Buffer Resources

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Why this works : This approach works because it provides a real-world example of how the product (Passionfroot) solves a specific problem (inefficient and inconvenient ways of organizing sponsorships and tracking payments). In this post, Thinkific promotes a webinar featuring Jon Youshaei, a top creator and educator. 

Social Media 122

Social Media Payment Methods Payment Solutions AI Search 122

Kellblog

JANUARY 30, 2021

I certainly didn’t have “global pandemic” on my 2020 bingo card and, even if I somehow did, I would never have coupled that with “booming stock market” and median SaaS price/revenue multiples in the 15x range. Leadership matters. The nature of the business changed, so why shouldn’t the multiple change with it?

Technical Review 143

Technical Review Payment Services Payments AI Search 143

OPEXEngine

JULY 28, 2020

While companies like Amazon, Alphabet, Tencent or Adobe might not label what they do a formal “strategy process,” their success owes much to tried and true principles of strategy development. What they don’t do is get bogged down in process or complexity. It also involves adopting a new mindset.

Payment Solutions 52

Payment Solutions Strategy Payment Services Scale 52

SaaStr

OCTOBER 29, 2019

SaaS is about creating long-term value for your customer, and being compensated appropriately for that value as a business. Learn actionable monetization tips from a Product/Growth operator turned VC. Built out a bunch of the orb across product, data, analytics to do much of the same work, to drive retention and monetization.

Payments 100

Payments Pricing Compensation SaaS Payments 100

SaaStr

JULY 9, 2019

Giraffe is a mobile job matching platform that helps medium skilled workers get access to opportunities and helps businesses to recruit staff faster, and easier, and more affordably than any other way. Our first MVP was actually an SMS based app where job seekers would send six SMSes in order to register on our platform.

Scale 167

Scale Sales Recruiting Scaling SaaS Payments 167

SmartKarrot

MARCH 23, 2023

Demonstrating our SaaS platform online. Sell customers on the benefits of the Robin AI platform. Aid in developing instructional materials and training programmes to support customer education. Collaborate on fundamental customer success KPIs and performance with the senior leadership team and larger go-to-market team.

Customer Success 19

Customer Success Payments Underperforming Technical Team Payment Services 19

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

As for Krish, under Krish’s leadership the team has grown to over 300 people and over 5,000 clients making it one of the next generation in truly global SaaS businesses started in India. How do you think about services revenue streams today in SaaS, especially when scaling into enterprise?

Scale 134

Scale SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting Payment Services 134

SmartKarrot

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Role: Vice President, Customer Success Location: Alpharetta, GA, US (On-site) Organization: Global Payments Inc. As a Vice President of Customer Success, you will be responsible for building and sustaining the strategic relationship with our customers and the revenue. Hire, train, and retain a team of account managers.

Customer Success 19

Customer Success Sales Hiring Payment Methods Payments 19

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Our product alleviates the need to send out direct mail to collect payments from customers.). Within a 10-K you can look at fascinating revenue numbers, company initiatives, industry trends, and other wonderful nuggets of information that you can use for prospect personalization. Next, look for the 1A: Business Overview.

Enterprise 106

Enterprise Payment Methods Payment Services Sales Hiring 106

OPEXEngine

JUNE 9, 2020

You may be too busy reacting to the crisis to think about recovery at this moment, but research shows you will want to act before the crisis ends if you want the fastest recovery. Recent survey data from Global Research shows there is an expectation of -20% hit to the 2020 professional services revenue forecast.

SaaS Payments 59

SaaS Payments Payment Services Technical Review Payment Methods 59

SaaStr

OCTOBER 27, 2022

At SaaStr, our partners are an integral part of our events. That’s why we give boards and leadership teams an elegant solution that simplifies governance. Launched in 2011, today, OnBoard serves as the board intelligence platform for more than 2,000 organizations and their 12,000 boards and committees in 32 countries worldwide.

