Neil Patel

APRIL 14, 2021

What Is LinkedIn Marketplace? Given this new dependency on freelance laborers, it makes sense that LinkedIn, the most successful professional social networking site, would set its sights on creating a marketplace that allows freelancers to connect with companies searching for contract talent. How Does LinkedIn Marketplace Work?

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FastSpring

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Who makes sure all your online transactions run smoothly? Who creates an online marketing strategy that’s consistent with company goals and objectives? And who manages the ecommerce team that creates a seamless online customer experience? Yep, the Ecommerce Manager gets to do it all. Know the Customer.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Wherever you are in your revenue journey, adopting certain growth strategies can help you keep growing fast. Build your sales, marketing, customer success, and product development efforts around the needs of your ideal client.”. Spotlighting the success of an ICP-focused strategy . Brex then scaled its payments business quickly.

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Stax

JANUARY 8, 2024

For SaaS companies, becoming a payment facilitator (or PayFac) offers a ton of advantages—including but not limited to—boosting retention and profitability while exercising greater control over the customer experience. However, several complex types of risks come along with this. Let’s get started.

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FastSpring

MAY 20, 2019

There comes a point in your company’s lifecycle when you must decide between outsourcing your ecommerce operations or continuing to keep everything in-house. In-House Ecommerce Solution. Having an in-house solution means your company invests resources into building an ecommerce solution for use exclusively within your organization.

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Subscription Flow

MARCH 20, 2024

Keeping all this in mind, in the first section of this blog, we will first be seeing what is SimpleCirc, its features, and why exactly is it such a hot choice for magazine owners in today’s marketplace. SimpleCirc’s creative strategy guarantees smooth financial flows, which is advantageous to both consumers and businesses.

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

In this guide, we’ll discuss the benefits of buying and selling a micro startup, the trends changing M&R strategy, and the top tools you can use to sell (or buy) your startup. Your exit strategy timeline is A LOT shorter. What does this mean for startups? Micro Startup Acquisition Trends. No one wants to be late to market.

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User Pilot

APRIL 21, 2024

We also share examples of different conversion paths and optimization strategies. Build high-converting landing pages for your website visitors The landing page is the central touchpoint in the conversion path. Demo sign-up conversion path Here’s how Attest, a market research platform, converts website visits into demo bookings.

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Casey’s first sequencing business models essay talked about the transition from a SaaS business model to marketplace business model, and why it’s so difficult. In this essay, we’ll go deeper into the gradients of marketplace models that a company can sequence to, and as a follow up, we will do the same for platforms.

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SaaStr

MARCH 19, 2021

Shopify, since last year, has nearly tripled in market cap driven by the rise of e-commerce, but also the digital payments and the QR code system they provide for contactless payments. They identified 3 go-to-market strategies that have really helped propel companies to defy gravity. Cloud Marketplaces.

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Neil Patel

JANUARY 25, 2021

million active sellers on Etsy , it can be daunting to figure out how to ensure marketplace visibility. How will new customers find your store with thousands of similar offerings? The answer to these questions is simple: You need an Etsy SEO (search engine optimization) strategy. Why You Need an SEO Strategy For Your Etsy Shop.

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Blulogix

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

This evolution has paved the way for subscription and recurring revenue models to emerge as powerful strategies for sustainable growth. This model offers customers ongoing value through regular access to products or services, in exchange for recurring payments.

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FastSpring

APRIL 13, 2023

From leading sales at Zillow to brand strategy at Tumblr to revenue at FiscalNote (a global policy platform), Justin Scott started noticing a trend. They Formed a Strategic Partnership With an Agency to Work On Their Brand Positioning Dopple’s team worked with Tomorrow , an ecommerce-focused agency, to shape their positioning. “We

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OPEXEngine

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

SMB customers will want high-touch sales engagement and service delivery but SMM SaaS companies will likely not have the budget necessary to justify providing this level of sales support. Being “stuck in the middle” drives SMM SaaS companies to invest in one of two strategies. SMM SaaS Go-To-Market Strategy. Direct Sales.

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Neil Patel

JANUARY 21, 2021

Bootstrapping Tools to Create a Website. You can’t have a digital business without a website. It’s possible to build a website from scratch using an intuitive website builder. One option is Webflow , which was labeled “the development platform of the future” by Smashing Magazine.

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FastSpring

APRIL 7, 2022

Learn more about how FastSpring helps SaaS and software companies collect and remit taxes globally or localize and accept global payments. Founded in 2013, Messente developed a messaging platform that originally served businesses in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. Lauri told us their strategy was to stay location-agnostic.

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How To Buy Saas

JULY 26, 2021

Although there are several unavoidable costs an online business has to pay for, you can minimize some operational costs with the assistance of the best tools. It offers you the best of services including Expert HR. The card-based project tracking method lets everyone on your team understand project overviews, assets, checklists, etc.

