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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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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. It might be worth reverting to an earlier stage of the 4 sales commission structures. Alternatively, it might be worth moving sales teams to monthly goals or management by objectives (MBO).

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Alternative Marketing Strategies for SaaS Businesses

Baremetrics

The phone rings. It’s the sales rep from that new gym you’ve been checking out. If you chose not to answer the phone, you’d be in the majority. It all comes down to the simple fact that most people do not like talking to sales representatives. If you’re in sales: it’s not you, I promise. Do you pick up?

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Why We Created a Slack Community for SaaS and Software Professionals

FastSpring

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. are what we like to have in an online forum. As a business person yourself, you know how it works. Professional moderation.

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7 Key Takeaways from ‘Fortifying Customer Relationships During COVID-19’ Webinar

ChurnZero

Takeaway #1: Don’t be afraid to ask customers how they’ve been impacted by this crisis—whether it’s directly via phone or passively via a survey. Reaching out to customers via phone helped motivate their team by hearing customers’ sense of relief and gratitude. It’s been hard to contact customers by phone since offices are closed.

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Three chief customer officer job descriptions we love

ChurnZero

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. If a customer churns before the payback period is met, it’s a financial net loss.