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. A business is SaaS or SaaS-like if it sells anything else software-related.

Marketplace as a Service 141

Marketplace as a Service Business Model SaaS Payments Payments 141

FastSpring

DECEMBER 7, 2023

As the Director of Corporate Development & Strategic Partnerships at WP Engine , Carl has worked on many acquisitions and partnerships, including brands like Flywheel, Perfect Dashboard, Block Lab, and recently, Delicious Brains. “This is everyday for me, so I love talking about it,” says Carl Hargreaves about mergers and acquisitions.

Software Review 136

Software Review Technical Review Development Team Review Branding 136

Incredo

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Precisely – about SaaS affiliate programs… SaaS partner programs entice both software providers and affiliate partners for various reasons: 1) SaaS products are usually low-cost. 2) Software companies can pay high commissions because they don’t sell physical products. 5) Everyone minds his own business.

SaaS Payments 139

SaaS Payments Payment Methods Merchant Services Sales Recruiting 139

Baremetrics

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

If you’re looking the best online payment processor, you've likely come across options including Stripe and Zuora. Stripe vs. Zuora: Features Stripe vs. Zuora: Features Both Stripe and Zuora are feature-rich solutions, each one with its own pros and cons to offer. Table of Contents. BE HONEST.

Payment Methods 75

Payment Methods Payment Services Technical Review Merchant Services 75

User Pilot

OCTOBER 6, 2022

How can you analyze customer behavior in-app to deliver unparalleled in-app experiences? Customer behavior analysis helps you identify the most valuable users and personalize your marketing strategy to reach them. Design in-app strategies to improve retention based on the collected data. What is customer behavior data?

Payment Solutions 98

Payment Solutions Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Payments Customer Lifetime Value 98

User Pilot

JUNE 20, 2023

Some effective strategies for building user trust include: Mapping the customer journey to understand the difficulties users face as they progress through your app. So, in addition to improving your customer retention rates, these customers help grow your customer base and drive revenue growth. A warm welcome message goes a long way.

Payment Methods 98

Payment Methods SaaS Payments Strategy Payment Services 98

User Pilot

JANUARY 31, 2023

In SaaS, you can grow your revenue only if your churn rate is low, so retaining at-risk customers is crucial. The main factors contributing to at-risk customers include poor onboarding process , lack of product value perception, lousy customer support, unfixed bugs, and no learning materials, resource center, and FAQs.

Churn 98

Churn Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 98

User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

TL;DR SaaS, or “Software as a Service,” is a business model that delivers centrally hosted software to subscribers over the internet. The different roles in SaaS companies: Chief Executive Officer : As the highest-ranking executive, this person ensures the company runs smoothly and employees are happy and engaged.

Sales Hiring 98

Sales Hiring SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting CTO Hire 98

Natalia Luneva

JANUARY 13, 2021

This obsession with getting new customers is natural: the more customers you convert, the more revenue you will make. The period refers to a month or year depending on which payment option you offer or which of them is more popular. Software companies that serve large organizations experience a 6-10% churn rate.

SaaS Payments 105

SaaS Payments Payment Methods Churn Payment Services 105

SaaStr

MARCH 26, 2019

Formerly a senior leader at Google, Claire Hughes Johnson is now Chief Operating Officer at Stripe, where she’s helped guide the online payments firm through rapid growth. Know who is the foundation of your product and build your product for that user (in Stripe’s case, developers). I’m an execution person.

Scale 160

Scale Payment Services Payment Methods Scaling 160

Baremetrics

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Your SaaS company likely uses a CRM and/or payment processing software, and the data required to compute these core metrics can be all over the place. Integrating innovative software that can cull MRR values from CRM and payment processing systems is a valuable shortcut. This has a few specific advantages.

Payments 98

Payments Payment Methods Payment Solutions Marketing 98

Neil Patel

APRIL 12, 2021

Recurring Business Revenue. Plus, since your customers pay the same price each month, a subscription box offers some degree of stability in your revenue stream, which helps you predict your finances more accurately. Develop a Business Plan. Next, determine your target consumer, meaning the person who needs that problem solved.

Outsourcing Services 123

Outsourcing Services Payment Methods Subscription Payment Features 123

FastSpring

APRIL 26, 2022

“It’s likely that a finance or sales tools will be less susceptible to churn than a marketing tool, simply because it’s perceived to be more directly responsible for revenue.”. Because word-of-mouth for us is actually much bigger fuel than the revenue that we’re collecting or churning or dropping or whatever.”.

