Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

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. But thankfully, that’s not what your payroll process has to look like. The 6 best payroll service options for 2020. Number of employees.

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User Pilot

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Thus, properly harnessing data-driven insights is key to achieving product growth and business success. It will also guide you through uncovering and harnessing these insights in your SaaS business. This can be data from CRM platforms, customer feedback , website analytics, product analytics, social media data, etc.

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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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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. Pretty good for SMB SaaS. In fact, now it’s more than 2x the size of its SaaS software alone.

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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. 10 Rules to Being a VP of Sales in a Startup. The 5 Characteristics of a Great Sales Leader. More on this opportunity here.

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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. Split-test your upsell pop-ups to maximize expansion revenue. Get a demo now!

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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. That is a platform that is endemic to gaming.

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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

We’ll share insider tips to help you approach your next audit with confidence, sail through with flying colors, and get back to business as usual. A third-party audit is an assessment of a company’s internal controls, security practices, or compliance processes conducted by an independent auditing firm.

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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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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 ‘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.

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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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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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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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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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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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Natalia Luneva

JANUARY 13, 2021

Existing customer renewal is a high priority for 59% of SaaS companies and a medium priority for 27%. This obsession with getting new customers is natural: the more customers you convert, the more revenue you will make. How to calculate this metric and what’s the average SaaS churn rate?

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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

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

User adoption is essential for B2B SaaS companies, as it helps customers to learn about your product, adopt features , stick around, and nurture product growth. But how does user adoption impact your business? Add in-app video tutorials to make the onboarding process smooth. And your role at a customer success team?

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User Pilot

AUGUST 10, 2023

It’s best to send transactional NPS surveys: During the onboarding process to get insights into the customer experience. Upon a customer service call to measure customer satisfaction with the help received. Invite passives to interviews to learn more about their expectations. Video calls work best for this sort of interview.

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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. How has the new business environment affected your business, and are you considering any changes to your business model going forward?

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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. Userpilot is a product growth platform that can help you collect and act on your customer data. Customers expect personalized services and product experiences.

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User Pilot

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

User adoption is essential for B2B SaaS companies, as it helps customers to learn about your product, adopt features , stick around, and nurture product growth. But how does user adoption impact your business? Add in-app video tutorials to make the onboarding process smooth. And your role at a customer success team?

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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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Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

A startup growing at 15% per month will double revenues after five months. Term loans can be quite useful for SaaS startups. SaaS companies benefit from high gross margins and relatively predictable businesses. At this point, the company should command twice the valuation when it raises its next round.

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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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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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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. And I just started a consulting business, it was a service business.

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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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Outseta

DECEMBER 17, 2017

Colony is building a platform on which to build open organizations. The rules of the organization are enforced by blockchain technology rather than paper based contracts, allowing anyone to contribute to the organization and earn payment or ownership commensurate with their contributions to the “colony.” Geoff Roberts: Hi, Jack.

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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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ProfitWell

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

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. SaaS operators have the expertise but are continuously blocked with foundational issues that take time and energy. And a whole lot has happened since.

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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. If you nail the offboarding process, you might even succeed in converting former clients into ardent supporters! They could, however, have left due to a business-related issue just as probable.

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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. Dare I say SaaS. The exchange of value.

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ProfitWell

OCTOBER 16, 2019

It’s the question on every SaaS founder’s lips: Is my churn rate too high? So how do you know what a healthy churn rate is for your SaaS company? Why is it so hard to define an average churn rate—and what does that mean for your subscription business? Subscription service Recurly reports an average monthly churn rate of 5.6%

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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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Chargify

OCTOBER 4, 2017

There’s a self-service page, which allows clients to update information on their own. It provides metrics month-over-month on critical data such as the number of customers, revenue, and lifetime client value.”. It allows us to upgrade, downgrade, or cancel a client’s subscription easily. costs money and 2.

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