Casey Accidental

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

As someone who has spent a lot of time building marketplaces in my career, a curious thing has happened over the last couple years. Founders have started reaching out asking for help converting their SAAS or SAAS-like business into a marketplace. I’ve helped their business, but they’re asking for help driving more customers.

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Subscription Flow

JANUARY 3, 2024

Having a flexible pricing strategy allows SaaS providers to cater to different customer segments and needs by offering different pricing models such as subscription, usage-based , freemium, or hybrid. Read more: SaaS Pricing Trends to Boost Sales & Revenue in 2024 Why do you need flexible pricing?

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Subscription Flow

MARCH 20, 2024

SimpleCirc stands out as a noteworthy option when looking into subscription management software because of its intuitive user interface and effective subscriber data handling. Smaller companies or niche publications looking for ease of use for handling their subscription operations will find its streamlined approach especially appealing.

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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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Subscription Flow

DECEMBER 29, 2023

For SaaS businesses, one of the most taxing tasks is to set the right price for their SaaS product and services. The Importance of Pricing Plans Deciding on the right pricing plan is important because it links directly with the revenue that you generate. What Is Pay-Per-Use Charges?

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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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Baremetrics

OCTOBER 9, 2021

While Stripe is indispensable for the average online business, providing many different tools, reports, and customizations that power online payment processing , when it comes to finding the billing history for Stripe customers, things are needlessly complicated. Stripe is a fully integrated suite of payment products. What is Stripe?

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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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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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User Pilot

MAY 21, 2024

Churn rates can be calculated simply with the number of customers lost over a specific period or more complexly to include revenue lost, highlighting the financial impact and informing strategic business decisions. Customer churn in SaaS is the rate at which customers stop using a service within a set timeframe.

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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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Buffer Resources

MAY 2, 2024

  Frustrated with the slim returns from YouTube Ad revenue, they switched to a specialized video monetization platform and set up a paid membership model.  It’s easy to get overwhelmed by trends, and tactics, and possibly doubt whether you can do this.    But you can.

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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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SaaSHolic

MAY 12, 2023

Eduardo Chedid of PicPay shared how the company evolved into a broader financial ecosystem, shifting focus from user acquisition to net revenue growth. The company’s successful turnaround strategy involved launching new monetizable products, price optimization, efficiency gains, and embracing Brazil’s instant payment system, Pix.

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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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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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Baremetrics

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The profit and loss statement details the revenue, expenses, and any profit or loss (hence the name) during a specified period of time, usually monthly, quarterly, or annually. Revenue At the top of the profit and loss statement you can find the revenue section. Revenue includes all of the operating income of the company.

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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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Stax

JANUARY 17, 2024

As such, an ACH payment facilitator is simply a PayFac that allows users to accept payments through an electronic bank-to-bank network. PayFacs typically partner with a payment processor or a bank to provide merchant services. This is pretty much similar to the service that PayPal offers.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

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. Today Udemy for Business boasts 80% of the Fortune 100 – the top 100 largest US companies by revenue – as customers.

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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. To keep up with the ever changing market behavior, analysts also conduct research on subscription market analysis. Pricing is the lifeblood of revenue and money made.

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ProfitWell

AUGUST 4, 2020

Determining a value metric helps you more accurately set prices, which brings in more revenue. How is the B2B SaaS market trending? ??7 How are churn and new revenue trending over time? The MRR gain representing upgrades and new revenue, has gone up 11.51% over the last 24 hours. 7 day +0.93% | ?? 90 day +14.53%.

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Blulogix

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Charting the Future: What Are the Emerging Trends in Subscription Billing and Monetization? This blog post explores the emerging trends that are set to redefine subscription billing and monetization, offering predictions for the transformative journey ahead in the digital economy.

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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. The design platform's expansion via Jira is part of a continued growth trend. GoDaddy Does More with Sellbrite and Marketplaces.

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ProfitWell

APRIL 15, 2019

An Intercom Updated Intercom launches new features to class up the customer journey, not least of which is an integration with Chargebee so you can sync subscription info directly into your account, enhance customer support, automate workflows, and convert leads faster. Best of all, it’s a subscription, so your bowl with never go empty.

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Neil Patel

DECEMBER 16, 2021

This is on-trend with what we have seen in digital ad spend growth. Also, be sure there’s an email subscription option on each of your web properties. You’ll have your products and brand featured on a website that has an annual net revenue of $386.06 Amazon promotes this service as artificial intelligence.

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ProfitWell

APRIL 1, 2020

White-labeling services for SaaS products have become very popular over the past decade. When done correctly, an entire brand can be built around a SaaS white-label product, but you’ll need to price it correctly in order to maximize revenue. What are white-label SaaS products? SEO and SEM management software. Lack of metrics.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Congratulations you’ve built a product that’s proven itself in the marketplace! Enterprise value per revenue is 10X. Many of our users begin their journey with Slack on our free subscription plan. Self-service freemium to feed the funnel. Like if I don’t do this invoice, what’s going to happen?

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

An established marketplace is a sign that you’ll have the integrations you need in the future. What makes HubSpot Sales Enterprise stand out is that it was built from the ground up with natively integrated features to support the sales, marketing, and service operations of a large company. 10 best enterprise CRM solutions for 2021.

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Totango

JUNE 9, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic may have radically altered the marketplace around us, but the fundamentals of customer renewal strategies remain the same. Customers have always based their renewal decisions on emotional connections, financial realities, and the amount of trust they have that a service can deliver sustained value.

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FastSpring

JUNE 6, 2024

The platform includes a broad feature set that provides game developers with the infrastructure needed to sell online and accept online payments globally, without having to manage localization, sales tax and VAT, or fraud prevention on their own. Xsolla alternatives in this list: FastSpring. FastSpring is a provider you can trust.

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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. It starts with self service. And I was one of the first revenue employees at Zillow. I felt like there was an easier way to communicate goods and services online, digitally.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 18, 2020

We’ve got an interview with Brandon Meyers , the chief revenue officer of ADARA. 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’s Corner [40:51].

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Totango

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

As the digitization of the marketplace reaches near-saturation, organizations will compete for customers based on value derived—and this will be driven by customer success. Flexible subscription and recurring revenue models mean the customer is in control of their service and tech partnerships and reserve the right to move on to a competitor.

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BetterCloud

AUGUST 16, 2018

Security researcher Vinny Troia of Night Lion Security discovered the leak contained multiple terabytes of personal information spread across hundreds of separate fields including addresses, phone numbers, family structures, and extensive profiling data. Finally, Virtru provides simple and secure end-to-end encryption for email.

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