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“Vendor Viability”: It’s a Risk Big Customers Know How to Take.

SaaStr

Vendor Viability. The question for bigger customers especially on if a vendor will actually stay around if they you buy. This remains a large risk with start-ups. But it’s been mitigated to some extent in the minds of customers. With 100+ public Cloud companies, it’s now a bit clearer that at least after a certain point in time, SaaS vendors have a lot of stability.

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Which Customer Segments are Healthiest During the Downturn?

Tom Tunguz

In CloudFlare’s latest earnings report , the management team highlighted the strength of enterprise buyers within their customer base. I wondered if this were broadly true. Do public software companies with largely enterprise customer bases benefit from superior growth to their peers with mid-market or SMB focuses? Enterprise & Mid-Market public companies have seen a relatively constant decline in growth rates through the last six years.

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Ode to the $100,000,000 Exit

SaaStr

Underrated: How great of a business model SaaS is. You can literally do almost nothing but make your customers happy and usually you will still grow. Underestimated: Just how expensive the incremental customer gets beyond your core, highest velocity ICP. — Jason Be Kind Lemkin  (@jasonlk) February 20, 2023 So in the Boom Times of late 2020 though early 2022, all we talked about was Unicorns. 1,000+ Unicorns bloomed, hundreds of them in SaaS.

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38 Prompts for Buffer’s AI Assistant

Buffer Resources

Most weeks start in the same way for me. I’m sit, looking at my Buffer queue, scratching my head at what I should schedule across my social media profiles. Inspiration can be hard to come by. But recently, I’ve discovered a solution. Buffer’s AI Assistant. It is designed to simplify the process of social media scheduling, making it easier for me to come up with posts, refine my own ideas and help me create content that resonates with my audience. 0:00 / 1× Buffer's

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Beyond the Basics of A/B Tests: Highly Innovative Experimentation Tactics You Need to Know

Speaker: Timothy Chan, PhD., Head of Data Science

Are you ready to move beyond the basics and take a deep dive into the cutting-edge techniques that are reshaping the landscape of experimentation? 🌐 From Sequential Testing to Multi-Armed Bandits, Switchback Experiments to Stratified Sampling, Timothy Chan, Data Science Lead, is here to unravel the mysteries of these powerful methodologies that are revolutionizing how we approach testing.

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Dear SaaStr: When Is It “Too Early” To Hire Your First Marketer?

SaaStr

Dear SaaStr: When Is It “Too Early” To Hire Your First Marketer? In a perfect world, you’d learn something about marketing first before you hire someone to take it over. I.e., you’d experiment and at least make some progress in: Content Marketing. Can you get even 1 or 2 customers from blogging and writing? Growth Hacking. Can you get even a couple of customers by emailing to a small list you’ve built?

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Google Sheets power tips: How to use pivot tables

IT World

One of the best ways to master Google Sheets — the powerful spreadsheet app that you use in a web browser — is to learn how to build and use pivot tables. To describe it very generally, a pivot table takes data from a group of cells in your spreadsheet and presents it in more comprehensible and interesting ways. Pivot tables are mainly used to compile number data in cells, but they can also manipulate text data.

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Online Shopping Behavior Trends

Neil Patel

Let me guess: you bought something online today, didn’t you? It’s ok! I’m not judging. But do you want to know how I knew? The average customer makes at least two transactions online every day , according to PYMNTS. Their research shows that shoppers’ online shopping behavior was mainly influenced by making retail purchases or ordering food online. It’s obvious that digital shopping is here to stay (which accelerated during the pandemic).

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How to Make Your First RevOps Hire

Sales Hacker

Almost every week, Iceberg RevOps’ founder Taft Love gets messages from executives and CEOs at growth-stage companies asking for help with their first revenue operations hire. These leaders are looking for the right person to own the implementation and management of their company’s go-to-market tech stack. This usually includes a CRM and marketing automation plus any other systems related to sales, marketing, and customer success.

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What Is Revenue Leakage, and How Do You Stop It?

Chargebee

Revenue leakage is when your business fails to collect revenue it should have earned. It’s estimated that 42% of businesses experience revenue leakage — and those leaks can be staggering in terms of volume. In fact, companies lose an average of 9% of their annual revenue through revenue leakage.

