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Toast: We Crossed The Line on Price Increases

SaaStr

So price increases have been the name of the game in SaaS for the past 12 months, in many (not all) cases to help make up for slowing growth: Zendesk up 16% Salesforce up 9% Google Workspace up 20% HubSpot up 12% Webflow up 16% Shopify up 33% Slack up 10% And some of them like Slack and Salesforce hadn’t raised list prices in quite some time.

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Dear SaaStr: How Do You Price a SaaS Product in a New B2B Market?

SaaStr

Dear SaaStr: How Do You Price a SaaS Product in a New B2B Market? The simplest answer is usually to copy the pricing from the closest public company or other break-out leader you can find that is vaguely similar. I guessed the pricing almost immediately. That everyone knows, and knows the price points of. I’ve lived it.

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Dear SaaStr: How does a SaaS Startup Find Its Initial Price Point?

SaaStr

Dear SaaStr: How does a SaaS company find its initial price point? If you are more valuable than the comp, and are confident selling that value — pricing higher than your comp can work well. If you started off low-end, but have moved up-market … don’t be scared to totally redo your pricing each year. It’s pretty simple.

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What is Optional Product Pricing?

User Pilot

Optional product pricing can help SaaS companies earn more money while charging less for their otherwise premium product. TL;DR Optional product pricing is a strategy where you sell your core product at a low cost and then encourage consumers to buy more accessories, features, or complementary products.

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The Definitive Guide to Embedded Analytics

Inside you will learn: How embedded analytics has become essential to business applications When to buy an embedded analytics solution and when to build one How to go-to-market, from pricing and packaging to external promotion How to build a business case and sell the project internally The future of embedded analytics …plus so much more.

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The Dawn of AI : Pricing Power & Profits in NVidia's Business

Tom Tunguz

The company’s pricing power at work : limited supply & increased demand pushes prices higher. Over the last year, the company’s operating costs haven’t increased more than 15% yet, net income (profit) has quadrupled.

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SaaS Pricing Strategies that Work: How to Design an Optimal Pricing Model with FastSpring VP Product Kurt Smith (Video)

SaaStr

SaaS pricing can be overwhelming when there are unlimited paths and opportunities that exist. Even though most companies acknowledge its importance, SaaS founders often choose a simplistic approach to pricing—that is, if they don’t choose to ignore it altogether. Making pricing work for your business.

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Outrun Your Competition: Best Practices for Accelerating Sales Processes

Dig into our data-backed guide to learn: Proven methods for warming up cold calls Coaching points for responding to price pressure early and often Front-line examples of how to win the battle for customer retention

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Best Practices for a Marketing Database Cleanse

This buyers guide will cover: Review of important terminology, metrics, and pricing models related to database management projects. Download ZoomInfo’s latest data-driven eBook aimed to help marketing leaders understand the best practices around choosing a B2B contact data provider.

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Leveraging Consumption to Drive Growth: The SaaS Expert's Guide to Usage-Based Pricing

Speaker: Igor Stenmark, Andrew Dailey, &Youssef Yaghmour

Unleashing Usage-Based Pricing to Drive Growth, Customer Satisfaction and Retention: The Why’s, How’s and Roadmap Practical Steps to Making Consumption Pricing Models Simple As companies strive to boost revenue, deliver customer value, and stay competitive, they are increasingly embracing the potential of usage-based pricing.

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9 Steps to Hosting Your Most Successful Virtual Event

The step-by-step Virtual Event Handbook from Thryv gives you all the tools you need for planning, setting goals, marketing, pricing and – don’t forget this one – event etiquette. Plus, the handy checklist will help you pull it all off without a hitch.

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Sales Effectiveness: The B2B Sales Leader's Guide

You’ll get a deep dive on: Proven methods for warming up cold calls Coaching points for responding to price pressure early and often Front-line examples of how to win the battle for customer retention This guide is designed to help today’s B2B sales leaders ramp up their effectiveness in any economic environment.

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Why the Product Message Should Come From Product Management

Speaker: Jordan Bergtraum, Head of Product at Equip ID & Consultant

Compelling product messages have a profound impact on attracting new customers and commanding value-based pricing. Perceived “value” of your offering(s) is directly related to how you talk about your product and company.