Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Casey’s first sequencing business models essay talked about the transition from a SaaS business model to marketplace business model, and why it’s so difficult. In this essay, we’ll go deeper into the gradients of marketplace models that a company can sequence to, and as a follow up, we will do the same for platforms.

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TrackStreet

APRIL 26, 2024

In a competitive industry for a specific type of product or service, businesses often engage in pricing wars that lead to a steady decrease in the value of goods. Pricing erosion refers to the steady and ongoing drop in the prices of products or services within a particular market or industry.

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BetterCloud

APRIL 25, 2024

Get ready to turn those monthly charges into strategic investments that fuel your business growth. SaaS budgeting is the process of planning, allocating, and managing financial resources for acquiring and using Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions within an organization. What is SaaS budgeting? Be candid and open in your discussion.

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Blulogix

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

This blog post delves into advanced strategies that can help subscription services foster deeper connections with their customers, thereby improving retention rates and fostering brand loyalty. Tailor experiences, from onboarding to customer service, ensuring each subscriber feels uniquely valued.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Congratulations you’ve built a product that’s proven itself in the marketplace! I’m talking about product-led growth as an investment strategy, but really my background is 10 years of operating experience in the product-led growth world. Now I’m investing in that. So, OpenView worked out for me. Product led growth.

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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

This award is earned by software products and companies that provide best-in-class customer service products and experiences for their customers. This is ChurnZero’s second time appearing on one of G2’s Best Software lists, earning its place this year thanks to its mission of helping subscription businesses fight customer churn.

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SaaSHolic

MAY 12, 2023

Despite Kovi’s rapid growth, the importance of improving profit margins was recognized, and the company is now investing in technology and efficiency. He noted that growth funds are more focused on existing portfolios and less on new investments, creating potential for surviving companies to become sector leaders.

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User Pilot

MARCH 20, 2024

The subscription model offers ongoing access for a fee, ensuring updates and steady income. The open-source model creates revenue by charging for beyond-the-basics services. You might sell your software for a one-time fee, offer it through a subscription model, or even bundle it with other products or services.

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BetterCloud

MAY 25, 2023

The rapid growth of SaaS adoption, expansion of the SaaS marketplace, need for cost optimization and efficiency, lack of visibility and governance, security and compliance concerns, and an increasing business focus on ROI and value optimization are all driving the increased importance of managing SaaS expenditure.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 18, 2020

While we’ve been shopping for items like clothes or shoes online for years, another trend is now emerging—business-to-business (B2B) ecommerce. It’s easy to think of online sales as a marketplace where we buy items for ourselves, but more and more B2B and SaaS sales are now happening online. Let’s get selling!

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SaaSOptics

MAY 22, 2018

Magazines, newspapers, life insurance, phones, security services, and a long list of products and services have been sold for decades using the subscription model. The difference now is how important and meaningful the subscription model has become to the national economic engine. What has changed?

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SaaSOptics

MAY 22, 2018

Magazines, newspapers, life insurance, phones, security services, and a long list of products and services have been sold for decades using the subscription model. The difference now is how important and meaningful the subscription model has become to the national economic engine. What has changed?

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OPEXEngine

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The shift to cloud-based subscription models is creating even more value in a thriving sector. But while software’s success in the marketplace has lifted the valuations of software companies, our analysis suggests that some firms may still be undervalued. Sticky after all. Four ways to drive value.

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Buffer Resources

MAY 2, 2024

It’s easy to get overwhelmed by trends, and tactics, and possibly doubt whether you can do this.  Personal investment on an emotional level makes your goals more meaningful.   How to get started with UGC  Identify brands aligned with yours, companies that sell products and services your audience spends money on.

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SaaSHolic

MAY 15, 2023

For startups, the speaker suggests focusing on how AI can drive customer acquisition and go-to-market strategy, while for large companies, creating a vision for AI is important, as well as focusing on infrastructure and skillsets and reshaping governance to deal with security and compliance issues.

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OpenView Labs

JANUARY 13, 2022

Given the lingering impacts of the pandemic and the rising specter of inflation, the impact of pricing on community value will likely remain below the surface for most companies in 2022 but this remains a long term trend. Usage-based pricing (UBP) was an undeniable trend in 2021. Now onto pricing transformations for 2022.

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Stax

JANUARY 17, 2024

The great thing about an ACH PayFac solution like Stax Connect is that SaaS companies or ISVs can embed ACH payments in their software easily and own (also, white label) the payment experience. All this without having to invest time and resources in partnering with an acquiring bank or building an elaborate payment infrastructure.

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SmartKarrot

DECEMBER 18, 2020

As more and more companies are realizing the need to become customer-centric, their investment in customer service – both financial and conceptual – is rising rapidly. The need to become efficient in all the customer service processes are becoming more relevant than ever. So, let’s look at those trends here. #1

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SmartKarrot

DECEMBER 18, 2020

As more and more companies are realizing the need to become customer-centric, their investment in customer service – both financial and conceptual – is rising rapidly. The need to become efficient in all the customer service processes are becoming more relevant than ever. So, let’s look at those trends here. #1

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 16, 2020

Andrey explains why embracing the professional services sector in a unique way has paid dividends. Because I think everyone talks about platforms but to actually do it properly – and it sounds like you guys are really invested in it – it is a big investment. So what was the spur for you to make that move? Andrey: Exactly.