Benchmarks 123

Benchmarks Churn Payments SaaS Payments 123

FastSpring

APRIL 4, 2024

As an experienced sales and GTM leader, John Eitel has more than witnessed how product-led growth (PLG) has affected the tech and SaaS space in the last few years — he and his teams have been up close and personal with how PLG increased in popularity as a sales strategy. “I Set up a demo or try it out for yourself. Jump to video.

Scale 130

Scale Sales Payment Methods Merchant Services 130

Baremetrics

JANUARY 24, 2021

Our smallest self-serve plan was basically a revolving door, and users couldn’t upgrade or downgrade their plan without calling a sales person. Revenue churn vs. customer churn Up until January 2020, almost all of our growth over the past 5 years had been generated through a pretty traditional sales-led growth strategy.

Churn 71

Churn SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payment Solutions 71

Baremetrics

DECEMBER 28, 2020

If you’re running a subscription or SaaS business, you know that at the end of the day your chief metric is monthly recurring revenue (MRR). MRR gives your company that forward looking measurement and predictive revenue to actually grow your business. You may be thinking, “How bad can it be?” Think about that. Let’s be real.

SaaS Payments 105

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions Payments 105

FastSpring

APRIL 13, 2023

From leading sales at Zillow to brand strategy at Tumblr to revenue at FiscalNote (a global policy platform), Justin Scott started noticing a trend. When Justin and his initial team started looking for a way to capitalize on VR/AR technology, they focused their attention on the “made-to-order” industrial market.

Payment Methods 124

Payment Methods Marketing Payments SaaS Payments 124

SaaStr

MARCH 18, 2019

Formerly a senior leader at Google, Claire Hughes Johnson is now Chief Operating Officer at Stripe, where she’s helped guide the online payments firm through rapid growth. But we provide a combination of APIs and software. Our team is in Room 111. They were self taught developers. Dare I say SaaS.

Scale 123

Scale Payment Services Payment Methods Sales Hiring 123

Neil Patel

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The bad news is that marketers waste 37 to 95 percent of their marketing budget. You’ll want to break each of these areas down in enough detail so you (and your team) can work with each of these areas properly. Web developers spend their time on sites like ArsTechnica, Reddit, SitePoint, etc.

Underperforming Technical Team 145

Underperforming Technical Team Strategy Development Payment Methods 145

FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

Ryan Austin had VP-level experience in training when he decided to start a consulting business to help enterprise-level companies with their corporate learning and development initiatives. Ryan and his team noticed so many inefficiencies across the L&D workflows. “It Cognota didn’t necessarily start as a software business.

Payment Solutions 95

Payment Solutions Payment Services SaaS Payments VP of Engineering 95

SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

From strategies in recruitment and team building to sales tactics, these leaders from Salesforce, nCino, and Vlocity, will discuss the top tips for moving beyond horizontal SaaS and building a billion-dollar SaaS company. Grew to over a hundred million dollars in revenue in five years.

Payment Solutions 153

Payment Solutions Pricing Payments Payment Services 153

Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 27, 2020

In an integration platform, the product integrates with other types of software the product’s customers already use. Even if developers do come, and they happen to build integrations that help customers; if incentives aren’t aligned between the two companies, lasting investment will not happen, and the integrations will be poorly maintained.

Payments 56

Payments Business Model Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 56

FastSpring

JANUARY 26, 2024

And at a company like Sideways 6 — whose product is an idea management software to help organizations engage people and foster innovation — that emphasis on collaboration gets even louder. But the support team are responsible for first response times, for things like NPS, whereas what we’re responsible for is, ultimately, outcomes.”

Customer Success 144

Customer Success VP of Engineering Payments Payment Methods 144

SaaSHolic

JULY 31, 2023

TLDR: Probably when your company hits $5M+ in Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR). Let’s dive into it: Pre-Revenue → You In the earliest days, successful founders need to be extremely efficient: drive as much productivity as possible with the few resources they have until they “hit something.” Keep it simple.

Sales Hiring 52

Sales Hiring Payment Services Underperforming Technical Team Outsourced Development 52

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 3, 2018

Here are five quick takeaways: Instead of relying on word of mouth to permeate the team, write things down. If Rohini’s team is making changes to the UI or the front end, they can test quickly and easily, but because their core product is payments-based, much more rigor is required compared to your typical software product.

