Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

As Head of Sales for Spendesk, Nico was initially inspired by the vision of founder Rodolphe Ardant who had spotted a gap for ‘spend management’ in the B2B market based on personal banking trends. So they created a software that provides control, visibility, and payment methods for corporate finance teams.

Scale 162

Scale Payment Methods Payment Solutions Marketing 162

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

Does it have to be in person? How should this data feedback into your product roadmap and pipeline? * So if we start on the first type of SaaS businesses that sell to SMBs and often one to five person teams, and they likely will always sell to those types of teams. Yes, it does not scale, but the beauty is the product.

Scale 128

Scale SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting Payment Services 128

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 8, 2018

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. From what was once an interface solely designed for conversation, the Messenger becomes a front desk for your website or app— surfacing a collection of apps that drive outcomes.

Payment Solutions 176

Payment Solutions Payment Methods Payments SaaS Payments 176

OPEXEngine

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The most common strategies are Direct Sales, Inside Sales, eCommerce Marketplaces, and Partnerships. Direct Sales is a valuable GTM strategy if the company can deploy an enterprise-grade product and sell it at a premium. eCommerce Marketplaces. eCommerce Marketplaces. Direct Sales.

SaaS Payments 52

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Methods Marketplace as a Service 52

SaaStr

JULY 9, 2019

I’m probably the most hated person in the room right now, but please indulge me. 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. They didn’t have any cell phone credit. I’ll go easy on you.

Scale 162

Scale Sales Recruiting Scaling SaaS Payments 162

Chart Mogul

MARCH 9, 2020

An early entrant to the SaaS field, the company has pioneered a number of fields that are now commonplace in the industry — content marketing, the transparent startups movement, and remote work. Buffer’s mission is to empower their customers to build their brand and engage their audience on social media. Click To Tweet. Click To Tweet.

Payment Solutions 113

Payment Solutions Payment Features Payments Social Media 113

Baremetrics

JANUARY 24, 2021

Anyone managing a SaaS or subscription business is aware of customer churn. Our smallest self-serve plan was basically a revolving door, and users couldn’t upgrade or downgrade their plan without calling a sales person. This would also mean shifting our growth strategy from a sales-led to a product-led approach.

Churn 71

Churn SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payment Solutions 71

User Pilot

JULY 18, 2023

TL;DR Customer churn is the rate at which users discontinue their subscription or stop using a particular product or service. Here are other metrics subscription-based companies should track alongside churn: Customer retention rate. Monthly recurring revenue. Weak customer relationships. Price increases. Customer loyalty.

Churn 98

Churn Payments SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 98

Chart Mogul

MARCH 9, 2020

An early entrant to the SaaS field, the company has pioneered a number of fields that are now commonplace in the industry — content marketing, the transparent startups movement, and remote work. Buffer’s mission is to empower their customers to build their brand and engage their audience on social media. Tweet this quote.

Payment Solutions 52

Payment Solutions Payment Features Payments Outsourcing Services 52

Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Platforms can create an immense amount of long-term value for companies, or be a minor component of their product strategy to maintain product/market fit. In an integration platform, the product integrates with other types of software the product’s customers already use. The Types of Platforms. Supply Value Prop.

Payments 56

Payments Business Model Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 56

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 16, 2019

The classic example sees a company move from niche startup to mainstream scale-up, but it can also see companies hone their product-market fit by focusing on a more specialized, and yet more lucrative, user base. Can one person buy via a credit card or will multiple stakeholders need to be involved? Goal of website.

Business Model 195

Business Model Scale Pricing Payment Methods 195

SmartKarrot

APRIL 28, 2021

Continually engage internally and cross-functionally to learn about new business applications, positioning the REEF brand and upselling new opportunities to clients. Troubleshoot issues (may be related to payments, relationship, field operations). Working with customers through the subscription renewal process.

Customer Success 10

Customer Success Underperforming Technical Team Payment Services Payment Methods 10

User Pilot

AUGUST 14, 2023

Activation: Users realize the value of your product ( Aha! Retention: Users keep making repeat purchases after their initial subscription payment. Referral: Loyal users become brand advocates. Revenue: Users invest more in your product (expansion revenue) by upgrading and purchasing add-ons. A/B testing.

