February, 2019

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How To Deal With Software Development By Embracing The Slow Down Strategy

Incredo

According to Standish Group’s Chaos Report , the reason behind the delay in 94% of software development projects is that the programmers need to redevelop from scratch over and over again.

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Are you forgetting the “service” part of SaaS?

Practical Advice on SaaS marketing

Ok, let me remind us all of the blatantly obvious: “SaaS” stands for “software-as-service.” Yup, “service” is right there in the name. But looking at the way most SaaS solutions are marketed, too often it’s all about the “software”, and not much about the “service.” On website, in videos, during customer presentations, and in every other piece of marketing communication, it’s all about the software.

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Best SaaS Pricing Pages – 4 Key Examples From Crazy Egg Experts

The Daily Egg

Source Service as a software companies had better put their best SaaS pricing pages forward if they hope to stay on top of the competition. The thing is, it’s not easy developing the perfect pricing page, no matter what type of service you offer. You may wonder if you should have a free plan. Or, […] The post Best SaaS Pricing Pages – 4 Key Examples From Crazy Egg Experts appeared first on The Daily Egg.

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1.01^365 = 37.7

Tom Tunguz

Before we’d leave campus - Christmas vacation or spring break or summer vacation - our rowing coach would tell us, “You’re either getting faster or you’re getting slower. There’s no such thing as staying the same.” It was his way of inspiring us to train hard during those times. I’ve never forgotten it. More recently I came across two math equations that confers the same idea, with a twist.

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SaaS Essentials: Failed Payment Solution Guide

For SaaS businesses, improving retention is one of the easiest and most effective ways to drive revenue and profits. With a clear link between failed payments and customer churn, having a robust failed payment recovery solution isn’t optional—it’s essential. Achieving your retention goals starts with the right solution.

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How customer service chatbots are redefining support with AI

Intercom, Inc.

Artificial intelligence is radically redefining the customer service landscape. From automated emails to visual search , AI allows companies to better support their customers at more touchpoints along their journey. Nowhere is this radical change to the customer experience as apparent as in the new wave of chatbots. AI-powered chatbots have become widely available and let you do what was once impossible: help customers 24/7, answer questions without any human intervention and provide support to

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How To Treat Your Largest Customer. TL;DR: With Honesty, Insane Commitment and Transparency.

SaaStr

Recently for the SaaStr Annual, we were “the largest customer” for 3 vendors. All 3 lied to us: One vendor was a friend of a departed contractor. This is a pretty common way deals are done, even today. The champion’s favorite vendor. They misled us in terms of scale and capabilities. One vendor was a well-established software vendor, but misrepresented their experience at scale.

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Tricks of the trade: How UJET’s Alex Palomino gets the highest open rates and the most responses – while sending the fewest emails on her team

Predictable Revenue

On this edition of The Predictable Revenue Podcast, co-host Collin Stewart welcomes Alexandra Palomino, Sales Development Representative at San Francisco-based customer support provider UJET. The post Tricks of the trade: How UJET’s Alex Palomino gets the highest open rates and the most responses – while sending the fewest emails on her team appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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What is Click Through Rate? Learn How to Increase It in 6 Steps

The Daily Egg

A marketing campaign with a low click-through rate (CTR) isn’t going to provide you with the return on your investment (ROI) like you expect. Only when your prospects are clicking-through can they progress through the rest of your marketing funnel. While your conversion rate may calculate how much you’re spending on cost per lead and […] The post What is Click Through Rate?

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Top 10 Learnings from the Redpoint Free Trial Survey

Tom Tunguz

Top 10 Learning about Free Trials from Tomasz Tunguz. At Saastr yesterday, I presented the top 10 learnings from the Redpoint Free Trial Survey that we distributed in October. The data confirmed many rules of thumb but also raised some interesting new questions about the best way to use trials. When we distributed the survey, we never would have expected the response.

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Straight Facts About PayFacs: What Every ISV Should Know

Speaker: Pete Uselman, Director of Partner Experience at Wind River Payments

Many software companies are exploring PayFac-as-a-Service providers in an effort to drive more embedded payments revenue and gain greater control over the customer experience. But there are nuances in a PayFac relationship that often get downplayed – nuances that can impact the risk and resource responsibilities of software providers. In this webinar, integrated payments veteran, Pete Uselman discusses the following: What is a PayFac?

