ProfitWell

APRIL 10, 2020

Today, a look inside our newly launched Subscription Stimulus Package (it's all for you). Your Subscription Stimulus Package has arrived. Which is why we're incredibly proud to announce that we've launched the Subscription Stimulus Package with 20+ other partners. Listen wherever you get podcasts: Top B2B SaaS news.

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 9, 2013

One number investors use to benchmark SaaS startups across sectors and industries is sales efficiency. There are a handful of variants of this metric, sometimes called the magic number, but ultimately they all aim to provide some sense of the incremental revenue returned by sales and marketing investment. The raw data is here.

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Totango

OCTOBER 20, 2022

In some companies, customer success managers may play an active role in the sales process, helping sales representatives elicit customer goals and persuade buyers of product benefits. At other companies, CS managers may be assigned to follow up on sales during the customer onboarding phase. Persuasion Skills.

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Practical Advice on SaaS marketing

NOVEMBER 5, 2016

These folks typically have responsibility for a particular business function: It’s a sales manager that needs to manage deals in the pipeline It's a recruiter that needs to track applicants It's an accounts payable manager that needs to process invoices, and so on.

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User Pilot

MAY 20, 2024

Without retention, a SaaS business doesn’t have a predictable revenue stream necessary for growth. Retention makes businesses more profitable by reducing the CAC and making account expansion easier. SaaS companies depend on ongoing customer engagement and subscription renewals. Why is it important to retain customers?

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Baremetrics

OCTOBER 8, 2021

To run a business online, you probably need a customer relationship management ( CRM ) software package and/or payment processor to manage your customers and their invoices. Stripe is often the payment processor of choice for SaaS businesses because it can handle recurring revenue streams.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

Billion story from its launch in 2008 to its 2018 acquisition by Recruit Holdings. Hear about the early days of Glassdoor; tactical lessons on scaling—from building a business model and recruiting an all-star management team to advice on building a compelling, innovative company culture; and learn whyGlassdoor’s $1.2

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Incredo

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

If sounds like this topic can help you generate more SaaS sales with less risk, we are starting! You should pick your influencer partners carefully because wrong choices won’t bring you qualified leads and revenue. In reality, creating collateral for affiliates, recruiting, training and motivating affiliates takes a lot of effort.

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SaaStr

JUNE 4, 2019

If you take the time to listen, understand and act on what your customers are thinking and feeling, you’ll create an army of advocates and drive topline revenue growth for good measure. I actually worked in sales for five and a half years and that’s probably why I have tended to gravitate to B2B marketing. So, that was huge.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 22, 2020

If you think sales is a simple job, I have a few hundred professional connections who would like a word with you. By mastering your sales interview questions. As a longtime recruiting leader, I’ve worked with countless hiring managers looking to fill sales roles , and I’ve had a firsthand look at their interview process.

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Incredo

OCTOBER 17, 2019

common software sales comp plans, 2. what factors to consider before defining your SaaS sales commission percentage. We will share 8 ideas on how to increase your sales team’s productivity and help them close more deals. We will share 8 ideas on how to increase your sales team’s productivity and help them close more deals.

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Incredo

OCTOBER 17, 2019

common software sales comp plans, 2. what factors to consider before defining your SaaS sales commission percentage 4. and finally figure out how much that SaaS sales salary should be. In the end, a bonus section is waiting for you! What are 5 common SaaS sales compensation models? We will write about: 1.

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Any company adopting such an approach need not any competitor to gradually bring down their sales and growth perspective. This means the customer receives from the sales department what the campaign of the marketing department says, and the customer support department provides the after-sell support promised by the sales department.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

As for Ryan, prior to G2 he was Senior Director of Global Marketing at Hubspot where among many other achievements, he scaled HubSpot’s marketing-generated sales revenue by 330% year-over-year. Which cost us $6000 and within a couple years drove more than $64 million in net new revenue. Which is a super useful tactic.

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Practical Advice on SaaS marketing

OCTOBER 3, 2015

Adwords, events, inside sales, or whatever other tactics you use to attract prospects cost money. To recover that investment in sales and marketing, companies need to convert those prospects into paying customers. And the longer the sales cycle runs, the longer the delay before there’s a purchase, and the bigger the problem.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 29, 2021

Ever since he was hired as the Director of EMEA Sales at BrowserStack , a web and mobile testing platform that lets developers test their websites and mobile applications across browsers, operating systems, and mobile devices, he had to completely rethink how to successfully onboard hundreds of salespeople just as everyone was going remote.

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ProfitWell

DECEMBER 13, 2019

The goal in SaaS sales is not to convince your customer to buy your product there and then—it’s to win that customer over to your product for a lifetime. We’ll tell you how to use your understanding of a prospect to turn them into a delighted customer, what metrics to lean on, and how to build the perfect SaaS sales team. What is SaaS?

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Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Baremetrics integrates directly with your payment gateways, so information about your customers is automatically piped into the Baremetrics dashboards. Sign up for the Baremetrics free trial , and start monitoring your subscription revenue accurately and easily. Table of Contents. What is Equity Financing in SaaS?

