October, 2022

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SaaS Multiples Are Down 75% From a Year Ago

SaaStr

There are so many metrics out there these days on how public SaaS companies are doing. Versus last week, last month, etc. etc, So many metric sometimes it’s a little hard to get a handle on what they all mean.

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7 Easy Steps to Improve SEO Ranking

The Daily Egg

Are your competitors outranking you? If they are, it’ll have a negative impact on your business, blog, or whatever kind of website. The post 7 Easy Steps to Improve SEO Ranking appeared first on The Daily Egg. Website

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Why Segmentation is Key for SaaS Email Marketing

Predictable Revenue

Jane Portman joins the Predictable Revenue podcast to discuss why segmentation is key for email marketing and how to properly segment outbound sales campaigns. The post Why Segmentation is Key for SaaS Email Marketing appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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Kalvify - Product Life Fit

Tamizhvendan S

A software platform to empower educators and content-creators to create e-learning websites to sell memberships, online courses and make money

Education 246
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Embedded vs. Integrated Payments: The Ultimate Guide

The terms embedded and integrated sound pretty similar. And they are, in some ways. Both have to do with getting payment capabilities closer to the process they're associated with and improving the customer experience. But there are important differences.

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What the New Google Search Essentials Tells Us About SEO

Neil Patel

Are you familiar with Google’s Webmaster Guidelines? It has been around for years (until now), and it broke the dos and don’ts of SEO. But it was outdated. So, Google replaced it with Search Essentials which gives you a whole new set of requirements if you want to do well with SEO.

AI 145

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Linking Multiple Accounts to a Contact in Salesforce

CloudKettle

Introduction Picture this: you’re building out a data model where you need to link a Contact to multiple Accounts. Maybe Contacts have relationships with a variety of companies that you need to track.

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Five Pillars of PLG with Carilu Dietrich

Tom Tunguz

Yesterday, Office Hours hosted Carilu Dietrich, marketer at Atlassian & advisor to many iconic product-led growth companies (PLG). She’s seen many different types of businesses from startups to massive publicly traded software companies.

Cloud 278
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The three golden rules of a customer-centric subscription business

ChurnZero

This article was originally published on Forbes.com. . Customers’ expectations are changing. Not in terms of how much they expect, because customer expectations have always been high—but in terms of what they expect.

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Is communication the most important part of any business?

SaaS Metrics

When we speak of business, the concept of communication and communications often differ, but they both serve to achieve the same end goal of ensuring a business is running smoothly and efficiently.

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The Definitive Guide to Dashboard Design

Why does dashboard design matter? Because it can be the difference between users embracing your product or ignoring it altogether. Avoid common pitfalls by mastering these dashboard design best practices.

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Dear SaaStr: What Are Some Lies Founders Tell Themselves?

SaaStr

Dear SaaStr: What Are Some Lies Founders Tell Themselves? #1 1 Lie. That it will get easier. It never gets easy, but it can get less difficult: You get better. You constantly learn, and in not that long of a time, become one of the experts in your space.

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Google Ads vs. Facebook Ads

The Daily Egg

Google Ads and Facebook Ads are the two OG online advertising platforms. But who wins in the battle of the tech giants? The post Google Ads vs. Facebook Ads appeared first on The Daily Egg. Website

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Boosting Up Sales: Coaching Your Current Sales Team or Hiring Externally?

Predictable Revenue

Which is the best way to boost sales development at your company, coaching or hiring an external sales team? Learn which option is best for your organization. The post Boosting Up Sales: Coaching Your Current Sales Team or Hiring Externally? appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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Sales Efficiency through Covid : Reading the Tea Leaves for Startups

Tom Tunguz

In 2017, SaaS companies reported their cost of customer acquisition had increased by 65% in the previous five year period. What happened to these figures during Covid? We can examine the sales efficiency of public software companies to get a sense.

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Zeroing in on Cloud Technical Risk for Targeted Customer Impact

Need to get business and technical stakeholders aligned on cloud investments? Get practical guidance from the AWS experts at CloudGeometry to stay ahead of risks to cloud security, cost, and reliability – and keep customers loyal and confident.

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Key Takeaways from the 2022 KeyBanc SaaS Metrics Survey

Kellblog

KeyBanc Capital Markets (KBCM) recently published their 13th annual private SaaS company survey. This post has three purposes: to let you know it’s out, to provide you with a link so you can get it, and to offer some quick takeaways on skimming through the results.

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How customer success teams drive value through collaboration

Totango

Recent years have seen an astonishing rise in the popularity of subscription-based products and services. The world of ownership is being replaced by Spotify, Hulu, Amazon Prime, and a host of other on-demand services.

