Stax

APRIL 15, 2025

For subscription-based businesses achieving consistent and predictable revenue growth is the holy grail. In fact, monthly recurring revenue (MRR) is one of the most important metrics subscription businesses should be aware of. Let’s get started. TL;DR MRR is the average revenue that a company expects to receive each month.

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FastSpring

MAY 20, 2024

Moving some, all, or simply more of your software offerings from a one-time perpetual license model to a software as a service (SaaS) subscription model can be daunting, but it’s so powerful for building dependable, recurring revenue. Letting FastSpring handle the subscription infrastructure.

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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

So growth of the kind of subscription, eCommerce industry has been over 100% year on year for the past five years, according to McKinsey. The second constituent there is the developer. Why do developers love SaaS products? Low touch you’re gonna talk a lot about what we call customer success teams. Transcript.

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FastSpring

APRIL 26, 2022

Last week, I canceled an annual SaaS subscription (I had three weeks left until renewal). Interestingly, even though I paid for a year-long subscription, the company didn’t let me keep the last three weeks of access to its premium features. This action will immediately downgrade your subscription. Table of Contents.

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SaaStr

JULY 15, 2022

Jason Lemkin: You certainly can hire a whole content team and build 10,000 pieces of content, but I will tell you what I have always seen work is one incredible piece a week. Well, they’ll never know your product that well, they’ll run the same canned strategy they run for other clients without their own list.

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Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

MARCH 23, 2020

Companies which don’t use mental models risk unleashing mayhem with poor choices or becoming bloated and bureaucratic by reducing the volume and speed at which decisions are made - both scenarios are undesirable and will impact growth. Strategy - annually changes. Subscription business model. Customer data. Economies of scale.

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User Pilot

APRIL 30, 2024

Wondering what a marketing growth strategy is? From this article, you will find out how to develop a strong growth marketing strategy and learn growth marketing tactics for different customer journey stages. Start building your marketing growth strategy by setting goals. If so, we’ve got you covered. Let’s get to it.

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Baremetrics

AUGUST 23, 2021

You need to have a strategic approach that includes identifying your market fit, developing appropriate positioning and marketing strategies, and measuring performance. Here's where having a go-to-market (GTM) strategy comes into the picture. Here's how you can create an effective GTM strategy for your SaaS product.

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Neil Patel

APRIL 12, 2021

They offer some of the best-known subscription boxes around, reflecting an increasingly popular (and potentially lucrative) business model. Why Should You Launch a Subscription Box? According to MarketsandMarkets , the subscription and recurring billing market will grow to around $7.8 Recurring Business Revenue.

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User Pilot

MARCH 25, 2024

In this article, we explore what customer attrition is, why it matters, and 15 effective strategies for strengthening customer relationships, boosting loyalty, and driving long-term growth. Some effective strategies for reducing customer churn include: Personalize the onboarding for new customers to shorten the time to value.

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User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

What is a messaging strategy? A messaging strategy is a marketing framework /plan that outlines how your brand communicates its key messages and unique selling proposition to its target audience. Why should you have a solid messaging strategy? This helps you stand out and connect more deeply with your target market.

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Chart Mogul

MAY 30, 2019

If you're asking questions like these, then it’s likely time to turn your attention to strategies tailor-made to support top-tier customers. Ingmar, our VP of Customer Success, and our support team cracked the code on first response time and measuring NPS. Who are your most valuable customers? Is it onboarding, renewals, NPS, etc.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 23, 2018

Most sales and support teams are already well versed in conversations about data deletion, risk assessments and security frameworks, but those issues are going to become an even more prominent part of the discussion once GDPR comes into effect. What is a ‘privacy ecosystem’ and why it matters. Choose vendors/partners that you trust.

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Stax

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Here’s an interesting stat: 70% of businesses consider subscription and membership models indispensable for future commercial growth and expansion. They must engineer a well-rounded solution that makes handling subscriptions a breeze (and yes, it is as hard as it sounds). However, only 10% of them currently employ these models.

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SaaStr

JULY 25, 2021

You can have the great product and a great team, but the market of small or very niche. The second one is the team, obviously depending on how earlier the team has a huge factor because you may be so early in your journey that there’s nothing else to point to, but the track record of the team. Jyoti Bansal: Yeah.

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User Pilot

MARCH 15, 2022

Why a go-to-market strategy plays an integral of your SaaS product success? This is where the GTM strategy comes in. In this blog post, you’ll learn everything about go-to-market strategies. Successful product launches stand on the back of an effective GTM strategy. What is a go-to-market (GTM) strategy?

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 22, 2020

This is especially true in the Software as a Service (SaaS) industry, in which the subscription-based sales model means prospects are typically committing to a product for months or years at a time. It’s also one of the hardest to teach and develop. Tell me about a time you collaborated within the sales team and with other teams.

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BetterCloud

MARCH 17, 2025

You likely already have a laundry list of SaaS subscriptions that have been around the company longer than you have. Shadow AI, aka the unsanctioned artificial intelligence based applications that are in your tech stack, is often adopted by individual teams or employees for perceived productivity gains. CRM, project management).

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Stax

MARCH 18, 2025

However, a SaaS company providing global HR and payroll solutions may have a few hundred customers paying a monthly or annual feein other words, making recurring payments over a longer period of time. Churn is the percentage of customers that end their subscriptions within a certain amount of time. Churn rate.

