Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

MARCH 23, 2020

Google, Apple and HubSpot are just three examples of industry-leading companies which use mental models to aid quick decision-making. The table below shows the impact of mental models on decision-making: Decision-Making. OKRs are a useful mental model - they make it crystal clear what people and teams should be striving for.

Underperforming Technical Team 213

Underperforming Technical Team Scale Sales Hiring Marketplace as a Service 213

SaaStr

JANUARY 27, 2024

What’s the Business Model Behind Automattic and WordPress? A year later, they created Automattic as a commercial services business around WordPress. WordPress is its own ecosystem, a vibrant community of hundreds of thousands of people who create add-ons, plugins, and develop sites. It’s not meant to be a consumer brand.

Underperforming Technical Team 331

Underperforming Technical Team Social Media Government Subscription 331

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. Are you looking for a merchant of record that will partner with you to grow your SaaS business?

SaaS Payments 158

SaaS Payments Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions 158

Stax

MARCH 18, 2025

The SaaS industry has seen explosive growth in the past decadeand this is expected to continue this year. Join the payments-led growth movement Sign up to keep up-to-date with the latest trends in payments, vertical SaaS, and technology from industry experts. Customer lifetime value. Customer acquisition cost.

Scale 117

Scale Payment Services Payments SaaS Payments 117

SaaSOptics

APRIL 7, 2022

How do they benefit SaaS companies, and what tools are needed to implement a successful freemium offering? Here’s everything you need to know about freemium offers in product-led SaaS. Even the most SaaS-savvy users require a human touchpoint at some point in the buyer’s journey. Is Freemium a Good Business Model?

Business Model 74

Business Model Payment Features Business SaaS 74

SaaStr

JULY 25, 2021

They talked about product adoption, sales alignment, freemium models and lessons they have learned throughout their successful SaaS careers. You can have the great product and a great team, but the market of small or very niche. How defendable is the technology of the product or the business model?

Sales Recruiting 261

Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale VP of Engineering 261

Totango

JULY 1, 2022

Customer loyalty is a key to repeat business and referral generation for any business model. For B2B SaaS companies, customer loyalty drives subscription renewals and brand advocacy, making it a critical component of a profitable business model. Why is Customer Loyalty Important for B2B SaaS Businesses?

B2B 114

B2B B2C Underperforming Technical Team Business 114

ProfitWell

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Ever since John Koenig first coined the term “SaaS” back in 2005, the software-as-a-service industry has been one of the fastest-moving and creative in the world. The SaaS business model powering all of this activity is startlingly unique, still young, and inextricably tied to the power of cloud computing. What is SaaS?

Business Model 54

Business Model SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payments 54

FastSpring

JANUARY 27, 2022

Small tweaks to your SaaS billing practices can make a huge impact on the customer experience. For example, Jon Torres — a digital marketing consultant specializing in SaaS commerce — noticed that, for some of his clients, refund requests spiked around renewal time. “It 7 growth hacks from the SaaS experts. Learn more here.

Merchant Services 146

Merchant Services Payment Services SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 146

SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

In his excellent article, The Manufacturer’s Dilemma , the author Geoffrey Moore gives perhaps the most succinct economic premise of the shift to the SaaS model: “The ultimate consequence of all this is as simple as it is devastating: product is no longer king. Overcoming A Manufacturer’s Mentality In SaaS.

Sales Hiring 173

Sales Hiring Scale Underperforming Technical Team Onboarding 173

SaaStr

JULY 29, 2022

Jason Lemkin: One is, how do you penetrate tiny SMBs that aren’t Googling, searching, that don’t have time, and two, how do you subsidize hardware costs in SaaS? But the lazy approach, the content marketing approach, it has some benefits but it really is tough to penetrate these traditional offline businesses.

Scale 273

Scale Scaling Sales Hiring Enterprise 273

Practical Advice on SaaS marketing

OCTOBER 8, 2013

But that would be a bad idea. This same logic applies to people searching for business solutions. How can software-as-a-service (SaaS) companies can take advantage of that logic? Focus on a problem, a customer, a geography, something A SaaS company can focus on a particular problem or task. One word: Focus.

