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

FastSpring

APRIL 13, 2023

When Justin and his initial team started looking for a way to capitalize on VR/AR technology, they focused their attention on the “made-to-order” industrial market. But they quickly realized the market was too small and that there was a bigger opportunity elsewhere — in wider B2B and B2C commerce. But that’s not where they started.

Payment Methods 147

Payment Methods Marketing Payments SaaS Payments 147

Buffer Resources

JANUARY 15, 2024

Inaccurate, packed with "filler," or completely AI-generated — bad B2B (business-to-business) content is easy to spot and even easier to find online. But what makes B2B content good ? According to one study, it also costs over $50 billion annually due to wasted resources alone. Tough question.

B2B 87

B2B Technical Advisors SaaS Payments Underperforming Technical Team 87

SaaStr

APRIL 23, 2019

Brex Co-Founder and CEO Henrique Dubugras will talk about what he’s learned building the fastest-growing B2B company. Learn what he did differently the second time around and the specific decisions he made to drive growth among B2B companies with Brex. We’re like, “We’re not going to go into this payments thing.”

Sales Hiring 214

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale Payment Methods 214

FastSpring

APRIL 4, 2024

As an experienced sales and GTM leader, John Eitel has more than witnessed how product-led growth (PLG) has affected the tech and SaaS space in the last few years — he and his teams have been up close and personal with how PLG increased in popularity as a sales strategy. “I Set up a demo or try it out for yourself. Jump to video.

Scale 157

Scale Sales Payment Methods Merchant Services 157

Stax

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

But if you’re a B2B solution, there’s a high likelihood that businesses will be interested in being able to accept customer payments, rather than just sending them a PayPal link or to a generic payment gateway. How do you add payment processing capabilities to your software?

Payments 88

Payments SaaS Payments Payment Services Merchant Services 88

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Emilie Maret | Fellowship Team @ The Family. We’re a team of former investors and operators from the likes of Facebook, Deliveroo, and the Swedish payments company Klarna. We are a purely B2B fund, focused on software and fintech. Emilie Maret | Fellowship Team @ The Family. Maybe fifty of them are B2B SaaS.

New CTO 179

New CTO Sales Hiring B2C CTO Hire 179

Sales Hacker

MAY 9, 2019

Once you understand how to create a fair compensation plan for your sales team, you can check out some examples: Sales Development Rep (SDR) Compensation Plan Example. This is what the person would be paid annually and it has two elements; a base salary and a sales incentive held against sales, also known as variable pay.

Compensation 110

Compensation Sales Hiring Development Team Review Sales Recruiting 110

SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

From strategies in recruitment and team building to sales tactics, these leaders from Salesforce, nCino, and Vlocity, will discuss the top tips for moving beyond horizontal SaaS and building a billion-dollar SaaS company. David, you talked a bit about the team and the founders. David Schmaier: Sure. Matt Garratt: Thank you.

Payment Solutions 215

Payment Solutions Pricing Payments Payment Services 215

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

One of the biggest decisions you can make when setting up your sales team is whether to focus primarily on inside or outside sales. We’ll look at the strengths of each type of sales, why you need both of them in your team, and how to determine the best balance for your organization. What is inside sales? What is outside sales.

Sales Hiring 100

Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Payment Methods 100

FastSpring

JUNE 11, 2024

FastSpring provides an all-in-one payment platform for SaaS, software, video game, and other digital goods businesses, including software management, VAT and sales tax management, global payments, and consumer support. Podcast Full Interview: Audio Listen online or find it on more podcast services. I love that.

Sales Recruiting 113

Sales Recruiting Software Review Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 113

Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Whether you’re an early-stage founder or you’ve built up an established B2B SaaS business, it's crucial to understand how valuations work and how you can prepare for an exit when the time is right for you. Develop a Full Marketing Strategy 2. Payment processing can cause huge headaches for buyers if the account can’t be transferred.

SaaS Payments 105

SaaS Payments Technical Review Development Team Review Software Review 105

Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 30, 2024

ABOUT IN THE VAULT “In the Vault” is a new audio podcast series by the a16z Fintech team, where we sit down with the most influential figures in financial services to explore key trends impacting the industry and the pressing innovations that will shape our future. Angela: Why Global Payments? Jeff Sloan: Thanks for having me, Angela.

