reach their target audiences.

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User Pilot

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

There’re four phases for user adoption: 1) The AHA moment; 2) The activation stage; 3) Secondary onboarding; 4) Brand advocacy. It starts from the moment a user has their AHA moment and continues until they become brand advocates. Now, given these benefits, what makes the user adoption process successful? User adoption phases.

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Neil Patel

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

But out of the plethora of answers you need to figure out, choosing the best ecommerce platform remains the most crucial. Small businesses or brand-conscious entrepreneurs will love Wix with its easy-to-use, cheap features, and greater design flexibility. A Review of the Best Ecommerce Platforms. Ready to check out Wix?

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Payment Methods Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services 137

FastSpring

OCTOBER 13, 2023

If you’re currently using 2Checkout or Stripe to sell digital goods or SaaS but are considering switching — to the other, or to other options such as FastSpring — you may be wondering whether there are substantial differences between the platforms and their services. Payment Gateways , Payment Processing , PSPs, MoRs — What’s the Difference?

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Advertise your brand. If the sustained growth of Instagram wasn’t enough to convince you that it’s a great platform to make money on, maybe the comments of Mark Zuckerberg may help. At the company’s first Creator Week in June 2021, he said of Instagram: “Our goal is to be the best platform for creators like you to make a living,”.

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Payment Methods Payments Social Media Software Review 145

User Pilot

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

There’re four phases for user adoption: 1) The AHA moment; 2) The activation stage; 3) Secondary onboarding; 4) Brand advocacy. It starts from the moment a user has their AHA moment and continues until they become brand advocates. Now, given these benefits, what makes the user adoption process successful? User adoption phases.

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ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Scheduled payments, aka recurring billing. Scheduled payments have become a core form of revenue collection. Of course, recurring payments vary depending on the business. Rent the Runway is definitely structured different than your monthly gas bill. What are subscription payments? Predictable income.

Merchant Services 68

Merchant Services SaaS Payments Payment Features Payment Services 68

Buffer Resources

MAY 17, 2023

Picture this: two popular influencers from different niches join forces to create engaging and exciting content, reaching millions of followers across platforms. They can also happen between influencers, brands, non-profit organizations, or a mix of these entities. This goes both ways – for creators and brands.

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Social Media Payments Software Review Technical Review 107

Neil Patel

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

If you’ve ever considered launching your own online business, chances are you’ve thought about the required tools. And while there are several ecommerce platforms on the market, Shopify and WordPress remain the most prominent. A Review of the Best Ecommerce Platforms. In fact, on the contrary, there are way too many.

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Payment Methods Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services 139

FastSpring

JANUARY 5, 2021

To help you find the right billing software for your online business, we’re covering the ten features your billing software needs to have: 1. Revenue Recovery. Third-Party Integrations. Again, you’re not an accountant; you’re a business owner. Or at least view screenshots of the actual platform. Simplicity.

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Payment Methods Payment Solutions Payment Services Payments 86

How To Buy Saas

APRIL 5, 2024

In the age of digital transformation and fierce competition, e-commerce companies must optimize their business processes and improve efficiency. Definition of Bounce Rate The bounce rate is the percentage of orders that were started but not completed or canceled by the customer for any reason.

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FastSpring

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

With that in mind, we’re going to detail captive pricing below, with an eye towards how it also plays a part in SaaS platforms and products. The definition of captive product pricing is the pricing of products that have both a main product and several secondary or accessory products that are needed for the main product to offer full value.

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Pricing SaaS Payments Payments Payment Methods 80

Buffer Resources

JANUARY 18, 2024

It’s not the first time I’ve tried out LinkedIn Premium — but it is the first time I’m approaching the platform’s paid subscription as a creator.  Under Subscriptions & payments , click Change next to Premium Subscription. Choose Settings & Privacy from the dropdown menu.

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FastSpring

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

With that in mind, we’re going to detail captive pricing below, with an eye towards how it also plays a part in SaaS platforms and products. The definition of captive product pricing is the pricing of products that have both a main product and several secondary or accessory products that are needed for the main product to offer full value.

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Pricing SaaS Payments Payments Payment Methods 78

BitPay

APRIL 25, 2023

In recent years, cryptocurrency has gained popularity as an investment opportunity and alternative payment method. Now, businesses are exploring new ways to integrate digital assets into their business models. Refunds: Businesses can refund customers with cryptocurrency directly to their wallets when returning products.

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Merchant Services Payment Services Payment Methods Payments 52

FastSpring

JANUARY 26, 2024

Jake, Head of Customer Success for Sideways 6, explains that the current trend is to measure their success through the customer’s success, with CS being an integral part of impacting the entire business. But really around that, that idea of getting customers that love your brand and love your product. I’m David Vogelpohl.

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Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Connect Baremetrics to your revenue sources and start seeing all of your revenue on a crystal-clear dashboard. You can even see your customer segmentation , deeper insights about who your customers are , forecast into the future, and use automated tools to recover failed payments. Integrations 3. Table of Contents.

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Payments Payment Solutions SaaS Payments PayPal 94

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. Thanks to massive technological advances happening in big data and AI, Justin saw new possibilities for improved user experiences with a brand. And he wanted in.

