Sales Hacker

MAY 9, 2019

The Process for Creating a Sales Compensation Plan. 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.

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FastSpring

JUNE 11, 2024

FastSpring provides an all-in-one payment platform for SaaS, software, video game, and other digital goods businesses, including software management, VAT and sales tax management, global payments, and consumer support. Podcast Full Interview: Audio Listen online or find it on more podcast services. They make more money.

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Baremetrics

MAY 7, 2019

Choosing the right combination of funding for your business is just as fundamental as choosing the right co-founders (or not), the right market, the right product, and the right team. The great thing about SaaS is that it’s a very cheap business to start. What do I need funding for? John Doherty of Credo.

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Baremetrics

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Sean Ellis, who ran growth in the early days of Dropbox, LogMeIn, and Eventbrite benchmarked nearly a hundred startups with his customer development survey. MeetEdgar ) Consultation (e.g. Calling all low-touch SaaS experts, @databoxhq churn rate in first 2 months w/ and w/out a 14 day trial. Mailchimp ) Free trial (e.g.

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Chargify

APRIL 23, 2019

There are specific stages a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company moves through during its life cycle. Understanding which stage your SaaS business is in can help determine the appropriate time to scale to the next phase—and do so successfully. The four major SaaS life cycle stages we’ll cover: Pre-startup. Pre-Startup.

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Natalia Luneva

APRIL 24, 2025

Imagine cutting years off payment system setup. The number of Payment Facilitators (PayFacs) has grown 13.8% For businesses, this means they can use payment systems without starting from scratch. PayFac as a Service lets companies add payment processing to their platforms. each year since 2018.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 4, 2019

the stuff that Customer Success teams are really meant to do). One customer success trend I’m seeing is the need to develop more repeatable customer education programs. The biggest trend I see emerging in Europe, which started at the end of 2018 is Customer Success Plans becoming a staple asset of Customer Success teams.

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FastSpring

JANUARY 26, 2024

But the support team are responsible for first response times, for things like NPS, whereas what we’re responsible for is, ultimately, outcomes.” Product teams can better improve and develop products when customer success has helped identify what customers need. I had poison ivy really bad.

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OpenView Labs

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

As software pervades every sector of the world economy, the developers building it are rapidly becoming the most important buyers of technology and infrastructure in companies of all sizes. As a company that builds economic infrastructure for the internet – Stripe’s ability to connect with developers is central to our mission.

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User Pilot

JANUARY 15, 2021

The Best Product Analytics Tools for SaaS. Product analytics is the process by which you collect, inspect and analyze data about users’ interactions with your product. 51% of people will never return to a company that they’ve had a bad experience with. You need to make sure they are SMART, quantitative and benchmarked.

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 27, 2020

This builds on the first essay in the series of how there has been an increase in interest of SAAS-like models interested in becoming marketplaces over time. In that essay , we also talked about how a more common route for a SaaS business is to become a platform. Integration platforms are ubiquitous in SaaS.

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Navint

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Earlier this year, we welcomed Sean Joyce to the Navint team. Sean has over 15 years of expertise in recurring revenue technologies, most recently hailing from Salesforce where he was a senior member of the product marketing team responsible for Salesforce CPQ & Billing. What made you want to be a part of this consultancy?

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 4, 2019

the stuff that Customer Success teams are really meant to do). One customer success trend I’m seeing is the need to develop more repeatable customer education programs. The biggest trend I see emerging in Europe, which started at the end of 2018 is Customer Success Plans becoming a staple asset of Customer Success teams.

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OPEXEngine

MAY 4, 2021

Coming up through the public accounting or consulting ranks, by contrast, practically sells itself, because it tells potential employers you’ve mastered the technical aspects of accounting from a best-practices standpoint. Hopefully it will be communicated during the interview process. ” Many leadership paths. .

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User Pilot

MAY 14, 2021

Growing numbers of SaaS companies are adding an onboarding survey to their customer sign-up flows. What types of questions should SaaS include, and why? They make a good impression on your customer, and the insights gathered, if filed correctly, can be useful for your product and marketing teams. What is an onboarding survey?

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OpenView Labs

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Sean Ellis, who ran growth in the early days of Dropbox, LogMeIn and Eventbrite benchmarked nearly a hundred startups with his customer development survey. Consultation (e.g. Calling all low-touch SaaS experts, @databoxhq churn rate in first 2 months w/ and w/out a 14 day trial. User Churn and Revenue Churn. Quick Ratio.

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How To Buy Saas

JULY 2, 2024

Platform Savvy Today’s email marketing landscape is packed with powerful platforms or email service providers (ESPs) like Mailchimp, SFMC, Klaviyo, Braze, and Marketo among others. They can differentiate these platforms, understanding their strengths and weaknesses. A top email marketing specialist goes beyond basic familiarity.

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SmartKarrot

AUGUST 11, 2021

The same is true for companies who are dealing in SaaS products. The lifeblood of the SaaS business is its customers. You need to put in countless hours of research and development, relentless marketing campaigns, and tireless sales effort to earn a paying customer. And nearly 60% switch companies based on poor customer service.

