FastSpring

AUGUST 2, 2023

“As a startup with only two or three people, it would be absolutely impossible to go international without this kind of platform.” Are you looking for a merchant of record that will partner with you to grow your business internationally? Igor said they haven’t had any major issues using the FastSpring platform. Here’s why.

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Payment Solutions Payment Methods Merchant Services AI Search 142

FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

When FastSpring’s Chief Product Officer Kurt Smith worked with growth-stage to Fortune 100 companies at Accel-KKR, he consistently saw pricing as one of the most essential growth levers they employed to meet their next revenue goal. Stream both interviews below and see highlights from each. About Our Presenters. About FastSpring.

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Pricing Payment Solutions Payment Services SaaS Payments 117

FastSpring

APRIL 26, 2022

“It’s likely that a finance or sales tools will be less susceptible to churn than a marketing tool, simply because it’s perceived to be more directly responsible for revenue.”. Because word-of-mouth for us is actually much bigger fuel than the revenue that we’re collecting or churning or dropping or whatever.”.

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Benchmarks Churn Payments SaaS Payments 121

Buffer Resources

JUNE 8, 2023

Welcome back to Creators Unlocked , a series where we interview creators about their best practices. This decision has led him to delegate about "97 percent of the tasks across all my businesses." This approach has yielded Lloyd the "luxury of time to think, conduct interviews, and even travel if required."

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Outsourcing Services Payments Social Media Payment Methods 83

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. Help us manage and scale tens of millions of partner and sponsor revenue. Reply back and I’ll put together a list.

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User Pilot

DECEMBER 7, 2023

This can be data from CRM platforms, customer feedback , website analytics, product analytics, social media data, etc. For example, customer surveys and interviews may reveal that language learners want an interactive app with a personalized experience. They help you develop growth strategies that keep the revenue flowing and growing.

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Payment Methods SaaS Payments Data Payments 105

Scytale

MARCH 19, 2024

Trust and credibility: Completing an audit from a reputable firm signifies to customers and partners that you operate with integrity and have strong controls in place. This can help win new business and strengthen existing relationships. THE PCI DSS BIBLE Everything to know about securing payments and cardholder data!

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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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Payment Services Payments AI Search Payment Methods 127

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. But I’m not going to know if it ultimately resulted in revenue.

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Payment Methods SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payments 168

SaaStr

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Enter the platform company. 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. So, 90 new people coming on and figuring out how to do that integration.

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Payments SaaS Payments Banking Underperforming Technical Team 140

SaaStr

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Stand Out by Being Concise and Easy to Understand Michael has done over 2000 YC interviews, and the one thing founders don’t understand is that if investors don’t know what your company does, they can’t fund you. “The They collect the payment online and take a 15% fee for every booking. Let’s use Airbnb as an example. That’s it.

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Payment Methods Startup Payment Solutions Sales Hiring 202

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

In sum -> Learning and understanding how to maximize the revenue per lead. No Revenues”. Drive your revenue per lead way up, and put you in place to jump on and close every practical piece of business that comes through the door. Create a real machine to monetize the prospects and leads that find their way to you.

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FastSpring

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Interview with Fred Linfjard Is conversion rate optimization for SaaS different than traditional A/B testing for ecommerce? How Fred Linfjard Reduced a SaaS Company’s Churn Rate by 50% We followed up our CRO conversation with Fred with another interview about churn. Our First Three Episodes 1. Is CRO Different for SaaS?

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Payment Methods Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payments 78

User Pilot

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Build a consistent brand throughout every platform that your business has a presence on to ensure that the messaging is always aligned. To learn more about the Salesforce integration, get your free Userpilot demo today! Podium Podium is a lead-conversion platform powered by AI and third-party integrations.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

In Part B (coming soon), we’ll be summarizing interviews with key decision makers at leading payor and provider enterprises on what entrepreneurs should consider as they bring their AI products to market.

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Healthcare AI Artificial Intelligence Payment Solutions 138

FastSpring

DECEMBER 7, 2023

How you should think about building a sellable business. Interested in learning more about how your SaaS, software, video game, or other digital goods business can partner with FastSpring and let us worry about the taxes? WP Engine, we’re the world’s most trusted platform for WordPress. Jump to highlights.

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Software Review Technical Review Development Team Review Branding 135

Navint

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Sean has over 15 years of expertise in recurring revenue technologies, most recently hailing from Salesforce where he was a senior member of the product marketing team responsible for Salesforce CPQ & Billing. Navint clients expect vendor-neutral recommendations and best practices in implementations and integrations.