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How Investors & Strategic Buyers Evaluate Integrated Payment Strategies

Explore how integrated payment strategies impact investor and buyer evaluations. Payments are more than a feature — they’re a key to long-term success and market differentiation. They help SaaS companies offer seamless user experiences and efficient operations. Investors and strategic buyers assess these integrated payment strategies as a measure of a company's growth potential and sustainability.

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Fires and gas emissions

SaaS Metrics

Fires and greenhouse gas emissions continue to be important contributors to accelerating climate change. Fires emit a wide variety of harmful gasses into the environment, along with combustion products, resulting in a polluted haze that is hazardous to human health. Fires and gas emissions that are caused by natural reasons like forest. Read more The post Fires and gas emissions first appeared on SaaS Metrics.

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Usage-based Pricing in 2023: Growth and Adoption in a Changing Landscape

Chargebee

What is beyond the cutting edge of usage-based pricing? How is its tomorrow different from today? All this and more from our recent study combining research from 300+ SaaS businesses, and expert insights from Sequoia, Accel, Insight, and OpenView.

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GetWork Raises INR 7 Crore In Pre-Series A Funding

Entrepreneur - SaaS

The fund raised will get utilized to onboard more than 2,500 colleges and over 12,000 employers, explore overseas markets and expand the GetWork Club

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6 CRM Implementation Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

CloseSaaS

Wondering how to avoid the top CRM implementation mistakes? Here are six of the most common, and the best ways to avoid them.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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Mintoak Raises $20 Million Series A Funding Round

Entrepreneur - SaaS

The company plans to deploy the raised capital to ramp up its tech stack and double down on the existing product portfolio

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Feb 20 – Customer Success Jobs 

SmartKarrot

Role: Director of Customer Success Location: United States (Remote) Organization: Muck Rack As a Director of Customer Success you’ll drive the greatest level of value, adoption, health, and retention for our current customers by leading the Customer Success team. Establish and maintain strong connections with internal and external stakeholders to make sure Muck Rack upholds its value of customer devotion and responds to issues as soon as they arise.

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Bringing Together Product Managers and Commercial Reps Unlocks PLG with Pleo VP of Product Growth, Haresh Baraj, and Commercial Director, Aiyana Scully Moorhead (Video)

SaaStr

If you’ve ever had to file an expense claim after a business event, you understand how inconvenient and time-consuming it can be. Pleo has been around for seven years and has developed distinctive ways to make the expense reporting process more manageable and efficient. Pleo’s VP of Product Growth, Haresh Baraj, and Commercial Director, Aiyana Scully Moorhead, share their stories on breaking down barriers to build trust and empathy that enable collaboration and push.

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Land, Expand, Repeat: 3 Steps to Sell More with Account Hierarchies

Sales Hacker

If you’re having trouble getting in the door with new logos, it could be time to land and expand with your existing enterprise customers – where the door is already open. When properly nurtured, customer relationships can turn one deal into a long-standing partnership that benefits both the customer and the seller. The secret to success using land and expand with enterprise customers?

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6 Reasons Why Your Integrated Payments Strategy Could Fail

If you're in the software industry grappling with integrating payments into your business model, understanding where others have stumbled can be a game-changer for your revenue goals. Discover 6 key reasons behind the struggles many face. The challenge goes beyond the technicalities of integrating a payment system; it delves into the strategic oversight of revenue shares, negotiations with payment providers, and the full exploitation of potential revenue streams.

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How to Improve User Onboarding: 15 Actionable Tips

User Pilot

Wondering how to improve user onboarding and boost customer retention? The SaaS world is more competitive than ever before. Your user onboarding strategies must help customers understand your product and obtain value for you to compete favorably and achieve more conversions. In this article, we consider what makes the customer onboarding process important and go over 15 tips to help you nail your onboarding.

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Email Onboarding for SaaS: How To Set Users up for Success

User Pilot

The trickiest but most rewarding stage of the customer journey is user onboarding. If you make a good first impression with new users, you’ll make the rest of the process easier for your customer success team and reduce churn in the process. Email onboarding is an effective way to streamline the process for new customers, so let’s take a closer look at a few onboarding email examples and five best practices to follow!

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15 Great User Onboarding Examples to Inspire Your Team

User Pilot

In SaaS, smooth user onboarding is essential to engage and activate users. But what are some good user onboarding examples that can explain this better? In this article, we’ll cover what user onboarding is, why it’s important for SaaS businesses, and how successful companies have implemented it. So if you want to learn how to apply the best onboarding practices in your business, keep reading.