Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 29, 2019

In this week’s episode we’ve dug down into the podcast vaults to bring you some of the best insights shared by our guests about scaling sales. It’s no surprise that one of the key levers for growth as you go from startup to scale-up is your sales team. Hiring for sales with John Barrows.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Everything from hiring on the GTM side to layering in a sales-led motion into PLG. From a Go-To-Market perspective, Zapier uses a hybrid model that involves a combination of freemium offerings, subscription plans, and partnerships. Let’s dive into what’s making that hybrid model successful: PLG and Sales Led?

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SaaStr

APRIL 15, 2025

I’ll dig in, but a really great deep dive with MongoDB’s head of sales ops here: Four Sales Compensation Tactics for Consumption-Based GTM with MongoDB’s SVP of Sales MongoDB us a blended commission model for their consumption-based GTM. using 20 out of 25 features). 10k/month in usage).

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SaaStr

MAY 8, 2022

Why NRR is Probably The Wrong Core Metric for Your Customer Success Team. SaaStr 552: 5 Lessons on Building Your Sales Organization for Scale with Than Hancock, EVP of Sales @ Podium and Carlie Adams, Head of West Coast Sales @ Podium. 9 Things Your New Head of Product Should Do in Their First 30 Days.

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SaaStr

JULY 20, 2024

Dedicated Slack Channel For Every Metric From the early days at Secureframe, they have had a dedicated Slack channel for every metric: every net new sale, every expansion, every churn, and every expense. Work with Great Executive Recruiters ”The first time I saw an invoice for an executive search, I think I had a heart attack,” Shrav joked.

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Stax

JUNE 3, 2025

Whether you’re building your first product or scaling an established solution, understanding the SaaS platform model is essential for long-term growth. Top benefits of SaaS include low upfront costs, fast implementation, automatic updates, built-in security, and seamless accessibilityideal for remote teams and growing businesses.

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SaaStr

MAY 15, 2024

In this week’s Workshop Wednesday, RevenueCat CEO Jacob Eiting and Growth Advocate David Barnard share their annual State of Subscription Apps report with us. So, let’s look at the state of subscription apps and how B2B SaaS can learn from it. Churn is much higher on consumer subscriptions, but you have higher expansion revenue.

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Blulogix

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

By Kegham Khrigian The New Standard for Subscription Renewals: Intelligent, Automated, and Scalable For subscription businesses, renewals are the foundation of predictable revenue and long-term growth. Subscription models thrive on automation, accuracy, and data-driven decision-making and renewals should be no different.

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Stax

MARCH 18, 2025

However, a SaaS company providing global HR and payroll solutions may have a few hundred customers paying a monthly or annual feein other words, making recurring payments over a longer period of time. If customers want to make a switch to another SaaS competitor, it’s easier to do so, affecting the bottom line.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2019

His new venture focuses on creating a central knowledge network for scaling businesses so that employees aren’t wasting hours by chasing down important resources and company history scattered across a host of apps like Google Docs, SharePoint sites, Evernote and more. Collaboration pains increase as you scale. Short on time?

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SaaStr

MAY 8, 2021

Close say a $125k contract, even after a healthy sales commission, that’s $100k+ in the bank right now! Forcing your sales team to do collections is OK in the early days, but doesn’t work perfectly either, and doesn’t scale. Monthly invoices can make things even worse, of course. Is it worth it?

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SaaStr

MARCH 17, 2020

Learn how Pendo can help companies go from startup to scale-up here. Predictable Revenue outlined the four pillars of outbound sales development and talked about how they’re helping companies investigate markets before building out sales teams, and also explained how the company helps customers create a link between targeting and messaging.

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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

You might be surprised to know that SaaS companies can learn a lot from their consumer subscription counterparts. So even though you do need to continually win your subscriber on an ongoing basis, by the time it comes up for that first renewal, the sales rep may be long gone. 1: Balance acquisition, engagement, and retention.

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Totango

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

In a world where technology is ubiquitous and constantly evolving, why do so many customer success (CS) managers say they don’t have the right tools to bring CS teams into digital transformation and scale-up growth? More seriously, information disconnects can limit visibility into customer adoption and health.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 16, 2019

However, that doesn’t necessarily mean a “pivot”, but more often the evolution is a shifting business model as the company scales and the user base grows and changes. It’s all too easy to make the mistake of adopting a pricing model that is ill-suited to other aspects of your company, such as the go-to-market strategy or sales strategy.

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FastSpring

JANUARY 27, 2022

In this piece, we offer seven case studies from SaaS companies — small tweaks they made to reduce churn and increase customer LTV. Note: FastSpring offers advanced subscription management services that support free trials, monthly and annual paid plans, proration, discount management, and more. How Castos upsells subscription tiers.

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FastSpring

JANUARY 19, 2023

And they immediately began to see issues using PayPal as the foundation of their payment stack: “The moment we realized that our SaaS was going to be making more money in the next months, we realized that we had a payment issue, and we needed to be able to scale.” Using PayPal, software companies can send U.S.-style

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Blulogix

JUNE 13, 2025

But as companies scale into the enterprise—whether in SaaS, UCaaS, IoT, or managed services—their billing needs evolve fast. It’s a validation of what we’ve always believed: enterprise billing is fundamentally different , and solving it requires more than just subscription logic and pretty invoices. BluLogix was.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 21, 2024

So we’re scaling up the final speakers for 2024 SaaStr Annual, Sep 10-12 in SF Bay! We’re also starting to roll out sign up for 100s and 100s Braindates and Mentorship Sessions now, look for an email in your inbox soon if you are signed up for Annual! We’ll post the top ones soon! May Habib, CEO and Co-Founder @ Writer.ai

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Its customer base spans over 14,000 customers in over 100 countries. Hear from Duo Security’s VP of Inside Sales America on how to build a $2.3B sales team. Jennifer Lawrence | VP, Inside Sales @ Duo Security. We created and served up apps via the cloud on a subscription basis.

