Tue.Mar 19, 2019

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The Age of the $1 Billion+ Acquisition in SaaS Has Just Begun

SaaStr

When I started off as a SaaS founder, the #1 SaaS company’s market cap was … $2.6 billion. Yup, Salesforce was worth just a bit more than $2 billion. And their largest acquisition to date at the time was (drumroll, please) $15m. Fast forward to 2019. Twilio has just bought Sendgrid for $3 billion. SAP bought Qualtrics for $8 billion.

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[Webinar Recap] How to Maximize Sales with APIs

FastSpring

So you created an amazing app, product, or platform—do you know what it takes to sell it? Or maybe you’re already selling your digital product. That’s great, but who doesn’t want more sales? Many companies are turning to powerful Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) to help them enhance their ecommerce experience and turn more shoppers into loyal customers.

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Scaling Revenue via Indirect Channels and Platform Ecosystems with Stripe, Box and Slack (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

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. They talk about how to get started building your ecosystem, measuring the value of that ecosystem and trapdoors to avoid when building your platform.

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How to Build Influential Relationships in Social Media

Nimble - Sales

In this webinar, Nimble CEO Jon Ferrara discusses how to communicate and connect on social media with Mitch Jackson, attorney, social media enthusiast and author of The Ultimate Guide to Social Media for Business Owners, Professionals, and Entrepreneurs. Mitch not only uses social media to build his brand, but he also teaches others about the power of branding and networking to […].

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SaaS: How They’re Turning Payments Into Profit Centers

Discover how top SaaS companies are earning up to $700k + and zero upfront cost with Usio Integrated Payments.

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Why WePay is Wrong About PayFac ROI

Agile Payments

Recently, PYMNTS, a leading payments and commerce industry news site published a piece on PayFacs based on an interview with WePay co-founder Richard Aberman. Hyperbole aside, we want to examine Mr. Aberman’s view and provide some balance to the conversation for companies exploring payment facilitation.

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Two key ways Payment Facilitation can change your business. Why SaaS platforms should consider becoming a PayFac.

Agile Payments

Payment facilitation, or PayFac allows a SaaS company to act as a master merchant for its client base. The SaaS provider onboards clients via a non-intrusive application process -- making it simple for the user base to quickly begin accepting customer payments by credit card.

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The 6 Best Cold Emails Ever Sent – And Why They Worked

Sales Hacker

Cold email templates are a great way to learn the basics of email copywriting as you build your campaigns. But wouldn’t it be even better to learn from proven cold email success stories that drove everything from website backlinks to booked meetings, and more? To help get you started on the right path, I’ve rounded up six examples of the best cold emails marketers and salespeople have ever sent – as well as the factors that made them work.

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Payment Facilitation and MyEvent.com : An interview with Rob Hirscheimer

Agile Payments

An interview with MyEvent.com. Early adopters of the PayFac business model MyEvent.com has successfully implemented payment facilitation and used it to grow their business and acquire new clients.

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The Three A’s of Sales Enablement: Alignment, Adoption, Acceleration

Sales Hacker

Launching a successful sales enablement program looks different at every organization but must include three things: organizational alignment, cross-functional adoption, and measurable acceleration. Kira Greer, Global Sales Enablement at Hired, will talk through how she tackled the “three A’s of enablement” and why content, coaching, and training all fit under the enablement umbrella.

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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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Why the Payment Facilitator Business Model is Compelling

Agile Payments

Payment facilitation, or operating as a “ PayFac ” allows a SaaS company to act as a master merchant for its client base. The SaaS provider onboards clients via a non-intrusive application process -- making it simple for the user base to quickly begin accepting customer payments by credit card or ACH Payments [some providers offer].

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The Investment Banking Landscape: Different Types of M&A Firms

Divestopedia

You're ready to sell your business, but you're not clear what type of banking firm to choose to help you in the process. This article provides a breakdown of each type, as well as its individual pros and cons, so you can make the best decision for you.

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Payment Facilitation: What Can Possibly Go Wrong?

Agile Payments

For the SaaS provider, potential advantages in becoming a Payment Facilitator (aka Payment Aggregation ) are compelling: payment facilitation drives ease of client onboarding and unlocks a new stream of revenue generation.

