Sales Hacker

JANUARY 16, 2018

Wanna know the secret sauce behind a scalable outbound process that leads to significant growth? Market Segmentation combined with tailored messaging. Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) in 6 months: our outbound sales system is fueling this growth. How To Build An Efficient Outbound Sales System.

Scale 105

Scale Sales Hiring Payment Services Payment Methods 105

Subscription Flow

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

One way to do that is through marketing and revenue-generating strategies such as freemium and product demos which are critical to growing one’s clientele. Another way is utilizing different SaaS marketing strategies, such as providing high-quality content and expanding product access.

SaaS Payments 59

SaaS Payments Payments Business Model Payment Services 59

Outseta

JANUARY 20, 2020

What started as Dimitris (now my Co-founder at Outseta ) writing a few lines of code to collect rent payments from tenants he had living in a duplex in Providence, Rhode Island, turned into something worth hundreds of millions of dollars 15 years later. We could translate the software into Spanish. How the hell does that happen?

SaaS Payments 145

SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Payment Methods Payment Services 145

OpenView Labs

JANUARY 29, 2020

Product led businesses need to get their products in the hands of would-be users as efficiently as possible–hopefully at near zero CAC. Not satisfied with reaching $1 billion in annual revenue, Atlassian furthered its commitment to product led growth by jumping on the freemium bandwagon. 10 Questions To Answer. Freemium benchmarks.

Pricing 82

Pricing Payments SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 82

FastSpring

APRIL 13, 2023

From leading sales at Zillow to brand strategy at Tumblr to revenue at FiscalNote (a global policy platform), Justin Scott started noticing a trend. Across markets, companies were “taking big data sets and visualizing them in interesting ways to create user experiences.” And we need platforms to be able to do that.

Payment Methods 147

Payment Methods Marketing Payments SaaS Payments 147

The Angel VC

DECEMBER 12, 2018

UIpath, the wildly successful robotic process automation solution out of Romania, is on a similar trajectory. Slack reached $100M in ARR just two and a half years after launch and Dropbox got to one billion dollar in ARR within ca. eight years. I’ve created a very simple model that illustrates this.

Sales Recruiting 106

Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring SaaS Payments Scale 106

ProfitWell

MARCH 24, 2020

Almost everything is sold as a subscription, from socks to razor blades, and of course software. A subscription company is a business that sells their products on a scheduled time basis. So why the subscription business model? It’s simple: the subscription revenue model benefits both customers and companies.

Payment Features 72

Payment Features Subscription Payment Methods Payments 72

ProfitWell

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Ever since John Koenig first coined the term “SaaS” back in 2005, the software-as-a-service industry has been one of the fastest-moving and creative in the world. The SaaS business model powering all of this activity is startlingly unique, still young, and inextricably tied to the power of cloud computing. Recurring payments.

Business Model 54

Business Model SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payments 54

Totango

DECEMBER 10, 2019

While you should continue seeking out new customers, your base of existing customers is invaluable for long-term success and revenue growth. That’s why B2B business models should make customer retention a high priority. . Does your team have to log into multiple systems to see all of a customer’s information?

Retention 65

Retention B2B Enterprise Payment Services 65

ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Conducting a pricing audit goes through five factors—acquisition, monetization, retention, pricing strategy, and discounts. Customer acquisition proves to be more challenging and more expensive as your customer base grows and the untapped market shrinks. Monetization. Next is monetization. What are your long-term goals?

Pricing 45

Pricing Payments Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Payments 45

Subscription Flow

MAY 22, 2024

Let’s imagine a SaaS company called “ConnecTech” that offers project management software for small businesses. If you were running ConnecTech, here’s how you’d go about calculating its customer lifetime value (CLV): Step 1: Calculating the Customer Value Suppose a customer named John has been using ConnecTech’s software for 12 months.

Customer Lifetime Value 52

Customer Lifetime Value SaaS Payments Payment Services Technical Advisors 52

Valuize Consulting

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

In todays competitive SaaS landscape, Customer Success has emerged as a vital strategic asset, driving revenue growth and long-term profitability. However, to fully unlock its potential, companies must go beyond qualitative insights and bring data into the decision-making process within Customer Success ranks and investments.

