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Four Sales Compensation Tactics for Consumption-Based GTM with MongoDB’s SVP of Sales

SaaStr

Meghan Gill, SVP of Sales Ops and Sales Dev at MongoDB, shares different consumption-based compensation models that drive the right behaviors. Compensation will drive it and have unexpected results. If you want to get rid of the cobras, paying for every cobra killed clearly wasn’t the right behavior to compensate.

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Usage-Based Pricing Is Popular, But Is It Right For You? Our Rule of Thumb

Andreessen Horowitz

One of the most common pricing questions we get from late-stage SaaS companies is: should we switch to a usage-based pricing model (also known as consumption-based pricing)? But just because usage-based pricing has worked for other companies doesn’t necessarily mean it’ll work for yours. How will you compensate your reps?

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Consumption-based pricing models: transition guidance for CFOs

OPEXEngine

Consumption-based pricing is best used when you can accurately and easily break down your service offering into small, digestible units. Many companies in the technology industry are moving toward “pay for what you use” consumption-based pricing models. Four pricing models. Uncommitted contracts. Challenges and shifts.

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Playbook: Scale to $100M+ ARR with a Usage-Based Pricing Model

OpenView Labs

This is why we’re seeing more and more SaaS companies—Datadog, Twilio, AWS, Snowflake, and Stripe, to name a few—find success with product led growth paired with usage-based pricing. Usage-based pricing will be the key to successful monetization in the future.”. Usage-based pricing is in all layers of the tech stack.

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Usage-Based Pricing 2.0

OpenView Labs

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. The response since the usage-based pricing playbook has far exceeded my expectations. Here’s the thing: I’ve learned a bunch more about usage-based pricing that I *wish* I had put in the playbook.

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Subscription price and customer acquisition costs

Practical Advice on SaaS marketing

Here's an inquiry from the SaaS Marketing mailbox: Dear SaaS Marketing guy, Do software-as-a- service (SaaS) solutions with a high subscription price per customer have a better chance of success than solutions with a low subscription price? It's the subscription price relative to the cost of acquiring customers.

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Usage-Based Pricing: Behind the Scenes of New Relic’s Transformation

OpenView Labs

The stock price continued to surge post-IPO, quadrupling in value between 2015 and 2018. . New Relic’s stock price plunged 29% in a single day following the earnings call. Introducing a new (and generous) perpetual free pricing tier. Shifting from subscriptions to a new consumption-based pricing model.

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