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5 strategies to drive your next wave of growth

Intercom, Inc.

You often hear great talks about the founding story and how to drive that first phase of growth. At SaaStr , I talked about what happens after that, how you can drive your next phase of growth. When you are starting a business, or joining a new one, you are excited and full of ideas. You probably have a goal in mind. It might be to launch a new product, to define a new category or to hit $1M in revenue.

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38 Bright Asian SaaS Stars

SaaStock

When we announced a few weeks ago that we would be bringing our leading SaaS conference to Asia, and running it in Hong Kong, many locals thanked us for choosing the city. As we mentioned in our launch post, we couldn’t not do it there, with its international spirit, openness to everyone, relaxed atmosphere, and proximity to many other SaaS hubs around, all attracting us to Hong Kong.

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5 Reasons Not To Raise Prices on Existing Customers. And 2 Better Ways to Do It Anyway.

SaaStr

I remember the first time I tried to do the Old Price-Raise-Without-Notice tactic. We’d closed Qualcomm in Year 1 for the grand total of $10,000. Not all of Qualcomm, but a nice division. It was a great logo in Year 1, and our champion and buyer did 3 webinars for us, an external case study — and an internal case study at Qualcomm. They were magic, these pieces of content.

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How to Rank (and Convert) with Landing Page SEO

Unbounce

Landing page SEO is a tricky proposition. Landing pages are potent tools to convert readers into customers, but the way most are designed is hardly SEO friendly. Think about it. A landing page aims to direct readers down a specific path, focusing them on your call to action without offering other distractions. But optimizing a web page for search engines requires more content, more links, more calls to action.

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Usage-Based Monetization Musts: A Roadmap for Sustainable Revenue Growth

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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Interaction Design Guide: How to Do IxD in 7 Easy to Follow Steps

The Daily Egg

Interaction design is all the rage with B2B digital marketers and audiences alike. If you’re not familiar with interaction design or IxD, you should know that the term interaction design was first coined by Bill Verplank and Bill Moggridge back in the mid-80s. The pair coined that term from a different term used by computer […] The post Interaction Design Guide: How to Do IxD in 7 Easy to Follow Steps appeared first on The Daily Egg.

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Should Your Startup Differentiate On Pricing?

Tom Tunguz

Startups are innovation machines. They identify market opportunities, develop novel products and go out to change the world. Some companies want to change the world in one dimension: a better product or a disruptive go-to-market. Others want to innovate in every dimension and re-invent every discipline from pricing to marketing to support to customer success.

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Why SaaS growth isn’t just about acquiring new customers

Intercom, Inc.

Unless your business is transactional, nurturing your existing customers should be just as important as acquiring new logos. The way I see it, closing a deal is just the first step. It’s what comes after – onboarding, upselling and cross-selling, renewal – that determines your customers’ ability to grow with your product and, consequently, the fate of your own growth.

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The 18 Outstanding Speakers at SaaStock LatAm 2019

SaaStock

Latin America is undergoing a digital transformation, and the SaaS community is exploding as a result. We conducted intensive market research with SaaS practitioners across LatAm to dig into the reasons behind the region’s hypergrowth, and worked with the progressive global VCs who are fuelling the SaaS boom to understand the key players and the scope of the opportunity.

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

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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6 Things To Look for When Reviewing New Account Exec Resumes

SaaStr

Here’s what I look for to try to get a sense if they’ll perform: Do they call out top performance with metrics ? The best reps are often quite precise. E.g., hit 152% of Quota last year, 143% year before, etc. Maybe they are exaggerating, that’s besides the point. The question is, do they love to win and have a history of it? Metrics are a good indicator here.

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The science of sales development: how Everstring uses intent data to build pipeline

Predictable Revenue

On this edition of The Predictable Revenue Podcast, co-host Collin Stewart welcomes Jack Veronin, Senior Sales Development Manager at EverString. The post The science of sales development: how Everstring uses intent data to build pipeline appeared first on Predictable Revenue - The Outbound Success Company. We help companies grow faster with Outbound Sales.

