User Pilot

JUNE 28, 2023

Kommunicate drives sales-less product adoption through product experiments and tracking adoption rates with Userpilot. 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. Source: Osano.

Onboarding 96

Onboarding SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions 96

Sales Hacker

JUNE 7, 2021

Sales customer insights. Let’s drill down into the market and customer insights that can really add value for salespeople, under the following sections: Qualifying characteristics: Things to look for in an organization that make it a good target. But what are these insights that will transform the conversations salespeople have?

Sales Recruiting 107

Sales Recruiting Payment Services Payment Methods Sales 107

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. Across markets, companies were “taking big data sets and visualizing them in interesting ways to create user experiences.” And we need platforms to be able to do that.

Payment Methods 116

Payment Methods Marketing Payments SaaS Payments 116

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. He also shares insights about how Cognota is maintaining ownership over the category they created while encouraging dialogue and collaboration in the market.

Payment Solutions 91

Payment Solutions Payment Services SaaS Payments VP of Engineering 91

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 Is it increasing sales?

Payment Methods 145

Payment Methods Payment Solutions Payments AI Search 145

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Good sales leaders are always on the hunt to bring in new talent that can help a business grow. Still, they don’t always nail down the details when it comes to the things that might entice a prospective salesperson — like a well-rounded sales compensation plan , for example. Creating a Winning Sales Incentives Program.

Sales Hiring 82

Sales Hiring Compensation Sales Payments 82

ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Conducting a pricing audit goes through five factors—acquisition, monetization, retention, pricing strategy, and discounts. Customer acquisition proves to be more challenging and more expensive as your customer base grows and the untapped market shrinks. Monetization. Next is monetization. What are your long-term goals?

Payments 45

Payments Pricing Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Payments 45

SaaStr

JULY 9, 2019

Giraffe is a mobile job matching platform that helps medium skilled workers get access to opportunities and helps businesses to recruit staff faster, and easier, and more affordably than any other way. Our first MVP was actually an SMS based app where job seekers would send six SMSes in order to register on our platform.

Scale 172

Scale Sales Recruiting Scaling SaaS Payments 172

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

Below, we’ve shared the full transcript of Harry’s interview with Krish Subramanian. In terms of the product market fit falling apart. And I think it’s a constant challenge that every business that moves up market deals with and that requires just thoughtful orchestration across all three areas.

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Scale SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting Payment Services 133

FastSpring

JUNE 22, 2022

I was recently interviewed by my friend Steve Lurie, who’s the Chief Engagement Officer of B2B Rocks. Products Are Finding New Growth in the Opposite Segment. Historically, when SaaS businesses have gone to market, they’ve done so by finding product-market fit with one of two core audiences: consumers or businesses.

B2C 125

B2C Payments SaaS Payments B2B 125

SaaStr

MAY 9, 2019

Most people know the YC Accelerator, but YC actually has a number of programs now, including Amook, the Accelerator, a Series A program to help companies raise Series A, and a growth program to help companies expand post product market fit. Number three is not understanding their business model. This is extremely common.

Sales Hiring 170

Sales Hiring Scale Payment Solutions Banking 170

SaaStr

JUNE 14, 2019

Before that Dave was SVP/GM of Service Cloud @ Salesforce where he led the $500m line of business for customer service applications. Finally pre-Salesforce, Dave was CEO @ MarkLogic where he grew the team from 40 to 240 and revenues from $0 to an $80m revenue run rate. Dave Kellogg. Elisa Steele. Don’t go hire 20 more.

Sales Hiring 147

Sales Hiring Payment Services SaaS Payments Underperforming Technical Team 147

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

Payment Methods 114

Payment Methods Sales Hiring Payments Business 114

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.

Merchant Services 82

Merchant Services Payment Methods Payments Payment Solutions 82

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.

Payments 53

Payments Technology Scale Revenue 53

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

How should sales and marketing work together on pricing? Below, we’ve shared the transcript of Harry’s interview with Rob. I was working on a startup that was an early mobile payment platform. It was basically using Bluetooth and an app on PalmPilots to do wireless payments in restaurants. Harry Stebbings.

SaaS Payments 277

SaaS Payments Scale Payment Services Payment Solutions 277

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

As for Travis, prior to joining Redpoint, Travis was head of Customer Growth at Front, after spending 5 years building the global Sales organization at Optimizely, the world’s most popular experimentation platform. Below, we’ve shared the transcript of Harry’s interview with Travis. Loving our podcast content?

Underperforming Technical Team 165

Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Payments Payment Services Technical Advisors 165

SmartKarrot

MARCH 8, 2022

An exceptional thought leader and a brilliant coach to thousands of executives, Allison Pickens, is a leading expert on recurring revenue growth. Her diverse yet unique skills include customer life cycle optimization from pre-sales. Allison Pickens. Anika Zubair. Caroline Andreola. Dana Alvarenga. Daphne Lopes. Erika Villarreal.

