SaaStr

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

If I had 1 mentor, just 1, Who said: If you are at $10m ARR, Growing 100%, With 150% net revenue retention, With 80% viral and free lead acquisiton, And 50+ NPS, Then, You have already build a unicorn-in-waiting. This CXO asked me if I could help him find a few good advisors to help them on the revenue side. Find yours.

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Tom Tunguz

MARCH 29, 2015

Like most things in a startup, a sales commission plan should evolve as the company scales. For example, as Mark Roberge, CRO of Hubspot, wrote in The Sales Acceleration Formula , Hubspot adopted three different sales compensation plans throughout its early evolution which embody the three key ingredients of a sales compensation plan.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 29, 2019

SaaS is about creating long-term value for your customer, and being compensated appropriately for that value as a business. Learn actionable monetization tips from a Product/Growth operator turned VC. Built out a bunch of the orb across product, data, analytics to do much of the same work, to drive retention and monetization.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

With the rise of AI, new sales technology and automation at the forefront of the sales echo chamber these days, we thought we’d take a moment to bring it back to BASICS – that’s why we’ve rounded up this complete glossary of sales terms and definitions to help you remember where it all started.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 16, 2020

But look closer and you’ll see Giphy is yet another beneficiary of the Era of the Ecosystem — this paradigm in SaaS where the ability to integrate your technology into other products is just as important as your product itself. See more fun Slack integrations here.). Every vertical in SaaS looks just as large and exciting as this one.

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Buffer Resources

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Meta Creator Compensation for AI Chatbots Meta is investing heavily in creators , with a whopping $5 million deal for a top creator’s contribution to AI chatbots. Explore Meta’s creator programs to potentially monetize your contributions. Explore these quality options to optimize video content on the platform.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 30, 2021

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Neil Ringers , EVP of Revenue Grid. Neil’s experience includes a long history of sales leadership, primarily in the Salesforce ecosystem, and is now running revenue for Revenue Grid. How Revenue Grid enables smarter selling. powered by Sounder.

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Neil Patel

JUNE 15, 2021

The platform offers marketers a unique opportunity to further brand recognition and grow their follower base in a somewhat unconventional form. Part blog-host, part social platform, Medium provides writers with a unique mode of connection with their audiences. The platform has over 400,000 paying subscribers ($4.99

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SaaStr

JUNE 16, 2020

Leveraging survey data from 66+ enterprise SaaS companies, Matt Garratt, Managing Partner of Salesforce Ventures shares the landscape of how businesses are shifting their sales & GTM strategies to react to today’s uncertain times. Adnan Chaudhry | SVP of Sales @ Salesforce. Companies tend to stick around.

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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. Nico: Exactly.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

See what the top 10 platforms you should be looking at in 2021 are to make an informed decision for your business needs. Most enterprise CRMs offer more features than simple CRMs and can support complex sales operations with advanced reporting capabilities, product libraries, sales enablement and tools, and more.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 27, 2019

How to Design a Sales Comp Plan to Get You to $100M with Work-Bench, Movable Ink, MongoDB and Concert Finance. Depending on size and stage, variable compensation can be one of a company’s highest expense items, and a thoughtful approach is key. Meghan Gill | VP of Sales Ops @ MongoDB. Want to see more content like this?

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 13, 2021

The new joint solution is improved by having the OEM technology embedded into its application, providing increased value to the end customer. The licensor enjoys a new revenue stream. The key defining factor is that the OEM software is embedded into an existing application or platform, and it sells as part of that application.

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User Pilot

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

If you ask any sales rep, they’ll all tell you the same thing: the SaaS sales process is absolutely grueling! That being said, having a firm grasp on each distinct stage and the various tactics you can use throughout the sales cycle can make the endeavor a lot easier. What is the SaaS sales process?

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

You’d probably work on growing your business, right? Maybe you’d spend it creating new marketing campaigns to generate more revenue. Regardless, the average small business owner spends five hours every pay period running payroll. The best payroll services exist to simplify the process of paying your employees.

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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. They seem to be completely at odds, with one focused on clients with a high acquisition cost and high ACV (annual account value), the other focused on a high sales velocity. What is inside sales?

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Chargify

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

The title says it all…calculating sales commission shouldn’t be a pain in the SaaS. Yet, after countless conversations with SaaS sales teams, including our own, we concluded that everyone shares the same sentiment—it IS a pain in the SaaS. . Notice that total revenue is broken out by MRR and usage revenue.

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Stax

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

This is good news because it means you won’t have to inflate your base prices to cover payment processing fees. These fees help the business offset the cost of credit card processing fees, which the merchant typically has to pay to the card issuer and payment processor. Learn More What is a Credit Card Surcharge?

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ChurnZero

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Whether Customer Success or Sales should own the renewal, expansion, and upsell is a hot-button issue in today’s SaaS sphere. That was followed by the undecided (24%) leaving only 13% of participants who voted against the motion (believing that Sales should own the renewal).

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Stax

APRIL 30, 2024

Whether you run a small online store or a major brand, accepting electronic payments is a must for all businesses. According to Onbe, 73% of consumers prefer using digital payments like cards and payment apps. But to seamlessly receive these payments as a merchant, you’ll need merchant processing services.

