SaaStr

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Our financial operations platform is designed to meet the unique financial challenges of B2B SaaS, including billing, subscription management, revenue and expense recognition, and SaaS analytics. Empower your inside sales team by automating the hardest parts of outbound calling. Instant live customer conversations!

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SaaStr

JUNE 19, 2024

The three core areas to focus on are: Evolving your growth engine Building and solving for when to become a multi-product platform Investing in your people and team #1: Evolving Your Growth Engine Let’s start with some context for Bitly’s journey. You might have to rebuild your marketing team. Optimize your acquisition funnel.

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GetUplift

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

I don’t know about you but every time we hit publish on an article for our blog, our hearts skip a beat. . It’s highly unlikely that a website visitor will instantly convert after reading one blog post. . There are also two other factors that determine whether you’ll get conversions from a blog post or not: Customer research.

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Social Media Interviewing Sales Hiring Content Marketing 111

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 3, 2018

Rohini Pondhi , product management lead for Square’s Invoices product, knows this challenge well. Here are five quick takeaways: Instead of relying on word of mouth to permeate the team, write things down. At Square, I manage a product called Square Invoices. Iterate on process the same way you iterate on product.

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Blulogix

DECEMBER 3, 2024

By BluLogix Team Planning for Growth: Using Revenue Insights Planning for Growth: Using Revenue Insights For businesses seeking to expand or enter new markets, strategic planning is critical to achieving successful outcomes. Growth initiatives require not only a vision but also precise financial insights that inform decisions and reduce risk.

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SaaStr

JULY 25, 2021

You can have the great product and a great team, but the market of small or very niche. The second one is the team, obviously depending on how earlier the team has a huge factor because you may be so early in your journey that there’s nothing else to point to, but the track record of the team. Jyoti Bansal: Yeah.

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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.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 24, 2024

How should you handle presenting challenges to your C-suite team when you’ve just joined the company? Lattice had a product-led growth flow on the website while the sales team was still trying to sell the PLG companies The good news is Lattice had a lot of activity and initiatives at play. Can you start and stop a PLG motion?

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Incredo

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Affiliate partners write and distribute copies, create videos or blog posts, introduce the software, direct users to software company’s landing page. In our case, we needed to invest a lot in product development. You will never again worry about investing thousands of dollars in paid ads and receiving nothing.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

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. For your team, this step is about making your prospects realize they need your products or service.

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Stax

MARCH 18, 2025

However, a SaaS company providing global HR and payroll solutions may have a few hundred customers paying a monthly or annual feein other words, making recurring payments over a longer period of time. Churn is the percentage of customers that end their subscriptions within a certain amount of time. Churn rate.

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Most of the articles that I write on my blogs are catered towards intermediate to experienced marketers and those with a business website. Everything from a site builder, perhaps using a website template to web design and using social media to develop your new business website. These are typically blogging platforms like: Blogger.

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Underperforming Technical Team Social Media Marketplace as a Service Software Review 145

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. In the meantime, Diego started actively blogging. He’s been running SaaSholic, a blog where he writes about startups and SaaS. She’ll be talking about her approach to sales as a team sport.

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

You created, published, and promoted in-depth blog posts. And that’s when things go bad. Duplicate content on your blog, a ton of similar pages that were created automatically, or telling Google to index internal URLs can all lead to problems. Years ago, our blog at KISSmetrics saw traffic drop by 40% in less than a month.

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Totango

JULY 1, 2022

For B2B SaaS companies, customer loyalty drives subscription renewals and brand advocacy, making it a critical component of a profitable business model. This blog will look at why customer loyalty is vital for B2B SaaS businesses and how successful companies effectively cultivate it.

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Totango

JULY 28, 2021

In this blog we’ll share five of the most important best practices for hiring a customer success manager. Encouraging subscription renewal. Totango’s dynamic assignment feature lets you scale your customer success management by automatically matching team members to customers who need assistance based on fit, skill and availability.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

At Twilio, I think my entire job there my first two years was throwing t-shirts at people, because everyone had a Twilio t-shirt I think in the developer community in 2010, and that was our marketing strategy. Your sales team becomes more efficient, your customer success team becomes efficient, your customers like you more.

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Baremetrics

AUGUST 23, 2021

You need to have a strategic approach that includes identifying your market fit, developing appropriate positioning and marketing strategies, and measuring performance. Leading SaaS and subscription businesses rely on Baremetrics to track the success of product launches, essential business metrics, and more. Table of Contents.

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Totango

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

To make it to the Super Bowl, a football team must have two things: a strong defense and a strategic offense. The defense maintains a good field position and prevents the opposing team from scoring points, while the offense orchestrates smart plays to gain additional yards and score points. What is gross retention? Calculate it!

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Stax

MAY 21, 2024

As software and management systems have progressed in the modern age, time-consuming tasks like recurring payments and client management are streamlined through this process. In this article, we will explain the benefits of implementing payment management systems into your software. But improvements go much deeper than that.

