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. Sticky after all. Four ways to drive value.

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OpenView Labs

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

As part of our last three annual finance and operating benchmarks surveys, we’ve asked nearly 2,000 startup founders and leaders of B2B SaaS businesses this simple question: “What’s keeping you up at night?”. Simply having a good business and vision isn’t enough to win over candidates. This data point isn’t like our typical benchmarks.

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SaaSOptics

MAY 19, 2022

Customer Acquisition is the process of acquiring new customers in a business. 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. Below, we’ll dive into how to develop a customer acquisition strategy from start to finish. .

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A Smart Bear

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

The implication is that this was unknowable or bad luck, but the truth is, this was a predictable result of not understanding the market. Sometimes that’s a dream team that weathers the storm that sinks the other boats. The bad news is, you don’t know ahead of time what that thing will be. Pricing determines everything else.

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 24, 2020

While looking through your business objectives, you suddenly feel your organization needs to shake things up a bit. Unfortunately, your in-house team doesn’t have the required expertise to push through change. Let’s face it: None of us know everything about growing and managing a business. So what do you do?

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 23, 2019

Last week, I got a marketing email announcing a major promotion (three months free) about a product I had just purchased and paid full price for. Needless to say, this made him look bad in my eyes. This left a bad taste in my mouth as the company clearly valued new business more than existing customers. Here’s the upside.

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OpenView Labs

APRIL 13, 2020

Proliferation of iterative, experiment-driven, nimble approaches to product development (also known as Agile). The convergence of these changes has led many to realize that “growth” is a team sport. Decisions made within the product can dramatically impact the success of a marketing team and the growth of a company.

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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. The second constituent there is the developer. Why do developers love SaaS products? The last kind of constituent here is investors and business owners.

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Neil Patel

APRIL 20, 2021

Whether you’re selling a digital product online or you run a brick-and-mortar business, these behavioral neuroscience principles will work for you. Until that happens, you’ll find it difficult to sell your actual products or services. Most people and companies think products and services sell because of their great features.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 11, 2019

In a company’s early days as a lean, mean, business machine, it’s fairly easy for leadership to stay in sync with their users. But as the business becomes more successful – and there are resources to build a support team – additional layers begin to separate executives from their customers. Speak the customer’s language.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Congratulations you’ve built a product that’s proven itself in the marketplace! They told us they would do tons of all this pricing stuff and help us with hiring and introduce us to customers, and all of these things. Your sales team becomes more efficient, your customer success team becomes efficient, your customers like you more.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 22, 2020

The downside of this is that you’ll need to invest a lot of time and effort into engaging with those leads and making them want your product/service. Sales Accepted Leads, on the other hand, already had their first, second, and third touch with your unique value propositions, product, or service. The answer lies in pop-ups.

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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). A CFO can help you safely manage your growth during times of increasing business complexity without overextending your runway. Hiring a CFO. The path to success is not linear.

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Neil Patel

AUGUST 4, 2021

There’s no doubt about it: a successful video marketing campaign will absolutely transform how your business operates. On average, video content is shared 1200 percent more than text and image posts combined – making it the perfect pursuit for businesses looking to increase their organic reach. Is this goal achievable?

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SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

Our monthly self-service churn went from like 3% to like 9%, right? If something bad happens, you’re going to have to cut your burn, probably. There is one thing, I love this quote and it’s a little bit of a crude quote, not that it’s bad language-. What do you do with that lightly toxic person on your team?

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SaaStr

AUGUST 16, 2019

During his 5 years at PatientPop, Justin grew sales from $0 to $56m alongside the full build-out of the sales team. As a manager observing their team, what are signs that an individual is burning out? What actions and communications must they adopt to ensure that this feeling of culture over performance is accepted by the team?

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SaaStr

MARCH 20, 2020

317: Rachel Hepworth is VP of Marketing @ Pilot, the startup that offers the best bookkeeping, tax and CFO services for growing businesses. Before Slack, Rachel spent 4 years at LinkedIn where she led the product marketing team for content experiences. But if I’m really honest, what drew me to the company was their logo.

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FastSpring

APRIL 13, 2023

When Justin and his initial team started looking for a way to capitalize on VR/AR technology, they focused their attention on the “made-to-order” industrial market. But Dopple’s team took the opposite approach. We want people that are trying to do something a little different and lean into future-proofing their business.”

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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. Some solutions, like Slack or Microsoft, are useful for any kind of business. But not all SaaS products are alike.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Sales development representative roles have grown 5.7X If you’re one of them, that’s both good news and bad: It means sales is growing, but you’re going to have a lot of competition getting started. Ideally the solution is your product or service, but even if it isn’t, your goal should be to solve the customers problem.

