SaaSOptics

APRIL 7, 2022

A free trial is often seen as the quickest way to get customers signed up and using a SaaS product/service, but it comes with several strings attached. SaaS companies commonly implement this in two different ways: Free Trial: Users only have access to the product/service for a limited time (e.g. What Does Freemium Mean in Business?

Business Model 74

Business Model Payment Features Business SaaS 74

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Sales development representative roles have grown 5.7X If you’re one of them, that’s both good news and bad: It means sales is growing, but you’re going to have a lot of competition getting started. Our question: “What is your best advice for anyone starting their sales career in 2020?” That’s a lot of new people entering sales!

Sales Hiring 56

Sales Hiring Development Team Review Technical Review Sales 56

Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 27, 2020

In part two of our Sequencing Business Models series , we talked about the different types of marketplaces and what needs to be built to be effective in each of them. This builds on the first essay in the series of how there has been an increase in interest of SAAS-like models interested in becoming marketplaces over time.

Payments 56

Payments Business Model Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 56

Chart Mogul

APRIL 24, 2020

With a pandemic underway, software-as-a-service businesses, in normal times the beneficiaries of relatively stable compounding growth, are now facing an existential threat: recurring revenue streams are drying up, at least in part. Was that the last wave of bad news?’ ‘I’m How bad will it get? Arrested attention.

Forecasting 52

Forecasting Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Marketplace as a Service 52

OPEXEngine

MARCH 9, 2021

In August 2020, Zenefits CEO Jay Fulcher posted on LinkedIn , saying, “Success takes work, study, time, grit, courage, experimentation, resilience, and a belief in yourself that may not always be steady but never goes completely away … there are no shortcuts.”. That’s exactly what got the former Zenefits leadership team into trouble.

Scale 52

Scale Sales Hiring Marketplace as a Service Underperforming Technical Team 52

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Renaud Visage, Co-Founder of Eventbrite, and Romain Huet, Head of Developer Relations at Stripe, know what it takes to effectively evolve your offering into a platform without losing what made offering appealing in the first place. Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020. Romain Huet | Head of Developer Relations @ Stripe.

Payments 121

Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payment Services 121

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Congratulations you’ve built a product that’s proven itself in the marketplace! Join us at SaaStr Europa 2020. At Twilio, I think my entire job there my first two years was throwing t-shirts at people, because everyone had a Twilio t-shirt I think in the developer community in 2010, and that was our marketing strategy.

Investment 100

Investment Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring Software Review 100

ProfitWell

MARCH 11, 2020

According to Walker , 2020 is the year where businesses need to shift their mindsets from "customer-focused" to "customer-committed." But as cost containment becomes a priority for businesses looking to thrive in the modern digitally-transformed marketplace, keeping existing customers happy and loyal is now a primary concern.

Retention 52

Retention Metrics SaaS Payments Underperforming Technical Team 52

Sales Hacker

MAY 22, 2020

If you’re ready to improve your percentage of closed deals in 2020, stick with me. The downside of this is that you’ll need to invest a lot of time and effort into engaging with those leads and making them want your product/service. And the vast majority of people think they’re bad for business and branding. How to close SALs.

Payment Methods 117

Payment Methods SaaS Payments Sales Payment Services 117

SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020. Our monthly self-service churn went from like 3% to like 9%, right? If something bad happens, you’re going to have to cut your burn, probably. There is one thing, I love this quote and it’s a little bit of a crude quote, not that it’s bad language-. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

Sales Hiring 210

Sales Hiring Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting 210

OpenView Labs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

A recent Gallup poll reported that June 2020 saw the most considerable drop in US employee engagement on record (more so than during the 2008 recession or after 9/11). Culture helps a company define itself, attract the right team members and customers, and differentiate in the marketplace. Get started with 3 ideas.

Scale 98

Scale Scaling Underperforming Technical Team Company Culture 98

SaaStr

AUGUST 6, 2019

Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020. I’ve been here as an attendee for a few years, but it looks a little bigger from this stage. ” So we wanted to create essentially … Well, you can probably describe it the easiest way as an anti-SAP of supply chains, something that was easy, simple, free to use, open, and easy to develop for.

