SaaStr

JUNE 18, 2024

Dear SaaStr: Can a SaaS Company Get to 50% Profit Margins? It’s possible, though it does require a very efficient model. The biggest, most mature software leaders aren’t quite there — but they are close. Adobe is currently at 45% non-GAAP operating margins. Microsoft, also mature and at scale, is also at 45% operating margins: Zoom’s non-GAAP operating margins are 40%, but it’s free cash flow margins are even higher and now exceed 50%: Dropbox is also in the mature, low growth but higher margin

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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. But managing subscriptions effectively and freeing up time and resources for expansion is no picnic. In a subscription business model, customers pay a recurring fee in exchange for a product or service. This could be a subscription box, a SaaS (Software as a Service) product, or even just a streaming platform like Netflix.

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SaaStr

JUNE 18, 2024

So it’s hard to get a sense of just what is happening in SaaS. “B2B2B” remains in a big funk, with Salesforce projecting a decline to single-digit growth for the first time ever next year. And in the aggregate, public SaaS companies are growing the slower they have in history. And yet … both AI and the consumer economy remain strong: Databricks is growing 60% at $2.4B — and that’s up from 50% the year before!

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The Moz Blog

JUNE 18, 2024

Discover expert insights from the recent Google API documentation leak with actionable strategies to help you become a better SEO strategist.

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SaaStr

JUNE 18, 2024

A lot of folks I talk to think I am “good at marketing”. I’m not so sure about that. Like many founders, there is a slice of marketing I am good at — the part I’m passionate about. The rest? I’m pretty bad at it. I can’t send a decent campaign. I’m no good at steak dinners. But one thing I’ve learned over the years, and many others have said it: In the end, your biggest asset is your list. 10 Things That Always Work in SaaS Marketing Now these days, that needs to be qualified.

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FastSpring

JUNE 18, 2024

FastSpring is proud to announce that our customer success team has won a gold Globee® award for Customer Excellence in the “Achievement in Team Customer Success” category! FastSpring Customer Success Team Gets Exceptional Results Our customer success team was honored with this award thanks to three key achievements: 1. Exceptional Results We consistently surpass targets and achieve unprecedented growth, exceeding customer expectations and showcasing our dedication to excellence. 2.

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User Pilot

JUNE 18, 2024

A/B testing is a powerful tool that can help you uncover hidden opportunities and optimize your marketing efforts. Whether you’re looking to attract new leads or improve engagement with existing customers, this article will guide you through the A/B testing process from start to finish. We’ll cover: What A/B testing means. Different types of A/B tests to implement.

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Sparktoro

JUNE 18, 2024

I grew my following on Twitter (now X) 700 to 100,000 followers in less than two years. I did this with an 80/20 focus: 80% of my content was about marketing (with a key focus on content marketing), and 20% was about my interests and life observations. I’d comment on others’ tweets, and I’d obviously post my own tweets.

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Stax

JUNE 18, 2024

Shopify. Mindbody. Etsy. What do these companies have in common? Aside from providing excellent SaaS solutions to their users, Shopify, Mindbody, and Etsy are just a few examples of companies that have used payment processing to fuel (at least some of) their growth. Consider Shopify, which has generated $1.2 billion from its merchant services in 2023.

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ClinicSense is a SaaS platform that supports over 7,000 massage therapists who use it for appointment management, payments, scheduling, marketing activities and more. Despite having a relatively low payment failure rate, the company discovered that the failures disrupted the customer experience. This often led to churn as customers decided to cancel or abandon their account, preventing ClinicSense from realizing the full lifetime value (LTV) of its users.

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Chargebee

JUNE 18, 2024

“I love feature provisioning. I wish I could do this more often!” said no engineer. However, entitlement management is crucial for SaaS or digital service businesses (such as OTT, ePublications, or e-learning) to ensure customers can access what they paid for. Many companies build these systems in-house, relying on engineering teams to handle feature provisioning and access control.

