Totango

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The contract renewal stage of the customer lifecycle is a critical component of driving retention for SaaS products. Knowing how to use technology to optimize your contract renewal process can increase your retention rates and your revenue. First, we’ll review what contract renewal is and what it means to automate the process.

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 18, 2020

Merchant services exist to help businesses process credit card payments. The Top 6 Merchant Services: Square Flagship Merchant Services Helcim Payment Depot Fattmerchant Stripe. If you’re processing payments at high volume, it’s worth it for you to pay the higher fee because your volume will make up for it. Aggregators.

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User Pilot

MAY 17, 2024

TL;DR No-code SaaS tools are software products that allow users to create applications, websites, or in-app experiences without writing any traditional programming code. No-code development platforms: Webflow – best no-code app builder for landing pages and websites. Webflow interface. Pricing Free plan. Basic — $14/month.

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SaaStr

MAY 4, 2022

As your business grows in complexity, these drags on your infrastructure can impact your product development. Market trends: why is it easier than ever to build an online business? Despite all these growing pains, it’s still never been a better time for online businesses. Fortunately, it doesn’t have to be this way!

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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

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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FastSpring

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Being too occupied with development prevents software companies from giving their go-to-market strategy the attention it deserves. In reality, an unreliable ecommerce solution will largely contribute to lost revenue on your ecommerce site. Choosing The Right Ecommerce Solution.

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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. Why do developers love SaaS products?

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Buffer Resources

APRIL 10, 2024

  Whether you have 3,000 or 300,000 followers, you can monetize your Instagram with the right strategy. Consider consulting with a lawyer specializing in influencer marketing to review your contracts and ensure you're not agreeing to unfavorable terms. And this might be where your next monetization idea comes from.

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Buffer Resources

OCTOBER 2, 2023

While out in the fields, she started thinking about passive income, and it occurred to her that she could teach grant writing online. After learning about the true cost of being in business, my co-founder and I realized we needed to triple our prices and switch to a monthly payment plan option that provided monthly recurring revenue.

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User Pilot

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

TL;DR Customer communication encompasses all interactions between a business and its customers, while customer communication strategy is what you’ll use to improve these interactions amongst new and existing customers. Personalize customer communications based on user expectations. Leverage AI to improve your microcopies.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Paddle’s Senior Product Manager, Allissa Chan, and Chief Strategy Officer, Patrick Campbell, share their experience of scaling a bootstrapped startup. Instead of displaying the 10-15% discount that users will receive while signing up for an annual contract, say they’ll get $15 off or two months free.”.

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ProfitWell

JULY 22, 2020

However, today they can market their products online and set up distribution channels to deliver products directly to consumers. This is why the direct-to-consumer (DTC) strategy is gaining traction fast. Their strategy was simple. This strategy helped Away generate revenue of $125 million in less than three years.

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Neil Patel

APRIL 12, 2021

Develop a Business Plan. Next, determine your target consumer, meaning the person who needs that problem solved. Curation-type boxes offer samples of new products or items selected based on a consumer’s personal preferences. Personalized Subscription Boxes. This includes startup costs like website fees, too.

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Neil Patel

MARCH 8, 2021

WordPress outshines Wix in terms of flexibility for allowing users of all skill levels to create a more sophisticated website and customize it to their liking. Wix, on the other hand, forgoes some flexibility so beginners and non-coders without advanced needs can launch their websites in no time. A Review of The Best Website Builders.

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Baremetrics

APRIL 27, 2021

This practice is particularly vital for businesses that rely on customer loyalty or repeat purchases, such as SaaS companies and eCommerce businesses. Intelligent customer segmentation tools let you develop clear audience groups among your current customer base, letting you enhance your future marketing efforts and sales practices.

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Subscription Flow

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

These difficulties vary from increasing revenue streams (that, in return, require turning users who are free into paying customers), making sure that payments are made on time, strategically upselling users to premium tiers, and following up on late payments.

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Neil Patel

DECEMBER 13, 2022

This makes it much easier for you to succeed and have a seamless experience as you’re getting help from multiple outsourced departments. For businesses that want to fully outsource multiple responsibilities to a single provider, you can’t go wrong with Resourcing Edge. #2 The days of using multiple tools to issue payments are over.

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FastSpring

APRIL 26, 2022

In part two, we’ll cover five churn-prevention strategies that have been successful in other SaaS businesses. Part I: SaaS Churn Benchmarks Part II: 5 Proven Strategies for Reducing SaaS Churn Part III: Churn Definitions and Additional Resources. Quantitative Data Gathering: Website and Product Data. Table of Contents.

