Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

MARCH 23, 2020

Companies which don’t use mental models risk unleashing mayhem with poor choices or becoming bloated and bureaucratic by reducing the volume and speed at which decisions are made - both scenarios are undesirable and will impact growth. OKRs are a useful mental model - they make it crystal clear what people and teams should be striving for.

Underperforming Technical Team 213

Underperforming Technical Team Scale Sales Hiring Marketplace as a Service 213

SaaStr

AUGUST 19, 2022

But maybe in SaaS and B2B things are pretty good. This morning, a pretty slow growing player, Ping Identity, slow to move to SaaS, slow to move to the cloud, struggled in some ways to compete with Okta and others, was acquired for 2.3 Michiel Rauws (@michielrauws2): So, my question is, we’ve been scaling our SaaS business.

Scale 211

Scale Sales Hiring Scaling VP of Engineering 211

Baremetrics

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The Shopify Partner system has created great value for developers and shop owners alike. It has been integral to Shopify’s success in developing the best online ecommerce platform. This makes it hard for new Shopify Partners to break into the market and established ones to maintain their market share.

Payment Solutions 98

Payment Solutions Payment Methods Payments SaaS Payments 98

Baremetrics

AUGUST 1, 2021

Acquiring customers for SaaS is a completely different ball game altogether than, say, for the traditional business models (think: eCommerce, for instance). In the SaaS industry, acquiring new leads through short-term marketing promotions will not cut it--which works as a killer strategy for the eCommerce business model.

Acquisition 98

Acquisition Strategy SaaS Underperforming Technical Team 98

FastSpring

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

An Iterative Approach to Localized Marketing. Pricing Strategies to Combat Stagflation 2022 Emerging SaaS Customer Markets How FastSpring Can Help FastSpring helps SaaS and software companies sell around the world. And I’m EJ Brown, co-host of the Growth Stage podcast and senior content strategist at Fast Spring.

Payment Solutions 141

Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Strategy Software 141

Outseta

JANUARY 20, 2020

What started as Dimitris (now my Co-founder at Outseta ) writing a few lines of code to collect rent payments from tenants he had living in a duplex in Providence, Rhode Island, turned into something worth hundreds of millions of dollars 15 years later. I was managing a team of 15 and the company had grown to about 140 employees.

SaaS Payments 145

SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Payment Methods Payment Services 145

User Pilot

JUNE 10, 2019

Marketers don’t just own “getting people in the door”—they or collaborate in sales processes, user onboarding and retention too. Developing more self-service access and training for customers should come before making new hires in customer-facing roles. Poor retention and low customer LTV. Difficulty achieving profitability.

Growth Marketing 126

Growth Marketing Marketing Scale Payment Features 126

How To Buy Saas

DECEMBER 1, 2020

SaaS is a global software solution created by different businesses in order to improve human activities in a matter of clicks. SAAS is also abbreviated as software as a service. With so many SAAS getting visibility in online marketplaces, we found that new saas businesses are struggling hard to make it to the right set of customers.

Growth Hacking 105

Growth Hacking Payment Methods SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 105

User Pilot

MARCH 18, 2021

A successful customer retention strategy requires constant iteration and innovation to keep up with an ever-changing SaaS market environment. But how the marketing team decides to tell your story will determine who it connects with. vs. The Product Growth Tool for Product Teams. Marketing + Acquisition Strategist.

Retention 52

Retention Strategy Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 52

SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Latin America is undergoing a digital transformation, and the SaaS community is exploding as a result. The SaaStock team will be landing in São Paulo to run the region’s first Pan-Latin American SaaS conference, SaaStock LatAm. Its focus is on businesses in Big Data, mobile, and SaaS.

Technical Review 207

Technical Review Scale Entrepreneurship Sales Hiring 207

Baremetrics

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Both of these tasks can rely on content marketing , for example events, podcasts, blogs, and social media posts. Your SaaS company likely uses a CRM and/or payment processing software, and the data required to compute these core metrics can be all over the place. Table of Contents.

Payments 98

Payments Payment Methods Payment Solutions Marketing 98

ProfitWell

MARCH 5, 2020

Plus, GrubHub launches a subscription to get ahead of the competition. Listen wherever you get podcasts: Your top subscription news. Thomas knows the foundation of SaaS is about providing the absolute best product for your users. To do so, he encourages things like: Offering valuable, relevant content. Ah, feedback.

Scale 52

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Airlines Subscription 52

Neil Patel

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Even though email marketing can generate a ton of revenue, it’s still not easy. Even for fully-staffed marketing teams, it can be overwhelming. Email marketing agencies are perfect for overcoming these challenges. Align your in-house team. Doing this ensures team alignment between the agency and your company.

