FastSpring

MAY 20, 2024

Moving some, all, or simply more of your software offerings from a one-time perpetual license model to a software as a service (SaaS) subscription model can be daunting, but it’s so powerful for building dependable, recurring revenue. Letting FastSpring handle the subscription infrastructure.

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FastSpring

JANUARY 27, 2022

Note: FastSpring offers advanced subscription management services that support free trials, monthly and annual paid plans, proration, discount management, and more. How Castos upsells subscription tiers. His podcast hosting company uses data analytics that looks at which users are most likely to grow out of their current subscriptions.

Merchant Services 146

Merchant Services Payment Services SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 146

SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

The SaaStock team will be landing in São Paulo to run the region’s first Pan-Latin American SaaS conference, SaaStock LatAm. Afterward, he delved into education management by creating his own business, Mestreduca, a platform targeted at educational institutions. She’ll be talking about her approach to sales as a team sport.

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Technical Review Scale Entrepreneurship Sales Hiring 207

User Pilot

AUGUST 17, 2024

“How World-Class Product Teams Are Winning in the AI Era” is one of the talks at this year’s Product Drive Summit. Delivered by Carlos Gonzalez de Villaumbrosia, it tackles the challenges and opportunities AI-revolution poses for product teams. AI enables product teams to achieve more with fewer resources. Want to learn more?

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Stax

MARCH 18, 2025

However, a SaaS company providing global HR and payroll solutions may have a few hundred customers paying a monthly or annual feein other words, making recurring payments over a longer period of time. Churn is the percentage of customers that end their subscriptions within a certain amount of time. Churn rate.

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Tom Tunguz

MAY 4, 2016

Plus, value-added resellers charged buyers on a per-project basis which doesn’t align neatly with the recurring subscription intrinsic to SaaS. By leveraging another company’s sales team, your startup’s cost to book a marginal revenue dollar decline, as revenue scales and net margin increases.

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Incredo

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

And end up wasting their time and resources with affiliates that underperform. I see many SaaS companies jump headlong into creating an affiliate program thinking it will bring in a large number of customers without much effort. In our case, we needed to invest a lot in product development. But is your website ready?

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Totango

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Above all, it is an educational process. By implementing customer education best practices that drive the onboarding process, you will set your customers—and your enterprise— up for success. A good first impression is integral to establishing trust in your team and confidence in your product’s ability to deliver value. .

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

In August of 2016, Rachel Hepworth embarked on a unique challenge: start a growth marketing team at one of the most successful startups of this generation – one that had long relied heavily on word of mouth. I stumbled upon Eric Ries and Steve Blank, the concept of customer development – it was a revelation.

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User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Customer-led growth focuses on using customer insights to drive overall business growth, including product development, acquisition strategies, and customer retention. Create educational content to teach users how to get the most out of your product. It helps build customer retention and brand loyalty.

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Chart Mogul

MAY 30, 2019

Ingmar, our VP of Customer Success, and our support team cracked the code on first response time and measuring NPS. As we grow, we’re able to spend more time developing the proactive tiers of the pyramid without de-prioritizing a strong foundation of fast, helpful ticket replies and features that delight.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

If people aren’t looking for your solution, you have to educate them about the problem your product solves. So they created a software that provides control, visibility, and payment methods for corporate finance teams. If people aren’t looking for your solution, you have to educate them about the problem your product solves.

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User Pilot

APRIL 30, 2024

From this article, you will find out how to develop a strong growth marketing strategy and learn growth marketing tactics for different customer journey stages. Market development targets new markets with existing products, while product development – existing markets with new products. If so, we’ve got you covered.

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Underperforming Technical Team Strategy Marketing Customer Lifetime Value 105

Unbounce

JANUARY 28, 2020

They make retail-ready, custom corrugated mailer boxes, shipping boxes, and folding cartons for subscriptions, ecommerce, and gifts that can be as simple or fancy as your heart desires. When they do, they undermine your campaign thanks to inconsistent branding, rushed copy, or poor-quality images. One launch comes to mind.

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SaaStr

JULY 1, 2020

She manages a huge global team. It has a portion of its revenue that’s very sensitive to the economy and a lot of startups in the customer base, good and bad, right? I’m looking at it and I’m like, “Who’s got the Wall Street Journal subscription? Four, people in the sale? Jason Lemkin: None.

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Merchant Services Scale Sales Recruiting Sales 259

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

There’s sales pipeline , a 7-stage journey describing what your sales team must do to convert a lead to a customer. For your team, the goal is to share more information about your products without appearing overly promotional. For your team, this step is about making your prospects realize they need your products or service.

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User Pilot

MARCH 25, 2024

Various factors could cause customer churn, including bad product-customer fit , poor user onboarding experience , poor customer service , and weak customer relationships. However, most customer churn falls under one of four categories: Bad product-customer fit Several factors could lead to a poor product-customer fit.

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Totango

JANUARY 26, 2021

For example, if you sell a subscription SaaS product, a simple procedure for calculating your monthly churn rate would be: Take how many subscribers canceled their subscriptions that month. The retention rate is calculated in a similar way, except you start with how many subscribers renewed their subscription that month.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 8, 2021

Joel Friedlaender is the founder of Cliniko , a practice management software for clinics and allied health practitioners to manage their scheduling and booking, patient records, invoicing, and more. My background is as a software developer, and I’ve been doing that for just over 20 years. Joel Friedlaender: Sure. Joel: Sure.

