User Pilot

APRIL 3, 2024

TL;DR Product-led innovation emphasizes improving the product to attract customers, reducing reliance on marketing for growth. Product-led innovation focuses on developing a personalized product that naturally attracts and retains customers. User persona example.

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Incredo

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Do you want to grow your SaaS sales team and improve your processes? maintain healthy atmosphere in your Smarketing team, make smart choices regarding your SaaS sales model, strategy, pricing, . build smoother connections both with your prospects through optimized sales process. And from SaaS sales models to SaaS pricing.

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User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

Confused about trying to understand SaaS roles? SaaS companies have many moving parts, and it can be difficult to determine who does what. 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. What is a SaaS business model?

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User Pilot

JUNE 28, 2023

Sustaining user engagement throughout the entire onboarding process can feel like a task only large teams can achieve. Introducing core features, driving user activation, and maximizing retention rates after the user onboarding experience will all impact the user journey moving forward.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

As for Rob, before founding Salsify, he was the first-ever product manager at Cambridge Semantics and before that was a Senior Product Manager @ Endeca helping grow the company to it’s $Bn exit. How does Rob think about the bundled vs unbundled thesis within SaaS? How does Rob think about usage vs seat-based pricing in SaaS?

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User Pilot

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Reducing the CAC payback period can help SaaS companies boost their financial performance and drive growth. This metric helps SaaS companies choose the most effective customer acquisition channels , diagnose inefficiencies in customer retention strategies , and inform pricing decisions. Let’s break them all down.

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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. What is SaaS?

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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. New Product Value and S-Curve Sequencing In my previous post, I talked about S-Curves. Second products influence sales efficiency and profitability dramatically.

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Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Retention truly is the foundation of growth for software as a service (SaaS) companies, but oftentimes, it is overlooked and undervalued. High SaaS churn is a corollary of poor retention - but it can creep up unannounced, and rather than deal a single fatal blow, it causes death by a thousand small cuts.

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Baremetrics

APRIL 30, 2020

To boost growth, start with retention. With saturated markets and well funded newbies popping up, competition is fierce. But retention is key to long lasting growth. Why are we focusing on retention over churn? Retention is who or how much revenue stays, and churn is who or how much revenue leaves with a given period.

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Baremetrics

JULY 20, 2021

If there’s one brand you and I can learn from to become better SaaS marketers, it’s HubSpot. HubSpot Academy), HubSpot has aced the SaaS marketing game in more ways than one. Anyone in tech can tell you, the SaaS industry is growing at an insane rate. Identify your marketing goals and KPIs 3.

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OPEXEngine

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

There are many ways to classify SaaS companies, but differentiating companies based upon who their customers are presents the best approach for measuring performance and driving success for SaaS businesses. SMM SaaS Company Overview & Market Dynamics. SMM SaaS Company Overview & Market Dynamics.

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User Pilot

JULY 18, 2023

You will have data sets for analyzing your churn/retention history, which will better position you to make intelligent business decisions. TL;DR Customer churn is the rate at which users discontinue their subscription or stop using a particular product or service. Bad customer service. Multiply the figure by 100.

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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. Prioritize retention.

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Totango

MAY 19, 2020

The continuing COVID-19 health crisis may well produce a recession that has a significant impact on the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) industry. No one is certain how this will change the long and short-term behaviors of customers, lenders, and enterprises in a SaaS world. Collaborate With the Rest of Your Organization.

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SaaS Payments Churn Payment Solutions Payment Methods 77

Baremetrics

JULY 30, 2021

Within their platform, users can manage various aspects of their online customers such as subscription, recurring billing, invoicing, payments, accounting, taxes, and more. Baremetrics on the other hand monitors subscription revenue for businesses that bring in revenue through subscription-based services.

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Casey Accidental

JULY 6, 2020

These plans included a lot of the goals you likely have in your company: improvements in acquisition, activation, and retention. But long term, how high could we push this retention number? What would great retention be for Eventbrite?”. Why is retention so damn important? Retention really is growth’s triple word score.

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OpenView Labs

JULY 2, 2020

Pricing is a SaaS company’s most efficient profit lever, but it’s also one of the easiest things to screw up. Nailing your SaaS pricing strategy requires more than just picking the optimal price and forgetting about it. It includes the latest and greatest SaaS pricing resources, as well as some timeless staples.

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SaaStr

MARCH 13, 2020

Prior to Pipe, Harry co-founded Skurt raising over $11M in the process before being acquired by Fair.com. In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Harry made his way from the UK to founding one of Silicon Valley’s hottest SaaS startups with the founding of Pipe. * Harry has also angel invested in the likes of BreathePod and Try.com.

