Neil Patel

JANUARY 4, 2021

With over a billion active users and growing, Instagram may already be one of your favorite places to promote your e-commerce store. An Instagram shop exists like a mini e-commerce store, within Instagram, as an extension of your brand’s page. According to Instagram, 60% of people interviewed said they discover new products on the app.

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FastSpring

APRIL 13, 2023

Jera Brown interviewed Dopple founder and CEO Justin on how he launched Dopple and found success by pivoting to a new market. Full Interview: Audio Only Full Interview: Video [placeholder for Wistia] 3 Lessons From Justin’s Experience 1. They have dimension, they have shape, they have personality. Or your customer base?

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Neil Patel

JANUARY 31, 2022

There are an estimated 12 to 24 million e-commerce stores. Online retailers can sell just about anything—from shoes or baked goods to software and coaching sessions. Most e-commerce store owners have no idea how to effectively market their business. Selling products or services online requires a special touch.

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Unbounce

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

PPC is a method of digital advertising in which you aim to get your ads to rank as the highest result displayed for user searches, and you, as the advertiser, pay a fee each time it’s clicked. It can also appear on websites that have similar content and keywords to your business. Image courtesy of Bloomberg Wealth.

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FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

In our first post about our online community , we mentioned launching the Global SaaS Leaders Slack group because we saw a need for the kind of software-and-SaaS-focused community we’d want to be a part of. are what we like to have in an online forum. As a business person yourself, you know how it works. Professional moderation.

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SaaStr

MARCH 26, 2019

Formerly a senior leader at Google, Claire Hughes Johnson is now Chief Operating Officer at Stripe, where she’s helped guide the online payments firm through rapid growth. Speaker video: Stripe is really a set of developer tools for building and operating an online business. I’m an execution person.

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How To Buy Saas

DECEMBER 1, 2020

With so many SAAS getting visibility in online marketplaces, we found that new saas businesses are struggling hard to make it to the right set of customers. In saas marketing, you generally use online marketing strategies to generate more leads and conversions in your saas business. Setup Pricing model and payment gateways.

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Natalia Luneva

JANUARY 13, 2021

The period refers to a month or year depending on which payment option you offer or which of them is more popular. I also interviewed dozens of SaaS founders and marketers to understand the main factors behind high SaaS churn rate. Your social network accounts, website, ads are visible to everyone who is browsing the internet.

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FastSpring

AUGUST 8, 2024

In this episode of Growth Stage, we interview Braden Steel , Sr. Podcast Full Interview: Audio Listen online or find it on more podcast services. Podcast Full Interview: Video Transcript David Vogelpohl (FastSpring) (00:04) Hello everyone! What was the first thing you bought online? What if there were a better way?

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Stax

MAY 30, 2024

TL;DR Understanding your target market is the first step to growing your FSM software business FSM software providers need to invest in product development and innovation to stay up-to-date with industry trends, forecast market needs, and respond with innovative solutions. Your website is more like your company’s storefront.

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SaaStr

JUNE 28, 2020

SaaStr CEO, Jason Lemkin shares his interview checklist. Are you more excited about eCommerce? Jason Lemkin: Unicorn generation, how does that inform your thinking in terms of types of investments? Partially, I think, for personal reasons. I’m really passionate about seed investing. Jason Lemkin: Yep.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 22, 2018

This is part of an ongoing series of interviews about unlocking the potential of growth. Upon joining that team, I led online marketing and user acquisition growth for about a year. There are trade-offs between the two, and clearly their method won out. I was able to actually spot that during my interview process.

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Stax

MARCH 14, 2024

Combine different techniques like surveys, interviews, and observation to gather a comprehensive understanding of the market. Each method provides unique insights that can help inform your decisions. These are the fees your business pays to process non-cash payments and they can add up fast.

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Buffer Resources

JANUARY 18, 2023

Especially if the aim of your content is to educate, you may need to invest more time in research than a creator focused on entertainment. If one of your chosen methods of content creation is through blog articles, then a CMS is a necessary addition to your toolkit. The following tools can help. We recommend Wordpress or Ghost.

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User Pilot

JULY 28, 2024

Personalizing the onboarding experience according to user needs to shorten time-to-value. Free trials are very common in SaaS companies, where users want to see the outright benefits before investing in month-long subscriptions. Using checklists to drive users toward the activation point. How does a free trial work?

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Neil Patel

DECEMBER 2, 2020

No one wants to invest in tools that aren’t entirely useful to their process. If investing in a robust ATS software will save you money by making less bad hires in the long run, save you time by having instant access to large amounts of data, or let you employ less hiring managers, then the investment is well worth it.

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FastSpring

APRIL 4, 2024

As an experienced sales and GTM leader, John Eitel has more than witnessed how product-led growth (PLG) has affected the tech and SaaS space in the last few years — he and his teams have been up close and personal with how PLG increased in popularity as a sales strategy. “I But really excited about this interview. Jump to video.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2021

” I talked to a staff designer, reached out, and actually staff.design is a website with interviews with staff designers, and it’s like, what is a staff designer? I also talked to Michelle Bu, Payments Products Tech Lead at Stripe, who is partnered directly with a senior leader and is taking a lot of their leadership tasks.

