Frontegg

MAY 27, 2021

The 80s and 90s were all about physical purchasing and installation of software CDs and floppy disks. Provide instant value: Your target audience is getting instant value without too much effort – this leads to an active and sticky community that elevates your brand. Also, there is less pressure on Sales. So pick accordingly. #1

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Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payments Scale 98

Neil Patel

MARCH 12, 2021

Considering building an app? The mobile app industry is expected to be worth more than $407 billion (yes, with a B) by 2026. Meanwhile, the average person has more than 80 apps on their phone. That represents a ton of opportunities for app builders. How to Build Out Your App Idea. How does your app stand apart?

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ProfitWell

JULY 22, 2020

2 direct-to-consumer brands experiencing explosive growth. By branding the company as a reliable source of travel information, they now have a massive following on Instagram, and their website has approximately 800,000 views monthly. How fast are direct-to-consumer brands growing overall? Use a subscription-based model.

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Payment Methods Outsourcing Services Branding Payment Features 93

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. And that was the origin story.

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Payment Solutions Payment Methods Payment Services Payments 113

Buffer Resources

MARCH 5, 2024

On the financial side, distributors took a chunk of our already tight margins, and the 90-day payment terms from most retailers made cash flow difficult. On the customer education side, we had little control over where our product was placed and whether store associates were talking about it correctly.

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Payment Methods Payment Services Payments Scale 80

FastSpring

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Each year, we bring entrepreneurs, local leaders, and friends together to connect, collaborate and grow through our educational tracks, mentor office hours, startup showcases, and networking mixers. Our platform includes branded localized checkout, subscription management, and so much more.

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Merchant Services Startup Payment Methods Payment Services 88

Buffer Resources

MAY 2, 2024

The creator economy is filled with loads of potential for anyone willing to put in the effort and build an attractive-looking brand.  This could be to generate a specific level of income, work with certain brands, or create a new business that allows you to quit your day job.   What do you want to achieve?

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Payments Payment Methods Social Media AI Search 76

FastSpring

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Use social media to see what people are saying about your products and brand. But instead of just sending out emails advertising deals and promotions, you should schedule regular emails that focus on educating your customers, keeping them informed, and maintaining customer relationships.

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Natalia Luneva

JANUARY 13, 2021

However, the subscription business model can’t survive if you keep on acquiring new custo mers but the old ones keep on walking away. The period refers to a month or year depending on which payment option you offer or which of them is more popular. Software companies that serve large organizations experience a 6-10% churn rate.

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SaaS Payments Payment Methods Churn Payment Services 105

Sales Hacker

JULY 18, 2022

Educational sequences. In other words, the customer is educated enough to use a product to its full potential for their business, without further help from the provider. They’ll stop using the product, stop engaging with your brand, and, eventually, churn. Automate these 5 processes to boost customer retention.

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Payment Services Churn Payment Methods Payment Solutions 76

User Pilot

DECEMBER 19, 2023

With the emergence of software-as-a-service (SaaS) companies, the role of account managers has also evolved – and gotten harder. For example, you can personalize your value proposition , in-app messaging , and communication style to suit user preferences. Design an in-app resource center with Userpilot.

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SaaS Payments Management Customer Lifetime Value SaaS 103

ProfitWell

MARCH 9, 2020

The subscription business model has seen an immense rise in popularity in recent years, and with good reason. The subscription-based economy grew 350% between 2012 and 2019, and subscription businesses grew revenues about five times faster than S&P 500 company revenues during that time. What is subscription marketing?

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Here are some challenges to consider with dropshipping: Customization and branding: You’re selling someone else’s products, so it can be harder to develop a strong brand. If you’re ready to take on the stiff competition and aren’t reliant on branding to sell your products, then dropshipping could be a viable option.

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Payment Methods Payment Features Payments Scale 141

Blulogix

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Creating a Monetization Framework For Your Business View the Whitepaper Understanding Customer Lifecycle Management in Recurring Revenue Models Customer lifecycle management in the context of recurring revenue encompasses a strategic approach to engaging customers at each stage of their journey with a brand.

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Payments Payment Services Revenue Management 52

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

If people aren’t looking for your solution, you have to educate them about the problem your product solves. So they created a software that provides control, visibility, and payment methods for corporate finance teams. You also need to evolve and adapt at a greater pace than more established peers. Nico: Exactly.

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Scale Payment Methods Payment Solutions Marketing 162

Baremetrics

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Your SaaS company likely uses a CRM and/or payment processing software, and the data required to compute these core metrics can be all over the place. Integrating innovative software that can cull MRR values from CRM and payment processing systems is a valuable shortcut.

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Payments Payment Methods Payment Solutions Marketing 98

User Pilot

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Drive recurring revenue : Loyal customers spend more through repeat purchases over time. When customers are engaged, they are more likely to renew their subscriptions and try new products. As shown in the image below, industries like IT Services and IT & Software record customer retention rates close to the 90% mark.

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SaaS Payments Payment Methods Strategy Payments 52

User Pilot

APRIL 30, 2024

TL;DR A SaaS product delivers software remotely, reducing the need for local installation, maintenance, and updates. Cloud computing offers three main service models: SaaS for ready-to-use software, PaaS for application development frameworks, and IaaS for scalable virtualized computing resources.

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ProfitWell

MAY 21, 2020

And we'll be sharing with you an overall subscription index, from companies on Profitwell, that will be updated weekly. Table of Contents: Overall SaaS and subscription index. Impact of COVID-19 on SaaS and subscription companies. Impact of COVID-19 on SaaS and subscription companies. Why you need to focus on retention.

