ProfitWell

MARCH 12, 2020

The subscription-based economy boom has brought with it more competition than ever before, raising the bar for companies trying to offer recurring products or services to their customers. However, behind the boom lies the rising consumer demand for subscriptions. 10 of the best subscription business tools for SaaS products.

SaaS Payments 59

SaaS Payments Subscription Payment Features Payments 59

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. TL;DR SaaS, or “Software as a Service,” is a business model that delivers centrally hosted software to subscribers over the internet. What is a SaaS business model?

Sales Hiring 94

Sales Hiring SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting CTO Hire 94

SaaSOptics

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

Getting SaaS Accounting and Financial Operations Right in 2022. According to Gartner, the SaaS industry is projected to grow to a staggering $121B in 2021, a 15% increase from 2020. So, what is SaaS accounting, and how will it affect your business? It must be recognized over the duration of the subscription. The result?

Payment Features 105

Payment Features Outsourced Development SaaS Software Review 105

SaaStr

APRIL 14, 2023

Mistake #1: Viewing Investors Only As Capital As founders build a team, they focus on obtaining complementary skill sets. Of course, building great teams and finding product market fit is critical, but don’t forget about product investor fit. As global investors, GGV Capital looks at SaaS companies in the U.S., Absolutely.

Development Team Review 224

Development Team Review Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team SMB 224

Incredo

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Asking “what’s the typical commission for SaaS salesperson?” is like asking “how expensive should I price my SaaS product?” what factors to consider before defining your SaaS sales commission percentage. We will share 8 ideas on how to increase your sales team’s productivity and help them close more deals. See below!

SaaS Payments 150

SaaS Payments Compensation Payment Services Sales Recruiting 150

Baremetrics

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Before reading through yet another “Top-29 SaaS billing platforms” feature comparison post, decide how you want the billing tool to play with the rest of your operations stack. This post is part of an ongoing series for SaaS founders and CEOs on setting up their financial stack in a scalable manner.

Payment Solutions 52

Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payments Software Review 52

FastSpring

APRIL 26, 2022

Last week, I canceled an annual SaaS subscription (I had three weeks left until renewal). Interestingly, even though I paid for a year-long subscription, the company didn’t let me keep the last three weeks of access to its premium features. This action will immediately downgrade your subscription. Table of Contents.

Benchmarks 123

Benchmarks Churn Payments SaaS Payments 123

Incredo

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Asking “what’s the typical commission for SaaS salesperson?” is like asking “how expensive should I price my SaaS product?” what factors to consider before defining your SaaS sales commission percentage 4. and finally figure out how much that SaaS sales salary should be. In the end, a bonus section is waiting for you!

SaaS Payments 144

SaaS Payments Compensation Payment Services Sales Recruiting 144

User Pilot

APRIL 7, 2023

What are the different types of B2B customer insights for SaaS businesses? When your product is catering to other businesses, it can be difficult for sales reps and other teams to understand the needs and experiences of the clients, especially if the client company sells multiple products. Their challenges and pain points.

B2B 87

B2B Underperforming Technical Team B2C Scale 87

User Pilot

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Customer intent helps product teams understand customer needs and build solutions that delight users. Upgrade intent : This intent is felt by existing customers who express an interest in enhancing their current subscription or feature usage. You’ll also learn: What customer intent means, along with the three major types.

Scale 94

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Churn Trends 94

Audacix

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Application penetration testing is done by consistently recreating or simulating real-world cyberattacks on your web applications and APIs in an attempt to exploit potential SaaS security vulnerabilities. Organizations should not neglect penetration testing in the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).

Underperforming Technical Team 52

Underperforming Technical Team Software Development compliance Development 52

SaaStr

JANUARY 24, 2024

Mark Roberge , SaaStr fan-favorite and Co-Founder and Managing Director of Stage 2 Capital brought together some of the top CROs in SaaS during the SaaStr Annual to share some of their greatest learnings and pivotal moments leading some of the Cloud 100 SaaS companies. The bad news is it wasn’t driving the results they wanted.

Scale 231

Scale Sales Hiring Scaling Revenue 231

SaaSOptics

MAY 19, 2022

Not only is it one of the main drivers of revenue growth for early-stage companies, but it’s a primary goal for SaaS businesses across market stages. For subscription-based SaaS businesses, your customer acquisition metrics indicate how effectively you acquire new users via sales, marketing, or a product-led approach like a free trial.

