Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 31, 2019

He suggested that “we are in the middle of a dramatic and broad technological and economic shift in which software companies are poised to take over large swathes of the economy.”. Here, we trace some of the biggest trends and stories in technology over the past decade, and try to find a narrative to make sense of it all.

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How To Buy Saas

APRIL 4, 2023

And it doesn’t matter whether you’re seeking recurring deliveries of cosmetic products , tasty snacks , or gourmet dog food — whatever the niche, it’s highly likely that there’s a subscription service built to cater to it. In recent years, the recurring revenue model has gained tremendous popularity among a wide spectrum of consumers.

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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 ?” or “ What are the best tips I can get in terms of annual vs monthly subscription models ?”.

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Subscription Flow

JANUARY 29, 2024

Revenue that a business has generated but has not yet been paid or recorded in its books is referred to as accrued revenue. It stands for the revenue recognition that occurs prior to the receipt of the cash payment. Accrued revenue in accounting is shown as revenue on the income statement and as an asset on the balance sheet.

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Stax

JANUARY 17, 2024

Automated Clearing House (ACH) payments are a type of electronic bank-to-bank payment system in the US. Unlike payments facilitated by card networks like Visa or Mastercard, ACH payments are managed by a body called the National Automated Clearing House Association (NACHA). Let’s get started.

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Stax

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

FIS Global reports that in Norway, Sweden, and other Scandinavian countries, more than 90% of transactions processed at point-of-sale (POS) in 2023 were cashless. The writing on the wall is clear—businesses need to start accepting digital payments and software providers need to start offering payment services one way or another.

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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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Chargify

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

The technology industry is transitioning away from traditional business models and toward flexible, consumption-based billing , especially in the software as a service (SaaS) industry. This move has benefits for businesses and customers alike. Keep Your Pricing Model Simple.

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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. B2B customer journey touchpoints are occasions when business customers interact with a brand. Customer service. Customer success.

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 27, 2020

This is part three of a three part series on sequencing business models. In part two of our Sequencing Business Models series , we talked about the different types of marketplaces and what needs to be built to be effective in each of them. Integration platforms are ubiquitous in SaaS. Integration Platforms.

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User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

Confused about trying to understand SaaS roles? SaaS companies have many moving parts, and it can be difficult to determine who does what. TL;DR SaaS, or “Software as a Service,” is a business model that delivers centrally hosted software to subscribers over the internet.

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Subscription Flow

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The way businesses in the technology, media, and telecommunications sector provide their goods and services is changing dramatically. This includes everything from media content to enterprise software solutions and technology infrastructure. The specific advantages of this business model are as follows: 1.

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User Pilot

APRIL 30, 2024

There are many SaaS products , but knowing that, how do you choose the best? This article will look at the most successful SaaS companies, so you can decide if you want to invest in them for your business. TL;DR A SaaS product delivers software remotely, reducing the need for local installation, maintenance, and updates.

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FastSpring

JANUARY 21, 2020

Subscriptions are the lifeblood of any SaaS business model. On the surface, it’s a perfect model. However, SaaS subscriptions can also cost businesses money if they’re not set up with the customer’s experience in mind. of all churn in the SaaS space. Simple, right? Image Source.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 18, 2024

The role of the chief customer officer has become an essential function in subscription-based business models such as software-as-a-service (SaaS), where customer retention is paramount and requires executive-level leadership. SaaS businesses, meanwhile, benefit from predictable streams of recurring revenue.

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OPEXEngine

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

There are many ways to classify SaaS companies, but differentiating companies based upon who their customers are presents the best approach for measuring performance and driving success for SaaS businesses. Business to Consumer (B2C). SMM SaaS Company Overview & Market Dynamics. Enterprise.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Each company brings different combinations of technology, teams, customer bases, and more to the negotiating table — any one of which could be a huge motivator for WP Engine to want to partner with them. Now that was something you found online and bought in person. Well, enough about the first thing you bought online.

