Stax

APRIL 17, 2025

For SaaS companies looking to scale, upselling is one of the most effectiveand often underutilizedrevenue levers. This guide explores the ins and outs of SaaS upselling, from the strategies that work best to the tools and timing that maximize results. What is SaaS Upselling?

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SaaStr

MARCH 28, 2025

Your suppliers might actually be your customers 30% of Bill.com’s core revenue comes from suppliers making payment choices, completely reframing their TAM calculations. For SMB SaaS, aim for 6 quarters of LTV:CAC, not 4 Ren adjusted the traditional benchmark because SMB customers stay longer than typically measured.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

The promise at the heart of the SaaS business model has always been that by sacrificing relatively large one-time payments, you’d maximize revenue over the long-term lifetime of the customer. In four letters, the promise of the SaaS model is CLTV (Customer Lifetime Value).

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FastSpring

JULY 16, 2019

One of the best ways to reduce costs and decrease time-to-market is to use a SaaS-friendly billing system. Since SaaS-friendly billing, also known as recurring billing , is designed specifically for companies who sell online services with a subscription model, it offers many advantages over a typical payment system.

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Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Most SaaS businesses adopt a subscription-based model supported by a recurring payment system. Setting up a recurring payment system can be complicated and requires the right tools to measure, manage, and review payments regularly. Cons for Businesses Using Recurring Billing Does SaaS Have to Be Recurring?

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User Pilot

JANUARY 10, 2022

How important is customer success KPIs to your SaaS business? Customer success metrics help you analyze how effectively you help customers gain value from your SaaS product. When measuring customer success metrics, it’s never only about the results. What is customer success in SaaS?

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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! Today, we’re going to walk you through the top techniques you should implement into your SaaS sales strategy. SaaS sales can be broken down into three models: self-service, transactional, and enterprise.

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User Pilot

JANUARY 26, 2023

There are ten metrics you can use to measure customer loyalty. Celebrate customer success with gamification. Send payment reminders both through email and in-app to prevent involuntary churn. Check product usage analytics to identify at-risk customers and contact them for help. loyal customers.

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User Pilot

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

So, let’s start with the basics: TL;DR A Go-To-Market (GTM) strategy is an action plan that outlines the time, the place, the positioning, the audience, and the goal of a new product or service. They can reveal customer interactions, patterns, and preferences. Customer acquisition cost. Customer churn rate.

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Stax

JUNE 18, 2024

Subscription models offer companies large and small the opportunity to build predictable revenue and high customer lifetime value. In a subscription business model, customers pay a recurring fee in exchange for a product or service.

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User Pilot

AUGUST 6, 2024

What is a SaaS marketing funnel, and how do you create one for your business? TL;DR A SaaS marketing funnel outlines the steps users take from their initial awareness of your product to becoming loyal users. Marketing funnels are designed to attract and educate potential customers. Book a demo to get started today!

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FastSpring

APRIL 11, 2019

We’ve seen explosive growth in the field of subscription and recurring billing with more and more software and SaaS companies discovering how impactful implementing a subscription model can be for their long-term growth plans. According to FinancesOnline , the growth of the SaaS public market is expected to hit $76 billion by 2020.

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Subscription Flow

MAY 30, 2024

As a business that provides software as a service, you will not only need to jump on this bandwagon, but more importantly, you will need the right set of subscription management tools to stay on it to keep reaping the profits of this booming industry. Acquire data analytics about their service’s performance. Automate all billing.

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Baremetrics

MARCH 15, 2021

Now let us have a look at the best business reporting solutions for SaaS businesses and how they can assist you in effective decision making. 1 Baremetrics 2 Zoho Analytics 3 Sisense 4 Holistics 5 Sprout Social 6 InfoSet 7 What makes Baremetrics Unique 8 Scaling Business Growth with Baremetrics Reporting Tools. Table of Contents.

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User Pilot

AUGUST 31, 2023

What is customer acquisition for SaaS, and how can you leverage it to drive sustainable growth ? Customer acquisition marketing refers to the subset of strategies and activities within customer acquisition that focus on marketing techniques to attract and convert potential customers.

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User Pilot

JULY 20, 2023

Attrition is the bane of every subscription business; low retention rates will result in a duce and the customer lifetime value and revenue will plummet. The main reasons for customer churn are: Bad product-customer fit. Bad customer service. Analyze customer behavior using in-depth segmentation.

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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! We’d hate for that to happen to you.

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User Pilot

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Reducing the CAC payback period can help SaaS companies boost their financial performance and drive growth. TL;DR The CAC payback period measures the time it takes for a company to recover the money invested in new customer acquisition. There are 3 main reasons why a SaaS company should track the CAC payback period.

