SaaStr

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Atlassian’s Chief Revenue Officer, Cameron Deatsch, walks us through how Atlassian grew over the course of 20 years and became one of the most successful startups today. They have grown to over $3 billion in revenue while keeping sales and marketing spending under 15% of revenue for all 20 years they’ve been in business.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Wherever you are in your revenue journey, adopting certain growth strategies can help you keep growing fast. Build your sales, marketing, customer success, and product development efforts around the needs of your ideal client.”. Spotlighting the success of an ICP-focused strategy . Foster customer relationships.

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Payments Payment Methods Embedded Payments Scale 243

SaaStr

AUGUST 29, 2022

10.000 SaaS CEOs, Founders, Revenue Leaders, and VCs will join us for 3 days of tactical content, networking, and epic evening events when the Cloud comes to San Mateo. Scaling Revenue in 2022: What’s the Same and What’s Different? If you haven’t already, sign up here for tickets before we sell out.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Why it’s hard to build a two-sided marketplace [13:38]. And the ones that aren’t are generally, kind of related industries, IT services and those sorts of things. And the other thing I learned is it’s very, very hard to build a two-sided marketplace, Sam. Show Introduction [00:10].

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SaaStr

MARCH 17, 2020

They announced a new “Hired Flex” option with a flexible monthly and pay-per-hire rate, a “Self Service” signup for startups to get immediate access to Hired’s marketplace, and announced that “Hired Assessments” will now be a part of every package to democratize opportunity through skills-based hiring. Predictable Revenue.

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SaaStr

MARCH 30, 2022

Address the high volume of users, companies, and customer segments, not just a super-targeted small vertical. It’s a pull, not a push, when it comes to revenue expansion. Use the GTM motion that’s the opposite of the traditional GTM motion. Atlassian likes lifting up other companies that can help give teams fully rounded solutions.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 13, 2022

As the demand for Customer Success surges within SaaS, so too does the need for effective leaders to spearhead this expanding function and steer its strategy and success. Over the course of the pandemic, Customer Success has cemented itself as a central business driver of growth and profit. Follow Adi on LinkedIn.

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VP of Engineering Customer Success Outsourcing Services Technical Review 98

FastSpring

MARCH 8, 2024

After adopting FastSpring as their merchant of record, SocialBee even saw 2x year-over-year growth in monthly recurring revenue (MRR) after their first year with FastSpring. When they wanted to expand their business to new global marketplaces, knowing that FastSpring handles VAT and taxes made FastSpring an easy choice.

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SaaStr

JULY 22, 2019

And that allows our customers to build better software, much more perfect software, to have better relationships, and to also build better businesses. We are the world’s most complete and comprehensive instrumentation platform on the marketplace today, that is cloud-based, that is SaaS-based. We work with mostly modern teams.

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Hitenism

DECEMBER 26, 2016

To scale your SaaS business , you need to think of new ways of getting and keeping your customers’ attention. Getting your SaaS business to $1-2 million in yearly revenue is now easy, but it’s harder than ever to get beyond $10 million in ARR. It’s all about the customer. What animals are you hunting?”

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Totango

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

As the digitization of the marketplace reaches near-saturation, organizations will compete for customers based on value derived—and this will be driven by customer success. Customer success and retention have therefore become critical to achieving maximum customer lifetime value.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

When adding new tools to the stack, systems teams consider how tools will interact with one another, but ignore the more fundamental question: can this tool propel the business to the next stage of growth and open a gateway to more revenue? Make customer handoffs invisible. Measure and attribute success.

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ChurnZero

JUNE 22, 2021

Looking for a way to upskill or even reskill your Customer Success career? Their mission is to improve lives through learning and it’s the largest online destination that help students and businesses gain skills from expert instructors teaching over 155,00 online courses on topics from programming to leadership to Customer Success.

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Totango

JULY 30, 2019

The way you feel as you travel versus when you arrive at your destination is a great metaphor for the distinction between customer experience vs. customer success. Customer experience refers to the feelings, emotions, and perceptions customers have when using your product. Experience vs. Value.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 8, 2021

It was seen as a necessary part of a business, but not something that drove revenue or influenced customers’ buying decisions. Study after study shows how important a great customer experience is to today’s consumers. and collect positive reviews from our customers,” says Vlada Masevich, Head of Customer Success at Survicate.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

According to Harvard Business Review , companies that were instrumental in creating their categories accounted for 53 percent of incremental revenue growth and 74 percent of incremental market capitalization growth. Customers Are Initially Interested in Education, Not Your Product. How do I prove the value of CATEGORY X on revenue?

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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

Average Revenue per Customer. Customer Lifetime Value (LTV). Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC). & 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. So the first question is what made SaaS so successful.

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ChurnZero

APRIL 7, 2021

Here’s some reasons why B2B software companies should put a dedicated effort into getting customers to provide their feedback via review sites. Hint: they help generate revenue.). Having customer reviews for your prospective customers to read will help you come across as a more trusted brand. ChurnZero on Capterra.

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Technical Review Software Review Customer Success Marketplace as a Service 81

Totango

AUGUST 23, 2017

Customer Success Summit is the industry-leading conference on customer success because it brings together experienced customer success professionals and industry thought-leaders, as well as research institutes for industry benchmarking. The answer is surprisingly prescriptive: Embrace “as a service” offers.

