Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Micro startup acquisitions are a move away from buying businesses with established products or even proven revenue streams. These acquisitions, which focus more on scope than scale, accounted for 90% of tech deals in 2019 , which is a 40% increase from 2015. Micro Acquire is a marketplace that connects startups to buyers.

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Blulogix

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Streamlining Success: What is the Role of Automation in Customer Lifecycle Management for Recurring Revenue? This blog post explores how employing automation in CLM can revolutionize the way businesses nurture their customer base, enhance engagement, and secure recurring revenue streams.

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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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SaaStr

JULY 9, 2019

Join Anish Shivdasani, CEO of Giraffe, as he provides unique African experiences learned from scaling to 1M users. I’m probably the most hated person in the room right now, but please indulge me. I think if we had focused on solving a niche problem, the market’s simply not big enough to scale. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

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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. Vicki, if you’d give us your intro. Vicki Lin : Great. Thank you Ceci.

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FastSpring

APRIL 7, 2022

Learn more about how FastSpring helps SaaS and software companies collect and remit taxes globally or localize and accept global payments. How Messente scaled with no funding. They also noticed a lack of transparency and efficiency in the services that were being provided at the time and decided to fix that problem.

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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. billion in revenue from Google Ads alone the year before. As you may have heard, Pay-Per-Click (PPC) is a competitive game.

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FastSpring

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

One example of this would be tax preparation software platforms that can enable one person to prepare federal taxes for the current year, but require modules for things like custom reports. In this way, captive pricing isn’t just a way to increase revenue, but also a way to increase value to the customer.

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FastSpring

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

One example of this would be tax preparation software platforms that can enable one person to prepare federal taxes for the current year, but require modules for things like custom reports. In this way, captive pricing isn’t just a way to increase revenue, but also a way to increase value to the customer.

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OPEXEngine

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Small and Mid-Market (SMM) SaaS Companies serve customers with annual revenues of $1 million to $1 billion and with a typical employee base of 100 to 1,000. 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.

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OpenView Labs

JANUARY 13, 2022

Product-lead growth continues to be one of the best ways to rapidly scale a software company, and best practices are increasingly shared and understood. It requires rethinking everything from billing and revenue forecasting, to the role of Account Executives, to how to drive a customer success mindset across the entire organization.

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FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

Like, you’re literally on the floor like crippled with crying just like two years of your hard work, or whatever, you know, you’re like, ah, and then you get a phone call at that exact moment. And I just started a consulting business, it was a service business. How are we going to do that?

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OpenView Labs

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The ‘haves’, defined by growing quickly out of the gate and then maintaining 50% or faster revenue growth at significant scale, have seen their valuations skyrocket over the years. OpenView has been tracking growth rates by ARR scale for four years running. Explore Untapped Revenue Streams. These can be lucrative, too.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 30, 2021

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Neil Ringers , EVP of Revenue Grid. Neil’s experience includes a long history of sales leadership, primarily in the Salesforce ecosystem, and is now running revenue for Revenue Grid. How Revenue Grid enables smarter selling. Scaling sales during the pandemic.

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 27, 2020

In part two of our Sequencing Business Models series , we talked about the different types of marketplaces and what needs to be built to be effective in each of them. This builds on the first essay in the series of how there has been an increase in interest of SAAS-like models interested in becoming marketplaces over time.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Lambda School trains people online to be software engineers. All of the cool ideas that you had, you would get really clear feedback about what was going on, but if it was a good idea, it would really move the needle in revenue and volume. We put it online, $10,000, and we started talking to our customers. We can quit our jobs.

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Chargify

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

The marketplace has fully embraced the beauty of the subscription revenue model and all of the predictability that comes with it. And plenty of software programs have popped up to make it easy for businesses to charge customers for these services each month. Why choosing a more agile billing platform right away saves money.

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OpenView Labs

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

This treatment is a disservice to the value an in-depth, methodical, and iterative analysis can unearth. ” It’s natural to go to payments per user or even user logins, but they rarely indicate user engagement. Now, for each segment, isolate its revenue and COGS. Scale reveals the depths of operational leverage.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Support: Check for extra costs related to customer support, whether or not they offer support in your language (if you’re running a global sales team), and how you can get in touch with the CRM’s support team (via phone, email, etc.). An established marketplace is a sign that you’ll have the integrations you need in the future.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

Jay Snyder: Got hotspot on my phone, so hopefully we’ll hold still. We’ve got everything from self-service all the way up to the enterprise. So how we accomplish something at the enterprise level in a one to few or a one-to-one or a one to few is very different to how you would accomplish it in a self service model.

