FastSpring

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Q4 sales numbers usually outperform the rest of the year thanks to year-end holidays and their associated shopping cycles — but how much does that trend carry over into software and SaaS sales? We’ve analyzed aggregate sales data to give you insights into just how important Q4 can be for your software, SaaS, or other digital goods business.

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SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Software Review Merchant Services 144

FastSpring

MARCH 15, 2024

Todd Harris knows how to leverage effective video game marketing strategies to get games in front of players. Podcast Full Interview : Audio Listen online or find it on more podcast services. How to use live events and live-streaming to attract huge audiences of new players.

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Payment Methods Marketplace as a Service Payment Solutions Payments 186

FastSpring

MARCH 3, 2023

When you’re using a DIY payment solution like Stripe, making it work for your business falls on your developers. From testing out plugins to setting up new payment methods, maintaining Stripe can be very time-consuming. I interviewed him live on LinkedIn about four signs that SaaS companies have outgrown Stripe.

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Merchant Services Payment Services Outsourcing Services SaaS Payments 138

User Pilot

APRIL 21, 2024

Wondering how to build a conversion path for your SaaS product or e-commerce site? We also share examples of different conversion paths and optimization strategies. TL;DR A conversion path is a step-by-step process that guides prospects. A good conversion path makes the process frictionless. Attest website.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Toast is the latest SaaS leader to get much more efficient in the past 12-18 months, along with monday.com, HubSpot, MongoDB, and many others. It’s not only rare(r) to see such explosive growth by a SaaS company, but to also watch Jonathan’s exciting career growth at the more senior levels within a hyper-growth company.

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Subscription Flow

APRIL 23, 2024

Understanding Paddle in 2024 Catering to more than 3000 SaaS clients in over 200 markets, Paddle is a market-leading billing and revenue management software. What Retain does is that it retries payments at optimal times for success and dispatches proven notifications to aid in revenue recovery.

Payment Solutions 93

Payment Solutions Payments Payment Services SaaS Payments 93

User Pilot

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Analyzing user behavior can help you understand how users perceive your product and brand. The former tracks trends for software users , while a consumer behavior trend mainly refers to online shopping, such as buy-now-pay-later payment methods. Personalized experiences are becoming standard in the SaaS world.

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User Pilot

APRIL 29, 2024

Mastering SaaS renewals’ best practices can transform a routine administrative task into a strategic opportunity to drive customer success and propel your business toward sustainable growth. TL;DR The SaaS renewal process involves a series of actions on/before the renewal date that lead to a customer’s renewal.

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User Pilot

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Looking to perform a CRO audit for your website and app? Based on the insights you generate, you can create better experiences for website visitors and users, driving more engagement, conversion, and retention. A detailed audit reveals the state of your platforms, showing your weak points and conversion drivers.

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FastSpring

MAY 13, 2021

Conversion doesn’t just happen, you need to optimize your website for it. An ecommerce business without conversion rate optimization is like a car without wheels — it won’t take you anywhere. Do you have a solid process in place to reduce abandoned carts? Ecommerce Optimization Basics. Simplified checkout process.

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Payment Methods Payment Services SaaS Payments Payments 78

FastSpring

MAY 13, 2021

Conversion doesn’t just happen, you need to optimize your website for it. An ecommerce business without conversion rate optimization is like a car without wheels — it won’t take you anywhere. Do you have a solid process in place to reduce abandoned carts? Ecommerce Optimization Basics. Simplified checkout process.

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Payment Methods Payment Services SaaS Payments Payments 78

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Wherever you are in your revenue journey, adopting certain growth strategies can help you keep growing fast. An ICP aligns your product, sales, marketing, service, and executive teams to all focus on your highest-value accounts. Spotlighting the success of an ICP-focused strategy . Brex then scaled its payments business quickly.

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User Pilot

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

This article will walk you through 15 practical strategies to improve customer retention , boost loyalty, and ensure customer satisfaction. Personalize the experiences of your new customers to accelerate their time to value. Provide great customer service to improve customer experience and make your products stand out.

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FastSpring

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

In this guide, we compare six Recurly competitors and alternatives according to several categories: Subscription management and recurring billing Checkout Global payment processing Reporting and analytics Pricing Customer reviews We’ll start with a deep dive into FastSpring — our end-to-end payment solution (i.e.,

Payment Services 78

Payment Services Payments Payment Methods Merchant Services 78

User Pilot

JUNE 20, 2023

Cultivating user trust is critical to the success of any long-term product strategy. It is also one of the central goals of the user experience design process. It also explores 15 strategies that help UX designers build trust in potential users. More importantly, loyal customers are eager to speak about your brand to others.

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Payment Methods SaaS Payments Strategy Payment Services 98

FastSpring

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Who makes sure all your online transactions run smoothly? Who creates an online marketing strategy that’s consistent with company goals and objectives? And who manages the ecommerce team that creates a seamless online customer experience? Yep, the Ecommerce Manager gets to do it all. Know the Customer.

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User Pilot

APRIL 29, 2024

TL;DR Segmentation is a process of grouping customers by shared characteristics. Customer segmentation enables teams to better understand customer needs and pain points and deliver personalized product experiences t o accommodate them. Segmentation is a strategy used in marketing, product development, and customer support.

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Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payments 76

Baremetrics

AUGUST 30, 2021

The phone rings. If you chose not to answer the phone, you’d be in the majority. People love talking to you on the phone – just not necessarily when you’re selling something. Unfortunately, this also means that our guard is up even when it comes to being sold a product or service that can actually help us. Do you pick up?

