Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

You can create the framework for a great online store with relatively little investment. The issue is, you’ve still got to invest in and warehouse stock — unless you use dropshipping. Easy to scale : You don’t have to worry about stock. No matter how many orders you have coming in, you’re always able to fulfill them.

Payment Methods 141

Payment Methods Payment Features Payments Scale 141

SaaStr

MAY 25, 2022

He also shares some eye-opening insights on how Expensify scaled over the years. Investors will invest in your business if: You have a strong brand. Expensify scaled by breaking through the clutter. These professionals had to earn their spot by selling Expensify subscriptions. even if they say they did.

Scale 235

Scale Marketplace as a Service Advertising Business Model 235

Valuize Consulting

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

To scale and grow efficiently and effectively, enterprise organizations need to divide their customers into distinctive groups, based on a number of key considerations. While investment in all customers is crucial, that investment should be commensurate with the strategic nature and investment that customer is making in you.

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Scale Scaling Outsourced Development Investment 52

Valuize Consulting

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

To scale and grow efficiently and effectively, enterprise organizations need to divide their customers into distinctive groups, based on a number of key considerations. While investment in all customers is crucial, that investment should be commensurate with the strategic nature and investment that customer is making in you.

Scale 52

Scale Scaling Outsourced Development Investment 52

ProfitWell

MAY 2, 2019

But for now, a fix of subscription to bring it on home. A Brand New Instapage Refresh. Looks like Instapage is also in the refresh stage with a brand new site. You can make your own bot, no coding required, to connect with consumers and build your brand. This round of investment was led by Bessemer Venture Partners.

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Subscription Payment Features Scale Advertising 81

Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Fast forward to today when most software companies use a Subscription as a service (SaaS business model , and things aren’t as simple. You have to deal with recurring payments, multiple pricing plans, annual vs monthly payments, add-ons, variable payments and the list goes on. SaaS analytics tools fill that gap.

Payment Solutions 105

Payment Solutions Merchant Services Systems Review SaaS Payments 105

User Pilot

MAY 20, 2024

Customer advocates drive customer acquisition via WOM , bolster brand reputation and visibility, and can offer valuable insights to improve the product. Examples of customer advocacy programs include brand ambassador or affiliate programs. First, they help you increase your brand visibility and acquire new customers.

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Scale Strategy Social Media SaaS 85

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Today, numerous studies echo this sentiment: a recent report from Forrester found that brands with a superior customer experience bring in 5.7 And a recent study from Deloitte found that two-thirds of customers will switch brands entirely due to a poor customer experience. times more revenue than their competitors.

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Leadership AI Scaling Engineering 218

Blulogix

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

This blog post delves into advanced strategies that can help subscription services foster deeper connections with their customers, thereby improving retention rates and fostering brand loyalty. Retention, on the other hand, focuses on maintaining these subscribers over time, turning them into loyal advocates for your brand.

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Retention Engagement Strategy AI Search 52

SaaStr

MARCH 26, 2019

Scaling the company’s employee base, sales teams, marketing, and operations—all while preserving its culture—has required a laser focus on first principles, smart processes, and effective hiring. In this talk, Claire will share these and other lessons for scaling high-growth organizations. Manual processes first. Names stick.

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Scale Payment Services Payment Methods Scaling 148

SaaStock

JANUARY 25, 2019

Its focus is on helping companies handle financial routine and streamlining processes related to accounting, banks, stock, and electronic invoicing, among others. from Astella Investimentos, Spectra Investments and others. Vindi is a PCI-certified online payment platform for recurring billing. Founded : 2011.

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SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Methods Payments 257

Neil Patel

MARCH 1, 2021

The productized services model allows agency owners, freelancers, and consultants to break out of billing by the hour or per project and instead invoice by sets of services rendered. For even more predictability, you can sell subscriptions to your services. One solution to this problem may be productized services.

