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. It wasn’t the case 20 or even 10 years ago, where the business models of the internet were more focused on eCommerce, marketplaces, or even advertising. How good is my business doing?

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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. A business is SaaS or SaaS-like if it sells anything else software-related.

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Marketplace as a Service Business Model SaaS Payments Payments 141

SaaStock

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Notey Labs create digital solutions to help companies handle international online space. Ultrasite is a global website builder, Chinafy is a tool for making websites China-compatible, and Connect is their collaborative content management platform for brands. ViSenze recommends items to customers on websites and social media.

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FastSpring

JANUARY 31, 2023

To help you choose between Stripe vs. Paddle vs. FastSpring, this guide compares: What areas of the payment lifecycle each one provides a solution for (e.g., payment processing, gathering and remitting taxes, and subscription management) and what additional software you’ll need to add to your tech stack.

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Payment Services Payment Methods Merchant Services Software Review 147

Incredo

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

3) Almost any business in the world needs this or that software for its own needs. Software to track analytics, transfer payments, manage inventory, create videos and for many other things. 5) Everyone minds his own business. 2) Software companies can pay high commissions because they don’t sell physical products.

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Subscription Flow

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Likewise, checkout is the point where customers say goodbye to eCommerce retailers. In this article, SubscriptionFlow offers an ultimate tech solution for those who want to run their eCommerce business and need to make transactions from or to the South African region. And why do we emphasize so much on the checkout experience?

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Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Shopify is a huge opportunity for developers looking to expand into the micro-SaaS space. The Shopify App Store brings together Shopify app developers and Shopify shop owners for their mutual benefit. What is a business metric? Quick ratio: How efficiently is your business increasing its MRR? Table of Contents.

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SaaStr

JUNE 20, 2019

In this session, the audience will learn about Adyen’s journey from a Dutch payments startup, to a global public company with more than 15 offices around the world working with large global companies like Facebook, Spotify, Uber and Microsoft. I mean payment cultures, payment habits are, yeah, different in every country all over the world.

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FastSpring

MAY 20, 2024

As the VP and General Manager of the Stardock Software division, Brad led his team through this process and has learned some valuable lessons about doing it as strategically and easily as possible. Are you looking for a merchant of record that will partner with you to grow your SaaS business? Recurring payment processing.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 3, 2018

Here are five quick takeaways: Instead of relying on word of mouth to permeate the team, write things down. If Rohini’s team is making changes to the UI or the front end, they can test quickly and easily, but because their core product is payments-based, much more rigor is required compared to your typical software product.

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FastSpring

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Barriers are anything that stop a buyer from converting, such as website usability, solution fit, or pricing. But he explains that what happens on the website is such a small and early part of the entire customer relationship. For many companies, that’s a very long way from when you actually get any money from them.”

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SaaStr

MARCH 26, 2019

Formerly a senior leader at Google, Claire Hughes Johnson is now Chief Operating Officer at Stripe, where she’s helped guide the online payments firm through rapid growth. Know who is the foundation of your product and build your product for that user (in Stripe’s case, developers). I’m an execution person.

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User Pilot

MARCH 25, 2024

What will you give to reduce customer attrition rate and drive business growth? TL;DR Customer attrition or customer churn is the loss of a customer(s) by a business. Some effective strategies for reducing customer churn include: Personalize the onboarding for new customers to shorten the time to value.

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Stax

MARCH 18, 2025

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. Take a traditional business, like a furniture store. This method can help you determine the best ways to reach SaaS growth within your business.

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 29, 2020

They don’t have the strategy, tactics, or tools they need to market their business well. The bad news is that marketers waste 37 to 95 percent of their marketing budget. This is really common, but it doesn’t have to be; if you have the right digital marketing strategy in place, growing your business is easier.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2021

If you’re a senior engineer and want to further your career, what skills should you develop? Moving forward in your career, avoid the trap of doing work that feels high-impact, but it’s actually not , or work that makes you look good at the expense of the project and the team. How do people move into staff engineering roles?

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Scytale

JANUARY 21, 2025

Data breaches are a modern-day nightmare for all types of businesses, particularly for SaaS companies handling sensitive customer information. Lets take a closer look at the major data breaches of 2024, the lessons learned, and how your business can proactively protect itself from becoming the next headline. And what does that mean?

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Payment Services Payment Methods SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 52

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 4, 2019

The fastest growing software companies in recent years all have something in common – they started with little to no sales team. Yes, Slack started off with no sales team. Yes, Dropbox started off with no traditional sales team. billion in revenue) so it’s safe to say Jeanne and her team have helped do exactly that.

