FastSpring

JANUARY 27, 2022

Note: FastSpring offers advanced subscription management services that support free trials, monthly and annual paid plans, proration, discount management, and more. How Castos upsells subscription tiers. His podcast hosting company uses data analytics that looks at which users are most likely to grow out of their current subscriptions.

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FastSpring

MAY 20, 2024

Moving some, all, or simply more of your software offerings from a one-time perpetual license model to a software as a service (SaaS) subscription model can be daunting, but it’s so powerful for building dependable, recurring revenue. Letting FastSpring handle the subscription infrastructure. Start small with an incremental approach.

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Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

MARCH 23, 2020

Companies which don’t use mental models risk unleashing mayhem with poor choices or becoming bloated and bureaucratic by reducing the volume and speed at which decisions are made - both scenarios are undesirable and will impact growth. OKRs are a useful mental model - they make it crystal clear what people and teams should be striving for.

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Building on the definitions from that essay and introducing a few new ones, here are the types of business models we’ll cover: SaaS: software that businesses access online and purchase via a subscription e.g. Slack, Adobe, Atlassian. Consumer Branding. Casey certainly felt this at Grubhub. Trust and Quality.

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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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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. The 4-stage AIDA model involves the following: Awareness: Potential customers discover your brand and products. For your team, this step is about making your prospects realize they need your products or service.

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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. In our case, we needed to invest a lot in product development. But is your website ready?

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SaaS Payments Payment Methods Merchant Services Sales Recruiting 139

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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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. Then we’ll explore why it plays a major role for B2B SaaS business models and how loyalty for B2B businesses differs from that for B2C brands. What Is Customer Loyalty?

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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 2016, he co-founded Meetime, an Inside Sales Strategies company and now serves as its CMO, building a powerful branding and content creation operation. Talk: Sales is a Team Sport.

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FastSpring

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Full Interview: Audio Only Full Interview: Video 3 CRO Insights From Dave Gowans Why Full Funnel CRO Is Especially Important for SaaS and Subscriptions “The easiest and most straightforward bit of CRO is what you can do on the website,” Dave says. Stream the entire conversation or read the highlights below. Jump to highlights.

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Payment Methods SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payments 179

Totango

JULY 28, 2021

Customer success managers serve as the face of your company in dealing with clients, playing a key role in ensuring satisfying experiences of your brand. This can determine whether customers renew or churn and whether they become loyal ambassadors for your brand. Encouraging subscription renewal. Suggesting upsells.

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Everything from a site builder, perhaps using a website template to web design and using social media to develop your new business website. So then, you decide to upgrade to a subscription plan. This is just as bad as not having a website in the first place. While they aren’t extremely expensive, they aren’t cheap, either.

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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.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

In August of 2016, Rachel Hepworth embarked on a unique challenge: start a growth marketing team at one of the most successful startups of this generation – one that had long relied heavily on word of mouth. I stumbled upon Eric Ries and Steve Blank, the concept of customer development – it was a revelation.

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Neil Patel

MARCH 8, 2021

Both customer support and customer success teams are important for your brand’s ongoing growth and success, and the roles share similar skill sets. Customer support teams have one-on-one conversations with customers and work closely with product design and engineering teams to fix issues. What Is Customer Support?

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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

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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FastSpring

JANUARY 31, 2023

payment processing, gathering and remitting taxes, and subscription management) and what additional software you’ll need to add to your tech stack. In addition, they also offer a few basic features for subscription management, fraud detection, invoicing, and more. Flexible subscription management and recurring billing tools.

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Payment Services Payment Methods Merchant Services Software Review 147

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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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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Underperforming Technical Team Strategy Marketing Customer Lifetime Value 105

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. The results are evident. What is Sales-Led Growth?

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2019

Businesses also win if, as a result of AI, teams are able to create more white-glove moments that turn users into customers for life. Here are five quick takeaways: Businesses focused on scaling need to think of customer support as a revenue team , not a cost center. For us, that first fit was with growing sales teams.

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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.

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SaaS Payments Payment Methods Outsourced Development Underperforming Technical Team 111

User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

A messaging strategy is a marketing framework /plan that outlines how your brand communicates its key messages and unique selling proposition to its target audience. Differentiation : Strategic messaging highlights what makes your brand unique, showcasing features and benefits that set you apart from competitors.

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Chart Mogul

JANUARY 9, 2025

Whats important to note is that each model targets a distinct customer persona and, therefore, has a unique approach to the customer journeyfrom brand awareness to sales and, ultimately, conversion. Your sales team may need to map out all potential targets and how to access potential buyers within those larger businesses.

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Stax

MARCH 18, 2025

Churn is the percentage of customers that end their subscriptions within a certain amount of time. If your product is amazing, but you have a poor onboarding process, chances are high you’ll have a low activation rate. These efforts increase brand visibility while reducing marketing costs. Churn rate.

Scale 117

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Neil Patel

APRIL 5, 2023

It offers an easy way to stay in the loop about what’s happening in their industry or with their favorite brands. The free option allows one search, then you need a paid subscription. Ahrefs does offer a premium product with tiered subscription packages. Paid subscriptions start from $119.95

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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.

Scale 52

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Totango

OCTOBER 20, 2021

This delivers better service for your customers and better results for your company, promoting higher retention rates and greater motivation for customers to become brand advocates. Organizations that prioritize optimizing customer journeys will enjoy greater customer satisfaction, retention and brand advocacy.

Scale 99

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SaaStr

MARCH 26, 2019

Scaling the company’s employee base, sales teams, marketing, and operations—all while preserving its culture—has required a laser focus on first principles, smart processes, and effective hiring. Know who is the foundation of your product and build your product for that user (in Stripe’s case, developers). Know your forever user.

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User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

It helps build customer retention and brand loyalty. Customer-led growth focuses on using customer insights to drive overall business growth, including product development, acquisition strategies, and customer retention. A simple in-app prompt encouraging users to book a one-on-one interview with your team can be a good start.

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Frontegg

DECEMBER 2, 2021

In addition, we are excited to welcome our new partners – the visionary team from Insight Partners, led by Praveen Akkiraju, Daniel Aronovitz, and Jeff Horring. Additionally, our diversity-first team has grown to more than 30 top-notch talents (you are an incredible team of people, each and every one of you!)and

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 29, 2019

It’s no surprise that one of the key levers for growth as you go from startup to scale-up is your sales team. How quickly you’re able to accelerate growth depends on your ability to build a nimble sales org and develop a strong sales strategy. These lay the foundation that enables your team to run as efficiently as possible.

Scale 172

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Neil Patel

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Making great looking, on-brand, up-to-date content of any kind is hard. Plus, with prior versions logged, changes to documents can be examined and the original can be restored if something bad happens. One, they should have fairly well-developed OCR capabilities. I find these metrics ultra-valuable. Document Creation.

Payment Solutions 145

Payment Solutions Payment Services Software Review Software 145

User Pilot

OCTOBER 10, 2022

In this article, we’ll cover the key metrics you need to develop an informed feature adoption strategy and discuss how you can improve them. Feature adoption allows you to separate the successful features from the underperforming ones. Uncover weak spots and improve feature adoption. We’ve got you covered! Time to adopt.

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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. They serve to promote customer satisfaction, retention and brand advocacy, not just sales per se. CRM tools are great at what they’re designed for. You Can’t Evaluate Customer Health.

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