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Payments Technology Scale Revenue 53

FastSpring

JANUARY 26, 2024

Jake, Head of Customer Success for Sideways 6, explains that the current trend is to measure their success through the customer’s success, with CS being an integral part of impacting the entire business. Jake Dipple 4:40 Of course, so, Sideways 6 we’re ID management platform, and we exist to bring good ideas to life every day.

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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? What is customer churn?

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SaaS Payments Churn Underperforming Technical Team Payment Methods 98

Buffer Resources

MAY 17, 2023

Picture this: two popular influencers from different niches join forces to create engaging and exciting content, reaching millions of followers across platforms. Lifestyle creators Alix Earle and Monet McMichael frequently film content together on brand trips. The result? We do a lot of this at Buffer! Joint giveaways.

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Social Media Payments Software Review Technical Review 111

SaaStr

MAY 10, 2021

There’s one theme we’ve reiterated over the years, at least since 2017 or so when we interviewed the CEOs of Twilio and Veeva back-to-back : To grow quickly after $100m ARR, you probably need a second core product. Certainly to grow quickly as you approach $1B. The only question is when. That’s the magic. More on that here.

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Merchant Services SaaS Payments SMB Payment Solutions 168

User Pilot

JUNE 20, 2023

Obtaining (and acting on) users’ opinions of your product through user feedback and interviews and more. So, in addition to improving your customer retention rates, these customers help grow your customer base and drive revenue growth. For instance, a video-sharing platform will be used differently by video creators and viewers.

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Payment Methods SaaS Payments Strategy Payment Services 98

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. Diversify your platforms in anticipation of change The Internet is always changing, and staying ahead of the curve is a must for any creator. Make sure any revenue generation aligns with these elements.”

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Social Media Payments Payment Methods Technical Review 92

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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Onboarding SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions 97

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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SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Merchant Services Software Review 131

Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 28, 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. So, I co-founded another payments company called PropertyBridge, which allowed you to pay rent electronically.

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Merchant Services Payment Methods Payments Payment Solutions 75

Buffer Resources

OCTOBER 2, 2023

After nearly going under twice due to cash flow issues, she finally cracked the code for success, transforming her business from a $20,000 loss in December of 2020 alone to achieving $1 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) just two years later. Business Snapshot Years in business: 6.5

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Payment Methods Sales Hiring Payments Business 116

Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

This episode begins with an interview just to help kick things off and then features a rich set of questions from the audience — as this originally took place live on stage at our Crypto Startup School 2023.

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PayPal Payments Interviewing Startup 56

SaaStr

MAY 14, 2023

Algolia went from zero to seven figures in revenue in 12 months, and the launch of their search as a service product, and grew pricing from $19 a month to $100,000, which sounds amazing. They built themselves into a core platform for HR 2.0 Enterprise is maybe around 60% of our revenue, it’s not the whole deal.

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Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale Payment Methods 215

OpenView Labs

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The ‘haves’, defined by growing quickly out of the gate and then maintaining 50% or faster revenue growth at significant scale, have seen their valuations skyrocket over the years. The first call with a candidate is no longer an interview; it instead needs to be 100% focused on setting the hook. Then it’s critical to sell, sell, sell.

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Payment Services Benchmarks SaaS Payments Merchant Services 80

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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Payment Services SaaS Payments Outsourcing Services Payment Solutions 145

Buffer Resources

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Why this works : This approach works because it provides a real-world example of how the product (Passionfroot) solves a specific problem (inefficient and inconvenient ways of organizing sponsorships and tracking payments). The post also includes a testimonial, which adds credibility and shows the product's value.

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Social Media Payment Methods Payment Solutions AI Search 120

Sales Hacker

MARCH 30, 2021

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Neil Ringers , EVP of Revenue Grid. Neil’s experience includes a long history of sales leadership, primarily in the Salesforce ecosystem, and is now running revenue for Revenue Grid. They’ve built a new process of guided selling, which Neil discusses during the show.

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Scale Payments Technical Advisors Sales Recruiting 102

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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SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payments Social Media 204

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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Scale Sales Payment Methods Merchant Services 129

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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Technical Review Systems Review Sales Recruiting AI Search 106

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. Invite passives to interviews to learn more about their expectations Passives are generally satisfied but not impressed.

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