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How to Start a Franchise Business

Neil Patel

Hundreds of companies offer franchise opportunities: which one is right for you? Do you want an online or in-person business? There are franchise businesses in travel, restaurant, convenience stores, websites, health and wellness, business, and much more. Is it a flat fee or a portion of your sales?

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FastSpring Acquires SalesRight to Support Next Generation of Software Commerce

FastSpring

One such trend is the increasing number of software companies seeking to sell their products through multiple channels—offline through sales teams and online via ecommerce, as opposed to relying solely on one distribution model or the other. We also anticipate that hybrid models of these two sales methods (i.e.

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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.

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Avoid Trapdoor Decisions: 5 Lessons Learned from Scaling Stripe (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

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. Speaker video: Stripe is really a set of developer tools for building and operating an online business. I’m an execution person.

Scale 155
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19 SaaS Predictions For 2021 and Beyond

OpenView Labs

“The prevailing go-to-market structure for SaaS companies in the last decade is through an inside sales team. Virtually all inside sales teams were forced to go remote in mid-March and haven’t been back in the office since. Teams are starting to ramp back up, and the next chapter of inside sales is a little wild.

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SaaStr Podcast #217: Stripe COO Claire Hughes Johnson on The Trapdoor Decisions to Avoid When Scaling

SaaStr

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. We work with many of the companies who are here at SaaStr, Salesforce, Slack, Twilio, Zoho, and I hope many of you in the room. Dare I say SaaS.

Scale 120
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To Manage a Call Center Efficiently see what Employees Really Think

Upscope

Every call center ceo/manager should spend AT LEAST a full shift on the phone." Selfishly enjoying the 5-10 minutes of silence when your phone didn't ring , while trying to throw your coworkers of their game until your phone rang. ??Constantly This job has given me a fear of talking on the phones.”