Zuora
JULY 14, 2020
This bylined article was originally published in WARC by Zuora’s John Phillips, GM, EMEA The worldwide spread of coronavirus […]. The post Why digital media subscription services are on the rise during COVID-19 appeared first on Zuora.
Predictable Revenue
JULY 14, 2020
Should we re-establish growth and, if so, when and how fast? Driving revenue growth at your company and what to expect at each stage is quite measurable through a data-driven approach. The post Re-establishing growth: when to scale, and how fast? appeared first on Predictable Revenue.
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Unbounce
JULY 21, 2020
Let’s face it: brand marketers get a bad rap. In the last decade, the conversation has focused on technical marketing: growth hacking, conversion rate optimization, SEO, the merging of product and marketing, and data, data, data. At the same time, brand became less exciting—and sometimes an afterthought. It was too “fluffy.” But that’s all changing.
Practical Advice on SaaS marketing
JULY 1, 2020
A company may have lots of ways to know what’s going on inside their organization. But it’s more difficult to know what’s going on outside. How are they doing relative to other companies. What are others doing that they can learn from? What mistakes are others making that they can avoid? During the height of the Covid-19 crisis, one of my clients asked a few dozen customers what they were doing to adjust to the new business conditions.
Speaker: Kenten Danas, Senior Manager, Developer Relations
ETL and ELT are some of the most common data engineering use cases, but can come with challenges like scaling, connectivity to other systems, and dynamically adapting to changing data sources. Airflow is specifically designed for moving and transforming data in ETL/ELT pipelines, and new features in Airflow 3.0 like assets, backfills, and event-driven scheduling make orchestrating ETL/ELT pipelines easier than ever!
ProfitWell
JULY 23, 2020
Today we're launching Good Better Best: a weekly deep dive on pricing and packaging strategies written by Rob Litterst , who helps head up our pricing team. Each issue features analysis of a specific packaging case study readable in 5-10 minutes. Zoom's freemium decision tree. The famous Freemium swerve that changed video-conferencing. By now, we’re all familiar with Zoom.
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Baremetrics
JULY 30, 2020
Contrary to what you might see in some case studies, MRR growth is not always linear. Through working with various SaaS companies, talking to founders and even looking at our journey here at Baremetrics, I’ve seen firsthand how startups can experience periods of flat or even negative growth. And when it happens, so many companies default to “how do we get more customers?
Zuora
JULY 2, 2020
Quick, what’s your immediate answer to the following question: In order to attract new subscribers, should a subscription business offer […]. The post Freemium or Free Trial: We Have a Winner! appeared first on Zuora.
Unbounce
JULY 14, 2020
Ask and you shall receive, right? Not so much when it comes to your visitors’ email addresses. You likely don’t have to look further than your own inbox to see why—there’s no shortage of companies ready to flood you with their latest and greatest offers. Which means people are wiser to marketing tactics and, understandably, more discerning than ever about who they give their contact information out to.
Tom Tunguz
JULY 4, 2020
It’s been two quarters since the coronavirus has hit Startupland. And you can see the impact of the shutdown in the numbers. We reviewed the data in May and compared it to the effects of the financial crisis in 2008 on startup fundraising. As a reminder, 2008 saw a 40% reduction in venture dollars invested in startups. It took about six to eight quarters to return to normalcy.
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SaaSX
JULY 26, 2020
When you are growing fast you end up spending a lot of time getting the right people into the roles in the right structure to help efficiency, communication, quality, and results. Much of that work ends up being focused on departments, work to be done, and reporting lines. It’s neat and tidy. But, I’ve found when you actually look at the work to be done inside of high-growth startups there are some gaps that don’t always fit into a common org chart. .
SaaStr
JULY 31, 2020
Being a CEO changes you. Not at first. The first year or two are a lot like “before”, just more intense. Now it’s all on your back, and your shoulders. But over time, your brain does get rewired. You get focused. And as part of that change, you will lose friends on many levels if you build a successful start-up. One tough part of that is if you co-found a company with friends, it’s likely one of them won’t go the distance.
The Daily Egg
JULY 10, 2020
Ready to start a blog? Whether you’re blogging as a hobby or starting a blog for your business, the benefits of blogging are seemingly endless. It’s an excellent way to drive traffic to your website and build authority in your niche or industry. But you need to choose a blogging platform before you can write […]. The post Best Blogging Platforms appeared first on The Daily Egg.
Intercom, Inc.
JULY 28, 2020
No one ever starts a business intending to provide a poor customer experience. But until recently, technological limitations meant that we, as business leaders, faced an impossible choice as our companies grew. Either stay personal with customers or get efficient. Staying personal meant offering expensive services that aren’t scalable like 1:1 phone calls or 24/7 real-time chat.
Speaker: Alex Salazar, CEO & Co-Founder @ Arcade | Nate Barbettini, Founding Engineer @ Arcade | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO @ Aggregage
There’s a lot of noise surrounding the ability of AI agents to connect to your tools, systems and data. But building an AI application into a reliable, secure workflow agent isn’t as simple as plugging in an API. As an engineering leader, it can be challenging to make sense of this evolving landscape, but agent tooling provides such high value that it’s critical we figure out how to move forward.
