SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

The SaaStock team will be landing in São Paulo to run the region’s first Pan-Latin American SaaS conference, SaaStock LatAm. Eduardo Müller, Founder & CEO, B2B Stack. in 2016, he co-founded Vendas B2B Summit, the largest Brazilian B2B sales online event. She’ll be talking about her approach to sales as a team sport.

Technical Review 207

Technical Review Scale Entrepreneurship Sales Hiring 207

Stax

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Here’s an interesting stat: 70% of businesses consider subscription and membership models indispensable for future commercial growth and expansion. They must engineer a well-rounded solution that makes handling subscriptions a breeze (and yes, it is as hard as it sounds). However, only 10% of them currently employ these models.

Payments 88

Payments SaaS Payments Payment Services Merchant Services 88

User Pilot

MARCH 24, 2025

Want to advance your career in mobile product management or find top talent for your team? You will collaborate with engineering, design, and business teams to deliver cutting-edge mobile solutions that improve efficiency, user adoption , and overall product performance. Who would be a BAD fit for this job?

Mobile 52

Mobile Underperforming Technical Team Management Scale 52

SaaStr

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Jos White of Notion and Christian Lanng of Tradeshift team up to show you how to work within, and sometimes around, rules in the workplace. Tradeshift now… I’ll let Christian introduce himself but Tradeshift now is one of the biggest, if not the biggest, B2B SaaS company out of Europe, valuation well above a billion dollars.

Payments 133

Payments Payment Features SaaS Payments Underperforming Technical Team 133

SaaSOptics

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

Based on a 2019 survey, Gartner forecasts that eighty-four percent of new software will be delivered as SaaS , and this percentage is expected to increase as existing providers transition to a subscription-based model. The main difference between accounting for a subscription vs. a traditional business is the method used.

Payment Features 105

Payment Features Outsourced Development SaaS Software Review 105

SaaStr

AUGUST 19, 2022

But maybe in SaaS and B2B things are pretty good. And also on the side, doing a strategy of pure, just changing our ICP and fully picking it and making it super narrow and super focused, and having 25% of the team doing that. And 75% of the team continuing business as usual. So much talk about doom and gloom. Jason Lemkin: Yep.

Scale 277

Scale Sales Hiring Scaling VP of Engineering 277

Incredo

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

And end up wasting their time and resources with affiliates that underperform. I see many SaaS companies jump headlong into creating an affiliate program thinking it will bring in a large number of customers without much effort. And this is a B2B partner program. In our case, we needed to invest a lot in product development.

SaaS Payments 139

SaaS Payments Payment Methods Merchant Services Sales Recruiting 139

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

In an era when more and more businesses adopt a subscription model, strong customer retention is the key to sustainable long-term growth and requires a laser-like focus. . Tara and her team used it to take a deep dive into the customer’s journey through the product and make a focused effort to truly understand each step along the way.

Retention 34

Retention Scale Marketing Underperforming Technical Team 34

SaaStr

AUGUST 6, 2019

” 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. Third parties are developing apps for our platform. What is Tradeshift really? Just like Salesforce, we have a platform.

Payment Solutions 182

Payment Solutions Payments Outsourcing Services SaaS Payments 182

Incredo

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Why software reviews are your best friends and why you need them? #1 Bad reviews teach, good reviews sell Not all of your reviews will be positive. Bad reviews point out to your weaknesses, helping you better your customer support, product, onboarding, whatever issue they address.

Software Review 37

Software Review Systems Review Software Social Media 37

SaaStr

JUNE 4, 2019

I actually worked in sales for five and a half years and that’s probably why I have tended to gravitate to B2B marketing. So, they’re a B2B piece. You have to be listening to customer feedback and incorporating that as you’re developing your messaging, your positioning, your product names.

Sales Recruiting 235

Sales Recruiting Scale Underperforming Technical Team Pricing 235

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

As Head of Sales for Spendesk, Nico was initially inspired by the vision of founder Rodolphe Ardant who had spotted a gap for ‘spend management’ in the B2B market based on personal banking trends. So they created a software that provides control, visibility, and payment methods for corporate finance teams.

