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How to Find the Best SaaS Billing Platform: A Complete Guide

Stax

Software-as-a-service (SaaS) businesses need to constantly evolve their offerings to stay fresh and relevant. But if you’re a B2B solution, there’s a high likelihood that businesses will be interested in being able to accept customer payments, rather than just sending them a PayPal link or to a generic payment gateway.

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Sequencing Business Models: The Types of Marketplaces

Casey Accidental

Casey’s first sequencing business models essay talked about the transition from a SaaS business model to marketplace business model, and why it’s so difficult. In Casey’s last essay, he covered the differences between regular SaaS companies and SaaS-like Networks. This essay is a collaboration with Gilad Horev.

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Sequencing Business Models: The Types of Marketplaces

Casey Accidental

Casey’s first sequencing business models essay talked about the transition from a SaaS business model to marketplace business model, and why it’s so difficult. In Casey’s last essay, he covered the differences between regular SaaS companies and SaaS-like Networks. This essay is a collaboration with Gilad Horev.

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5 Pendo Competitors That Will Improve Your User Onboarding

User Pilot

First, however, let’s take a look at Pendo’s strengths and weaknesses… Pen-do or Pen-don’t? The company has grown rapidly, and continues to increase in popularity among SaaS companies. Some very successful SaaS companies, such as Marketo and Insightly, use Pendo to improve their product. Userpilot (Sorry, not sorry!).

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Sales Accepted Leads: Your Ticket to Closing Deals Faster and Easier

Sales Hacker

And the vast majority of people think they’re bad for business and branding. If someone’s already bored on your website and wants to leave it, why is it bad to give it another shot and try to catch their attention before they leave? There are two communities I especially like, SaaS Products & Marketing and LinkedIn Growth Hackers.

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What Does a Successful Security Program Look Like?

BetterCloud

You will better understand success by being able to identify failure: Figure 1 – The lone IT professional, after being told that the budget is too small for more security people on their team. If security is on your mind only, you will fail no matter how great you are or your team is. Figure 4 – Not a real Paypal email.

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SaaS Billing Best Practices: 10+ Subscription Strategies for SaaS and Software Companies

FastSpring

Small tweaks to your SaaS billing practices can make a huge impact on the customer experience. For example, Jon Torres — a digital marketing consultant specializing in SaaS commerce — noticed that, for some of his clients, refund requests spiked around renewal time. “It 7 growth hacks from the SaaS experts. Learn more here.