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SaaS Companies: Four Signs You’ve Outgrown Stripe

FastSpring

When you’re using a DIY payment solution like Stripe, making it work for your business falls on your developers. From testing out plugins to setting up new payment methods, maintaining Stripe can be very time-consuming. This often happens when your setup requires complex integrations that are difficult to maintain.

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7 Thoughts on Building Your First Partner Program

SaaStr

Salesforce’s biggest source of new revenue isn’t CRM or even support. It’s partners and platform. It took more than a decade after Salesforce was founded: Shopify’s partner ecosystem is also huge, comprising 20% of its revenue in 2020. And it has been since 2017 or so! But that took time. Your partner?

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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. We’re a cloud content management platform.

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What is Product-Led Innovation? Strategies, Examples, and More

User Pilot

Prioritizing user experience optimization in product-led growth is crucial for creating intuitive, enjoyable products that retain customers and drive revenue growth. PLG and SLG differ in focus: PLG centers on product appeal for growth, while SLG relies on sales strategies and personal interactions. .”

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19 SaaS Predictions For 2021 and Beyond

OpenView Labs

We’ll see more services companies adopt a product led growth strategy but for selling their services online. Productizing their services and enabling contactless and frictionless selling.”. Mike Tria, Head of Platform at Atlassian. Francesca Krihely, Senior Director, Growth Marketing at Snyk. “1:

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Dear SaaStr: How Do I Convince My Customers with Monthly plans to Upgrade to Annual Plans?

SaaStr

The last thing a VP in a Fortune 5000 company wants to deal with is credit card payments or monthly invoicing. Companies like Smartsheet sell to SMBs but have many annual contracts a standard practice because deploying invovles some business process change. Usually, you can get an annual deal here. Now, there are exceptions.

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Register for “Globally Scale Your SaaS Business by Streamlining Online Selling and Finance Operations,” an In-Person Roundtable With Frederic Linfjärd

FastSpring

About Presenter Frederic Linfjärd Fred is the Director of Growth Marketing at Planday and the former Head of Commercial Innovation at Capture One, where he 4x’d their revenue, leading to an acquisition. Click here to let us know you’re interested in attending. Send us an email.