Growth Marketing 98

Growth Marketing SaaS Payments Strategy Payment Methods 98

SmartKarrot

JULY 13, 2020

Since they live or die off this scheme, you might want to take a notch up if you wish to see a boom in the SaaS market. In a subscription-based business, it is expected to regularize a recurring revenue to a monthly figure. By using the method of ARPA, you MRR = 10 x $50 = $500. Opt for Prepaid Payment methods.

Payments 10

Payments Payment Methods Revenue SaaS Payments 10

User Pilot

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

What GTM metrics should you track as a product marketer? On your way to building a go-to-market strategy to launch a new product, you might wonder the former question a lot. GTM metrics are pieces of data or indicators that help product marketers like you keep track of the success of their strategy.

SaaS Payments 105

SaaS Payments Metrics Customer Lifetime Value Marketing 105

SaaStr

AUGUST 5, 2020

From the founder’s point of view, in the upmarket, a lot of founders will survive because the market is great. And it is extremely especially important in a market where certain aspects become more important because we’re, in a downturn. Timelines’ longer for fundraising for closing customers and payments get delayed.

Technical Review 144

Technical Review Payment Methods Travel Development Team Review 144

Incredo

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

The self-service sales model is thus all about low-priced products accompanied by a fully automated customer journey. Most commonly, startups that employ it sell their products completely via ecommerce, so that they can remain focused on quality of the product and design. Focus: Product and Customer Journey.

SaaS Payments 157

SaaS Payments Payment Methods Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring 157

User Pilot

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Which specific aspects of your website or app frustrate them? What activities or patterns do customers exhibit just before they leave your website or app? Pendo is a product adoption platform that lets teams monitor product usage, analyze user behavior, and publish in-app guides.

Payment Solutions 52

Payment Solutions Payments Payment Methods Payment Services 52

User Pilot

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Basically, every user interaction is an event, and this can be everything that the user does in the app or on the website, for example, clicking on a button, completing a form, viewing a page, closing a pop-up window, etc. Userpilot is a product growth platform that drives user activation , feature adoption, and expansion revenue.

Payments 52

Payments Payment Solutions Payment Methods Payment Services 52

ProfitWell

DECEMBER 4, 2019

SaaS, or software as a service, is a delivery model in which a centrally hosted software is licensed to customers via a subscription plan. A SaaS company maintains responsibility for the servers, database (and the data they contain), and other software that allow their product to be accessed and used. Recurring payments.

Business Model 54

Business Model SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payments 54

User Pilot

MARCH 14, 2024

You want to trigger in-app experiences based on analytics – Heap doesn’t offer built-in tools to personalize the user experience based on product analytics and insights. A product adoption platform like Userpilot can help you bypass the process of finding the right engagement tools.

Technical Review 52

Technical Review Software Review Systems Review Pricing 52

User Pilot

MARCH 9, 2023

The key causes of customer churn are poor customer support , buggy product, wrong product-market fit, bad user experience, poor onboarding process, high pricing, and long time-to-value. Use welcome screens to segment customers and understand their jobs-t0-be-done to personalize their onboarding.

Underperforming Technical Team 98

Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services 98

User Pilot

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Pendo is a product adoption platform that lets teams monitor product usage, analyze user behavior, and publish in-app guides. Baremetrics is a subscription analytics and insights management platform that helps businesses get hundreds of valuable metrics and insights, achieving real-time growth. Pricing plans of Heap.

Engagement 52

Engagement Payments SaaS Payments Payment Services 52

User Pilot

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Pendo is a product adoption platform that lets teams monitor product usage, analyze user behavior, and publish in-app guides. Baremetrics is a subscription analytics and insights management platform that helps businesses get hundreds of valuable metrics and insights, achieving real-time growth. Pricing plans of Heap.

Payments 52

Payments SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services 52

User Pilot

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Pendo is a product adoption platform that lets teams monitor product usage, analyze user behavior, and publish in-app guides. Baremetrics is a subscription analytics and insights management platform that helps businesses get hundreds of valuable metrics and insights, achieving real-time growth. Pricing plans of Heap.

