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. FastSpring’s subscription management features include: Trial management (with or without payment method, and free or paid trials).

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Payments SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions 157

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. If customers want to make a switch to another SaaS competitor, it’s easier to do so, affecting the bottom line.

Scale 117

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FastSpring

JANUARY 27, 2022

In this piece, we offer seven case studies from SaaS companies — small tweaks they made to reduce churn and increase customer LTV. We also show you how to personalize your billing practices with advice from our experience working with thousands of SaaS businesses. How My Marketing Concepts upsells annual payments during trial.

Merchant Services 146

Merchant Services Payment Services SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 146

ChurnZero

AUGUST 14, 2020

At ChurnZero, we’re humble enough to admit that Customer Success software can’t do it all, and quite frankly, it shouldn’t. We stick to our circle of competence and focus on our area of expertise: Customer Success software. It’s Customer Success for us. Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Software.

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Payments Payment Solutions Customer Success Software Review 87

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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User Pilot

MARCH 23, 2023

What are the reasons for customer churn in SaaS? And how can customer success teams address them to ensure product growth? As a SaaS company, your ultimate goal is to retain customers and keep them happy with your product. However, sometimes things don’t go as planned, and customers churn. moment faster. #3:

SaaS Payments 98

SaaS Payments Churn Underperforming Technical Team Payment Methods 98

User Pilot

MARCH 25, 2024

Various factors could cause customer churn, including bad product-customer fit , poor user onboarding experience , poor customer service , and weak customer relationships. What causes customer attrition? Do customers have to wait long hours for their problems to be addressed?

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

Sales Development and Prospecting. The Sales Development Playbook. The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team. If you truly want to be a better leader, better salesperson , better speaker, better writer, or just a better person, you need to study the craft. Selling to Big Companies. The Pirate’s Guide to Sales. B2B Is Really P2P.

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ChurnZero

APRIL 27, 2021

As ChurnZero recently secured a Series B investment bringing our total funding that has been raised to date to $35 million, we thought we’d take a look back and see the role that Customer Success plays at each respective stage of funding for SaaS companies. Early-Stage Funding & Customer Success.

Scale 98

Scale Customer Success Payments Underperforming Technical Team 98

SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

From strategies in recruitment and team building to sales tactics, these leaders from Salesforce, nCino, and Vlocity, will discuss the top tips for moving beyond horizontal SaaS and building a billion-dollar SaaS company. David, you talked a bit about the team and the founders. David Schmaier: Sure. Matt Garratt: Thank you.

Payment Solutions 218

Payment Solutions Pricing Payments Payment Services 218

Sales Hacker

MAY 9, 2019

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 a simple example to begin with that covers the SDR, AE and Customer Success Manager (CSM) functions: Table 1. Example Compensation Plans.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 4, 2019

No matter how deeply you gaze into the crystal ball wondering what this new year has in store for you or your business, the only thing you’ll know for sure is that despite your careful planning, some things will change. But what if you could have a better idea of the changes 2019 has in store for Customer Success professionals?

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Customer Success SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions 73

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 29, 2019

It’s no surprise that one of the key levers for growth as you go from startup to scale-up is your sales team. How quickly you’re able to accelerate growth depends on your ability to build a nimble sales org and develop a strong sales strategy. These lay the foundation that enables your team to run as efficiently as possible.

Scale 172

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User Pilot

JANUARY 31, 2023

Identifying at-risk customers is crucial for understanding their behavior, improving customer satisfaction , and reducing churn rate. While identifying high-risk customers, you can address the root causes and focus on working to retain those customers. Tag feature usage.

Churn 98

Churn Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 98

ProfitWell

AUGUST 18, 2020

Reliance told her that she would need to buy-out the remainder of her two years in one lump sum payment, plus the interest the company would lose over those two years, and she would have to pay an additional hefty administration fee too. The administration fee alone totaled nearly three of her monthly payments. Every person has biases.

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SaaS Payments Payment Methods Outsourced Development Underperforming Technical Team 111

Baremetrics

MARCH 23, 2020

For example, a churned user on a $50/mo plan isn’t nearly as bad as a churned user on a $500/mo plan. Just looking at user churn would gloss over the fact that you lost a major customer. And if the first time you interact with a customer is when they’re cancelling, that’s probably part of the problem. First, is MobileAction.

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Churn Payment Methods Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 145

ProfitWell

MARCH 2, 2020

That’s what makes a customer success strategy so important. Thinking proactively about how to build products that help customers achieve their goals is the best tool you have for building lasting relationships. It compounds, fostering stronger relationships that retain customers long-term. What is customer success?

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 10, 2019

WePay is a payments company for platform businesses like marketplaces, crowdfunding sites & small business software. I think on the plus side, coming into a firm like JPMorgan, we were a 200 person company when we were acquired. The day that acquisition closed, we became a 250,000 person company.

Payment Services 182

Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payments 182

How To Buy Saas

JULY 22, 2024

A patient portal is a secure online website that gives patients convenient 24/7 access to their personal health information and medical records from anywhere with an internet connection. This is especially true if you additionally use a mhealth app development because it delivers convenience that builds provider loyalty.

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User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

The different roles in SaaS companies: Chief Executive Officer : As the highest-ranking executive, this person ensures the company runs smoothly and employees are happy and engaged. They also manage finances and supervise one or more engineering teams. In large companies, the CSM also oversees other customer success roles.

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Sales Hiring SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting CTO Hire 98

User Pilot

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Here are some notification UX best practices: Personalize your messaging to increase engagement. Product teams can use Userpilot to create notifications within minutes without writing a single line of code. Triggering method: this depends on conditions that will generate a notification. What are notifications?