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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.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 12, 2023

We’ve designed this to mirror the thought process of an entrepreneur building an AI product with an enterprise use case. He asked: are individuals buying the lane assist technology itself, or are they buying a car that has lane assist incorporated and enjoying the enhanced experience?

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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. The exchange of value.

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CustomerSuccessBox

MARCH 25, 2021

Let’s see the process of acquiring new customers. Acquiring your customers is just a first step in the fruitful partnership process and retaining them is the next big thing. Financial Mathematics of a SaaS business model. SaaS business models are different from traditional business models.

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ProfitWell

JULY 8, 2020

Tax laws are complex and, for businesses operating in the United States, every state has their own set of laws that must be followed in addition to federal tax laws. In some states, SaaS companies are required to collect and pay sales tax for their products. How is a SaaS product/company defined in the US?

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OpenView Labs

JANUARY 13, 2022

45% of SaaS companies said they had some form of usage-based pricing, up from 34% in 2020. Fully embracing usage-based pricing rather than traditional seat-based subscriptions is analogous to making the transition from on-prem to SaaS in the first place. The customer success leader is often the person who owns the renewal number.

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FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

Like, you’re literally on the floor like crippled with crying just like two years of your hard work, or whatever, you know, you’re like, ah, and then you get a phone call at that exact moment. And I just started a consulting business, it was a service business. Corporate learning is really enterprise SaaS.

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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. What is the process to do it efficiently? Does it have to be in person? Loving our podcast content? Does one have to move to enterprise?

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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? *

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ProfitWell

OCTOBER 16, 2019

It’s the question on every SaaS founder’s lips: Is my churn rate too high? So how do you know what a healthy churn rate is for your SaaS company? Why is it so hard to define an average churn rate—and what does that mean for your subscription business? The fact that there’s no standard reporting method for churn doesn’t help.

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OPEXEngine

JULY 28, 2020

It often seems as if traditional strategy development processes have no place in the fast-moving, always changing technology industries. It’s not really surprising that so many tech company executives punt on the traditional corporate strategy process. What they don’t do is get bogged down in process or complexity.

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ProfitWell

JANUARY 6, 2020

Plus, how to price for SaaS success in the new year. Research from Zuora found that 71% of adults across 12 countries have subscription services, and 74% believe that in the future, people will subscribe to even more services and own less physical goods. Subscription services will grow in any economy.

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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.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 16, 2018

Wanna know the secret sauce behind a scalable outbound process that leads to significant growth? The key to achieving explosive growth is to start by identifying your Ideal Customer Profiles (ICPs) via segmentation, reaching out to them with personalized targeted messaging while building a scalable and repeatable process.

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CustomerSuccessBox

MARCH 15, 2022

Use this analogy to explain your SaaS business model. For SaaS organizations, the purpose of a free trial is to obtain a customer. Offering a free trial when selling technology is analogous to giving away a piece of fruit. 5 Ways to Optimize ‘trial to paid’ conversion rate in SaaS.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

This dynamic trio of SaaS experts share how to stay customer-centric and set yourself apart in today’s rapidly changing environment. Nick Mehta: On a boat in Rhode Island and then our second guest Jay Snyder, who just recently took over as Chief Customer Officer of New Relic, publicly traded SaaS company. Jay Snyder: Yeah.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Lambda School trains people online to be software engineers. 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. We put it online, $10,000, and we started talking to our customers. You had town car services before.

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SmartKarrot

APRIL 13, 2020

SaaS companies have transformed the way global businesses work. 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. In this blog we’ll talk about SaaS business and top 50 SaaS companies in 2020.

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SmartKarrot

JULY 14, 2020

The B2B Tech world is booming with SaaS business models. Statistics claim that about 50% of the enterprises run their operations by depending on a SaaS platform, of which 38% work exclusively on the SaaS module. Let us dive right into this article and explore the world of SaaS and its facets deeply.

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How To Buy Saas

DECEMBER 1, 2020

SaaS is a global software solution created by different businesses in order to improve human activities in a matter of clicks. SAAS is also abbreviated as software as a service. In this saas marketing strategy guide, we are going to tell you everything about saas marketing. What is SAAS marketing?

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