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Scaling The Top SMB SaaS Companies: What It Takes with GGV Capital Managing Director Jeff Richards and GGV Capital Partner Tiffany Luck (Pod 647 + Video)

SaaStr

Rewind The Clock — How Did We Get Here Most small businesses in pre-2010 didn’t have computers in their store or restaurant. Throw in the rise of social media and mobile web payment systems like Stripe and Braintree, and something revolutionary was at our doorstep. Everyone was stuck in place and online was the answer.

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$1M to $100M in 20 Months, The Hard Part: How Everything Breaks in Hypergrowth with Deel Co-Founder & CRO Shuo Wang (Video)

SaaStr

They focused on building a payment platform that empowers international talent and independent contractors to get paid on time in a compliant way while also ensuring that companies can hire international talent and make payments efficiently. This insight led Deel to focus on solving payments and compliance. Listen to your team.

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5 Steps Action Plan to deal with a Big Account Churn

CustomerSuccessBox

Especially, with a big account churn. How you handle, communicate with, and learn from account churn—user offboarding—is as crucial especially when the churned customer is a major account. The route includes account churn. Why should you give a churned customer a good experience? ??There What is offboarding?

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Six Startup Disciplines for Challenging Times

Tom Tunguz

This is important to project churn rates, assess timing of software payments, and estimate the impact on cash flows/burn. Dunning is the process of collecting outstanding payments and communicating with customers about them. For example, Zoom has a section of their website dedicated to helping people. Sixth, leadership.

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How to Risk-Proof Your Business with Totango

Totango

Leveraging the Detect Risk SuccessBLOC and Avoid Customer Churn . Helping you easily identify customers who may be at risk due to issues like low product adoption, poor financial standing and/or leadership changes. These simple steps help to prevent unnecessary churn and keep your customers engaged with your brand. .

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From Stealth to Unicorn in 11 Months: Top 5 Lessons Learned with Drata CEO Adam Markowitz and Cowboy Ventures Partner Amanda Robson (Video)

SaaStr

This immediate time-to-value applies to your product and the content you share on your website. As soon as users land on your website, they should get the value quickly. You want your customers to make the payment decision as soon as possible. Find where your customers are online and listen to them.

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Alternative Marketing Strategies for SaaS Businesses

Baremetrics

The phone rings. If you chose not to answer the phone, you’d be in the majority. People love talking to you on the phone – just not necessarily when you’re selling something. Buyers need to be in control When the phone rings, or an email pops into our inbox, we are put in a reactive position. Do you pick up?