OPEXEngine

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

An additional non-financial constraint is a fact that these customers typically lack experience in software procurement and implementation, and this adds friction to the sales cycle. Customer success is usually staffed by a mix of customer support, sales, and engineering folks contributing some portion of their time to the Cost of Revenue.

SaaS Payments 52

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Methods Marketplace as a Service 52

OpenView Labs

JANUARY 13, 2022

It requires rethinking everything from billing and revenue forecasting, to the role of Account Executives, to how to drive a customer success mindset across the entire organization. Plus companies face significant change management hurdles if they choose to migrate their legacy subscription customers onto a new pricing model. .

Pricing 82

Pricing Payment Services SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 82

CloudGeometry

MARCH 22, 2022

The intensity of competition in the SaaS marketplace puts a premium on new, stable, and reliable features. The winners offer a better and faster way to solve customer problems. Depending on the kind of SaaS you offer, there’s a lot to learn from talking to customers about your product.

DevOps as a Service 130

DevOps as a Service Software Delivery Well Architected Framework AWS 130

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. As the likes of Airbnb, Uber and Apple have found, creating an entirely new category can be a lucrative business.

Scale 112

Scale Sales Recruiting Marketplace as a Service Sales Hiring 112

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 16, 2019

The SaaS industry is constantly evolving, and for many companies in the space, that means having to evolve their business model. However, that doesn’t necessarily mean a “pivot”, but more often the evolution is a shifting business model as the company scales and the user base grows and changes. Gaining new customers.

Business Model 195

Business Model Scale Pricing Payment Methods 195

FastSpring

DECEMBER 19, 2019

What is most exciting to me about this milestone is that it enables us to reinvest in innovation to further our customers’ success. 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.

Technical Review 64

Technical Review Software Review Marketplace as a Service Innovation 64

Totango

MARCH 20, 2019

At the Oracle Modern Customer Experience event in Las Vegas, Oracle announced its new CX Partner Ecosystem of which we are a participating member. The future is here: as more and more enterprises move to recurring revenue business models, customer centricity must be at the heart of their growth strategy.

Enterprise 53

Enterprise Marketplace as a Service Scale Innovation 53

User Pilot

APRIL 10, 2023

Dropbox, Slack, and Grammarly are great examples of companies that have successfully harnessed the power of the freemium model to drive growth. Freemium is a business model which gives users free access to the product. Want to see how Userpilot can help you execute your freemium strategy? Book the demo !

Strategy 80

Strategy SaaS Onboarding Marketplace as a Service 80

Neil Patel

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

NP Digital is a performance marketing agency built by marketers, and our global offices allow us to deliver our specialized services to clients worldwide. Below, we’ll explain how each of our agencies works, the services they provide, and what to expect from each of them in the future. NP Digital Marketing Services.

VP of Engineering 126

VP of Engineering Marketing Marketplace as a Service Social Media 126

SmartKarrot

DECEMBER 18, 2020

As more and more companies are realizing the need to become customer-centric, their investment in customer service – both financial and conceptual – is rising rapidly. The need to become efficient in all the customer service processes are becoming more relevant than ever.

Marketplace as a Service 10

Marketplace as a Service Trends Customer Lifetime Value Headcount 10

SmartKarrot

DECEMBER 18, 2020

As more and more companies are realizing the need to become customer-centric, their investment in customer service – both financial and conceptual – is rising rapidly. The need to become efficient in all the customer service processes are becoming more relevant than ever.

Marketplace as a Service 10

Marketplace as a Service Trends Customer Lifetime Value Headcount 10

SaaSOptics

MAY 19, 2022

The answer lies in your product or service’s value proposition. For example, if you’re a product-led company, you may consider a freemium business model to build a user base of free trial customers quickly. Your product roadmap is misaligned with customer needs. Customer Acquisition Tactics .

Acquisition 59

Acquisition Scale Strategy Software Review 59

User Pilot

JULY 14, 2022

User onboarding is important because it’s core to the business model of any SaaS company: you need to meet your users’ expectations by delivering on their expectations of what value they’ll get. A common misconception is that user onboarding is simply about getting users to sign up for your product or service.

