Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

B2B Is Really P2P. Sales Development and Prospecting. The Sales Development Playbook. The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team. 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. The Joshua Principle. Eat Their Lunch. Top of Mind.

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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.

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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.

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SaaStr

MAY 27, 2020

Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. So the ability for people to store oil doesn’t exist. I’ll give you an example in your personal life. They don’t want to p**s off management teams that face dilution from down rounds. Maybe you want to launch a business.

Technical Review 273

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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.”

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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.

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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.

Payment Solutions 209

Payment Solutions Payment Methods Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring 209

SaaStr

AUGUST 12, 2022

Colin here, CEO of a startup, B2B SaaS, and raising a seed round right now. What are you seeing out there, is B2B even going to survive in the next two or three months of raise, we’re down to three months runway? But it sounds like the bad news is you’ve got a limited runway. Anybody else got one to ask? Colin: Yeah.

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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.

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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.

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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 217

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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 181

Payment Solutions Payments Outsourcing Services SaaS Payments 181

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.

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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.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 3, 2020

Brands are now building physical stores that act as real-world ads for products you purchase online. Despite huge growth and development over the last ten years, there’s also been some disappointments. Paul: I have the Google Pixel 4 here, my new phone – it is exactly the same as the iPhone, in hardware.

Payment Methods 118

Payment Methods Payment Solutions Technical Review Technology 118

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.

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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

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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.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Look for existing ecosystems of websites, communities and social presence that exist in that geography around your topic. “So How FastSpring Simplifies Selling Around the World Automated Localized Checkout Consumers often prefer to pay in their local currency or using payment methods that are popular in their region.

Payment Methods 78

Payment Methods Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Software Review 78

FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

Ryan Austin had VP-level experience in training when he decided to start a consulting business to help enterprise-level companies with their corporate learning and development initiatives. Ryan and his team noticed so many inefficiencies across the L&D workflows. “It There are now over 150 enterprise companies using the platform.

Payment Solutions 133

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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.

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FastSpring

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Global SEO: The First Thing You Need to Verify One of the first things that Michael checks when he’s working with a new client that has a website translated into multiple languages is their hreflang tags. Our all-in-one payment platform includes a best-in-class localized checkout, subscription management, global tax management, and more.

Payment Solutions 147

Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Strategy Software 147

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

ProfitWell

JUNE 7, 2020

Poor customer service. Poor understanding of the value of your product/service. Credit card payment failures. Content can be personalized. For example, a B2B customer likely tracks different metrics than a B2C customer. But does personalization really matter? Customers think your product is too expensive.

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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

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 90

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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 112

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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

OpenView Labs

JANUARY 29, 2020

I would argue that freemium fell short in B2B and from its ashes rose the PQL,” he explained in a recent post. Freemium Model for SaaS – The Good, The Bad, and The In-between. How to Increase Your Payment Customers In a Freemium Model. Low-touch freemium models can work in concert with an inside sales or field sales model.

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