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The Simple Reason Startups That Just Raised $100s of Millions Are Doing Layoffs

SaaStr

So this is a simple post, it would almost do better as a Quora answer, if folks still really read Quora. But I thought it was worth writing up, because what’s happening on Twitter and the internet these days is confusing on many levels.

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Zoom Webinars vs. Zoom Meetings

The Daily Egg

Zoom Webinars and Zoom Meetings are both parts of the Zoom ecosystem—they’re both video conferencing solutions that are designed to help you. The post Zoom Webinars vs. Zoom Meetings appeared first on The Daily Egg.

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Contact vs. Company Intent Signal Data

Intent signal data comes in two types: either companies or individuals signaling interest in products like yours. Which kind of data delivers more advantages to B2B marketers? It depends. Get this infographic to learn about the advantages of intent-based leads and how you can most effectively use both types of data.

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5 Steps To Build An Outbound Sales Team From The Ground Up

Predictable Revenue

Learn five steps to build an outbound sales function, including how to navigate the hiring process, train your sales team, and set up foundations to scale. The post 5 Steps To Build An Outbound Sales Team From The Ground Up appeared first on Predictable Revenue. Blog Outbound Sales Development

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How Low Could Valuations Go?

Tom Tunguz

The public software market continues to compress. Enterprise-value-to-forward-revenue multiples are now below 2016 levels for the first time in 6 in years. The 25th percentile of companies trade at 3.3x today compared to 4.0x in 2016. The median or 50th percentile trade at 4.9x vs 5.6x.

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Lazy NRR is Not NRR. Accept No Imitations or Subtitutes.

Kellblog

The other day I was looking at an ARR bridge [1] with a young finance ace. He made a few comments and concluded with, “and net revenue retention (NRR) is thus 112%, not bad.”. I thought, “Wait, stop! You can’t calculate NRR from an ARR bridge [2].” It’s a cohort-based measure.

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How to Increase Net Dollar Retention (NDR) Using Automation

Sage Intacct

Net dollar retention (NDR) is one of SaaS companies' most critical revenue-based metrics. It is material because NDR is the KPI that tells you the percentage of revenue you either gained or lost from your existing customer base over a given period.

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The SaaS Payments Journey: Important Steps to Consider

For many SaaS companies, becoming a Payfac is an opportunity to benefit from a new revenue stream and gain more control over the customer experience, so no hiding what’s behind the curtain here. We’ve outlined the journey from SaaS to full-blown Payfac.

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Dear SaaStr: What Are the Advantages and Disadvantages That a Founder CEO Has Over a Normal CEO?

SaaStr

Dear SaaStr: What Are the Advantages and Disadvantages That a Founder CEO Has Over a Normal CEO? A founder-CEO has 4 big advantages: She/he can make big bets. Mark Zuckerberg spent 10% of Facebook’s shares to buy WhatsApp. Without even allowing much board-level discussion.

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Atom vs. Visual Studio Code

The Daily Egg

Atom and Visual Studio Code offer similar HTML editing experiences. You get a modern interface with easily installable plugins presented in a. The post Atom vs. Visual Studio Code appeared first on The Daily Egg. Website

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Why You Should be Doing Data-Driven Sales Management

Predictable Revenue

Peter Kazanjy joins the Predictable Revenue podcast to discuss why you should be using data to drive your decisions as a sales development manager. The post Why You Should be Doing Data-Driven Sales Management appeared first on Predictable Revenue. Blog Outbound Sales Development Podcast Show Notes

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Office Hours with Carilu Dietrich - Marketing for Hypergrowth Companies

Tom Tunguz

On October 18th at 10am Pacific, Office Hours will host Carilu Dietrich. Carilu headed corporate marketing for Atlassian from $150m to $450m in revenue & through their massively successful IPO.

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The Definitive Guide to Embedded Analytics

Data-driven decisions are no longer reserved for the few. Everyone needs data insights from the applications they use every day. Learn how embedded analytics is boosting user adoption, creating apps people love, and changing the game for software and SaaS providers.

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The Mental Mapping from Annual to Monthly and Usage-Based SaaS Metrics

Kellblog

A guy walks into a bar and orders a $17 Martini. Is it MRR (monthly recurring revenue)? The potentially surprising answer: maybe, and often yes. If he’s a tourist who happened to walk in, then no, it’s not MRR.

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Online privacy: Best browsers, settings, and tips

IT World

“You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it,” Scott McNealy said of online privacy back in 1999, a view the former CEO of the now-defunct Sun Microsystems reiterated in 2015. Despite the hue and cry his initial remarks caused, he’s been proven largely correct.

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Seasoned VPs Cost 10x a Stretch VP Now. Is It Worth It?

SaaStr

So That VP That Has Done it Before always cost more than the stretch VP. They ask for more salary, and a bigger team. As they should. But in the past few years, the gap has grown and grown.

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