Payment Methods 195

Payment Methods Merchant Services Scale Payment Features 195

Incredo

OCTOBER 17, 2019

or “how long should I spend on developing my software ?”. To answer your questions correctly, we need to ask for clarification and more details about your software, its complexity and company goals. If you search on Google, Youtube or Quora, answers will tell you that 7%, 9%, 10% or more is the common approach.

SaaS Payments 150

SaaS Payments Compensation Payment Services Sales Recruiting 150

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. A business is SaaS or SaaS-like if it sells anything else software-related.

Marketplace as a Service 52

Marketplace as a Service Business Model SaaS Payments Payments 52

Incredo

OCTOBER 17, 2019

or “how long should I spend on developing my software ?”. To answer your questions correctly, we need to ask for clarification and more details about your software, its complexity and company goals. If you search on Google, Youtube or Quora, answers will tell you that 7%, 9%, 10% or more is the common approach.

SaaS Payments 144

SaaS Payments Compensation Payment Services Sales Recruiting 144

ProfitWell

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Today, eBay may be looking to subscription to amp up its ecommerce reach. We know and love eBay as the classic ecommerce platform that’s nailed it in that space since the 90s. Just this week, a seller said eBay sent a survey asking specifically about the issue, which we read in a report by Ecommerce Bytes.

Payment Methods 52

Payment Methods Payments Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 52

ProfitWell

MARCH 12, 2020

Payment processing. Almost half (49%) of American consumers switched companies in 2019 due to poor customer service. You can send targeted email, in-app, and push messages to customers, all to maintain an open line of communication at all times. From an internal standpoint, the software is a valuable training tool.

SaaS Payments 59

SaaS Payments Subscription Payment Features Payments 59

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 17, 2018

In this guide, I will teach you the fundamentals of Lead Qualification for inbound and outbound sales development, and give you actionable steps you can take to maximize your Revenue per Lead. Sales and Marketing Alignment is a trending topic and the role of Sales Development has been growing fast. What Is Lead Qualification?

Scale 86

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Payment Methods Sales Hiring 86

ChurnZero

APRIL 15, 2022

Bad timing sticks out a mile.”. If your Customer Success (CS) teams doesn’t possess ESP, you need tools to identify a customer’s buying signals, usage behavior, and ROI to break the endless cycle of trial and error with your expansion outreach. As the team expanded, so too did the need for automated, scalable processes and engagements.

Payments 98

Payments SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payment Services 98

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

As for Krish, under Krish’s leadership the team has grown to over 300 people and over 5,000 clients making it one of the next generation in truly global SaaS businesses started in India. First, what is continuous customer development? Does it have to be in person? Krish Subramanian: We are software engineers by training.

Scale 137

Scale SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting Payment Services 137

Chargify

OCTOBER 4, 2017

It provides metrics month-over-month on critical data such as the number of customers, revenue, and lifetime client value.”. In this post we dive into understanding the billing iceberg effect and what to consider when determining if you should build or buy your recurring billing solution. You’ll save time and money in the long run.”

Merchant Services 51

Merchant Services Subscription Payment Features SaaS Payments 51

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Our product alleviates the need to send out direct mail to collect payments from customers.). Go to your company website and find the testimonials. Every company wants these big logos listed on their company website. As a solution, I learned how to empathize with my prospects about the current world and selling climate.

Enterprise 105

Enterprise Payment Methods Payment Services Sales Hiring 105

Chargify

MARCH 25, 2019

But some software-as-a-service (SaaS) companies struggle with how to sell subscriptions. InVision Lead Designer Scott Savarie says, “Generally with SaaS products being so large and complex, interfaces tend to get overly complicated, and the user gets lost in the mix when teams try to integrate new features.

SaaS Payments 54

SaaS Payments Payment Methods Subscription Payment Features 54

CustomerSuccessBox

JULY 11, 2022

Perhaps they changed course, entered a new industry, or simply encountered problems with generating enough revenue and had to reduce expenses. Such as the conclusion of a project, a poor match, or a firm changing course are considered non-regrettable churn. Exit Interview or phone call: Calling clients could add a more personal touch.

Churn 52

Churn Payment Services Payment Methods SaaS Payments 52