Chargebee

APRIL 15, 2020

A list of a few tried and tested features of Chargebee used by our customers at this time of crisis that can aid you too!

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ChurnZero

APRIL 17, 2020

As we are all working from home, social distancing, and seeing once-crowded streets now nearly empty, it doesn’t take much to see that the world has drastically changed in just a few weeks due to the COVID-19 pandemic. There are a lot of unknowns and one of them related to our professional lives is how will this affect Customer Success. Today we are unveiling a new churn monster to talk about this all too real churn risk – the Black Swan.

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SaaStr

APRIL 11, 2020

Times are tough for many of us now. What do you do, if half your customers have just gone out of business? If your growth has gone from 60% to 0% overnight? Well you can’t fix everything. And maybe — you can’t even grow your ARR. Some of you won’t be able to grow revenue at all for now. But that doesn’t mean you can’t still grow.

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Tom Tunguz

APRIL 14, 2020

Sam Jacobs created the Revenue Collective , a group of more than 1700 sales professionals at some of the fastest-growing companies. With chapters across the US, Revenue Collective has broad reach within the sales community. I’ve known Sam a long time and he’s done remarkable work with this community. Recently, Revenue Collective surveyed its members about the impact of coronavirus on businesses.

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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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SaaStr

APRIL 14, 2020

Everyone usually gets pretty good at segmenting customers by ACV. Large, Medium and Small. Or at least by splitting up sales-driven and self-service revenue. Or enterprise vs smaller customer. And later, we often start segmenting by vertical and industry. More of you right now should be putting that aside a bit and segmenting your customers into 3 new groups: Growing.

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SaaStr

APRIL 16, 2020

Ok for many of you, everything since March 15 or so has been just crazy. Sometimes, terrible. Sometimes, rough. Sometimes, just crazy. But crazy. If your bookings dropped, if your churn went way up, then … it did. Things changed. Now you have the data. You know what your New Normal is like, mostly. From the past 30 days. Maybe you are only growing 20% now.

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OPEXEngine

APRIL 14, 2020

Whether you’re trying to retain more customers or accelerate new customer acquisition, your customer success strategy needs to start with the right performance metrics. Today, I’m taking a look at 5 of the most revealing SaaS customer success metrics – from the ever-present customer churn rate, through to your SaaS product’s viral coefficient. 1) CUSTOMER CHURN RATE.

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Predictable Revenue

APRIL 14, 2020

Getting started with outbound sales is an exciting time for a company, but over the past 10 years, we’ve noticed that companies beginning their outbound journey tend to all stumble in the same key areas: they don’t validate their target market, they try to manage outbound off the side of their desks, and they don’t budget for success. The post The true cost of an SDR team appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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Sage Intacct

APRIL 17, 2020

Sage Intacct’s virtual Modern SaaS Finance Summit moved into its third week with a focus on managing churn and cash flow. This panel tackled issues that are especially critical right now around customer-by-customer account evaluations, automation efficiencies and billing model adjustments. You can access the video and register for other summit sessions here.

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The Daily Egg

APRIL 13, 2020

Website visitor tracking can mean a lot of different things. We broke our list down into 3 common use cases—so you can find the tool you need fast. The post 14 Best Website Visitor Tracking Software Tools (By Category) appeared first on The Daily Egg.

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SaaStr

APRIL 12, 2020

Q: What sales tactics that are taught to new salespeople bother you enough that you refuse to use them? A few that I think really do you a disservice in SaaS, especially before you have a huge brand: “Be careful of prospects that waste your time.” Yes, your time is precious in sales. But this is backwards. Almost no one wants to waste a salesperson’s time.

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Tom Tunguz

APRIL 11, 2020

Over the last decade, growth has been the winning card for startups to play. The faster the business grew, the higher its valuation. Margins didn’t matter much. Neither gross margin, nor net income margin weighed heavily on a company’s valuation unless they deviated grossly from norms. Today, runway ranks as the first consideration in evaluating a company’s strategy.

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Predictable Revenue

APRIL 15, 2020

n the not so distant past, many organizations, including Predictable Revenue, had very little difficulty generating sales meetings by sending routine, cold prospecting emails. But things are rapidly changing. The post The World of Sales Development is Changing appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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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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The Daily Egg

APRIL 14, 2020

Email marketing is one the most cost-effective and impactful marketing tactics in existence. It delivers a higher ROI than any other type of marketing strategy. If you understand how to leverage emails, your campaigns will build customer relationships and drive engagements better than any other distribution channel. But before you can start thinking about subject […].

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SaaStr

APRIL 13, 2020

Gartner recently did a survey of 317 CFOs and finance professionals, and found the vast majority plan to permanently shift to more remote work going forward. This doesn’t mean letting their loffice eases expire. It does mean cramming more folks into the same or even less space. The one exception seems to be sales teams. Only 8% of sales leadership planned to make related changes here.

