Neil Patel

JANUARY 4, 2021

However, lots of opportunities exist for marketing on the channel , so it can be a great place to build a follower base and get the word out about your products and brand. What if you could take passive interaction to the next level and actually buy and sell directly from the platform? That’s possible with Instagram shopping.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

About My First 16 Our new video podcast series My First 16 features interviews with founders and CEOs of fintech companies about how they acquired their initial customers and the hard lessons they learned along the way. So I was a product manager managing the investing side of this marketplace.

Payment Solutions 101

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Neil Patel

DECEMBER 2, 2020

No one wants to invest in tools that aren’t entirely useful to their process. In this in-depth review, I’ll dive into the best recruiting software options on the market, as well as how to pick one that fits your business best without having to deal with the overwhelm. Is testing a big part of your hiring process?

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Payment Solutions Software Review Software Scale 91

FastSpring

APRIL 4, 2024

In this episode of Growth Stage, we interview John, Chief Sales Officer of Demandbase , about his adventures solving exponential growth puzzles within organizations like Canva and others using both PLG and sales-led growth motions. Are you looking for a merchant of record that will partner with you to grow your business internationally?

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Unbounce

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Thousands of businesses are willing to spend unbelievable amounts of money to rank at the top of search engine results pages (SERP) and in the most relevant places for their users around the web. In 2019, small businesses spent between $9,000 and $10,000 per month on PPC , with Google making an average of $116.5 Retargeting.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 4, 2023

This is when startups were for nerds, and Ivy League grads were still going straight into investment banking instead of SaaS sales. I was the eighth hire and the first person focused exclusively on scaling the sales side of the business. New sales tech was finally getting investment. It truly changed my life. I said yes.

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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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FastSpring

DECEMBER 8, 2022

I interviewed him for insights into how to build a global growth strategy, especially when it comes to localization. Highlights from Our Conversation Where Should SaaS Companies Localize [2 min clip] David walked through a step-by-step process to assess where SaaS and software companies should consider localizing.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

More than integrations and features and quarterly reports, back in August, Intercom turned 10. It’s been 10 years since co-founders Eoghan McCabe , Des Traynor , David Barrett , and Ciaran Lee sat in a small Dublin coffee shop and dreamed of making internet business personal, and we’re still every bit as excited. What’s the sequence?

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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. Stripe today has more than 1,400 employees and processes billions of dollars for millions of users worldwide. Payments has been around for thousands of years.

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Outseta

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Before we get into the interview, a bit of background - I have hired Soren’s team at Working Planet multiple times. I say profitable as we are using our client's’ financial data to determine what to pay, or often not pay, in the digital advertising platforms we manage. Geoff: Someone once told me. Soren used to be a rocket scientist.

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Interviewing SaaS Payments Payments Technical Advisors 40

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?

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SaaS Payments Strategy Payment Solutions SaaS 97

Neil Patel

JANUARY 31, 2022

E-commerce marketing can have a variety of goals, from building brand awareness to driving sales, and use a variety of approaches including SEO , paid ads, social media, and affiliate marketing. E-commerce marketing covers every aspect of driving engagement and awareness of your brand. Sign up for their platform and create an account.

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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?

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SaaS Payments Strategy Payment Solutions SaaS 91

SaaStr

MARCH 18, 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. Stripe today has more than 1,400 employees and processes billions of dollars for millions of users worldwide. Payments has been around for thousands of years.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2019

Why is it so crucial to invest in enablement in the early days? What ratio of revenue is healthy for professional services to account for? Below, we’ve shared the full transcript of Harry’s interview with Vikas Bhambri. I do want to break the interview today up into a couple of different parts really. Eyal Manor.

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SaaS Payments Cloud Technical Review Scale 132

FastSpring

DECEMBER 11, 2018

From the first click on a paid-search ad to the final confirmation page after purchase, you need to provide customers with a consistent, branded experience. In order to understand what customers are experiencing, be sure to go through the conversion process yourself. Invest in an all-in-one ecommerce platform to make your life easier.

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Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Between hiring, training, and helping new employees excel, iterating on customer feedback, building brand awareness, et al., How after that payment was processed or that service order was signed, you set your sights on cloning that customer. Hiring manager video interview: this is the deep dive. Here’s what I mean….

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Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Startup 93

SaaStr

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Enter the platform company. Happy post lunch interview. Or if you’ve ever gotten a 2 cent and a 4 cent deposit into your account as you’re trying to set up direct deposit or payments transfers, that’s a pre-Plaid world. So, 90 new people coming on and figuring out how to do that integration.

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Payments SaaS Payments Banking Underperforming Technical Team 146

SaaStr

JUNE 14, 2019

Before that Dave was SVP/GM of Service Cloud @ Salesforce where he led the $500m line of business for customer service applications. Finally pre-Salesforce, Dave was CEO @ MarkLogic where he grew the team from 40 to 240 and revenues from $0 to an $80m revenue run rate. How much of a role does their brand and reputation play?

