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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

–Mike Tria, Head of Platform at Atlassian. One is connected to the payments business and what my company, Flywire, does, and the other is related to how organizations manage themselves. Francesca Krihely, Senior Director, Growth Marketing at Snyk. “1: We’ll see fintech startups turning into true platforms.

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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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Growth Marketing Strategy: What It Means and How to Do It in SaaS [+ Examples]

User Pilot

Are you struggling with creating an effective growth marketing strategy? With more players entering the SaaS market and the growing use of digital technology in marketing, traditional marketing alone cannot sustain your business. What is growth marketing? What is the growth marketing framework?