SaaStr

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Stand Out by Being Concise and Easy to Understand Michael has done over 2000 YC interviews, and the one thing founders don’t understand is that if investors don’t know what your company does, they can’t fund you. “The Two sentence description of what Airbnb does: They let any home or apartment owner rent out their place online.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 30, 2023

Overcoming challenges by optimizing for success In the early stages of setting up your SaaS business, it’s always a good idea to invest time thinking about the direction you want to take. This insight led Deel to focus on solving payments and compliance. Identifying a direction is just the starting point.

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User Pilot

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Thus, properly harnessing data-driven insights is key to achieving product growth and business success. It will also guide you through uncovering and harnessing these insights in your SaaS business. To adopt a data-driven approach, you’ll need to first understand your business goals. What are data-driven insights?

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FastSpring

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

You’ll hear stories from bootstrapped and VC-funded founders, C-suite executives, and developers that will inspire new growth strategies in your own business. Interview with Fred Linfjard Is conversion rate optimization for SaaS different than traditional A/B testing for ecommerce? Our First Three Episodes 1.

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FastSpring

APRIL 13, 2023

From leading sales at Zillow to brand strategy at Tumblr to revenue at FiscalNote (a global policy platform), Justin Scott started noticing a trend. And we need platforms to be able to do that. In September 2022, Dopple publicly launched its new platform. They Launched With a Platform, Not a Product Another big advantage?

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 12, 2023

To answer that question, we interviewed leaders from many of the largest healthcare providers and insurers across the country. We’ve designed this to mirror the thought process of an entrepreneur building an AI product with an enterprise use case. What do enterprise buyers in healthcare care about most when evaluating AI products?

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User Pilot

JUNE 20, 2023

Obtaining (and acting on) users’ opinions of your product through user feedback and interviews and more. Satisfied customers are loyal customers who will stick to your brand and continue doing business with you. It is a UX research method that measures how easy it is for users to use your product. What is user trust?

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FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

In our first post about our online community , we mentioned launching the Global SaaS Leaders Slack group because we saw a need for the kind of software-and-SaaS-focused community we’d want to be a part of. More established professionals and businesses (less students and early-stage startups). Learning What Matters to Your Business.

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User Pilot

MARCH 23, 2023

TL;DR Customer churn refers to the rate at which a business loses customers within a specific period. The key difference is that customer churn measures the number of customers a business lost, whereas revenue churn measures the revenue lost due to customer churn. moment faster. #3: Want to reduce customer churn?

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Unbounce

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

PPC is a method of digital advertising in which you aim to get your ads to rank as the highest result displayed for user searches, and you, as the advertiser, pay a fee each time it’s clicked. This means that when a user types in words related to your business, your customized ad will be the first result they see— sometimes.

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Neil Patel

JANUARY 4, 2021

With over a billion active users and growing, Instagram may already be one of your favorite places to promote your e-commerce store. What if you could take passive interaction to the next level and actually buy and sell directly from the platform? Instagram Shopping is a pretty simple process for Instagram users.

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FastSpring

APRIL 26, 2022

In part two, we’ll cover five churn-prevention strategies that have been successful in other SaaS businesses. It’s likely that a finance or sales tools will be less susceptible to churn than a marketing tool, simply because it’s perceived to be more directly responsible for revenue.”. If you prefer, you can use this ?? “It’s

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Neil Patel

JANUARY 31, 2022

There are an estimated 12 to 24 million e-commerce stores. Online retailers can sell just about anything—from shoes or baked goods to software and coaching sessions. Most e-commerce store owners have no idea how to effectively market their business. Selling products or services online requires a special touch.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

About My First 16 Our new video podcast series My First 16 features interviews with founders and CEOs of fintech companies about how they acquired their initial customers and the hard lessons they learned along the way. Those teams really need a dashboard, they need an online user experience with a workflow.

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FastSpring

APRIL 4, 2024

As an experienced sales and GTM leader, John Eitel has more than witnessed how product-led growth (PLG) has affected the tech and SaaS space in the last few years — he and his teams have been up close and personal with how PLG increased in popularity as a sales strategy. “I Set up a demo or try it out for yourself. Jump to video.

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FastSpring

JANUARY 26, 2024

With years of experience at managing customer success (CS), Jake Dipple knows how important it is to foster collaboration between businesses and their customers. In this episode of Growth Stage, host and CMO of FastSpring David Vogelpohl interviews Jake about his thoughts on: What Customer Success is at a high level. And much more!

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 7, 2023

But if you’re not dealing in mergers and acquisitions every day like Carl is, you might have a lot of questions about how to best position your business if you’re interested in selling. How you should think about building a sellable business. This leaves the sale of the business a lot more vulnerable to the market.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 8, 2022

I interviewed him for insights into how to build a global growth strategy, especially when it comes to localization. Highlights from Our Conversation Where Should SaaS Companies Localize [2 min clip] David walked through a step-by-step process to assess where SaaS and software companies should consider localizing.