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Sales Hiring Payment Services SaaS Payments Underperforming Technical Team 142

Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Between hiring, training, and helping new employees excel, iterating on customer feedback, building brand awareness, et al., How after that payment was processed or that service order was signed, you set your sights on cloning that customer. Hiring manager video interview: this is the deep dive. Here’s what I mean….

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Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Startup 52

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

Below, we’ve shared the full transcript of Harry’s interview with Krish Subramanian. In our cases it could be volume up [inaudible 00:15:16] grows with the customer’s business and then you are invested in everything [inaudible] how I like to think about it. Harry Stebbings. Krish Subramanian. Robert Hohman.

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Buffer Resources

JUNE 8, 2023

Welcome back to Creators Unlocked , a series where we interview creators about their best practices. By dividing his work into separate brands, Lloyd has found a way to manage his time and energy and maintain a clear vision and focus for each of his roles. It's a unique method tailored to his multifaceted career and interests.

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SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

What Nobody Tells You About Seed Investing with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin and Cowboy Ventures Founder and Partner Aileen Lee. I think it gives us a perspective that maybe we don’t get in some other places, in addition to many great investments over the years. Aileen Lee | Founder @ Cowboy Ventures. Jason Lemkin | Founder @ SaaStr.

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Investment Technical Review Part-Time VPE Development Team Review 160

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 13, 2021

It includes factual information, personal experience, and interviews from successful professionals on both the buy-side and the sell-side of enterprise OEM software licensing to ensure a broad mix of experience and ideas. The licensor enjoys a new revenue stream. A supply chain management system licenses a BI application.

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Payment Solutions Payments Software Review Enterprise 74

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Behind closed doors, negotiations are dragged on for months while founders and executives figure out ways to eliminate friction and create a synergy that can drive the most value of their shared cultures, processes, and systems. It’s precisely the success of that integration that often dictates the success of the overall acquisition.

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SaaStr

MAY 9, 2019

What ends up happening is, they think these investors are so smart, and they think these investors, because they like and want to invest in their company, their company must be amazing and it’s going to go on to become the next big thing. If your payment system works, you’re not going to rip it out.

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Sales Hiring Scale Payment Solutions Banking 167

User Pilot

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

To build a customer communication strategy, you’ll need to create user personas , build consistent brand messaging , develop channel-specific strategies, and set up omnichannel communication capabilities. Consistent branding. To learn more about the Salesforce integration, get your free Userpilot demo today!

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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

Provide a platform, not a tool, that can be a consolidator and something that can drive costs, but still have all the features necessary to get the business results. Jay Snyder: We talked about needing to have an understanding of a customer’s business, their drivers, and also ensuring adoption or the business case breaks.

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Payment Methods Merchant Services Scale Payments 200

SaaStr

MAY 14, 2023

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. They built themselves into a core platform for HR 2.0 Enterprise is maybe around 60% of our revenue, it’s not the whole deal.

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

About My First 16 Our new video podcast series My First 16 features interviews with founders and CEOs of fintech companies about how they acquired their initial customers and the hard lessons they learned along the way. So, I co-founded another payments company called PropertyBridge, which allowed you to pay rent electronically.

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FastSpring

JANUARY 8, 2019

A type of performance-based marketing in which a business rewards partners (also known as affiliates) for each visitor or customer brought by the affiliate’s marketing efforts. The largest 3rd party ecommerce platform. They also offer Fulfillment by Amazon, where they handle the fulfillment process for your business at extra cost.

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Payment Methods Merchant Services Payment Services Outsourcing Services 65

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

398: Rob Gonzalez is the Co-Founder & CMO @ Salsify, empowering brand manufacturers to deliver the product experiences consumers demand at every point in their buying journey. Below, we’ve shared the transcript of Harry’s interview with Rob. I was working on a startup that was an early mobile payment platform.

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SaaS Payments Scale Payment Services Payment Solutions 260

How To Buy Saas

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Saas businesses generally prefer launching their MVP on saas marketplaces before getting into organic growth. These saas businesses prefer generating leads followed by cold calling or email follow-ups for demo schedules. Setup Pricing model and payment gateways. Find quick platforms to launch your MVP. Start Branding.

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GetUplift

DECEMBER 12, 2021

These ads are aimed directly at the heart of parents, showing them that Lego is an integral part of building, inventing and bringing their kids’ dreams to life. . Emotional marketing isn’t a strategy only elite brands like Lego can use. Ultimately, emotional marketing increases conversions that lead to more business revenue.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

As for Travis, prior to joining Redpoint, Travis was head of Customer Growth at Front, after spending 5 years building the global Sales organization at Optimizely, the world’s most popular experimentation platform. Below, we’ve shared the transcript of Harry’s interview with Travis. Loving our podcast content? Harry Stebbings.

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Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Payments Payment Services Technical Advisors 158

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 29, 2019

Stripe’s Head of North America Revenue & Growth, Jeanne DeWitt, on driving growth through customer expansion. Our Head of Sales Ops, Jeff Serlin, and our Director of Demand Generation, Brian Kotlyar, on how sales and marketing should work together to build a single revenue plan. Jeanne DeWitt talks driving expansion revenue.

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