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Payment Methods SaaS Payments Strategy Marketing 98

Incredo

JULY 14, 2019

Whether you are a startup owner, a manager of a growing business or the CEO of an established company, you might find yourself asking questions like “ Should our SaaS subscription model be monthly, annually or both ?” History of the subscription pricing model: From newspapers to the rise of SaaS subscription. Boring, right?).

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Payment Features SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payment Solutions 184

FastSpring

DECEMBER 7, 2023

As the Director of Corporate Development & Strategic Partnerships at WP Engine , Carl has worked on many acquisitions and partnerships, including brands like Flywheel, Perfect Dashboard, Block Lab, and recently, Delicious Brains. “This is everyday for me, so I love talking about it,” says Carl Hargreaves about mergers and acquisitions.

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FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

In our first post about our online community , we mentioned launching the Global SaaS Leaders Slack group because we saw a need for the kind of software-and-SaaS-focused community we’d want to be a part of. are what we like to have in an online forum. As a business person yourself, you know how it works.

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SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Merchant Services Software Review 133

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 Casey’s last essay, he covered the differences between regular SaaS companies and SaaS-like Networks. This essay is a collaboration with Gilad Horev.

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Marketplace as a Service Business Model SaaS Payments Payments 141

Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Most SaaS businesses adopt a subscription-based model supported by a recurring payment system. Setting up a recurring payment system can be complicated and requires the right tools to measure, manage, and review payments regularly. Cons for Businesses Using Recurring Billing Does SaaS Have to Be Recurring?

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Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Features Payments 89

User Pilot

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Therefore, they are vital for effective product strategies and ensure resource allocation aligns with customer needs. Customer service data to spot common problems in your service, analyze common queries, and predict customer behaviors and trends. Since you need the right tools to follow a customer insights strategy.

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Payment Methods Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payment Services 104

User Pilot

JUNE 30, 2023

Content localization is absolutely essential for SaaS companies. It enables them to reach audiences across the globe to drive market expansion and product growth. Our article provides guidance for SaaS teams on how to effectively localize their content. The process includes translation. Let’s get right to it.

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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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Payment Methods Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Software Review 78

User Pilot

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

User adoption is essential for B2B SaaS companies, as it helps customers to learn about your product, adopt features , stick around, and nurture product growth. There’re four phases for user adoption: 1) The AHA moment; 2) The activation stage; 3) Secondary onboarding; 4) Brand advocacy. But how does user adoption impact your business?

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Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

In the early days of running a software company, collecting payments was pretty straightforward. Fast forward to today when most software companies use a Subscription as a service (SaaS business model , and things aren’t as simple. To put it simply, recurring billing can get complicated, especially for a SaaS company.

Payment Solutions 105

Payment Solutions Merchant Services Systems Review SaaS Payments 105

User Pilot

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

User adoption is essential for B2B SaaS companies, as it helps customers to learn about your product, adopt features , stick around, and nurture product growth. There’re four phases for user adoption: 1) The AHA moment; 2) The activation stage; 3) Secondary onboarding; 4) Brand advocacy. But how does user adoption impact your business?

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SaaS Payments Strategy Payment Solutions SaaS 91

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. Software to track analytics, transfer payments, manage inventory, create videos and for many other things.

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How To Buy Saas

APRIL 5, 2024

In the age of digital transformation and fierce competition, e-commerce companies must optimize their business processes and improve efficiency. This high percentage indicates that most online store visitors do not complete their purchases for various reasons. Problems with payment or insufficient payment options.

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Totango

AUGUST 23, 2022

By charting the points in your SaaS customers’ journeys, you can plan how to deliver clients’ desired outcomes and satisfying experiences that promote subscription renewals and higher revenue. In this way, customer journey B2B touchpoints serve as a powerful tool for increasing the effectiveness of your customer success strategy.

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User Pilot

DECEMBER 19, 2023

SaaS account management. With the emergence of software-as-a-service (SaaS) companies, the role of account managers has also evolved – and gotten harder. In this article, we will go over the responsibilities of a SaaS account manager and share tried-and-true strategies they can implement to drive product growth.

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ProfitWell

APRIL 23, 2020

Knowing what to focus on can be challenging when everything has been thrown into chaos—in both your personal and professional life. Immediate strategies to consider. Here are some strategies based on basic customer retention principles to help you get through this challenging time. 4) Create new payment alternatives.

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OpenView Labs

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Every year we ask the OpenView network to weigh in, and this time around many folks unsurprisingly made predictions around a trend most of us in SaaS had to adapt to (and, to be honest, are still figuring out) in 2020: remote work. SaaS companies will evolve their products and messaging to support a fluid hybrid working model—office/home.

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How To Buy Saas

MARCH 25, 2022

Online Food Ordering System has increased Restaurant’s sales making the businesses earn twofold their incomes. Online ordering system is good for those who have understood the marketing strategy to the best while many bearing brunts for want adequate information for what actually help drive traffic and how it’s done.

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Payment Methods Payment Solutions Point of Sale Payment Services 52

Buffer Resources

JANUARY 15, 2024

Inaccurate, packed with "filler," or completely AI-generated — bad B2B (business-to-business) content is easy to spot and even easier to find online. This article includes their advice for any B2B brand looking to get real results from content marketing , plus nine must-haves for B2B content to be considered good. 

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