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ChurnZero

JUNE 18, 2024

Does your customer success team own and drive expansion revenue? You should, because upsell and cross-sell are key drivers of the sustainable growth your company needs, and yet only 43% of CS teams do. What’s holding customer success back on driving expansion? After all, CS has the customer relationships and insights to drive expansion thoughtfully, the health scores and product usage data to spot opportunities, the best understanding of customer needs, and the customer trust earned thro

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Nimble - Sales

JUNE 18, 2024

CRMs for online schools grew even more popular with the pandemic of 2020. COVID pushed many educational establishments to the cyber stratosphere, making offline education impossible for hundreds of millions of kids on the planet for months. Similarly, there has The post CRM for online schools & LMS to Grow Your Online Courses appeared first on Nimble Blog.

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Inturact

JUNE 18, 2024

The SaaS landscape is becoming more competitive than ever before. Naturally, this means that it’s becoming more difficult to find and acquire new customers. However, anyone in the SaaS space knows that finding new customers is critical to ongoing growth and success. Conventional customer acquisition methods are starting to fall short of addressing the dynamic and other specialized needs and preferences of modern consumers.

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Speaker: David Warren and Kevin O’Neill Stoll

Transitioning to a usage-based business model offers powerful growth opportunities but comes with unique challenges. How do you validate strategies, reduce risks, and ensure alignment with customer value? Join us for a deep dive into designing effective pilots that test the waters and drive success in usage-based revenue. Discover how to develop a pilot that captures real customer feedback, aligns internal teams with usage metrics, and rethinks sales incentives to prioritize lasting customer eng

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Chargebee

JUNE 18, 2024

“I love feature provisioning. I wish I could do this more often!” said no engineer. However, entitlement management is crucial for SaaS or digital service businesses (such as OTT, ePublications, or e-learning) to ensure customers can access what they paid for. Many companies build these systems in-house, relying on engineering teams to handle feature provisioning and access control.

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User Pilot

JUNE 18, 2024

Whether you’re looking to deepen your expertise, stay updated with industry trends, or find practical tools to enhance your workflow, the right resources are essential for continuous growth and success. This guide will introduce you to the best resources available for product marketing managers, providing you with a curated selection of valuable materials to enhance your skills and knowledge.

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Zuora

JUNE 18, 2024

News publishers face unprecedented competition, rapidly changing consumer behaviors, and technological disruptions. Leveraging advanced technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Reinforcement Learning (RL) has become essential for achieving more predictable outcomes. With RL, outcomes are decisive and established upfront. As a result, revenue increases, time to value shortens, and customer effort decreases.

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User Pilot

JUNE 18, 2024

Whether you’re looking to deepen your expertise, stay updated with industry trends, or find practical tools to enhance your workflow, the right resources are essential for continuous growth and success. This guide will introduce you to the best resources available for marketing analysts, providing you with a curated selection of valuable materials to enhance your skills and knowledge.

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Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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Scytale

JUNE 18, 2024

Navigating the landscape of cybersecurity can feel overwhelming, especially for businesses in the defense sector. That’s where the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) comes in, designed to provide a standardized approach to security compliance across the Defense Industrial Base (DIB). Originally rolled out in 2020, the CMMC framework aimed to ensure that contractors handling Federal Contract Information (FCI) and Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) adhere to necessary cyberse

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User Pilot

JUNE 18, 2024

Whether you’re looking to deepen your expertise, stay updated with industry trends, or find practical tools to enhance your workflow, the right resources are essential for continuous growth and success. This guide will introduce you to the best resources available for product owners, providing you with a curated selection of valuable materials to enhance your skills and knowledge.

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Buffer Resources

JUNE 18, 2024

If you’re anything like me, your Gen Z sister is posting on TikTok, your mom is a religious Facebooker, and you spent your (Millenial?) time context-switching between Instagram and LinkedIn.  You probably miss things that they share if they don’t make it to the family WhatsApp group (if you have one of those, thoughts and prayers).

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User Pilot

JUNE 18, 2024

Whether you’re looking to deepen your expertise, stay updated with industry trends, or find practical tools to enhance your workflow, the right resources are essential for continuous growth and success. This guide will introduce you to the best resources available for product analysts, providing you with a curated selection of valuable materials to enhance your skills and knowledge.

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