SaaStr

APRIL 19, 2023

So one large category of software spend is on Point of Sale systems. But “POS” systems and software are everywhere, and are a lot more than just Toast and Square. And their mix of software, payments and hardware revenue drives up the total deal size — but puts a lot of pressure on margins.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

How is SMB SaaS doing today? Billion ARR, growing a stunning 48% (!) – 111% NRR, although down from 131% in 2021 – 15 Month CAC – Gotten very efficient, +$194m net profit – Transactions growing faster than software, like Shopify – From $120m ARR in… pic.twitter.com/hYImIBKyNQ — Jason ✨Be Kind✨ Lemkin  ??

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Chaotic Flow

OCTOBER 8, 2013

SaaS product management professionals should always remember that there are four P’s in marketing , one being product. Unfortunately, software companies have a bad habit of thinking about product in isolation from the rest of the marketing mix. The Boundless SaaS Product. What are the boundaries of your SaaS product?

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Toast is the latest SaaS leader to get much more efficient in the past 12-18 months, along with monday.com, HubSpot, MongoDB, and many others. Jonathan joined Toast as the SVP of Sales in 2017. A Glance at Toast’s Hypergrowth Journey When Jonathan joined Toast as the SVP of Sales, the company was Series B with $20M in ARR.

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FastSpring

JANUARY 27, 2022

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.

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FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

The payments landscape and how it affects businesses trying to grow in Asia. If you’re not sure how to kickstart growth for your digital products or software business in Asia, listen or watch now! Podcast Full Interview: Audio Listen online or find it on more podcast services. Jump to video. | Jump to transcript.

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Stax

JANUARY 28, 2025

Completing online payments via manual card entry can be time-consuming and off-putting for customers. This article will cover everything you need to know about Click to Pay, including its history, how it works, and how you can implement the payment method in your business. Learn More What is Click to Pay?

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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. Stripe today has more than 1,400 employees and processes billions of dollars for millions of users worldwide. Manual processes first. Dare I say SaaS.

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FastSpring

JANUARY 10, 2023

There are tons of monthly recurring billing software solutions available, so it can seem difficult to determine which one is right for your business. Checkout (including payment processing and gathering sales tax, GST, and VAT). Handling failed payments and customer notifications. Table of Contents.

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

But thankfully, that’s not what your payroll process has to look like. The best payroll services help you automate paying your employees and simplify the entire process, so you can gain more control over how you spend your time. The 6 best payroll service options for 2020. How to choose the best payroll service for you.

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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

So the first question is what made SaaS so successful. If you kind of that question, thinking about the stakeholders and the decisions and companies of using SaaS products, there’s kind of three types. Customers love SaaS products and tools because it simply works. Why do developers love SaaS products? Why is that?

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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. Salesforce?

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FastSpring

JUNE 22, 2022

We don’t have to look far to find examples of B2B SaaS companies that have found traction using a self-service or product-led motion. We talked about one of the biggest trends playing out in the software industry: the convergence of B2B and B2C. What does that mean exactly? How B2B and B2C Are Converging.

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Neil Patel

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Webcasting has quickly become a popular large-scale communication tool in the digital era. Webcasting can be leveraged for a broad scope of use cases, like lead generation, customer support, internal company communications, and so much more. But having a successful webcast is reliant on finding the right webcasting service.

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Payrix

MAY 14, 2024

When it comes to software, success doesn’t hinge on innovation alone. No one knows this better (or more intimately) than a software company Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). Adam Tesan, CRO at Worldpay for Platforms, is a seasoned executive leader with decades of experience in sales, marketing, and revenue in the software space.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 7, 2023

In this episode of Growth Stage, Carl will dives into his experience running acquisitions of SMB software businesses, including: His thoughts on what makes a software company a good target for an acquisition by a brand. This leaves the sale of the business a lot more vulnerable to the market. My name is David Vogelpohl.

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FastSpring

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The fourth quarter is the most important quarter for software companies around the world. . We confirmed this by reviewing sales data from over 300 SaaS and software companies that use our billing platform. We discovered that Q4 is by far the best-performing quarter of the year for both business and consumer sales.

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How To Buy Saas

MARCH 18, 2025

However, advanced SaaS solutions have opened up new possibilities across distinct categories. In this blog, youll discover the significant benefits of SaaS tools and platforms for game developers, the latest SaaS tools, and different challenges and opportunities. In fact, you can rent SaaS tools and get started any day.

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

Nothing scares away new business like hard-to-reach customer service or disorganized sales calls. Adopt the best call center software and you will outfit your teams with the tools they need to communicate effectively. Modern call center software is all you need to get up and running. Lots of people do. One dropped call.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 7, 2022

However, there are certain aspects of collecting recurring payments that you would still be responsible for when using Chargebee, such as: Connecting to payment gateways manually. While Chargebee supports several different payment gateways, you have to set up and configure each one. Responding to and processing chargebacks.

