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 And I won’t give away too much of the lead here.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 10, 2022

With lockdowns preventing in-store experiences, shoppers have gravitated towards brands that can provide the best online experience possible. And, as society reopens, it is vital to maintain ease of movement between in-store and online channels – not just for your customers, but for your teams. Proactive engagement.

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Payrix

MAY 14, 2024

Adam Tesan, CRO at Worldpay for Platforms, is a seasoned executive leader with decades of experience in sales, marketing, and revenue in the software space. During his tenure, Chargebee experienced high growth, scaling from processing about $3 billion in revenue to $13-14 billion. And so that was a big conversation at the board level.

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Baremetrics

MARCH 23, 2021

Your payment processor may be an important element of your business. However, with so many of these payment platforms on the market, how are you supposed to choose? While there is a plethora of payment platforms to consider, Stripe and PayPal should be at the top of the list. After all, it plays a big role in how you get paid.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 30, 2024

In this conversation, a16z General Partner Angela Strange talks with J eff Sloan, former CEO of Global Payments, about how he was early to spot significant industry trends, how to make bets that move an organization, and the sea change that AI represents for the financial services industry. Angela: Why Global Payments?

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

And, when you do, do you even think about sale tax compliance? vary on how they handle sales tax and SaaS. It can be confusing to understand how and where you should charge sales tax. Let’s explore a few more ways in which sales tax compliance could impact your growing business. Here’s why you should. .

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SaaStr

JANUARY 30, 2023

Overcoming challenges by optimizing for success In the early stages of setting up your SaaS business, it’s always a good idea to invest time thinking about the direction you want to take. This insight led Deel to focus on solving payments and compliance. Identifying a direction is just the starting point. Trust the process.

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FastSpring

JUNE 11, 2019

Ways to improve ecommerce conversion rates. Cutting through the noise is now less dependent on your ability to bombard prospects with more information and more about creating messaging that your customers naturally want to engage with. Podcast: Ecommerce Conversations by Practical Ecommerce.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 15, 2023

It’s hard to know when you’re ready to hire a sales team — and the consequences can make or break your startup. And that may include owning and executing the sales process , from initial outreach and lead generation to closing deals — not hiring a sales team right away. How do you know you’re ready to hire a sales team?

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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. In this talk, Claire will share these and other lessons for scaling high-growth organizations. I’m an execution person. Know your forever user.

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Buffer Resources

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

But, she’s also made the intentional decision to scale back over the past couple of years, stopping her work with subcontractors, cutting down client projects to what she could manage on her own, and reducing her revenue by over $100,000.    Location: Appleton, Wisconsin Initial capital invested: Very little!

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Backlinkfy

OCTOBER 5, 2019

Today, selling products through traditional brick and mortar stores are slowly depleting, due to most purchases that start with an online search. With these online retailers, you’ll discover that you can shop at the comfort of your home and have your items delivered to you the same day or the next day.

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Neil Patel

AUGUST 27, 2020

So, irrespective of your small business type – retail, restaurant, franchise, online store, etc., To choose a POS system, start by considering what your business needs are – accept payments, process sales, track inventory, CRM integration, manage employees, etc. The Top 5 POS Systems For Small Business Owners.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

.” So what are maybe one or two things you want to give as advice to founders who are doing sales in the very early stage, the first couple of million ARR, that you feel are super useful in that stage in kind of trying to develop that, I think that sales muscle, if you will. If you don’t have two, who do you hire?

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Neil Patel

JANUARY 8, 2021

You want a quick and easy way to start a website yet have no clue how web hosting works. Or perhaps you know how it works but don’t have the budget or urgency to invest in one. The good news is you can get a website up and running without spending a dime. The bad news is also the fact that it’s free. neilpatel.wix.com).

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SaaStr

JULY 20, 2022

Weave started off as a dental ERP and comms platform (including VoIP / phone), and then expanded beyond that as it scaled. It’s a tough outcome for a team that is working hard to scale well into the nine figures of ARR. Historically, Weave gave away several “free” phones with each new account.

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Stax

JANUARY 3, 2024

Request Quote Understanding Self-Checkout Systems Self-checkout systems are automated hardware and software solutions that enable customers to process their purchases at retail stores, rather than needing the assistance of a cashier. App-based scanning and payment. The appeal of self-checkout stations is two-fold. Handheld scanners.

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Dropshipping is a popular method for building an e-commerce empire. This post covers the basics of dropshipping and the 11 best dropshipping tools to maximize this fulfillment method’s benefits while minimizing the drawbacks. Using the dropshipping model, your store markets a third-party’s (a wholesaler or manufacturer) products.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Freemium can help software companies gain users quickly—but what happens when it’s time to scale back or up? Join Joaquim Lecha, CEO at Typeform, and Christoph Janz, Managing Partner at Point Nine, as they delve into freemium at scale. The second one is customer feedback at scale. Want to see more content like this?

