SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Lambda School trains people online to be software engineers. There’s a little bit of work to do still, but you know, tonight the title of my talk is how to make user acquisition practically free. We put it online, $10,000, and we started talking to our customers. Want to see more content like this? We can quit our jobs.

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Payrix

JANUARY 28, 2025

In this episode of PayFAQ: The Embedded Payments Podcast, host Ian Hillis welcomes Matt Downs, President of Worldpay for Platforms, to discuss software-led payments predictions for 2025 and beyond. Navigating market dynamics in 2025 and beyond Matt emphasized the cyclical nature of the payments industry, likening it to a pendulum.

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SaaStr

JULY 9, 2019

I’m probably the most hated person in the room right now, but please indulge me. More than half of Kenya’s GDP is now transacted through a mobile, through arguably the most successful mobile banking and payment system called M-Pesa. They didn’t have any cell phone credit. I’ll go easy on you.

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How To Buy Saas

DECEMBER 1, 2020

SAAS is also abbreviated as software as a service. With so many SAAS getting visibility in online marketplaces, we found that new saas businesses are struggling hard to make it to the right set of customers. SaaS as we already understood is a software as a service. Setup Pricing model and payment gateways.

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Unbounce

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

PPC is a method of digital advertising in which you aim to get your ads to rank as the highest result displayed for user searches, and you, as the advertiser, pay a fee each time it’s clicked. It can also appear on websites that have similar content and keywords to your business. Image courtesy of Bloomberg Wealth.

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Payrix

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Software companies embark on their embedded payments journey only to discover they’ve underestimated the complexity that’s involved and struggle to launch. If you’re thinking about Embedded Payments for your platform, make time to listen to this episode of the PayFAQ Embedded Payments podcast. We’ve seen it far too often.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 29, 2021

They have shifted their buying process even further online, only talking to vendors after they have already conducted significant research. As a result, more products are being discovered and sold through online marketplaces, like the Salesforce AppExchange and the AWS Marketplace. Processing and remitting payments.

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Baremetrics

OCTOBER 24, 2021

Stripe is indispensable for the average online business, providing the many different tools, reports, and customizations that power online payment processing, but it isn’t without limitations. Baremetrics monitors subscription revenue for businesses that bring in revenue through subscription-based services.

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Payrix

JANUARY 30, 2024

Storable , the leading provider of all-in-one software for the self-storage industry, has a vision for its payments solution that is reminiscent of the industry it serves. As John Durrett, General Manager of Payments for Storable, recently explained in a sit down with Payrix, Storable wants to make payments “invisible” for its customers.

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yoursales

JANUARY 28, 2022

It'll track any Google-based Sales Professional's efforts across email, calendar, and phone, and share interaction clients have had with emails, websites, or when they've called back. With the launch of the Pipedrive Marketplace a very wide range of third party apps & integrations. Account Based Marketing. Find them now.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Romain Huet : Of course, besides the brand I mentioned earlier like, Google, Apple and Facebook, and so on, a lot of marketplaces also like Uber and Airbnb they tend to think of themselves as platform because they have the buyers and the sellers connecting to each other. Let’s start with our five key steps.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 10, 2019

WePay CEO Bill Clerico and COO Tina Hsiao discuss how the company went from launch to acquisition. WePay is a payments company for platform businesses like marketplaces, crowdfunding sites & small business software. The day that acquisition closed, we became a 250,000 person company. Tina Hsiao : Awesome.

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How To Buy Saas

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

It would help you improve your online visibility, and you can discover new marketing insights. Semrush all-in-one marketing tool you must have in order to dominate your niche online. If you have a website, an e-commerce business, you own a YouTube channel, or want to enter a new niche online. Start 7 Days FREE Trial.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 6, 2019

Tradeshift Buy, which is essentially what we call private marketplaces. Think about it like Amazon or eBay, but instead of being for you and I, it is the Fortune 500 companies of this world that use it, companies like Unilever going and buying [produced 00:04:02] enzymes, ingredients, on our private marketplace technology.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 11, 2018

These providers use the most advanced methods to boost your response rates. Previous generations spent hours making phone calls or blindly visiting businesses, asking to speak to the person in charge. Previous generations spent hours making phone calls or blindly visiting businesses, asking to speak to the person in charge.

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The Marketing & Growth Hacking Publication

FEBRUARY 3, 2019

They expect an end-to-end shopping “experience” and this is where eCommerce subscription has a chance to shine by developing long term relationships with consumers. And subscription eCommerce seems to be the answer. The subscription eCommerce market has grown by a whopping 100% year-over-year for the past five years.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

If you truly want to be a better leader, better salesperson , better speaker, better writer, or just a better person, you need to study the craft. You will learn why traditional sales methods which were developed for small consumer sales, just won’t work for large sales and why conventional selling methods are doomed to fail in major sales.

