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9 Growth Initiatives for Successful Companies [With Examples]

User Pilot

Product-led growth uses the product as the primary driver of customer acquisition and retention, with minimal reliance on traditional sales and marketing. SaaS companies enhance customer acquisition and retention through personalized onboarding and in-app guidance. The goal is to increase market share within existing markets.

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Managing a Thin Balance Sheet: 4 Lessons Learned From Laika’s $2 Billion Acquisition with Laika Co-Founder & COO Eva Pittas and CFO Dicken Chaplin (Video)

SaaStr

Looking back on its explosive growth, however, the company realized just how badly it needed the valuable services of a Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Employee Retention. Gross Retention. SaaS companies are known for their bold bets in an evolving marketplace, but these risks rest on a bedrock of metrics and data.

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The 4 Enterprise Sales Misconceptions for Startup Founders

OpenView Labs

If he replaces the hire but still has no idea what the market needs, how is that going to stop the bleeding? After all, the marketplace speaks the loudest, and without customers you don’t have a business. It’s a challenging market segment to tackle as you can’t take a one-size-fits-all approach.

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Customer Acquisition Strategy for SaaS Companies: A Complete Guide

SaaSOptics

To find qualified prospects, you’ll need a thorough understanding of your target market. The answer lies in your product or service’s value proposition. In this case, you can run a cohort analysis across these market segments and see what acquisition methods perform best. Cold Outreach.

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SaaStr Podcast #398 with Salsify Co-Founder & CMO Rob Gonzalez

SaaStr

Rob Gonzalez: Operationally, I look at, in particular, my experience at Endeca, but also another startup that sold to pharmaceutical companies and other life sciences businesses and financial services companies called Cambridge Semantics. And there’s a lot of benefit to running a software as a service, in general.

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The Best Pricing Tool for Your Subscription Business: Tips + Options

ProfitWell

In a hyper-competitive market, getting your pricing right can make a difference when it comes to a great product that sits on the shelf versus one that flies off it. But the sheer volume of market trends and data that you’ll want to consider when determining how much to charge for your products or services is overwhelming.

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Sales and GTM in Uncertain Times with Adnan Chaudhry and Matt Garratt (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Whereas, if companies have a bit higher attrition and retentions less than 80%, the churn could go up to above 16%. I was an account executive covering financial services vertical and covering in New York. And so, I remember being in New York and the whole market was melting down. Matt Garratt: Go to the next slide.