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Buffer Resources

JUNE 8, 2023

Welcome back to Creators Unlocked , a series where we interview creators about their best practices. 💡 To keep up with Lloyd, check out his website , TikTok , LinkedIn , podcast , and subscribe to his newsletter. It's a unique method tailored to his multifaceted career and interests.

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FastSpring

JANUARY 26, 2024

In this episode of Growth Stage, host and CMO of FastSpring David Vogelpohl interviews Jake about his thoughts on: What Customer Success is at a high level. FastSpring provides an all-in-one payment platform for SaaS, software, and digital goods businesses, including VAT and sales tax management, payment localization, and consumer support.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Lambda School trains people online to be software engineers. We put it online, $10,000, and we started talking to our customers. We taught a free class, got 7,000 people in the free class, and I started emailing everybody in that class individually, personalized emails, one by one, a thousand a day. We can quit our jobs.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 29, 2019

I worked with Jack Welch of GE for a couple of months to get his online MBA program off the ground, and when I started my first company way back in the day, Jack came to Boston to do one of his conferences. Now at around the 51st person that we’re bringing in, it just doesn’t seem that they have the same passion that we do for the business.

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Buffer Resources

JUNE 22, 2023

Welcome back to Creators Unlocked , a series where we interview creators about their best practices and advice for other creators. 👀 To keep up with Jahleane, check out her website and follow her on TikTok and LinkedIn. She has since gone on to speak on panels, host workshops, and launch The PostGrad Playbook.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 11, 2018

For those of you who need some new ideas to boost sales, we just posted some fool-proof tactics to boost online sales here (link to the New Year Deal post). Talk to your customers – Whether you offer a satisfaction survey after a purchase or have your sales team interview key customers, getting feedback from your customers is crucial.

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 8, 2020

It’s a simple concept: get as many quality and relevant websites to link back to your content. Another website that links to your page is either directly or indirectly prompting their users to check out your content or services. This is because at one point in time a website may have linked to another. 2) Fix Broken Backlinks.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Full Interview: Audio Only Full Interview: Video 3 Mergers and Acquisitions Insights From Carl Hargreaves 2 Main Reasons Brands Acquire Other Companies While there may be any combination of features about a business that make it attractive to buyers, it usually boils down to two main reasons a buyer is looking to buy in the first place.

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Chart Mogul

JULY 30, 2024

Find everything involved with SaaS funding, from the types of funding to navigating the investment process (with first-hand lessons and insight from SaaS VCs). Typically, angel investors are people who have found business success before or are looking for business investments as a side venture. Angel networks are popular, too.

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SaaS Payments Investment Payment Methods Payments 52

SaaStr

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Happy post lunch interview. Or if you’ve ever gotten a 2 cent and a 4 cent deposit into your account as you’re trying to set up direct deposit or payments transfers, that’s a pre-Plaid world. Please welcome Zach Perret, Plaid Co-Founder and CEO and Ari Levy, CNBC Senior Technology Reporter. Zach : Go for it.

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OpenView Labs

MAY 29, 2020

Don’t do this via a survey; actually talk to them via Zoom or a phone call. You may need a third party to do these interviews for you so that customers feel like they can be completely open. He didn’t charge me but asked that I write an online review instead. Reduce upfront/adoption costs and offer flexible payment terms.

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User Pilot

APRIL 24, 2024

TL;DR SaaS renewals includes the process of renewing a subscription to an online-hosted software service. Through emails or in-app messages, early and personalized renewal notifications enhance SaaS renewals and customer relationships. If you want to ensure customers renew each time, continue reading ahead.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 5, 2020

It was something I was personally going through, and oddly enough, it played very much into the first real product designer job I had, which was working on payments at Facebook. You mentioned payments in Messenger. And in fact, I did the payments in Messenger, which is still running. I can design an app.

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SaaStr

JUNE 19, 2020

Christoph has invested in more than 20 SaaS startups and lives and breathes SaaS, everything from “A as in AI-enhanced B2B software” to “Z as in Zendesk”. We’re based in Europe, but we invest, well, first of all, all over Europe and also in the U.S. Christoph co-founded Point Nine Capital in 2011.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 13, 2019

Putting this all together: when a person uses a product, we have the situation they’re in (the context), their motivation to use the product (the need or problem they have), and the outcome they want (the better version of themselves). Situation and context: I use my personal credit card for work purchases a lot.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 19, 2020

Leveraging the next generation of artificial intelligence, the platform allows sales reps to deliver consistent, relevant, and responsible communication for each prospect every time, enabling personalization at scale that was previously impossible. Now, without further ado, let’s listen to this interview with Tom Williams.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

It’s been 10 years since co-founders Eoghan McCabe , Des Traynor , David Barrett , and Ciaran Lee sat in a small Dublin coffee shop and dreamed of making internet business personal, and we’re still every bit as excited. 10 years of making internet business personal. Listen to the rest of the interview here. What’s the sequence?

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

But when I was at Google, we instituted this Great Manager Awards and I would often be the person who moderated the panel of the great managers so that they could share their best practices with other folks in the organization. Who is this person? This is when Google was pretty big, say after like 15 or 20,000 people. ” Right?

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User Pilot

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Personalize customer communications based on user expectations. Personalize customer communications based on user expectations The most effective way to improve customer communications is to personalize each interaction based on customer data. Use in-app messages to improve customer communication.

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