Payment Solutions 98

Payment Solutions Engagement SaaS Payments Payment Methods 98

ChurnZero

OCTOBER 5, 2022

In times of economic uncertainty, customer churn is one of the top operational risks facing any subscription-based company. While it may be tempting to resort to Hail Mary tactics (such as deferred payments and discounts) to reduce churn, you must instead focus on sustainable and scalable retention strategies.

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Underperforming Technical Team Payment Services Payment Methods Scale 94

ProfitWell

OCTOBER 23, 2019

A literal downfall, in poor Icarus’s case, after his wings melted mid-flight. They launch a product, start bringing in some solid revenue, and put all their efforts into acquiring new customers. Thankfully, you don’t need to end up like poor Icarus. 1: You’re attracting the wrong customers. He was excited to go flying.

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Churn Payment Methods Payment Services SaaS Payments 56

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Emilie Maret | Fellowship Team @ The Family. We’re a team of former investors and operators from the likes of Facebook, Deliveroo, and the Swedish payments company Klarna. Emilie Maret | Fellowship Team @ The Family. The way that I see it, there’s been a great success which has been education.

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New CTO Sales Hiring B2C CTO Hire 182

Point Nine Land

JUNE 18, 2023

Cohort analysis is a powerful method used to analyze groups of customers and their behavior over time. Grouping is usually done based on when a customer has signed up or converted into a paying customer. By conducting a cohort analysis, you can track customer behavior, retention, churn, and revenue over time.

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SaaS Payments Payment Services Payments SaaS 128

FastSpring

APRIL 26, 2022

If you lose 7% of your customers to churn over a year , that’s a way different number than losing 7% of your customers every month. While it’s not a bad idea to be measuring both, your monthly churn rate should be much, much lower than your annual churn rate. Quantitative Data Gathering: Website and Product Data.

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Benchmarks Churn Payments SaaS Payments 147

ChurnZero

APRIL 15, 2022

Bad timing sticks out a mile.”. Like a magician flexing their psychic power, pinpointing the most ideal time to present your customer with an expansion opportunity can’t be left to intuition. But knowing when customers are primed for expansion isn’t always obvious. How did Chelsea and her team achieve these phenomenal results?

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Payments SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payment Services 98

ChurnZero

JANUARY 4, 2019

No matter how deeply you gaze into the crystal ball wondering what this new year has in store for you or your business, the only thing you’ll know for sure is that despite your careful planning, some things will change. But what if you could have a better idea of the changes 2019 has in store for Customer Success professionals?

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Customer Success SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions 49

SaaStr

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Jos White of Notion and Christian Lanng of Tradeshift team up to show you how to work within, and sometimes around, rules in the workplace. But invoicing happens to be connected to something really, really important, which is payments. So if you get the invoice, you get the payment and that’s a lot more interesting.

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Payments Payment Features SaaS Payments Underperforming Technical Team 133

ChurnZero

JANUARY 17, 2020

If your company is exploring the idea of implementing a dedicated Customer Success (CS) platform, the question of where to start can be daunting. These tools have a profound impact on free ing up team member time.? . Take comfort in the fact that every CS team must start somewhere! Blog Author: Alex Weihmann.

SaaS Payments 72

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payments Underperforming Technical Team 72

CustomerSuccessBox

APRIL 7, 2022

Puneet Kataria shares his experience and observation on how customer success teams can be agile in the Customer Success Vodcast hosted by tl;dv! Every customer success team during the onboarding, buzz around the term “Early value”, the question is how does it all start and even delivered?

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Onboarding SaaS Payments Payment Methods Scale 52

OpenView Labs

JANUARY 29, 2020

Freemium Model for SaaS – The Good, The Bad, and The In-between. The basic premise that the freemium business model operates on is this: Several hundred thousands of users sign up for the freemium plan, and then a good cohort of them will convert into paying customers. How to Increase Your Payment Customers In a Freemium Model.

Pricing 82

Pricing Payments SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 82

Kellblog

AUGUST 7, 2019

Say you sign a three-year deal with a customer that ramps in payment structure: year 1 costs $1M, year 2 costs $2M, and year 3 costs $3M. Let’s say in this example the customer is getting the exact same value in all 3 years (e.g., Payment structure. $1M. Price-Ramped). GAAP revenue. $1M. GAAP unbilled deferred revenue.

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CustomerSuccessBox

JULY 11, 2022

Anyone who jumps ship is a dead-end for customer success in their eyes. These establishments devote all of their time and resources to pampering newcomers, allowing other customers to suffer the door slamming on their exit. Customers who regrettably churn are those who leave you for reasons within your control.

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Churn Payment Services Payment Methods SaaS Payments 52

BrightBack

AUGUST 19, 2019

In today's world, there's more revenue to be earned after initial purchase, so companies must do everything they can to extend the lifetime value of the customers they fought so hard to acquire. Here are three ways to grow your business utilizing customer retention. Organize your teams around the customer relationship.

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Retention Underperforming Technical Team Strategy SaaS Payments 55

Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Even if developers do come, and they happen to build integrations that help customers; if incentives aren’t aligned between the two companies, lasting investment will not happen, and the integrations will be poorly maintained. In fact, the quality of integrations can impact the customer’s perception of the core SaaS product.

Payments 56

Payments Business Model Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 56

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

It’s been 10 years since co-founders Eoghan McCabe , Des Traynor , David Barrett , and Ciaran Lee sat in a small Dublin coffee shop and dreamed of making internet business personal, and we’re still every bit as excited. Later’s Farhan Virji on adapting B2C support strategies for B2B teams. 10 years of making internet business personal.

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