Merchant Services 275

Merchant Services Payment Solutions Onboarding Payments 275

Baremetrics

AUGUST 30, 2021

This platform is free to use, but how will my private data be handled? These are very important questions to be asking, and show that we’ve gotten wise to some of the more questionable marketing tactics and business practices we’ve been subjected to over the decades. Great, but is it actually good value, and do I really need it?This

Payment Methods 98

Payment Methods SaaS Payments Strategy Marketing 98

SmartKarrot

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Collaborate with customer value leadership to drive growth and scalability through ongoing internal Databook projects and initiatives. Power the growth of your merchants in multiple channels, through proactive advisory in Adyen’s products and services as well as the international payments landscape. Promote the value of the product.

Merchant Services 19

Merchant Services Customer Success Payment Services Sales Hiring 19

SaaStr

OCTOBER 10, 2019

So you can create this online interactions that are amazingly beautiful without any need for codes and without any, let’s say, true design education. Is the creating process a clear easy, are we guiding you well enough? And so this let’s say integrations and also time to value and working through these.

Scale 142

Scale Scaling Payment Methods SaaS Payments 142

SmartKarrot

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

A subscriber generates good revenue for the business. An increase in CLV is possible with each subscription payment which increases profitability. You can also improve revenue through upsells, cross-sells, and other means. Recurring revenue requires better relationships with customers. The change of roles .

Subscription 10

Subscription Payment Features Payment Services SaaS Payments 10

User Pilot

MAY 8, 2024

It gives the product a competitive advantage, improves brand reputation, and propels revenue growth. Common needs are related to functionality, reliability, usability , integration , support, customization, and cost-effectiveness. Educate customers with resources in multiple formats like blogs, webinars , or videos.

SaaS Payments 105

SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services Payments 105

SmartKarrot

MARCH 8, 2022

An exceptional thought leader and a brilliant coach to thousands of executives, Allison Pickens, is a leading expert on recurring revenue growth. Her portfolio is gilded with leadership roles like board director, investor, COO, and P&L owner. She has led several high-tech companies to build a customer-centric business culture.

VP of Engineering 21

VP of Engineering Customer Success Scale SaaS Payments 21

Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

Integrity Selling for the 21st Century. Strategy and Process. Predictable Revenue. Wooden on Leadership. Leveraging transparency and vulnerability in your presentations and your negotiations leads to faster buyer consensus, larger deals, faster payments, longer commitments and more predictable sales forecasts.

Scale 141

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Payment Methods 141

SmartKarrot

JULY 22, 2022

Work closely with leadership in Customer Marketing, Account Management, and Implementation to deliver value across the customer lifecycle and proactively tackle bottlenecks to customer value realization. Plans and executes strategies to drive new revenue opportunities within the existing customer base. Apply here: [link].

Customer Success 3

Customer Success Payment Services Payments Scale 3

SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

Provide a platform, not a tool, that can be a consolidator and something that can drive costs, but still have all the features necessary to get the business results. Jay Snyder: We talked about needing to have an understanding of a customer’s business, their drivers, and also ensuring adoption or the business case breaks.

Payment Methods 202

Payment Methods Merchant Services Scale Payments 202

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

I was working on a startup that was an early mobile payment platform. It was basically using Bluetooth and an app on PalmPilots to do wireless payments in restaurants. Rob Gonzalez: So if you were building a commerce platform today, for example, you wouldn’t do it as single tenant, effectively, deployments.

SaaS Payments 264

SaaS Payments Scale Payment Services Payment Solutions 264

SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Things are just moving at such a dizzying pace that you have to really be able to reiterate an education through repetition is probably one of the advice that I tend to basically give to founders. Number two, as a result, they have a much better impact on the revenue side. I think this are the things that people just take for granted.

Technical Advisors 156

Technical Advisors Scale Technical Review Payment Solutions 156

Sales Hacker

MAY 13, 2019

Square is a $30 billion market cap company that is an all encompassing payments and commerce business that serves the small and medium sized businesses of the world. Showpad is the leading sales enablement platform for the modern seller. Showpad is the leading sales enablement platform for the modern seller.

Payments 56

Payments Scale Sales Hiring Payment Methods 56

Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

However, even with its’ new embedding capabilities, it doesn’t come close to Google Sheets in team collaboration. As their name suggests, Forecasting Models are used to forecast out a specific area of your business, such as revenue or payroll. For most businesses, this means at least their revenue and hiring plans.

