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The Complete Guide to SaaS Pricing Strategy

Tom Tunguz

They prioritize revenue growth, market share and profit maximization differently. Maximization (Revenue Growth) - maximize revenue growth in the short term. Penetration (Market Share) - price the product at a low price to win dominant market share. Penetration prioritizes market share.

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Slack’s Rachel Hepworth on bringing growth marketing to a high growth company

Intercom, Inc.

In August of 2016, Rachel Hepworth embarked on a unique challenge: start a growth marketing team at one of the most successful startups of this generation – one that had long relied heavily on word of mouth. This is the second in a series of interviews over the next couple months about unlocking the potential of growth.

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How to Scale Go-to-Market Through IPO with ICONIQ Growth’s General Partners

SaaStr

Go-to-Market matters because sales and marketing spend remain the biggest proportion of SaaS spend, so honing in on that spend to build an engine and drive growth is paramount. But to develop a GTM strategy, you must have Product Market Fit. The Early Stage — $0 to $20M ARR The early stage is crucial for GTM.

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Dear SaaStr: How Do I Convince My Customers with Monthly plans to Upgrade to Annual Plans?

SaaStr

For larger customers, make annual contracts the default, once you’ve gotten a few under your belt. Companies like Smartsheet sell to SMBs but have many annual contracts a standard practice because deploying invovles some business process change. MongoDB in fact found pushing annual contracts led to a substantial decrease in sales.

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SaaS Companies: Four Signs You’ve Outgrown Stripe

FastSpring

When you’re using a DIY payment solution like Stripe, making it work for your business falls on your developers. What if, instead of spending so much time making your payment stack work for you, your developers could focus on your product? And this leads to our third point.

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Episode 42: A Mistake in Every Sentence

Sales Hacker

Manager, Outbound Growth Marketing at Greenhouse) and Will Allred (Co-Founder & COO at Lavender) to get TWO perspectives and TWO approaches on real sales emails, every week on Sales Hacker. We have centers of excellence in Cloud, Custom Software Development, DevOps, PEGA, SaaS, AI, Data warehousing, Data Analytics, BI, and Testing.

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Episode 50: Why Are Lead Gen Companies Bad at Lead Gen

Sales Hacker

Manager, Outbound Growth Marketing at Greenhouse) and Will Allred (Co-Founder & COO at Lavender) to get TWO perspectives and TWO approaches on real sales emails, every week on Sales Hacker. If outsourcing some of your outbound isn’t a priority, just let me know. Join Kristina Finseth (Sr. Follow Up 2: Thoughtful Bump.

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