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Andreessen Horowitz

AUGUST 30, 2023

Popularized by Michael Milken at Drexel Burnham Lambert, the invention wasn’t all that complicated: issue bonds with very high interest rates and correspondingly high risk, and use that capital to finance the wholesale acquisition of mismanaged, inefficient, and sclerotic companies. Inside sales? The curves simply do not meet.

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Stax

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Software as a Service (SaaS) has made business software more accessible by offering cloud-based, on-demand access to a range of solutions, from project management and collaboration to sales and marketing. Some examples of niches targeted by vertical SaaS providers include healthcare, eCommerce, finance, and education.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 4, 2019

The self-service model requires little to no selling whatsoever, saving time, labor and resources for a growing startup. Are you a marketplace or are an e-commerce retailer? Imagine you went into a retail store and started a conversation with a sales rep. That’s because as an industry we are obsessed with acquisition.

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OPEXEngine

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

SMB customers will want high-touch sales engagement and service delivery but SMM SaaS companies will likely not have the budget necessary to justify providing this level of sales support. Instead, SMM SaaS companies will leverage Inside Sales and Channel Partners coupled with digital marketing to drive down Customer Acquisition Costs.

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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.

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OpenView Labs

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Hiring managers should prepare by putting together pitch materials (usually a 2-3 page deck) to give candidates a deeper look at your company and culture – beyond what’s on your website. It’s tempting to prioritize new customer acquisition as your top growth priority. . Get more from your existing customers.

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All that Saas

MAY 1, 2021

Manages budget per client and also keeps track of the payment sent to the hired influencer. Branded content: lets you purchase license quality content for your website, ads, socials, and billboards. Payment Tracker: allows the influencers/content creators to set their price, and get paid within 48 hours.

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SaaSHolic

MAY 15, 2023

For startups, the speaker suggests focusing on how AI can drive customer acquisition and go-to-market strategy, while for large companies, creating a vision for AI is important, as well as focusing on infrastructure and skillsets and reshaping governance to deal with security and compliance issues.

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ProfitWell

MARCH 11, 2020

For years, aggressive customer acquisition strategies have dominated the marketing space. 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. That's what metrics give you. They just started.

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SaaSHolic

MAY 12, 2023

Antonio Soares of Dock, a fintech company providing digital banking infrastructure, sees the significant unbanked population in Brazil and other Latin American countries as an opportunity to improve financial inclusion, making strategic acquisitions to strengthen their capabilities in this area.

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OpenView Labs

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

This treatment is a disservice to the value an in-depth, methodical, and iterative analysis can unearth. ” It’s natural to go to payments per user or even user logins, but they rarely indicate user engagement. Offering free usage is par for the course as a SaaS customer acquisition strategy. Not always.

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Navint

OCTOBER 25, 2018

It’s a real challenge that multiple clients are facing right now because their operational friction is constraining innovation in the marketplace. Being good at Product Plus Process means knowing that business services have to be connected in order to provide end-to-end value. You have to think about process.

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FastSpring

JANUARY 9, 2025

Podcast Full Interview: Audio Listen online or find it on more podcast services. In today’s episode, I’m really excited to see you talking about, can mobile games really achieve over 50 % of their revenue coming from their website or direct to consumer. Jump to video. Jump to transcript.

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FastSpring

MARCH 15, 2024

In this episode of Growth Stage, host and CMO of FastSpring David Vogelpohl interviews Todd about his thoughts on: Why marketplaces can be a difficult way to attract new players. Podcast Full Interview : Audio Listen online or find it on more podcast services. Let us worry about global payments and taxes.

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SmartKarrot

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

But as more business companies choose the SaaS (Software as a Service) path, now is a fantastic time to enter this industry. . Another area where quality must stand out is in customer service. Large enterprise clients operate in highly competitive marketplaces and sectors where it takes a lot of effort to make a difference.

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SaaStr

JUNE 16, 2020

Matt Garratt: And it’s not just going to be we think in things like work from home tools like Zoom or IT solutions like VPN, but it’s really going to transform how business is getting done, whether that’s online education and learning. Right now, learning for companies is only at 10% online. There’s a link here.

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FastSpring

JANUARY 8, 2019

But when it comes to digital businesses where all transactions and fulfillment take place online, there’s a whole new set of terms you need to know in order to keep up. But don’t worry, we’ve created an ecommerce glossary that includes all the terms and concepts you need to know to have a successful digital business. Affiliate links.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 22, 2018

Fast forward to today, and Eventbrite is the world’s largest self-service event ticketing and registration platform – processing more than 3 million tickets each week. Going back a bit, Brian was a co-founder at SkillSlate, a local services marketplaces similar to Thumbtack. We raised a $1.5-million We raised a $1.5-million

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