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Neil Patel

MARCH 25, 2021

Did you know there are more than 30 million small businesses in the United States alone? With a number like this, small business owners need a competitive edge. If you are building a business, chances are you’re looking for ways to get your leg up on the competition. It only takes a few minutes to set up a board.

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User Pilot

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

It enables businesses to make data-driven decisions. Also, it helps to personalize the customer experience and boost customer loyalty. Send out personalized content to different user segments. Userpilot is a product growth platform that can help you collect and act on your customer data. Segment disengaged users.

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Buffer Resources

JUNE 22, 2023

Welcome back to Creators Unlocked , a series where we interview creators about their best practices and advice for other creators. 👀 To keep up with Jahleane, check out her website and follow her on TikTok and LinkedIn. She has since gone on to speak on panels, host workshops, and launch The PostGrad Playbook.

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User Pilot

JUNE 12, 2024

TL;DR A customer insights manager is a professional responsible for analyzing and interpreting data related to customer behavior , preferences, and feedback to inform strategic business decisions. But there are other additional payments, including bonuses, commissions, and profit sharing that can increase the salary by $43,582/year.

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ProfitWell

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Today, we’re all about ecommerce. We have a list of podcasts for the ecommerce-righteous crew out there, plus 2Checkout hosts a webinar, and Rewind partners with BigCommerce to bring you a Black Friday playbook. The pods on ecommerce. In 2007, he and his wife started their own online store. Noah Kagan Presents.

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

You’d probably work on growing your business, right? Maybe you’d spend it creating new marketing campaigns to generate more revenue. Regardless, the average small business owner spends five hours every pay period running payroll. The best payroll services exist to simplify the process of paying your employees.

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Buffer Resources

JANUARY 18, 2024

It’s not the first time I’ve tried out LinkedIn Premium — but it is the first time I’m approaching the platform’s paid subscription as a creator.  I landed several interviews thanks to the service and would highly recommend it to those looking for a new opportunity.  Technically, yes!

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Buffer Resources

DECEMBER 14, 2023

0:00 / 0:17 1× They also tend to perform quite well – I’ve only posted a few, but they tend to be one of my top-performing formats, a win for my personal branding efforts. The post also highlights the brand's innovation and customer-centric thinking, which can inspire other businesses and marketers.

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Natalia Luneva

JANUARY 13, 2021

This obsession with getting new customers is natural: the more customers you convert, the more revenue you will make. However, the subscription business model can’t survive if you keep on acquiring new custo mers but the old ones keep on walking away. Sure, every business may have their own world-changing differentiator.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 11, 2018

What we really want to talk about are resolutions that will make your digital business better than it was last year. Regardless of whether you just had the best business year of your life or are considering a full overhaul, here are some resolution ideas to kickstart the new year. This is probably every business’s #1 goal every year.

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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. I’m an execution person.

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FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

Ryan Austin had VP-level experience in training when he decided to start a consulting business to help enterprise-level companies with their corporate learning and development initiatives. Founded in 2019, Cognota is the first and only LearnOps platform for corporate learning and development teams. How are we going to do this?

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Buffer Resources

JANUARY 15, 2024

Inaccurate, packed with "filler," or completely AI-generated — bad B2B (business-to-business) content is easy to spot and even easier to find online. Interview them. According to one study, it also costs over $50 billion annually due to wasted resources alone. But what makes B2B content good ?

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OpenView Labs

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The ‘haves’, defined by growing quickly out of the gate and then maintaining 50% or faster revenue growth at significant scale, have seen their valuations skyrocket over the years. ARR business to be top quartile in 2021 they now need to be growing at 300% or faster. This is most visible among publicly traded companies.

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ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

According to Jay, they define a "brand" as companies that sell products as their primary revenue source. And in the video series realm, ThriveHive’ s Locals goes behind the scenes of local businesses—the tasks, challenges, victories, and hustle that local business life requires. And they kicked it off with this doozy.

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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. Payments has been around for thousands of years.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 3, 2018

If Rohini’s team is making changes to the UI or the front end, they can test quickly and easily, but because their core product is payments-based, much more rigor is required compared to your typical software product. Rohini: Absolutely, especially if you’re the new person and trying to get up to speed.

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Buffer Resources

JANUARY 18, 2024

It’s not the first time I’ve tried out LinkedIn Premium — but it is the first time I’m approaching the platform’s paid subscription as a creator.  I landed several interviews thanks to the service and would highly recommend it to those looking for a new opportunity.  Technically, yes!

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User Pilot

JUNE 28, 2023

Platformly uses a progress bar and empty state CTAs to simplify the onboarding process for their complex product. Split-test your upsell pop-ups to maximize expansion revenue. Segment users by their role or goal as soon as possible to provide a personalized onboarding experience. Get a demo now! Source: Osano.

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