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Subscription Payment Features SaaS Payments Data 68

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

And so I’m so thrilled to welcome back Krish Subramanian, founder and CEO at Chargebee, the startup that lets you go beyond payment, billing, and recurring invoices to delivering subscription experiences that wow and what they’re doing now in the world of rev ops, trust me, it’s pretty mind blowing.

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Scale SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting Payment Services 132

OPEXEngine

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Customers of these SaaS companies also referred to as “Small and Medium Businesses” or SMBs, need the same software solutions as Enterprise companies but have resource constraints that prevent them from using the top SaaS vendors. Educational campaigns focus on the value-add that your product offers as well as how to use it.

SaaS Payments 52

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Methods Marketplace as a Service 52

Baremetrics

JANUARY 24, 2021

Anyone managing a SaaS or subscription business is aware of customer churn. To describe further our product’s situation, here’s what we already had in place: An email onboarding sequence for new customers that walked them through key steps of getting set up on the system.

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Churn SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payment Solutions 71

Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 16, 2021

This is costly not just for your team’s bandwidth and budget – but also for your customers’ satisfaction and overall perception of your brand. Educate customers on new features. Retention is one of the most important bottom-line metrics for any SaaS or subscription-based business to measure. Product engagement metrics.

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Payment Methods Payments Scale SaaS Payments 201

Incredo

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Precisely – about SaaS affiliate programs… SaaS partner programs entice both software providers and affiliate partners for various reasons: 1) SaaS products are usually low-cost. 2) Software companies can pay high commissions because they don’t sell physical products. 5) Everyone minds his own business.

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SaaS Payments Payment Methods Merchant Services Sales Recruiting 139

OPEXEngine

JULY 28, 2020

Although the San Jose-based company has always been a leader in developing world-class creative software like Photoshop and Illustrator, its go-to-market model (licensing boxed software) eventually slowed it down. By 2013, there were 1 million Android apps on the platform, and the number has doubled to more than 2 million since then.

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Payment Solutions Strategy Payment Services Scale 52

FastSpring

JANUARY 27, 2022

Note: FastSpring offers advanced subscription management services that support free trials, monthly and annual paid plans, proration, discount management, and more. He then sent out a link to this page inside payment failure notification emails. How My Marketing Concepts upsells annual payments during trial. Learn more here.

Merchant Services 111

Merchant Services Payment Services SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 111

Payrix

APRIL 2, 2024

A comprehensive Embedded Payments strategy isn’t complete without value added services. But, as a software platform, what value added services should you be considering? And when should you start thinking about these solutions and infusing them into your payment ecosystem and experience?

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Payments Embedded Payments Merchant Services Payment Services 124

Neil Patel

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

It’s a powerful, flexible, and arguably the most famous content management system that’s great for beginners and experts. You have to sign up with Bluehost , which involves additional steps like choosing a hosting plan, creating a new domain name, confirming account details, and making the payment. Pay the Subscription Money.

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Payment Methods Payment Services Marketplace as a Service Payment Solutions 116

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. What are the values of the brand?

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Payment Methods Marketing Payments SaaS Payments 116

ChurnZero

JANUARY 4, 2019

“One customer success trend I’m seeing is the need to develop more repeatable customer education programs. In the quest for finding scalable ways to help customers realize more value out of the software they buy, more and more software companies are turning to customer education.

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Customer Success SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions 73

Chart Mogul

JANUARY 8, 2019

She is dedicated to educating companies and founders on the importance of customer retention and the dangers of ignoring churn of all types. . When your product simply isn’t the solution they need, they will drain your support team and pull your resources and attention away from more valuable customers.

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Payment Solutions Payments SaaS Payments Payment Services 68

SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2022

And as a result of this large concentration of spend, these large cloud vendors have created cloud marketplaces that allow you to take that $158 million of committed spend and actually use it to procure startup solutions and other ISV solutions on their respective marketplaces. AWS’s marketplace has seen 1.5

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Scale Marketplace as a Service Cloud SaaS Payments 209

SaaStr

JULY 9, 2019

More than half of Kenya’s GDP is now transacted through a mobile, through arguably the most successful mobile banking and payment system called M-Pesa. Our first MVP was actually an SMS based app where job seekers would send six SMSes in order to register on our platform. For example, in Kenya. It’s not a big deal.”

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Scale Sales Recruiting Scaling SaaS Payments 168

Unbounce

JANUARY 29, 2019

Whether you’re building a personal brand—or just know a bunch of other marketers— you’re somebody’s trusted source. “As the best-in-show landing page software on the market, Unbounce makes it SO easy for me to create residual income by recommending and referring clients and other marketers.” The burning questions.

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ProfitWell

JUNE 26, 2019

The term “dunning” sounds less than inviting (potentially why it's an overlooked process for many subscription businesses). A great dunning process is the best way of finding out why a customer account is not sending you payments. Reasons credit card payments are declined. When you will process the next payment.

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SaaS Payments Payment Services Payments Payment Solutions 40

SmartKarrot

JANUARY 13, 2022

Word-of-mouth marketing is the biggest factor that generates sales and creates brand awareness. Affiliate marketing builds trust among target customers, enhances brand awareness, improves sales, and increases word-of-mouth marketing. This helps boost brand credibility. Select the right SaaS affiliate marketing software.

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SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payments Payment Features 10

ChurnZero

JANUARY 4, 2019

“One customer success trend I’m seeing is the need to develop more repeatable customer education programs. In the quest for finding scalable ways to help customers realize more value out of the software they buy, more and more software companies are turning to customer education.

Customer Success 49

Customer Success SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions 49