SaaStr

MARCH 17, 2021

Managing the Quote-to-Cash process can be complex, since it covers the entire sales cycle, software licensing fulfillment, and revenue recognition, and it’s typically spread across many applications. Through every sales cycle, there’s a need to share information from sales, accounting, customer success, and other teams.

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Totango

MAY 1, 2020

Retain them over the long haul and they’ll provide the stability and dependable revenue that forms the launchpad for your future. Retaining existing customers is especially important during uncertain economic times, when fewer new customers may be signing on with your service.

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Retention Software Management Marketplace as a Service 62

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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Finance Marketplace as a Service B2B Subscription 52

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 14, 2022

?. Regardless of the industry or the product you’re selling, the old sales playbook is falling short of customers’ expectations. For James Dyett , a customer-centric mindset shouldn’t just be the purview of post-sales departments. Sales, he thought, would do just the trick. Hire customer-centric salespeople.

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Blulogix

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Data-Driven Dynamics: What Powering Monetization Strategies Through Analytics Means to Your Business By BluLogix Team Unlocking the Potential of Analytics in Crafting Revenue-Boosting Strategies In the digital economy, where every click, view, and interaction can be measured, data analytics emerges as the cornerstone of informed decision-making.

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Strategy Data Marketplace as a Service Sales Hiring 52

Subscription Flow

MARCH 20, 2024

Keeping all this in mind, in the first section of this blog, we will first be seeing what is SimpleCirc, its features, and why exactly is it such a hot choice for magazine owners in today’s marketplace. Say you are a small online marketplace owner whose product links customers and independent artists.

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Payment Services Payments Payment Solutions Payment Methods 88

Subscription Flow

APRIL 23, 2024

Understanding Paddle in 2024 Catering to more than 3000 SaaS clients in over 200 markets, Paddle is a market-leading billing and revenue management software. 2. Smart Dunning for Better Retention High churn rates are the worst when you have spent thousands of marketing dollars nurturing these customers.

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Payment Solutions Payments Payment Services SaaS Payments 81

User Pilot

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The data that HubSpot collects usually centers around marketing campaigns and revenue growth. HubSpot analytics focuses on collecting data on contacts, customers, deals, and revenue, while Google Analytics primarily tracks site traffic metrics like sessions or page views. What is HubSpot analytics? Source: HubSpot.

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Software Review Marketplace as a Service Metrics Pricing 100

Valuize Consulting

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

In order to meet the demands of a competitive marketplace and today’s customers, you must streamline all of your data and create a holistic view of the customer in order to become truly customer-centric. 5 Steps to Unlocking Revenue-Driving Customer Intelligence. Customer Intelligence allows you to do just that. The Evolution Of Data.

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Revenue Scale Marketplace as a Service Data 52

Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 18, 2021

In Eventbrite’s case, the company was: Integrating the acquisition of Ticketfly to move up-market in a specific vertical and build an enterprise sales motion. Building a consumer marketplace to drive incremental ticket sales to event creators. Consumer Marketplace. Launching new SaaS products with its incubation arm.

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Technical Advisors Technical Review Scale Marketplace as a Service 140

ProfitWell

MARCH 11, 2020

But as cost containment becomes a priority for businesses looking to thrive in the modern digitally-transformed marketplace, keeping existing customers happy and loyal is now a primary concern. But creating customer retention strategies requires a deep understanding of your retention issues. How is customer retention measured?

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Retention Metrics SaaS Payments Underperforming Technical Team 52

Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 23, 2022

The process of purchasing software is increasingly complex – the choices for products and services are endless, and customers have a harder time parsing which companies to trust and which product will better cater to their needs. But once they’re happy with a service, they can help build trust with new customers as well.

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Software Review Trends Software Marketplace as a Service 118

OPEXEngine

MAY 18, 2021

SaaS metrics are viewed differently at different stages of growth and for different sales models, primarily whether a company is selling into an SMB or enterprise marketplace. SaaS Metric #1 – Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR). Revenue from irregular overages should be bucketed together, separately from contracted ARR.