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ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

As a Customer Success leader, do you find yourself watering down your budgetary requests? And yet, downplaying your team’s needs undermines CS’s current impact and future revenue-driving potential. And yet, downplaying your team’s needs undermines CS’s current impact and future revenue-driving potential.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

So I’m Nick Mehta, CEO of Gainsight and you probably have heard of Gainsight in the world of customer success and really excited to have two different voices in the world of how companies think about their customers. We’ve got everything from self-service all the way up to the enterprise.

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Payment Methods Merchant Services Scale Payments 266

SaaStr

JUNE 10, 2021

So the whole world of software as a service and cloud has just exploded and will continue to grow enormously. And if we look at the specifics of the word SaaS, software as a service. Software is just one thing of all the value you need to deliver to a customer. And service many times means it’s human beings doing it.

Outsourcing Services 161

Outsourcing Services Marketplace as a Service Outsourced Development Scale 161

SaaStr

JUNE 3, 2020

The SaaS Trust Crisis is making it harder to market and sell software and services than ever before. And today, I’m very excited to be the co-founder and CEO of G2 where we’re building the world’s leading marketplace for SaaS software. The situation is getting worse. Godard Abel | Co-Founder and CEO @ G2.

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Software Review Scale Technical Review SaaS 251

ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

February 8, 2023 — ChurnZero, the platform and partner for Customer Success, has earned the G2 2023 Best Software Awards for Fastest Growing Product and Best Product Management Product, based on customer reviews submitted to G2. Washington, D.C.,

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Unbounce

JUNE 16, 2020

Over the long term, it can also deliver increased revenue, higher customer lifetime value (LTV), and reduced customer acquisition costs (CAC). These are often built with agencies, consultants, and managed-service-providers (MSPs) in mind. This generates recurring revenue. Already pretty valuable, right?).

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Outsourcing Services Sales Recruiting Scale SaaS 131

SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2019

You don’t need us to tell you this is mainstream—even Jack Dorsey, co-founder, and CEO of Twitter and Square is investing in customer success: Hello St. Louis Square Customer Success team! So are you invested in your customers? If you’re in the SaaS industry, chances are you’ve heard of customer success.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

The best sales teams don’t just sell — they keep customers happy and drive serious upsell, cross-sell, and expansion revenue. They do this by first identifying and focusing on the sales motions that are best for their product, team, and customer. Inside sales. Low-touch sales. No-touch sales. Rifiniti: $150k ACV and $3M ARR.

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SaaStr

MAY 14, 2023

Algolia went from zero to seven figures in revenue in 12 months, and the launch of their search as a service product, and grew pricing from $19 a month to $100,000, which sounds amazing. web services. Enterprise is maybe around 60% of our revenue, it’s not the whole deal. Next up, we’ve got Nicolas Dessaigne.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 18, 2019

They didn’t know it at the time, but they had also created an entire business category: an on demand, short-term rental marketplace, which has shot the value of their business north of $38 billion. Over the past four years, the number of Customer Success Managers (CSMs) in the industry has increased 400%.

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Scale Sales Recruiting Marketplace as a Service Sales Hiring 112

Sales Hacker

MARCH 7, 2022

In a recent Revenue Innovators episode , we chatted with Frank about why sales poses such a challenge for academics; the challenges revenue leaders face in a world where continuous change is the norm, and how those challenges have shifted in the past decade. Success in sales leadership looks a bit different.

Technical Review 111

Technical Review Sales Marketplace as a Service Banking 111

SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

Aaron Ross | CEO @ Predictable Revenue. And so, she can, and Anthony just finished up basically going from the first sales hire at Gainsight at almost 100 million in revenue and has just retired. Obviously, marketing and investments are expensive and we know the cost to keep a customer is obviously a lot less. We were wrong.

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Sales Hiring Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting 242

Sales Hacker

APRIL 6, 2022

Sales teams often struggle with configuration of price quotes when dealing with complex products or services or large product catalogs. This leads to discounts being given too generously or too soon, reducing sales margins, and making it more difficult to hit revenue targets.

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Scale Software Review Marketplace as a Service Outsourced Development 108

ChurnZero

MAY 17, 2022

WASHINGTON , May 17, 2022 — ChurnZero , a leading Customer Success platform, has earned multiple accolades from business and SaaS industry groups for its product innovation and industry leadership. ’s premier technology companies and an employer of choice, growing revenue over 100% annually for the last three years.

Marketplace as a Service 98

Marketplace as a Service Technical Review Headcount Software Review 98

ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

At ChurnZero, our mission is to be the best Customer Success platform out there – and Customer Success teams sit at the heart of this goal. Since the field of Customer Success is still maturing, we feel it’s key to learn from others in the industry. Amanda Berger, Chief Customer Officer, Lucidworks.

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VP of Engineering Customer Success Scale Marketplace as a Service 53

Sales Hacker

APRIL 21, 2021

If the answer is “yes” to all three, now is the best time to get started in a revenue operations job. Revenue operations (RevOps) is a centralized org within a company that supports all revenue-generating business operations including Sales Ops, Marketing Ops, Customer Success Ops, and systems management.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 11, 2019

As the General Manager for HubSpot’s Service Hub , Michael knows a thing or two about keeping customers close. Since 2010, he’s helped the company grow to more than 40,000 customers and helped scale the support team to more than 500 employees to assist those users. So it was a combination of continued growth and customer demand.

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Neil Patel

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

NP Digital is a performance marketing agency built by marketers, and our global offices allow us to deliver our specialized services to clients worldwide. Below, we’ll explain how each of our agencies works, the services they provide, and what to expect from each of them in the future. NP Digital Marketing Services.

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