SaaStr

MAY 25, 2022

How do you make your fledgling business seen and heard in a competitive business marketplace? He also shares some eye-opening insights on how Expensify scaled over the years. Expensify scaled by breaking through the clutter. These professionals had to earn their spot by selling Expensify subscriptions.

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SaaStr

JULY 9, 2019

Join Anish Shivdasani, CEO of Giraffe, as he provides unique African experiences learned from scaling to 1M users. Now, unfortunately there are a lot of constraints in Africa, major constraints when you’re talking about setting up and scaling a startup. ” At this point we were offering the service for free.

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Blulogix

DECEMBER 26, 2024

By Inga Broerman Building a Competitive Edge Through Channel Partnerships In an increasingly competitive subscription economy, channel partnerships have become a beacon for businesses seeking scalable growth and sustainable revenue streams.

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Payments Payment Features Payment Services Scale 52

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Powered by a modern business messenger , it scales your ability to answer more questions from more customers without increasing headcount, budget, or hours logged. so here are five top conversational support tools as reported by the world’s largest and most trusted marketplace, G2: Intercom. Obviously we’re a little biased ??

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Point Nine Land

JUNE 11, 2020

Do things that don’t scale ?? Marketplaces in their early stages generally lack the liquidity to be relevant enough for the supply side, they are not a priority. To overcome this, marketplaces generally need to find ways to initially hack the supply side. Very often this means doing things that don’t scale.

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Casey Accidental

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

As someone who has spent a lot of time building marketplaces in my career, a curious thing has happened over the last couple years. Founders have started reaching out asking for help converting their SAAS or SAAS-like business into a marketplace. I’ve helped their business, but they’re asking for help driving more customers.

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Blulogix

JANUARY 1, 2025

By Inga Broerman Simplifying Complex Provisioning with Advanced Billing Systems In the fast-paced subscription economy , customer expectations are evolving rapidly. This shift has made complex provisioning a non-negotiable aspect of subscription billing. They want personalized, flexible offerings that deliver value.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Software as a Service is currently taxable in about one-third of US states, and that number is only growing as outdated state sales tax laws slowly catch up with the way we’re doing business today. . Say you sell a subscription-based software but you also send your customers a handy flash drive with a version of your software on it.

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Merchant Services Scale Technical Review Sales Hiring 207

FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

But we wanted to hear directly from technical founders and software developers about what you look for in a SaaS payment processing service. “These are just some of the questions you need to consider when evaluating a payment service solution as these are the same questions your customers will surely ask you,” Levi says.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 16, 2019

However, that doesn’t necessarily mean a “pivot”, but more often the evolution is a shifting business model as the company scales and the user base grows and changes. If your application is a self-service one, focus on content and inbound marketing as your primary source of leads. Entry level application (<$5,000 p.a.).

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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Talk: Scaling & Exiting: Dreams, Designs & Dramas. He dropped out of Stanford Graduate School of Business and then co-founded LeaseExchange, an online marketplace for equipment leasing. In 2016, André joined Superlógica Tecnologias, a management system designed to service small businesses with a recurring revenue model.

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User Pilot

AUGUST 18, 2024

Sign up for a Userpilot demo and learn how this all-in-one product growth platform can help scale your business processes. These tools help businesses automate processes and perform various tasks, making it easier to scale. Pendo pricing Pendo uses a quote-based pricing model for all four of its subscription tiers.

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FastSpring

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

For app entrepreneurs and ecommerce store owners, the battle to be noticed in the marketplace is ongoing. For customers, the process of looking for apps to download usually takes place in one of the four leading app marketplaces; Google Play, Apple App Store , Windows Store, and the Amazon App Store. Is it safe? Let’s go ??.

Payment Methods 147

Payment Methods Payment Solutions Merchant Services SaaS Payments 147

SaaStr

JUNE 10, 2021

Ep #402: Mårten Mickos, CEO of HackerOne, explains their innovative approach of packaging customer value derived from a variety of activities into an annually recurring subscription offering that delivers outstanding value to customers while simplifying the buying process and the customer journey.

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Outsourcing Services Marketplace as a Service Outsourced Development Scale 165

SaaStr

AUGUST 6, 2019

Tradeshift Buy, which is essentially what we call private marketplaces. Think about it like Amazon or eBay, but instead of being for you and I, it is the Fortune 500 companies of this world that use it, companies like Unilever going and buying [produced 00:04:02] enzymes, ingredients, on our private marketplace technology.

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Payment Solutions Payments Outsourcing Services SaaS Payments 182

Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

You’ll have to install your own security plugins to adequately keep your site safe. But these platforms typically have an extensive marketplace with a plethora of plugins—so it shouldn’t be too difficult, even though it requires an extra step. An open-source CMS will be cheaper than other platforms that require subscriptions.

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Payment Methods Payment Solutions Systems Review Technical Review 141

Chargify

AUGUST 17, 2020

Backed by an army of developers, data engineers, and finance professionals, this events-based billing model allowed these large companies to directly link the value that their services provided with the cost presented on a customer’s invoice. What Amazon Web Services and Twilio Get Right. How AWS Does It.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Romain Huet : Of course, besides the brand I mentioned earlier like, Google, Apple and Facebook, and so on, a lot of marketplaces also like Uber and Airbnb they tend to think of themselves as platform because they have the buyers and the sellers connecting to each other. Let’s start with our five key steps. Romain Huet : Right.

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Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payment Services 174

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

MARCH 23, 2020

One of the biggest challenges businesses face when they grow is scaling effective , autonomous and quick decision-making. I leveraged many of the 52 mental models while working at various software as a service (SaaS) companies, but in truth, they can be applied anywhere, regardless of industry. Economies of scale. Brand equity.