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How to Calculate Adoption Rate and its Impact on Customer Lifetime Value

Totango

If your customers aren’t using your product, then they’re not really your customers. They may have subscribed, but if they’re not actively engaging with the product, they’ll never see the value of their investment. And without a clear return in sight, they’re a churn waiting to happen. That’s why it’s important to understand how to calculate adoption rate.

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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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GoCardless and Zuora Go Live in Australia with Seamless Recurring Payments

Zuora

This new partnership with GoCardless gives Zuora the ability to offer Direct Debit as a subscription payment method for recurring payments in Australia, a significant milestone as Zuora continues to grow in APAC. The post GoCardless and Zuora Go Live in Australia with Seamless Recurring Payments appeared first on Zuora.

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So You Want To Be a Payfac? The Number One Question You MUST Ask

Agile Payments

So you want to be a PayFac? The 1 question you must answer.

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Top 8 Digital Marketing Tips For Beginner Small Business Owners

The Marketing & Growth Hacking Publication

Source Image: Pexels Have you identified the best digital marketing tips that can help you grow your small business faster? We live in an increasingly digital world. If you want to succeed in your online business endeavors, it is essential that you use the right channels to engage with your audience and increase your return on investment (ROI). In this article, you will learn the best digital marketing tips that will help you grow your online business faster.

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Product Tip Tuesday: Multi-Factor Authentication

BetterCloud

It’s Tuesday, so you know what that means—a new product tip! Up this week: multi-factor authentication (MFA), a feature that will help protect sensitive company information and your employees’ personal data. MFA adds a second layer of security to online accounts that are password protected. While not everyone may be a fan , it’s a necessary layer of protection.

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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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Subscription60: Tuesday, March 19th

ProfitWell

Hello friends, Abby here with your sixty second roundup of all things recurring revenue. It’s National Let’s Laugh Day, so whether it’s cartoons, comics, or your wittiest pal, be sure to spend it in joy. They say laughter’s the best medicine, but I’m also a fan of that subscription prescription, so let’s get into the news you need to power right through.

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PSP or MoR? How to choose the right commerce provider for your business

2Checkout

Today’s buyers are getting more demanding and selling online is getting more and more complex. Both B2B and B2C customers expect a seamless purchase experience and easy access to all the information, products and services they want, on any device and in any country.

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How do I get more from customer data with marketing automation?

Net-Results

What can you do to get more from customer data? Easy! Check out these three easy tactics. The post How do I get more from customer data with marketing automation? appeared first on Net-Results Marketing Automation.

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How to Get 10,000 Real Facebook Page Likes (for under $230)

The Marketing & Growth Hacking Publication

While a lot of younger people are certainly using Facebook less and less, there are still strong demographics of people with huge… Continue reading on Marketing And Growth Hacking ».

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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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Payment Facilitation and Property Management SaaS applications

Agile Payments

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4 Super Easy Neuromarketing Principles For Your Online Shop

The Marketing & Growth Hacking Publication

Over a year ago the field of neuromarketing fascinated and scared me at the same time.

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3 Ways to Become an ACH PayFac

Agile Payments

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The 15 Most Inspiring Sales Stories We Heard This Year

Sales Hacker

At the beginning of March, we announced the winners of the 2nd annual Sales Hacker Top 50 Awards, presented by Bravado. But because we received more than five thousand nominations, it seemed a little unfair to only share amazing stories about 50 of them. After all, there are thousands of other salespeople about whom we heard incredible things! So this week, we’re sharing some of the runners-up: the folks who didn’t get a billion nominations, but who clearly crushed it in 2018.

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.

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ACH Payment Facilitation

Agile Payments

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17 Charts That Show Where Content Marketing is Heading

Neil Patel

I started content marketing in the early days. So early that when I first met the WordPress founder, he had just raised $1.1 million for WordPress. Fast forward to today and WordPress is worth over a billion dollars. Similarly, when I first started with content marketing, there were less than 30 million blogs that existed and now there are over a billion.

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What is a Managed PayFac?

Agile Payments

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