SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

An ICP aligns your product, sales, marketing, service, and executive teams to all focus on your highest-value accounts. Let’s examine how an ICP focus has helped two businesses win in a competitive marketplace. . Brex then scaled its payments business quickly. Tip #3: Scale with customer-centric innovation. .

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Casey Accidental

JANUARY 23, 2019

They have also heard about marketplaces that have given all of the power to the supply, and also marketplaces where supply has no power. These issues usually arise in two areas, which particularly, but not exclusively, affect marketplaces. The second issue is around who controls the quality of the service.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 16, 2019

However, that doesn’t necessarily mean a “pivot”, but more often the evolution is a shifting business model as the company scales and the user base grows and changes. You also need to ensure you have a smooth onboarding process where users obtain value early. Do you have a pricing page on your site or do you make it up on the fly?

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User Pilot

AUGUST 18, 2024

Sign up for a Userpilot demo and learn how this all-in-one product growth platform can help scale your business processes. These tools help businesses automate processes and perform various tasks, making it easier to scale. ActiveCampaign's prices are scaled by the number of contacts. What are SaaS tools?

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Growth: tuning the product experience so more people can connect to the current product’s value prop e.g. Uber improving driver onboarding. Scaling work: tuning the underlying technologies or process to help the product and team continue to be effective e.g. Uber rearchitecting its data pipelines.

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Blulogix

DECEMBER 26, 2024

For companies leveraging subscription billing models, creating and managing effective channel partnerships requires a robust infrastructure that ensures seamless billing integration , accurate pricing, and effortless onboarding. Expanding Service Portfolios: Collaborate with partners to offer bundled services that meet complex customer needs.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 1, 2025

The GTM Podcast is available on any major directory, including: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Hayden Stafford is the President and Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) at Seismic, where he oversees the global go-to-market (GTM) organization, including pre-sales, sales, customer success, services, partners, and more. It’s about growing together.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

It’s time to start thinking about retention at scale and bring onboard a customer success team. She joined the company in 2007 back when it was just 30 people and has been instrumental in helping the company scale both its team and its market share over the years. We love the marketplace you’ve created.’”.

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SaaStock

MARCH 26, 2019

They start by focusing on the onboarding. Metatext offers a solution to help SaaS entrepreneurs to automate business processes such as customer services, marketing and insights. Digibee enables less technical users to connect systems, services, and apps to deliver new digital products to the market. Founders : Rafael Sandroni.

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Point Nine Land

APRIL 9, 2021

What does it take to raise capital, in B2B marketplaces, in 2021? Over the last few years, we’ve published a number of SaaS funding napkins as well as marketplace napkins. This year, we’re shaking things up with our first ever B2B marketplace napkin! What does it take to raise capital, in B2B marketplaces, in 2021?

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Natalia Luneva

APRIL 24, 2025

PayFac as a Service lets companies add payment processing to their platforms. Key Takeaways PayFac as a Service reduces PayFac setup time from years to days, slashing costs by millions. What Is PayFac-as-a-Service PayFac-as-a-Service is a new way for businesses to handle payments. each year since 2018.

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SaaStr

JULY 11, 2019

It may seem like a simple decision, but there is a lot of complexity in a two-sided marketplace where people are expecting to get paid. The marketplace was doing well. Back in those days, I was really inspired by the eBay model of a marketplace where it was a bidding auction approach. We looked at the numbers. It was healthy.

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User Pilot

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Looking to drive adoption with contextual user onboarding ? With Userpilot’s features, you get access to everything you need to create bespoke onboarding experiences, by triggering contextual in-app flows to specific user segments created based on product usage and in-app behavior. Want to see Userpilot’s features in action?

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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. You can create whatever combined word you’d like for that to be the case.

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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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How To Buy Saas

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

This Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) approach revolutionized the industry, making powerful CRM tools accessible without on-premise installs. Over the past two decades, Salesforce has evolved from a sales CRM into a comprehensive platform spanning sales, service, marketing, e-commerce, and app development.

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How To Buy Saas

MAY 21, 2025

Lever Best ATS + CRM for Scaling Enterprises Pricing: Key Features: 10. Note that Workables pricing is based on the number of active jobs and features, not per user, and it can scale to support large hiring campaigns. Higher Cost at Scale: Workables pricing can become expensive for larger hiring volumes (especially the Premier tier).

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Systems Review Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Technical Review 52

CloudGeometry

JANUARY 15, 2022

Before you shout “Digital Transformation” in a crowded marketplace, it’s important to recognize two foundational principles in developing a SaaS product plan. Part 1: User Model & Onboarding If you have a business model, you have put together ideas about users. Onboarding in SaaS is an end-to-end process.

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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. Let’s cover each below.