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FastSpring

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

And instead of celebrating their hard work and success, many companies are often forced to hold their breath as they take their product to market with a hastily assembled DIY ecommerce platform that consists of only the bare minimum functionality and features. Choosing The Right Ecommerce Solution.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 4, 2023

Earlier this week, we announced that my new company, the GTMfund , has acquired my old company, Sales Hacker , from my…other old company, Outreach. I’ve gone through a mix of emotions, reliving the insane 10-year journey that came out of a young Max being naively intellectually curious about how to scale sales at a startup.

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Neil Patel

JANUARY 11, 2023

Contactless payment methods are tapping into the future of commerce. International Data Corporation (IDC) predicts that 80% of retailers will offer contactless payment and app-based scan-and-pay systems in-store by 2023. When we talk about leaders in the contactless payments space, we must talk about PayPal.

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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. Here’s what Claire talks about: How to avoid trapdoor decisions when scaling. Lessons for scaling high-growth organizations. Missed the session?

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Baremetrics

MARCH 31, 2021

SaaS and subscription companies like yours need to collect and manage recurring payments at scale. Regular payment gateways like SagePay and WorldPay won't cut it. All the data your startup needs Collecting payments is just one step of effective subscription management. It's the No.1 Try Baremetrics free. Square Fees: 3.5

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FastSpring

MAY 22, 2019

It’s easy to deliver digital products to customers abroad, but acquiring international customers and scaling a successful global business requires paying attention to other aspects of ecommerce you probably have overlooked until now. Nevertheless, selling online means dealing with taxes in lots of different localities.

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Casey Accidental

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Most companies have a primary acquisition loop that drives this scalable growth, and unfortunately, there aren’t that many acquisition loops that really scale. Even when they scale, they eventually asymptote, and companies need to find new ways to grow. It kept investing in making its overall growth model stronger.

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Stax

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Enter the SaaS Magic Number, which measures the return on sales and marketing spend in generating new subscription revenue. TL;DR The SaaS Magic Number is a metric, somewhat similar to ROI, but designed to assess the efficiency and effectiveness of a company’s sales and marketing strategies. What is the SaaS Magic Number?

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

That’s an expensive mistake if you make the wrong investment. Instead, larger tech companies like Twitter and Pinterest are making investments in small startups. Over the last couple of years, there have been clear trends in why big companies are choosing to invest in these small teams and use them as part of their growth strategy.

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SaaStock

JANUARY 25, 2019

We will gather 300 leading SaaS founders, executives and investors for three days packed with opportunities and rich exchange of knowledge to push the whole ecosystem forward. Listing your online business on Olist is compared to having your shop in the largest department store in the region. CEO : Tiago Dalvi. Founded : 2015.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In this episode, a16z partner Seema Amble talks with Dimitri Dadiomov, the co-founder and CEO of payment operations platform Modern Treasury, about the challenges of creating a new category, hiring for marketing before you hire for sales, and why developing new features is similar to birding.

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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. They Formed a Strategic Partnership With an Agency to Work On Their Brand Positioning Dopple’s team worked with Tomorrow , an ecommerce-focused agency, to shape their positioning. “We

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SaaStr

MARCH 19, 2019

Niall Wall, Box SVP of Business and Corporate Development alongside Vicki Lin, Stripe’s Head of Ecosystem and Cecilia Stallsmith, Slack’s Director of Platform Marketing discuss scaling your revenue via indirect channels and platform ecosystems. Then also went into venture capital where I invested in API first products.

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Unbounce

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

PPC is a method of digital advertising in which you aim to get your ads to rank as the highest result displayed for user searches, and you, as the advertiser, pay a fee each time it’s clicked. It can also appear on websites that have similar content and keywords to your business. Sales will always be a top priority.

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Payment Methods Payment Solutions Payments AI Search 145

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

As Head of Sales for Spendesk, Nico was initially inspired by the vision of founder Rodolphe Ardant who had spotted a gap for ‘spend management’ in the B2B market based on personal banking trends. So they created a software that provides control, visibility, and payment methods for corporate finance teams.

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FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Revenue refers to the total earnings a company generates through its core operations like sales of products or services, rents on a property, recurring payments , interest on borrowings, etc. Data Sales : Businesses earn revenue from selling the data they collect on their consumers to other consumers or businesses.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 22, 2020

While much of this was fueled by the strength of their offerings and the rise in ecommerce as a whole, at FastSpring, we rolled out a program to proactively assess and help optimize all facets of our customers’ ecommerce experience and rolled this program out to many of our largest customers. We acquired SalesRight.

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Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Most SaaS businesses adopt a subscription-based model supported by a recurring payment system. Setting up a recurring payment system can be complicated and requires the right tools to measure, manage, and review payments regularly. Processing such payments can be complex. Table of Contents. What is Recurring Billing?

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