Marketing 100

Marketing SaaS Underperforming Technical Team Acquisition 100

User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

Confused about trying to understand SaaS roles? SaaS companies have many moving parts, and it can be difficult to determine who does what. TL;DR SaaS, or “Software as a Service,” is a business model that delivers centrally hosted software to subscribers over the internet. What is a SaaS business model?

Sales Hiring 98

Sales Hiring SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting CTO Hire 98

Outseta

JANUARY 20, 2020

In this post I’m going to share the most important lessons about growing a SaaS business that I learned at Buildium—collectively, these things had an awful lot to do with the company being valued so highly. I was managing a team of 15 and the company had grown to about 140 employees. How the hell does that happen?

SaaS Payments 145

SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Payment Methods Payment Services 145

Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Whether you created your SaaS product to help solve a problem you had or because you wanted some extra income, the truth is that your SaaS business is a valuable asset. Running a profitable SaaS business allows you to take control of your own schedule - some would even say your life! Table of Contents.

SaaS Payments 105

SaaS Payments Technical Review Development Team Review Software Review 105

Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 27, 2020

This is part three of a three part series on sequencing business models. In part two of our Sequencing Business Models series , we talked about the different types of marketplaces and what needs to be built to be effective in each of them. Integration platforms are ubiquitous in SaaS. Integration Platforms.

Payments 56

Payments Business Model Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 56

Chart Mogul

OCTOBER 3, 2019

The customer acquisition cost can help you create, measure, and improve a business model that will put your business on the path to profitability. You’re starting a new business. How about your business model ? Every team has their own slightly different way of calculating the cost of customer acquisition.

Acquisition 91

Acquisition Underperforming Technical Team Startup Customer Lifetime Value 91

Frontegg

JUNE 17, 2021

As explained in the first part of this series, we clearly saw why Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is the way to go when it comes to establishing self-serving applications that can be scaled up and developed fast(er). Let’s learn more about how to get started with your SaaS journey. Getting Started with SaaS App Development.

ECS (Elastic Container Service) 97

ECS (Elastic Container Service) multi-cloud Kubernetes K8S orchestration (Kubernetes) EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) 97

Baremetrics

AUGUST 1, 2021

Acquiring customers for SaaS is a completely different ball game altogether than, say, for the traditional business models (think: eCommerce, for instance). In the SaaS industry, acquiring new leads through short-term marketing promotions will not cut it--which works as a killer strategy for the eCommerce business model.

Acquisition 98

Acquisition Strategy SaaS Underperforming Technical Team 98

Stax

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Software as a Service (SaaS) has made business software more accessible by offering cloud-based, on-demand access to a range of solutions, from project management and collaboration to sales and marketing. But not all SaaS products are alike. Some solutions, like Slack or Microsoft, are useful for any kind of business.

SaaS Payments 88

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payments Payment Solutions 88

Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 21, 2018

Whether you’re at an early-stage startup that’s just made its first sales hires, or part of a fast-moving sales team in a large organization, the key to success often comes down to efficiency. How can you capture, qualify and convert the right leads for your business while working within your means? Short on time?

Sales Hiring 183

Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Technical Advisors 183

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. Here’s an example of OTE levels for a SaaS business hiring salespeople in the Bay Area: Table 2. Example Compensation Plans. Step 5: Set Targets.

Compensation 110

Compensation Sales Hiring Development Team Review Sales Recruiting 110

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). Dare I say SaaS.

Scale 160

Scale Payment Services Payment Methods Scaling 160

SaaSX

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Don’t entrust your product to a third-party representative unless your current business model can stand on its own two feet all by itself and, perhaps more importantly, can prove its own viability. Proven techniques for training: Onboarding a new partner means you’ll effectively be onboarding an adjunct sales team.

Outsourcing Services 93

Outsourcing Services Strategy Underperforming Technical Team Technical Advisors 93

User Pilot

MAY 11, 2022

Are you aware that product user segmentation affects all stages of the user journey and the overall growth of a business? You can use product usage data to develop an effective marketing strategy, improve products, retain customers , as well as to accelerate customer adoption. Want to implement user segmentation to your SaaS?