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SaaS Payments Metrics Payments Payment Services 98

Valuize Consulting

MARCH 24, 2022

This concerning reality can result in a siloed and misaligned organizational ecosystem, and could be preventing your business from delivering a customer journey that seamlessly takes your customers from acquisition to expansion and accelerates Net Revenue Retention. Download The Ultimate Guide To Uniting Pre-Sales And Post-Sales.

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Revenue Scale Marketplace as a Service Customer Success 52

SaaStr

MARCH 17, 2020

They announced a new “Hired Flex” option with a flexible monthly and pay-per-hire rate, a “Self Service” signup for startups to get immediate access to Hired’s marketplace, and announced that “Hired Assessments” will now be a part of every package to democratize opportunity through skills-based hiring. Predictable Revenue.

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Sales Hiring Scale Payment Features Marketplace as a Service 191

User Pilot

OCTOBER 26, 2023

TL;DR Growth initiatives are strategies aimed at expanding a company’s customer base, market share, revenue, or profitability. Product-led growth uses the product as the primary driver of customer acquisition and retention, with minimal reliance on traditional sales and marketing. Let’s dive right in!

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Acquisition Scale Marketplace as a Service Onboarding 93

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 28, 2020

We sat down with Jonathan Anguelov, COO of Aircall, to hear about this huge new development and the company’s ambitious plans for the future, which include even more integrations, expanding its sales force and making inroads in Australia and APAC at large. Today, more than 60% of the tools on the marketplace have been built by third parties.

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Marketplace as a Service Cloud Government Retention 186

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

It’s time to start thinking about retention at scale and bring onboard a customer success team. That’s exactly how Yelp approached its growth journey, under the leadership of Senior Vice President and General Manager of Local Revenue Kayti Sullivan. Upsold revenue is its own team responsible for expansion revenue.

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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

Average Revenue per Customer. 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. And basically SaaS revenue models is just magical for investors and for businesses. Or annual recurring revenue for some types of companies.

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SaaS Payments Metrics Payment Methods Scale 237

Subscription Flow

JANUARY 3, 2024

Read more: SaaS Pricing Trends to Boost Sales & Revenue in 2024 Why do you need flexible pricing? While this strategy may result in lower profits or even a loss, it may help limit competition and maximize customer acquisition and retention. Offer volume discount: Always optimize for volume when building a flywheel.

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Pricing Payment Features SaaS Marketplace as a Service 52

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. An additional non-financial constraint is a fact that these customers typically lack experience in software procurement and implementation, and this adds friction to the sales cycle.

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SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Methods Marketplace as a Service 52

Baremetrics

OCTOBER 9, 2021

In addition, Stripe’s analytics side can be lacking the needed depth for SaaS businesses that rely on recurring revenue. Baremetrics monitors subscription revenue for businesses that bring in revenue through subscription-based services. Baremetrics makes it easy to collect and visualize all of your sales data.

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Payment Services SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payments 98

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 her expanded role, Ellen will continue to lead global system engineering and enablement and will add professional services and customer support to her team.

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VP of Engineering Customer Success Outsourcing Services Technical Review 98

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

How should sales and marketing work together on pricing? Rob Gonzalez: Operationally, I look at, in particular, my experience at Endeca, but also another startup that sold to pharmaceutical companies and other life sciences businesses and financial services companies called Cambridge Semantics. What does it take to expand effectively?

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SaaS Payments Scale Payment Services Payment Solutions 261

Chart Mogul

OCTOBER 19, 2018

See how GymForLess is leveraging their revenue data to drive predictable growth. GymForLess is a desktop and mobile marketplace that gives fitness enthusiasts instant access to thousands of gyms across Spain. Services like this are a natural fit for subscriptions, but that’s not where GymForLess started.