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Payrix

JANUARY 30, 2024

While the decision to embed payments was an easy one, the process of choosing payment options that meet ever-evolving customer needs is ongoing. Durrett explained that Storable is the culmination of several best-in-class acquisitions, including multiple software companies, a marketplace company, and a couple of insurance companies.

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Payment Services Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions 130

Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 16, 2020

Andrey explains why embracing the professional services sector in a unique way has paid dividends. We also think about community and consultants and professional services as an ecosystem around our product. Embracing professional services as a distribution channel. So our platform is also built for them to use. Andrey: Exactly.

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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

So growth of the kind of subscription, eCommerce industry has been over 100% year on year for the past five years, according to McKinsey. It wasn’t the case 20 or even 10 years ago, where the business models of the internet were more focused on eCommerce, marketplaces, or even advertising. This wasn’t the case.

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SaaS Payments Metrics Payment Methods Scale 246

Unbounce

JUNE 16, 2020

With a $60 billion market in which to grow, these companies recognize that smart use of partnership channels can help them scale up while creating a win-win-win ecosystem for the company, the partner, and the customer. These are often built with agencies, consultants, and managed-service-providers (MSPs) in mind. Effective Scaling.

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Outsourcing Services Sales Recruiting Scale SaaS 131

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 18, 2020

He even managed to help pivot the company from a programmatic transactional revenue model to a subscription model over the course of, not just the last three months during COVID, but over the course of the last few years. Sam Jacobs: Is it a subscription service? Is it recurring revenue, or is it delivered in a different way?

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Tom Tunguz

AUGUST 2, 2016

Many start by following self-service distribution models as a route to market, which have served as the de facto standard for helping cloud businesses grow. With customers coming to their (virtual) doorstep, these cloud companies are free to scale at their own pace, expanding sales and their reach in the marketplace.

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Outsourcing Services SMB Acquisition Scale 111

SaaStr

JULY 22, 2020

One is two thirds enterprise, one third consumer, some healthcare as well now, and I would say, over the last few months, we have still continued with the same areas that we were excited about before so very much in marketplaces and consumer subscription and SAS. For Instacart is very cleverly done is they have a subscription plan.

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FastSpring

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

When using captive pricing for SaaS products, the core product usually offers enough functionality with a free or basic subscription to demonstrate the platform’s value but will require specific upgrades for expanded functionality. How Captive Product Pricing Works in SaaS. The platform is priced at a $29.99 Tiered Price Platforms.

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Pricing SaaS Payments Payments Payment Methods 93

Blulogix

DECEMBER 13, 2024

For Managed Service Providers (MSPs) , real-time analytics is a game-changer when it comes to understanding customer behavior, improving service offerings, and driving business growth. Traditional billing systems, which often provide limited insights into customer activity, are no longer sufficient in a highly competitive marketplace.

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Payments Payment Services Marketplace as a Service Payment Solutions 97

Stax

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Software as a Service (SaaS) has made business software more accessible by offering cloud-based, on-demand access to a range of solutions, from project management and collaboration to sales and marketing. Subscription-based model Subscription pricing is the most common model used by both horizontal and vertical SaaS providers.

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SaaS Payments Payment Services Payments Payment Solutions 88

Stax

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Moreover, many merchant accounts today come bundled with a payment gateway, another crucial component of the online payment process that streamlines transactions and protects against fraudulent activity. A merchant account refers to a business bank account that allows businesses to accept electronic payments for goods and services.

Merchant Services 88

Merchant Services Payment Methods Payment Services Payment Solutions 88

Blulogix

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Charting the Future: What Are the Emerging Trends in Subscription Billing and Monetization? This blog post explores the emerging trends that are set to redefine subscription billing and monetization, offering predictions for the transformative journey ahead in the digital economy.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 18, 2020

It’s easy to think of online sales as a marketplace where we buy items for ourselves, but more and more B2B and SaaS sales are now happening online. If a product or service is being sold online—regardless if the sale itself happens through a sales-rep assisted process, online shop, or platform—it’s considered B2B ecommerce.

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Eventbrite was historically a 50% sales and 50% self-service business. So, as we decided to take a bet on building an intuitive, self-service experience instead of masking user experience issues with human support, we really had to confront Belsky’s product lifecycle for the first time. Sounds expensive. Let’s cover each below.

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OPEXEngine

MAY 18, 2021

SaaS metrics are viewed differently at different stages of growth and for different sales models, primarily whether a company is selling into an SMB or enterprise marketplace. Growth Stage – Scaling the Business, and . Obviously, subscription revenue growth rates are valued differently at different sizes.

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SaaS Payments Metrics Payments Payment Services 98

User Pilot

JULY 24, 2023

Are you looking for Zendesk integrations to boost the efficiency of your self-service customer support? SmileBack is a feedback app designed for helpdesk solutions so you can evaluate your customer support services effectively. As of 21 July 2023, there are 1,503 integrations in the Zendesk marketplace.

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 29, 2020

So if you’re interested in selling products or services on the web, you’ll need to find an ecommerce builder to create your online store. New business and rapidly scaling startups won’t necessarily have the same needs in an ecommerce website builder. Every great online store starts from the same place—with an ecommerce website builder.

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Payment Methods Payment Services Payment Solutions Payments 99

Navint

JANUARY 29, 2019

Highlight Video: Explaining the Subscription Economy: Why Your Company’s Future May Depend On It. The topic, of course, was the subscription economy and Tien’s new book, Subscribed. As the leading consulting firm that has a practice dedicated to subscription and recurring revenue businesses, Navint sponsored the event.

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