SaaStr

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Happy post lunch interview. This is Zach from Plaid and I guess … well, it’s interesting because you’re not a SaaS company, we’re at Saastr … but we’ll talk about what it’s like to not be a SaaS company at SaaStr. Zach : SaaS-ish. Ari : SaaS-ish. Ari : All Right.

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FastSpring

AUGUST 2, 2023

Now as a successful international business, TestDome has been with FastSpring through all of it, and even when other payment platforms launched intriguing new products, Mario never saw a good reason to leave FastSpring. Our customers have been quite happy with the service.” Set up a demo or try it out for yourself. Braintree offers it.

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FastSpring

OCTOBER 12, 2023

In Dave’s words, “What is it about your product or service that the users say in their own words they love ?” I think SaaS businesses and subscription businesses are particularly bad at having vague, waffley headlines on their homepages,” he states. Stream the entire conversation or read the highlights below. Jump to highlights.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 29, 2019

But that’s easier said than done, which is why we’ve published our new book Intercom on Sales : a deep dive into the many lessons we’ve learned about how selling works at scale, covering everything from hiring tactics to the needs of modern buyers to fundamental processes for forecasting and managing deals. Sales is a brutal profession.

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Natalia Luneva

JANUARY 13, 2021

Existing customer renewal is a high priority for 59% of SaaS companies and a medium priority for 27%. This article will answer the main questions that SaaS founders and market ers have about losing SaaS customers, in other words, user churn: What is SaaS churn definition and why lowering it matt ers?

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User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

Confused about trying to understand SaaS roles? SaaS companies have many moving parts, and it can be difficult to determine who does what. TL;DR SaaS, or “Software as a Service,” is a business model that delivers centrally hosted software to subscribers over the internet. What is a SaaS business model?

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User Pilot

JUNE 28, 2023

Sustaining user engagement throughout the entire onboarding process can feel like a task only large teams can achieve. Platformly uses a progress bar and empty state CTAs to simplify the onboarding process for their complex product. Tips for improving the onboarding experience : Use UI patterns to draw users towards activation points.

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User Pilot

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

User adoption is essential for B2B SaaS companies, as it helps customers to learn about your product, adopt features , stick around, and nurture product growth. There are four metrics to measure user adoption: user activation rate , feature adoption rate , product stickiness , and net promoter score (NPS).

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User Pilot

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

User adoption is essential for B2B SaaS companies, as it helps customers to learn about your product, adopt features , stick around, and nurture product growth. There are four metrics to measure user adoption: user activation rate , feature adoption rate , product stickiness , and net promoter score (NPS).

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OPEXEngine

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Member Spotlight Series: An Interview with Dominic Ballinger, Director of FP&A and Integration at Sage. Small to mid-sized service companies. Do you have any best practices in the current environment that you’d like to share with your peers in the SaaS and software community? . “We

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FastSpring

JUNE 11, 2024

In this episode of Growth Stage, we interview affiliate marketing veteran and attribution animal Adam Riemer of Adam Riemer Marketing about his thoughts on: What proper affiliate marketing looks like. Podcast Full Interview: Audio Listen online or find it on more podcast services. Set up a demo or try it out for yourself.

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FastSpring

JANUARY 8, 2019

They also offer Fulfillment by Amazon, where they handle the fulfillment process for your business at extra cost. A security mechanism that determines if a payment account has sufficient funds to complete a given transaction. The operations of a business including sales tax, VAT filings, billing, order processing, and online payments.

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Chart Mogul

JUNE 6, 2019

The first thing that comes to mind when you think of a SaaS business? Yet, people lie at the heart of every software company, so taking good care of them is imperative for every SaaS business that wants to succeed. How often did you have to update the credit card details in the 20+ SaaS solutions that you use? Exciting, right?

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User Pilot

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Improve customer communication by training your customer service team. Track the right customer communication metrics. Customer communication is the best way to nurture existing customer relationships through the process of customer relationship management. Answer customer concerns with in-app educational materials.

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User Pilot

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

In this article, we cover the following: What customer intelligence is and why it’s essential in SaaS. It enables businesses to make data-driven decisions. Finally, create in-app product experiences to improve your metrics. Customers expect personalized services and product experiences. Check it out today !

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FastSpring

JANUARY 26, 2024

In this episode of Growth Stage, host and CMO of FastSpring David Vogelpohl interviews Jake about his thoughts on: What Customer Success is at a high level. We really do touch every organization in the business, which consists of product and engineering, services, sales, marketing, product, and people,” he explains. “So And much more!

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SaaStr

AUGUST 27, 2019

First step, we have who has worked with a number of SAAS companies in New York City as a CFO, and is now CEO of Concert Finance, a sales commission platform. Get into the weeds, define that metric. Our goal is that there will be at least one new tactic you can take back and try with your teams tomorrow.

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User Pilot

JANUARY 15, 2021

But making the effort to understand the fundamentals will allow you to make significant improvements to all your growth metrics faster. Why Google Analytics is not a product analytics tool , and how product analytics differs from and relates to product metrics. But look out for vanity metrics ! What is Product Analytics?

