User Pilot

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

What are the best Salesforce integrations in 2024? In the article, we look at 12 solid contenders for this title, covering a few most common use cases: In-app user engagement Sales funnel management Customer support Analytics and reporting Marketing Collaboration and project management Let's dive right in!

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User Pilot

APRIL 3, 2024

Prioritizing user experience optimization in product-led growth is crucial for creating intuitive, enjoyable products that retain customers and drive revenue growth. PLG and SLG differ in focus: PLG centers on product appeal for growth, while SLG relies on sales strategies and personal interactions.

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Stax

APRIL 18, 2024

Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and Software-as-a-Service Providers (SaaS) operate within the same market, thus creating a push-and-pull revenue dynamic. TL;DR ISVs develop and distribute software products independently and often collaborate with hardware manufacturers and platform providers.

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FastSpring

APRIL 18, 2024

For many SaaS and software companies, international sales are a key part of their growth trajectories. But with international growth comes a long list of international business concerns about how to appeal to potential customers in new countries. 4 ways a comprehensive, localized pricing strategy can lead to higher profits.

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Stax

MARCH 6, 2024

As the business landscape continues its unstoppable evolution, the necessity for operational efficiency and innovation becomes even more pronounced. Physical and eCommerce product subscription businesses are expected to make up 45% of the market’s value. Mobile apps make up 53%, and the SaaS market is worth $152 billion.

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Tom Tunguz

MARCH 28, 2021

UIPath offers software to build robots, programs that automate repetitive work. Robots read pdfs that customers provide and input that data into other computer systems. The UIPath suite includes the software to write, execute, monitor, and maintain these robots. Lastly, let’s touch on UIPath’s revenue streams.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 9, 2022

SaaS billing software automates one or more of the various aspects of the recurring billing process — payment processing, fulfillment, dunning, and more. You’ll still need a separate solution for payment processing, taxes, chargebacks, and more. 3 Subscription Management Software.

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Stax

JANUARY 28, 2024

This business model has now been adapted very well in the internet age, especially in the SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) and eCommerce industries. The most potent benefit of the subscription-based business model is that companies are guaranteed a fixed revenue stream—if they can retain their customers or subscribers.

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FastSpring

AUGUST 2, 2023

When TestDome was created, CEO and co-founder Mario Zivic knew the pre-employment testing software company wouldn’t be able to rely on domestic sales to succeed. “As As a startup with only two or three people, it would be absolutely impossible to go international without this kind of platform.” Here’s why. Now, Stripe offers it.

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FastSpring

MARCH 15, 2024

Todd Harris knows how to leverage effective video game marketing strategies to get games in front of players. Todd recommends that game devs consider those larger platforms as part of a video game marketing strategy that includes multiple channels for selling games , but that they not rely solely on them.

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FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

You may already be thinking about ways to reduce your expenses and shift your overall growth strategy. When FastSpring’s Chief Product Officer Kurt Smith worked with growth-stage to Fortune 100 companies at Accel-KKR, he consistently saw pricing as one of the most essential growth levers they employed to meet their next revenue goal.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Discover Bessemer Venture Partners’s annual State of the Cloud report, going through trends, benchmarks, and metrics that underpin the Cloud economy. SVB collapsed, market multiples are down, yet the IPO window is re-opening, and we have a platform shift to AI that’s exciting everybody. What does this mean for Cloud companies?

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Subscription Flow

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Subscription pricing with the help of automated billing software has transformed many industries and provided businesses with a dynamic way to generate revenue, especially in the SaaS space. Moreover, developing a profitable pricing strategy requires consistent model testing and compliance with international tax laws.

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FastSpring

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

In this guide, we compare six Recurly competitors and alternatives according to several categories: Subscription management and recurring billing Checkout Global payment processing Reporting and analytics Pricing Customer reviews We’ll start with a deep dive into FastSpring — our end-to-end payment solution (i.e.,

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Stax

JANUARY 8, 2024

For SaaS companies, becoming a payment facilitator (or PayFac) offers a ton of advantages—including but not limited to—boosting retention and profitability while exercising greater control over the customer experience. However, several complex types of risks come along with this. Let’s get started.

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Blulogix

MARCH 25, 2024

By BluLogix Team Mastering the Art of Complex B2B Recurring and Subscription Billing: Navigating Financial Process Complexity in B2B Subscriptions The financial backbone of B2B subscription models rests on efficiently managing complex processes spanning billing, payments, revenue recognition, and reporting.

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Stax

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

So, of course when it came to revenue-driving activities, Ford knew that success in marketing—and business—wasn’t about how much your marketing spend is, but how efficiently you spend it. For modern Software as a Service (SaaS) companies, the automobile is replaced by primarily digital and cloud-based solutions and software.

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Stax

JANUARY 3, 2024

Once a relatively niche offering, the COVID-19 pandemic saw retailers accelerate the rollout of self-checkout systems, their contactless nature making them a lot more appealing than traditional checkouts for many consumers. In this blog, we will cover what your small business needs to consider when implementing self-checkout.