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SaaStr

MAY 12, 2022

Offering its services as a freemium-based model, CircleCI recognizes driving trials as the cornerstone of a go-to-market strategy for any developer tool. . Jim Rose, CEO of CircleCI, leverages his experience marketing to software developers to discuss the merits of moving from a subscription-based to a usage-based business model.

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Neil Patel

APRIL 14, 2021

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. It will support payment via a digital wallet offered by Microsoft.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 15, 2023

I’ll talk you through figuring out if you’re ready to hire salespeople, and make my pitch for why a founder-led sales strategy makes sense for early B2B startups. You have a hard time managing your sales team without a clear strategy in place. How do you know you’re ready to hire a sales team? You’ve got the connections and authority.

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Backlinkfy

JULY 30, 2019

Let’s help you understand these terms as you take action to improve your online business marketing strategy. Affiliate: A publisher or website owner that forwards qualified or targeted audience web traffic to an online merchant on a pay-for-performance basis is called an affiliate in the context of online marketing.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Having led sales teams at Facebook, Twitter, and now Intercom, I’ve developed and executed many of these plays. Inside we reveal the strategies, learnings, and best practices that have enabled us to build a business worth more than $1.275 billion. Keep your top sales reps motivated with development plans. Get the recording.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 29, 2024

This article is the final installment in our series, How Fintech Companies Can Simplify Their Funding Strategy. Loan servicers are responsible for collections, where they auto debit gross principal and interest payments from a bank account and wire them to the lender. Read part 1 on Choosing the Right Funding Structure here.

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SaaStr

MAY 14, 2023

You have a presentation online that’s called Unsexy, which you’ll have to explain to me later. Today, we have displayed the enterprise prices on the website today, very transparent. And you said you kept the pricing on the website? What’s the person you would’ve hired sooner? Nick : Pretty good?

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User Pilot

APRIL 29, 2024

In this article, we examine what makes SaaS renewal management so important and explore renewal strategies for preventing customer churn and increasing upsells. A good SaaS renewal strategy helps drive customer retention , increases the customer lifetime value , and improves your monthly recurring revenue. Let’s dive right in!

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OpenView Labs

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

As software pervades every sector of the world economy, the developers building it are rapidly becoming the most important buyers of technology and infrastructure in companies of all sizes. As a company that builds economic infrastructure for the internet – Stripe’s ability to connect with developers is central to our mission.

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Incredo

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

maintain healthy atmosphere in your Smarketing team, make smart choices regarding your SaaS sales model, strategy, pricing, . SaaS Sales Strategy. Do you also ignore these 5 sales strategies like most of the SaaS CEO’s do? 8 Smart tactics for your SaaS customer acquisition strategy. SaaS Pricing.

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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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Aaron Beashel

MARCH 9, 2018

They use marketing tactics like search engine optimization & virality to attract people to their website, where a portion of them will then signup and start using the product. They target professional marketers at medium-sized companies and sell their product for an average of $300 per month ($3,600 Annual Contract Value).

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Baremetrics

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Most online businesses use a customer relationship management ( CRM ) software package and/or payment processor to manage their billings because handling many customers across regions by hand is difficult, and in a competitive market there is no room for errors. For many SaaS enterprises, Stripe is the payment processor of choice.

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Mucker Capital

APRIL 6, 2024

But more often than not, founders don't have that expertise or background in finance AND they are focused on starting a business, developing products, getting out and selling, etc. Evolving Needs Across Stages As startups grow and progress towards Series A and beyond, the need for more sophisticated financial strategies becomes evident.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Identify the specific champion within the organization who owns that problem, not the person who wants to buy AI Relatedly, selling to enterprises requires identifying the specific person within the organization who owns the problem , not necessarily the person who’s most excited about AI. Transparency is critical.

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Chaotic Flow

OCTOBER 8, 2013

This is the fifth and final post in a series that explores SaaS marketing strategies that drive growth throughout the customer lifecycle using the three fundamental SaaS growth levers: customer acquisition, customer lifetime value and customer network effects. It is a seamless online experience…if you design it that way!

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Baremetrics

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Sean Ellis, who ran growth in the early days of Dropbox, LogMeIn, and Eventbrite benchmarked nearly a hundred startups with his customer development survey. And the Quick Ratio tells you at a glance if your business is growing or contracting. means you’re growing, below, and you’re contracting. Do you feel stuck?

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Neil Patel

JUNE 25, 2021

I’ll walk you through the differences between both app types so you can decide how to move forward with your marketing and development goals. Rather than downloading an app, the user pays the developer a certain amount of cryptocurrency to download a “smart contract,” or source code. What Is a Centralized App?

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