Payments 52

Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services Payment Methods 52

User Pilot

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Pendo is a product adoption platform that lets teams monitor product usage, analyze user behavior, and publish in-app guides. Baremetrics is a subscription analytics and insights management platform that helps businesses get hundreds of valuable metrics and insights, achieving real-time growth. Pricing plans of Heap.

SaaS Payments 52

SaaS Payments Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions 52

User Pilot

MAY 8, 2024

It gives the product a competitive advantage, improves brand reputation, and propels revenue growth. Personalize experiences for different customer segments. As a SaaS product, marketing , or customer success manager, you have quite a few options for identifying user needs. How to identify customer needs?

SaaS Payments 105

SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services Payments 105

SaaStr

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Christian Lanng : So we started with something very, very narrow, which was invoicing. But invoicing happens to be connected to something really, really important, which is payments. So if you get the invoice, you get the payment and that’s a lot more interesting. You pay a subscription. ” No.

Payments 102

Payments Payment Features SaaS Payments Underperforming Technical Team 102

User Pilot

JULY 24, 2023

What is SaaS marketing? We’re all familiar with the basics of SaaS product marketing such as attracting users to a SaaS product with a subscription business model. That said, there are key differences between a SaaS marketing strategy and standard digital marketing. Gamifying onboarding.

SaaS Payments 94

SaaS Payments Marketing Payment Solutions SaaS 94

User Pilot

MAY 12, 2024

With Userpilot, you’ll be able to track both product usage and user behavior to get a holistic view of how customers use your product — which will guide future development, improve the user experience, and inform your growth efforts. Appcues is a robust product adoption and user onboarding platform for web and mobile apps.

SaaS Payments 52

SaaS Payments Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services 52

User Pilot

AUGUST 15, 2023

With several product launches occurring every day, you need something special to ensure your announcement doesn’t get lost in the noise. In this article, we detail what a product launch marketing plan is, why you need one, and how to create a successful product marketing from the start. Let’s begin!

ChatGPT 98

ChatGPT SaaS Payments Marketing Social Media 98

FastSpring

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

That’s the philosophy behind SEM International , the firm he founded that specializes in multilingual internationally-based digital marketing services. Since Michael founded the firm in 2004, it has grown to over 30 offices worldwide, and they’ve worked with Intel, AWS, and Salesforce, among many other well-known brands.

Payment Solutions 147

Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Strategy Software 147

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 29, 2020

And I ended up as the SVP of Small Business at Intuit, where I was responsible for all of Intuit’s products and services for small businesses, like QuickBooks Accounting, payroll, and payments. Along the way, I guess I should say, on the personal side, I met my husband in business school.

Payment Solutions 209

Payment Solutions Payment Methods Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring 209

OpenView Labs

JULY 2, 2020

The 2020 SaaS Product Benchmarks Report. In this brand-new report, we finally answer the question “Freemium or free trial?” ” The data also shows that before COVID-19 impacted the market, the product led growth index and SaaS index were trading at similar rates. B2B and B2C SaaS and Subscription Report.

Pricing 135

Pricing SaaS Payments Payments SaaS 135

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

285: Hear about Adyen’s journey from a Dutch payments startup to a global public company with more than 15 offices around the world working with large global companies like Facebook, Spotify, Uber, and Microsoft. Which was that pioneering inside sales motion driving a lot through online and through WebEx at the time.

Underperforming Technical Team 158

Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Payments Payment Services Technical Advisors 158

FastSpring

APRIL 30, 2024

If you’re selling your software, plugin, add-on, or other digital product for a one-time fee, you’re likely thinking about switching to a recurring subscription model. While the financial reasons are strong to switch to subscriptions, your path to roll out this massive change to your business is filled with peril.

Subscription 158

Subscription Payment Features Payments Payment Solutions 158

ProfitWell

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

With such a solid standing in a really competitive market, Spotify must start thinking further into the future about their brand. They do such a great job of nailing the customer experience already that any tradeoffs can only add value to the product. This will require changing how they think about commoditizing their product.

Payments 63

Payments Payment Methods Payment Services Pricing 63