SaaStr

MARCH 19, 2021

We’re seeing more and more companies, particularly cloud companies with the ability to scale, and grow even more rapidly in the new normal. Nail it Before You Scale it . Cloud Marketplaces. Fintech and crypto players are changing financial services forever. Cloud mutiples are going up. Product-led Growth.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 18, 2020

While we’ve been shopping for items like clothes or shoes online for years, another trend is now emerging—business-to-business (B2B) ecommerce. It’s easy to think of online sales as a marketplace where we buy items for ourselves, but more and more B2B and SaaS sales are now happening online. What is B2B Ecommerce?

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

How can you scale while staying relevant to the user? She also discusses how these tools can provide value from the initial launch to a hyper-scaling mode. Amazon now delivers goods and services to your front door within the hour. There’s a lot that B2B companies can learn from these consumer-facing companies.

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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

The platform integrates with 100+ shipping services and ensures discounts for many of them. was created by a team with 25+ years of experience in location-based tech, spanning various services and real-time asset tracking systems. Fadada is a SaaS-based provider of electronic signature services. Funding to Date : $1.3M

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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Talk: Scaling & Exiting: Dreams, Designs & Dramas. He dropped out of Stanford Graduate School of Business and then co-founded LeaseExchange, an online marketplace for equipment leasing. In 2016, André joined Superlógica Tecnologias, a management system designed to service small businesses with a recurring revenue model.

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Point Nine Land

APRIL 9, 2021

What does it take to raise capital, in B2B marketplaces, in 2021? Over the last few years, we’ve published a number of SaaS funding napkins as well as marketplace napkins. This year, we’re shaking things up with our first ever B2B marketplace napkin! What does it take to raise capital, in B2B marketplaces, in 2021?

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SaaStr

MARCH 17, 2020

Learn how Pendo can help companies go from startup to scale-up here. Bandwidth’s nationwide network is built to support scale, provide deeper insights to help prevent user dissatisfaction, and by removing the middleman, SaaS companies enjoy direct-to-carrier pricing. Go to Hired’s website to learn more about their news.

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Blulogix

DECEMBER 23, 2024

This model, also referred to as metered billing, aligns costs with actual consumption, offering customers a fair and flexible way to pay for services. It doesnt matter if its B2B or B2C. Technology Advancements: Real-time data tracking and billing automation systems now make it possible to implement metered billing models at scale.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Growth rate depicted from traditional B2B sales teams vs. SaaS Sales teams. What is new in today’s B2B software world is that products sold against an OpEx (SaaS) model experience an exponential growth due to a variety of factors; An increase in Online Spend – B2B customers are increasing their online spend.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 16, 2019

However, that doesn’t necessarily mean a “pivot”, but more often the evolution is a shifting business model as the company scales and the user base grows and changes. If your application is a self-service one, focus on content and inbound marketing as your primary source of leads. Entry level application (<$5,000 p.a.).

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OpenView Labs

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Now—a happy consequence—cloud marketplaces are on a similar trajectory of growth and have opened up a powerful go-to-market channel for sellers that you probably haven’t heard of yet. Not to mention 73% of B2B buyers prefer the convenience of digital buying through ecommerce, web direct or marketplaces (more on that later). .

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OpenView Labs

JANUARY 24, 2022

Just like over the last decade, and even more pointedly in the last two years where we’ve seen most purchases in our consumer lives go online; B2B transactions are undergoing that same transformation. . So, it’s no wonder that it has been a massive year in the Cloud Marketplace business.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 29, 2021

As a result, more products are being discovered and sold through online marketplaces, like the Salesforce AppExchange and the AWS Marketplace. An ecosystem of related products and channel partners exist around every B2B product. For partnership teams, a PRM makes it possible to manage partner relationships at scale.

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SaaStr

JUNE 3, 2020

The SaaS Trust Crisis is making it harder to market and sell software and services than ever before. And today, I’m very excited to be the co-founder and CEO of G2 where we’re building the world’s leading marketplace for SaaS software. The situation is getting worse. Godard Abel | Co-Founder and CEO @ G2.

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SaaStr

JULY 11, 2019

I invest across consumer, B2B SaaS companies, and then also dev tools and infrastructure companies as well. It may seem like a simple decision, but there is a lot of complexity in a two-sided marketplace where people are expecting to get paid. The marketplace was doing well. It’s been really fun to be on the investor side.

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Totango

APRIL 14, 2020

The digital transformation of business has finally given enterprises the power to deliver on the potential of B2B customer segmentation. Here are 6 B2B customer segmentation best practices to help make that happen: Stay Goal-Focused. What is B2B Customer Segmentation? The Top B2B Customer Segmentation Best Practices.

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How To Buy Saas

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

This Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) approach revolutionized the industry, making powerful CRM tools accessible without on-premise installs. Over the past two decades, Salesforce has evolved from a sales CRM into a comprehensive platform spanning sales, service, marketing, e-commerce, and app development.

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SaaStr

JUNE 10, 2021

So the whole world of software as a service and cloud has just exploded and will continue to grow enormously. And if we look at the specifics of the word SaaS, software as a service. And service many times means it’s human beings doing it. So how does this even work with software as a service.