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Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

In the early days of running a software company, collecting payments was pretty straightforward. A customer buys a license for your software, and they get the product (either through a download, a CD or even more old school—floppy disks). Luckily, like most complex processes and tasks, it can be simplified.

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Casey Accidental

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Most marketplace founders and leaders intuit this over time, so they obsess over growth metrics. In the SaaS-like network model, the supply is in charge of generating the majority of the demand, and the product acts as mainly a fulfillment or monetization vehicle for the supply.

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User Pilot

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

In-app events give you valuable insights into user behavior. By analyzing these events in your product, you can understand how users engage with your app and make improvements to enhance the user experience. Let’s dig into what in-app events are and how you can leverage them to drive engagement and build better products!

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

A recent Forrester Consulting study commissioned by Intercom, Drive Conversational Experiences For A Future-Ready Customer Support Strategy , revealed that 54% of teams can’t personalize support with their tech stack and 50% waste time jumping between tools. Strategy first, technology second. Let’s dive in.

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Buffer Resources

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Whether you’ve just made your first $100 or crossed the $100,000 mark, monetization is an ever-evolving part of your journey as a creator, thanks to platforms constantly innovating new ways to pay – and TikTok is no exception. What is the TikTok Creativity Program? Brazil, France, Germany, Japan, Korea, and the UK.

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FastSpring

MARCH 9, 2022

Question: What’s the most important page on a software website — other than the homepage? Because we have data from thousands of Saas and software websites. We’ll also include some bonus tips to help you with strategies beyond the page design — including packaging, optimizing pricing for LTV, and more. How do we know?

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Subscription Flow

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

This blog is centered around Asana integrations with SubscriptionFlow and in general the best Asana integrations. Asana, however, is a cloud-based software for project management that helps with teamwork and work organization. A lot of B2B companies use it to track progress, communicate with clients, and optimize workflows.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 12, 2023

In Part A , we outlined the paths to generating unique value for the healthcare system and patients. We’ve designed this to mirror the thought process of an entrepreneur building an AI product with an enterprise use case. Whether or not a program integrates AI is less important than quality, safety, usability, and cost.

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User Pilot

APRIL 30, 2024

The higher your adoption rate, the more customers will use your product, resulting in more revenue. The product adoption process includes six stages: Awareness, Interest, Evaluation, Trial, Activation, and Adoption, each crucial to a product’s market integration. Product adoption process. Your adoption rate.

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Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

The contracts are identical twelve month contracts except for the payment terms. Contract B relaxes payment terms to monthly payment, 12 monthly installments for the next year. The payback period metric doesn’t capture the difference in the quality of the revenue/cash collections.

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Subscription Flow

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

You run the risk of losing out on important opportunities if your contracts are set to automatically renew and you do not have a strong SaaS renewal management system. With the right renewal management strategies, you can drastically increase your business’s performance and stop losing money on auto-renewals.

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Subscription Flow

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Navigating the bustling SaaS landscape without a reliable CRM system is similar to one being like a child who is attempting to learn a skill without the helpful guidance of a teacher. The majority of the time, SaaS companies are involved in business-to-business sales. A CRM is more beneficial the more integrations it has.

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User Pilot

OCTOBER 24, 2023

In this guide, we’ll be going over what usage-based pricing is, the benefits of a usage-based pricing model, different types of usage-based pricing, and a few examples from SaaS companies that have effectively deployed this strategy! Usage-based pricing could use tiers, units, volumes, or impact as its basis for subscription cost.

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FastSpring

APRIL 26, 2022

In part two, we’ll cover five churn-prevention strategies that have been successful in other SaaS businesses. Part I: SaaS Churn Benchmarks Part II: 5 Proven Strategies for Reducing SaaS Churn Part III: Churn Definitions and Additional Resources. Business analysts have published their own churn formulas.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Yet, funded startups can learn a lot from the bootstrapped ones to grow smoothly and generate revenue. Paddle’s Senior Product Manager, Allissa Chan, and Chief Strategy Officer, Patrick Campbell, share their experience of scaling a bootstrapped startup. This is where SaaS companies generate most their revenue.

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FastSpring

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Get the latest from FastSpring’s Support leaders about important tax updates, fraud and chargeback strategies, our new Changelog, and more. Fraud, Chargebacks, and Mitigation Strategies Need FastSpring support? Visit our Support page. Set up a demo or try it out for yourself.

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Frontegg

MAY 27, 2021

Besides it’s proven business results, this strategy helps empower end-users to get the best possible product for their needs. The 80s and 90s were all about physical purchasing and installation of software CDs and floppy disks. Also, no PLG strategy can work with traditional SaaS indicators. The numbers say it all.

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Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Most SaaS businesses adopt a subscription-based model supported by a recurring payment system. Setting up a recurring payment system can be complicated and requires the right tools to measure, manage, and review payments regularly. Pros for Businesses Using Recurring Billing 2. Table of Contents.

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User Pilot

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Wondering how to increase free trial conversion for your software product? Free trials can impact cash flow and revenue generation, especially if a significant portion of trial users don’t convert into paying customers. This article explores 15 strategies to help you achieve that. Trials can be tricky. Book a demo to learn more.

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