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Blulogix

DECEMBER 3, 2024

By BluLogix Team Planning for Growth: Using Revenue Insights Planning for Growth: Using Revenue Insights For businesses seeking to expand or enter new markets, strategic planning is critical to achieving successful outcomes. Growth initiatives require not only a vision but also precise financial insights that inform decisions and reduce risk.

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User Pilot

OCTOBER 10, 2022

In this article, we’ll cover the key metrics you need to develop an informed feature adoption strategy and discuss how you can improve them. Feature adoption allows you to separate the successful features from the underperforming ones. Uncover weak spots and improve feature adoption. We’ve got you covered!

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Kellblog

JULY 8, 2020

Mark’s a seasoned startup executive, he’s go-to-market oriented, and he has some large-company chops that he developed earlier in his career. DK: a lot of CEOs and boards wait too long in denial on a bad VP of Sales hire. Hiring the wrong VP Sales due to incomplete vetting and then giving them too much runway to perform.

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User Pilot

MARCH 24, 2025

Want to advance your career in mobile product management or find top talent for your team? In this role, you will define and execute the mobile product strategy, enhancing the user experience for field service professionals while driving seamless integrations with enterprise systems. Who would be a BAD fit for this job?

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User Pilot

AUGUST 17, 2024

“How World-Class Product Teams Are Winning in the AI Era” is one of the talks at this year’s Product Drive Summit. Delivered by Carlos Gonzalez de Villaumbrosia, it tackles the challenges and opportunities AI-revolution poses for product teams. AI enables product teams to achieve more with fewer resources. Want to learn more?

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User Pilot

AUGUST 26, 2024

Let’s discuss these benefits in detail: Improve business decision-making : By tracking how customers interact with your software, it becomes easier to spot which features are resonating with customers and which ones are underperforming. This allows you to prioritize product development efforts and improve product performance.

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ChurnZero

AUGUST 14, 2020

And by virtue of that, it’s essential that Customer Success software – like a Customer Success team – plays well with the others it works alongside if the customer is to truly come first. Bad satisfaction rating” alert so CSMs can immediately reach out to frustrated customers who cite having a poor experience. Who owns it?

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

In this article, I’ll walk you through: What a sales funnel is, The elements of a high-performing sales funnel, And finally, strategies to create sales funnels that get results. There’s sales pipeline , a 7-stage journey describing what your sales team must do to convert a lead to a customer. What is a sales funnel? A whopping 67.6%

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Building on the definitions from that essay and introducing a few new ones, here are the types of business models we’ll cover: SaaS: software that businesses access online and purchase via a subscription e.g. Slack, Adobe, Atlassian. Payments also allow the company to enforce policies that build trust in the marketplace. Refund Policy.

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Baremetrics

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Sean Ellis, who ran growth in the early days of Dropbox, LogMeIn, and Eventbrite benchmarked nearly a hundred startups with his customer development survey. Now, without further adieu, let’s look at 14 retention strategies you’ll wish you’d have implemented a year ago. Bad pricing practices are easy excuses for customers to cancel.

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ChurnZero

AUGUST 11, 2020

The goal of this article is to show you options and maybe trigger some thoughts or new ideas around different customer retention strategies that you can employ before the next wave hits. . #1. Customer Success teams are in a unique position to listen to their customers’ challenges. Train to Listen. Update Customer Knowledge Bases.

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User Pilot

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Your product go-to-market strategy is the final ingredient for any successful product launch. It is a small but prominent element that drives every other component of your marketing strategy. This article covers all you need to know to create a solid GTM strategy for your SaaS startup or B2B business model.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

I’m talking about product-led growth as an investment strategy, but really my background is 10 years of operating experience in the product-led growth world. I say investment strategy, but really it’s like how do you build a company that’s focused on product-led growth? I have a team of people who work on numbers.

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User Pilot

DECEMBER 18, 2020

The bad news is: there is no ‘one-size-fits-all’, cookie-cutter method. Or maybe they got the initial value, but have not progressed beyond the ‘basics’ They may be open to switching over to a competitor or are considering canceling their subscription. The bad news though? Source: imgflip.

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

Technical SEO is the backbone of every successful, long-term SEO strategy. And that’s when things go bad. The team scrambled to fix that. Hopefully, it’s a simple fix like a bad robots.txt file. Not all agencies can develop, let alone implement, advanced technical SEO strategies. In-house Team Alignment.

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Totango

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

To make it to the Super Bowl, a football team must have two things: a strong defense and a strategic offense. The defense maintains a good field position and prevents the opposing team from scoring points, while the offense orchestrates smart plays to gain additional yards and score points. What is gross retention? Calculate it!

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User Pilot

AUGUST 28, 2023

Then, you need to develop a consistent and personal brand voice across all channels to connect with and delight customers. Conversely, the omnichannel communication strategy connects and unifies data from all channels under a single platform and a shared goal. Let’s now consider five steps to ensure you do this successfully.

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Incredo

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

And end up wasting their time and resources with affiliates that underperform. I see many SaaS companies jump headlong into creating an affiliate program thinking it will bring in a large number of customers without much effort. In our case, we needed to invest a lot in product development. But is your website ready?

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