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The Best Ecommerce Landing Pages to Boost Your Conversions

The Daily Egg

When attempting to become the best eseller you can be, you may wish to take a few notes from some of the best ecommerce landing pages being published today. If developed and optimized effectively, an ecommerce landing page can become a major catalyst for conversions. That’s because, when it comes to ecommerce, landing pages definitely […] The post The Best Ecommerce Landing Pages to Boost Your Conversions appeared first on The Daily Egg.

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The Two Things You Need From Early Customers that Matter More than Cash

Tom Tunguz

As you start to go to market, there are two things to prioritize from early customers that matter more than cash. Feedback and marketing rights. The feedback matters for obvious reasons. The product is early; customer feedback will help you hew the raw granite of your initial product into shape. The second may not be so obvious. Every prospect championing a software purchase will be asked by the opponents of the sale and decision-makers : “Who else is using the software?

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, Terrence Sheflin, and Mahyar Ghasemali

As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.

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Product engagement: the most important metric you aren’t tracking for your SaaS business

Intercom, Inc.

If you have followed us over at Sherlock , you will likely have heard us say many times that product engagement is the lifeblood of any SaaS business. This is because the entire SaaS business model is dependent on people using (and getting value from) your product consistently over time. The entire model is dependent on product engagement. In short, creating a method for scoring engagement is essential for every SaaS business.

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Calling all SaaS Visionaries: Speak at SaaStock 2019

SaaStock

SaaStock is built on compelling stories and the SaaStock19 Call for Content is now open. We want to ensure that each and every member of our SaaS community has the chance to share their story on the SaaStock stage. This is your chance to join our tribe by submitting your speaker proposal. It’s your opportunity to join your peers and industry thought leaders to help shape the future of the SaaS community.

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You Should Be Collecting At Least 100% Of Your MRR Each Month in Cash. Ideally, 110%+.

SaaStr

Cash collections is a topic we haven’t discussed much on SaaStr, but boy it can be important all the way until you have a CFO. And often after. What’s the issue? The issue is that most SaaS start-ups are terrible at collecting cash that doesn’t come from a payment gateway. Just terrible. – terrible at collections. start-ups without an A/R function often have $250k-$500k in uncollectible receivables. – metrics that break and don't make sense. starts to harm yo

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How to tailor your cold calls to match your prospect’s communication style with Shawn Sease

Predictable Revenue

On this edition of The Predictable Revenue Podcast, co-host Collin Stewart welcomes Shawn Sease, Director SDR Client Services at outbound sales consultancy Sales Developers. The post How to tailor your cold calls to match your prospect’s communication style with Shawn Sease appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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Launching LLM-Based Products: From Concept to Cash in 90 Days

Speaker: Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health and Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health, is here to take us through how he guided his company's recent experience of getting from concept to launch and sales of products within 90 days. In this exclusive webinar, Christophe will cover key aspects of his journey, including: LLM Development & Quick Wins 🤖 Understand how LLMs differ from traditional software, identifying opportunities for rapid development and deployment.

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Pro Tips For Growing Your Ecommerce Store

The Daily Egg

“If I’m not sleeping, then I’m active on Shopify.” Does that quote sound like something you’d say? Recently, we announced the addition of Crazy Egg to the Shopify App store. We talked a little bit about why we were so psyched about the launch; namely, that a lot of you use Shopify daily to run […] The post Pro Tips For Growing Your Ecommerce Store appeared first on The Daily Egg.

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A Common Mistake in Hiring Plans

Tom Tunguz

As you build out your startup’s financial model for 2019, a key component will be the hiring plan. You’ll need to calculate the number of managers and individual contributors to achieve your goals. But don’t forget to plan for mishires. You will make mistakes hiring people. We all do and it’s part of the process of building a company. Someone looks great on paper but isn’t a culture fit.

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8 steps to craft a winning sales strategy, according to industry leaders

Intercom, Inc.

Developing a sales strategy is one of the core activities every business will have to undertake. You can delay it until you’ve acquired your first 100 or 1,000 customers, but at some point you’ll need to find sustainable traction in the market. A well defined sales strategy is your path to meaningful, sustainable growth. Get it right and watch your company’s growth trajectory go up and to the right.

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