Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 16, 2019

However, that doesn’t necessarily mean a “pivot”, but more often the evolution is a shifting business model as the company scales and the user base grows and changes. It’s all too easy to make the mistake of adopting a pricing model that is ill-suited to other aspects of your company, such as the go-to-market strategy or sales strategy.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Just like filing your income tax returns or hanging that state-mandated safety poster up in your break room, sales tax is a back-office pain point, not a profit center. . That makes sales tax compliance easy to ignore… until it becomes a problem. . Why is sales tax such a pain for SaaS companies? There are a few reasons.

Merchant Services 187

Merchant Services Technical Review Scale Sales Hiring 187

How To Buy Saas

MAY 29, 2025

It also points out educational resources such as an AI for leaders program or an AI for business leaders course to help strategic teams get started. For example, machine learning models can forecast sales, optimize pricing, and evaluate investment scenarios in real time. Task Automation: Many SaaS tools add AI-powered automation.

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Artificial Intelligence Payment Services Payments SaaS Payments 59

SaaStr

JULY 1, 2020

An open discussion with Sam Blond, CSO at Brex, and Kristen Habacht, VPS at Atlassian, about adjusting their sales process during Covid-19. Kristen Habacht runs EDR sales at Atlassian, which I got a check today, $40 billion-$50 billion company. Four, people in the sale? Kristen Habacht: Well, there’s none in sales.

Merchant Services 247

Merchant Services Scale Sales Recruiting Sales 247

SaaStr

JUNE 5, 2020

I argue that standard saas metrics make it possible for founders to scale using debt capital (production capital thats cheaper) instead of solely relying on venture capital (financial capital thats more expensive). . It’s hard to imagine a world where analysis didn’t understand recurring, subscription based revenue for technology products.

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Venture Capital Technical Review SaaS Scale 283

Chart Mogul

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

When and how to launch sales and marketing is a tough topic for most startup founders. But sales and marketing are the backbone of every successful go-to-market (GTM) strategy, and getting them right can be the difference between … When and how to launch sales and marketing is a tough topic for most startup founders.

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Scale VP of Engineering Sales Hiring Startup 52

User Pilot

OCTOBER 19, 2024

According to a Deloitte report , positive customer experiences can lead to a 140% increase in spending compared to negative ones. Unlike traditional businesses, most SaaS businesses operate the subscription pricing model. However, what satisfies customers differs from one business to another.

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Business Underperforming Technical Team Customer Lifetime Value Systems Review 111

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Aaron Ross discusses inbound and outbound sales and how to integrate Sales and Marketing Teams to re-ignite growth. Learn why it is difficult to have accurate and trustworthy outbound dashboards and how to clean up and educate your clients. There’s, I don’t know, 10,000 sales apps now or 10,000 marketing apps.

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Subscription Flow

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Improved ROI: Planned and monitored business growth leads to helpful insights. This is achieved by informed strategies to cut down on costs, and boost sales. Channels Consistent monitoring of sales and marketing channels overtime can give companies informed insights into the performance of each channel.

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Payments Payment Services SaaS Payments Revenue 52

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 1, 2020

At Intercom, our Support Ops and Product Education teams work hand-in-hand to deliver proactive support to our customers. Below, we share our tips for delivering effective proactive support to your customers at any scale. We also work closely with Product and Sales to ensure a cohesive customer experience throughout.

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FastSpring

AUGUST 3, 2022

There are several things you can do to prepare your go-to-market teams for changes in your prospects’ and customers’ buying behaviors and priorities. Account-based sales companies are accustomed to defining sales regions. Note: FastSpring helps companies scale with fewer company resources. and decrease again in 2023.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 20, 2022

We have a rapidly growing customer base across several verticals, particularly financial services, HR, healthcare, and education. ChurnZero is the Customer Success platform and partner for growing SaaS and subscription businesses. Justworks takes the busyness out of growing a business and alleviates the unknown.

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ChurnZero

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

But as a company scales and brings in new accounts, CSMs can start to feel like Lucy and Ethel in the chocolate factory—the customers keep rolling along faster than CSMs can properly manage them! In fact, customer education helps scale Customer Success , as the company scales business. . It doesn’t have to be this way.

