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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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 3, 2018

Rohini Pondhi , product management lead for Square’s Invoices product, knows this challenge well. If Rohini’s team is making changes to the UI or the front end, they can test quickly and easily, but because their core product is payments-based, much more rigor is required compared to your typical software product.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

About My First 16 Our new video podcast series My First 16 features interviews with founders and CEOs of fintech companies about how they acquired their initial customers and the hard lessons they learned along the way. And so it felt like it was a place that was ripe for new software products.

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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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User Pilot

AUGUST 10, 2023

How to use relational and transactional NPS data to drive business growth: Segment detractors and reach out to them to offer personalized help. Invite passives to interviews to learn more about their expectations. an invoicing app. Personalized email to a detractor. Video calls work best for this sort of interview.

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

The process and fee structure may differ for different types of payments depending on which service you choose. Some services offer unlimited payroll processing, while others limit the number of times you can issue payments every month. So, carefully consider how often you need to send payments when making your final decision.

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Baremetrics

JANUARY 17, 2022

There are two types of email subscription lists that marketers can build: free and paid. How To Make Your Paid Newsletter Subscription More Efficient Content Creation and Distribution Email Newsletter Tool: What to look out for Popular Newsletter Subscription Services 1. Table of Contents.

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Buffer Resources

JANUARY 18, 2023

Paid plans for Wordpress start at $9/month and $11/month for Ghost Description : There are many ways to publish content on the Internet, but if you want a dedicated website, you might need a content management system. You’ll always be in their inboxes and can implement subscriptions or ads at your convenience.

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FastSpring

APRIL 26, 2022

Last week, I canceled an annual SaaS subscription (I had three weeks left until renewal). Interestingly, even though I paid for a year-long subscription, the company didn’t let me keep the last three weeks of access to its premium features. This action will immediately downgrade your subscription.

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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. Because sales cycles can be long and complicated, entrepreneurs are most secure when they can find a champion who will keep the process moving through hiccups and obstacles.

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ProfitWell

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Today, we’re all about ecommerce. We have a list of podcasts for the ecommerce-righteous crew out there, plus 2Checkout hosts a webinar, and Rewind partners with BigCommerce to bring you a Black Friday playbook. Your top subscription news. The pods on ecommerce. In 2007, he and his wife started their own online store.

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User Pilot

APRIL 8, 2021

Here’s a sobering truth: if you run a SaaS company and don’t use customer analytics software , you probably won’t be in business very long. If you’re looking for quality customer analytics software for your business, you’re in the right place. What is Customer Analytics Software? Best Customer Analytics Software 1.

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Incredo

DECEMBER 3, 2019

And you look for ideas on how to promote your software for these holidays. 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. And we do not really fit perfectly with our SaaS. Keep it short.

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Chargify

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Managing offers, reliable billing, and subscription lifecycle management is complex, creating an iceberg effect for companies that decide to tackle it on their own. It allows us to upgrade, downgrade, or cancel a client’s subscription easily. Below, we’ll shed some light on the great buy vs. build debate. Uri Foox, Founder, Zoey.

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FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

Stream the full interview below or find it wherever you listen to podcasts. Like, you’re literally on the floor like crippled with crying just like two years of your hard work, or whatever, you know, you’re like, ah, and then you get a phone call at that exact moment. How are we going to do that? Ryan Austin 01:00 Sure.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

Does it have to be in person? Below, we’ve shared the full transcript of Harry’s interview with Krish Subramanian. Krish Subramanian: We are software engineers by training. My co-founders cut their teeth at Zoho for over 10 years building product and for over six years [inaudible] software products. Harry Stebbings.

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FastSpring

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Barriers are anything that stop a buyer from converting, such as website usability, solution fit, or pricing. But he explains that what happens on the website is such a small and early part of the entire customer relationship. “For That’s why Dave recommends testing all the way through to the client or customer taking a subscription.

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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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SaaStr

MARCH 18, 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. But we provide a combination of APIs and software. Payments has been around for thousands of years. Dare I say SaaS. They were self taught developers.

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Chart Mogul

AUGUST 30, 2019

The real-life examples of 3 companies that use online courses (that they charge a premium for) to educate customers, lower churn, and grow their revenue. Nico is an online marketer and the founder of Launch Space. The graph shows how payment plans impact usage. This is a guest post by Nico Prins. Source: HBR.