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How To Buy Saas

DECEMBER 1, 2020

SAAS is also abbreviated as software as a service. With so many SAAS getting visibility in online marketplaces, we found that new saas businesses are struggling hard to make it to the right set of customers. SaaS as we already understood is a software as a service. Setup Pricing model and payment gateways.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

. “The shift from serving just consumers to serving consumers and companies is a massive one” For Udemy, investing in a B2B arm seemed too obvious, and too good, an opportunity to ignore. When Eren Bali founded Udemy in 2010, he had a vision for what the marketplace would be: a place where anyone could teach and learn anything.

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How To Buy Saas

JANUARY 1, 2021

Online learning is a new trend which we are have encountered by now. Your course gets the advantage of getting promoted in these online course platform marketplaces. Collecting payments and setting up membership is much easier when you choose to run your course through these online course platform. Online Course Marketplace.

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Eventbrite was historically a 50% sales and 50% self-service business. So, as we decided to take a bet on building an intuitive, self-service experience instead of masking user experience issues with human support, we really had to confront Belsky’s product lifecycle for the first time. Sounds expensive.

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Baremetrics

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Finding hidden patterns in your sales, seeing the growth potential, and knowing which service is poised to be the star of your marketplace can all be done through using Baremetrics. This includes all of the expenses directly related to the products or services sold, for example materials and inventory.

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ProfitWell

APRIL 12, 2019

Abby here with the subscription news you need and none of the noise you don’t. Or, if you're a clients-based business, you can classify them by what service you provide, their status, etc. Further integration with Atlassian products should come as no surprise, seeing as they invested $115 million in InVision's Series F funding round.

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Chart Mogul

JUNE 23, 2022

In the SaaS world, that means the consumer-facing apps & marketplace SaaS have a tougher time ahead. This is a perfect time to invest in your user base & core product offering because playing to your strengths will pay off. The question on every CFO’s mind will be — what can we rip and replace and what is mission-critical?

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How To Buy Saas

MARCH 12, 2021

The introduction of teleshopping—which, at the time, just meant electronic invoices—was originally applied to reduce the time processing importations in customs. This trend has been a response to the direct-to-consumer (D2C) boom that brands have turbo-powered as new SaaS enable them to build ecommerce websites with greater ease.

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ProfitWell

APRIL 1, 2020

White-labeling services for SaaS products have become very popular over the past decade. In some cases, although there can be some limitations in terms of control over an app’s features, design, and functions, it can be a way to get a profitable SaaS business out on the market quickly, with minimal financial investment.

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Neil Patel

APRIL 22, 2021

This guide will share everything you need to know about this latest marketing trend and how to leverage it for your business. Advanced ad targeting capabilities means access to high-converting consumers who are more interested in the products or services you offer. How can programmatic buying benefit your business? Increase Reach.

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Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Sure you may have all the textbook strategies in place, integrating applications, subscriptions, site registrations with member discounts, etc. Traffic pours in from a high level overview of a product and flows down to a point of conversion, whether it be a sale, vote, subscription, or other desired user behavior.

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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. Dopple has been careful which customers they invest in, making sure that their product roadmap aligns with where they continue to see the “hockey puck” moving. It starts with self service.

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Backlinkfy

JULY 30, 2019

Amazon also hosts a marketplace wherein other Internet purveyors may display and sell products, and offers several software-as-a-service and infrastructure-as-a-service solutions for business. In today’s world most merchants started out use Amazon marketplace to test out products before opening an online store.

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Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

5 Reasons I Hate the Rule of 40 by Mikael Johnsson, SaaS Nordic While not necessarily completely useless, I would strongly argue that R40 is a metric applicable to the world of PE and public markets investing and is not a good metric for assessing the quality of venture-stage companies. Because this drives investment decisions.

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Chargify

AUGUST 17, 2017

Sorry, we’re not trying to bring up that you missed investing in Amazon when it went public. Check out The Subscription Metrics 8 Top SaaS Companies Obsess Over & Why ). To increase your NPS numbers, begin by looking at your previous NPS results and identifying trends among responses. Start there. If you aren’t, START NOW.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 18, 2020

He even managed to help pivot the company from a programmatic transactional revenue model to a subscription model over the course of, not just the last three months during COVID, but over the course of the last few years. Sam Jacobs: Is it a subscription service? Is it recurring revenue, or is it delivered in a different way?

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Romain Huet : Of course, besides the brand I mentioned earlier like, Google, Apple and Facebook, and so on, a lot of marketplaces also like Uber and Airbnb they tend to think of themselves as platform because they have the buyers and the sellers connecting to each other. Let’s start with our five key steps.

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