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Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Payment Structure: 3 payments (at close, 12 months & 18 months). I’m at my most fulfilled when I’m creating and am generally indifferent on growing or scaling things. The prospect of sticking around for years to actually get the payout was soul-crushing and I just wasn’t interested. How we got here.

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User Pilot

AUGUST 31, 2023

The purpose of customer acquisition is to expand and make more revenue. Teams from Marketing, Demand Generation, Growth, Sales, Media Buying, and Customer Success are in charge of customer acquisition. The purpose of customer acquisition is to help companies expand and make more revenue. Book a demo now to learn more.

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All that Saas

MAY 1, 2021

In this roundup, we are going to have a look at some of the best Influencer Marketing Platforms that you can use to connect with the right influencers, manage campaigns, measure analytics, and a lot more. Influencer marketing platforms are a great solution to engage with your audience in the right way. dollars in 2018. Influence4you.

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Buffer Resources

JULY 11, 2023

I want to share more about my journey of building a creator business while working full-time. Here are what I did to achieve growth and monetization in the first five months. Focus on evergreen and owned platforms Most creators default to publishing content on social media platforms first.

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Kellblog

AUGUST 7, 2019

I’ve been asked about this a few times lately, less because people value my accounting knowledge [1] but rather because people are curious about the CAC impact of such deals and how to compensate sales on them. The question on my mind is how do I look at this from a new ARR bookings, ending ARR, CAC, and sales compensation perspective?

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Baremetrics

MAY 7, 2019

Company C was funded by pre-orders from customers, a friends and family round, and then through revenue-based financing for a period of time. Dictionaries and founders alike can’t agree on the definition of what it means to bootstrap a business. Bootstrapping purists insist on only using revenue from customers to fund the business.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast , we interview Rob Lopez , SVP of Sales at Justworks , one of the fastest growing businesses focused on HR including payroll, benefits and the like. If you missed episode 33, check it out here: PODCAST 33: How to Grow and Scale a Company in the Digital Age w/ Ilir Sela.

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OpenView Labs

MARCH 16, 2021

The usage-based pricing model almost feels like a cheat code —it enables SaaS companies to more efficiently acquire new customers, grow with those customers as they’re successful, and keep those customers on the platform. It more closely aligns payment with a customer’s consumption, thereby impacting cash flow and revenue recognition.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Today on the show, we’ve got Brian Litvack, the first person that ever hired me as a sales consultant and my fast friend. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Sam Jacobs: Today on the show, we’ve got Brian Litvack, the first person that ever hired me as a sales consultant and my fast friend. We’re on iTunes.

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Outseta

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

Indie.VC (V3) Website: [link] Key Personnel: Bryce Roberts Revenue Requirement: Post revenue, but no minimum requirement. Board Seat: No Investment Docs: [link] Application Deadline: March 1, 2019 Apply Here: [link] Indie VC is the OG on this block and describes itself as “growth revenue for post-revenue companies.”

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OPEXEngine

AUGUST 9, 2022

Sales capacity tends to get rusted in place, and when markets move quickly, the return on the cost of sales inevitably starts to flatten. Ensure sales leaders are sweating the details of daily execution. No digital tool can compensate for a lack of discipline at the front line. Getting the back of the house in order.

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Buffer Resources

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

  Fortunately, there is a third option: local SEO, designed to enhance the online visibility of businesses within a specific geographic area. Google Business Profile (GBP) , formerly Google My Business, plays a pivotal role in local SEO, serving as a centralized platform for businesses to manage their online presence. 

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FastSpring

JUNE 11, 2024

Affiliate marketing can be a great growth lever to scale your digital product business, but how can you drive meaningful growth with the right affiliates without losing out to fraud or shady attribution schemes? Are you looking for a merchant of record that will help you grow your subscription software business?

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BitPay

APRIL 25, 2023

Cryptocurrency is well established as an investable asset and global payments method, but its long-term value proposition to businesses goes far beyond these use cases. Forward-looking businesses and their employees are already reaping the benefits of crypto payrolls, including faster payments, greater flexibility and lower fees.

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ProfitWell

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

That’s never been truer for software businesses in particular than in the past 10-15 years, with the internet stimulating an explosion in the number of viable revenue models. Let’s take a look at some of the most popular revenue models used today — why they’re popular, why they work, and why they will (or won’t) work for you.

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ProfitWell

MARCH 3, 2020

Then, we hear from Kyle Poyar over at OpenView on bringing sales into a self-service business. Sales in a product-led initiative: feat. Kyle Poyar , VP of Marketing Strategy over at OpenView , shared his expertise with me on sales, particularly regarding his piece on the OV blog: Your Product Sells Itself. Now Hire Sales.

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OPEXEngine

MARCH 15, 2022

High Growth SaaS Companies Get A Significant Portion of Revenues Internationally. Faster growth companies are taking advantage of overseas markets and expanding internationally faster than their slower growth counterparts—with fast-growth companies reporting almost 31-32% of revenue from international business.

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