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Neil Patel

JANUARY 20, 2021

Can businesses keep succeeding with this decline in organic reach? That’s fine – but it leaves so much opportunity on the table to drive real results for your business. In turn, the price of converting these potential buyers into actual buyers will be less. Post your team photos like Zappos. Absolutely.

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User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Blue ocean strategy has become an increasingly popular business framework over the past two decades, especially in the SaaS industry. This strategy rejects traditional competitive business frameworks focused on outperforming rivals. The focus is on developing new demand and reconstructing market landscapes to make rivals obsolete.

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SaaStr

MAY 15, 2020

Tidelift has raised over $40M from some of the best in the business including Foundry Group and General Catalyst. Where do most teams go wrong in implementing the role out of their CS strategy? Does Bridget believe CS teams should be involved in the upsell process? As for Bridget, she has the most incredible track record.

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Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The SaaS Metrics That Matter by David Sacks, Ethan Ruby One of the best features of SaaS businesses is how easy they are to measure. 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. Source SaaS Metrics 2.0:

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

Sales Development and Prospecting. The Sales Development Playbook. The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team. Here are the best books on selling (and related disciplines) that can help you hit your goals and develop your career. ” When we break the Laws, we pay the price. Selling to Big Companies. B2B Is Really P2P.

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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

The SaaStock team will be landing in São Paulo to run the region’s first Pan-Latin American SaaS conference, SaaStock LatAm. Afterward, Patrick founded several businesses in diverse sectors, including tech, healthcare, and finance. Its focus is on businesses in Big Data, mobile, and SaaS. Patrick Campbell, CEO, ProfitWell.

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User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Blue ocean strategy has become an increasingly popular business framework over the past two decades, especially in the SaaS industry. This strategy rejects traditional competitive business frameworks focused on outperforming rivals. The focus is on developing new demand and reconstructing market landscapes to make rivals obsolete.

Strategy 52

Strategy Technical Review Business Innovation 52

SaaSOptics

APRIL 7, 2022

Product-led growth is much more than a growth hack, pricing strategy, or industry buzzword—It’s an organizational framework used by B2B SaaS companies to answer one simple question: “How can we get our product to sell itself? What Does Freemium Mean in Business? Is Freemium a Good Business Model?

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Neil Patel

APRIL 5, 2023

Now, I’m not saying using competitor research tools can give you everything you need for a successful business. If you want a leaner, more efficient, and proven way of doing business, read on while I discuss some of the best competitive research tools available. Finally, how will you leverage these insights to elevate your business?

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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. With so many SAAS getting visibility in online marketplaces, we found that new saas businesses are struggling hard to make it to the right set of customers.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Renaud Visage, Co-Founder of Eventbrite, and Romain Huet, Head of Developer Relations at Stripe, know what it takes to effectively evolve your offering into a platform without losing what made offering appealing in the first place. Romain Huet | Head of Developer Relations @ Stripe. Want to see more content like this?

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Seems like that doesn’t work too well given all of the companies that have attacked Craigslist from different angles and built bigger businesses than it. This isn’t a bad idea, and why companies like Facebook continued to grow despite adding more and more complexity over time. We work with small businesses and independent creators.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Never believe that doubting yourself is a bad thing. That company only lasted another year before they were out of business, so it was a poor use of my energy, time, and being away from my family – a lesson I work to pass on to others new in roles today. Invest in your development internally and externally.

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

After all, this data allows you to create a winning marketing strategy and grow your business. If you could visualize your data and share your findings with key team members? Power BI (short for business intelligence), a Microsoft tool, makes all of this (and more!) Choose Pricing Structure. The problem? What Is Power BI?

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

How does Rob think through pricing today in a way that encourages land and expand? How does Rob think about usage vs seat-based pricing in SaaS? How should sales and marketing work together on pricing? You look at the forward-looking ARR multiples on the stock price, and they were a lot lower back then.

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Chart Mogul

APRIL 24, 2020

With a pandemic underway, software-as-a-service businesses, in normal times the beneficiaries of relatively stable compounding growth, are now facing an existential threat: recurring revenue streams are drying up, at least in part. Was that the last wave of bad news?’ ‘I’m How bad will it get? Arrested attention.

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How To Buy Saas

MAY 22, 2022

Target Audience: A CRM platform primarily serves salespeople, but a marketing automation system assists members of the team is focusing on marketing. Marketing Automation refers to the process of using an automation service to automate repetitive marketing tasks. This is where marketing automation can help your business.

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