SaaStr

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

sales team. We created and served up apps via the cloud on a subscription basis. I did all sorts of things there from sales, to project management, to running the engineering team, hiring. This is where I got my chops in growing and scaling enterprise sales teams. Want to see more content like this? FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

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Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Sales 267

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 7, 2024

He previously built the pre and post sales solutions team at mParticle from zero to supporting hundreds of enterprise customers. Is there a lot of internal or customer work that needs to be done or managed by your team? While mParticle has a killer, commercially focused CS team, inertia affected the team as well early on.

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Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Sales Hiring Scale 118

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.

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Underperforming Technical Team Scale Sales Hiring Marketplace as a Service 213

Stax

APRIL 15, 2025

For subscription-based businesses achieving consistent and predictable revenue growth is the holy grail. In fact, monthly recurring revenue (MRR) is one of the most important metrics subscription businesses should be aware of. Let’s get started. TL;DR MRR is the average revenue that a company expects to receive each month.

Payments 88

Payments SaaS Payments Revenue Payment Services 88

SaaStr

JUNE 19, 2024

The three core areas to focus on are: Evolving your growth engine Building and solving for when to become a multi-product platform Investing in your people and team #1: Evolving Your Growth Engine Let’s start with some context for Bitly’s journey. You might have to rebuild your marketing team. Optimize your acquisition funnel.

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Scale Scaling Underperforming Technical Team User Experience 293

SaaStr

JANUARY 27, 2024

Speaking of the long game, Matt talks about the launch of the 100-year subscription plan last year. WordPress is its own ecosystem, a vibrant community of hundreds of thousands of people who create add-ons, plugins, and develop sites. He loves subscription models where people pay for something that gives them value.

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Underperforming Technical Team Social Media Government Subscription 327

SaaStr

JULY 25, 2021

You can have the great product and a great team, but the market of small or very niche. The second one is the team, obviously depending on how earlier the team has a huge factor because you may be so early in your journey that there’s nothing else to point to, but the track record of the team. Jyoti Bansal: Yeah.

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Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale VP of Engineering 258

SaaStr

JULY 15, 2022

Jason Lemkin: You certainly can hire a whole content team and build 10,000 pieces of content, but I will tell you what I have always seen work is one incredible piece a week. Jason Lemkin: But usually your teams can’t do that. So you’re going to need at least three of those in the sales ops team. This always works.

Scale 286

Scale Outsourcing Services Sales Hiring VP of Engineering 286

Neil Patel

APRIL 12, 2021

They offer some of the best-known subscription boxes around, reflecting an increasingly popular (and potentially lucrative) business model. Why Should You Launch a Subscription Box? According to MarketsandMarkets , the subscription and recurring billing market will grow to around $7.8 How to Create a Subscription Box.

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Outsourcing Services Payment Methods Subscription Payment Features 123

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 23, 2018

Most sales and support teams are already well versed in conversations about data deletion, risk assessments and security frameworks, but those issues are going to become an even more prominent part of the discussion once GDPR comes into effect. Setting up developer guidelines will help current and future collaborations and integrations.

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Underperforming Technical Team Systems Review compliance Marketplace as a Service 220

User Pilot

JANUARY 2, 2025

The survey aims to better understand users workflows and help prioritize product development initiatives, like new integrations, that add the most value to its users. Key takeaways from this example Multimedia support adds clarity: Allowing users to attach screenshots or videos ensures developers get precise insights into user challenges.

Scale 102

Scale Churn Underperforming Technical Team Scaling 102

FastSpring

JANUARY 27, 2022

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. His podcast hosting company uses data analytics that looks at which users are most likely to grow out of their current subscriptions.

Merchant Services 146

Merchant Services Payment Services SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 146

Stax

MAY 6, 2025

From handling spikes in transactions to supporting subscriptions, omnichannel sales, and new markets, your payment processor should make expansion easier. Volume caps, poor integrations, manual reconciliation, and clunky mobile checkout are all signs your current system wont scale with you. The right system simplifies growth.