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FastSpring

MARCH 15, 2021

That’s the beauty of subscription models. While implementing a subscription model means ongoing revenue, it also brings up many challenges for managing those subscriptions. You have to create a subscription-friendly product, infrastructure, marketing plan, and customer retention plan. Advantages of a Subscription Model.

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Chart Mogul

AUGUST 30, 2019

The real-life examples of 3 companies that use online courses (that they charge a premium for) to educate customer, lower churn, and grow their revenue. The graph shows how payment plans impact usage. In all of the examples listed above, your software is just a tool for achieving a business goal. Source: HBR.

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User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

TL;DR SaaS, or “Software as a Service,” is a business model that delivers centrally hosted software to subscribers over the internet. The different roles in SaaS companies: Chief Executive Officer : As the highest-ranking executive, this person ensures the company runs smoothly and employees are happy and engaged.

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FastSpring

JANUARY 8, 2019

But when it comes to digital businesses where all transactions and fulfillment take place online, there’s a whole new set of terms you need to know in order to keep up. But don’t worry, we’ve created an ecommerce glossary that includes all the terms and concepts you need to know to have a successful digital business. Affiliate links.

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SaaStr

JULY 9, 2019

I’m probably the most hated person in the room right now, but please indulge me. More than half of Kenya’s GDP is now transacted through a mobile, through arguably the most successful mobile banking and payment system called M-Pesa. They didn’t have any cell phone credit. I’ll go easy on you.

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FastSpring

JUNE 22, 2022

Are you still making assumptions about your B2B go-to-market motion — assumptions that ignore B2C selling methods — that are limiting your growth potential? I was recently interviewed by my friend Steve Lurie, who’s the Chief Engagement Officer of B2B Rocks. Covid has poured gas on an already raging ecommerce phenomenon.

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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. Customer churn rate quantifies subscription cancellations, calculated as lost customers divided by the starting customer count. If you want to ensure customers renew each time, continue reading ahead.

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ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

A pricing audit assesses your subscription business’ pricing process to ensure consistency across similar accounts, maximize profitability, and benchmark against other companies. Discounting is a huge topic of interest in the subscription world and unnecessary discounts can have a negative impact on your business.

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User Pilot

JUNE 28, 2023

Segment users by their role or goal as soon as possible to provide a personalized onboarding experience. Arlo even came up with a progressive approach to in-app messaging in an effort to reduce delinquent churn and late payments. Tips for improving the onboarding experience : Use UI patterns to draw users towards activation points.

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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. We were building websites that “do stuff,” and a lot of our work with tech start-ups was in support of their advertising campaigns. Geoff: What was your familiarity level with Google Adwords at that time?

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SmartKarrot

AUGUST 11, 2021

SaaS, or software as a service, is a subscription-based model where customers pay subscription fees for services such as Dropbox, CRM, or perhaps Mailchimp, and this is how the companies earn monthly recurring revenues (MRM). Charging more from a customer could be the reason they are leaving your subscription service.

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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. 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.

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Neil Patel

APRIL 5, 2023

The free option allows one search, then you need a paid subscription. Ahrefs does offer a premium product with tiered subscription packages. However, verified website owners can get free access to a comprehensive set of Webmaster Tools , including backlink analysis. Paid subscriptions start from $119.95

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 13, 2021

Enterprise OEM software licensing is a multibillion-dollar segment of the software industry. It includes factual information, personal experience, and interviews from successful professionals on both the buy-side and the sell-side of enterprise OEM software licensing to ensure a broad mix of experience and ideas.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2019

Eyal and Megan host a fireside chat between Google Cloud and Zenoss, a leader in software-defined IT operations. Here’s what Eyal and Megan talk about: How to develop software faster. Below, we’ve shared the full transcript of Harry’s interview with Vikas Bhambri. Missed the session? The emergence of new A.I. Eyal Manor.

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FastSpring

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Needless to say, Michael knows a thing or two about helping software and big tech manage their global marketing presence. I interviewed Michael about successful global marketing strategies. Stream the Episode Highlights From The Interview 1. You can stream the full episode below or read highlights from our conversation.

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User Pilot

MAY 9, 2024

Use the insights from market research , surveys and interviews, and conversations of your customer-facing teams to create user personas representing main user types. Create personalized interactions for new users Personalized customer onboarding experiences reduce time to value. Key stakeholders they collaborate with.

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