Predictable Revenue
JULY 2, 2020
Building a sales culture that attracts and retains top performers takes more than just amenities, fun and games. Culture is actually the behavior your team exudes when going to work every day. The post How to build a culture that attracts top performers with Justin Welsh appeared first on Predictable Revenue.
Tom Tunguz
JULY 30, 2020
Yesterday, Dremio hosted the Subsurface Conference , the first conference on cloud data lakes. More than 5000 people registered, and more than 2500 attended. If one had doubts that cloud data lakes are a strategic area for many in the data ecosystem, those figures should quash them. I delivered a presentation at the end of the day that I’ll share here.
FastSpring
JULY 14, 2020
Managing risk in affiliate programs has been a growing concern in the industry at large. Luckily, there are some actions you take! The techniques and actions described below can help you minimize the risk in your program, and help build a healthy program that is fair and clear for your affiliates. Control Recruitment. The most effective way to manage risk inside of an affiliate program is to stop it before it starts.
SaaStr
JULY 28, 2020
Microsoft, Google, Apple and Amazon have made the headlines for a while for crossing $1 trillion in market cap each. That’s crazy growth — almost all fueled by the crazy growth of the Cloud. No SaaS company is yet worth $1 trillion, through perhaps that is coming. What has happened though is the Top 30 SaaS companies together are now worth $1 Trillion.
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The Daily Egg
JULY 17, 2020
Leading agile project management teams can be challenging if you’re not using the right software to stay organized. Agile project management tools help you jump from daily scrums to your next sprint while providing your team with collaboration features to accomplish the common goal. In addition to collaboration features, the best agile project management software […].
Intercom, Inc.
JULY 29, 2020
The notion of storytelling has pervaded the marketing world as of late. Companies work to unlock the story of their brand , to tell the story of their target customers, use data to tell stories about their industry or provide further insights. The word has popped up in job descriptions: rather than writers and editors, companies hunt for storytellers who can bring their content to life ( Microsoft even has a chief storyteller ).
Predictable Revenue
JULY 29, 2020
LinkedIn research and extensive reports on the impact of COVID-19 on the sales pipeline, demonstrates some of the ways that companies can evolve. The post Post-COVID trends: How to return to predictable revenue appeared first on Predictable Revenue.
Tom Tunguz
JULY 18, 2020
In this era, virtual events have replaced IRL events. Virtual events have many obvious benefits. No hotels, no event venues, no catering, no ensuring guests are in the right city at the right time. But there are unanticipated benefits that are only now coming to light. Many of our portfolio companies have experimented with virtual events quite successfully.
Speaker: Pete Uselman, Director of Partner Experience at Wind River Payments
Most integrated payments providers share a percent of the payment revenue with their software partners. But, oftentimes, that revenue share is only a fraction of the true income potential software providers can realize. If you want to maximize income opportunities from your payments program, check out Wind River Payments’ webinar-on-demand.
Neil Patel
JULY 28, 2020
When I first started out in marketing, I thought traffic was everything. I wanted to be as big as companies like HubSpot. Just look at the image above and you’ll see how many visitors they are getting. They generate 29.61 million visitors a month from 11.74 million people. And those visitors produce roughly 10 billion dollars of market cap. Now, let’s look at NeilPatel.com.
SaaStr
JULY 21, 2020
We’ve crossed 6,000 posts and answers on SaaStr and we held off for a long time on writing one on How to Have a Great Board Meeting, and most other VC tropes. We might write that post, soon, however, just from a founder perspective. But I thought it might be useful to assemble a “Top 10” list of things that are relatively easy to do, now, that will make your investors and board happier.
The Daily Egg
JULY 15, 2020
With more people working from home than ever before, video conferencing software has become necessary to run businesses effectively. Remote work is the future. But that doesn’t mean you can’t have face-to-face interactions with colleagues and employees. Video conferencing software makes this possible. For basic meetings to client presentations, team collaboration, and educational purposes, video […].
Intercom, Inc.
JULY 2, 2020
This way of thinking about support is all about efficiency. If you can maximize your team’s productivity, you can help more customers at lower costs. And it makes sense: in order to be around to support your customers well into the future, you need a solid foundation for scale. . But obsessing over efficiency can mask what’s most important, and most rewarding, to support teams – actually helping customers.
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Predictable Revenue
JULY 23, 2020
The environment in which we communicate, at least for some of us, has changed dramatically over the last few months. Take a deep dive into the ever-important topic of communication in virtual environments, and managing screen fatigue. The post Communicating effectively in a virtual environment with Dr. Ethan Becker appeared first on Predictable Revenue.
Tom Tunguz
JULY 16, 2020
I’ve been searching for a book that combined the history, the people, and the emotional roller coaster of US economics. Given all that’s happening, I wondered how events today compare to other times in US history. I’ve spoken to people who lived through stagflation when interest rates were 15%. In history classes at school, I read about the Great Depression and the Roaring 20s.
Unbounce
JULY 22, 2020
Imagine a potential customer is sitting in their car, waiting to pick up their kids from school. They’ve got 15 minutes to kill, so they pick up their phone and (because they’re 46 and don’t know about TikTok yet) scroll through Facebook. Between checking out their best friend’s pictures from a tropical vacation and trying to untangle their Aunt Ida’s… uh, “unorthodox” political insights, they see your Facebook advertisement for gorgeous, handmade
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