Payment Solutions 88

Payment Solutions Payment Methods Payment Services Payments 88

FastSpring

MAY 20, 2024

Moving some, all, or simply more of your software offerings from a one-time perpetual license model to a software as a service (SaaS) subscription model can be daunting, but it’s so powerful for building dependable, recurring revenue. Letting FastSpring handle the subscription infrastructure. Start small with an incremental approach.

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SaaS Payments Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions 158

SaaStr

JANUARY 24, 2024

How should you handle presenting challenges to your C-suite team when you’ve just joined the company? Lattice had a product-led growth flow on the website while the sales team was still trying to sell the PLG companies The good news is Lattice had a lot of activity and initiatives at play. Can you start and stop a PLG motion?

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Scale Sales Hiring Scaling Revenue 268

ChurnZero

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Today’s customers recognize the competition in the subscription market and look for renewal-worthy experiences built upon enduring returns. To deliver on their expectations takes true customer-centricity and a strong customer success team who can do far more than “be there” for your customers. Make customer data your guide and glue.

Subscription 98

Subscription Payment Features Scale Business 98

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. The second constituent there is the developer. Why do developers love SaaS products? Low touch you’re gonna talk a lot about what we call customer success teams. Transcript.

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SaaS Payments Metrics Payment Methods Scale 246

User Pilot

MAY 31, 2025

Intercom Mobile is a suite of mobile software development kits (SDKs) that lets you embed customer messaging , support, and engagement into your mobile app. Audience segmentation and targeting: You can create user groups based on their attributes, behaviors, or custom data like subscription plan, app version, and in-app purchase status.

Mobile 66

Mobile Software Review Pricing Underperforming Technical Team 66

User Pilot

MARCH 24, 2025

Want to advance your career in mobile product management or find top talent for your team? You will collaborate with engineering, design, and business teams to deliver cutting-edge mobile solutions that improve efficiency, user adoption , and overall product performance. Who would be a BAD fit for this job?

Mobile 52

Mobile Underperforming Technical Team Management Scale 52

Kellblog

JULY 8, 2020

Mark’s a seasoned startup executive, he’s go-to-market oriented, and he has some large-company chops that he developed earlier in his career. DK: a lot of CEOs and boards wait too long in denial on a bad VP of Sales hire. Customers should become profitable during year two of their subscription.

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Sales Hiring Startup Software Review Enterprise 145

User Pilot

AUGUST 17, 2024

“How World-Class Product Teams Are Winning in the AI Era” is one of the talks at this year’s Product Drive Summit. Delivered by Carlos Gonzalez de Villaumbrosia, it tackles the challenges and opportunities AI-revolution poses for product teams. AI enables product teams to achieve more with fewer resources. Want to learn more?

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Underperforming Technical Team AI Technical Review CTO Coach 104

Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Building on the definitions from that essay and introducing a few new ones, here are the types of business models we’ll cover: SaaS: software that businesses access online and purchase via a subscription e.g. Slack, Adobe, Atlassian. The consumer risks transacting with a poor supplier, and the company doesn’t guarantee the transaction.

Marketplace as a Service 141

Marketplace as a Service Business Model SaaS Payments Payments 141

Incredo

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

And end up wasting their time and resources with affiliates that underperform. I see many SaaS companies jump headlong into creating an affiliate program thinking it will bring in a large number of customers without much effort. In our case, we needed to invest a lot in product development. But is your website ready?

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SaaS Payments Payment Methods Merchant Services Sales Recruiting 139

SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

The SaaStock team will be landing in São Paulo to run the region’s first Pan-Latin American SaaS conference, SaaStock LatAm. In 2010, he founded Influitive, which helps B2B companies employ brand advocates for faster growth and development. She’ll be talking about her approach to sales as a team sport. Business Consultancy.

Technical Review 207

Technical Review Scale Entrepreneurship Sales Hiring 207

Incredo

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Why software reviews are your best friends and why you need them? #1 Bad reviews teach, good reviews sell Not all of your reviews will be positive. 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

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

In an era when more and more businesses adopt a subscription model, strong customer retention is the key to sustainable long-term growth and requires a laser-like focus. . Tara and her team used it to take a deep dive into the customer’s journey through the product and make a focused effort to truly understand each step along the way.

