FastSpring

AUGUST 2, 2023

Now as a successful international business, TestDome has been with FastSpring through all of it, and even when other payment platforms launched intriguing new products, Mario never saw a good reason to leave FastSpring. Our customers have been quite happy with the service.” Set up a demo or try it out for yourself. Braintree offers it.

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User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

Confused about trying to understand SaaS roles? SaaS companies have many moving parts, and it can be difficult to determine who does what. TL;DR SaaS, or “Software as a Service,” is a business model that delivers centrally hosted software to subscribers over the internet. What is a SaaS business model?

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SaaStr

JANUARY 6, 2021

We also recommend diving into some of our top articles on how to succeed during the interview process and your first few months once you’ve gotten the job including: How to Succeed as a First-Time VP of Sales. Uzio , an HR, benefits, and compensation solution, is looking for a VP of Sales to manage a growing team of five AE’s.

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User Pilot

JUNE 28, 2023

Sustaining user engagement throughout the entire onboarding process can feel like a task only large teams can achieve. Platformly uses a progress bar and empty state CTAs to simplify the onboarding process for their complex product. Tips for improving the onboarding experience : Use UI patterns to draw users towards activation points.

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User Pilot

JUNE 20, 2023

It is also one of the central goals of the user experience design process. TL;DR User trust is a form of faith users have that your product or service will match their needs without compromise. Performing usability tests at different phases of your design process to help you identify and fix design problems.

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Scytale

MARCH 19, 2024

A third-party audit is an assessment of a company’s internal controls, security practices, or compliance processes conducted by an independent auditing firm. Process improvements: The audit process often identifies areas for improvement in your internal controls, security procedures, risk management, and governance.

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OpenView Labs

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

And there’s more and more bifurcation between the ‘haves’ – the fast growers – and the ‘have nots’ of SaaS than ever before. The new data reveals a similar picture for private SaaS startups. . The first call with a candidate is no longer an interview; it instead needs to be 100% focused on setting the hook.

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FastSpring

APRIL 26, 2022

Last week, I canceled an annual SaaS subscription (I had three weeks left until renewal). In the language of SaaS, I churned. In part two, we’ll cover five churn-prevention strategies that have been successful in other SaaS businesses. Part I: SaaS Churn Benchmarks. Is There an Ideal Churn Rate for SaaS?

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 8, 2022

I interviewed him for insights into how to build a global growth strategy, especially when it comes to localization. Highlights from Our Conversation Where Should SaaS Companies Localize [2 min clip] David walked through a step-by-step process to assess where SaaS and software companies should consider localizing.

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Incredo

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Or maybe you are curious whether Christmas marketing works at all? We have interviewed tens of SaaS community members to understand how they perceive SaaS Christmas promotions. What does it mean for your SaaS? And we do not really fit perfectly with our SaaS.

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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”. In 2008 he became an angel investor and discovered Zendesk, Clio, FreeAgent – and his love for SaaS. Up today, Christoph Janz, managing partner at Point Nine Capital.

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Natalia Luneva

JANUARY 13, 2021

Existing customer renewal is a high priority for 59% of SaaS companies and a medium priority for 27%. This article will answer the main questions that SaaS founders and market ers have about losing SaaS customers, in other words, user churn: What is SaaS churn definition and why lowering it matt ers?

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 12, 2023

To answer that question, we interviewed leaders from many of the largest healthcare providers and insurers across the country. We’ve designed this to mirror the thought process of an entrepreneur building an AI product with an enterprise use case. Now, in Part B, we cover capturing and defending some portion of the value you generate.

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Incredo

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Or maybe you are curious whether Christmas marketing works at all? We have interviewed tens of SaaS community members to understand how they perceive SaaS Christmas promotions. What does it mean for your SaaS? And we do not really fit perfectly with our SaaS.

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User Pilot

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

In this article, we cover the following: What customer intelligence is and why it’s essential in SaaS. It enables businesses to make data-driven decisions. Customer intelligence analytics is a two-step process of collecting customer data and drawing insights from it. The four main types of customer intelligence data.

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Outseta

DECEMBER 17, 2017

We’ve been writing for more than a year now about our desire to build a self managed, non-hierarchical business. It’s an ambitious undertaking, and Colony isn’t the only company focused on solving this problem - make no mistake about it, there will be an entire generation of SaaS start-ups embracing this model before you know it.

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Buffer Resources

JANUARY 15, 2024

Interview them. " Her favorite example of a B2B brand putting this mantra into practice is the payments infrastructure provider Paddle and their content marketing project Paddle Studios.    To really get to know your customers, Short suggests that brands "survey them. Learn their language. Listen intently.

