FastSpring

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Businesses are constantly trying to figure out how to increase customer retention rates. But what if your business model is designed to create repeat customers. Essentially, that’s the beauty of subscription business models. As a business trying to get into the subscription game, those are pretty promising numbers.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 13, 2018

When it comes to getting the word out about your product, ask yourself, “Who do my customers and prospects turn to for advice when they are looking to learn about great solutions or make a buying decision?” Know: They can’t recommend your solution if they don’t know about it. Content marketing works.

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Neil Patel

JANUARY 14, 2020

Instead of just blogging about marketing tactics, I thought I would share my old business model with you and give you the exact emails, power points, and everything you need so that way you can replicate my results. Collect payments – I also use Keap to collect payments. Are you ready? Step #5: Drive traffic.

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Outseta

APRIL 14, 2020

Generally speaking, building a software product—even a minimum viable product—is going to take more effort and time than selling your skills as services. But software products are more scalable and valuable, so if you have the financial runway and the time to start building now is as good a time as any. Their secret?

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Aaron Beashel

MARCH 9, 2018

It’s not the specific marketing tactics you use, but more the high-level description of how you acquire customers. The best way to illustrate what I mean is by examples, and I’ve used the email marketing software category to illustrate some of the different models taken by different companies in the space.

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Neil Patel

APRIL 9, 2021

This is essential for brands that rely on live events in their business model. A good example is Wanderlust TV: If live events are part of your marketing mix, OTT is the way to go for you and your brand. There are several ways you can profit from your video content. How Do I Make Money With VOD and OTT Platforms?

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ProfitWell

MARCH 9, 2020

The subscription business model has seen an immense rise in popularity in recent years, and with good reason. The subscription-based economy grew 350% between 2012 and 2019, and subscription businesses grew revenues about five times faster than S&P 500 company revenues during that time. What is subscription marketing?

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Baremetrics

APRIL 6, 2021

Benefits of Subscription Marketing Subscriptions offer your business a unique opportunity to build a steady stream of recurring revenue and a solid base of loyal customers. When operating on a one-time license fee Adobe found that many users opted to keep using an old version of the software for years and ignore new releases.

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Incredo

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

If you have decided to be more economical with your marketing as well, a viral message or an outstanding content marketing campaign can help you a great deal. As an example, Kaplan mentions Passkey, a SaaS company that provides group-reservation systems to major international hotel chains. Transactional.

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SmartKarrot

APRIL 13, 2020

Ever since its inception in the 1960s, SaaS has evolved from a mere time-sharing system to innovative and efficient applications that can be accessed on multiple computers. Growing at the same pace, a report from BetterCloud had anticipated that 73% of the organizations will have all SaaS apps by 2020. And the result is visible!

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SaaStr

JULY 18, 2019

Lucidchart has been recognized as one of the most mature Product Lead Growth business models in the market, driving over 700,000 registrations per month, combined with a hyper-efficient B2B business model. I’m the CEO and one of the co founders at Lucid Software. Here is our original payment page.

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Outseta

JANUARY 20, 2020

What started as Dimitris (now my Co-founder at Outseta ) writing a few lines of code to collect rent payments from tenants he had living in a duplex in Providence, Rhode Island, turned into something worth hundreds of millions of dollars 15 years later. We could translate the software into Spanish. How the hell does that happen?

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ProfitWell

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

By almost all key metrics, now is a great time to get into the SaaS business model. The market is growing at 30% per year. As discussed in the last point, spending more than what you need on marketing is bad. 3 SaaS businesses experiencing record growth. It's hard to find growth in an industry that is shrinking.

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Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The Three Key Elements of Attractive Assets No matter which valuation formula is used, investors look for proof of these three characteristics in a business: Transferability Sustainability Scalability 1. Transferability Investors look for businesses that can be easily transferred. How do you make your tool easy to use?

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ProfitWell

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

That’s never been truer for software businesses in particular than in the past 10-15 years, with the internet stimulating an explosion in the number of viable revenue models. Revenue models often get conflated with revenue streams, probably because each is a single revenue source. Web/Direct Sales.

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Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

So I’m providing an updated model for SaaS CEOs and founders looking to improve their financial model from a number-crunching exercise to an operational tool. This model allowed me to work with dozens of SaaS startups using spreadsheets, while we built our financial modeling software Flightpath.

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Outseta

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Even further up market and in my past engagements with Working Planet, there are a number of challenges related to paid search management that I’ve felt first hand and still don’t see a great solution to. Geoff: I personally see a huge gap in the market when it comes to paid search management for start-ups.

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SmartKarrot

AUGUST 29, 2022

Create a great marketing strategy. Instead, it invests heavily in content marketing and advertising campaigns that target specific audiences based on their interests and preferences. The world is full of generic software companies that offer related products. Netflix does not rely on salespeople to sell its products.

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SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

Aileen Lee: And so, I think for a lot of states and regulatory agencies and businesses that have been pushing back to enable remote work, they’re going to have to change a lot of stuff and that’s going to take … A lot of investment’s going to happen in software. ”, we are going to have more unicorns.

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