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Baremetrics

JANUARY 24, 2021

Anyone managing a SaaS or subscription business is aware of customer churn. The benchmark customer churn for SaaS for SMBs is 5%. 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!).

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ProfitWell

JUNE 15, 2020

This report is a quick but mighty read, jam-packed with data and trends to help you optimize your DTC marketing strategies. Here are the main takeaways: Customers expect highly-personalized experiences and contextualized customer journeys. I found a resource that may help: The Quick Guide to Inventory Management for Ecommerce.

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Payment Methods Merchant Services Payments Customer Lifetime Value 76

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

JULY 24, 2018

I’ve been working within the software as a service (SaaS) industry for more than five years now. During this period I’ve learnt more than I ever thought possible about the SaaS business and my personal growth has accelerated with each passing year. Rules to Run Your SaaS Business By Let’s get down to it.

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User Pilot

JUNE 14, 2021

Build your marketing automation strategy in five steps: map the user journey stages , identify repeating tasks that can be automated, set your marketing automation strategy goals, pick the right tool for the job, and measure success to learn and improve. What is marketing automation? Marketing automation strategy examples.

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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. In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Krish made his way into the world of SaaS and came to found one of India’s fastest growing SaaS companies in Chargebee?

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 27, 2020

This builds on the first essay in the series of how there has been an increase in interest of SAAS-like models interested in becoming marketplaces over time. In that essay , we also talked about how a more common route for a SaaS business is to become a platform. Integration platforms are ubiquitous in SaaS.

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Payments Business Model Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 56

User Pilot

AUGUST 14, 2023

For most SaaS businesses, a product satisfaction survey can be the heart of a user research process. Let’s start by defining what a product satisfaction survey is. TL;DR A product satisfaction survey is a type of survey that measures your customer’s overall satisfaction with a product or service.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 26, 2019

I’ve worked at multiple high growth SaaS businesses as a growth leader, and the data we’re seeing right now … This is from … is that CAC is increasing both in B2B and B2C, and you’re going to see how that relates, right? Pauline : Yeah, so I work at OpenClassrooms, which is a European leader in online education.

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OPEXEngine

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Churn is the enemy of subscription-based businesses; it measures the rate at which your hard-won customers cancel their subscription to your service. Get on the phone, send out cancellation surveys via email, and just spend time getting to know what your customers really need from you—then give it to them before it’s too late.

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ChurnZero

MAY 20, 2021

Even for more tenured Customer Success organizations, it’s an ongoing challenge to maintain consistency and perspective in your strategies and processes – keeping the customer at the center of your bustling and expanding operations. Traits: Product-market fit. $6M You get an impulse to define your internal processes.

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OpenView Labs

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

In our mission to increase the GDP of the internet, we work with both small startups and public companies, helping them remove the complexity of processing the payments that are the heartbeat of every business. We’ve found that the product experience is a crucial component of the sales process.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Why does Travis believe that SaaS has upended the economic model but not the engagement model? Why does Travis believe net retention must always be the guiding North Star? Travis Bryant: So I was in services at a software company and then had this pivot point to go either into product management or into sales and sales engineering.

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User Pilot

MAY 14, 2021

Growing numbers of SaaS companies are adding an onboarding survey to their customer sign-up flows. Those that do often gain insights into the needs of their customers, which ultimately translate into an improved product experience for users, higher activation and greater retention. What is an onboarding survey? Survey Templates.

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Hull

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

moment of your product through Facebook. Different post-payment feature adoption strategies you can use on Facebook. User adoption is the process of making your trial or new customers addicted to your product. It essentially teaches them how to solve problems and make your product an essential part of their lives.

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Payment Methods Payment Solutions Sales Recruiting SaaS Payments 52

ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Your core is a lot like pricing in SaaS companies. A pricing audit assesses your subscription business’ pricing process to ensure consistency across similar accounts, maximize profitability, and benchmark against other companies. Retention. It needs dedicated focus and priority. It’s the center of your business. Acquisition.

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SmartKarrot

AUGUST 10, 2021

A world where eCommerce is ruling and online shopping/transactions are the norms? Where market competition is fierce, the buyer has a lot of choices and significantly less patience? The key to building successful service/products is data. That’s why behavior analytics forms the core function for SaaS.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

If you look back on February 5th, 2019, which was the SaaStr Annual, hopefully many of you were there in person, we gave the state of the cloud presentation and talked about the power of the industry, and the power that’s been building in terms of market capitalization of just the public cloud companies and what they show.

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wepay

MARCH 23, 2018

SaaS businesses tend to believe in and use aggressive growth marketing approaches – at least once they are past the phase of building product and figuring out product-market fit. But growth marketing and marketing for growth aren’t quite the same thing, and every SaaS business is unique.

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