Blulogix

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

The Art of Flexibility: How to Master Dynamic Pricing Models in Subscription Billing By BluLogix Team Adapting to the Pulse of the Market for Maximized Revenue In today’s rapidly evolving digital marketplace, static pricing models are becoming a relic of the past.

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Subscription Payment Features Pricing Marketplace as a Service 52

Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 14, 2016

To sustain these growth rates, startups like these require lots of cash because of the customer acquisition payback period, and the more tenuous ones need capital to prove the business model actually works at scale. Imagine regional taxi services, 4 in the US, each with a different app, different labor pools, different terms.

Startup 100

Startup Metrics Transportation Marketplace as a Service 100

CloudGeometry

MARCH 22, 2022

SaaS business metrics are not hard to find ; we won’t analyze them in-depth here. As it turns out, SaaS operational platform metrics are also abundant. However, it is still too often the case that business metrics and operations metrics live in parallel universes.

DevOps as a Service 130

DevOps as a Service Software Delivery Well Architected Framework AWS 130

OPEXEngine

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

SMB customers will want high-touch sales engagement and service delivery but SMM SaaS companies will likely not have the budget necessary to justify providing this level of sales support. The most common strategies are Direct Sales, Inside Sales, eCommerce Marketplaces, and Partnerships. eCommerce Marketplaces. Direct Sales.

SaaS Payments 52

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Methods Marketplace as a Service 52

User Pilot

MARCH 20, 2024

TL;DR Software monetization helps generate revenue using various new business models to reinvest in development and enhancements. The subscription model offers ongoing access for a fee, ensuring updates and steady income. The open-source model creates revenue by charging for beyond-the-basics services.

Software 59

Software Revenue Strategy Advertising 59

OPEXEngine

JULY 27, 2021

Be carefully bold about affecting change and helping to guide the company in an evolving world and marketplace. Be strategic about your metrics. Remember that as you shift or evolve your business model, that you will need to also evolve and iterate on your reporting, even for smaller companies. .

Finance 52

Finance Outsourcing Services Scaling SaaS 52

OPEXEngine

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Over the past decade, software has created tremendous value for investors and businesses, thanks largely to its transformative effect on the economy , its role in developing new cloud-based business models, and its ability to increase efficiency in operations. Embrace the cloud operating model. Metrics will also change.

Software Review 52

Software Review DevOps as a Service Software Underperforming Technical Team 52

OpenView Labs

JANUARY 13, 2022

One of the most important changes sparked by the subscription economy, and the move to software as a service, has been the shift from customer support to customer success. How will inflation impact our customer’s business and business model? The customer success leader is often the person who owns the renewal number.

Pricing 82

Pricing Payment Services SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 82

SaaStr

JANUARY 5, 2023

Looking back on its explosive growth, however, the company realized just how badly it needed the valuable services of a Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Fundamental metrics (like ARR, CAC Payback, or Burn Rate) will never stop being important; they’re industry standards for a reason. Looking back vs. looking forward. Marketing Lead Gen.

Sales Hiring 44

Sales Hiring Acquisition Forecasting Outsourced Development 44

SaaSOptics

MAY 19, 2022

Not only is it one of the main drivers of revenue growth for early-stage companies, but it’s a primary goal for SaaS businesses across market stages. For subscription-based SaaS businesses, your customer acquisition metrics indicate how effectively you acquire new users via sales, marketing, or a product-led approach like a free trial.

Acquisition 59

Acquisition Scale Strategy Software Review 59

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

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

SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

Check out this 2018 Europa session with Guillaume Princen, Head of France and Southern Europe @ Stripe, where he talks about the metrics you need to be focused on in your startup. If you don’t have the time to watch the whole session, here are the main metrics you should be mindful of. Or maybe ARR, depending on your model.

SaaS Payments 243

SaaS Payments Metrics Payment Methods Scale 243

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. 1 More control over metrics to measure ROI.

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. 1 More control over metrics to measure ROI.

Marketplace as a Service 10

Marketplace as a Service Trends Customer Lifetime Value Headcount 10

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

You could be missing all of your metrics, but you know, you’re not the Twitter guys. I want to talk about how we got to the business model that we have at Lambda School because it’s one of the things that separates us from other schools. Uber is a classic marketplace company. You had town car services before.

Acquisition 141

Acquisition Software Review Payment Methods Marketplace as a Service 141

SaaSOptics

MAY 22, 2018

Magazines, newspapers, life insurance, phones, security services, and a long list of products and services have been sold for decades using the subscription model. The model has not really changed, but the relative importance has. Over time, industries develop key metrics used to help gauge success and progress.

Subscription 40

Subscription Payment Features Technical Review Airlines 40

SaaSOptics

MAY 22, 2018

Magazines, newspapers, life insurance, phones, security services, and a long list of products and services have been sold for decades using the subscription model. The model has not really changed, but the relative importance has. Over time, industries develop key metrics used to help gauge success and progress.

Subscription 40

Subscription Payment Features Technical Review Airlines 40

Navint

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

A subscription model puts the customer, not the product, in the center of every interaction. We can see how the customer is interacting with and using our service, therefore we have no choice but to make them happy. This is a great example of a dynamic marketplace in which competitors and alternatives arrive all the time.