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Blulogix

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Automation serves as a leverage point, facilitating personalized, timely interactions that drive customer satisfaction and loyalty. Benefits of Automating CLM Enhanced Personalization: Automation tools can analyze customer data to deliver personalized messages, offers, and support at scale.

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Baremetrics

AUGUST 24, 2021

How can we do this in line with the payment system we use, like Stripe ? Pick an efficient online payment system: Monitoring MRR Increases From Upgraded Subscriptions Monitoring MRR Increases with Baremetrics. Customer X signs up for the monthly basic plan on your website or marketplace. Table of Contents.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 22, 2020

The downside of this is that you’ll need to invest a lot of time and effort into engaging with those leads and making them want your product/service. Sales Accepted Leads, on the other hand, already had their first, second, and third touch with your unique value propositions, product, or service. But let me tell you something.

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FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

Ryan Austin had VP-level experience in training when he decided to start a consulting business to help enterprise-level companies with their corporate learning and development initiatives. Founded in 2019, Cognota is the first and only LearnOps platform for corporate learning and development teams. Ryan Austin 01:00 Sure.

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SaaSHolic

MAY 15, 2023

For startups, the speaker suggests focusing on how AI can drive customer acquisition and go-to-market strategy, while for large companies, creating a vision for AI is important, as well as focusing on infrastructure and skillsets and reshaping governance to deal with security and compliance issues.

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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.

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SaaStr

JULY 9, 2019

I’m probably the most hated person in the room right now, but please indulge me. This is giving rise to this phenomenon called leapfrogging, whereby African countries are circumventing the normal pathway of economic development and jumping straight to the latest thing. Here developers are dime a dozen.

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SaaSHolic

MAY 12, 2023

The company’s successful turnaround strategy involved launching new monetizable products, price optimization, efficiency gains, and embracing Brazil’s instant payment system, Pix. The panelists discuss the reaction of large banks to the rise of fintechs, recognizing potential partnerships and acquisition opportunities.

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Payrix

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Software companies embark on their embedded payments journey only to discover they’ve underestimated the complexity that’s involved and struggle to launch. If you’re thinking about Embedded Payments for your platform, make time to listen to this episode of the PayFAQ Embedded Payments podcast. We’ve seen it far too often.

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ProfitWell

APRIL 1, 2020

White-labeling services for SaaS products have become very popular over the past decade. A great example is LevelUp that not only develops their own mobile payment and loyalty program app, but they also white-label it for restaurants like sweetgreen and Dig Inn, so they can market and promote it as their own. Lack of metrics.

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How To Buy Saas

DECEMBER 1, 2020

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. In this saas marketing strategy guide, we are going to tell you everything about saas marketing.

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FastSpring

JANUARY 8, 2019

But when it comes to digital businesses where all transactions and fulfillment take place online, there’s a whole new set of terms you need to know in order to keep up. But don’t worry, we’ve created an ecommerce glossary that includes all the terms and concepts you need to know to have a successful digital business. Affiliate links.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 30, 2021

Developing A Winning Sales Team [16:24]. We’re focusing on how to win in the new sales era: new go-to-market strategies, deeper funnel insights and actionable takeaways for your entire organization from revenue leaders at high-growth startups and fortune 500 companies. It was relatively new to that marketplace at the time.

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

These systems make it possible for everyday users to build websites and post content without having to write code or learn programming languages. This guide will help you choose the best content management system for your website. The type of website you’re creating will also fall into this category.

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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.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 16, 2019

No matter the specifics of how your company adapts and grows, it’s crucial to be aware of how your pricing strategy relates to other aspects of your business. 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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SaaStr

MARCH 19, 2019

Niall Wall, Box SVP of Business and Corporate Development alongside Vicki Lin, Stripe’s Head of Ecosystem and Cecilia Stallsmith, Slack’s Director of Platform Marketing discuss scaling your revenue via indirect channels and platform ecosystems. Vicki Lin : Great. Thank you Ceci. I’m Vicki Lin. Vicki Lin : Yeah.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Objection handling addresses your prospect’s concerns about your product or service to create technical, organizational, and personal buy-in. What areas will require product development? . Short and long-term strategy — expansion, relocation, new technologies, etc. Don’t take it personally. Learn from your losses.

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How To Buy Saas

MARCH 12, 2021

Ecommerce, however, has understandably seen more aggressive change than most. SaaS technologies have powered this change to ecommerce, starting with who can sell, and then developing how. Continue reading to learn what the top three SaaS technologies are that have reshaped ecommerce.

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Stax

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Software as a Service (SaaS) has made business software more accessible by offering cloud-based, on-demand access to a range of solutions, from project management and collaboration to sales and marketing. Some examples of niches targeted by vertical SaaS providers include healthcare, eCommerce, finance, and education.

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