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FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

But we wanted to hear directly from technical founders and software developers about what you look for in a SaaS payment processing service. “These are just some of the questions you need to consider when evaluating a payment service solution as these are the same questions your customers will surely ask you,” Levi says.

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Neil Patel

MARCH 2, 2021

Over 41 percent of businesses use review websites before purchasing software—so reviews matter for B2B work, too. The more (positive) reviews and testimonials you have, the more likely prospective customers are to put their faith and money in your services. B2C” businesses sell goods and services directly to consumers.

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FastSpring

APRIL 7, 2022

How Messente scaled with no funding. They also noticed a lack of transparency and efficiency in the services that were being provided at the time and decided to fix that problem. One way to scale: be location-agnostic. Instead of looking for hot new markets to market their services in, Messente let their customers lead.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 23, 2022

The process of purchasing software is increasingly complex – the choices for products and services are endless, and customers have a harder time parsing which companies to trust and which product will better cater to their needs. But once they’re happy with a service, they can help build trust with new customers as well.

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Eventbrite was historically a 50% sales and 50% self-service business. So, as we decided to take a bet on building an intuitive, self-service experience instead of masking user experience issues with human support, we really had to confront Belsky’s product lifecycle for the first time. Sounds expensive. Sending emails in Mailchimp.

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Blulogix

DECEMBER 13, 2024

For Managed Service Providers (MSPs) , real-time analytics is a game-changer when it comes to understanding customer behavior, improving service offerings, and driving business growth. Traditional billing systems, which often provide limited insights into customer activity, are no longer sufficient in a highly competitive marketplace.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Traditionally, payment gateways and payment processors were offered as two separate services and you would have different providers for each service: Payment gateways quickly and securely transfer the payment details from the checkout software to the payment processor. Scale quickly with transparent flat-rate pricing.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 6, 2022

Sales teams often struggle with configuration of price quotes when dealing with complex products or services or large product catalogs. With Configure Price Quote (CPQ) software , companies of any size can achieve scale and overcome the above obstacles. What is CPQ? CPQ stands for Configure Price Quote. 5 benefits of CPQ software.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Well, the quest for that answer led him to write The Cold Start Problem: Using Network Effects to Scale Your Product. Essentially, network effects describe how the value of a product or service depends on how many users engage with it – the more users engage, the more appealing it becomes. Scaling a minimum viable community.

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Neil Patel

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

NP Digital is a performance marketing agency built by marketers, and our global offices allow us to deliver our specialized services to clients worldwide. Mike Kamo, Founder and Global CEO, NP Brands, is a leader in building, managing, and scaling businesses. NP Digital Marketing Services. and around the world.

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Buffer Resources

JANUARY 25, 2024

We found a way to test the market before we dove in Before we purchased a single neon sign, I placed ads on Gumtree and Marketplace to see if there was interest from potential customers, using generic neon sign imagery I found online. With Custom Neon, I was determined to scale with consistency and control.

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Buffer Resources

JANUARY 25, 2024

We found a way to test the market before we dove in Before we purchased a single neon sign, I placed ads on Gumtree and Marketplace to see if there was interest from potential customers, using generic neon sign imagery I found online. With Custom Neon, I was determined to scale with consistency and control.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

In this article we’ll review the four main sales motions B2B SaaS teams use: Field sales ( outside sales ). And to facilitate that their website shows some of the services they provide with a vague “get in touch” option and no pricing listed. Companies operating in well-digitized industries (media, IT, finance, professional services).

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 1, 2021

While that can feel like a B2C trend, your B2B shoppers and targets are doing much the same thing. McKinsey notes that B2B decision-makers are pushing to e-commerce and e-commerce-like sales cycles, and up to 80% prefer either digital self-service tools or to contact teams remotely. COVID-19 Lessons Will Serve You Well.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 21, 2022

What started as a series of interviews by co-founder Des Traynor soon bloomed into hundreds of episodes where we explore how businesses are driving growth through customer relationships and how to build successful products at scale. Andrew Chen: I think this is one of the reasons why B2B SaaS companies have a recurring revenue model.

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Neil Patel

APRIL 9, 2021

The industry insights section provides you with data on certain industries, such as healthcare and financial services. This is beneficial for businesses looking to grow and scale rapidly but don’t want to work through all the red tape involved in hiring and onboarding. Knowing what trends and insights matter to you is most important.

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Software Platform Consulting

MAY 20, 2019

Fiverr, a marketplace for freelancers just joined the parade of software companies going public. The Fiverr filing sets up a comparison of Fiverr versus Upwork, the grand-daddy of freelancer marketplaces. Upwork Versus Fiverr: A Different Approach to Services. We call this the Service-as-a-Product (“SaaP”) model.

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 29, 2020

So if you’re interested in selling products or services on the web, you’ll need to find an ecommerce builder to create your online store. New business and rapidly scaling startups won’t necessarily have the same needs in an ecommerce website builder. Every great online store starts from the same place—with an ecommerce website builder.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 1, 2019

It depends on the industry, but Brex has had huge success by acting bigger than they are – particularly in the B2B space, where people are looking for signals that your product is going to be supported for years in the future. But for B2B marketing, it’s super valuable. In the consumer space, it’s a little bit different.

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