Subscription 40

Subscription Payment Features Marketplace as a Service Scale 40

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

OpenView Labs

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

It documents the business your product is building. And yet it’s often tucked away in a financial update while a medley of product metrics enjoy the spotlight. It needs to be treated as a top-level operational metric that a founder must know and understand. Pick a common anchoring metric that measures a core customer activity.

Scale 52

Scale Payment Methods Payment Services Systems Review 52

Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 16, 2020

Andrey explains why embracing the professional services sector in a unique way has paid dividends. We also think about community and consultants and professional services as an ecosystem around our product. How have you structured the business model or even the product to make that type of viral spread easier?

Consulting 249

Consulting Marketplace as a Service Scale Development 249

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 13, 2021

A great customer success team will help you to better understand your customer’s needs, identify what “success” means to them, and in turn, help your customers realize the value of your services, creating a more successful outcome for both their team and yours. “Why do you have playbooks?

Scale 177

Scale Customer Success Strategy Sales Hiring 177

Casey Accidental

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

My role as an advisor to Greylock’s portfolio companies allows me to work with many different types of businesses: consumer social, marketplaces, SaaS, etc. I’ve come to realize this saying describes an optimal strategy for a lot more than just an ad-supported revenue model.

Payments 70

Payments Revenue VP of Engineering Payment Methods 70

SaaSHolic

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Onboarding within of itself is a bonafide industry, meaning that it’s a mature industry with robust practices you can use for your business model as a SaaS provider. You might think that you have a relatively easy-to-use service because you know what it is meant to do. What is successful onboarding? Product Tours.

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Onboarding Strategy SaaS Underperforming Technical Team 52

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. Because horizontal SaaS companies serve both startups and enterprise businesses, scalability is a key selling point.

SaaS Payments 88

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payments Payment Solutions 88

SmartKarrot

JUNE 25, 2021

No business can survive in the long run without a loyal customer base for its services or products. As its name should communicate, the Customer Development model focuses on developing customers for the product or service your startup is building. What do the key metrics look like? The customer is right.

Development 10

Development SaaS Sales Hiring Marketplace as a Service 10

Stax

JANUARY 17, 2024

PayFacs typically partner with a payment processor or a bank to provide merchant services. This enables business owners to accept payments directly through their SaaS platform without needing a Merchant ID (MID)—as is the case with traditional merchant account providers. This is pretty much similar to the service that PayPal offers.

Payment Services 88

Payment Services SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payment Facilitation 88

SaaStr

MARCH 19, 2019

Ceci Stallsmith : After building if you have something where you’re going to publish an integration or something of that sort, there’s a marketplace for Stripe, same for Box, same for Slack, we have a directory of apps, so published in the directory is the next step. If they’re engaged, then they’re building.

Payments 122

Payments Scale Scaling Revenue 122

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

If you think about it that way, then I think it simplifies a bit the equation, and you can think of how does that apply to your business? Like, how can we provide economic infrastructure for developers to build applications and services and in a weird way, future proof? Let’s start with our five key steps.

Payments 124

Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payment Services 124

Unbounce

JUNE 16, 2020

Depending on your business model and stage of growth, a partner program will likely take on different forms. These are often built with agencies, consultants, and managed-service-providers (MSPs) in mind. These partners resell your product and benefit from offering ongoing services, usually on a retainer basis.

Outsourcing Services 131

Outsourcing Services Sales Recruiting Scale SaaS 131

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

Chargify

AUGUST 17, 2020

Backed by an army of developers, data engineers, and finance professionals, this events-based billing model allowed these large companies to directly link the value that their services provided with the cost presented on a customer’s invoice. What Amazon Web Services and Twilio Get Right. How AWS Does It.

AWS 98

AWS Payment Services SaaS Payments Payments 98

Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

These materials will take you from the basics SaaS Metrics — 101 to more advanced topics like Go-To-Market and Product-Led Growth (PLG). Here is a comprehensive list of SaaS blogs that goes through the most common metrics and terms. Only a handful of metrics really matter. I’ve tried – just ask my in laws.

Scale 52

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring SaaS 52

User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Key metrics like revenue growth, customer acquisition costs, and net promoter score can indicate the success of a blue ocean strategy. The Significance of the Blue Ocean Strategy In an increasingly crowded marketplace, the blue ocean strategy offers companies the opportunity to break out of hypercompetitive red oceans.

Strategy 63

Strategy Technical Review Business Innovation 63

User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Key metrics like revenue growth, customer acquisition costs, and net promoter score can indicate the success of a blue ocean strategy. The Significance of the Blue Ocean Strategy In an increasingly crowded marketplace, the blue ocean strategy offers companies the opportunity to break out of hypercompetitive red oceans.

Strategy 52

Strategy Technical Review Business Innovation 52

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 13, 2018

While this may sound simple, it can be incredibly challenging to find new opportunities for growth and customer acquisition in an increasingly crowded marketplace. Before I joined Intercom, I led all of Intuit’s small-business products and services, including QuickBooks accounting, payroll and payments. Makes sense, right?

Acquisition 156

Acquisition Strategy SaaS Payments Payments 156