Deferred Revenue 111

Deferred Revenue SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Payment Services 111

SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

Join G2 Crowd CEO Godard Abel for a session on the secrets to the top-rated vendors on G2Crowd, AppExchange, and other platforms. And my education, I went to MIT to study mechanical engineering, and I think I would have thought I was going to go into the pump business like my father. And by 2003 we were almost out of business.

Sales Recruiting 174

Sales Recruiting VP of Engineering Scale SaaS Payments 174

Incredo

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

When you’re looking to generate significant revenue as a newbie in the SaaS market, your product prices shouldn’t go above $5000. It is a model that is designed to achieve significant revenue at a low average selling price (ASP) with the help of free trials and freemium offers. Self-Service. Enterprise. Transactional sales model.

SaaS Payments 157

SaaS Payments Payment Methods Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring 157

SaaStr

JUNE 16, 2020

So I think that is somewhat of a good news in this in that SaaS businesses are sticky. And so while the churn I don’t want to minimize it, stable base of revenue should be able to maintain that through the year. Companies tend to stick around. Matt Garratt: So I think that is some good news.

Sales Hiring 167

Sales Hiring Scale SaaS Payments Payment Services 167

SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

Jason Lemkin: Anyone post-revenue. Aileen Lee: But I think, yeah, for … I mean, the cloud index is not even post-revenue. That’s way post-revenue. I guess probably one of the more notable companies that we work with is Guild Education. Seed is just a totally different game, right? Jason Lemkin: Yes.

Investment 167

Investment Technical Review Part-Time VPE Development Team Review 167

SaaStr

AUGUST 27, 2019

First step, we have who has worked with a number of SAAS companies in New York City as a CFO, and is now CEO of Concert Finance, a sales commission platform. Jessica Lin: Next up we have Michaela Lairs, senior director of finance at Movable Ink, a digital marketing platform, and also a veteran of top enterprise startups in New York City.

Sales Recruiting 139

Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale Sales 139

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Clients canceling events, reducing spend, and failing to make payments. Here’s proof: In 2008, Hilmon was running a media business with about 80% of his revenue coming from commercial real estate and banking. The panelists recommended: Double down on training and education for your teams. Deals falling through.

Sales Hiring 81

Sales Hiring Marketplace as a Service Payment Services Banking 81

SaaStr

AUGUST 26, 2022

Look at Snowflake and GitLab and ZoomInfo, growing almost 60% at a billion in revenue. I’ll tell you, of all the founders I’m impressed with, I’m most impressed with founders that I meet and I’m like, “How you doing”, “Well, I’m at 2 million in revenue and I’m going to grow 2.5

Sales Hiring 203

Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Scaling 203

SaaStr

OCTOBER 21, 2019

As for Robert, prior to MessageBird, he was co-founder and CEO of Zaypay.com which focused on driving mobile payments into 50+ countries, enabling 1.5bln users to pay for virtual goods through their phones (sold to Mobile Interactive Group (MIG). Businesses no longer dictate the way they talk to customers. Loving our podcast content?

Scale 100

Scale Payment Methods SaaS Payments Payment Services 100

SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2019

Businesses no longer dictate the way they talk to customers. Your customers dictate the way they want to talk to a business. Robert Vis: Businesses have to reach their end users on a growing amount of end points. Our platform abstracts the complexity of a really difficult experience and makes it simple.

Scale 100

Scale Payment Methods Scaling SaaS Payments 100

SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2019

Businesses no longer dictate the way they talk to customers. Your customers dictate the way they want to talk to a business. Robert Vis: Businesses have to reach their end users on a growing amount of end points. Our platform abstracts the complexity of a really difficult experience and makes it simple.

Scale 100

Scale Payment Methods Scaling SaaS Payments 100

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Key lessons learned in 10 years of top leadership [12:23]. Our second sponsor is Outreach , the number one sales engagement platform. And that includes things like registration and payments, messaging, communications, and how they really lead their community in sports activities and programs. We’re on iTunes. And on Stitcher.

Leadership 63

Leadership Payments Scale Payment Methods 63