Acquisition 59

Acquisition Scale Strategy Software Review 59

User Pilot

JANUARY 31, 2023

In SaaS, you can grow your revenue only if your churn rate is low, so retaining at-risk customers is crucial. TL;DR At-risk customers are those who are showing signs of canceling their subscriptions. TL;DR At-risk customers are those who are showing signs of canceling their subscriptions. Let’s dive in! Tag feature usage.

Churn 95

Churn Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 95

OPEXEngine

JUNE 8, 2021

In the movie Glengarry Glen Ross, Blake, a successful salesperson, visits the real estate sales team and gives them a blistering motivational speech that has gone down in history as one of the best of all time. But in the world of enterprise SaaS, it’s not accurate. Enterprise SaaS, by definition, is also complex.

Enterprise 52

Enterprise Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Sales 52

Chargify

MARCH 25, 2019

Recurring subscriptions are becoming the norm in the business world, and for good reason. Subscription services give the end user control over costs and employee access, without the cumbersome contracts. But some software-as-a-service (SaaS) companies struggle with how to sell subscriptions.

SaaS Payments 54

SaaS Payments Payment Methods Subscription Payment Features 54

Audacix

AUGUST 17, 2022

As someone in charge of SaaS business you're probably being constantly reminded of the need to focus on continuous application security, but making this happen is not an easy task. You see, gaining customers' trust is crucial to a SaaS business's success because it directly affects revenue.

DevOps as a Service 52

DevOps as a Service Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Cybersecurity 52

OPEXEngine

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The shift to cloud-based subscription models is creating even more value in a thriving sector. In more mature software companies, we see oversized returns for companies that are moving to software-as-a-service subscription models (see Figure 1). Sticky after all. Four ways to drive value. Transform Ops to DevOps.

Software Review 52

Software Review DevOps as a Service Software Underperforming Technical Team 52

Clouded Judgement

JANUARY 6, 2023

We know software is impacted from macro - but how bad will it get? ” Top 10 EV / NTM Revenue Multiples Top 10 Weekly Share Price Movement Update on Multiples SaaS businesses are generally valued on a multiple of their revenue - in most cases the projected revenue for the next 12 months. Call this a “known unknown.”

Cloud 130

Cloud Azure AWS Underperforming Technical Team 130

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.

Marketplace as a Service 141

Marketplace as a Service Business Model SaaS Payments Payments 141

Chart Mogul

MAY 30, 2019

Ingmar, our VP of Customer Success, and our support team cracked the code on first response time and measuring NPS. As we grow, we’re able to spend more time developing the proactive tiers of the pyramid without de-prioritizing a strong foundation of fast, helpful ticket replies and features that delight.

Underperforming Technical Team 78

Underperforming Technical Team Development Strategy Management 78

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

sales team. I would argue it was one of the first SaaS companies of its time, but back then we called it an ASP, an application service provider. We created and served up apps via the cloud on a subscription basis. I did all sorts of things there from sales, to project management, to running the engineering team, hiring.

Scale 220

Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Sales 220

User Pilot

MARCH 15, 2022

Why a go-to-market strategy plays an integral of your SaaS product success? We will cover what they are, why you need them, and how to create one for your SaaS business using real examples. We will cover what they are, why you need them, and how to create one for your SaaS business using real examples. Let’s get started!

Strategy 82

Strategy Marketing SaaS Customer Lifetime Value 82

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 22, 2020

This is especially true in the Software as a Service (SaaS) industry, in which the subscription-based sales model means prospects are typically committing to a product for months or years at a time. It’s also one of the hardest to teach and develop. Ask the candidate… What are your professional weaknesses?

Sales Hiring 76

Sales Hiring Interviewing Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting 76

Sales Hacker

MAY 10, 2021

As a SaaS business owner, you know that the competition is intense. To create an effective and efficient sales funnel, your sales and customer support teams need to be well trained and in sync with each other. This guide will look at how you can include the support team in the sales process. Reduce churn.

Customer Support 62

Customer Support Underperforming Technical Team Sales SaaS 62

Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Determining the timing for the release of a SaaS is one of the main conundrums faced by old and new founders alike. The premature release of a product that has major overlooked software flaws can turn off potential customers immediately, with no chance to remedy the bad first impression. Sign up today for a free trial.