Payment Methods 124

Payment Methods Marketing Payments SaaS Payments 124

OPEXEngine

MAY 18, 2021

SaaS Metric #1 – Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR). ARR is an essential subscription metric that identifies the recurring revenue expected on an annual basis from the subscriber base. ARR = (Overall subscription per year + recurring revenue from add-ons or upgrades) – revenue lost from cancellations.

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SaaS Payments Metrics Payments Payment Services 98

SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2022

And if you also look at the platform as a service category, that’s also an additional $50 billion of spend, and that’s typically with those same vendors. So the ability to do flexible payment plans, financing, retire that pre-committed spend has been a really significant a way for us to accelerate and amplify our transactions.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

The goal is to make the customer a recurrent one, cementing their loyalty to your product or brand. The process involves sending a thank you note or email and checking in with the client to see their progress and if the product met their expectations. How have you purchased a similar tool/solution/platform in the past?

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Casey’s first sequencing business models essay talked about the transition from a SaaS business model to marketplace business model, and why it’s so difficult. In this essay, we’ll go deeper into the gradients of marketplace models that a company can sequence to, and as a follow up, we will do the same for platforms.

Marketplace as a Service 52

Marketplace as a Service Business Model SaaS Payments Payments 52

Neil Patel

JULY 12, 2021

But marketing automation tools make your job a little more painless, so you and your team can focus your time and attention on other efforts that drive revenue. For example, brands could create an automatic lead generation funnel that gathers an email address, sends a recorded demo, then invites the prospect to schedule a live demo.

Payment Methods 145

Payment Methods Scale Payments Marketing 145

Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In this episode, a16z partner Seema Amble talks with Dimitri Dadiomov, the co-founder and CEO of payment operations platform Modern Treasury, about the challenges of creating a new category, hiring for marketing before you hire for sales, and why developing new features is similar to birding. It was maybe like a 4 or 5 person team.

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Payment Solutions Payment Methods Payment Services Payments 115

SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

A few of the leading companies in the Cloud 100 list, as put together by Forbes, of leading enterprise software companies are in industry verticals and just on the Salesforce platform, the three most valuable companies built on the platform were industry-vertical companies, including nCino, Vlocity, and Veeva. How did you manage that?

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Payment Solutions Pricing Payments Payment Services 154

Buffer Resources

JANUARY 18, 2024

It’s not the first time I’ve tried out LinkedIn Premium — but it is the first time I’m approaching the platform’s paid subscription as a creator.  Under Subscriptions & payments , click Change next to Premium Subscription. Choose Settings & Privacy from the dropdown menu.

Technical Review 61

Technical Review Systems Review Sales Recruiting AI Search 61

Software Platform Consulting

JULY 1, 2019

My last post was partly about healthcare payments in the form of Change Healthcare’s Intelligent Healthcare Network. I did not set out to write another post about healthcare payments, but reading Phreesia’s S-1 compels me to. Phreesia handles the patient intake process, meaning they help doctors offices: set appointments.

Payment Services 40

Payment Services SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payments 40

User Pilot

DECEMBER 19, 2023

TL;DR As the name suggests, SaaS account management is the process of managing customer relationships. Strategic account management increases customer lifetime value , drives up referrals and revenue, and reduces customer churn. Boost revenue : Lastly, all the above factors combine to increase revenue.

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SaaS Payments Management Customer Lifetime Value SaaS 84

User Pilot

JULY 18, 2023

Types of churn rates you should calculate: customer churn rate, revenue churn rate , and involuntary churn rate. To calculate the revenue churn rate, divide the net revenue lost from existing customers in a given period by the total revenue at the beginning of the period. Monthly recurring revenue.

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Neil Patel

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Like any sales platform , Etsy works best when you research the competition, understand your buyers, and focus on a niche. You’ll also want to focus on creating a unique style: something definitively yours that others will have a hard time copying. Brand Your Etsy Shop. Branding builds confidence and loyalty.

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Natalia Luneva

JANUARY 13, 2021

This obsession with getting new customers is natural: the more customers you convert, the more revenue you will make. However, the subscription business model can’t survive if you keep on acquiring new custo mers but the old ones keep on walking away. 1 Focus on creating a brand, not just a company. 3 Educate, educate, educate.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 8, 2018

With our redesigned Messenger , businesses can do so much more than chat. The next generation of messengers will be built to help businesses accelerate growth by actually helping teams do work, like process payments or schedule meetings. Encourage visitors to engage with our brand and content.

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Baremetrics

JULY 20, 2021

If there’s one brand you and I can learn from to become better SaaS marketers, it’s HubSpot. By following this process and using a tool like Baremetrics , you’ll generate more revenue and outdo your competitors in the process. From ranking for over 34,000 keywords to running its own knowledge base (i.e.,

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

See what the top 10 platforms you should be looking at in 2021 are to make an informed decision for your business needs. Each has its unique benefits that might make it the right enterprise tool for your business. Before we dive into more details, let’s look at a few definitions. Looking for the TL;DR?

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Payment Solutions Enterprise Scale Payments 84

OPEXEngine

MARCH 15, 2022

High Growth SaaS Companies Get A Significant Portion of Revenues Internationally. Faster growth companies are taking advantage of overseas markets and expanding internationally faster than their slower growth counterparts—with fast-growth companies reporting almost 31-32% of revenue from international business. Company Maturity.

Payment Services 40

Payment Services SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payments 40