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Tom Tunguz

APRIL 16, 2020

Among the most useful frameworks I’ve found to manage a company in this era is the 2×2 matrix above. This matrix answers the question: what should the company’s stance be. It also raises the question: when should it change? One could argue times like these all good opportunities to adopt a defensive posture: focus on product, limit GTM hiring, and modulate burn.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 14, 2020

We continue our series of posts looking back through the Inside Intercom archive with a selection of some of our most popular posts on customer retention. This has long been one of the most popular topics on Inside Intercom, and over the years we have examined retention from a number of different perspectives – from measuring net dollar retention to understanding activity churn; from cohort analysis to re-engagement messaging strategies. “Retaining customers will be more important for surv

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The Daily Egg

APRIL 13, 2020

Every website on the Internet must be hosted on a server. The easiest way to host your site is with a web hosting service. But choosing the best web hosting provider can be complicated if you don’t know where to start. There are different types of web hosting—like shared hosting, VPS hosting, cloud hosting, and […]. The post The Best Web Hosting Services appeared first on The Daily Egg.

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SaaStr

APRIL 14, 2020

Ok we are almost at our cap of 10,000+ attendees for the FREE SaaStrSummit on Bridging the Gap on April 22. Many of the sessions already have 5,000+ registrants or more already. Some of the newer additions you may not have seen: What It’s Really Like Selling to the Enterprise Now — With CEO of Zuora + CIOs of Zendesk and Nutanix. This should be an incredible deep-dive on the opportunities and challenges to selling into the enterprise right now.

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Predictable Revenue

APRIL 14, 2020

Amy discusses the context of why you should hire someone, how easy it is finding a potential hire’s digital footprint, and asking the right questions; why, how and what am I hiring for. The post Unpacking the “Why” Behind Who You Should Hire Next with Amy Volas appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 14, 2020

“A team takes its tone from its leader,” says our Global Director of Customer Support Kaitlin Pettersen. When an unprecedented crisis like COVID-19 hits how do you provide your team with the guidance they need? Your support team is likely experiencing an array of unprecedented stressors right now, like tackling high conversation volumes, resolving stressed-out customers’ issues, and abruptly transitioning to working remotely.

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Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, and Terrence Sheflin

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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The Daily Egg

APRIL 14, 2020

VPS stands for “virtual private server.” VPS hosting is a step up from shared hosting, which is typically used by new websites or smaller websites that need an entry-level plan. But as your site grows, your hosting needs will change. Switching to a VPS web hosting provider can accommodate larger websites with higher volumes of […]. The post Best VPS Hosting Services appeared first on The Daily Egg.

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SaaStr

APRIL 14, 2020

By PandaDoc Marketing Specialist Travis Tyler. Even before a global health crisis slammed into the world economy this year, global sales leaders were already pretty shakey about the current state of deals. We know this because hundreds of them told us so in a joint study PandaDoc did with G2 in January of 2020. The results culminated in a comprehensive research report titled: 2020 The State of Deals Report.

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Predictable Revenue

APRIL 16, 2020

How does one marry that reality – that companies are still trying to sell and grow – with the fact that society has been effectively turned upside down and prospects may not be as interested in buying? The post How to Adjust Outbound Sales to This Challenging Professional Climate with Jason Bay appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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Tom Tunguz

APRIL 16, 2020

Among the most useful frameworks I’ve found to manage a company in this era is the 2×2 matrix above. This matrix answers the question: what should the company’s stance be. It also raises the question: when should it change? One could argue times like these all good opportunities to adopt a defensive posture: focus on product, limit GTM hiring, and modulate burn.

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Neil Patel

APRIL 14, 2020

They say in SEO you need to use headings. Those can be H1, H2, or even H3 tags. But do they really impact your rankings? Sure, a lot of CMS systems put headings on each of your web pages by default. They do this with the title of the page (or blog post) and sometimes to sections within a page. But again, the real question is, do they help with rankings?

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SaaStr

APRIL 11, 2020

These have been the craziest of times, both in general and certainly for IRL events. The SaaStr Annual 2020 being re-scheduled for us to Q3 was certainly something never in our expected range of issues to deal with! We appreciate all the incredible support from the SaaStr community and partners since then, as we’ve dug out from the rubble of issues from Annual and beyond.

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Unbounce

APRIL 14, 2020

We want to support you as much as we can during this uncertain time. Check out the COVID-19 Small Business Care Package for a roundup of useful resources—including tech discounts, government subsidies, and marketing tips to help lessen the impact on your business. B2B products and services can be difficult to fully capture on a landing page—we know from experience.

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