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User Pilot

AUGUST 18, 2024

HubSpot is the best customer relationship management software. Salesforce is the best sales automation tool. Sign up for a Userpilot demo and learn how this all-in-one product growth platform can help scale your business processes. Pendo pricing Pendo uses a quote-based pricing model for all four of its subscription tiers.

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User Pilot

OCTOBER 19, 2024

Customer satisfaction (CSAT) is a measure of how well a company’s product, service, and overall experience meet customer expectations. According to a Deloitte report , positive customer experiences can lead to a 140% increase in spending compared to negative ones. Next, calculate the customer satisfaction score.

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SaaStr

MAY 27, 2021

Q: Dear SaaStr: How Do I Convince My Customers with Monthly plans to Upgrade to Annual Plans? Large customers only pay via invoices, especially for any deal of any material size (>$10k a year). Invoices have their own annoying set of characteristics (they can be Net 60+, you have to deal with procurement, etc.).

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ChurnZero

MAY 23, 2025

If youve come up in your career through sales, you’re used to living in a world defined by revenue metrics. But in a subscription economy, the reality is that its far more than that. Customer success, when tied to revenue outcomes, is a strategic growth lever. Pipeline coverage. Deal velocity.

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SaaStr

APRIL 7, 2022

The company scaled from a hundred people to 800, last I know, but it changes every day. We took the series A, interesting enough, the first executive hired by, thanks to the sales coaching, actually was marketing. Growth for us is about massive scaling and hiring. Bobby Patrick: Right. Luciana: It has been quite a journey.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 26, 2022

82% of marketers say that “active customer retention” is one of the most important objectives for their CRM team , leading many Marketing and Customer Success team members to seek out new ways to understand customer pain points and improve the customer experience. Complete 360° Customer Visibility.

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SaaStr

JULY 1, 2020

An open discussion with Sam Blond, CSO at Brex, and Kristen Habacht, VPS at Atlassian, about adjusting their sales process during Covid-19. Kristen Habacht runs EDR sales at Atlassian, which I got a check today, $40 billion-$50 billion company. Four, people in the sale? Kristen Habacht: Well, there’s none in sales.

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ChurnZero

APRIL 27, 2021

As ChurnZero recently secured a Series B investment bringing our total funding that has been raised to date to $35 million, we thought we’d take a look back and see the role that Customer Success plays at each respective stage of funding for SaaS companies. Early-Stage Funding & Customer Success.

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Chart Mogul

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

When and how to launch sales and marketing is a tough topic for most startup founders. But sales and marketing are the backbone of every successful go-to-market (GTM) strategy, and getting them right can be the difference between … When and how to launch sales and marketing is a tough topic for most startup founders.

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ChurnZero

MAY 16, 2025

It’s the ultimate technology dilemma for customer teams and the execs who control budgets: should you buy or build your customer success platform? It’s harder to do on your own, and you’ll be less successful ultimately. The resourcing drawbacks of a custom CRM build. Marketing automation (e.g.,

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

When Yvonne joined in 2016, the business unit consisted of just 10 people across product, engineering, sales, and marketing. Since then, she’s helped grow the Udemy’s B2B SaaS arm to more than 5,000 enterprise customers, which include the likes of Pinterest, Adidas, and General Mills.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 10, 2022

Features like outbound messages or banners are not just great for support, but marketing and sales teams can also reap the rewards of a proactive approach. This end-to-end payment process removes the need to fumble around for customer plans or payment details. not JUST when they’re at the checkout). It’s that simple.”.

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OpenView Labs

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The usage-based pricing model allows a customer to start at a low cost, attracting more customers to get started while still preserving the ability to monetize a customer over time because the price is directly tied with the value a customer receives. If that customer winds up being successful, it’s a win-win.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Jason asked me to find the two best marketing executives that I could to talk about how to generate more leads for your company. No, keep your hands up if you want more leads for your business? So today we’re going to talk about generating leads and I think we were going to break it into three sections. Keep your hand up.

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Blulogix

MARCH 24, 2024

By BluLogix Team Mastering the Art of Complex B2B Recurring and Subscription Billing: Overcoming Customer Success Complexities Take your business further with BluIQ’s flexible, scalable, enterprise-grade intelligent billing solutions. Recurring & Usage Billing Navigating the Maze of Customer Success: 1.

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ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Per the 2024 Customer Success Leadership Study , 51% of CS teams are responsible for renewal revenue and 41% for expansion revenue. As drivers of recurring revenue, CS teams are critical to the health of SaaS organizations. And there is no world where the function does not exist at B2B subscription companies.

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Stax

JANUARY 28, 2024

Long before the digital age, newspaper and magazine companies have been using the subscription model to create and retain a consistent readership for their publications. The most potent benefit of the subscription-based business model is that companies are guaranteed a fixed revenue stream—if they can retain their customers or subscribers.

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