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User Pilot

AUGUST 15, 2023

It is the process that guides you to a successful product release. A product launch plan provides structure to your launch, enabling you to prioritize resources, prepare for every possibility, and reach potential customers. Go-to-market and pricing strategies that detail your marketing plan and preferred sales process.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

You could be missing all of your metrics, but you know, you’re not the Twitter guys. You had town car services before. If I look at something like Stripe, and Stripe is an investor in Lambda, but they originally started out as an API for business payments. What am I missing?” All of your data has to be right.

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Chart Mogul

JULY 30, 2024

Find everything involved with SaaS funding, from the types of funding to navigating the investment process (with first-hand lessons and insight from SaaS VCs). Securing SaaS funding can be exciting but nerve-racking – understandably, it may be the starting point for significant growth. No large payments.

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Natalia Luneva

JANUARY 13, 2021

Existing customer renewal is a high priority for 59% of SaaS companies and a medium priority for 27%. This article will answer the main questions that SaaS founders and market ers have about losing SaaS customers, in other words, user churn: What is SaaS churn definition and why lowering it matt ers?

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Baremetrics

MARCH 31, 2020

In this article, we’re going to break down a simple three step process you can use to analyze your churn. Churn analysis is the process of using data to understand why your customers have stopped using your product or service. This approach works well in the early stages of your SaaS company. Short, clear and simple.

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ProfitWell

OCTOBER 16, 2019

It’s the question on every SaaS founder’s lips: Is my churn rate too high? So how do you know what a healthy churn rate is for your SaaS company? Zuora’s 2019 Subscription Economy Index reports average customer churn rates across a number of different industries, ranging from Business Services on the low end (16.2%

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Chargify

OCTOBER 4, 2017

There’s a self-service page, which allows clients to update information on their own. It provides metrics month-over-month on critical data such as the number of customers, revenue, and lifetime client value.”. It allows us to upgrade, downgrade, or cancel a client’s subscription easily. costs money and 2. Uri Foox, Founder, Zoey.

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Outseta

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Before we get into the interview, a bit of background - I have hired Soren’s team at Working Planet multiple times. Soren: My Co-founder and I met in graduate school where we were creating algorithms for processing satellite imagery. Making these programs work is a process that takes commitment and quite a bit of iteration.

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wepay

JULY 5, 2018

Hiring for SaaS companies is difficult. The series covers initial hiring, building a company that people want to work at, what to look for in employees, who to hire, writing a job description, building a hiring process, interviewing process, and onboarding process. “In

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Chart Mogul

DECEMBER 20, 2019

We also updated our popular SaaS Metrics Refresher email course. After enabling our customers to bring in data from the App Store, the Google Play integration completed our mobile analytics suite and allowed customers running mobile apps to get a complete picture of their business. Q2 (April-June). Q4 (October-December).

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Chart Mogul

DECEMBER 20, 2019

We also updated our popular SaaS Metrics Refresher email course. After enabling our customers to bring in data from the App Store, the Google Play integration completed our mobile analytics suite and allowed customers running mobile apps to get a complete picture of their business. Q2 (April-June). Q4 (October-December).

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Mucker Capital

OCTOBER 22, 2018

The company’s co-founders grew up playing basketball together in Cerritos, and Kim pitched his friend the idea for a product that would revolutionize the way companies manage auditing processes while the two were at Lee’s house watching SportsCenter and chatting about their favorite team: the Lakers. What about the fundraising process?

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User Pilot

JULY 21, 2024

Consider certifications in customer service, customer experience management, or specialized programs like Subscription Success Certification (SSC) or Professional in Customer Retention (PCR) to enhance your expertise. Baremetrics blog features in-depth articles on pricing, customer retention, and subscription metrics.

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User Pilot

JULY 20, 2024

Nevertheless, to give you an idea of the role’s main duties, here are the core tasks for a retention specialist working in SaaS: Proactive User Engagement & Churn Prevention : Identify at-risk users based on specific metrics (e.g., While a bachelor’s degree can be beneficial, it’s not always required.

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User Pilot

JULY 28, 2024

Nevertheless, to give you an idea of the role’s main duties, here are the core tasks for a retention specialist working in SaaS: Proactive User Engagement & Churn Prevention : Identify at-risk users based on specific metrics (e.g., Embrace a customer-centric mindset: Let’s say you’re working for a SaaS company.

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User Pilot

APRIL 8, 2021

Here’s a sobering truth: if you run a SaaS company and don’t use customer analytics software , you probably won’t be in business very long. Customer Analytics Software is designed to facilitate the collection, sorting and analysis of data from customers. Userpilot is well known in the SaaS world for its so-called “ microsurveys.”

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User Pilot

JULY 11, 2024

Nevertheless, to give you an idea of the role’s main duties, here are the core tasks for a retention specialist working in SaaS: Proactive User Engagement & Churn Prevention : Identify at-risk users based on specific metrics (e.g., Subscription Management & Upselling : Assist users with subscription management (e.g.,

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SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

I will tell you how many COs I’ve talked to that say, “I’ll come to SaaStr, but I don’t want my series B or series C VC interviewing me,” which is sort of interesting. We can only process so much change, and I feel like we’ve been through three worlds since early March. The rate of change, right?

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ProfitWell

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Patrick went through the history of SaaS, and Neel broke down some of our latest innovations. Nick Mehta , CEO of Gainsight, and his colleague, Kate Peter dropped knowledge on how to drive customer success across SaaS businesses. The multi-step process of nurturing a prospect, sending out multiple emails, scheduling a call.

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