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User Pilot

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

User adoption is essential for B2B SaaS companies, as it helps customers to learn about your product, adopt features , stick around, and nurture product growth. And your role at a customer success team? TL;DR User adoption is the journey in which a customer becomes a regular user of your product and makes it part of their life.

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FastSpring

JUNE 28, 2019

When companies look at strategies to scale their business there’s almost always a prevalent focus on customer acquisition. Businesses are always on the lookout for ways to expand their user base, attract new customers, and generate new leads. Customers may choose to opt out of a subscription service.

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Stax

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

For modern Software as a Service (SaaS) companies, the automobile is replaced by primarily digital and cloud-based solutions and software. And because of the digital nature of SaaS businesses and their subscription-based business models, the ability to collect data on how the company is performing is easier and faster than ever.

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Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Based on the results of some simple unit economics calculations, it is clear to founders and potential investors alike whether a company will be able to scale and become profitable. Why should SaaS businesses track unit economics? The unit is the smallest denomination of your business process. The customer is the unit.

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User Pilot

MARCH 25, 2024

Because it improves your business’ profitability, understanding and reducing churn also gives you a better customer acquisition cost to customer lifetime value (CAC: CLV) ratio. To calculate the churn rate, divide the number of customers lost by the total number of customers at the beginning of that period.

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Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Since the original version of this post from early 2017, we’ve worked with many more SaaS companies and a common theme has been moving companies from a starter template to a more robust financial model. This model allowed me to work with dozens of SaaS startups using spreadsheets, while we built our financial modeling software Flightpath.

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User Pilot

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

User adoption is essential for B2B SaaS companies, as it helps customers to learn about your product, adopt features , stick around, and nurture product growth. And your role at a customer success team? TL;DR User adoption is the journey in which a customer becomes a regular user of your product and makes it part of their life.

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Baremetrics

JULY 22, 2021

PayPal is a popular choice for online payment processing. But for SaaS businesses, PayPal lacks the analytics and reporting features they need to support sustainable growth. PayPal analytics provide limited value for SaaS companies PayPal offers users the ability to conduct seamless online payments.

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User Pilot

JUNE 29, 2022

Customer segmentation software is a tool that allows you to segment customers based on shared characteristics such as their in-app behavior, the NPS score, completed milestones in the customer journey, etc. What are the benefits of customer segmentation tools? Create personalized in-app experiences for customer segments.

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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?

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User Pilot

OCTOBER 24, 2023

When it comes to product-led growth , SaaS companies need to get everything details right. In this guide, we’ll be going over what usage-based pricing is, the benefits of a usage-based pricing model, different types of usage-based pricing, and a few examples from SaaS companies that have effectively deployed this strategy!

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User Pilot

MARCH 9, 2023

Want to improve the current customer attrition rate in your SaaS company? Customer attrition is one of the main problems for SaaS companies. Although you’ll inevitably lose customers occasionally, you should always keep the attrition rate at a minimum. What causes customer attrition?

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Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

For a SaaS business to survive, it needs to track its business data. For a SaaS business to thrive, it needs to deeply understand what the business metrics mean for the state of the business. Now, in this ongoing series of comparisons, we discuss two of the best subscription analytics dashboards for SaaS: Baremetrics vs. ProfitWell.

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OPEXEngine

JANUARY 14, 2020

The typical SaaS company grows faster, loses more money, and has a higher valuations than product sale companies. Public SaaS Companies. -8%. High-growth SaaS companies are often unprofitable. However, many unprofitable SaaS companies are cash flow positive because of the upfront SaaS payments by B2B clients.

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Baremetrics

MAY 26, 2021

Customer advocacy is a major concept when it comes to marketing for SaaS subscription businesses. Customer advocacy is a subsect of customer service, wholly focusing on customer’s needs and wants on an ongoing basis. This helps in the daily and immediate improvement of the product or the service.

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Baremetrics

JANUARY 18, 2022

There are now an estimated 213 million registered companies globally, each competing with one another on the basis of service, customer care, and pricing. Price is one of the largest determining factors for consumers in terms of which products and services they buy. Table of Contents. What Is Price Localization?

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User Pilot

JULY 23, 2020

So, in this blog we’ll show you how to keep your customers happy with a targeted retention strategy. And remember – happy customers are paying customers. You’re signing up new users for your SaaS product every day. Retention is the principal factor behind Customer Lifetime Value (CLV).

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Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Now, how much time, energy and resources do you put towards increasing the revenue you get from your existing customers, a.k.a customer expansion? If you’re like a lot of SaaS companies, chances are you’re fixated on customer acquisition. That’s an example of customer expansion through add-ons.

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Baremetrics

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Many SaaS businesses concentrate on offering an amazing product and then neglect customer support. They assume that when you have a great product, customers will always come back. In this guide, you will learn why SaaS customer support is so important, how to get started, and what metrics to use to track success.

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