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. Across markets, companies were “taking big data sets and visualizing them in interesting ways to create user experiences.” They have dimension, they have shape, they have personality.

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User Pilot

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

From marketing funnel analysis to review funnel analysis, this article shows you the most important funnels for SaaS. TL;DR Funnel analysis helps map out all the steps website visitors and in-app users take to achieve conversion goals , like signing up for your tool or completing the onboarding process. Onboarding process funnel.

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FastSpring

APRIL 30, 2021

When price localization isn’t a part of your growth strategy, it limits long-term growth and prevents your business from reaching customers that want your products and services. Price localization is essentially the practice of tailoring your company’s pricing strategy to local markets. This is how you get closer to product-market fit.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

As Head of Sales for Spendesk, Nico was initially inspired by the vision of founder Rodolphe Ardant who had spotted a gap for ‘spend management’ in the B2B market based on personal banking trends. So they created a software that provides control, visibility, and payment methods for corporate finance teams.

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SaaStr

MARCH 19, 2019

Niall Wall, Box SVP of Business and Corporate Development alongside Vicki Lin, Stripe’s Head of Ecosystem and Cecilia Stallsmith, Slack’s Director of Platform Marketing discuss scaling your revenue via indirect channels and platform ecosystems. I run platform marketing at Slack. Vicki Lin : Great. Thank you Ceci.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 18, 2022

This piece looks at how to harness the power of sales automation for customer retention with 5 ready-made, templated processes , and 5 best practices to consider on your automation journey. EXAMPLE: A customer moves into the ‘Won’ stage of our sales pipeline. Personalize campaigns further than mail merge. Use Outreach?

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 26, 2019

Guillaume : Now that we have the MarTech outlook and the marketing shifts, a couple of things. So if we can pop up the Slido slide and I want to invite you all to take your phone and go on slido.com for this session so that you can start asking the panel questions. Alice : Definitely pre-product market fit.

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Chart Mogul

JUNE 24, 2021

Even the simplest pricing localization method requires new workflows and considerations, so it’s understandable if you’re apprehensive about jumping in feet first. When you use this strategy, customers avoid any sticker shock at checkout or after payment since they see the price they’ll pay upfront. 2 types of pricing localization.

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OPEXEngine

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

An additional non-financial constraint is a fact that these customers typically lack experience in software procurement and implementation, and this adds friction to the sales cycle. Customer success is usually staffed by a mix of customer support, sales, and engineering folks contributing some portion of their time to the Cost of Revenue.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

Does it have to be in person? How should this data feedback into your product roadmap and pipeline? * 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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User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

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. UX Designer: Responsible for understanding the unique needs and requirements of SaaS users and designing the user interface and experience of SaaS products.

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SaaStr

APRIL 23, 2019

” The whole point of building a corporation, is not having personal liability attached to it. So, there’s all these people who are just using debit cards, and just walking around with debit cards with 120 000 in the bank, or just using their personal card for all these things. We know a lot about payments.

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User Pilot

AUGUST 14, 2023

TL;DR A product satisfaction survey is a type of survey that measures your customer’s overall satisfaction with a product or service. There are five types of product satisfaction surveys: NPS surveys. Which asks users to rate their likelihood of recommending your product to a friend on a scale of 0-10. CES surveys.

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Totango

MAY 19, 2020

As their customers are presented with changing markets and deal with the uncertainty that comes with current events, SaaS companies must be prepared for a potential wave of churn. When the driver of uncertainty is a macro-scale force beyond our influence, it is not clear what the best method is for dealing with these circumstances.

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User Pilot

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Stakeholders across the organization, including marketing , sales, product managers , customer success teams, finance, and senior leaders , monitor the CAC payback metric to optimize strategies and inform decision-making. Userpilot onboarding, analytics , and feedback features can help you reduce CAC and boost revenue.

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ChurnZero

MAY 20, 2021

To figure out where you should begin on your growth and scaling journey, it’s helpful to first orient yourself with where you stand using a Customer Success maturity model. Traits: Product-market fit. $6M As a precursor to maturity phases below, let’s start with the Pre-Build Phase. Pre-Build Phase. Build Phase.

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FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

Like, you’re literally on the floor like crippled with crying just like two years of your hard work, or whatever, you know, you’re like, ah, and then you get a phone call at that exact moment. It really took a few pivots, and even name changes to get just the go to market efforts and product market fit right.

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Chart Mogul

JUNE 24, 2021

Even the simplest pricing localization method requires new workflows and considerations, so it’s understandable if you’re apprehensive about jumping in feet first. When you use this strategy, customers avoid any sticker shock at checkout or after payment since they see the price they’ll pay upfront. 2 types of pricing localization.