Onboarding 86

Onboarding User Experience Marketplace as a Service Social Media 86

ProfitWell

JANUARY 15, 2020

Pricing analysts collaborate with organizations that employ some form of a recurring revenue model to test various hypotheses about the efficacy of existing and proposed business models, pricing and packaging structure, and general market behavior. Inform on optimal price points for different packages and services.

Pricing 54

Pricing Marketplace as a Service Subscription Payment Features 54

SaaSOptics

APRIL 7, 2022

” Or, as Openview Partners defines it, “ product-led growth is an end user-focused growth model that relies on the product itself as the primary driver of customer acquisition, conversion, and expansion.” Does this mean that sales, marketing, and customer success are forced to hang out on the sidelines?

Business Model 74

Business Model Payment Features Business SaaS 74

ChurnZero

JANUARY 13, 2022

As the demand for Customer Success surges within SaaS, so too does the need for effective leaders to spearhead this expanding function and steer its strategy and success. Over the course of the pandemic, Customer Success has cemented itself as a central business driver of growth and profit.

VP of Engineering 98

VP of Engineering Customer Success Outsourcing Services Technical Review 98

SaaSHolic

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Product onboarding is an essential part of customer activation and retention for businesses that are SaaS providers. One of the best things you can do for your customers’ success as a SaaS provider is to ensure that you walk them through a wholesome onboarding experience. What is successful onboarding?

Onboarding 52

Onboarding Strategy SaaS Underperforming Technical Team 52

OpenView Labs

OCTOBER 11, 2019

In a market that requires companies to earn their customers’ business each and every day, it can literally make or break your entire business model. With twenty-five years in the software business, I’ve seen my share of pricing exercises. Instead, we now pay a finite, fixed fee for mobile service.

Sales Hiring 40

Sales Hiring Part-Time VPE CTO Hire Technical Review 40

SaaStr

JUNE 10, 2021

Marten Mickos: We heard here that the cloud business has a combined market cap already of over a trillion dollars. So the whole world of software as a service and cloud has just exploded and will continue to grow enormously. And if we look at the specifics of the word SaaS, software as a service.

Outsourcing Services 140

Outsourcing Services Marketplace as a Service Outsourced Development Scale 140

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Why it’s hard to build a two-sided marketplace [13:38]. Sam Jacobs : What’s the business model? And the ones that aren’t are generally, kind of related industries, IT services and those sorts of things. And the other thing I learned is it’s very, very hard to build a two-sided marketplace, Sam.

Marketplace as a Service 94

Marketplace as a Service CTO Hire Sales Recruiting Data 94

SmartKarrot

JUNE 25, 2021

Customer development is important. No business can survive in the long run without a loyal customer base for its services or products. SaaS leaders need to believe and keep the product in mind to guide customers properly. You have heard of the phrase- the customer always comes first. The customer is right.

Development 10

Development SaaS Sales Hiring Marketplace as a Service 10

SmartKarrot

MAY 9, 2022

Not only does fostering innovation help encourage employees to bring their best ideas forward, but it also ensures that your company will stay relevant in the marketplace no matter how much the world changes. Your job is to lead and champion innovation within your business model by empowering your team to take risks for the greater good.

Innovation 10

Innovation Scale Marketplace as a Service Customer Success 10

Unbounce

JUNE 16, 2020

Over the long term, it can also deliver increased revenue, higher customer lifetime value (LTV), and reduced customer acquisition costs (CAC). Depending on your business model and stage of growth, a partner program will likely take on different forms. Why build a partner program for my SaaS business?

Outsourcing Services 131

Outsourcing Services Sales Recruiting Scale SaaS 131

SaaStr

MARCH 30, 2022

Or, it might originate as an intrinsic reason, such as when Atlassian decided to move their business model to become a SaaS platform. So, Atlassian wants to empower other builders to serve all kinds of teams, and the company embraces its ecosystem made up of 1500 marketplace products and third-party apps.

Scale 233

Scale Sales Hiring Marketplace as a Service Construction 233

SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

It wasn’t the case 20 or even 10 years ago, where the business models of the internet were more focused on eCommerce, marketplaces, or even advertising. So the first question is what made SaaS so successful. Low touch you’re gonna talk a lot about what we call customer success teams.

