Sales Hacker

JUNE 7, 2021

For example, a minimum number of maintenance technicians would be critical if you sell a field service app. Product marketing and sales enablement teams need to work with knowledgeable people across the business to capture this information. Marketing or product marketing. Product management.

Sales Recruiting 117

Sales Recruiting Payment Services Payment Methods Sales 117

User Pilot

AUGUST 26, 2024

Liv-ex is a London-based marketplace for the wine trade. It gives wine merchants and producers real-time wine transaction prices and exclusive market data and insights. They get access to £100m wine trading opportunities, a reliable payments system, storage facilities, and transportation services. Let’s dive in.

Merchant Services 92

Merchant Services Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payments 92

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 4, 2019

So how did they go from product-market fit to actually scaling a sales org around a repeatable sales process? Thanks to the explosive growth of products like Dropbox, Asana and Slack, the self-serve model has been all the rage for close to a decade. Are you a marketplace or are an e-commerce retailer? What’s not to like?

Scale 162

Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Payment Services 162

User Pilot

APRIL 21, 2024

Here’s an example of a Userpilot user persona: Role in the company ( Product Marketing Manager ). For example, you run paid ads to drive traffic to your product-led blog posts. Build high-converting landing pages for your website visitors The landing page is the central touchpoint in the conversion path.

SaaS Payments 78

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Methods Payment Solutions 78

SaaStr

MARCH 19, 2019

For those of you who did not clap, Stripe is a set of developer APIs that help businesses accept payments online and do all sorts of innovative things in moving money in the cloud. On one half of it you have product market fit and on the other half you have partners and ideally developers integrating in order to reach your users.

Payments 133

Payments Scale Scaling Revenue 133

OPEXEngine

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

SMB customers will want high-touch sales engagement and service delivery but SMM SaaS companies will likely not have the budget necessary to justify providing this level of sales support. These lower price points influence the GTM strategy, which requires lower labor costs and a greater reliance on “one-to-many” marketing.

SaaS Payments 52

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Methods Marketplace as a Service 52

FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

Like, you’re literally on the floor like crippled with crying just like two years of your hard work, or whatever, you know, you’re like, ah, and then you get a phone call at that exact moment. It really took a few pivots, and even name changes to get just the go to market efforts and product market fit right.

Payment Solutions 91

Payment Solutions Payment Services SaaS Payments VP of Engineering 91

Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 27, 2020

In part two of our Sequencing Business Models series , we talked about the different types of marketplaces and what needs to be built to be effective in each of them. This builds on the first essay in the series of how there has been an increase in interest of SAAS-like models interested in becoming marketplaces over time.

Payments 56

Payments Business Model Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 56

OpenView Labs

JUNE 16, 2020

Experimenting with product/market fit. Experiment with product/market fit. As the marketplace shifts, new constraints are giving rise to new opportunities. The best companies are refining their product to meet customers where they are today. Pivoting sales to meet buyers. Putting the customer first.

Sales Hiring 54

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting SaaS Payments Underperforming Technical Team 54

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. My account runs my website. So if you’re ERP, boom, Workday.

SaaS Payments 299

SaaS Payments Scale Payment Services Payment Solutions 299

Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 22, 2018

Fast forward to today, and Eventbrite is the world’s largest self-service event ticketing and registration platform – processing more than 3 million tickets each week. Going back a bit, Brian was a co-founder at SkillSlate, a local services marketplaces similar to Thumbtack. We raised a $1.5-million We raised a $1.5-million

Marketplace as a Service 189

Marketplace as a Service Scale Payment Solutions Payment Services 189

Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 23, 2020

The situations that portend failure are varied and unfortunately common – no product-market fit, no cash, bad product, burnout, to name just a few of the most obvious. There’s little room for products that’d prefer to play lone wolf. Top companies have responded to shifting dynamics, moving from product to platform.

Underperforming Technical Team 183

Underperforming Technical Team Scale Payments Payment Services 183