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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FastSpring

DECEMBER 8, 2022

As a former agency owner, now the Chief Marketing Officer at FastSpring, David Vogelpohl has helped many software companies scale around the world. I interviewed him for insights into how to build a global growth strategy, especially when it comes to localization. Watch the two minute clip for more details.

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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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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.

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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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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. What does it mean for your SaaS?

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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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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

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. What does it mean for your SaaS?

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FastSpring

JANUARY 26, 2024

And at a company like Sideways 6 — whose product is an idea management software to help organizations engage people and foster innovation — that emphasis on collaboration gets even louder. 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. And much more!

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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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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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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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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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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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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. We’re enterprise software for a new category called LearnOps.

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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

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. Gone are the days when business leaders can afford to make decisions solely on the basis of intuition. What is Customer Analytics Software? Best Customer Analytics Software 1.

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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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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

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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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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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. But we provide a combination of APIs and software.

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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. He’s worked with everyone from Fortune 500 companies to startups helping them develop content marketing strategies that align with their business goals.

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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 problem with SaaS is getting people to see the value in your product. In this guide, I’ll cover why one of the biggest problems impacting the growth of your SaaS company is churn.

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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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ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Your core is a lot like pricing in SaaS companies. It’s the center of your business. A pricing audit assesses your subscription business’ pricing process to ensure consistency across similar accounts, maximize profitability, and benchmark against other companies. Monetization. Next is monetization.

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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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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.

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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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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

As for Krish, under Krish’s leadership the team has grown to over 300 people and over 5,000 clients making it one of the next generation in truly global SaaS businesses started in India. What is the process to do it efficiently? Below, we’ve shared the full transcript of Harry’s interview with Krish Subramanian.

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FastSpring

JUNE 22, 2022

We don’t have to look far to find examples of B2B SaaS companies that have found traction using a self-service or product-led motion. Look at Zoom or Slack: businesses designed for enterprise organizations that use B2C-like onboarding flows (such as product-led growth, or PLG) to fuel interest and adoption.

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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. What does it mean for your SaaS?

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FastSpring

OCTOBER 12, 2023

In Dave’s words, “What is it about your product or service that the users say in their own words they love ?” I think SaaS businesses and subscription businesses are particularly bad at having vague, waffley headlines on their homepages,” he states. Stream the entire conversation or read the highlights below.

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SmartKarrot

AUGUST 11, 2021

The same is true for companies who are dealing in SaaS products. The lifeblood of the SaaS business is its customers. However, at times, a SaaS customer is not happy with your product or service and may decide to unsubscribe, which is really disappointing. Fewer features in your SaaS product.

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