Payment Solutions 151

Payment Solutions Payments Outsourcing Services SaaS Payments 151

How To Buy Saas

JANUARY 1, 2021

The new lifestyle that we experienced in 2020 has taught us a lot. Your course gets the advantage of getting promoted in these online course platform marketplaces. Online Course Marketplace. Online Course Marketplaces. Online learning is a new trend which we are have encountered by now. This’s close to 32.5

Payment Methods 98

Payment Methods Payments Payment Solutions Marketplace as a Service 98

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Maria and Anthony present the CEO and CMO playbook of how the CEO and CMO can partner with other members of the team to grow sales and marketing. Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020. Maria : Not too bad. You see this headline here and it doesn’t sound so bad, 43 months. It’s the entire executive team.

Scale 215

Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team 215

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 18, 2020

If you missed episode 122, check it out here: Tips for Building a Diverse Team of High-Quality Salespeople with Wesley Ulysse. Okay, it’s not that easy, but Sapper Consulting has built REGIE to keep the promise of sales enablement and help carry the load to help keep your team doing what they do best, winning. We’re on iTunes.

Subscription 111

Subscription Payment Features Scale Underperforming Technical Team 111

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

I’ve been in software since the ’90s and for over 20 years, nearly that entire time, we’ve been talking about digital transformation, developing strategies, architecting new technologies, and moving beyond digitization to rethinking our businesses, our products, and our services in a way that’s optimized for a digital world.

Scale 163

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring Branding 163

SaaStr

JUNE 20, 2019

Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020. I grew up in the Netherlands, people in Germany, people are being taught when they’re young to stay away from credit, it’s a bad thing, you want to avoid it. We had a marketplace payer solution. Want to see more content like this? Aydin Senkut, Founder @ Felicis Ventures.

Payment Methods 142

Payment Methods Merchant Services Payments Payment Services 142

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 20, 2020

If you missed episode 131, check it out here: Data, Set, Match: How to Build a Two-Sided Marketplace to Drive Revenue with Ryan Walsh. If RFPs are slowing down your sales team, you need to check out Loopio. I believe that developing a clear vision of where you want to be is the most important and vital aspect of that.

Scale 75

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Outsourced Development 75

SaaStr

DECEMBER 10, 2019

WePay is a payments company for platform businesses like marketplaces, crowdfunding sites & small business software. Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020. We grew our team by 50% this year, continuing to grow. Chase Merchant Services that we’re now a part of processes $1.2 And I think our team has done that too.

Payment Services 133

Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payments 133

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Never believe that doubting yourself is a bad thing. That company only lasted another year before they were out of business, so it was a poor use of my energy, time, and being away from my family – a lesson I work to pass on to others new in roles today. Invest in your development internally and externally. Anita Nielsen.

Scale 135

Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring VP of Engineering 135

Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 3, 2020

Despite huge growth and development over the last ten years, there’s also been some disappointments. Emmet: So my job here is to run the Product Design team here in Dublin and London, and Figma clearly had the biggest impact on our team this year. If you enjoy our conversation, check out more episodes of our podcast.

Payment Methods 118

Payment Methods Payment Solutions Technical Review Technology 118

SaaStr

MARCH 20, 2020

317: Rachel Hepworth is VP of Marketing @ Pilot, the startup that offers the best bookkeeping, tax and CFO services for growing businesses. Before Slack, Rachel spent 4 years at LinkedIn where she led the product marketing team for content experiences. And so that’s when I went to Slack to start their growth marketing team.

SMB 185

SMB Scale Startup Marketplace as a Service 185

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Prior to joining the world of venture, Karen was a Senior Director at Apple and before Apple, Karen spent an incredible 9 years at Box as a founding member of the executive team, where she was responsible for defining and leading Box’s Industry GTM strategy. What is the ability of the company to continue to build an incredible team?

Scale 179

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Investment Sales Hiring 179

SaaStr

JULY 22, 2019

Join us at SaaStr Europa 2020. That’s not a bad start. We are the world’s most complete and comprehensive instrumentation platform on the marketplace today, that is cloud-based, that is SaaS-based. We work with mostly modern teams. Want to see more content like this? Roger Scott | EVP @ New Relic.

Scale 172

Scale Scaling Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team 172