FastSpring

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Interview with Fred Linfjard Is conversion rate optimization for SaaS different than traditional A/B testing for ecommerce? But for subscription-based software companies, that’s just the beginning. We interviewed our former Chief Product Officer Kurt Smith about pricing strategies that work during volatile markets.

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Buffer Resources

JANUARY 18, 2023

These tools encompass everything from the social platforms you choose to build your presence on to the community-building app where you engage with your audience. Access is determined by the platform’s capacity, so you can’t rely on it too much. Add Buffer to your content creation toolkit today. Paid plans start from $16.99/month

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User Pilot

MARCH 23, 2023

TL;DR Customer churn refers to the rate at which a business loses customers within a specific period. The key difference is that customer churn measures the number of customers a business lost, whereas revenue churn measures the revenue lost due to customer churn. Want to reduce customer churn?

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FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

If you’re not sure if FastSpring is the right payment system and merchant of record (MOR) for your B2C and/or B2B SaaS company, we want to know what questions and concerns you have so we can take that into consideration as we continue building out our features and products. Strengthening Customer Relationships.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 27, 2020

?. The subscription model has revolutionized virtually every industry. But there’s another reality that businesses now have to contend with: the brief is getting harder and harder to nail. To navigate the current minefield of growth, businesses need to shift their focus. From legacy business to subscription service.

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

You’d probably work on growing your business, right? Maybe you’d spend it creating new marketing campaigns to generate more revenue. Regardless, the average small business owner spends five hours every pay period running payroll. The best payroll services exist to simplify the process of paying your employees.

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Buffer Resources

JANUARY 18, 2024

It’s not the first time I’ve tried out LinkedIn Premium — but it is the first time I’m approaching the platform’s paid subscription as a creator.  I landed several interviews thanks to the service and would highly recommend it to those looking for a new opportunity. 

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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.

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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. Interview them to understand what you can do to wow and turn them into raving fans.

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ProfitWell

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

With ProfitWell’s inception 7 years ago, we began with a mission of understanding and compiling a unified theory for subscription growth. Essentially, we wanted to understand the truth behind why recurring revenue businesses grow, what contributes to that growth, and how we can replicate that growth for our users.

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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 the MVP really was an API to initiate and reconcile payments, specifically, ACH and wires is what we started with.

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Natalia Luneva

JANUARY 13, 2021

This obsession with getting new customers is natural: the more customers you convert, the more revenue you will make. However, the subscription business model can’t survive if you keep on acquiring new custo mers but the old ones keep on walking away. We had about $ 25 ,000 to $ 100,000 in recurring revenue at that time a month.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 3, 2018

Rohini Pondhi , product management lead for Square’s Invoices product, knows this challenge well. If a process doesn’t stick, don’t hesitate to move from it. At Square, I manage a product called Square Invoices. What we do on the Invoices team is iterate on process just like we iterate on product.

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Buffer Resources

JANUARY 18, 2024

It’s not the first time I’ve tried out LinkedIn Premium — but it is the first time I’m approaching the platform’s paid subscription as a creator.  I landed several interviews thanks to the service and would highly recommend it to those looking for a new opportunity. 

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User Pilot

JUNE 28, 2023

Platformly uses a progress bar and empty state CTAs to simplify the onboarding process for their complex product. Split-test your upsell pop-ups to maximize expansion revenue. However, the company was facing a major issue: new members weren’t uploading their CVs to the platform. Get a demo now! Source: Osano.

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FastSpring

APRIL 4, 2024

In this episode of Growth Stage, we interview John, Chief Sales Officer of Demandbase , about his adventures solving exponential growth puzzles within organizations like Canva and others using both PLG and sales-led growth motions. Are you looking for a merchant of record that will partner with you to grow your business internationally?

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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. It’s in human nature to try to integrate – “Everybody is spending so much on Christmas, why wouldn’t I feel in my best condition for a few days?”

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Baremetrics

JANUARY 17, 2022

There are two types of email subscription lists that marketers can build: free and paid. Free newsletters are great to build brand credibility, nurture and retain customers, but they can use resources like time and money without generating revenue. In the case of paid emails, subscribers pay for their newsletter subscription.