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Scale Payment Features Consulting Pricing 141

SaaStr

JUNE 5, 2020

I argue that standard saas metrics make it possible for founders to scale using debt capital (production capital thats cheaper) instead of solely relying on venture capital (financial capital thats more expensive). . It’s hard to imagine a world where analysis didn’t understand recurring, subscription based revenue for technology products.

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Venture Capital Technical Review SaaS Scale 213

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 4, 2020

He brings extensive financial and leadership experience that will help Intercom continue to scale and deliver on our mission to make internet business personal. Large global brands like Amazon, Facebook, and Lyft are adopting Intercom to deliver conversational experiences to their customers at every stage of the customer journey.

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User Pilot

MAY 2, 2024

An omnichannel engagement strategy ensures consistency across all customer touchpoints for a seamless brand experience. SaaS companies rely on recurring subscription revenue from customers rather than one-time sales. ” on a scale of “Very Easy” to “Very Hard.” 4 or 5 on a 5-point scale).

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Retention Metrics Strategy Scale 111

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 11, 2021

To help take some of the pressure off, companies focus on technology investments to help their sales teams increase win rates and accelerate revenue while automating a lot of the tedious, manual processes that prove to be a bottleneck in the sales cycle. But simply investing in technology isn’t enough. Billing and invoice generation.

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Payments Payment Services Revenue Payment Solutions 87

ChurnZero

JANUARY 20, 2022

As a Customer Success leader, you know you should invest more time and resources into planning and executing the long-term initiatives your team needs to scale. Using HelloCCO’s Post-Sale SCALING Framework, Rod breaks down how you can anticipate future needs, evaluate opportunities, and prioritize your strategic initiatives.

Scale 52

Scale Sales Hiring Scaling Sales 52

SaaStr

APRIL 28, 2019

As part of our new 5 Interesting Learnings series, here are a few: Freemium continues to scale for Slack, but now more as a lead gen tool. ” The Slack Fund is tiny. “As of January 31, 2019, Slack Fund has invested $10.1 ” The Slack Fund is tiny. “As of January 31, 2019, Slack Fund has invested $10.1

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Scale Venture Capital SMB Enterprise 276

User Pilot

MAY 20, 2024

Foster an online brand community to increase loyalty and create competitive advantages. SaaS companies depend on ongoing customer engagement and subscription renewals. It provides a stable revenue stream essential for sustaining and scaling the business. Recognize and celebrate customer milestones to reinforce desired behaviors.

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Retention Strategy Sales Recruiting Scale 103

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 31, 2019

The scale is extraordinary. What was perhaps less predictable was the ensuing prevalence of the subscription-based business model. Perhaps nowhere is the impact of the subscription model quite as dramatic as in popular culture. There are about 3.2 To give some perspective, there were about 300 million smartphones sold in 2010.

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Payment Solutions Payment Methods Software SaaS Payments 259

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

Hear about the early days of Glassdoor; tactical lessons on scaling—from building a business model and recruiting an all-star management team to advice on building a compelling, innovative company culture; and learn whyGlassdoor’s $1.2 Yes, it does not scale, but the beauty is the product. Krish Subramanian: I wouldn’t say that.

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Scale SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting Payment Services 124

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. Here’s what Claire talks about: How to avoid trapdoor decisions when scaling. Lessons for scaling high-growth organizations. Missed the session?

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Scale Payment Services Payment Methods Sales Hiring 114

Neil Patel

JANUARY 11, 2023

Surveys show investments into first-party data strategy, partners, and matching technologies rose by 26% in 2022. There’s a good reason for all this investment. 55% of shoppers consider having their preferred payment method essential while shopping, or they will not shop at the store. How can PayPal scale with my business?

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PayPal Payment Solutions Payment Methods Merchant Services 80

Neil Patel

JANUARY 1, 2023

As I detailed above, your enterprise SEO strategy needs to be different from regular SEO because the techniques you use for small-scale SEO won’t always work for websites with hundreds of pages. This is due to the scale of such projects, technical SEO and related tech issues, and content volume. That doesn’t make it impossible, though.

