SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

And so I’m so thrilled to welcome back Krish Subramanian, founder and CEO at Chargebee, the startup that lets you go beyond payment, billing, and recurring invoices to delivering subscription experiences that wow and what they’re doing now in the world of rev ops, trust me, it’s pretty mind blowing.

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OpenView Labs

APRIL 8, 2021

Yet pivoting from traditional subscriptions to usage-based can be just as big of a shift as making the leap from on-prem to SaaS. One way to solve for this is to mix subscription packages with usage-based pricing, similar to Zapier (screenshot below) or Cypress. Unfortunately, that’s only half the story.

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ChurnZero

OCTOBER 1, 2022

If you are going to have that mix, consider—and I’m going to go back to compensation, you throw money at the problem and sometimes it works—but think about double spiffing while you go through that change management so that there is not competition while people are figuring out how the wheels work and how the motions work.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

If people aren’t looking for your solution, you have to educate them about the problem your product solves. If people aren’t looking for your solution, you have to educate them about the problem your product solves. So virtual cards to help you buy a new subscription or do a new digital marketing advertising campaign on LinkedIn.

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Incredo

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

4) Which compensation structures do SaaS companies usually follow? What works best are regular newsletters and webinars to educate our affiliates on how to sell Transformify better. That’s because many SaaS companies pay commissions as long as the users continue their subscription. We provide sales copy, banners, keywords, etc.

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ProfitWell

MARCH 10, 2020

Listen wherever you get podcasts: Your top subscription news. After looking at 3,000 SaaS and subscription companies we saw that, in the early stages, remote companies are growing at a much slower rate than those companies where everyone is co-located. How is compensation determined? And we wrap with a very human IPO.

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Valuize Consulting

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

On the ground level, another way you get the focus and attention of Sales and CS is aligning your compensation for Sales teams around doing the right thing for the customer. So, we invested time and money in getting a 3rd party team to help educate our CSMs on how to sit in front of executives and have that conversation effectively.”. “We’ve

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SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2022

million subscriptions transacted and Google’s marketplace has seen 3X growth in SaaS sales. And I would also say, regardless of the field, is how you go about compensating this channel. If you can neutralize the channel from a compensation perspective with your direct sellers, that always helps. Rico Mallozzi: Yeah.

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Chart Mogul

MAY 30, 2019

How do you build a compensation plan for a new customer success team and strategy? Re-engaging, educating, and enabling these users is crucial to ensure success and help validate what they’re currently paying. SaaS Metrics: The Secret To Subscription Success [Slides]. Customer Success Management metrics.

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OPEXEngine

DECEMBER 17, 2019

This is true even though selling software on a subscription basis has been around for well over 20 years. In my experience working with enterprise SaaS companies over the past five years, I’ve seen a large variance in benchmarks for gross margin across subscription software businesses. The Value of Benchmarking.

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ChurnZero

JULY 12, 2019

Your promotional activities and the educational content you share with your audience need to raise awareness about a specific issue and then link the solution to that problem with the capabilities of your own solution. The subscription-based business model is rooted in the value your solution offers. The Beginning of the Journey.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 29, 2019

SaaS is about creating long-term value for your customer, and being compensated appropriately for that value as a business. This is a mobile solution for SMB’s to send an invoice and get paid. Are we being compensated appropriately for that value? The second thing is it doesn’t require any additional education.

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Incredo

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

From sales & marketing alignment to SaaS salespeople compensation. If you are satisfied with your sales model and need to learn about employee compensation model, just skip the first article. (3 SaaS Sales team compensation . And from SaaS sales models to SaaS pricing. Did we miss anything? Hopefully, no. . Really 10%?].

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Unbounce

JUNE 16, 2020

Affiliates usually receive some kind of compensation (more on this below) for their work. As a SaaS company, however, you’ll need to educate your reseller partners about how to create a new revenue stream that is supported by your app—the margin on reselling alone likely isn’t worth it for them. We were surprised too!) Check them out.