Scale 162

Scale Payment Methods Payment Solutions Marketing 162

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

In B2B sales orgs, you’ll encounter two common models of the journey from prospect to closed deal. There’s sales pipeline , a 7-stage journey describing what your sales team must do to convert a lead to a customer. For your team, the goal is to share more information about your products without appearing overly promotional.

Sales Funnel 132

Sales Funnel Outsourcing Services Underperforming Technical Team Social Media 132

Frontegg

MARCH 17, 2022

These B2B-centric offerings have gone mainstream with the PLG philosophy, where end-users discover the benefits of the app by using it, eventually becoming brand advocates and turning into a driving force behind its growth. Sales-Led Growth is all about marketing and sales teams. What is Sales-Led Growth? What is Product-Led Growth?

Scale 105

Scale Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Sales 105

Chargify

JULY 30, 2019

It might be your subscription model. But how do you know if your current subscription model is working or failing? We’ll cover the three most important metrics for judging your subscription model’s success: Free to paid conversion rate . Key Subscription Metric #1: Free to paid conversion rate. Likely not.

Subscription 64

Subscription Payment Features Metrics Scale 64

Chart Mogul

JULY 1, 2020

Customer interviews are a powerful tool that can help you better position your B2B product to attract and retain more customers. B2B marketing is much more complicated than consumer marketing. That’s because B2B businesses address particular niches, where customers don’t spend as much time online. You identify customer pains.

Interviewing 76

Interviewing B2B Marketing Underperforming Technical Team 76

Chart Mogul

OCTOBER 3, 2019

This is where the value of subscription metrics comes to the fore — and specifically the customer acquisition cost (CAC) and the customer lifetime value (LTV). Every team has their own slightly different way of calculating the cost of customer acquisition. Poor distribution — not product — is the number one cause of failure.

Acquisition 91

Acquisition Underperforming Technical Team Startup Customer Lifetime Value 91

Neil Patel

MARCH 2, 2021

Over 41 percent of businesses use review websites before purchasing software—so reviews matter for B2B work, too. To help, I’ve broken this list into B2C and B2B review sites, depending on your target buyers. The audience is consumers looking for impartial, reliable reviews from an expert team. B2B Review Sites.

Software Review 127

Software Review Technical Review Scale Merchant Services 127

ChurnZero

JULY 22, 2022

Does your Customer Success team have a shallow view of onboarding? Q: What should you do if the team you’re onboarding wasn’t part of the buying decision and isn’t thrilled to be learning a new tool? I have the internal handoff from pre-sales to post-sales customer teams. I have two handoffs.

Scale 98

Scale Onboarding Scaling Underperforming Technical Team 98

Sales Hacker

APRIL 25, 2019

Outsourced Sales Development. Without a sales development team, you can find yourself struggling when it comes to pipeline generation. For SMBs, this is a pivotal decision: Do you hire an in-house sales development team or work with an outbound partner? The Four Costs of In-House Sales Development.

Outsourcing Services 99

Outsourcing Services Sales Hiring Sales Outsourcing Outsourced Development 99

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. What Is Negative Churn?

Benchmarks 147

Benchmarks Churn Payments SaaS Payments 147

ProfitWell

AUGUST 18, 2020

As more companies move to SaaS and subscription-based models of revenue, this old paradigm is crumbling. The shift to the customer-first paradigm has happened quickly in SaaS and subscription-based economy. As a new, and in some ways, more preferred revenue model, new players are entering the SaaS and subscription market every day.

SaaS Payments 111

SaaS Payments Payment Methods Outsourced Development Underperforming Technical Team 111

Point Nine Land

JUNE 18, 2023

Both can be used to report on customers, subscriptions, and revenue. You can also see right away that, for instance, month 5 was an unusually bad month for the April 2020 cohort. a churn or retention rate you’d be happy with), red for “bad” values, yellow for “OK”, and gradients for values in between. And both can be cohorted.

SaaS Payments 128

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payments SaaS 128

Casey Accidental

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Let’s break down these definitions so we know where we’re at: SAAS: software that businesses access online and purchase via a subscription e.g. Slack, Adobe, Atlassian. SAAS-like: any number of different models where a business sells software to businesses online, but does not charge via a subscription e.g. transactional or pre-revenue.

