SaaStr

DECEMBER 11, 2020

And with nearly 70% of global revenue for ISVs currently derived from third-party channel sales , no other approach to distribution ensures the exposure and revenue of the channel. These include product offering, scalable fulfilment, revenue operations, sales and marketing enablement, partner ecosystem and team culture.

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Baremetrics

MARCH 30, 2021

If you are looking for the right billing and invoicing solution for your business, Zuora and Chargebee should be at the top of your list. Do they support the payment platform you desire? Do any of them have what you want in a subscription management service? Do the automation features match your interest?

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

You need to have the right software and/or hardware in place to make sure transactions are simple and secure for both parties. Not only that, as a business owner you need to know that you’re not shelling out cash on inferior services or unnecessary additional fees. Full-service credit card processing companies also take a monthly fee.

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SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2022

What you’ll see in that cloud spend box is actually Gartner’s 2020 estimate for infrastructure as a service spending for companies, which was $50 billion. 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.

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Subscription Flow

MARCH 20, 2024

SimpleCirc stands out as a noteworthy option when looking into subscription management software because of its intuitive user interface and effective subscriber data handling. Smaller companies or niche publications looking for ease of use for handling their subscription operations will find its streamlined approach especially appealing.

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Subscription Flow

JANUARY 3, 2024

Having a flexible pricing strategy allows SaaS providers to cater to different customer segments and needs by offering different pricing models such as subscription, usage-based , freemium, or hybrid. Read more: SaaS Pricing Trends to Boost Sales & Revenue in 2024 Why do you need flexible pricing?

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SaaStr

MAY 25, 2022

How do you make your fledgling business seen and heard in a competitive business marketplace? Investors will invest in your business if: You have a strong brand. Your top-line revenue is growing. These professionals had to earn their spot by selling Expensify subscriptions. even if they say they did. Nothing else matters.

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Scale Marketplace as a Service Advertising Business Model 238

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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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.    Frustrated with the slim returns from YouTube Ad revenue, they switched to a specialized video monetization platform and set up a paid membership model.  Whatever it is, note it. 

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 15, 2020

No AI solution will understand your brand tone better than your marketing team, and you’d be taking a huge leap of faith if you let bots write your code. ADP is a well-known and highly reputable payroll service provider that can organize your payroll information and automate calculations. 2 Bookkeeping. Avoid all of this by automating.

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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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The Marketing & Growth Hacking Publication

FEBRUARY 3, 2019

They expect an end-to-end shopping “experience” and this is where eCommerce subscription has a chance to shine by developing long term relationships with consumers. And subscription eCommerce seems to be the answer. The subscription eCommerce market has grown by a whopping 100% year-over-year for the past five years.

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TrackStreet

APRIL 26, 2024

In a competitive industry for a specific type of product or service, businesses often engage in pricing wars that lead to a steady decrease in the value of goods. Pricing erosion refers to the steady and ongoing drop in the prices of products or services within a particular market or industry. What usually causes it?

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Pricing Marketplace as a Service Technical Review Innovation 52

FastSpring

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

When using captive pricing for SaaS products, the core product usually offers enough functionality with a free or basic subscription to demonstrate the platform’s value but will require specific upgrades for expanded functionality. How Captive Product Pricing Works in SaaS. Three Saas Captive Product Examples. The platform is priced at a $29.99

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FastSpring

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

When using captive pricing for SaaS products, the core product usually offers enough functionality with a free or basic subscription to demonstrate the platform’s value but will require specific upgrades for expanded functionality. How Captive Product Pricing Works in SaaS. Three Saas Captive Product Examples. The platform is priced at a $29.99

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OPEXEngine

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Small and Mid-Market (SMM) SaaS Companies serve customers with annual revenues of $1 million to $1 billion and with a typical employee base of 100 to 1,000. SMB customers will want high-touch sales engagement and service delivery but SMM SaaS companies will likely not have the budget necessary to justify providing this level of sales support.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Last but not least, if your sales tax noncompliance gets too out of hand, dealing with multiple states’ sales tax laws means that 46 state departments of revenue can potentially come after you for back taxes. Say you sell a subscription-based software but you also send your customers a handy flash drive with a version of your software on it.

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Merchant Services Scale Technical Review Sales Hiring 169

OPEXEngine

MAY 18, 2021

SaaS metrics are viewed differently at different stages of growth and for different sales models, primarily whether a company is selling into an SMB or enterprise marketplace. SaaS Metric #1 – Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR). Revenue from irregular overages should be bucketed together, separately from contracted ARR.

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SaaS Payments Metrics Payments Payment Services 98

Stax

JANUARY 22, 2024

Digital payments only take a few seconds, but they flow through many different layers of partners and technology. Consider the following: Merchants are the sellers, businesses, or service providers seeking payment for their offerings. What is a Payment Gateway?

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Payment Services SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payment Facilitation 88

Baremetrics

APRIL 26, 2021

1 Quick look Stripe: A Third-Party Payment Processor Adyen: A Dedicated Merchant Account Provider 2 Features Stripe Features Adyen Features 3 Pricing Adyen Fees Stripe Fees 4 Which Solution is Right for Your Business? Features Comparing the features of these services side-by-side is important in making your decision. Why Baremetrics?