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OpenView Labs

MAY 29, 2020

Maybe they need new products and services, or adjustments to what you’ve been offering. Reduce upfront/adoption costs and offer flexible payment terms. And often the only thing standing between a deal and no deal is the financing or payment terms. I could get full price by deferring payments by just a few months.

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Outseta

MARCH 18, 2019

Wes Bush is a SaaS marketer who has quickly developed a reputation as “the free trial vs. freemium guy.” He helps SaaS leaders launch and optimize free trial and freemium models via his consultancy, Traffic is Currency , and is also the founder of the Product-Led Summit. Geoff Roberts: Good point.

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Incredo

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Do you want to grow your SaaS sales team and improve your processes? maintain healthy atmosphere in your Smarketing team, make smart choices regarding your SaaS sales model, strategy, pricing, . build smoother connections both with your prospects through optimized sales process. SaaS Sales Models.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

This dynamic trio of SaaS experts share how to stay customer-centric and set yourself apart in today’s rapidly changing environment. Nick Mehta: On a boat in Rhode Island and then our second guest Jay Snyder, who just recently took over as Chief Customer Officer of New Relic, publicly traded SaaS company.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

Strategy and Process. Sales Development and Prospecting. The Sales Development Playbook. Sales Enablement. The Sales Enablement Playbook. Enablement Mastery. The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team. Blueprints for a SaaS Sales Organization. Integrity Selling for the 21st Century. Hacking Sales.

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FastSpring

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

That’s the philosophy behind SEM International , the firm he founded that specializes in multilingual internationally-based digital marketing services. Pricing Strategies to Combat Stagflation 2022 Emerging SaaS Customer Markets How FastSpring Can Help FastSpring helps SaaS and software companies sell around the world.

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FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

Ryan Austin had VP-level experience in training when he decided to start a consulting business to help enterprise-level companies with their corporate learning and development initiatives. Ryan and his team noticed so many inefficiencies across the L&D workflows. “It That’s really when it got us thinking about that.

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Baremetrics

MARCH 23, 2020

I spent over a week speaking with different SaaS founders and marketers about how they successfully reduced churn for their business. churn by doing something every SaaS business should be doing, but most don’t. For example, a churned user on a $50/mo plan isn’t nearly as bad as a churned user on a $500/mo plan. What is churn?

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SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2019

Prior to Kustomer, Vikas spent over 20 years implementing, consulting, marketing, and selling CRM and ContactCenter solutions with companies like LivePerson and Oracle. In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Vikas made his way into the world of SaaS and came to be at the rocketship that is Kustomer. * What is a good payback period? *

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

As for Krish, under Krish’s leadership the team has grown to over 300 people and over 5,000 clients making it one of the next generation in truly global SaaS businesses started in India. First, what is continuous customer development? What is the process to do it efficiently? Loving our podcast content?

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Highlights from Our Conversation Where Should SaaS Companies Localize [2 min clip] David walked through a step-by-step process to assess where SaaS and software companies should consider localizing. I’m EJ Brown, Senior Content Strategist at FastSpring, we help SaaS and software companies scale around the world.

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Audacix

MAY 27, 2022

If you're the process of selecting your web application penetration testing vendor and if you don't know how or why to make a final decision - your're not alone. How will their penetration testing services actually help you (beyond a 50-page penetration test report)? How to build a culture of security within your SaaS development team?

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 4, 2019

As for Jeppe, prior to founding Pleo he was the CEO @ Nodes, a design and development house that worked with brands including Loreal, BMW and Lego. In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How did Jeppe make his way into the world of startups and SaaS with his becoming CFO @ Tradeshift? Here’s what Gillian talks about: How to build a CSM team.

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ProfitWell

OCTOBER 2, 2019

They enable your business to, well, be. Understanding which of your customers is most likely to churn can be an anxious business for a SaaS company. What’s more, a simple consultation with Google might suggest to you that the only way to really predict your company’s churn is to build a tailored end-to-end solution of your own.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Think about what you could be doing to bring more diversity into your teams and be more inclusive as a company, and go actively out of your way in order to achieve set goals. I usually do them with Paul or people from the product teams – it’s much more fun to be on a podcast with your boss. Be open-minded. If not now, then when?”

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Sixteen Ventures

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Whether you have a Software-as-a-Service, subscription or membership business or you sell one-off products or services and simply want to do business with your customer more than once, Customer Success should be your driving purpose. How to Develop a Customer Success Strategy. Sales Process Engagement. Functional Support.

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FastSpring

MARCH 6, 2025

Why a frictionless purchase process is such a key focus for oeksound to continue expanding their sales. Podcast Full Interview: Audio Listen online or find it on more podcast services. And essentially what that means is that it’s kind of a payment plan, but you never commit to pay the full sum. Jump to video.

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How To Buy Saas

MARCH 3, 2025

Curious about whats next for the world of SaaS? In just the past few years, weve watched Software-as-a-Service evolve at breakneck speed, transforming from a neat cloud-based delivery model into an essential driver of business innovation. It feels like every tool from your CRM to your accounting software now comes as a service.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Martin brings a wealth of experience in building and scaling sales teams, developing effective go-to-market strategies, and navigating the challenges of startup growth. Highlights: (08:58) Building the first SaaS product and transitioning to recurring revenue. (14:58) 35:30) Optimal team structures for SMB sales organizations.

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