Baremetrics

AUGUST 24, 2021

Arguably the most beautiful aspect of SaaS or subscription based businesses is the recurring revenue that comes with them. As a business owner or founder, you worry far less about how much cash is in the bank with the predictability that Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR) brings. How do I upgrade a subscription in Stripe?

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OPEXEngine

MAY 18, 2021

In this blog, we are looking at the business metrics that can be measured quantitatively and providing a few insights on how investors analyze them. We’ve talked to dozens of our SaaS customers, as well as investors to learn more about what is happening with these key metrics. SaaS Metric #1 – Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR).

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SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2022

What you’ll see in that cloud spend box is actually Gartner’s 2020 estimate for infrastructure as a service spending for companies, which was $50 billion. And if you also look at the platform as a service category, that’s also an additional $50 billion of spend, and that’s typically with those same vendors.

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Scale Marketplace as a Service Cloud SaaS Payments 191

Subscription Flow

APRIL 18, 2024

How do you keep increasing your revenue in a marketplace that has reached its point of saturation? In such a scenario, what subscription-based businesses like these dating apps usually do is they redirect their energies into improving their customer lifetime value by reworking their customer engagement model.

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Blulogix

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Beyond Finance: Why Embracing Monetization as a Cross-Functional Discipline Changes the Game By BluLogix Team Redefining the Role of Monetization in Modern Businesses In the swiftly evolving digital marketplace, the concept of monetization extends far beyond the confines of the finance department.

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Blulogix

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

How Monetization Efficiency is the Heartbeat of Business Success in the Digital Age By BluLogix Team The Critical Role of Monetization Efficiency In a world where digitalization has redefined the marketplace, the spotlight shines ever so brightly on the concept of monetization efficiency.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

A recent Forrester Consulting study commissioned by Intercom, Drive Conversational Experiences For A Future-Ready Customer Support Strategy , revealed that 54% of teams can’t personalize support with their tech stack and 50% waste time jumping between tools. Strategy first, technology second. Let’s dive in.

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Software Platform Consulting

MAY 6, 2019

There are many great articles about SaaS metrics on the web (e.g., There are also great resources for metrics specific to marketplaces (see here ). Invoicing and payment (e.g., Enterprise versions of Upwork or other labor marketplaces. SaaS Metrics Unique to Enterprise-Driven B2B Networks.

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SaaSOptics

MAY 19, 2022

For subscription-based SaaS businesses, your customer acquisition metrics indicate how effectively you acquire new users via sales, marketing, or a product-led approach like a free trial. Combining these different tactics makes up an effective customer acquisition strategy , which fuels the entire acquisition process.

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OPEXEngine

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

SMB customers will want high-touch sales engagement and service delivery but SMM SaaS companies will likely not have the budget necessary to justify providing this level of sales support. Being “stuck in the middle” drives SMM SaaS companies to invest in one of two strategies. SMM SaaS Go-To-Market Strategy. Direct Sales.

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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. If you’re looking for strategies to push your conversions to new heights – it takes more than simply pushing products out on Google, you need to tap into building a growth focused sales funnel.

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Neil Patel

JUNE 22, 2021

By devising a Facebook marketing strategy. It includes: Facebook Ads Business Pages Facebook Marketplace Facebook Groups. There’s a marketing strategy for every budget, whether you’re looking for a free social media marketing solution or you want to set aside a regular sum for paid Facebook Ads. Join the Facebook Marketplace.

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CustomerSuccessBox

JUNE 20, 2022

In general, this tool offloads the heavy work of tracking and managing all the customer success metrics. To do that, they need to: Track a dozen of complex metrics, Study analytics, Optimize the onboarding workflows, and Monitor the “n” number of other tasks. Why do I need a Customer Success Software? Early-stage SaaS.

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Blulogix

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Subscription Billing 1. The UBP Ecosystem: Where Collaboration is King Imagine a world where UBP isn’t just a company-level strategy, but the lingua franca of B2B interactions. Think of it as a B2B marketplace where usage drives the entire ecosystem. UBP could become the universal currency of B2B value exchange.

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OpenView Labs

JANUARY 13, 2022

Join Steven’s research, take a short survey Growth Strategies in 2022. These companies might have introduced a new usage limit for their free plan or for an entry-level paid subscription, for example, rather than testing a more disruptive pay-as-you-go offering. Now onto pricing transformations for 2022.

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SaaSHolic

DECEMBER 2, 2021

A properly optimized onboarding strategy should have a high “aha moment” conversion. The real question you should ask yourself is: how do you, as a SaaS provider, ensure that your onboarding strategy increases your conversion and retention rates, respectively? This post aims to answer the above questions. Product Tours.

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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. Metrics will also change. Sticky after all. Four ways to drive value.

Software Review 52

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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

Check out this 2018 Europa session with Guillaume Princen, Head of France and Southern Europe @ Stripe, where he talks about the metrics you need to be focused on in your startup. If you don’t have the time to watch the whole session, here are the main metrics you should be mindful of. MRR, obviously. This wasn’t the case.