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Unbounce

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Thousands of businesses are willing to spend unbelievable amounts of money to rank at the top of search engine results pages (SERP) and in the most relevant places for their users around the web. In 2019, small businesses spent between $9,000 and $10,000 per month on PPC , with Google making an average of $116.5 Retargeting.

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Payment Methods Payment Solutions Payments AI Search 145

User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

Revenue growth rate : This measures the rate at which the company’s revenue is growing over a specific period. A higher revenue growth rate generally indicates positive business performance. A higher revenue growth rate generally indicates positive business performance.

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FastSpring

APRIL 13, 2023

From leading sales at Zillow to brand strategy at Tumblr to revenue at FiscalNote (a global policy platform), Justin Scott started noticing a trend. And we need platforms to be able to do that. In September 2022, Dopple publicly launched its new platform. They Launched With a Platform, Not a Product Another big advantage?

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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. Conducting a pricing audit goes through five factors—acquisition, monetization, retention, pricing strategy, and discounts. Monetization.

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CustomerSuccessBox

JULY 11, 2022

This trip begins for the majority of SaaS products when a user clicks a “cancel subscription” button of some sort. They could, however, have left due to a business-related issue just as probable. Surveys may also be integrated directly into the cancellation page. The route includes account churn.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

Below, we’ve shared the full transcript of Harry’s interview with Krish Subramanian. So before we dive into the process itself, again, we chatted before and you said you were paranoid about staying up to date with your customer. How do you think about services revenue streams today in SaaS, especially when scaling into enterprise?

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SaaSHolic

MAY 15, 2023

The Ethereum platform enables technologies like NFTs to cross over into mainstream culture and has undergone two significant upgrades. The interview concludes with a message of uncertainty and the importance of collective engagement with the technology.

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FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

Founded in 2019, Cognota is the first and only LearnOps platform for corporate learning and development teams. There are now over 150 enterprise companies using the platform. Stream the full interview below or find it wherever you listen to podcasts. Ryan called it a light bulb moment out of which the idea for Cognota was born.

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Payment Solutions Payment Services SaaS Payments VP of Engineering 95

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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Payment Methods Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Software Review 78

FastSpring

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Full Interview: Audio Only Full Interview: Video 3 CRO Insights From Dave Gowans Why Full Funnel CRO Is Especially Important for SaaS and Subscriptions “The easiest and most straightforward bit of CRO is what you can do on the website,” Dave says. Stream the entire conversation or read the highlights below. Jump to highlights.

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Payment Methods SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payments 169

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. Popular SAAS Revenue Models.

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ProfitWell

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Recur 2019 is over, but the journey toward subscription truth is not. We gathered in Boston to discuss all things subscription—kicking off with our Pricing and Monetization Workshop. Our hallmark conference followed, featuring insights and inspiration from some of the brightest in the subscription space.

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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. Payments has been around for thousands of years.

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ProfitWell

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Why is it so hard to define an average churn rate—and what does that mean for your subscription business? Some companies report revenue churn, others only share customer or user churn numbers, and often there’s no distinction between whether churn numbers are annual or monthly. Let’s find out. What is the average churn rate?

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ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Today, we have the world’s largest list of branded podcasts and video shows , a fresh drop for Webflow users, and more sports entering the subscription space. Your top subscription news. According to Jay, they define a "brand" as companies that sell products as their primary revenue source. Amid my Twitter scroll this a.m.,

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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. I say profitable as we are using our client's’ financial data to determine what to pay, or often not pay, in the digital advertising platforms we manage. Geoff: Someone once told me. Soren used to be a rocket scientist.

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FastSpring

JUNE 22, 2022

I was recently interviewed by my friend Steve Lurie, who’s the Chief Engagement Officer of B2B Rocks. For example: Are you making your quoting and invoicing experience as efficient and flexible as possible? Are you making it easy for all your customers to pay you (such as localized currency and payment methods)?

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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. Stripe today has more than 1,400 employees and processes billions of dollars for millions of users worldwide. Payments has been around for thousands of years.

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ProfitWell

MAY 8, 2020

How are churn and new revenue trending over time? Get it right and your customer success strategy can decrease customer acquisition costs, increase lifetime value, and make a direct impact on your revenue potential. GIVEAWAY ALERT: In case you missed it, we launched season two of our interview-series Protect the Hustle this week.

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