SaaS 98

SaaS Underperforming Technical Team Onboarding Churn 98

Baremetrics

JANUARY 12, 2022

This article is one such list, where we take a deep dive into cash flow modeling for SaaS businesses and the software that can help you do it. Cash flow modeling is a necessary but complicated task. In this article, we are going to summarize the six tools you should consider for cash flow modeling in 2022.

Payment Services 95

Payment Services Payment Methods SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 95

Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 20, 2020

This is part two of a three part series on sequencing business models. Casey’s first sequencing business models essay talked about the transition from a SaaS business model to marketplace business model, and why it’s so difficult. This essay is a collaboration with Gilad Horev.

Marketplace as a Service 40

Marketplace as a Service Business Model SaaS Payments Payments 40

User Pilot

MARCH 15, 2022

Why a go-to-market strategy plays an integral of your SaaS product success? We will cover what they are, why you need them, and how to create one for your SaaS business using real examples. We will cover what they are, why you need them, and how to create one for your SaaS business using real examples.

Strategy 98

Strategy Marketing SaaS Customer Lifetime Value 98

TriTuns

JANUARY 21, 2020

*This is an updated version of the article , “The Big Bold Future Of SaaS Growth Is Customer Success” that I originally published on Software Executive Magazine in May 2019. Do you want to boldly grow your SaaS company in 2020 – and beyond? This is fundamentally changing your business model and your mindset.

SaaS 71

SaaS Underperforming Technical Team Customer Success Business Model 71

TriTuns

JANUARY 21, 2020

*This is an updated version of the article , “The Big Bold Future Of SaaS Growth Is Customer Success” that I originally published on Software Executive Magazine in May 2019. Do you want to boldly grow your SaaS company in 2020 – and beyond? This is fundamentally changing your business model and your mindset.

SaaS 71

SaaS Underperforming Technical Team Customer Success Business Model 71

Kellblog

JULY 18, 2019

Great core/founding team. Thus, there is a good chance one or all of the founding team will be around, and in influential positions, for a long time. Bad startups are feature addicts who pile feature upon feature atop a deteriorating architecture, creating an Augean Stables of technical debt. Startups are about people.

Underperforming Technical Team 81

Underperforming Technical Team Startup Software Technical Cofounder 81

How To Buy Saas

DECEMBER 1, 2020

SaaS is a global software solution created by different businesses in order to improve human activities in a matter of clicks. SAAS is also abbreviated as software as a service. In this saas marketing strategy guide, we are going to tell you everything about saas marketing. What is SAAS marketing?

Growth Hacking 105

Growth Hacking Payment Methods SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 105

SaaStr

JANUARY 14, 2020

In this presentation, Pluralsight co-founder and CEO Aaron Skonnard will discuss how Pluralsight successfully transformed its business to serve both individual and enterprise customers independently and will share his lessons for SaaS companies looking to tap into individual customers to sell into enterprises and vice versa.

B2B 173

B2B B2C Scale New CTO 173

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

SDRs and BDRs are often young and ambitious, and their investment in these entry-level positions is formative to developing their sales style and shaping the career paths they will choose. Sales development and customer success have in common a customer-facing approach. SDRs can make excellent customer success reps.

Sales Hiring 117

Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Sales Advertising 117

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?

Payments 171

Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payment Services 171

Kellblog

MARCH 11, 2020

Some SaaS startups develop a form of zero-sum delusion early in their evolution, characterized by following set of beliefs. If the StartFast doesn’t work, it’s not a big deal because the Customer Success team’s mission is to offer free clean-up after failed implementations.

Underperforming Technical Team 100

Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring Consulting Forecasting 100

Stax

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Software-as-a-service (SaaS) businesses need to constantly evolve their offerings to stay fresh and relevant. By partnering with a trusted SaaS billing platform. In this guide, we’re going to cover what companies need to consider when choosing a SaaS billing platform—and how Stax Connect makes this process simple.

Payments 88

Payments SaaS Payments Payment Services Merchant Services 88