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Enterprise Strategy Technical Review Scale 93

Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 16, 2020

The rise of the subscription model challenges businesses to place equal emphasis on conversion and retention , or risk spending themselves into oblivion. As consumers we know this all too well – our relationships with brands are built through our many interactions, oftentimes mundane, with frontline employees.

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Scale Social Media Customer Support Scaling 237

OPEXEngine

MAY 18, 2021

Growth Stage – Scaling the Business, and . 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

Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Building on the definitions from that essay and introducing a few new ones, here are the types of business models we’ll cover: SaaS: software that businesses access online and purchase via a subscription e.g. Slack, Adobe, Atlassian. Moving further to the right, a light marketplace will invest in basic search and contact flows.

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Marketplace as a Service Business Model SaaS Payments Payments 141

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 142

SaaStock

JANUARY 23, 2019

Established global SaaS companies have the success stories to prove just how much SaaS has helped companies of all kinds improve their bottom lines by adopting cloud-based subscription. funding and investment. employee branding. Bridging that gap is where we believe we can help. go-to-market strategies. internationalization.

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Scale Subscription Payment Features SaaS 229

Totango

AUGUST 25, 2022

It increases customer satisfaction and loyalty, driving higher subscription renewal rates, reduced churn, and more sales from upsells and referrals. Customer engagement can occur at any point in your customer journey where clients interact with your brand – before or after purchase. Which features have they used?

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Engagement Strategy SaaS Scale 98

Totango

APRIL 5, 2022

Net Promoter Score is a customer satisfaction KPI that measures how likely a client is to recommend your brand to friends or colleagues. Branding your survey. Accurately predict customer retention , brand growth and revenue. These benefits and others help make NPS software a worthwhile investment.

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Software Branding Customer Success Retention 103

Totango

MAY 10, 2022

A comprehensive customer engagement strategy promotes client interaction with your product at every stage in the customer lifecycle, from the freemium and onboarding stages through adoption and renewal to expansion and brand advocacy. Renewal of subscriptions. How to Automate Engagement by Investing in Customer Success Software.

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Engagement Technical Review Software Review Enterprise 77

Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

So I was a product manager managing the investing side of this marketplace. And on the investing side, we had to create a website that allowed people to open an account, fund it, and then basically select a number of properties to invest in and basically build a portfolio of that. And so that was what you’re investing in.

Payment Solutions 102

Payment Solutions Payment Methods Payment Services Payments 102

User Pilot

JANUARY 9, 2023

Assuming both new and existing customers spend the same on your subscription service, you get a higher return on investment with retention than acquisition. Customers are more likely to stay loyal to a brand where they feel their voice matters. How to personalize experiences to drive retention. What are their friction points?

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Customer Lifetime Value Retention Marketing Scale 98

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Spendesk thinks about building its company in three stages: startup, growth, and scale. Now operating between growth and scale, they utilize sales reps, customer managers and account executives in a dizzying structure that’s constantly changing. Nico: We think of building the company in three stages: to start, to grow, and to scale.

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Scale Payment Methods Payment Solutions Marketing 162

Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 11, 2021

From his background in software development and project management, Farhan learned how a data-driven approach is key when it comes to scaling your business – but for this to be effective, you need to keep your customer at the heart of everything you do. Dee Reddy: Farhan, you are so very welcome along to Scale by Intercom today.

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B2C B2B Scale Strategy 118

User Pilot

JULY 18, 2022

Customer loyalty measures the likelihood that a customer will do repeat business with you because they love your brand. Customers could renew their subscription simply because they haven’t found a better alternative. Customers could renew their subscription simply because they haven’t found a better alternative.

Retention 98

Retention SaaS Customer Lifetime Value Education 98