Retention 34

Retention Scale Marketing Underperforming Technical Team 34

Subscription Flow

OCTOBER 2, 2024

For subscription-based businesses, revenue leakage means the waste of potential capital which has been rightfully earned. The causes behind this gap range from errors in subscription handling to recurring billing inefficiencies. Boasting revenue is the central goal for subscription-based businesses.

Payments 105

Payments Payment Features Payment Services Payment Solutions 105

Incredo

OCTOBER 17, 2019

or “how long should I spend on developing my software ?”. To answer your questions correctly, we need to ask for clarification and more details about your software, its complexity and company goals. If you search on Google, Youtube or Quora, answers will tell you that 7%, 9%, 10% or more is the common approach.

SaaS Payments 150

SaaS Payments Compensation Payment Services Sales Recruiting 150

Totango

JANUARY 26, 2021

For example, if you sell a subscription SaaS product, a simple procedure for calculating your monthly churn rate would be: Take how many subscribers canceled their subscriptions that month. The retention rate is calculated in a similar way, except you start with how many subscribers renewed their subscription that month.

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Churn Retention Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 94

FastSpring

JANUARY 31, 2023

payment processing, gathering and remitting taxes, and subscription management) and what additional software you’ll need to add to your tech stack. In addition, they also offer a few basic features for subscription management, fraud detection, invoicing, and more. Flexible subscription management and recurring billing tools.

Payment Services 147

Payment Services Payment Methods Merchant Services Software Review 147

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

There’s sales pipeline , a 7-stage journey describing what your sales team must do to convert a lead to a customer. For your team, the goal is to share more information about your products without appearing overly promotional. For your team, this step is about making your prospects realize they need your products or service.

Sales Funnel 131

Sales Funnel Outsourcing Services Underperforming Technical Team Social Media 131

ChurnZero

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Every Customer Success team focuses on keeping customers engaged and ultimately, preventing churn. There is a 12 percentage point increase in the median YOY product subscription growth rate when training is integrated into the Customer Success plan. The bad news: It’s tiresome to answer the same questions day in and day out!

Education 98

Education Customer Success Underperforming Technical Team Scale 98

User Pilot

APRIL 30, 2024

From this article, you will find out how to develop a strong growth marketing strategy and learn growth marketing tactics for different customer journey stages. Market development targets new markets with existing products, while product development – existing markets with new products. If so, we’ve got you covered.

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Underperforming Technical Team Strategy Marketing Customer Lifetime Value 105

Neil Patel

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Everything from a site builder, perhaps using a website template to web design and using social media to develop your new business website. So then, you decide to upgrade to a subscription plan. This is just as bad as not having a website in the first place. While they aren’t extremely expensive, they aren’t cheap, either.

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Underperforming Technical Team Social Media Marketplace as a Service Software Review 145

FastSpring

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Full Interview: Audio Only Full Interview: Video 3 CRO Insights From Dave Gowans Why Full Funnel CRO Is Especially Important for SaaS and Subscriptions “The easiest and most straightforward bit of CRO is what you can do on the website,” Dave says. Stream the entire conversation or read the highlights below. Jump to highlights.

Payment Methods 180

Payment Methods SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payments 180

Totango

JULY 28, 2021

Encouraging subscription renewal. While the conventional approach has been to assign one customer success manager per customer account, digital customer success platforms now make it possible for teams to administer success at scale by leveraging automation to deliver one-to-many success management. Suggesting upsells.

Customer Success 118

Customer Success Management Underperforming Technical Team Scale 118

Incredo

OCTOBER 17, 2019

or “how long should I spend on developing my software ?”. To answer your questions correctly, we need to ask for clarification and more details about your software, its complexity and company goals. If you search on Google, Youtube or Quora, answers will tell you that 7%, 9%, 10% or more is the common approach.

SaaS Payments 144

SaaS Payments Compensation Payment Services Sales Recruiting 144