SaaStr

MARCH 19, 2021

Shopify, since last year, has nearly tripled in market cap driven by the rise of e-commerce, but also the digital payments and the QR code system they provide for contactless payments. We’re seeing more and more companies, particularly cloud companies with the ability to scale, and grow even more rapidly in the new normal.

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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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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. We’re here to show you how to get the best bang for your buck by cleaning up your Pay-Per-Click (PPC) strategy. Hop straight to it here :).

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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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FastSpring

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

We mentioned razors with disposable razor blades as an example of the typical case, but here are two more captive pricing strategy examples: Coffeemakers that can be bought for the home inexpensively but require the use of coffee pods that contain the actual coffee that will be prepared. So what is a captive pricing strategy that makes sense?

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FastSpring

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

We mentioned razors with disposable razor blades as an example of the typical case, but here are two more captive pricing strategy examples: Coffeemakers that can be bought for the home inexpensively but require the use of coffee pods that contain the actual coffee that will be prepared. So what is a captive pricing strategy that makes sense?

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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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Blulogix

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Automation serves as a leverage point, facilitating personalized, timely interactions that drive customer satisfaction and loyalty. Benefits of Automating CLM Enhanced Personalization: Automation tools can analyze customer data to deliver personalized messages, offers, and support at scale.

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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

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? Ryan Austin 01:00 Sure.

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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. Join Steven’s research, take a short survey Growth Strategies in 2022. The customer success leader is often the person who owns the renewal number.

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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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Sales Hacker

APRIL 1, 2021

Your customers want to buy online more than ever, whether that’s for a $10 million system or a last-minute birthday present. McKinsey notes that B2B decision-makers are pushing to e-commerce and e-commerce-like sales cycles, and up to 80% prefer either digital self-service tools or to contact teams remotely.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 30, 2021

Scaling sales during the pandemic. Scaling Up During The Pandemic [11:40]. We’re focusing on how to win in the new sales era: new go-to-market strategies, deeper funnel insights and actionable takeaways for your entire organization from revenue leaders at high-growth startups and fortune 500 companies. We’re on iTunes.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Lambda School trains people online to be software engineers. Grasswire, it was because we had no team and no monetization strategy, which I do not recommend. We put it online, $10,000, and we started talking to our customers. Uber is a classic marketplace company. It’s a two-sided marketplace.

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How To Buy Saas

DECEMBER 1, 2020

SAAS is also abbreviated as software as a service. With so many SAAS getting visibility in online marketplaces, we found that new saas businesses are struggling hard to make it to the right set of customers. In this saas marketing strategy guide, we are going to tell you everything about saas marketing.

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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

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. This wasn’t the case.

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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. No matter the specifics of how your company adapts and grows, it’s crucial to be aware of how your pricing strategy relates to other aspects of your business.

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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 growth quickly exacerbates that complexity.

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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. Offering free usage is par for the course as a SaaS customer acquisition strategy.

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

These systems make it possible for everyday users to build websites and post content without having to write code or learn programming languages. This guide will help you choose the best content management system for your website. The type of website you’re creating will also fall into this category.

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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. It has been an integral part of modern business strategy. You can just navigate to your App Store or Google Play and download the app from there. WhatsApp Business is absolutely free.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 1, 2019

“Michael is the rare CFO who also leads up marketing, which makes him the perfect person to talk us through the company’s trajectory” As the head of Intercom’s Early Stage program for Startups, the fast-growing fintech startup is one company I’ve been keeping my eye on. billion dollars. billion dollars. Short on time?

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How To Buy Saas

MARCH 12, 2021

Ecommerce, however, has understandably seen more aggressive change than most. SaaS technologies have powered this change to ecommerce, starting with who can sell, and then developing how. SaaS technologies have powered this change to ecommerce, starting with who can sell, and then developing how.

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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

Strategy and Process. 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 Can’t Teach a Kid to Ride a Bike at a Seminar. Insight Selling. Spear Selling. The Psychology of Selling. SalesTruth. Buyer-Centered Selling. Hacking Sales.

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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

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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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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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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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

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. Nick : Pretty good?

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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. Then, I started looking around at companies. James: Oh, absolutely.

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All that Saas

MAY 1, 2021

It manages all your campaigns and provides useful advice on industry-standard strategies, resulting in outstanding results. It includes followers, engagement scale, contact, and more. Manages budget per client and also keeps track of the payment sent to the hired influencer. Teams: contact sales for price.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 4, 2019

So how did they go from product-market fit to actually scaling a sales org around a repeatable sales process? Arriving at a company that had found early success epitomizing Paul Graham’s mantra of “ do things that don’t scale ”, her brief was the opposite – to build a sales organisation that would scale. What’s not to like?

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