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SaaS Payments Metrics Payment Methods Scale 227

Unbounce

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

We’re here to show you how to get the best bang for your buck by cleaning up your Pay-Per-Click (PPC) strategy. The Role of PPC in Marketing Strategies Why Your PPC Ad Needs a Dedicated Landing Page A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimizing Your Post-Click Strategy. The Role of PPC in Marketing Strategies.

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How To Buy Saas

JULY 26, 2021

It offers you the best of services including Expert HR. CoSchedule is the best startup tool because it’s an all-in-one marketing tool that helps your team manage your content marketing calendar, social media shares, overall marketing strategy, and projects with one tool. Check here for details. The platform is easy to use.

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ProfitWell

AUGUST 4, 2020

This is a value metric. Today on Recur Now, we're making sure you're making the most out of your value metric. There's always money in the banana stand because there's always money in value metrics! Just to make sure we're all the same page, a value metric is what you charge for. Faster growth, lower churn.

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ProfitWell

JANUARY 15, 2020

The subscription model is booming—meaning more and more companies are acquiring the model—giving your SaaS business even more motivation to remain competitive. Our pricing analysts build surveys and use ProfitWell’s algorithm to collect actionable data to guide business strategy in a manner that is measurable and implementable.

Pricing 54

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ProfitWell

APRIL 1, 2020

White-labeling services for SaaS products have become very popular over the past decade. If companies don’t have the time to provide SEO services to customers operating small to medium-sized companies, they consider hiring a white-label SEO partner to help generate revenue and expand reach to their clients. Lack of metrics.

Payment Solutions 59

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Neil Patel

APRIL 16, 2021

You don’t need to sell products on Amazon to use this service, either, which makes it accessible for more businesses. You need to spend at least $15,000 per month on Amazon audio ads to use the service. Secondly, ad-supported streaming subscriptions aren’t going anywhere any time soon. The ads themselves play between songs.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Congratulations you’ve built a product that’s proven itself in the marketplace! Ashley Smith, Venture Partner at OpenView provides insight on what investors are looking for in product metrics and growth indicators so you can capitalize on your product’s story for funding. Now I’m investing in that. They were so helpful.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 18, 2019

They didn’t know it at the time, but they had also created an entire business category: an on demand, short-term rental marketplace, which has shot the value of their business north of $38 billion. There isn’t a canon of resources that can provide you with a tried-and-true strategy to deploy. Prospective customers have to be educated.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

It might be the same core product, but it’s a completely different strategy. Seeing a real demand for business courses in their consumer marketplace, the team identified an opening in the market to disrupt corporate training and hypothesized that employers would be more than willing to pay.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 16, 2020

Andrey explains why embracing the professional services sector in a unique way has paid dividends. We also think about community and consultants and professional services as an ecosystem around our product. Embracing professional services as a distribution channel. So our platform is also built for them to use. Andrey: Exactly.

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Casey Accidental

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Tim Kendall, the former President of Pinterest, repeated those words at an all hands to describe our strategy for monetization a few years ago. My role as an advisor to Greylock’s portfolio companies allows me to work with many different types of businesses: consumer social, marketplaces, SaaS, etc. Dropbox is a famous example.

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SaaStr

MARCH 20, 2020

317: Rachel Hepworth is VP of Marketing @ Pilot, the startup that offers the best bookkeeping, tax and CFO services for growing businesses. And for bookkeeping, which is this service that is almost mandated and certainly needed by just about every small business out there, you’re talking about a $60 billion TAM in the US alone.

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Chart Mogul

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Designing and defining the pricing for your SaaS product may be one of the most difficult aspects of building a subscription business. ” is a tough question to answer, but that doesn’t cover even half of it… there are many similar questions on the road to defining subscription pricing, including: Should my pricing scale?

Pricing 70

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OpenView Labs

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

And yet it’s often tucked away in a financial update while a medley of product metrics enjoy the spotlight. It needs to be treated as a top-level operational metric that a founder must know and understand. Pick a common anchoring metric that measures a core customer activity. Creating a marketplace does just that.

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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Of course, competition is always going to be a thing in any marketplace, but sometimes we can get so wrapped up in the bubble of the company we work for that we become naive and blind to the outside world and the competitive landscape. Knowing this, you decide to give your contact a call directly to answer her subscription questions.

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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Leading a team of innovators and experts in their Customer Success, Professional Services, and Support organization, Amanda’s goal is to ensure that every customer optimizes the business impact of Lucidworks search and analytics deployments. “My Under her direction, marketplace utilization grew 39% in one year.

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Stax

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Software as a Service (SaaS) has made business software more accessible by offering cloud-based, on-demand access to a range of solutions, from project management and collaboration to sales and marketing. Subscription-based model Subscription pricing is the most common model used by both horizontal and vertical SaaS providers.

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Neil Patel

APRIL 5, 2023

Competitive research tools help you capture detailed insights into your rivals’ strategies. Spying on your competitors can strengthen your position in the marketplace, but not without having three crucial factors in play: First, what are you looking for? Ubersuggest We all know how important backlinks are for a solid SEO strategy.

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Payment Methods Social Media Payment Services AI Search 133

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

268: Ryan Bonnici is the CMO @ G2, the company that allows you to get the right software and services for your business with over 897,000 user reviews to help you make smarter buying decisions. And that was around the time that I left and then since then HubSpot has built an invoice generator and a bunch of other things.

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