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Chart Mogul

AUGUST 6, 2019

Producing quality videos is key for success in online education. Today, people don’t need to travel long distances or sit in lecture rooms to be educated. Internet access, the subscription economy , and mobile learning (mLearning) have made it easier to acquire new skills. Elearning really is big business.

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SmartKarrot

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Customer retention in the case of our company is majorly reducing refunds and increasing subscriptions could reflect customer retention.”. The first thing you can do is offer help and maybe even a free product, subscription, or service for the time being for customers.” Walt Capell , President, Workers Compensation Shop.

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Chart Mogul

AUGUST 6, 2019

Producing quality videos is key for success in online education. Today, people don’t need to travel long distances or sit in lecture rooms to be educated. Internet access, the subscription economy , and mobile learning (mLearning) have made it easier to acquire new skills. Elearning really is big business.

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Tom Tunguz

MAY 4, 2016

Plus, value-added resellers charged buyers on a per-project basis which doesn’t align neatly with the recurring subscription intrinsic to SaaS. Developing reseller channels do require building a dedicated internal team to cultivate relationships, educate resellers, align internal and external incentives, and ensure success.

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User Pilot

APRIL 26, 2024

The CES metric measures interactions like product usage , feature discovery , subscription upgrades, support tickets, and more. After all, when customers succeed at their job-to-be-done they’re more likely to upgrade to a pricier subscription. Customer engagement score. Customer success can have a huge impact on LTV.

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Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

How To Trick Investors & VCs by Only CFO The purpose of this post is not to educate you on how to commit/detect fraud, but to help you understand some of the accounting/finance nuances that might deceive investors. Software subscriptions are the life of every SaaS business and must be accounted for properly in your general ledger.

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User Pilot

AUGUST 31, 2023

New customers bring in subscription fees, licensing charges, or usage-based payments, which are the lifeblood of SaaS businesses. Conversion The conversion stage is where potential customers make the decision to upgrade from a trial or freemium account to a paid subscription. What is the purpose of customer acquisition in SaaS?

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SaaStr

JULY 1, 2020

I’m looking at it and I’m like, “Who’s got the Wall Street Journal subscription? For us, it’s been, “Migrate things that you have on invoice over to card.” One thing potentially to be mindful of, well, I think it’s important to be educated on the companies that you’re selling into.

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User Pilot

MARCH 15, 2023

Interactive user manuals are an excellent way of engaging and educating your users, helping them to get the most out of your product, and improving user onboarding and feature adoption. This compensates a bit for the lack of in-depth analytics but means you need multiple subscriptions.

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User Pilot

MARCH 15, 2023

Interactive user manuals are an excellent way of engaging and educating your users, helping them to get the most out of your product, and improving user onboarding and feature adoption. This compensates a bit for the lack of in-depth analytics but means you need multiple subscriptions.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 5, 2020

For the last 10 years, there are lots of CEOs who could get away having high margin subscriptions software business and not really paying attention to every penny. Education, healthcare, so many. They deserve to be compensated as much as possible. The thing about a downturn is that every penny actually matters a lot.”

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SmartKarrot

OCTOBER 13, 2022

20% or more of new revenue for the most profitable subscription businesses comes from repeat customers. Product education. Compensation for New ARR/TCV. Businesses could also offer a bonus for any new annual recurring revenue (ARR) or total contract value (TCV) the CSM has generated with their accounts.

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

It includes a completely integrated suite of financial tools for company expenditure management, such as invoicing, sourcing, procurement, and cost management. KnowBe4 is a unique SaaS product that focuses on educating its users on different cybersecurity problems. Coupa is a cloud-based expenditure management software for businesses.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 30, 2020

He’s a lecturer of entrepreneurship at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, a very famous school, one of the best in the country, and part of the Kellogg Sales Institute Executive Education team. Sam Jacobs: I s it a one time engagement as a subscription? Andrew Sykes: It’s almost always ongoing.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

And there were a lot of unforeseen situations, from how we changed all of our OKRs to how we had to adjust compensation, or even reorganize the team. There’s no invoices, some are nonprofits, a lot of them are passion based businesses or organizations. In many places, sports are happening even as school is being delayed.

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