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Neil Patel

APRIL 12, 2021

They offer some of the best-known subscription boxes around, reflecting an increasingly popular (and potentially lucrative) business model. Recurring Business Revenue. If you want to be in this niche, perhaps consider narrowing it down by choosing only to use small businesses or those from a specific region of the United States.

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How To Buy Saas

JANUARY 1, 2021

Online learning is a new trend which we are have encountered by now. Online learning and course are expected to rise with time and see a figure of $325 billion by 2025. Well, that’s enough to motivate yourself to start creating your first course using the best online course platforms. Why Choose an Online Course Platform?

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Payment Methods Payments Payment Solutions Marketplace as a Service 98

Stax

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

In the new, digital era of payment management and shopping, protecting customer data is a top priority. While the news may bring breaking headlines about stolen or lost data from large corporations, every business can take the steps necessary to secure sensitive data. PCI DSS stands for “Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards.”

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FastSpring

JANUARY 27, 2022

We also show you how to personalize your billing practices with advice from our experience working with thousands of SaaS businesses. The person using your SaaS product may not have access to the credit card used to sign up. He then sent out a link to this page inside payment failure notification emails.

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Neil Patel

MAY 3, 2021

It’s more likely to be UX design or software development. With the internet and software playing such an essential part in our lives, more and more skilled programmers are needed to develop and maintain the tools we need to thrive. Interacting with Websites. It’s become much easier to build and run websites in recent years.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 1, 2018

We gave up chasing these mythical “grow your website with this one weird trick” things. Then you get them to your website. What the hell happens when they land on your website? What the hell happens when they land on your website? It is effectively the app store for the web, but it’s weirdly even more addictive.

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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! But what’s the final checkpoint for your business?

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

PHP can make your website better for SEO and better for your users. PHP, or Hypertext Preprocessor, is a programming language that allows users to create dynamic content on a website. The goal behind PHP is to help make your website more interactive and more interesting. There’s a lot of misconceptions about PHP for SEO.

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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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Neil Patel

JANUARY 21, 2021

Starting a business, even a bootstrapped one, is expensive. Wrike is a versatile and comprehensive project management tool, perfect for startups and businesses of all sizes. Wrike also makes collaboration seamless with shared calendars, file sharing, and team reports time tracking. Bootstrapping Tools to Create a Website.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 23, 2020

Though technology has allowed us to work remotely for quite some time, companies have debated whether it’s truly best for business. We caught up for a chat that ranged from how to stand out in a crowded marketplace to why it’s a bad idea to judge your product’s success simply based on how much time people are spending in it.

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Unbounce

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

/ Landing page optimization Mastering ecommerce conversion rate optimization: expert tips and inspirational examples By Alan O’Sullivan. 37 min read If you work on ecommerce projects and you’re not already BFFs with conversion rate optimization (aka “CRO”), you’re really missing out. What is a good ecommerce conversion rate?

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Neil Patel

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Estimates, proposals, contracts, invoices—documents are the base layer of every business relationship. It turns a really inefficient workflow into a streamlined process with tools to identify, sort, tag, and store all kinds of file types. This is a huge step forward for businesses that lose all control once they have sent a document.

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Payment Solutions Payment Services Software Review Software 145

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 Dopple’s team took the opposite approach. We want people that are trying to do something a little different and lean into future-proofing their business.”

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Baremetrics

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Content marketing is one of the most effective methods of generating brand awareness and brand preference specifically among your ideal target audience. The purpose of this marketing strategy is to attract organic traffic to your domain, and establish your business as a trusted authority in that area.

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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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Subscription Flow

OCTOBER 2, 2024

In simple terms, revenue leakage means that a business is unable to collect a 100% of its earned income. For subscription-based businesses, revenue leakage means the waste of potential capital which has been rightfully earned. Boasting revenue is the central goal for subscription-based businesses.

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Stax

JANUARY 3, 2024

In this blog, we will cover what your small business needs to consider when implementing self-checkout. Poor implementation of self-checkouts can add friction to the customer experience, so it’s important to design a tailored checkout strategy and smooth implementation. App-based scanning and payment. Handheld scanners.

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Stax

MAY 21, 2024

The consistent software updates and upgrades have made it easier than ever to run businesses. We’re seeing a similar trend in the legal industry, where law firms rely on case management systems to run their businesses. This trusty software manages the busy work often assigned to multiple employees.

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