Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 8, 2021

It was seen as a necessary part of a business, but not something that drove revenue or influenced customers’ buying decisions. Another survey reveals that 84% of businesses report an uplift in revenue as one of the primary benefits of improving their customer experience. That time is over.

Technical Review 223

Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Customer Support Marketplace as a Service 223

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 4, 2019

The fastest growing software companies in recent years all have something in common – they started with little to no sales team. Yes, Slack started off with no sales team. Yes, Dropbox started off with no traditional sales team. To find out, we sat down with Jeanne de Witte , Head of North America Revenue & Growth at Stripe.

Scale 162

Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Payment Services 162

SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

The SaaStock team will be landing in São Paulo to run the region’s first Pan-Latin American SaaS conference, SaaStock LatAm. Aaron Ross, Co-CEO, Predictable Revenue. He dropped out of Stanford Graduate School of Business and then co-founded LeaseExchange, an online marketplace for equipment leasing. Diego Cordovez, CMO, Meetime.

Technical Review 207

Technical Review Scale Entrepreneurship Sales Hiring 207

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. Why you need a customer success team.

VP of Engineering 109

VP of Engineering Customer Success Churn Scale 109

Neil Patel

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Whether you’re a product or service-based business, it’s never too early to start planning your holiday promotions. After all, the holidays are a key time for you to boost your revenue and grow your business before the year’s out, so it’s crucial you take advantage of the opportunity. Offer a New Seasonal Service. Absolutely.

Marketplace as a Service 131

Marketplace as a Service Social Media Business Underperforming Technical Team 131

Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

We pulled from my prior marketplaces experience and dove into their business quickly to develop a point-of-view on the opportunity. Over time, Instacart planned to build out an advertising revenue stream with CPG companies, offering them effective performance marketing with a primed, high-intent audience.

Marketplace as a Service 140

Marketplace as a Service Underperforming Technical Team Scale Construction 140

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. The second constituent there is the developer. Why do developers love SaaS products? MRR, obviously. Customer Lifetime Value (LTV).

SaaS Payments 246

SaaS Payments Metrics Payment Methods Scale 246

Stax

MAY 6, 2025

From handling higher transaction volumes to enabling new revenue models, the right system should grow with you and streamline both your operations and your customers checkout experience. Volume caps, poor integrations, manual reconciliation, and clunky mobile checkout are all signs your current system wont scale with you.

Payment Solutions 88

Payment Solutions Payment Methods Payment Services Payments 88

SaaStr

JULY 22, 2019

That’s not a bad start. We are the world’s most complete and comprehensive instrumentation platform on the marketplace today, that is cloud-based, that is SaaS-based. We thought it would have a business opportunity of around about $100 million in revenue. We work with mostly modern teams. Good afternoon.

Scale 232

Scale Scaling Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team 232

How To Buy Saas

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

A powerful CRM helps organize customer data, streamline sales pipelines, and automate marketing ultimately boosting revenue. In fact, 92% of businesses say CRM software is crucial to achieving their revenue goals. By the end of this guide, youll have a clear understanding of each platforms strengths, weaknesses, and ideal use cases.

Scale 52

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Software Review 52

Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

That’s all because of our ability to constantly optimize and improve our methods according to the current trends in the marketplace. You should check out the services of Neil Patel Digital. #2 For that amount, you can look forward to a big team entirely focused on your results. 3 WebMechanix — Best For All-In-One Services.

Sales Hiring 145

Sales Hiring Outsourcing Services Social Media Underperforming Technical Team 145

Neil Patel

DECEMBER 4, 2020

How do you stand out in such a highly-competitive marketplace? And they do this with poor store setup and product listings. Amazon even developed its own SEO algorithm called A9. Basically, they’ll help you develop and implement marketing strategies to drive sales and revenue. Find an Amazon marketing consultant.