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OpenView Labs

OCTOBER 11, 2019

After a few years, however, we realized that a subscription model would deliver more value for us and for our users. It would help us establish a more predictable and consistent income based on recurring revenue instead of one-time purchases. I’ve had roles in almost every function from sales to product to customer success.

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Baremetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

Start with revenue and work from the top to the bottom of your income statement. Revenue models can help — but when you consider potential revenue, you must understand where it comes from. For instance, do you have a certain number of sales agents or current customers or a specific marketing activity planned?

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SaaStr

JULY 9, 2019

Giraffe is a mobile job matching platform that helps medium skilled workers get access to opportunities and helps businesses to recruit staff faster, and easier, and more affordably than any other way. Well, you have to build a direct sales force. We said, “How important is Giraffe to you in your recruitment process?”

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Maybe you’d spend it creating new marketing campaigns to generate more revenue. It’s a human capital management (HCM) system designed to help you save time and reduce errors. Contact their sales team for a custom quote to get started! #4 So, if you don’t yet have accounting software, this is a smart choice.

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ProfitWell

JANUARY 27, 2020

Your top subscription news. But here are some learnings, from the sales community, that Mixmax put together so we can start acting like pipeline pros. Far too often, focus is limited to the short term because of the nature of daily deliverables in sales. Because sales professionals are often likened to "hunters."

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

While some platforms (like Shopify) are free to set up, they can also take expensive fees for each sale. This ultimately results in a boost in revenue. Teachable is especially effective for freelancers who want to turn their knowledge and experience into a revenue source. Niche marketplaces are the solution. Special Guest App.

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ProfitWell

APRIL 13, 2020

Plus, we spot a new podcast for those in the subscription camp. Amanda Northcutt , an expert in subscription company consulting and recruiting, launched Sales in the Subscription Economy —a podcast by sales VPs for sales VPs competing in the subscription space, trying not just to survive this crisis, but emerge from it even better.

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SmartKarrot

JANUARY 4, 2023

Engage Sales, Solutions, and Product/Engineering to validate new business scope as it pertains to customer contract documents, technical specifications, and data analytics to ensure correct technologies are selected to support customer requirements. Responsible for the onboarding process for new accounts to ensure successful implementations.

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Tom Tunguz

MAY 14, 2013

It’s a logical question to pose in the aftermath of the Digg sale and the wobbly Facebook IPO. There is one clear lesson from Digg’s sale: the technology that powered a once-massive social network is worth about $500,000. In so doing, social networks can generate huge revenues quite profitably. The Big Digg Lesson.

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ProfitWell

APRIL 15, 2019

Let's go ham and cheese on this day of subscription news and resources you won’t want to miss. The same applies with sales: you can control your follow ups, but you can't control whether or not someone buys. Triplebyte , a startup that helps recruit tech talent, raises $35 million to further their mission of disrupting Silicon Valley.

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Chart Mogul

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Revenue data is often a black box. To grow your business, revenue metrics should be top of mind. At SaaStr, we realized that not everyone has a reliable way to track subscription metrics. After all, revenue data can be a complex thing to master and it is not always easy to have it readily available.

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ProfitWell

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Your top subscription news. I hear we have a new neighbor in the subscription space— Citrix , a company comprised of digital workspace aiming to transform how you work. Citrix plans to shift to a subscription business model and software-as-a-service, as the company recently showed strength in its Workplace subscriptions.

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ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Plus, sales advice from a master and why the freemium model isn’t going anywhere. Your top subscription news. Why do indie hackers give up on sales too soon? And this episode is a bit different because James isn’t a founder, he’s actually a full time salesperson at Close , selling sales software to other sales teams.

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ProfitWell

APRIL 15, 2019

An Intercom Updated Intercom launches new features to class up the customer journey, not least of which is an integration with Chargebee so you can sync subscription info directly into your account, enhance customer support, automate workflows, and convert leads faster. Bullhorn Stacked with Recruiting Automation.

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ProfitWell

AUGUST 26, 2019

Today's Top Subscription News. Zenefits, a cloud-based software for managing human resources, scored a # 10 spot. Stripe, the online payment processing software, was placed in eighth. Tech Tribune came to these results after researching revenue potential, leadership team, brand/product traction, and competitive landscape.

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SmartKarrot

MARCH 31, 2022

Management of renewals for subscription memberships. Develop and accomplish sales and operational revenue and profit goals and objectives to achieve Technisys’ strategic plan. Contribute to the recruiting, hiring, and development of top industry talent.

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ProfitWell

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Today, we see an NPR-owned app go freemium , a social media management platform is sprouting an IPO (although not a profit), and Vendr raises $2 million to replace your enterprise sales team. Your top subscription news. monthly subscription that allows you access to more features and storage space. NPR looks to freemium.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

Because after the year we had literally zero customers, zero revenue. We grew the company to over 10 million in revenue and we were profitable growing at 200%. It can order subscription. But again, at the time SaaS wasn’t, subscription wasn’t the norm at all. Felix : Yeah, exactly. Financial services.

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ProfitWell

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Your top subscription news. Silent Sales Machine Radio. 2Checkout—online payment processing—hosts a webinar on October 24 with Conversion Optimization Expert Shannon MacLeod , to rundown the essentials of conversion optimization. Get your site prepped and secured for higher volume. The pods on ecommerce. The TMBA Podcast.

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