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Platforms can create an immense amount of long-term value for companies, or be a minor component of their product strategy to maintain product/market fit. It could be argued they are a requirement for long-term product/market fit in most industries SaaS companies compete in. The Types of Platforms.

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ProfitWell

DECEMBER 9, 2019

With a deep dive into your intended market—whether that’s tracking SaaS funding trends or conducting competitor research—you’ll understand your target customers on a deep level and know how to target them. Determine product-market fit. If there isn’t a viable market , you’re setting yourself up to fail.

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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. 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. This is products that sell themselves.

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ProfitWell

MARCH 3, 2020

Then, we hear from Kyle Poyar over at OpenView on bringing sales into a self-service business. What’s the next milestone disrupting the market? Call your fellow CEOs or Chief People Officers in your portfolio peer group, or peruse online and read documents. Sales in a product-led initiative: feat. Now Hire Sales.

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User Pilot

MAY 14, 2021

Filled in after a sales call, but before the first customer payment. This feedback can be used to make better product experiences for customers. But if a customer fills out a survey, there is a written record of that data which can be added to any previous notes your account executive took on the sales call.

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SaaStr

MAY 9, 2019

Most people know the YC Accelerator, but YC actually has a number of programs now, including Amook, the Accelerator, a Series A program to help companies raise Series A, and a growth program to help companies expand post product market fit. Sometimes we call ourselves experts in failure. Like any good list, I have a top ten list.

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FastSpring

JUNE 22, 2022

Are you still making assumptions about your B2B go-to-market motion — assumptions that ignore B2C selling methods — that are limiting your growth potential? Products Are Finding New Growth in the Opposite Segment. And that decision shapes their product and sales processes for the life of their company.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 16, 2019

However, that doesn’t necessarily mean a “pivot”, but more often the evolution is a shifting business model as the company scales and the user base grows and changes. It’s all too easy to make the mistake of adopting a pricing model that is ill-suited to other aspects of your company, such as the go-to-market strategy or sales strategy.

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The company started out life as /dev/payments helmed by two brothers from Ireland. Today, Stripe is synonymous with payments and tallies more than 15 products. Prior to joining Stripe, Claire led various product and operations teams at Google, most recently for their Self-Driving Cars project.

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

So, I co-founded another payments company called PropertyBridge, which allowed you to pay rent electronically. And I wanted to do another payments company, but I didn’t know what I wanted to do. You’re a payment nerd. I’m more of an infrastructure person. Why don’t you put them on a card?

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SaaStr

JUNE 14, 2019

What does Dave believe is crucial to achieve in these in person meetings? 242: It’s the employees’ market. But to our episode today and an individual that I’ve learned so much from in the past, both personally and through his writing, and so I could not be more thrilled to welcome back Dave Kellogg to the hot seat today.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

It requires thinking at a different scale. “The reason why businesses grow is they’re in a great market” It’s this approach to scaling their business that has enabled Paddle to achieve 2475% revenue growth over the last four years. . Product, marketing, and sales are table stakes for growth.

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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. This year, topics ranged broadly from incorporating AI to deliver world-class consumer experiences to defining and measuring different forms of community-powered growth.

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SmartKarrot

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

With a land and expand strategy, you can also build long-term relationships with customers by offering them personalized service tailored to their needs. You can show them that you are the right person for the job and build trust in your brand by doing excellent work on a small project. It is also known as the “seed and grow” strategy.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 4, 2019

The fastest growing software companies in recent years all have something in common – they started with little to no sales team. They relied on a great product, with a passionate userbase that helped kickstart an organic growth engine which sold the product for them. Yes, Slack started off with no sales team.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

How should sales and marketing work together on pricing? I was working on a startup that was an early mobile payment platform. It was basically using Bluetooth and an app on PalmPilots to do wireless payments in restaurants. It just made it a lot easier for us to scale up Salsify as we found success.

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User Pilot

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

What GTM metrics should you track as a product marketer? On your way to building a go-to-market strategy to launch a new product, you might wonder the former question a lot. GTM metrics are pieces of data or indicators that help product marketers like you keep track of the success of their strategy.

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User Pilot

MARCH 14, 2024

You want to trigger in-app experiences based on analytics – Heap doesn’t offer built-in tools to personalize the user experience based on product analytics and insights. A product adoption platform like Userpilot can help you bypass the process of finding the right engagement tools. Segmenting on Heap.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 27, 2019

How to Design a Sales Comp Plan to Get You to $100M with Work-Bench, Movable Ink, MongoDB and Concert Finance. Meghan Gill | VP of Sales Ops @ MongoDB. All right everyone, thank you so much for joining us today for our panel on how to design a sales comp plan to get you to 100 million dollars. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

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