SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Build your sales, marketing, customer success, and product development efforts around the needs of your ideal client.”. An ICP aligns your product, sales, marketing, service, and executive teams to all focus on your highest-value accounts. Brex then scaled its payments business quickly. ” .

Payments 198

Payments Payment Methods Embedded Payments Scale 198

OPEXEngine

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

An additional non-financial constraint is a fact that these customers typically lack experience in software procurement and implementation, and this adds friction to the sales cycle. Customer success is usually staffed by a mix of customer support, sales, and engineering folks contributing some portion of their time to the Cost of Revenue.

SaaS Payments 52

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Methods Marketplace as a Service 52

Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 27, 2020

In part two of our Sequencing Business Models series , we talked about the different types of marketplaces and what needs to be built to be effective in each of them. This builds on the first essay in the series of how there has been an increase in interest of SAAS-like models interested in becoming marketplaces over time.

Payments 56

Payments Business Model Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 56

OpenView Labs

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Hiring managers should prepare by putting together pitch materials (usually a 2-3 page deck) to give candidates a deeper look at your company and culture – beyond what’s on your website. Pro-tip: churn isn’t just a customer success problem; it’s a business-wide responsibility that requires contributions from each function. .

Payment Services 80

Payment Services Benchmarks SaaS Payments Merchant Services 80

SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

So growth of the kind of subscription, eCommerce industry has been over 100% year on year for the past five years, according to McKinsey. It wasn’t the case 20 or even 10 years ago, where the business models of the internet were more focused on eCommerce, marketplaces, or even advertising. This wasn’t the case.

SaaS Payments 241

SaaS Payments Metrics Payment Methods Scale 241

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

I was working on a startup that was an early mobile payment platform. It was basically using Bluetooth and an app on PalmPilots to do wireless payments in restaurants. And there’s a lot of benefit to running a software as a service, in general. My account runs my website. So if you’re ERP, boom, Workday.

SaaS Payments 262

SaaS Payments Scale Payment Services Payment Solutions 262

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 14, 2022

Regardless of the industry or the product you’re selling, the old sales playbook is falling short of customers’ expectations. If you’re short on time, here are a few quick takeaways: Focus on building services and products that meet your customer’s needs – not just today’s, but also tomorrow’s.

Scale 118

Scale Sales Hiring Payment Solutions Payment Services 118