SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Wherever you are in your revenue journey, adopting certain growth strategies can help you keep growing fast. Joined by Katie Wickham, Payrix’s Director of Marketing, Butler shares essential tips on accelerating your business to $100 million ARR and beyond. . Spotlighting the success of an ICP-focused strategy .

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Buffer Resources

MAY 2, 2024

  Frustrated with the slim returns from YouTube Ad revenue, they switched to a specialized video monetization platform and set up a paid membership model.  In this guide, we’ll explore 6 video content monetization methods that you can use to turn your content into an income stream. 

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

It used to really bug me because I am a firm believer in the strategy of Zero Voluntary Attrition and trying to hire fewer, more committed resources over a higher volume of mercenaries that turn over more often. In sum -> Learning and understanding how to maximize the revenue per lead. Sales Strategy. No Revenues”.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

A recent Forrester Consulting study commissioned by Intercom, Drive Conversational Experiences For A Future-Ready Customer Support Strategy , revealed that 54% of teams can’t personalize support with their tech stack and 50% waste time jumping between tools. Strategy first, technology second. Let’s dive in.

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FastSpring

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

If you’re not sure how to sell an app direct to consumer (D2C) outside the app stores — or if you’re looking for a new way to monetize your mobile app or game — you may be wondering what options you have. Various tools you can use to monetize apps and games outside app stores. Highlights from recent U.S. Interested?

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SaaStr

MARCH 19, 2019

Niall Wall, Box SVP of Business and Corporate Development alongside Vicki Lin, Stripe’s Head of Ecosystem and Cecilia Stallsmith, Slack’s Director of Platform Marketing discuss scaling your revenue via indirect channels and platform ecosystems. Ceci Stallsmith – Director of Platform Marketing @ Slack.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

How can a simple offering be transformed into its own platform? Renaud Visage, Co-Founder of Eventbrite, and Romain Huet, Head of Developer Relations at Stripe, know what it takes to effectively evolve your offering into a platform without losing what made offering appealing in the first place. Want to see more content like this?

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SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2022

What you’ll see in that cloud spend box is actually Gartner’s 2020 estimate for infrastructure as a service spending for companies, which was $50 billion. And if you also look at the platform as a service category, that’s also an additional $50 billion of spend, and that’s typically with those same vendors.

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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

Average Revenue per Customer. 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. The last kind of constituent here is investors and business owners. Or annual recurring revenue for some types of companies.

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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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Blulogix

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

This comprehensive sequence, spanning from the initial quote to the final collection of cash, encapsulates the essence of customer engagement and revenue realization. Optimizing this process is paramount for businesses aiming to thrive in the competitive landscape of the digital economy.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 18, 2020

While we’ve been shopping for items like clothes or shoes online for years, another trend is now emerging—business-to-business (B2B) ecommerce. 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. What is B2B Ecommerce?

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Subscription Flow

MARCH 20, 2024

Keeping all this in mind, in the first section of this blog, we will first be seeing what is SimpleCirc, its features, and why exactly is it such a hot choice for magazine owners in today’s marketplace. SimpleCirc’s creative strategy guarantees smooth financial flows, which is advantageous to both consumers and businesses.

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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 ??.

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FastSpring

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Because of these developments, mobile game companies are investigating more options for monetizing their games than just the App Store or Play Store. So where do you start if you want to provide more global payment solutions to your player base while chipping away at the hefty 30% fees that mobile marketplaces charge?

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 1, 2019

This week, I invited Michael to come on the show and tell us about their growth strategy. You have that every day, and if you’re a financial services company (particularly a lending company like where I came from), you crave something that allows you to be in front of your customer every day. Is that part of the strategy as well?

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How To Buy Saas

DECEMBER 1, 2020

SaaS is a global software solution created by different businesses in order to improve human activities in a matter of clicks. SAAS is also abbreviated as software as a service. With so many SAAS getting visibility in online marketplaces, we found that new saas businesses are struggling hard to make it to the right set of customers.

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Stax

JUNE 20, 2024

An ISV partner is a software vendor that partners with an ISV and provides additional services or technology. These programs enable SaaS or cloud solutions companies to expand their reach, enhance their offerings, and accelerate their market penetration or go-to-market strategy. Its purpose?

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

In this guide, we’ll discuss the benefits of buying and selling a micro startup, the trends changing M&R strategy, and the top tools you can use to sell (or buy) your startup. Micro startup acquisitions are a move away from buying businesses with established products or even proven revenue streams. Micro Acquire.