Marketing 111

Marketing Outsourced Development Underperforming Technical Team Scale 111

User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Run your marketing experimentation The actual testing process will vary depending on the goal, hypothesis, audience, and metrics. Not every experiment will be carried out by marketing teams alone. Certain cross-functional projects will also require collaboration from customer success, support, sales, and development teams.

Marketing 84

Marketing Underperforming Technical Team Onboarding Metrics 84

Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

These companies will help you to strategize, collect relevant email addresses, create, and manage email marketing campaigns that drive business growth. Our team at Neil Patel Digital vetted hundreds of email marketing companies based on their brand reputation, client portfolio, ratings, and their areas of expertise. Bad content!

Software Review 102

Software Review Marketing Technical Review Outsourced Development 102

Chart Mogul

APRIL 29, 2020

Naturally, if users have nothing to interact with, they will not complete the user journey projected by your marketers and won’t take the necessary action (subscription, purchase, etc.). With a low page load speed, you will tend to lose potential customers, even if David Ogilvy himself developed your marketing strategy.

Scale 90

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Software Review 90

Neil Patel

MARCH 2, 2021

The audience is consumers looking for impartial, reliable reviews from an expert team. team to give them more information about your products. It’s not always easy to identify and remove “fake” bad reviews. It’s most suited for SMBs offering financial or subscription-based products, like home insurance or gym memberships.

Software Review 127

Software Review Technical Review Scale Merchant Services 127

Chargify

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Welcome back to the Subscription Rockstars series! And, of course, we will pay special attention to how their subscription billing models and pricing strategies contributed to their growth. Here’s the exact list of Russ’ decision filters : Recurring income component (selling a software/platform). Able to be executed remotely.

Subscription 40

Subscription Payment Features Consulting Business Model 40

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

David is also the author of foreentrepreneurs.com the must read blog in the world of SaaS metrics. Loving our podcast content? In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How David made his way into the world of SaaS at the age of 22. How does David think about scaling sales teams? Do you need business development reps?

Scale 187

Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting 187

SaaStr

MARCH 20, 2020

As for Rachel, prior to joining Pilot, she saw the hyper-growth of Slack firsthand enjoying a couple of different roles including Head of Growth Marketing and then also Head of Self Service and Platform Marketing. Before Slack, Rachel spent 4 years at LinkedIn where she led the product marketing team for content experiences.

SMB 176

SMB Scale Startup Marketplace as a Service 176

ChurnZero

JANUARY 4, 2019

the stuff that Customer Success teams are really meant to do). One customer success trend I’m seeing is the need to develop more repeatable customer education programs. The biggest trend I see emerging in Europe, which started at the end of 2018 is Customer Success Plans becoming a staple asset of Customer Success teams.

Customer Success 73

Customer Success SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions 73

ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

We’re talking all things content marketing (even if you’re a skeptic, listen on). Your top subscription news. And Zenefits —SaaS for managing human resources—is highlighting that change on its blog, deemed Workest. We might get a bad rap, but we're harmless (and quite dedicated). Content marketing, meet everyone.

Sales Hiring 40

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Content Marketing Underperforming Technical Team 40

Chart Mogul

APRIL 29, 2020

Naturally, if users have nothing to interact with, they will not complete the user journey projected by your marketers and won’t take the necessary action (subscription, purchase, etc.). With a low page load speed, you will tend to lose potential customers, even if David Ogilvy himself developed your marketing strategy.

Scale 52

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Software Review 52

ChurnZero

JANUARY 4, 2019

the stuff that Customer Success teams are really meant to do). One customer success trend I’m seeing is the need to develop more repeatable customer education programs. The biggest trend I see emerging in Europe, which started at the end of 2018 is Customer Success Plans becoming a staple asset of Customer Success teams.

Customer Success 49

Customer Success SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions 49

Incredo

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Do you know what role your SaaS product reviews can play in your business success? The truth is – product reviews can help you in a number of ways and even be crucial in your sales process. Bad reviews point out to your weaknesses, helping you better your customer support, product, onboarding, whatever issue they address.

Software Review 37

Software Review Systems Review Software Social Media 37

Outseta

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Before we get into the interview, a bit of background - I have hired Soren’s team at Working Planet multiple times. Soren: This was 2003, and I was working as Head of Business Development for a web engineering company in Boston. Secondly, know your business KPIs and use those as a lens for evaluating marketing performance.

Interviewing 40

Interviewing SaaS Payments Payments Technical Advisors 40