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The 6 Most Common Mistakes Founders Make When They Are Just Starting to Scale Revenue

SaaStr

Dear SaaStr: What are The Most Common Mistakes Founders Make When They Are Just Starting to Scale Revenue? One of the biggest mistakes I see after $1m in trying to enter new market segments, new verticals, where you have zero traction. It’s a ton of reps, higher absolute marketing spend, more CSMs, etc. The “I Give Up” VP Hire.

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Clouded Judgement 3.22.24 - ERR vs ARR and the Conundrum of AI Revenue Streams Today

Clouded Judgement

Subscribe now ARR (Annual Recurring Revenue) vs ERR (Experimental Runrate Revenue) ARR (Annual Recurring Revenue) is one of the most popular SaaS (Non-GAAP) metrics. On top of that, churn and expansion tend to be quite predictable with low volatility. Why do software companies get “credit” simply for revenue?

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Big Companies Don’t Churn. They Quit You.

SaaStr

Churn” is a term we all use in SaaS as a core metric, but its roots, as near as I remember and can tell, come from our B2C colleagues. Folks churn out of their Verizon plan, their Netflix subscription, etc. And sometimes they’ll churn even just for a modestly better deal. the dynamics are similar.

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How Revenue Leaders at Box, Calendly, and Lattice Scaled From $0 to $100M+ and Beyond

SaaStr

What should you look for in an Enterprise rep vs. a Mid-Market rep? How do you diagnose and solve churn? Solving High Volume, Low Conversion at Lattice Dini Mehta joined Lattice at $3M in revenue when it had just 10 people in seat for Go-To-Market and 7 salespeople. Attune sellers for one or the other.

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4 Competencies of a Successful Sales Team

Speaker: Collin Stewart, Co-Founder & Co-CEO, Predictable Revenue

After identifying that you have a great product that the market needs, the next step is to determine if you have the proper messaging, if you are using the correct channels, and if you have the most effective tactics in place. Sales effectiveness = Product Market Fit*(Messaging + Channels + Tactics).

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SaaS Churn: Myths, Benchmarks, and Strategies to Retain More Revenue

FastSpring

In the language of SaaS, I churned. And the experience got me thinking: Was immediate removal of paid features the best chance to keep me from churning? When did I officially count as “churned”? Did they count me as churned on the day I canceled? In part one, we cover benchmarks and common churn formulas.

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Top SaaStr Content for the Week: Amplitude CEO, DigitalOcean CMO, G2 CMO, Podium SVP, Revenue Marketing, and More!

SaaStr

SaaStr 545: Marketing to Developers: Why Happy is Our Hack with DigitalOcean CMO Carly Brantz and SaaStr GM & SVP, Marketing Amelia Ibarra. Navigating the CRO and CMO Relationship with G2 and SalesLoft: Mike Weir, Chief Revenue Officer, G2; Steve Goldberg, Chief Revenue Officer, SalesLoft; Amanda Malko, CMO, G2.

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Monetizing Analytics Features: Why Data Visualizations Will Never Be Enough

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your embedded analytics. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.