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Subscription Flow

APRIL 23, 2024

Understanding Paddle in 2024 Catering to more than 3000 SaaS clients in over 200 markets, Paddle is a market-leading billing and revenue management software. Paddle counters churn by integrating with Retain, thereby feeding your data to algorithms informed by extensive payment information.

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Buffer Resources

MAY 8, 2024

As a creator or influencer, I’m willing to bet a good chunk of your content involves sharing products, tools, and services you love.   Let’s get into how affiliate marketing works, how you can join an affiliate program as an influencer, and some tips to kickstart your affiliate marketing strategy. 

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Stax

JANUARY 8, 2024

For SaaS companies, becoming a payment facilitator (or PayFac) offers a ton of advantages—including but not limited to—boosting retention and profitability while exercising greater control over the customer experience. However, several complex types of risks come along with this. Let’s get started.

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

With that said, there are definitely CMS platforms that are better than others, depending on your specific use cases and unique scenarios. There are specific elements that you need to consider as you’re shopping around and evaluating various CMS platforms. These platforms let you customize everything using the HTML code of your site.

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Neil Patel

DECEMBER 23, 2020

These zero-dollar-per-month platforms are packed with great features. HubSpot CRM – Best free marketing CRM Really Simple Systems – Best free sales CRM Agile CRM – Best free customer service CRM Flowlu – Best for SMB finance Apptivo – Best for basic business management. You’ve got options.

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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.

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Stax

APRIL 18, 2024

Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and Software-as-a-Service Providers (SaaS) operate within the same market, thus creating a push-and-pull revenue dynamic. TL;DR ISVs develop and distribute software products independently and often collaborate with hardware manufacturers and platform providers.

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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. Because horizontal SaaS companies serve both startups and enterprise businesses, scalability is a key selling point.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 6, 2019

We looked at the world in 2008, 2009, and we said, “How come it’s almost impossible to connect two companies to do business, especially if they have complex business processes, but we can all connect as consumers on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, every single day we want to do business?”

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Software Platform Consulting

MAY 6, 2019

There are also great resources for metrics specific to marketplaces (see here ). But much of my work is with a special kind of network, where one side of the platform is an enterprise buyer (or supplier) and on the other side is their supply base (or customers). Invoicing and payment (e.g., Buyer-Supplier Revenue Mix.

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Neil Patel

DECEMBER 22, 2020

To have a successful e-commerce platform, you have to pay to play. This is a highly effective strategy. The added incentive of discounts has the potential to attract new customers by drawing them in with savings and payment options. In addition, SwayPay offers a simplified payment option that tailors itself to consumer needs.

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Blulogix

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Streamlining Success: What is the Role of Automation in Customer Lifecycle Management for Recurring Revenue? This blog post explores how employing automation in CLM can revolutionize the way businesses nurture their customer base, enhance engagement, and secure recurring revenue streams.

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FastSpring

APRIL 7, 2022

Learn more about how FastSpring helps SaaS and software companies collect and remit taxes globally or localize and accept global payments. Founded in 2013, Messente developed a messaging platform that originally served businesses in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. Lauri told us their strategy was to stay location-agnostic.

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Casey Accidental

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Tim Kendall, the former President of Pinterest, repeated those words at an all hands to describe our strategy for monetization a few years ago. My role as an advisor to Greylock’s portfolio companies allows me to work with many different types of businesses: consumer social, marketplaces, SaaS, etc.

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Blulogix

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

This evolution has paved the way for subscription and recurring revenue models to emerge as powerful strategies for sustainable growth. The latest whitepaper, “Monetization in the Digital Economy,” delves deep into why and how businesses are transitioning from traditional sales models to subscription-based approaches.

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SaaStr

MAY 14, 2023

Algolia went from zero to seven figures in revenue in 12 months, and the launch of their search as a service product, and grew pricing from $19 a month to $100,000, which sounds amazing. They built themselves into a core platform for HR 2.0 web services. And then Enterprise is more like a standardized process.

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FastSpring

MARCH 25, 2019

Successful software companies across the globe understand that partnering with a full-service ecommerce platform is the key to growing their business. Keep reading to find out why outsourcing your ecommerce can empower you to stay competitive in the global software marketplace.

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Baremetrics

AUGUST 24, 2021

Arguably the most beautiful aspect of SaaS or subscription based businesses is the recurring revenue that comes with them. As a business owner or founder, you worry far less about how much cash is in the bank with the predictability that Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR) brings. Changing the Price 2.

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