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SaaS Pricing and Packaging: What to Do When Things Go Wrong (And How to Avoid Disaster)

OpenView Labs

Pricing is a crucial, pivotal element in any SaaS success story. Most frustratingly, despite its central role in building and sustaining a company, it’s not a skill that’s taught in business school. For a lot of companies, especially startups and expansion-stage organizations, figuring out pricing involves a lot of trial and error.

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SaaStr Classic: Jyoti Bansal of Harness.io and AppDynamics; Dev Ittycheria of MongoDB (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

You can have the great product and a great team, but the market of small or very niche. The second one is the team, obviously depending on how earlier the team has a huge factor because you may be so early in your journey that there’s nothing else to point to, but the track record of the team.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week: May 24, 2019

SaaStr

235: Andrew Filev is the Founder & CEO @ Wrike, the cloud based collaboration and project management software that scales across teams in any business. Why SaaS is your business model, not your mission. We had a pretty big team. Missed the session? Andrew Filev.

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How to Create a Great User Onboarding Experience That Leads to Product Adoption and Customer Success

ChurnZero

Perhaps product problems, loss of a key user in the account, a bad use case… Sure, these are some reasons why customers may churn, but the reality is that your churn rate is deeply connected to the quality of onboarding journey your users go through. Do you need to improve team communication? Check Slack. Online meetings?

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Norman Crowley on uncovering the business opportunities in tackling climate change

Intercom, Inc.

Adapting to remote work and eschewing business travel has forced a change – the events of the last year has already fundamentally changed how and where we do business. There’s opportunity in change, already this serial entrepreneur is looking at new business models born out of the current situation.

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How to Build Effective Sales Compensation Plans for Any Customer Facing Role

Sales Hacker

Once you understand how to create a fair compensation plan for your sales team, you can check out some examples: Sales Development Rep (SDR) Compensation Plan Example. The goal of variable pay is to develop a performance-driven culture in which your sales team is financially accountable for results. Step 5: Set Targets.

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PODCAST 123: How to Go From a Transactional Model to a Subscription Model with Brandon Meyers

Sales Hacker

He even managed to help pivot the company from a programmatic transactional revenue model to a subscription model over the course of, not just the last three months during COVID, but over the course of the last few years. Walk us through the basic business model. It has been an incredible journey for him. We’re on iTunes.