Casey Accidental

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In a previous post , I talked about how product work post-product/market fit shifts from zero to one innovation to features, growth, and scaling work. Format changes are usually only required around platform shifts already occurring or platform shifts a larger company is trying to drive.

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Chart Mogul

JUNE 24, 2021

The same could also be true for your SaaS business. We also shared that revisiting your monetization strategy is an essential part of growing your business. When you use this strategy, customers avoid any sticker shock at checkout or after payment since they see the price they’ll pay upfront.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 8, 2018

The next generation of messengers will be built to help businesses accelerate growth by actually helping teams do work, like process payments or schedule meetings. For marketers like me, this is an incredibly powerful concept. But knowing what apps to use and feature is also probably a bit daunting.

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Unbounce

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

That’s why we’re launching Unbounce Apps. Bringing a collection of best-in-class apps to Unbounce’s Smart Builder is just another way we’re expanding our offerings beyond landing pages—helping you create campaigns in half the time, conserve resources, and increase your conversions by up to 30%. What Are Unbounce Apps?

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SaaStr

JULY 11, 2023

Here’s what to consider: Pain: The first thing every business should consider is the pain point. Does it hurt enough for buyers to switch to a new solution? Gorgias, an eCommerce customer service platform, discovered that their customers’ main pain points were a lack of centralized customer support channels and poor integrations.

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Chart Mogul

MARCH 9, 2020

We spoke to Buffer’s CEO Joel Gascoigne about his experience building Buffer and the role and place subscription data plays for the company. For the first 2-3 years of Buffer’s existence, Joel and his team did not need a specialized solution for subscription analytics. The Challenge: Buffer was amassing “reporting debt”.

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User Pilot

JUNE 28, 2023

Kommunicate drives sales-less product adoption through product experiments and tracking adoption rates with Userpilot. Platformly uses a progress bar and empty state CTAs to simplify the onboarding process for their complex product. Split-test your upsell pop-ups to maximize expansion revenue. Get a demo now!

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User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

In this article, we’ve outlined the major roles that move the needle in terms of product growth alongside their KPIs and current salary ranges. TL;DR SaaS, or “Software as a Service,” is a business model that delivers centrally hosted software to subscribers over the internet.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 6, 2019

We have a background doing software and standards for trade, and we thought that there’s a massive opportunity in this space. It is if you took LinkedIn, combined it with the app platform from Salesforce, and looked at the domain, which is supply chains. Just like Salesforce, we have a platform.

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User Pilot

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Your SaaS product’s free trial conversion rate is one of the most important growth metrics to track. That’s because an integral component of the product-led growth strategy is your ability to convert a free trial user into a paying customer. Offer in-app guidance to trial users and help them experience value.

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Navint

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Sean has over 15 years of expertise in recurring revenue technologies, most recently hailing from Salesforce where he was a senior member of the product marketing team responsible for Salesforce CPQ & Billing. Navint clients expect vendor-neutral recommendations and best practices in implementations and integrations.

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User Pilot

OCTOBER 15, 2023

TL;DR A SaaS conversion rate refers to the percentage of visitors who take a desired action on the website or in-app. For SaaS companies, this isn’t just about website sign-ups but also in-app conversions, leading to paying users, unlike e-commerce, where a conversion might be a purchase.

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User Pilot

JULY 18, 2023

This article shows you various ways to calculate churn, make sense of the data, and create proactive solutions to retain more customers. TL;DR Customer churn is the rate at which users discontinue their subscription or stop using a particular product or service. Monthly recurring revenue. Poor onboarding.

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ProfitWell

JANUARY 2, 2020

The subscription economy has shifted the power balance in favor of the customer. Subscriptions are built on ongoing relationships with customers, so companies selling subscriptions need to understand how to monetize this relationship on a recurring basis. That’s what makes subscription sales so difficult.

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Incredo

DECEMBER 3, 2019

And you look for ideas on how to promote your software for these holidays. Or maybe you are curious whether Christmas marketing works at all? We have interviewed tens of SaaS community members to understand how they perceive SaaS Christmas promotions.

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OPEXEngine

MAY 18, 2021

The growth stages are defined as: Early Stage – Product/Market Fit Stage, . Growth Stage – Scaling the Business, and . The following 4 metrics are critical to the valuation of a private SaaS business. SaaS Metric #1 – Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR). Almost all revenue is from new contracts.

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User Pilot

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Customer retention can help you drive recurring revenue, reduce customer acquisition costs, and drive customer loyalty. Drive recurring revenue : Loyal customers spend more through repeat purchases over time. When customers are engaged, they are more likely to renew their subscriptions and try new products.

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Unbounce

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Thousands of businesses are willing to spend unbelievable amounts of money to rank at the top of search engine results pages (SERP) and in the most relevant places for their users around the web. In 2019, small businesses spent between $9,000 and $10,000 per month on PPC , with Google making an average of $116.5 Retargeting.