Consulting 127

Consulting Outsourcing Services Marketing Underperforming Technical Team 127

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 11, 2019

But as the business becomes more successful – and there are resources to build a support team – additional layers begin to separate executives from their customers. As the General Manager for HubSpot’s Service Hub , Michael knows a thing or two about keeping customers close. Michael Redbord has an answer for that.

Scale 188

Scale Scaling Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team 188

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Renaud Visage, Co-Founder of Eventbrite, and Romain Huet, Head of Developer Relations at Stripe, know what it takes to effectively evolve your offering into a platform without losing what made offering appealing in the first place. Romain Huet | Head of Developer Relations @ Stripe. Want to see more content like this?

Payments 169

Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payment Services 169

User Pilot

APRIL 24, 2025

Want to advance your career in product management or find top talent for your team? Millions of companies, from the worlds largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups, use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Who would be a bad fit for this job?

Payment Methods 52

Payment Methods Payment Solutions Retention Churn 52

Natalia Luneva

APRIL 24, 2025

PayFac as a Service lets companies add payment processing to their platforms. Global embedded payment revenue is expected to reach $59 billion by 2027. Key Takeaways PayFac as a Service reduces PayFac setup time from years to days, slashing costs by millions. The number of Payment Facilitators (PayFacs) has grown 13.8%

Merchant Services 40

Merchant Services PayFac as a Service Payment Services Marketplace as a Service 40

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 23, 2019

Needless to say, this made him look bad in my eyes. This left a bad taste in my mouth as the company clearly valued new business more than existing customers. When the customer journey isn’t well-orchestrated, Marketing and Sales can do serious damage in the marketplace. RELATED: eBook-Aligning Toward Revenue Efficiency.

Strategy 105

Strategy Marketing Sales Marketplace as a Service 105

Chart Mogul

MAY 7, 2020

Onboarding a new member of your sales team is challenging on its own, but especially so when they have to call prospects out of the blue. Providing the right cold calling training can make or break the success of a new team member. Nobody likes cold calling. But just because it isn’t fun doesn’t mean it isn’t effective.

Sales Hiring 121

Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Marketplace as a Service Headcount 121

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.

Scale 177

Scale Customer Success Sales Hiring Strategy 177

Neil Patel

JANUARY 1, 2021

In addition to EMR/EHR capabilities, they include: Advanced reporting Patient engagement Revenue cycle management Telehealth. I definitely recommend reading reviews from actual customers about the kind of service they receive during and after implementation. If you are supposed to get a dedicated service rep, how dedicated are they?

Systems Review 144

Systems Review Healthcare Software Review Marketplace as a Service 144

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Historically, growth of a sales team was based on the revenue starting with $0M on day 1 of the year. Doubling revenue would require hiring 2x as many people. . However, in a SaaS model , the customer acquisition team can grow revenue to $1M in year 1. Traditional Sales Growth vs SaaS Sales Growth.

Scale 99

Scale Growth Hacking Scaling Sales Hiring 99

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. Proliferation of iterative, experiment-driven, nimble approaches to product development (also known as Agile). Monetization.

Systems Review 98

Systems Review Technical Advisors Scale Technical Review 98

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. As such, they can face less competition because of the high barrier of entry that comes with developing specialist SaaS products.

SaaS Payments 88

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payments Payment Solutions 88

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.

Marketplace as a Service 40

Marketplace as a Service Business Model SaaS Payments Payments 40

Neil Patel

APRIL 20, 2021

Until that happens, you’ll find it difficult to sell your actual products or services. Most people and companies think products and services sell because of their great features. Let’s look at an example in the world of marketing consulting services and products. service, program, online course, etc.) That’s not the case.

Sales 141

Sales Outsourcing Services Marketplace as a Service Underperforming Technical Team 141

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. How to build a winning sales team.