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yoursales

JANUARY 28, 2022

It'll track any Google-based Sales Professional's efforts across email, calendar, and phone, and share interaction clients have had with emails, websites, or when they've called back. With the launch of the Pipedrive Marketplace a very wide range of third party apps & integrations. Drive Revenue. Grow Your Pipeline.

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How To Buy Saas

MARCH 6, 2024

And that is why WhatsApp has launched the WhatsApp Business Service with a set of premium features for businesses to run without much hassle. You can just navigate to your App Store or Google Play and download the app from there. With rich messaging services, businesses can keep customers engaged and retain them. Delighted!!!!

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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

Average Revenue per Customer. So growth of the kind of subscription, eCommerce industry has been over 100% year on year for the past five years, according to McKinsey. It wasn’t the case 20 or even 10 years ago, where the business models of the internet were more focused on eCommerce, marketplaces, or even advertising.

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Payrix

JANUARY 30, 2024

Storable , the leading provider of all-in-one software for the self-storage industry, has a vision for its payments solution that is reminiscent of the industry it serves. As John Durrett, General Manager of Payments for Storable, recently explained in a sit down with Payrix, Storable wants to make payments “invisible” for its customers.

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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. Some examples of niches targeted by vertical SaaS providers include healthcare, eCommerce, finance, and education.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

Predictable Revenue. If you truly want to be a better leader, better salesperson , better speaker, better writer, or just a better person, you need to study the craft. You don’t have to be subservient, forfeit your self-respect, or fake enthusiasm about your product or service. Fanatical Prospecting. The New Handshake.

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SmartKarrot

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

But as more business companies choose the SaaS (Software as a Service) path, now is a fantastic time to enter this industry. . When you land an enterprise client, you must be prepared to scale your business to meet their needs. Another area where quality must stand out is in customer service.

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SaaStr

JUNE 20, 2019

In this session, the audience will learn about Adyen’s journey from a Dutch payments startup, to a global public company with more than 15 offices around the world working with large global companies like Facebook, Spotify, Uber and Microsoft. I mean payment cultures, payment habits are, yeah, different in every country all over the world.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Further, with the assets, data, and transformations co-located in the cloud vs locally, developers can scale compute elastically to complete a specific task. The engine may also have a marketplace of third-party editor UXs with each built to serve a particular use-case. A cloud based, modular application can offer many different UX’s.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

I was working on a startup that was an early mobile payment platform. It was basically using Bluetooth and an app on PalmPilots to do wireless payments in restaurants. It just made it a lot easier for us to scale up Salsify as we found success. And there’s a lot of benefit to running a software as a service, in general.

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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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SaaStr

MAY 14, 2023

You have a presentation online that’s called Unsexy, which you’ll have to explain to me later. Algolia went from zero to seven figures in revenue in 12 months, and the launch of their search as a service product, and grew pricing from $19 a month to $100,000, which sounds amazing. web services. CEO of Algolia.

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Backlinkfy

JULY 30, 2019

Let’s help you understand these terms as you take action to improve your online business marketing strategy. Affiliate: A publisher or website owner that forwards qualified or targeted audience web traffic to an online merchant on a pay-for-performance basis is called an affiliate in the context of online marketing.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 3, 2020

Brands are now building physical stores that act as real-world ads for products you purchase online. Paul: I have the Google Pixel 4 here, my new phone – it is exactly the same as the iPhone, in hardware. Des: Don’t make me fiddle with like Bluetooth for two hours only for it to sync with the wrong phone or whatever.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 14, 2022

If you’re short on time, here are a few quick takeaways: Focus on building services and products that meet your customer’s needs – not just today’s, but also tomorrow’s. My main focus at the time was not industry – I didn’t know anything about payments. Share the customer’s must-haves with the product team.

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ProfitWell

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

That’s never been truer for software businesses in particular than in the past 10-15 years, with the internet stimulating an explosion in the number of viable revenue models. Choosing which revenue model works best for your SaaS business, though, is not easy (even if that's all you want to do is choose a revenue model for your SaaS business).

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