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Mucker Capital

OCTOBER 27, 2023

The best businesses can do is adapt, evolve, and inch closer to their pricing North Star, acknowledging the quest for improvement in this dynamic landscape is perpetual. Achieving product-market-price fit is paramount. Initial caution often leads to missed revenue opportunities.

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ProfitWell

DECEMBER 9, 2019

From the rise of SaaS to the sudden glut of subscription boxes, the subscription business model has never been more popular. So much so that Gartner research predicts that in 2020, all new entrants to the software market and 80% of existing companies will offer some sort of subscription package.

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Chart Mogul

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Product analytics, customer data or user feedback from your CRM, as well as revenue analytics, all play an essential role in understanding and growing your business. The team has also been working hard all year to bring you these and many other improvements to the ChartMogul platform. Let’s get to it. Try it out. .

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User Pilot

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Collaboration between product , marketing, and sales teams is essential to effectively identify and target high-value customers. Userpilot onboarding, analytics , and feedback features can help you reduce CAC and boost revenue. Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR) – for example from subscriptions.

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Baremetrics

MARCH 16, 2021

This allows anyone building an app that applies blockchain technology to do so by building directly on top of QuikNode’s globally distributed Web3 infrastructure. This unbalanced cycle of blockchain app developers not having the infrastructure they need is happening again today. Table of Contents.

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ProfitWell

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Ever since John Koenig first coined the term “SaaS” back in 2005, the software-as-a-service industry has been one of the fastest-moving and creative in the world. The SaaS business model powering all of this activity is startlingly unique, still young, and inextricably tied to the power of cloud computing. Recurring payments.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Creating a new product category also creates a plethora of challenges – from spotting the right market niche to convincing customers that yours is a service they need. If people aren’t looking for your solution, you have to educate them about the problem your product solves. Nico: Exactly.

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Chart Mogul

JUNE 24, 2021

The same could also be true for your SaaS business. We also shared that revisiting your monetization strategy is an essential part of growing your business. When you use this strategy, customers avoid any sticker shock at checkout or after payment since they see the price they’ll pay upfront.

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Chart Mogul

MARCH 9, 2020

We spoke to Buffer’s CEO Joel Gascoigne about his experience building Buffer and the role and place subscription data plays for the company. For the first 2-3 years of Buffer’s existence, Joel and his team did not need a specialized solution for subscription analytics. The Challenge: Buffer was amassing “reporting debt”.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 18, 2022

Here’s an idea: Create a quick view for customer engagement in your CRM system. Generally, unengaged users tend to show the same symptoms: They don’t open, log in, or use the product for a certain amount of days. They offer clarity into which features need adding or improved for product-market fit. Make a call.

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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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SaaStr

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Christian Lanng : So we started with something very, very narrow, which was invoicing. But invoicing happens to be connected to something really, really important, which is payments. So if you get the invoice, you get the payment and that’s a lot more interesting. You pay a subscription. ” No.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

And so I’m so thrilled to welcome back Krish Subramanian, founder and CEO at Chargebee, the startup that lets you go beyond payment, billing, and recurring invoices to delivering subscription experiences that wow and what they’re doing now in the world of rev ops, trust me, it’s pretty mind blowing.

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Baremetrics

JANUARY 24, 2021

Anyone managing a SaaS or subscription business is aware of customer churn. Transitioning to SaaS On January 1st 2020, we transitioned the company out of a strategic partnership (we were operating the platform under a non SaaS business model!). We were looking to relaunch the user-driven, SaaS side of our businesses.

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ChurnZero

MAY 20, 2021

In this preliminary phase, you’re still likely trying to reach product-market fit, you can count your customers on two hands, and you have a good sense of your customers’ satisfaction with your service despite not having any formal surveying. Traits: Product-market fit. $6M Pre-Build Phase. Build Phase.

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ProfitWell

MARCH 4, 2020

Plus, lessons in expansion revenue from one of the fastest growing SaaS companies on the map. Listen wherever you get podcasts: Your top subscription news. Podium rolls out payments to amp up customer interactivity. As companies improve, more revenue comes in through the expansion of current customers.

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OpenView Labs

JULY 2, 2020

” The data also shows that before COVID-19 impacted the market, the product led growth index and SaaS index were trading at similar rates. After four months of an unprecedented global crisis, SaaS companies are bouncing back while product led growth businesses are trading at almost 2x higher revenue multiples they started with.

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SaaStr

MARCH 13, 2020

315: Harry Hurst is the Co-Founder & Co-CEO @ Pipe, the startup that gives you control of your cash flow by giving you access to the full annual value of your monthly subscriptions, upfront. Prior to Pipe, Harry co-founded Skurt raising over $11M in the process before being acquired by Fair.com. Harry Stebbings of Stride.VC

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FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

“It got us thinking: Why is there no purpose-built operating system for corporate learning and development teams, when their jobs are so strategic to the business, and they’re managing massive budgets, but they can’t track things like ROI?” There are now over 150 enterprise companies using the platform.

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