VP of Engineering 21

VP of Engineering Customer Success Scale SaaS Payments 21

SaaStr

AUGUST 27, 2019

How to Design a Sales Comp Plan to Get You to $100M with Work-Bench, Movable Ink, MongoDB and Concert Finance. Meghan Gill | VP of Sales Ops @ MongoDB. All right everyone, thank you so much for joining us today for our panel on how to design a sales comp plan to get you to 100 million dollars. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

Sales Recruiting 137

Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale Sales 137

User Pilot

AUGUST 15, 2023

With several product launches occurring every day, you need something special to ensure your announcement doesn’t get lost in the noise. In this article, we detail what a product launch marketing plan is, why you need one, and how to create a successful product marketing from the start. Let’s begin!

ChatGPT 98

ChatGPT SaaS Payments Marketing Social Media 98

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Aside from the areas outlined below, you need to hire or train sales reps who are capable of selling at an Enterprise level. That’s five or more months of ramp, and likely a whole year of burning cash to get the new sales team ready. 2) Product Readiness – Do you have the essential Enterprise features? Integrations.

SaaS Payments 58

SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Payments Enterprise 58

User Pilot

JULY 24, 2023

What is SaaS marketing? We’re all familiar with the basics of SaaS product marketing such as attracting users to a SaaS product with a subscription business model. That said, there are key differences between a SaaS marketing strategy and standard digital marketing. What is SaaS marketing?

SaaS Payments 92

SaaS Payments Marketing Payment Solutions SaaS 92

A Smart Bear

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The product was built on a platform , and the platform changed. Examples: A popular app drops to zero downloads after Apple builds it into iOS; A Microsoft Office add-on drops to zero sales after Microsoft builds that feature into Office; A Twitter utility breaks when Twitter removes functionality from their public API.

Payment Solutions 71

Payment Solutions Payments Payment Methods Scale 71

SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

I will tell you how many COs I’ve talked to that say, “I’ll come to SaaStr, but I don’t want my series B or series C VC interviewing me,” which is sort of interesting. Jason Lemkin: Anyone post-revenue. Aileen Lee: But I think, yeah, for … I mean, the cloud index is not even post-revenue.

Investment 167

Investment Technical Review Part-Time VPE Development Team Review 167

wepay

MARCH 23, 2018

SaaS businesses tend to believe in and use aggressive growth marketing approaches – at least once they are past the phase of building product and figuring out product-market fit. But growth marketing and marketing for growth aren’t quite the same thing, and every SaaS business is unique.

SaaS Payments 40

SaaS Payments Marketing SaaS Payments 40

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Don’t just listen to what they say – watch what they do, understand their world and their challenges, and consider how your product integrates and fits in with everything else happening in their lives. Here are a few quick takeaways: Focus on your customers. At the same time, I was doing a bunch of startup advisor work.

Payment Solutions 209

Payment Solutions Payment Methods Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring 209

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.

Payment Solutions 118

Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Strategy Software 118

FastSpring

APRIL 30, 2024

Will your existing users revolt to the change and switch to a new product? Will your subscriptions renew at a high enough rate to counteract a reduction in one-time sales? In this episode of Growth Stage, we interview Fred Linfjärd of Planday about his experiences switching from a one-time billing model to subscriptions.

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Subscription Payment Features Payments Payment Solutions 112

Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 22, 2018

Fast forward to today, and Eventbrite is the world’s largest self-service event ticketing and registration platform – processing more than 3 million tickets each week. That company would go on to be acquired by TaskRabbit, where he helped 3x core business volume as co-head of marketing. We raised a $1.5-million

Marketplace as a Service 189

Marketplace as a Service Scale Payment Solutions Payment Services 189

SaaStr

MARCH 13, 2020

After finding funding and product/market fit, your next steps as a founder in the hypergrowth phase can determine the future of your company. Below, we’ve shared the transcript of Harry’s interview with Harry Hurst. The entrepreneur in me, though, wanted to make more money than I could make on the market.

SaaS Payments 218

SaaS Payments Payment Methods Finance Payments 218

SaaStr

OCTOBER 4, 2019

How does Jeppe respond to 3 common concerns VCs have with SMBs: * The price points are so low that it takes huge volume to scale to meaningful revenue? * Serving SMBs in the way that Pleo does is an intensely competitive space, is this a winner-take-all market? Jeppe Rindom: Yeah, I think pricing has been an iterative process for us.

Scale 125

Scale SaaS Payments SMB Sales Hiring 125

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Today on the show, we’ve got Brian Litvack, the first person that ever hired me as a sales consultant and my fast friend. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Sam Jacobs: Today on the show, we’ve got Brian Litvack, the first person that ever hired me as a sales consultant and my fast friend. We’re on iTunes.

Leadership 63

Leadership Payments Scale Payment Methods 63