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Education Customer Success Underperforming Technical Team Scale 98

Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Customers expect efficient, personalized support, which is why support leaders are turning to a conversational, messenger-based approach to help them strike that balance and offer personal support at scale. Powering support at scale. We attribute a large part of that to being able to be proactive with customers”.

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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

We’ve gathered LatAm’s leading SaaS founders, executives, and investors – as well as a few international faces – for an unbeatable few days of knowledge and networking. He is leading DGF Investimentos’ specialized early-stage investment group – DGF Inova. Talk: Scaling & Exiting: Dreams, Designs & Dramas.

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Technical Review Scale Entrepreneurship Sales Hiring 207

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 21, 2020

This digital shift presents a lot of opportunities that may be converted into sales. Tips for B2B Lead Generation. Yes, internet lead generation strategy lists and tips are all convenient and fun. However, knowing what to do and, why you’re doing it is much more likely to translate into lead generation and conversion results.

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Scale B2B Social Media Content Marketing 114

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

If people aren’t looking for your solution, you have to educate them about the problem your product solves. As Head of Sales for Spendesk, Nico was initially inspired by the vision of founder Rodolphe Ardant who had spotted a gap for ‘spend management’ in the B2B market based on personal banking trends. Nico: Exactly.

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Scale Payment Methods Payment Solutions Marketing 162

Chaotic Flow

OCTOBER 8, 2013

Many SaaS products have untapped opportunities to get found in search with public-facing trial content, product content, educational content, community content, and so forth. Free trial facilitates product evaluation and shortens sales cycles. Most customers are willing to pay for these benefits in the form of an inbound lead!

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SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payments Scale 200

Clouded Judgement

AUGUST 25, 2023

While our first use cases were focused on the retail and eCommerce vertical, we believe our platform is highly extensible across a broad range of verticals, including education, events and entertainment, restaurants, and travel, as well as B2B companies. The vast majority of our subscription plans today are monthly.

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Benchmarks Artificial Intelligence Data Software Review 246

Stax

JANUARY 28, 2025

Interoperability with your existing software tools and apps: the payment processing platform must be interoperable with your existing software tools, like CRM (Customer Relationship Management), inventory management, POS (Point of Sale), and accounting software. Your provider should help with this. Slower due to manual data entry.

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Payment Methods Payment Services Merchant Services SaaS Payments 68

User Pilot

AUGUST 6, 2024

We covered actionable steps to build an effective system that converts users, drives product engagement , and leads to long-term growth. Marketing funnels are designed to attract and educate potential customers. SaaS sales funnel metrics focus on short-term results, while marketing efforts play a longer-term game.

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SaaS Payments Metrics Scale Marketing 103

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

I recently hosted Rachel on our podcast to learn why Slack needed to invest in growth marketing, what her team prioritized first, how they’ve partnered with Slack’s rapidly scaling sales team, and more. Adam: Rachel, you’re leading growth marketing at one of the fastest growing software companies of this generation.

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Growth Marketing Scale Marketing Outsourcing Services 174

Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 16, 2021

You can also onboard and educate new customers so they’re set up for success with your product from day one and have all of the information they need to get started and overcome common hurdles, such as configuring your app or installing it on mobile. . Educate customers on new features. Create a customer feedback loop.

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Payment Methods Payments Scale SaaS Payments 202

Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

This model is popular (in fact, 23% of online sales are fulfilled through dropshipping ) because it allows e-commerce businesses to focus on what they do best, marketing and selling products without worrying about logistic issues. Easy to scale : You don’t have to worry about stock. a month, which allows you up to 30,000 sales.

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Payment Methods Payment Features Payments Scale 142

Neil Patel

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Large companies run complex, massive-scale campaigns and have bigger pockets. Most pricing plans depend on the number of contacts or leads you have. However, that’s not the case if you have a few hundred or even a few thousand leads on your list. Do you need to score leads and prospects? Automation features.