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Subscription Transaction Volume Surpassed One-Time Purchase Volume. The subscription economy is clearly here to stay. This is why we’re committed to continually develop new and innovative tools that help software companies successfully transition to a subscription-based business model. We Evolved Our Brand.

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Technical Review Software Review Marketplace as a Service Innovation 70

Neil Patel

APRIL 16, 2021

They’re commercials between 10 and 30 seconds long, and you can use them for any marketing campaign, from promoting brand awareness to hyping up a new product. You don’t need to sell products on Amazon to use this service, either, which makes it accessible for more businesses. Finally, think about your brand. Let’s take a look.

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FastSpring

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Essentially, an Ecommerce Manager oversees all online activities and maintains the company’s brand on all digital properties. When building out a plan, the Ecommerce Manager should keep company goals like revenue, conversion rate, etc. And the best investment you can make is partnering with a full-service ecommerce platform.

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Unbounce

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

billion in revenue from Google Ads alone the year before. Display ads rely on graphic formats to catch user attention, build brand awareness, and guide users to your site. FYI: Search ads can increase brand awareness by as much as 80%. Is it brand awareness? So, yeah—businesses bid high numbers to play. Retargeting.

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Payment Methods Payment Solutions Payments AI Search 145

SaaSOptics

MAY 19, 2022

Not only is it one of the main drivers of revenue growth for early-stage companies, but it’s a primary goal for SaaS businesses across market stages. More customers = more revenue. Again, corresponding variables such as customer acquisition cost ( CAC ) and customer revenue all tie back to your acquisition strategy.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 18, 2019

They didn’t know it at the time, but they had also created an entire business category: an on demand, short-term rental marketplace, which has shot the value of their business north of $38 billion. So too has Gainsight’s revenue. This is episode six of Scale , a brand new podcast series on moving from startup to scale up.

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ProfitWell

APRIL 1, 2020

White-labeling services for SaaS products have become very popular over the past decade. When done correctly, an entire brand can be built around a SaaS white-label product, but you’ll need to price it correctly in order to maximize revenue. What are white-label SaaS products? SEO and SEM management software.

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Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payments Payment Services 59

Baremetrics

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The profit and loss statement details the revenue, expenses, and any profit or loss (hence the name) during a specified period of time, usually monthly, quarterly, or annually. Revenue At the top of the profit and loss statement you can find the revenue section. Revenue includes all of the operating income of the company.

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Payments Payment Methods Payment Services Payment Solutions 98

Stax

JANUARY 17, 2024

As such, an ACH payment facilitator is simply a PayFac that allows users to accept payments through an electronic bank-to-bank network. PayFacs typically partner with a payment processor or a bank to provide merchant services. This is pretty much similar to the service that PayPal offers.

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Payment Services SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payment Facilitation 88

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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Neil Patel

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Blogs allow customers to build trust and relationships with brands. Getting involved in other forums is a great way to spread the word about your brand (and sprinkle backlinks around the web). The more you comment, the more brand awareness you generate. Seventy percent of customers prefer articles to ads according to research.

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Social Media Strategy Marketing Business 145

ProfitWell

APRIL 12, 2019

Abby here with the subscription news you need and none of the noise you don’t. It's an accessible program: anyone with a link to a Calendly calendar can view it, and with the brand name right in the URL, the recognition is there. GoDaddy Does More with Sellbrite and Marketplaces. Hey subscribers, it’s National Licorice Day.

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Marketplace as a Service Merchant Services Subscription Payment Features 45

Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 27, 2020

In part two of our Sequencing Business Models series , we talked about the different types of marketplaces and what needs to be built to be effective in each of them. This builds on the first essay in the series of how there has been an increase in interest of SAAS-like models interested in becoming marketplaces over time.

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Payments Business Model Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 56

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Whereas Facebook’s overall vision relies heavily on third-party developers having access to user data, Workplace wants to be the app that’s connected to all your other apps and a highly curated marketplace that has the best SaaS applications in the world. I highly recommend Predictable Revenue from Aaron Ross.

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Scale Marketplace as a Service Mobile Sales Hiring 151

SaaStr

JULY 9, 2019

The challenge, however, is that because of the limited disposable income that both consumers and businesses have, you can’t charge a lot of money for services there. ” At this point we were offering the service for free. They are interested in trying new brands, experimenting with new things.

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Scale Sales Recruiting Scaling SaaS Payments 157

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

An established marketplace is a sign that you’ll have the integrations you need in the future. What makes HubSpot Sales Enterprise stand out is that it was built from the ground up with natively integrated features to support the sales, marketing, and service operations of a large company. 10 best enterprise CRM solutions for 2021.

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Payment Solutions Enterprise Scale Payments 86

Chart Mogul

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Designing and defining the pricing for your SaaS product may be one of the most difficult aspects of building a subscription business. ” is a tough question to answer, but that doesn’t cover even half of it… there are many similar questions on the road to defining subscription pricing, including: Should my pricing scale?

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