Payment Services 52

Payment Services SaaS Payments Customer Success Payments 52

Point Nine Land

DECEMBER 12, 2018

UIpath, the wildly successful robotic process automation solution out of Romania, is on a similar trajectory. Slack reached $100M in ARR just two and a half years after launch and Dropbox got to one billion dollar in ARR within ca. eight years. I’ve created a very simple model that illustrates this.

Sales Recruiting 61

Sales Recruiting SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Scale 61

OPEXEngine

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Often that lends itself to people and processes, and systems. As a CFO in a high-growth SaaS business, you need to have the ability to look at the business cross-functionally. The billing system is where most customer interaction occurs throughout the organization. What do you need to accomplish?

SaaS Payments 52

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions SaaS 52

OpenView Labs

APRIL 20, 2020

The most common pricing action companies are taking is to offer temporary relief on payment terms. The other person on the call countered, “Our customers are going to delay payments whether we like it or not. 72% of respondents said that their customers were suffering significant to moderate revenue reductions.

Pricing 52

Pricing SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Methods 52

ProfitWell

MARCH 24, 2020

2020 is the year of Corona Virus thus far but it’s also the year in which the subscription business model is excelling. Almost everything is sold as a subscription, from socks to razor blades, and of course software. A subscription company is a business that sells their products on a scheduled time basis. Accessibility.

Payment Features 40

Payment Features Subscription Payment Methods Payments 40

OPEXEngine

JANUARY 14, 2020

Price/Revenue Ratio. Public Software Companies. +8%. Source: SEC filings – weighted average by company revenue. Many factors drive the high-growth of SaaS companies, including higher market adoption of SaaS and the structural advantages of the recurring subscription revenue model – see Why SaaS Companies Grow Faster.

SaaS Payments 59

SaaS Payments SaaS Scale Customer Lifetime Value 59

wepay

JANUARY 23, 2018

As a SaaS business, or any online software business, moves beyond its startup phase and starts to grow seriously, there is a period of adjustment as the business adapts its operations, sales and other functions to the need for scale. Sales and marketing teams need to prioritize new customer acquisition.

SaaS Payments 40

SaaS Payments Payment Services Business SaaS 40

SmartKarrot

APRIL 5, 2022

It involves the responsibility for the database, servers, software, and plans that help the product. The product is a cloud-based software that one can choose to use on any device with an internet connection. Revenue is earned on a monthly or yearly basis through recurring payments. Contract framing mistakes.

SaaS Payments 11

SaaS Payments Software Review Payment Solutions Payment Services 11

SaaStr

JUNE 16, 2020

So we have over 260 portfolio companies globally, it’s all enterprise software, predominantly SaaS. So I think that is somewhat of a good news in this in that SaaS businesses are sticky. And so while the churn I don’t want to minimize it, stable base of revenue should be able to maintain that through the year.

Sales Hiring 216

Sales Hiring Scale SaaS Payments Payment Services 216

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

I was working on a startup that was an early mobile payment platform. It was basically using Bluetooth and an app on PalmPilots to do wireless payments in restaurants. And there’s a lot of benefit to running a software as a service, in general. So if you’re ERP, boom, Workday.

SaaS Payments 299

SaaS Payments Scale Payment Services Payment Solutions 299

FastSpring

JANUARY 8, 2019

A type of performance-based marketing in which a business rewards partners (also known as affiliates) for each visitor or customer brought by the affiliate’s marketing efforts. The largest 3rd party ecommerce platform. A set of subroutine definitions, protocols, and tools for building application software.

Payment Methods 75

Payment Methods Merchant Services Payment Services Outsourcing Services 75

Backlinkfy

JULY 30, 2019

Amazon: In the retail context, Amazon is a multinational online retailer with a market capitalization in excess of $195 billion U.S. Amazon also hosts a marketplace wherein other Internet purveyors may display and sell products, and offers several software-as-a-service and infrastructure-as-a-service solutions for business.

Payment Methods 40

Payment Methods Merchant Services Payment Services Payment Solutions 40

Sixteen Ventures

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Whether you have a Software-as-a-Service, subscription or membership business or you sell one-off products or services and simply want to do business with your customer more than once, Customer Success should be your driving purpose. Sales Process Engagement. Metering / Billing / Payment Process.

Customer Success 137

Customer Success SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services 137