Software Review 145

Software Review Scale Software Marketing 145

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

SalesLoft, why was that Pardot, I tried to recruit this guy, Kyle Porter, to come run sales at Pardot. Let’s be 50/50 co-founders and let’s start a company in the sales space.” the initial idea that I came up with for Pardot was simply to do an outsourced lead generation S as a service. That was Pardot 1.0.

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Sales Recruiting Scale Outsourcing Services Sales Hiring 187

How To Buy Saas

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

A powerful CRM helps organize customer data, streamline sales pipelines, and automate marketing ultimately boosting revenue. Effective sales teams are also 81% more likely to be consistent CRM users , underscoring how vital these systems are for success.

Scale 52

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Software Review 52

OpenView Labs

APRIL 8, 2021

While many of the most successful public and private SaaS companies were already usage-based, there wasn’t a clear playbook on the complexities of scaling a usage-based business. Yet pivoting from traditional subscriptions to usage-based can be just as big of a shift as making the leap from on-prem to SaaS.

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Pricing Scale Subscription Payment Features 130

Neil Patel

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Between 2014 and 2023, global retail e-commerce sales are expected to increase by $5.2 Paid ads for e-commerce sales are pretty easy to jump into, and you’re likely to see faster results than you would with SEO. How Can Paid Ads Help You Reach Your E-Commerce Sales Goals? social referral share to e-commerce sites. billion users.

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Social Media Scale Sales Hiring Sales 145

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 18, 2019

Prospective customers have to be educated. Customer Success was barely a discipline when Anthony joined Gainsight, but thanks to the rise of SaaS and subscription-based business models more generally, where retaining and providing value to your existing customers is a non-negotiable, the category has exploded.

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Scale Sales Recruiting Marketplace as a Service Sales Hiring 112

Buffer Resources

OCTOBER 28, 2024

So you can start small and scale up as you're ready for more features. And with Buffer's pay-by-channel pricing model, I've been able to scale the services I pay for up and down based on what I need. A lot of these marketing software offer free or low-cost versions. Pricing: $625 setup fee.

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Social Media AI Search Marketing Business 105

Unbounce

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

That’s half of all online sales. But while it may be impossible to match Amazon from a size and scale perspective, you can look at some of their top-selling points for inspiration to help differentiate your brand. Focus on brand and product education. Amazon is projected to own 50% of the ecommerce market share in 2021.

Scale 144

Scale Marketing Merchant Services Social Media 144

User Pilot

MAY 30, 2025

Chargezoom , a B2B invoicing platform, struggled to keep up with its ever-increasing customer base. Challenge: 2,500+ customers vs. 4 CSMs Chargezoom was scaling quickly, but with only 4 people in the team trying to reduce churn , they couldnt support users proactively, promote new features, or analyze user interactions within the product.

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Churn Scale Payment Features Sales Hiring 62

Payrix

MAY 14, 2024

Adam Tesan, CRO at Worldpay for Platforms, is a seasoned executive leader with decades of experience in sales, marketing, and revenue in the software space. During his tenure, Chargebee experienced high growth, scaling from processing about $3 billion in revenue to $13-14 billion. They’re moving to a subscription-based model.

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Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 147

How To Buy Saas

MAY 21, 2025

Lever Best ATS + CRM for Scaling Enterprises Pricing: Key Features: 10. This model offers easy accessibility (anywhere, anytime), automatic updates, and lower upfront costs (subscription-based pricing). Higher Cost at Scale: Workables pricing can become expensive for larger hiring volumes (especially the Premier tier).

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Systems Review Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Technical Review 52

Stax

APRIL 17, 2025

For SaaS companies looking to scale, upselling is one of the most effectiveand often underutilizedrevenue levers. Whether you’re a startup with a freemium model or an enterprise SaaS subscription, upselling and cross selling can drive lasting growth by enhancing customer satisfaction and increasing customer lifetime value.

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Payments Merchant Services SaaS Payments Payment Services 88

Blulogix

APRIL 9, 2024

By BluLogix Team Mastering the Art of Complex B2B Recurring and Subscription Billing: Integration and Automation: Scaling Your Business Efficiently In subscription-based business models, particularly those operating within the digital space, managing digital inventory emerges as a critical yet complex task.

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