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. 

B2B 120

B2B Technical Advisors SaaS Payments Underperforming Technical Team 120

User Pilot

JANUARY 31, 2023

In SaaS, you can grow your revenue only if your churn rate is low, so retaining at-risk customers is crucial. The main factors contributing to at-risk customers include poor onboarding process , lack of product value perception, lousy customer support, unfixed bugs, and no learning materials, resource center, and FAQs.

Churn 98

Churn Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 98

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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Marketplace as a Service Business Model SaaS Payments Payments 52

User Pilot

MARCH 26, 2024

To make your life a little bit easier and help you choose the best digital analytics tool for your SaaS, we’ve produced a guide of 15 excellent analytics platforms available on the market in 2024. The 15 best digital analytics tools include: Userpilot – the best digital analytics platform for analyzing customer journeys.

Artificial Intelligence 52

Artificial Intelligence SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services 52

User Pilot

MARCH 26, 2024

To make your life a little bit easier and help you choose the best digital analytics tool for your SaaS, we’ve produced a guide of 15 excellent analytics platforms available on the market in 2024. The 15 best digital analytics tools include: Userpilot – the best digital analytics platform for analyzing customer journeys.

Artificial Intelligence 52

Artificial Intelligence SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services 52

User Pilot

MARCH 26, 2024

To make your life a little bit easier and help you choose the best digital analytics tool for your SaaS, we’ve produced a guide of 15 excellent analytics platforms available on the market in 2024. The 15 best digital analytics tools include: Userpilot – the best digital analytics platform for analyzing customer journeys.

Artificial Intelligence 52

Artificial Intelligence SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services 52

User Pilot

MARCH 26, 2024

To make your life a little bit easier and help you choose the best digital analytics tool for your SaaS, we’ve produced a guide of 15 excellent analytics platforms available on the market in 2024. The 15 best digital analytics tools include: Userpilot – the best digital analytics platform for analyzing customer journeys.

Artificial Intelligence 52

Artificial Intelligence SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services 52

User Pilot

MARCH 26, 2024

To make your life a little bit easier and help you choose the best digital analytics tool for your SaaS, we’ve produced a guide of 15 excellent analytics platforms available on the market in 2024. The 15 best digital analytics tools include: Userpilot – the best digital analytics platform for analyzing customer journeys.

Artificial Intelligence 52

Artificial Intelligence SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services 52

Baremetrics

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Inbound marketing is the process of getting potential clients to find your company. It is not enough to just get as many eyes on your site as possible (although that is nice)—you need to get those visitors with needs that your platform meets. This can lead to some brand loyalty when they are ready to make a purchase.

Payments 98

Payments Payment Methods Payment Solutions Marketing 98

FastSpring

JANUARY 26, 2024

Jake, Head of Customer Success for Sideways 6, explains that the current trend is to measure their success through the customer’s success, with CS being an integral part of impacting the entire business. Product teams can better improve and develop products when customer success has helped identify what customers need.

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Customer Success VP of Engineering Payments Payment Methods 157

User Pilot

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Discover user segments with the highest revenue and customer lifetime value to replicate their journey with similar users. Product teams collect and measure such customers’ activities to understand and act on customers’ behavior patterns. Poor customer service — leads to negative word-of-mouth, dissatisfaction, and churn.

Payment Solutions 98

Payment Solutions Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Payments Customer Lifetime Value 98

Natalia Luneva

JANUARY 13, 2021

Existing customer renewal is a high priority for 59% of SaaS companies and a medium priority for 27%. This obsession with getting new customers is natural: the more customers you convert, the more revenue you will make. How to calculate this metric and what’s the average SaaS churn rate?

SaaS Payments 105

SaaS Payments Payment Methods Churn Payment Services 105

FastSpring

DECEMBER 8, 2022

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. Start with your existing sales and see where there’s interest from existing buyers. Watch the two minute clip for more details.

Payment Methods 78

Payment Methods Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Software Review 78

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. Manual processes first. Dare I say SaaS.

Scale 152

Scale Payment Services Payment Methods Scaling 152

SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

359: The Secrets to Vertical Growth, What it Really Takes to Build a $1B SaaS Company with Matt Garratt, SVP, Managing Partner @ Salesforce Ventures, Trisha Price, Chief Product Officer @ nCino and David Schmaier, CEO & Founder @ Vlocity. There’s a lot of services. This episode is sponsored by Linode.

Payment Solutions 153

Payment Solutions Pricing Payments Payment Services 153

FastSpring

APRIL 4, 2024

As an experienced sales and GTM leader, John Eitel has more than witnessed how product-led growth (PLG) has affected the tech and SaaS space in the last few years — he and his teams have been up close and personal with how PLG increased in popularity as a sales strategy. “I Set up a demo or try it out for yourself. Jump to video.

Scale 150

Scale Sales Payment Methods Merchant Services 150

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. 

B2B 57

B2B Technical Advisors SaaS Payments Underperforming Technical Team 57

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. And he wanted in.

Payment Methods 142

Payment Methods Marketing Payments SaaS Payments 142

Neil Patel

JANUARY 21, 2021

Starting a business, even a bootstrapped one, is expensive. But you can’t build a great SaaS or e-Commerce company without the help of digital tools. If you’re serious about growing your startup, you’ll eventually need to put down the pen and paper to-do list and upgrade to a SaaS solution. per user per month.

Payment Methods 110

Payment Methods Payment Solutions Outsourcing Services Payments 110

Baremetrics

JANUARY 24, 2021

Anyone managing a SaaS or subscription business is aware of customer churn. The benchmark customer churn for SaaS for SMBs is 5%. We knew if we wanted to keep our business growing, we needed to figure out why so many customers were leaving, and provide the value-add they need to stay.