Scale 111

Scale Payments Technical Advisors Sales Recruiting 111

SaaSX

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Today’s digital marketplace is a vast and wild place. Plus, you’ll also be obliged to bring your entire team on board by encouraging your colleagues to roll out the welcome mat and adopt some partner-friendly best practices. It can get a little lonely out there. But don’t worry––we can help you jumpstart the process. . Ask yourself: .

Outsourcing Services 93

Outsourcing Services Strategy Underperforming Technical Team Technical Advisors 93

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Congratulations you’ve built a product that’s proven itself in the marketplace! At Twilio, I think my entire job there my first two years was throwing t-shirts at people, because everyone had a Twilio t-shirt I think in the developer community in 2010, and that was our marketing strategy. I have a team of people who work on numbers.

Investment 113

Investment Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring Software Review 113

SaaStr

JUNE 20, 2019

I grew up in the Netherlands, people in Germany, people are being taught when they’re young to stay away from credit, it’s a bad thing, you want to avoid it. Aydin Senkut: Or companies that have 50 billion of global revenues. We had a marketplace payer solution. Roelant Prins: Totally.

Payment Methods 157

Payment Methods Merchant Services Payments Payment Services 157

SaaSOptics

APRIL 7, 2022

A free trial is often seen as the quickest way to get customers signed up and using a SaaS product/service, but it comes with several strings attached. SaaS companies commonly implement this in two different ways: Free Trial: Users only have access to the product/service for a limited time (e.g. What Does Freemium Mean in Business?

Business Model 74

Business Model Payment Features Business SaaS 74

User Pilot

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Meta is looking for an Operations leader to join the Product Data Operations (PDO) team. As a Manager on the PDO GenAI team, you will be responsible for managing a team of Project Managers to supply product teams with critical data and data labeling for Meta’s GenAI products. Who would be a BAD fit for this job?

Technical Advisors 52

Technical Advisors Data Management Scale 52

How To Buy Saas

JANUARY 1, 2021

Your course gets the advantage of getting promoted in these online course platform marketplaces. Online Course Marketplace. Online Course Marketplaces. In a course marketplace, the course you create becomes part of a catalog and you get an existing student base to sell online courses to. Let’s give a quick check.

Payment Methods 98

Payment Methods Payments Payment Solutions Marketplace as a Service 98

ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

And yet, downplaying your team’s needs undermines CS’s current impact and future revenue-driving potential. According to our 2022 Customer Success Leadership Study, CS teams are already underfunded and under-resourced. But it’s not about driving revenue at all costs, cautions Jeff. Now we have a name for this.

Customer Success 98

Customer Success Sales Hiring Headcount Scale 98

OPEXEngine

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Over the past decade, software has created tremendous value for investors and businesses, thanks largely to its transformative effect on the economy , its role in developing new cloud-based business models, and its ability to increase efficiency in operations. Sticky after all. Four ways to drive value. Embrace the cloud operating model.

Software Review 52

Software Review DevOps as a Service Software Underperforming Technical Team 52

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

According to Salesforce’s recent State of Service report, more than half of service providers will be adding chatbots to their lineup in the next year and a half. This is a start, but to stay ahead of the competition in today’s sales world, sales teams need to start utilizing AI much more than that. Salespeople are busy.

Scale 99

Scale AI Search Artificial Intelligence AI 99

Scytale

JULY 23, 2024

That’s where PCI penetration testing comes in – it’s like having a top-notch security team constantly trying to break into your systems and steal your data. Think of it as a full-body scan for your digital defenses, ensuring no cracks for the bad guys to slip through. Having a solid game plan is key.

Payment Services 52

Payment Services Merchant Services Underperforming Technical Team Payment Methods 52

User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Key metrics like revenue growth, customer acquisition costs, and net promoter score can indicate the success of a blue ocean strategy. The focus is on developing new demand and reconstructing market landscapes to make rivals obsolete. Develop creative “what-if” scenarios to design potential blue ocean offerings.

Strategy 90

Strategy Technical Review Business Innovation 90