Scale 98

Scale Marketing SaaS Underperforming Technical Team 98

Frontegg

MARCH 17, 2022

Product-Led Growth (PLG) is becoming the default strategy in modern SaaS organizations due to the plethora of operational, financial, and technical benefits it brings to the table. If you are working in a SaaS setting, chances are you have used applications like Slack, Zendesk, Zoom, Calendly, Dropbox, Figma, and Evernote extensively.

Scale 105

Scale Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Sales 105

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

MARCH 23, 2020

Companies which don’t use mental models risk unleashing mayhem with poor choices or becoming bloated and bureaucratic by reducing the volume and speed at which decisions are made - both scenarios are undesirable and will impact growth. OKRs are a useful mental model - they make it crystal clear what people and teams should be striving for.

Underperforming Technical Team 213

Underperforming Technical Team Scale Sales Hiring Marketplace as a Service 213

Casey Accidental

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Founders have started reaching out asking for help converting their SAAS or SAAS-like business into a marketplace. Many of the terms we use to define businesses today are features of the business rather than an encompassing definition, like the words SAAS or platform, which makes them not very useful. 1 Saturated Growth in SAAS.

Marketplace as a Service 106

Marketplace as a Service Business Model Business Underperforming Technical Team 106

Totango

JANUARY 26, 2021

For example, if you sell a subscription SaaS product, a simple procedure for calculating your monthly churn rate would be: Take how many subscribers canceled their subscriptions that month. The retention rate is calculated in a similar way, except you start with how many subscribers renewed their subscription that month.

Churn 89

Churn Retention Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 89

CustomerSuccessBox

MAY 25, 2022

Customer retention is an essential component of any successful B2B SaaS firm. Be aware of what and how to avoid these 7 SaaS customer onboarding mistakes to optimize your customers’ journeys. 7 SaaS Customer Onboarding mistakes to avoid. A poor transition upsets CS professionals. Do not overwhelm them with facts.

Onboarding 52

Onboarding Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Social Media 52

ProfitWell

MARCH 27, 2019

On this episode of the ProfitWell Report, Sarah Bedrick , Co-Founder and Head of Marketing at Compt , is curious to know if we have any data on how open offices impact subscription growth. We studied just over one thousand subscription and SaaS companies who had teams that were co-located in the same location.

Subscription 62

Subscription Payment Features Underperforming Technical Team Churn 62

Frontegg

DECEMBER 2, 2021

In addition, we are excited to welcome our new partners – the visionary team from Insight Partners, led by Praveen Akkiraju, Daniel Aronovitz, and Jeff Horring. Additionally, our diversity-first team has grown to more than 30 top-notch talents (you are an incredible team of people, each and every one of you!)and

Underperforming Technical Team 93

Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring DevOps as a Service Scale 93

User Pilot

OCTOBER 6, 2022

These interactions include engaging with the onboarding checklist, clicking, hovering over a particular feature, canceling a subscription, and more. Product teams collect and measure such customers’ activities to understand and act on customers’ behavior patterns. For instance, subscriptions to Ahrefs or Netflix.

Payment Solutions 89

Payment Solutions Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Payments Customer Lifetime Value 89

Frontegg

AUGUST 19, 2021

Instant gratification is now a mandatory aspect of SaaS application usage. Users don’t want to write emails or engage with support teams anymore. Onboarding, user management, subscriptions – let’s take a closer look at the potent self-service and PLG combo. Related: Top 10 PLG Tools for Your SaaS Application.

SaaS Payments 98

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions Underperforming Technical Team 98

User Pilot

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Startups use these surveys in the early stages of product development to measure the degree to which a product satisfies market demand. But if you find out that less than 40% of existing customers see any benefits in your product, your SaaS will struggle to grow. This is a great question to ask new SaaS users.

Retention 95

Retention Scale Underperforming Technical Team Churn 95

TriTuns

JANUARY 21, 2020

*This is an updated version of the article , “The Big Bold Future Of SaaS Growth Is Customer Success” that I originally published on Software Executive Magazine in May 2019. Do you want to boldly grow your SaaS company in 2020 – and beyond? THE BROKEN SAAS BUSINESS MODEL. This is very bad news for SaaS vendors.

SaaS 71

SaaS Underperforming Technical Team Customer Success Business Model 71