SaaS Payments 235

SaaS Payments Metrics Payment Methods Scale 235

SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

So I’m Nick Mehta, CEO of Gainsight and you probably have heard of Gainsight in the world of customer success and really excited to have two different voices in the world of how companies think about their customers. We’ve got everything from self-service all the way up to the enterprise.

Payment Methods 197

Payment Methods Merchant Services Scale Payments 197

Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

The litmus test is if you’ve created a marketplace: are people actually building on your product because there’s value that you’ve created, or is it just a nifty integration? The upside of having this big two-sided marketplace and extending your product into tons of different products with an API is quite large. But are they platforms?

Underperforming Technical Team 170

Underperforming Technical Team Marketplace as a Service Outsourced Development Development 170

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

Rob Gonzalez: Operationally, I look at, in particular, my experience at Endeca, but also another startup that sold to pharmaceutical companies and other life sciences businesses and financial services companies called Cambridge Semantics. And there’s a lot of benefit to running a software as a service, in general.

SaaS Payments 257

SaaS Payments Scale Payment Services Payment Solutions 257

ChurnZero

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Your Customer Success program is a telling datapoint when comparing great companies apart from their peers. The effects of CS run deeper than just customer retention – this instrumental function can have a profound impact on your long-term corporate success. Adoption Hero – Sibme.

Healthcare 98

Healthcare Systems Review Scale Point of Sale 98

SaaSX

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Today’s digital marketplace is a vast and wild place. Consider this: A business that’s best suited to a channel partner program is a business that’s already dealing with a full deck (read: already well established). It can get a little lonely out there. But don’t worry––we can help you jumpstart the process. . Ask yourself: .

Outsourcing Services 93

Outsourcing Services Strategy Underperforming Technical Team Technical Advisors 93

Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The SaaS Business Model & Metrics: Understand the Key Drivers for Success by David Skok, Matrix Partners SaaS Metrics — 201 A slightly deeper dive into SaaS industry metrics. The purpose of this piece of writing is to extend the 7 Powers framework to examples from modern b2b and software-centric businesses.

Scale 52

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring SaaS 52

Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

You don’t have to be subservient, forfeit your self-respect, or fake enthusiasm about your product or service. Shanks has trained and advised 100’s of companies on SPEAR Selling to increase sales pipeline in all types of sales functions (inside sales, field sales, customer success, channel sales).

Scale 141

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Payment Methods 141

ChurnZero

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Announcing the Winners of ChurnZero’s 2021 ChurnHero Awards Your Customer Success program is a telling datapoint when comparing great companies apart from their peers. The effects of CS run deeper than just customer retention – this instrumental function can have a profound impact on your long-term corporate success.

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Systems Review Scale Point of Sale 52

Chargify

AUGUST 17, 2017

Your company’s NPS (Net Promoter Score) is the ultimate barometer of customer satisfaction and separates the promoters from the detractors. We’ve previously discussed NPS and how it is calculated in our post SaaS Customer Success: The secret to reducing churn and increasing MRR. Capitalize on marketplace trends.

Scale 53

Scale Sales Hiring SaaS Artificial Intelligence 53

SaaStr

JUNE 16, 2020

Companies were very focused on customer success, retaining existing customers just checking in, seeing how customers were doing, assessing the health of the business, assessing the health of their own employees, really focusing on upsell, closing existing deals, and not as much focusing on top of the funnel.

Sales Hiring 159

Sales Hiring Scale SaaS Payments Payment Services 159

SmartKarrot

AUGUST 5, 2021

In recent years, Product Operations roles have evolved to include: Operations, Technical Ownership, Product Strategy, Project Management, Customer Success , and Professional Services. Products can be software, hardware, or even services. As business models change, so does the need to improve production management.

Scale 10

Scale Marketplace as a Service Product Marketing Software Development 10

SmartKarrot

MAY 27, 2020

The marketplaces over the globe have drastically evolved in the recent period, becoming more utility-based than ever. As per the marketer Phillip Kotler- “An average firm loses its customer in less than five years.” Express gratitude towards your customers . How will the customers come back to you month by month? .

Subscription 10

Subscription Payment Features Retention Marketplace as a Service 10