Marketplace as a Service 106

Marketplace as a Service Business Model Business Underperforming Technical Team 106

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 98

Payment Solutions Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Payments Customer Lifetime Value 98

Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

After working on NASA’s Space Shuttle Main Engine, he went on to develop Portfolium, a social networking platform that allows students and graduates to showcase skills beyond the traditional resume to potential employers. But before universities would do business with them, they needed assurance on their security posture. SOC 2 101.

Scale 211

Scale Software Review compliance Technical Review 211

SaaSOptics

MAY 2, 2022

In a sales-led model, sales processes and teams are the primary drivers of revenue growth. Each has its strengths and weaknesses, but neither is better or worse than the other. In fact, many B2B SaaS companies use a hybrid between the two to adapt to changing market conditions, and you can do the same.

Scale 97

Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Sales 97

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Think about what you could be doing to bring more diversity into your teams and be more inclusive as a company, and go actively out of your way in order to achieve set goals. I usually do them with Paul or people from the product teams – it’s much more fun to be on a podcast with your boss. Be open-minded. If not now, then when?”

Payment Solutions 209

Payment Solutions Payment Methods Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring 209

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

User Pilot

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

This article covers all you need to know to create a solid GTM strategy for your SaaS startup or B2B business model. A GTM strategy provides direction for all team members, reduces your product’s time to market, and helps you cut costs. Design a launch plan before the product is ready and assign clear roles to team members.

Strategy 98

Strategy Sales Recruiting Scale Marketing 98

SaaSOptics

APRIL 7, 2022

Product-led growth is much more than a growth hack, pricing strategy, or industry buzzword—It’s an organizational framework used by B2B SaaS companies to answer one simple question: “How can we get our product to sell itself?” However, this strategy requires complex subscription and revenue management to be made possible. .

Business Model 74

Business Model Payment Features Business SaaS 74

Blulogix

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Crafting the Blueprint: How to Build a Monetization Framework for Agile Success By BluLogix Team A Step-by-Step Guide to Architecting Your Monetization Strategy In the dynamic realm of agile monetization, constructing a robust Monetization Framework is akin to drafting a master blueprint for a skyscraper.

Payment Features 52

Payment Features Underperforming Technical Team Construction Customer Lifetime Value 52

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Samuel Hulick: I actually started as a full stack developer. Back in those days, and this was like over 10 years ago, the developer would get a Photoshop file that had all of the different interface elements. So, growth team, in this quarter, we want you to go and try to pull the levers to increase day seven engagement.”

Onboarding 254

Onboarding Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team 254

Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 24, 2022

This isn’t a bad idea, and why companies like Facebook continued to grow despite adding more and more complexity over time. There has been a renaissance of user experience and design in B2B use cases over the last decade, but those typically revolve around single use case products, like: Syncing files in Dropbox. This stuff is hard!

Scale 139

Scale User Experience Underperforming Technical Team Marketplace as a Service 139

Valuize Consulting

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The collaboration between B2B Chief Customer Officers (CCOs), Chief Experience Officers (CXOs), and Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) is critical for todays businesses. And yet in the face of all that, enterprise B2B technology companies aiming for sustainable, profitable growth, have no choice. We at Valuize break things down this way.

Underperforming Technical Team 52

Underperforming Technical Team Scale Technical Review Customer Lifetime Value 52

ChurnZero

OCTOBER 5, 2022

This is a guest blog contributed by Emily Ryan, chief client officer at Valuize , a B2B consulting company that helps industry-leading technology organizations supercharge their customer lifecycle to drive best-in-class net dollar retention. Make your insights actionable for your team by consolidating them into an easy-to-digest scorecard.

Underperforming Technical Team 94

Underperforming Technical Team Payment Services Payment Methods Scale 94

User Pilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

TL;DR Regular roadmaps kill outcomes by forcing teams to think in the categories of features and timelines. It’s difficult to implement outcome-based roadmaps because stakeholders don’t trust product teams to deliver on business goals. Many companies lack differentiation strategies and drive product development by copying competitors.

Scale 105

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting Software Review 105