Payment Solutions 81

Payment Solutions Payments Payment Services SaaS Payments 81

ProfitWell

AUGUST 18, 2020

Reliance told her that she would need to buy-out the remainder of her two years in one lump sum payment, plus the interest the company would lose over those two years, and she would have to pay an additional hefty administration fee too. The administration fee alone totaled nearly three of her monthly payments. Every person has biases.

SaaS Payments 111

SaaS Payments Payment Methods Outsourced Development Underperforming Technical Team 111

SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

When shelter in place started, the conversation we’ve had internally on our team is we have to think of ourselves as Navy SEALs, where we’re at base camp right now, and we’re going to train and we’re going to work on our playbooks and do our research. Personally, our team has been holding back a little bit.

Investment 210

Investment Technical Review Part-Time VPE Development Team Review 210

User Pilot

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Customer behavior analysis helps you identify the most valuable users and personalize your marketing strategy to reach them. Product teams collect and measure such customers’ activities to understand and act on customers’ behavior patterns. Poor customer service — leads to negative word-of-mouth, dissatisfaction, and churn.

Payment Solutions 98

Payment Solutions Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Payments Customer Lifetime Value 98

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

Point Nine Land

JUNE 18, 2023

Cohort analysis is a powerful method used to analyze groups of customers and their behavior over time. If you’re acquiring a lot of new customers quickly, metrics like “usage from repeat users” or “payments from repeat customers” may go up nicely, even if your retention rate sucks. of the guide. Basics What is a cohort analysis?

SaaS Payments 128

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payments SaaS 128

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 9, 2019

Author Gord Hotchkiss found, “Contrary to our common assumptions, B2B buying is not a rational process. The degree of risk involved is the single most important variable in B2B purchase decisions.” They lost that bid, and later learned, “We were afraid your lead person is just too young for this role.”. Whale Fears.

Outsourcing Services 91

Outsourcing Services Outsourced Development Payment Services Underperforming Technical Team 91

ChurnZero

APRIL 15, 2022

Bad timing sticks out a mile.”. If your Customer Success (CS) teams doesn’t possess ESP, you need tools to identify a customer’s buying signals, usage behavior, and ROI to break the endless cycle of trial and error with your expansion outreach. SalesIntel is a leading sales intelligence platform and B2B contact data provider.

Payments 98

Payments SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payment Services 98

FastSpring

APRIL 26, 2022

While it’s not a bad idea to be measuring both, your monthly churn rate should be much, much lower than your annual churn rate. Quantitative Data Gathering: Website and Product Data. Next, let’s look at how to develop a churn-reduction action plan. There’s a big difference between monthly and annual churn.

Benchmarks 147

Benchmarks Churn Payments SaaS Payments 147

ProfitWell

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Recurring payments. The software-as-a-service business model involves providing a subscription service, so you will have to worry about getting payments every month/year as opposed to only once. Recurring payments take the form of monthly recurring revenue, otherwise known as MRR. In SaaS, clients do not buy hardware.

Business Model 54

Business Model SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payments 54

Chargify

MARCH 25, 2019

InVision Lead Designer Scott Savarie says, “Generally with SaaS products being so large and complex, interfaces tend to get overly complicated, and the user gets lost in the mix when teams try to integrate new features. The best SaaS products are as enjoyable to use as your favorite consumer-facing products.

SaaS Payments 54

SaaS Payments Payment Methods Subscription Payment Features 54

Sales Hacker

MARCH 30, 2021

How to build a winning sales team. Developing A Winning Sales Team [16:24]. Leveraging the next generation of artificial intelligence, the platform allows sales reps to deliver consistent, relevant, and responsible communication for each prospect every time, enabling personalization at scale previously unthinkable.

Scale 113

Scale Payments Technical Advisors Sales Recruiting 113

ProfitWell

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Today, eBay may be looking to subscription to amp up its ecommerce reach. Plus, Pipe, a B2B SaaS financial platform, raises $6 million. We know and love eBay as the classic ecommerce platform that’s nailed it in that space since the 90s. The survey asked directly if the seller would use a store level between Premium and Anchor.

Payment Methods 52

Payment Methods Payments Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 52

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

It’s been 10 years since co-founders Eoghan McCabe , Des Traynor , David Barrett , and Ciaran Lee sat in a small Dublin coffee shop and dreamed of making internet business personal, and we’re still every bit as excited. Later’s Farhan Virji on adapting B2C support strategies for B2B teams. The biggest, in August, we turned 10.