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Payment Solutions Payment Services Payments Software Review 88

How To Buy Saas

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Effective sales teams are also 81% more likely to be consistent CRM users , underscoring how vital these systems are for success. By the end of this guide, youll have a clear understanding of each platforms strengths, weaknesses, and ideal use cases. Startups, SMBs, and mid-market; teams wanting all-in-one marketing + sales.

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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

So growth of the kind of subscription, eCommerce industry has been over 100% year on year for the past five years, according to McKinsey. The second constituent there is the developer. Why do developers love SaaS products? Low touch you’re gonna talk a lot about what we call customer success teams. Transcript.

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User Pilot

APRIL 30, 2024

From this article, you will find out how to develop a strong growth marketing strategy and learn growth marketing tactics for different customer journey stages. Market development targets new markets with existing products, while product development – existing markets with new products. If so, we’ve got you covered.

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Totango

JANUARY 26, 2021

For example, if you sell a subscription SaaS product, a simple procedure for calculating your monthly churn rate would be: Take how many subscribers canceled their subscriptions that month. The retention rate is calculated in a similar way, except you start with how many subscribers renewed their subscription that month.

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User Pilot

MAY 29, 2024

Since 2003, he has co-founded and successfully sold two technology companies , Sunshine Business Development, LLC and AdNectar, Inc. Included in the top 5 best personal development books of the year by Audible. Top blog posts of Nir Eyal to read Nir shares his expertise on his website’s blog, nirandfar.com.

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User Pilot

MARCH 9, 2023

The key causes of customer churn are poor customer support , buggy product, wrong product-market fit, bad user experience, poor onboarding process, high pricing, and long time-to-value. Bad customer support: One bad experience with your customer support team can push customers to consider leaving your product.

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SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2021

Turns out a founding team of six MBAs creating a full suite of products sold solely to SMBs can become a multi-million dollar public company in nine years – and continue growing rapidly ($77.6 Dharmesh : …said, “This is a very bad idea. million in 2013 to $115.9 million in 2014.). I said, “Holy crap.

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User Pilot

JANUARY 31, 2023

TL;DR At-risk customers are those who are showing signs of canceling their subscriptions. The main factors contributing to at-risk customers include poor onboarding process , lack of product value perception, lousy customer support, unfixed bugs, and no learning materials, resource center, and FAQs. What are at-risk customers?

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Neil Patel

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

WordPress is my go-to for managing my NeilPatel.com blog as well as my other websites. Built-In Blog. WordPress was created as software for content management, so all of its sites have a built-in blog feature that makes adding a blog to your website easy. There is no need to create a separate blog for your WordPress site.

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Baremetrics

DECEMBER 28, 2020

If you’re running a subscription or SaaS business, you know that at the end of the day your chief metric is monthly recurring revenue (MRR). Churn occurs when an existing subscription is canceled, downgraded, paused, or becomes delinquent. You may be thinking, “How bad can it be?” Think about that. Let’s be real.

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Neil Patel

APRIL 5, 2023

More specifically, we’ll explore how you can get an inside look at your competitors on each of the following fronts: SEO and web traffic Social media PPC and ads Blog content 1. Below is my search for SEO in 2023: As you can see, my initial search shows some news pieces and competitor articles and gives me a few ideas for blog topics.

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Payment Methods Social Media Payment Services AI Search 133

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.

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Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

For years we have been reading and hand-picking the best SaaS blog posts to share with 24K+ SaaS Roundup subscribers. Subscriber or not, anyone who wants to increase their SaaS knowledge will benefit by reading the … For years we have been reading and hand-picking the best SaaS blog posts to share with 24K+ SaaS Roundup subscribers.

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ProfitWell

MARCH 27, 2019

On this episode of the ProfitWell Report, Sarah Bedrick , Co-Founder and Head of Marketing at Compt , is curious to know if we have any data on how open offices impact subscription growth. We studied just over one thousand subscription and SaaS companies who had teams that were co-located in the same location. Click to enlarge.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Renaud Visage, Co-Founder of Eventbrite, and Romain Huet, Head of Developer Relations at Stripe, know what it takes to effectively evolve your offering into a platform without losing what made offering appealing in the first place. Romain Huet | Head of Developer Relations @ Stripe. Want to see more content like this?

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Totango

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

They can store customer contact data, identify sales opportunities, schedule sales appointments, record notes from sales meetings and manage sales teams. If you don’t know, you’ll have a hard time predicting whether customers are leaning toward subscription renewal or churn. CRM tools are great at what they’re designed for.

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Neil Patel

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

The whole thing is pretty simple and only involves choosing a subscription plan, registering your domain name, and finalizing the deal. You can use Domain Wheel , a free website name generator, to develop more ideas if you’re looking for some inspiration. price tag only if you choose the three-year subscription plan.

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