Churn 71

Churn SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payment Solutions 71

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. Dare I say SaaS. Our team is in Room 111.

Scale 118

Scale Payment Services Payment Methods Sales Hiring 118

SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2019

In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Vikas made his way into the world of SaaS and came to be at the rocketship that is Kustomer. * Why does Vikas believe that a wave of SaaS incumbents are about to be displaced or disrupted? Why is it so crucial to invest in enablement in the early days? What is a good payback period? *

SaaS Payments 132

SaaS Payments Cloud Technical Review Scale 132

OpenView Labs

JANUARY 29, 2020

Freemium in SaaS is old news. The much-discussed pricing strategy took over the SaaS world and helped fuel the phenomenal success of SaaS pioneers like Dropbox, Evernote, SurveyMonkey and Hootsuite. Freemium appeared to be declining in popularity and, when it was in place, drove next to zero new ACV for most SaaS companies.

Pricing 82

Pricing Payments SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 82

User Pilot

AUGUST 14, 2023

For most SaaS businesses, a product satisfaction survey can be the heart of a user research process. TL;DR A product satisfaction survey is a type of survey that measures your customer’s overall satisfaction with a product or service. Develop your product through a PMF survey. CSAT surveys. CES surveys.

Scale 97

Scale SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services 97

ChurnZero

JANUARY 4, 2019

AI has been a buzzword for a while and many businesses jumped onto the bandwagon by integrating AI into the customer journey, but customers still want to deal with a human, particularly if they need advice or help with something complex that they cannot solve on their own (i.e. Increases self-service for customers across all segments.

Customer Success 73

Customer Success SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions 73

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. Who is involved? How long does it take?

Sales Hiring 142

Sales Hiring Payment Services SaaS Payments Underperforming Technical Team 142

Stax

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Software as a Service (SaaS) has made business software more accessible by offering cloud-based, on-demand access to a range of solutions, from project management and collaboration to sales and marketing. But not all SaaS products are alike. Some solutions, like Slack or Microsoft, are useful for any kind of business.

SaaS Payments 88

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payments Payment Solutions 88

FastSpring

MAY 20, 2024

Moving some, all, or simply more of your software offerings from a one-time perpetual license model to a software as a service (SaaS) subscription model can be daunting, but it’s so powerful for building dependable, recurring revenue. Integrating customer-facing subscription management tools on your own site.

Payments 78

Payments SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions 78

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

As for Krish, under Krish’s leadership the team has grown to over 300 people and over 5,000 clients making it one of the next generation in truly global SaaS businesses started in India. First, what is continuous customer development? What is the process to do it efficiently? Loving our podcast content?

Scale 128

Scale SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting Payment Services 128

User Pilot

MAY 14, 2021

Growing numbers of SaaS companies are adding an onboarding survey to their customer sign-up flows. But what distinguishes a good onboarding survey from other types of business intelligence? But what distinguishes a good onboarding survey from other types of business intelligence? What is an onboarding survey? Survey Templates.

Onboarding 52

Onboarding SaaS Payments SaaS Underperforming Technical Team 52

Kellblog

AUGUST 7, 2019

In this post we’re going to look at the management accounting side of multi-year SaaS deals that grow in value over time. Say you sign a three-year deal with a customer that ramps in payment structure: year 1 costs $1M, year 2 costs $2M, and year 3 costs $3M. Let’s take an example from this KPMG data sheet on ASC 606 and SaaS.

Deferred Revenue 74

Deferred Revenue Pricing Payments SaaS Payments 74

All that Saas

JUNE 22, 2021

In this Ayoa review, we will look at OpenGenius’s powerful mind mapping and online collaboration platform. It doesn’t matter what the size of the team is, they can do it all, plan projects, conduct meeting, and multi-task. Teams need to collaborate for ideas, execute projects, and increase knowledge to cultivate stellar work.

Software Review 52

Software Review Technical Review Systems Review Payment Methods 52

ChurnZero

JANUARY 4, 2019

AI has been a buzzword for a while and many businesses jumped onto the bandwagon by integrating AI into the customer journey, but customers still want to deal with a human, particularly if they need advice or help with something complex that they cannot solve on their own (i.e. Increases self-service for customers across all segments.

Customer Success 49

Customer Success SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions 49

User Pilot

APRIL 8, 2021

Here’s a sobering truth: if you run a SaaS company and don’t use customer analytics software , you probably won’t be in business very long. Gone are the days when business leaders can afford to make decisions solely on the basis of intuition. We live in an era of big data. Well, if so, you’re certainly in a minority!

Payment Solutions 52

Payment Solutions Software Review SaaS Payments Software 52

FastSpring

OCTOBER 12, 2023

In Dave’s words, “What is it about your product or service that the users say in their own words they love ?” I think SaaS businesses and subscription businesses are particularly bad at having vague, waffley headlines on their homepages,” he states. Stream the entire conversation or read the highlights below.

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Payment Methods SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payments 178

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

How can a simple offering be transformed into its own platform? Renaud Visage, Co-Founder of Eventbrite, and Romain Huet, Head of Developer Relations at Stripe, know what it takes to effectively evolve your offering into a platform without losing what made offering appealing in the first place. Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020.

Payments 123

Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payment Services 123

FastSpring

JANUARY 27, 2022

Small tweaks to your SaaS billing practices can make a huge impact on the customer experience. For example, Jon Torres — a digital marketing consultant specializing in SaaS commerce — noticed that, for some of his clients, refund requests spiked around renewal time. “It 7 growth hacks from the SaaS experts. Learn more here.

Merchant Services 138

Merchant Services Payment Services SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 138