VP of Engineering 118

VP of Engineering Technical Review Scale Outsourcing Services 118

OpenView Labs

MAY 29, 2020

Don’t do this via a survey; actually talk to them via Zoom or a phone call. Toast was quick to pivot their offerings to help restaurants adapt to online ordering, closed dining rooms and contactless delivery—and this feature even helps restaurants get the word out. He didn’t charge me but asked that I write an online review instead.

Payment Methods 54

Payment Methods Sales Hiring Marketing Advertising 54

OPEXEngine

AUGUST 9, 2022

A Bain survey of sales operations executives, in partnership with Research Now SSI, found that only 43% of sales organizations develop plans for a recession well in advance of it. Yet too many sales teams use outdated practices in making account and territory assignments. Know when to walk away. Amplify low-cost sales channels.

Scale 59

Scale VP of Engineering Payment Services Underperforming Technical Team 59

ChurnZero

JANUARY 17, 2020

These tools have a profound impact on free ing up team member time.? . Take comfort in the fact that every CS team must start somewhere! Take comfort in the fact that every CS team must start somewhere! . Curious where your team should begin? Drew Jordan, Business Development, Gravyty . Jump to: .

SaaS Payments 72

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payments Underperforming Technical Team 72

CustomerSuccessBox

APRIL 7, 2022

Puneet Kataria shares his experience and observation on how customer success teams can be agile in the Customer Success Vodcast hosted by tl;dv! Every customer success team during the onboarding, buzz around the term “Early value”, the question is how does it all start and even delivered? You can listen to the full vodcast here.

Onboarding 52

Onboarding SaaS Payments Payment Methods Scale 52

ProfitWell

AUGUST 13, 2020

But first, the B2B SaaS index. CEOs are often reluctant to share bad news because they suffer from positivity delusion. That’s why he calls it a delusion: employees can handle bad news. There are many factors in being a great CEO, one of them comes down to being transparent with your team during turbulence. Types of CEOs.

Payments 52

Payments SaaS Payments Underperforming Technical Team Payment Methods 52

Aysling

JUNE 29, 2021

Its what project managers lead their teams through. Project managers need to be clear about what goals they want to achieve and what expectations they have for their team. They make sure they are getting continual feedback from everyone on their team, so they know how work is progressing.

Management 52

Management Payment Solutions Underperforming Technical Team Payment Methods 52

ChurnZero

APRIL 15, 2022

Bad timing sticks out a mile. If your Customer Success (CS) teams doesnt possess ESP, you need tools to identify a customers buying signals, usage behavior, and ROI to break the endless cycle of trial and error with your expansion outreach. SalesIntel is a leading sales intelligence platform and B2B contact data provider.

Payments 52

Payments SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payment Services 52

Aysling

JUNE 29, 2021

It’s what project managers lead their teams through. Project managers need to be clear about what goals they want to achieve and what expectations they have for their team. They make sure they are getting continual feedback from everyone on their team, so they know how work is progressing. Good project management means leading.

Management 40

Management Payment Solutions Underperforming Technical Team Payment Methods 40

Outseta

MARCH 18, 2019

Wes Bush is a SaaS marketer who has quickly developed a reputation as “the free trial vs. freemium guy.” Geoff Roberts: All right, so first thing's first—before just a moment ago we’d never met, but I have come to know you in online circles as the free trial vs. freemium guy. ” — Wes Bush.

Payment Methods 40

Payment Methods SaaS Payments Payments Payment Solutions 40

SmartKarrot

MAY 13, 2022

Digital disruption affects every industry and every business, including B2B companies. Do you know what impact digital disruption can put on B2B companies? To make sure we are on the same page, let us first describe what we mean when we talk about technology bringing disruption to B2B companies. Like what you are reading?

B2B 10

B2B Artificial Intelligence Payment Services Social Media 10

SmartKarrot

JULY 14, 2020

The B2B Tech world is booming with SaaS business models. You will only have to worry about the recurring payments, which is otherwise known as MRR, monthly recurring revenue. You will now have to raise some substantial amount of funds, you will have to increase the team members, invest in product development, and scale-up.

Business Model 10

Business Model B2B SaaS Payments Payment Features 10