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OpenView Labs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Culture helps a company define itself, attract the right team members and customers, and differentiate in the marketplace. Culture is also tricky because there’s no one-size-fits-all way to define, cultivate or scale it. Use This Onboarding Checklist. The key to scaling your culture is curiosity.

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User Pilot

MARCH 5, 2025

You can use this platform to create customer segments, personalize onboarding flows, deliver targeted in-app messages, collect direct customer feedback , and track in-app analytics to make iterative changes. Scalability and security Built to scale with your business, with enterprise-grade security measures to protect your data.

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Totango

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Onboarding is an exciting, critical phase of introductions and potential. By implementing customer education best practices that drive the onboarding process, you will set your customers—and your enterprise— up for success. Why Onboarding Matters. Onboarding is your customer’s first experience with you and your product.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

And to facilitate that their website shows some of the services they provide with a vague “get in touch” option and no pricing listed. Once Xactly knew their numbers, they were able to save equity and use venture debt as they scaled towards IPO. Customer success reps then reach out to help onboard customers. ACV and $17M ARR.

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OpenView Labs

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Now—a happy consequence—cloud marketplaces are on a similar trajectory of growth and have opened up a powerful go-to-market channel for sellers that you probably haven’t heard of yet. Not to mention 73% of B2B buyers prefer the convenience of digital buying through ecommerce, web direct or marketplaces (more on that later). .

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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. Romain Huet : Right.

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User Pilot

JULY 24, 2023

Are you looking for Zendesk integrations to boost the efficiency of your self-service customer support? SmileBack is a feedback app designed for helpdesk solutions so you can evaluate your customer support services effectively. As of 21 July 2023, there are 1,503 integrations in the Zendesk marketplace.

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User Pilot

MAY 27, 2025

As a lifecycle specialist in B2B growth, youll drive the strategies that accelerate time to value and expansion, rigorously test them, and scale what works. You play a vital role at the intersection of GTM, Product, Design, Data Science, Marketing, and Engineering – reimagining self-service in the age of AI.

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Stax

APRIL 17, 2025

As these ecosystems evolve, ISV partnerships have become essential for companies looking to scale, reach new markets, and offer integrated ISV solutions. In the payments industry, choosing the right ISV partner is critical; look for robust APIs, hardware support, strong onboarding, and fair revenue-sharing models.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 18, 2020

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. If a product or service is being sold online—regardless if the sale itself happens through a sales-rep assisted process, online shop, or platform—it’s considered B2B ecommerce.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Traditionally, payment gateways and payment processors were offered as two separate services and you would have different providers for each service: Payment gateways quickly and securely transfer the payment details from the checkout software to the payment processor. Scale quickly with transparent flat-rate pricing.

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Payrix

JANUARY 30, 2024

Durrett explained that Storable is the culmination of several best-in-class acquisitions, including multiple software companies, a marketplace company, and a couple of insurance companies. We didn’t want to deal with all the complexity right out of the gate, and we didn’t have the processing scale yet.

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User Pilot

JULY 23, 2024

Userpilot is an all-in-one growth platform that can assist you through the product development lifecycle with features like user feedback surveys, funnel analytics, analytics dashboards, and onboarding UI patterns. It helps you think creatively and reimagine existing products and services. Airbnb’s MVP example.

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Development SaaS Marketplace as a Service Scale 109

Neil Patel

APRIL 9, 2021

The industry insights section provides you with data on certain industries, such as healthcare and financial services. Investing in workforce development and onboarding is an expensive process. Knowing what trends and insights matter to you is most important. How to Use LinkedIn Insights. Conclusion.

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CloudGeometry

MARCH 22, 2022

In this blog series, we explore how these three dimensions figure into key technical recommendations which enable scale in pursuit of SaaS business growth. The intensity of competition in the SaaS marketplace puts a premium on new, stable, and reliable features. The winners offer a better and faster way to solve customer problems.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 13, 2022

Amir will lead all post-sales functions, helping customers use the full scope of their products and services to unleash the power of CentralSquare in their communities. In his new role, Bill will be responsible for ensuring success throughout the customer entire lifecycle, from initial onboarding onward. Cloudera and Hortonworks, Inc.

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User Pilot

JULY 31, 2023

If so, you’re in the right place, as this article discusses 15 tools that are excellent alternatives to Intercom and will help you optimize customer service processes and deliver outstanding self-service support. Userpilot is an excellent onboarding tool that enables effective in-app communication and on-demand user support.

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Social Media SaaS Marketplace as a Service Communication 98

Totango

APRIL 25, 2022

An inspiring customer journey is one where your customers’ experience with your product, service and organization as a whole is so memorable and engaging that your company’s teams are inspired and excited to produce the same experience for all of your customers! Scale Your Journey, Not Your Platform. What are you waiting for?

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