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 24, 2022

This isn’t a bad idea, and why companies like Facebook continued to grow despite adding more and more complexity over time. And I’m sure we’ve all seen that quote that say if a design needs an explanation, it’s a bad design. My preferred saying is a design with education is better than a design that doesn’t educate.

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Natalia Luneva

JANUARY 13, 2021

However, the subscription business model can’t survive if you keep on acquiring new custo mers but the old ones keep on walking away. Richman’s former company was Halp, a help desk for operations teams. 3 Educate, educate, educate. To compare, for 89% of them acquiring new users is a high priority ( sour ce ).

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SaaS Payments Payment Methods Churn Payment Services 105

User Pilot

MAY 29, 2024

technology, Nir Eyal is a leading expert who educates companies and individuals on the intersection of psychology, technology, and business. Nir Eyal pursued his education at Stanford Graduate School of Business and Emory University. Included in the top 5 best personal development books of the year by Audible.

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User Pilot

OCTOBER 10, 2022

In this article, we’ll cover the key metrics you need to develop an informed feature adoption strategy and discuss how you can improve them. Feature adoption allows you to separate the successful features from the underperforming ones. Uncover weak spots and improve feature adoption. We’ve got you covered! Time to adopt.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 3, 2025

In the high-stakes world of gaming, support teams face a unique set of challenges. The results are game-changing not just for your support team, but for player experience, retention, and ultimately, revenue. The real cost: Slowed-down business growth, player churn due to poor experiences, damaged brand reputation.

Payment Services 104

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Creator Studio comes with: Professional Dashboard : See your content performance and see educational content shared by Instagram. Creator Studio even has a calendar view so you can see all the content published and scheduled to publish, which is awesome for social media teams. Strategy #3: Automate Direct Messaging Responses.

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User Pilot

JULY 14, 2024

There are two customer segmentation models (property and behavior) and multiple types within them: – Demographic — age, gender, income, and education. It can be helpful when conducting market research and developing a targeted marketing strategy to reach potential customers. – Geographic — location, region, and climate.

Software Review 109

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

But the fact is that a large portion of the employees – developers, marketers, product managers (whose work depends on an intimate understanding of the customer) – rarely, if ever, interact with them. However, Michele quickly realized that customer research should be a part of the whole product development process.

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Interviewing Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting Software Review 138

Chargify

MARCH 25, 2019

Recurring subscriptions are becoming the norm in the business world, and for good reason. Subscription services give the end user control over costs and employee access, without the cumbersome contracts. But some software-as-a-service (SaaS) companies struggle with how to sell subscriptions.

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SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payment Features Subscription 54

Totango

MAY 21, 2019

This may mean they need further education or support. Give them support by ensuring customer success teams are only a message or phone call away. If customers have complaints that your team is not responding to, you could be alienating them and missing an opportunity to strengthen the customer relationship.

Churn 90

Churn Underperforming Technical Team Systems Review Onboarding 90

Baremetrics

JULY 23, 2020

In my twenties, the advice of parents and friends to "get a good education". The cheapest subscription was $29 a month - obviously too high. This soft launch already showed me that the demand for this second product was much stronger than the first one: This table shows our customer development until reaching $1,000 MRR.

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Neil Patel

MARCH 2, 2021

The audience is consumers looking for impartial, reliable reviews from an expert team. team to give them more information about your products. It’s not always easy to identify and remove “fake” bad reviews. It’s most suited for SMBs offering financial or subscription-based products, like home insurance or gym memberships.

Software Review 140

Software Review Technical Review Scale Merchant Services 140

User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Respondents may develop a pattern of answering and rush through the matrix without careful consideration. For example, when deciding which features to develop first, user ranking can provide valuable insights into what matters most to users. For example, "How great do you think the customer service team is?"

Scale 111

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ChurnZero

OCTOBER 5, 2022

In times of economic uncertainty, customer churn is one of the top operational risks facing any subscription-based company. While it may be tempting to resort to Hail Mary tactics (such as deferred payments and discounts) to reduce churn, you must instead focus on sustainable and scalable retention strategies.

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Baremetrics

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Sean Ellis, who ran growth in the early days of Dropbox, LogMeIn, and Eventbrite benchmarked nearly a hundred startups with his customer development survey. First, a scheduled and educational email. Bad pricing practices are easy excuses for customers to cancel. Educate and teach customers with content.

Retention 136

Retention Strategy Payment Solutions Technical Advisors 136

Stax

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

While their target audience and the breadth of their solutions are the key differences, vertical and horizontal SaaS also share many similarities, in particular cloud-based hosting and subscription business models. Some examples of niches targeted by vertical SaaS providers include healthcare, eCommerce, finance, and education.

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SaaS Payments Payment Services Payments Payment Solutions 88

Valuize Consulting

DECEMBER 7, 2021

In the subscription economy, there’s no debate about whether or not to invest in Customer Success (CS); 70% of rapidly growing businesses say that Customer Success is extremely important ( Hubspot , 2017). When it comes to budget, organizations often haven’t established where the investment is coming from to fund the CS team.

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Valuize Consulting

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Weaknesses in each, such as maintaining relevance and currency, are compounded by poor data hygiene, cross-organizational friction, and varied levels of organizational capability and maturity throughout their companies. This is particularly important in the subscription economy, where recurring revenue models prevail.

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