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FastSpring

MARCH 3, 2023

Send invoices and/or payment notifications. In this guide, we compare five solutions by looking at the billing and subscription management features they provide and the additional features they offer — starting with a deep dive into our solution for SaaS companies, FastSpring. We take the lead on audits.

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FastSpring

AUGUST 12, 2024

Self-Service : AI assistance empowers users to find answers independently, reducing the need for support tickets. Continuous Improvement : Feedback loops enable Owlbot to learn and improve over time. This is why it’s so important to provide the thumbs-up/thumbs-down feedback so we can review and make adjustments.

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 20, 2020

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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yoursales

JANUARY 28, 2022

Sales Stack 2022 Sales Tools for Professional B2B Sales SALES STACK 2022: Sales Tools for. Professional Sales SALES STACK. 2021: Sales Tools. Sales W hich challenges would you like sales technology to solve for your sales team? What is sales technology here to do?

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FastSpring

AUGUST 2, 2023

When TestDome was created, CEO and co-founder Mario Zivic knew the pre-employment testing software company wouldn’t be able to rely on domestic sales to succeed. “As Selling Software Internationally With FastSpring Croatia is a relatively small country with a population of only 4 million people. “We Here’s why. Paddle offers it.

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Stax

APRIL 17, 2025

These days, software is no longer just a toolits the backbone of how modern businesses operate. At the heart of this transformation is a growing ecosystem of Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) building applications that plug into broader platforms and solve specialized problems. What is an ISV (Independent Software Vendor)?

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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. Vicki, if you’d give us your intro. Vicki Lin : Great. Thank you Ceci.

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yoursales

JANUARY 29, 2021

Sales Stack 2021. Sales Tools for Professional Sales. SALES STACK 2020: THE TOOLS SALES STACK 2020: THE TOOLS. Sales technology for professional sales will be more important than ever. In 2020 almost every single Sales Professional was forced inside. Same goes for Sales Professionals.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

With the rise of AI, new sales technology and automation at the forefront of the sales echo chamber these days, we thought we’d take a moment to bring it back to BASICS – that’s why we’ve rounded up this complete glossary of sales terms and definitions to help you remember where it all started.

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FastSpring

JUNE 11, 2024

Affiliate marketing can be a great growth lever to scale your digital product business, but how can you drive meaningful growth with the right affiliates without losing out to fraud or shady attribution schemes? Are you looking for a merchant of record that will help you grow your subscription software business?

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

Another collection of their customers actually turned their kitchens into service offerings. They’re facilitating virtual schooling, they’re helping governments organize. Even at spectacular scale, they’re still growing at 30%. They had to reinvent themselves. It reinforces the growth of the industry.

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yoursales

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Sales Stack 2020. Sales Tools for Professional Sales. SALES STACK 2020: THE TOOLS SALES STACK 2020: THE TOOLS. W elcome to "Sales Stack 2020 - Sales Tools for Professional Sales". Next to that we'll continue to have the full list of sales tools available right here.

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User Pilot

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Funnel tracking software can solve this problem. Unlike sales funnel software, funnel-tracking tools track numerous funnels such as goal completion, conversion , and review funnels. Unlike sales funnel software, funnel-tracking tools track numerous funnels such as goal completion, conversion , and review funnels.

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yoursales

DECEMBER 23, 2019

SALES STACK 2020. Sales Tools for Professional Sales. SALES STACK 2019: THE TOOLS SALES STACK 2019: THE TOOLS. W elcome to "Sales Stack 2020 - Sales Tools for Professional Sales". Next to that we'll continue to have the full list of sales tools available right here.

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yoursales

DECEMBER 12, 2018

SALES STACK 2019 SALES TOOLS FOR. PROFESSIONAL SALES SALES STACK 2019: THE TOOLS SALES STACK 2019: THE TOOLS I t’s 2019 and we’re back at the sales tools workshop, working out the best sales tools for your sales process. Which sales tools best support your sales process?

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User Pilot

AUGUST 6, 2024

What is a SaaS marketing funnel, and how do you create one for your business? We covered actionable steps to build an effective system that converts users, drives product engagement , and leads to long-term growth. SaaS sales funnel metrics focus on short-term results, while marketing efforts play a longer-term game.

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yoursales

DECEMBER 12, 2018

SALES STACK 2019 SALES TOOLS FOR. PROFESSIONAL SALES SALES STACK 2019: THE TOOLS SALES STACK 2019: THE TOOLS I t’s 2019 and we’re back at the sales tools workshop, working out the best sales tools for your sales process. Which sales tools best support your sales process?

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