Unbounce

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Across social platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Youtube, standard placements for display ads are: Stories Timelines Video feeds Right column (Facebook) Marketplace (Instagram) Explore section Messenger inbox and sponsored messages. You can use a hierarchy system to leverage the use of your keywords.

Payment Methods 145

Payment Methods Payment Solutions Payments AI Search 145

SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

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. If you kind of that question, thinking about the stakeholders and the decisions and companies of using SaaS products, there’s kind of three types. Five percent is okay.

SaaS Payments 228

SaaS Payments Metrics Payment Methods Scale 228

Sales Hacker

JUNE 7, 2021

We hear a lot about equipping salespeople with customer insights to help them move from simple questioning to exploring challenges and discussing solutions with customers. What are the characteristics of organizations that are likely to make them a good fit for the products and solutions your company sells? Issues vs. impacts.

Sales Recruiting 113

Sales Recruiting Payment Services Payment Methods Sales 113

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 16, 2019

The classic example sees a company move from niche startup to mainstream scale-up, but it can also see companies hone their product-market fit by focusing on a more specialized, and yet more lucrative, user base. If your application is a self-service one, focus on content and inbound marketing as your primary source of leads.

Business Model 195

Business Model Scale Pricing Payment Methods 195

SaaStr

JULY 9, 2019

More than half of Kenya’s GDP is now transacted through a mobile, through arguably the most successful mobile banking and payment system called M-Pesa. Our first MVP was actually an SMS based app where job seekers would send six SMSes in order to register on our platform. For example, in Kenya. It’s not a big deal.”

Scale 163

Scale Sales Recruiting Scaling SaaS Payments 163

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Lambda School trains people online to be software engineers. So to illustrate this, I want to talk about getting deep product/market fit, and specifically one story of a founder that I admire by the name of Parker Conrad that he has told in the past. And when we got to that point, the solution was really simple.

Acquisition 142

Acquisition Software Review Payment Methods Marketplace as a Service 142

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 13, 2018

While this may sound simple, it can be incredibly challenging to find new opportunities for growth and customer acquisition in an increasingly crowded marketplace. Before I joined Intercom, I led all of Intuit’s small-business products and services, including QuickBooks accounting, payroll and payments.

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Acquisition Strategy SaaS Payments Payments 156

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. We have over 1,500 apps listed in our app directory, so those are with third party partners. Thank you Ceci. I’m Vicki Lin.

Payments 124

Payments Scale Scaling Revenue 124

FastSpring

APRIL 13, 2023

It starts with self service. And so that was really about giving an even playing ground for for companies to navigate the policy market. I felt like there was an easier way to communicate goods and services online, digitally. And that means that it is not base plus options think piping system thinks gas tanks.

Payment Methods 121

Payment Methods Marketing Payments SaaS Payments 121

OpenView Labs

JUNE 16, 2020

The best companies are tweaking sales systems, adjusting their go-to-market strategy and rediscovering customers’ needs as they evolve. Experimenting with product/market fit. Experiment with product/market fit. As the marketplace shifts, new constraints are giving rise to new opportunities.

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Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting SaaS Payments Underperforming Technical Team 54

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 4, 2019

The fastest growing software companies in recent years all have something in common – they started with little to no sales team. They relied on a great product, with a passionate userbase that helped kickstart an organic growth engine which sold the product for them. Are you a marketplace or are an e-commerce retailer?

Scale 162

Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Payment Services 162

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. You might sell it through Facebook marketplace.

SaaS Payments 254

SaaS Payments Scale Payment Services Payment Solutions 254

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

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.

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