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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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Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

Term loans can be quite useful for SaaS startups. SaaS companies benefit from high gross margins and relatively predictable businesses. Glen Mello, a managing director at Silicon Valley Bank, which lends quite a bit to startups, explains how his firm lends in this interview conducted by Jay Azcuno at NextView.

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OPEXEngine

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Member Spotlight Series: An Interview with Dominic Ballinger, Director of FP&A and Integration at Sage. Small to mid-sized service companies. Do you have any best practices in the current environment that you’d like to share with your peers in the SaaS and software community? . “We

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How To Buy Saas

DECEMBER 1, 2020

SaaS is a global software solution created by different businesses in order to improve human activities in a matter of clicks. SAAS is also abbreviated as software as a service. In this saas marketing strategy guide, we are going to tell you everything about saas marketing. What is SAAS marketing?

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FastSpring

MARCH 15, 2024

In this episode of Growth Stage, host and CMO of FastSpring David Vogelpohl interviews Todd about his thoughts on: Why marketplaces can be a difficult way to attract new players. Podcast Full Interview : Audio Listen online or find it on more podcast services. Let us worry about global payments and taxes.

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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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Chart Mogul

JANUARY 27, 2023

In this episode of SaaS Open Mic, I speak with Matt Lerner, the founder and CEO of Startup Core Strengths. Matt spent 15 years as a marketer and General Manager in Silicon Valley, including ten years at PayPal. Later, … In this episode of SaaS Open Mic, I speak with Matt Lerner, the founder and CEO of Startup Core Strengths.

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FastSpring

JANUARY 26, 2024

With years of experience at managing customer success (CS), Jake Dipple knows how important it is to foster collaboration between businesses and their customers. 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. And much more!

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Outseta

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Before we get into the interview, a bit of background - I have hired Soren’s team at Working Planet multiple times. All of that said, I am constantly getting questions around paid search management for start-ups and I continue to see significant challenges at this end of the market. Now he manages PPC campaigns.”

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User Pilot

APRIL 7, 2022

How do you perform UX analysis for SaaS and make data-driven decisions? It enables you to spot friction points in the customer journey and make it seamless to optimize conversion rates and customer experience with your product. There are three popular methods of doing qualitative UX analysis : One-on-one customer interview.

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User Pilot

APRIL 24, 2024

SaaS renewals can be a breath-holding moment. TL;DR SaaS renewals includes the process of renewing a subscription to an online-hosted software service. TL;DR SaaS renewals includes the process of renewing a subscription to an online-hosted software service.

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FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

“It got us thinking: Why is there no purpose-built operating system for corporate learning and development teams, when their jobs are so strategic to the business, and they’re managing massive budgets, but they can’t track things like ROI?” Stream the full interview below or find it wherever you listen to podcasts.

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Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

One reason for this is because early sales managers repeatedly make avoidable mistakes on the journey to go-to-market fit. SaaS founders and operators need help structuring and understanding the importance of sales basics. And now, some on the how and the who : How is sales involved in that process? But it is also a lot of text.

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Buffer Resources

JANUARY 15, 2024

Interview them. " Her favorite example of a B2B brand putting this mantra into practice is the payments infrastructure provider Paddle and their content marketing project Paddle Studios.    To really get to know your customers, Short suggests that brands "survey them. Learn their language. Listen intently.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2019

In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Vikas made his way into the world of SaaS and came to be at the rocketship that is Kustomer. * Why does Vikas believe that a wave of SaaS incumbents are about to be displaced or disrupted? Why is it so crucial to invest in enablement in the early days? What is a good payback period? *

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Upscope

JULY 18, 2021

We're not Nike whose underlying brand story is about honouring great athletes and we're not Apple who can "Think Different" We're a simple SaaS company that needs to build a brand and that starts with simpler story telling around the product and what it does for the customer. ” Source. " Who is the bad guy?

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Upscope

JULY 18, 2021

We're a simple SaaS company that needs to build a brand and that starts with simpler story telling around the product and what it does for the customer. Trying to squeeze a Luke Skywalker story arc into the first draft of a SaaS product story is not simple and can go wrong. Does it deliver on the brand promise consistently?”

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ChurnZero

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Whether Customer Success or Sales should own the renewal, expansion, and upsell is a hot-button issue in today’s SaaS sphere. As such, we decided to tap industry experts for a verbal duel on the subject where the winners take home the esteemed (and priceless) prize of bragging rights and SaaS street cred. Enter the Sales Manager.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 30, 2021

They’ve built a new process of guided selling, which Neil discusses during the show. How Revenue Grid enables smarter selling. Now, without further ado, let’s listen to this interview with Neil Ringers. Neil Ringers: Interviewing people over Zoom is different than interviewing people face-to-face.

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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. Stripe today has more than 1,400 employees and processes billions of dollars for millions of users worldwide. Manual processes first. Dare I say SaaS.

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