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Merchant Services Payment Services Marketplace as a Service Churn 40

Subscription Flow

JANUARY 1, 2024

On the one hand, you have access to a wealth of data that can be used to improve your sales and marketing processes; on the other hand, organizing, storing, and analyzing large amounts of consumer data is a monumental task, and your data is useless if it exceeds your ability to process it.

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Payment Methods Payment Features Payment Solutions Payments 52

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Women in sales often have a polarizing experience. In the Sales Hacker video series Aha Moments , I asked 10 women: “What is one ‘aha moment’ you’ve had in your sales career?”. The conversations that followed were so authentic and encouraging that we decided to expand this conversation to other badass women in the sales world.

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SaaStr

JUNE 16, 2020

Leveraging survey data from 66+ enterprise SaaS companies, Matt Garratt, Managing Partner of Salesforce Ventures shares the landscape of how businesses are shifting their sales & GTM strategies to react to today’s uncertain times. Adnan Chaudhry | SVP of Sales @ Salesforce. There was not a lot of outbound sales or marketing.

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Sales Hiring Scale SaaS Payments Payment Services 160

Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 23, 2020

That meant producing useful content, not thinly veiled sales pitches. Take HubSpot, for example: over the last five years, they’ve grown their app marketplace from 40 to 350 integrations. I even remember training the Recurly sales team about our products. Really 100% is just on churn reduction and retention improvement.

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Underperforming Technical Team Scale Payments Payment Services 183

OpenView Labs

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Enterprise sales is not a simple switch to make from SMB sales—it’s a completely different beast. I recently caught up with a founder I talked to last year who didn’t have the time (or desire) to deal with sales and wanted to hire someone to ‘”validate the market” for him. Source: SalesHacker.com.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2019

Customer success is a company-wide initiative, which means that having the right culture, sales processes, and product strategy are just as important as having the right organizational processes. How to Build a CSM Team that Generates 130% Net Retention with Talkdesk (1:45 – 2:15 pm). Tuesday, February 5. Wednesday, February 6.

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Scale Marketplace as a Service Customer Success Scaling 107

OpenView Labs

APRIL 7, 2021

Product as a growth driver: Atlassian spends only 19% of their revenue on sales & marketing (slower growing New Relic spends 55% for comparison), making its CAC payback appear to be best-in-class. That’s because most of their growth is powered by the product itself through a highly efficient self-service motion.

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Metrics Scale SaaS Marketplace as a Service 52

OPEXEngine

OCTOBER 5, 2021

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. In more mature software companies, we see oversized returns for companies that are moving to software-as-a-service subscription models (see Figure 1). Sticky after all.

Software Review 52

Software Review DevOps as a Service Software Underperforming Technical Team 52

ChurnZero

JUNE 22, 2021

This course is for: If you work with customers and are interested in the topics of marketing, market research, sales, customer service and strategy this course is for you. Forecast renewal revenue with precision. We’ll focus specifically on marketing, sales, support, services, product, finance, and leadership.

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Customer Success Churn Consulting Marketplace as a Service 92

OpenView Labs

APRIL 13, 2020

There are new job titles—growth marketing, growth product manager, growth engineer, head of growth—and new opportunities that have changed the way companies think about how to grow their revenue or users. It is no longer the job of Marketing or Sales to solely own revenue, nor Product the core user experience. Monetization.

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Systems Review Technical Advisors Scale Technical Review 98

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 13, 2021

Few people have more experience with this move than Linda Lin , Director of Customer Success at the revenue intelligence platform Gong. Although Linda started her career in sales, she has spent the past twelve years scaling post-sales teams and moving hyper-growth companies like Zendesk, Slack, and now Gong upmarket into the enterprise realm.

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Scale Customer Success Strategy Sales Hiring 177

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. Here’s what you can do to move the needle: Sales: Sell to the right customer and don’t get too greedy on the initial deal.

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Payment Services Benchmarks SaaS Payments Merchant Services 80