Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

The Walmart Marketplace is among the fastest-growing e-commerce stores out there, so if you’re looking for an Amazon alternative, it’s a serious contender. But how do you make the most of Walmart Marketplace ? What is Walmart Marketplace? Why Should I Sell on Walmart Marketplace? It’s all about moving with the times.

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Casey’s first sequencing business models essay talked about the transition from a SaaS business model to marketplace business model, and why it’s so difficult. In this essay, we’ll go deeper into the gradients of marketplace models that a company can sequence to, and as a follow up, we will do the same for platforms.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

As we look at different industry trends, the biggest areas where Enterprise is struggling are: Customer service The talent lifecycle An important stat to consider in the customer service space is that 91% of customers who are dissatisfied with a brand will leave it. Currently, there’s a high price on GPUs out there.

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Point Nine Land

MARCH 10, 2020

A strategic analysis after evaluating multiple service marketplaces Over the past few years, I’ve come across a huge number of service (or labor) marketplaces: the countless Uber for X companies, the marketplaces for lawyers, therapists, cleaners, architects, construction workers; you name it. Sounds complicated?

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Neil Patel

DECEMBER 14, 2020

If you’re selling physical products, and you’re only relying on ONE channel to bring home the bacon, it’s time to switch things up with Facebook’s social commerce platform, Marketplace. What Is Facebook Marketplace? Facebook Marketplace is like Craigslist and eBay…only better. It’s Free to List an Item.

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Neil Patel

APRIL 14, 2021

What Is LinkedIn Marketplace? Given this new dependency on freelance laborers, it makes sense that LinkedIn, the most successful professional social networking site, would set its sights on creating a marketplace that allows freelancers to connect with companies searching for contract talent. How Does LinkedIn Marketplace Work?

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Chargebee

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

In the bustling marketplace, setting the right price for your product or service can feel like navigating through a dense fog. However, understanding the importance of pricing strategies in marketing is akin to having a compass that guides you towards business success.

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Neil Patel

APRIL 13, 2021

Influencer marketplaces can help you do just that, so let me show you how they work. Let’s explore the mysteries of the influencer marketplace. Influencer marketplaces: These marketplaces help you match with various influencers in your niche. What Are Influencer Marketplaces? What’s the answer?

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Subscription Flow

DECEMBER 29, 2023

For SaaS businesses, one of the most taxing tasks is to set the right price for their SaaS product and services. There are many pricing plans that SaaS businesses opt for from flat rate to hybrid pricing, you can opt for any pricing plan. Decide your pricing structure accordingly.

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FastSpring

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Steep fees from platforms like the Apple App Store and Google Play can understandably cause game developers and app creators to look beyond the convenience and ubiquity of traditional app marketplaces, but restrictions from the platform providers have made it difficult. But that ease of use can come at a steep price for developers.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 16, 2019

No matter the specifics of how your company adapts and grows, it’s crucial to be aware of how your pricing strategy relates to other aspects of your business. It’s all too easy to make the mistake of adopting a pricing model that is ill-suited to other aspects of your company, such as the go-to-market strategy or sales strategy.

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Point Nine Land

MAY 22, 2020

Businesses, on the other hand, are stuck in the dark ages, often relying on the phone, email, fax and even pen and paper when it comes to ordering goods or services. Whilst consumer-facing marketplaces have become an essential part of our daily lives, business-to-business marketplaces are only just beginning to emerge.

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Point Nine Land

APRIL 9, 2021

What does it take to raise capital, in B2B marketplaces, in 2021? Over the last few years, we’ve published a number of SaaS funding napkins as well as marketplace napkins. This year, we’re shaking things up with our first ever B2B marketplace napkin! What does it take to raise capital, in B2B marketplaces, in 2021?

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TrackStreet

APRIL 26, 2024

In a competitive industry for a specific type of product or service, businesses often engage in pricing wars that lead to a steady decrease in the value of goods. This devaluation is called Pricing Erosion. Now you’re wondering: Is there more to the definition of Pricing Erosion? What is Pricing Erosion?

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FastSpring

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Captive pricing is a confusing concept for many, but in practice, it’s relatively simple. Captive pricing happens when an accessory product is necessary to purchase in order to use a core product. This is also called by-product pricing. It can be challenging to determine pricing models for captive products.

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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. The Weak Transition to Marketplace Arguments. So goes the story.

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Point Nine Land

JUNE 11, 2020

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. Large suppliers are often reluctant to work with small marketplaces that lack credibility.

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FastSpring

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Captive pricing is a confusing concept for many, but in practice, it’s relatively simple. Captive pricing happens when an accessory product is necessary to purchase in order to use a core product. This is also called by-product pricing. It can be challenging to determine pricing models for captive products.

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Subscription Flow

JANUARY 3, 2024

Consider the potential for growth if you make your pricing model a consistent priority for your company. Most SaaS companies, on the other hand, treat pricing as an afterthought, setting it and then forgetting about it, rather than viewing SaaS flexible pricing strategies as ongoing processes critical to their success.

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OpenView Labs

JANUARY 13, 2022

Welcome to the third edition of the Pricing Transformations series. Pricing Transformations in 2020. Pricing Transformations in 2021. Pricing models must be adaptable – 4/5 on this. We took off a point as there are still too few people who understand pricing models well enough to make them adaptable.

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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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Blulogix

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

The Art of Flexibility: How to Master Dynamic Pricing Models in Subscription Billing By BluLogix Team Adapting to the Pulse of the Market for Maximized Revenue In today’s rapidly evolving digital marketplace, static pricing models are becoming a relic of the past.

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How To Buy Saas

MAY 15, 2024

In today’s world, cloud computing has become very popular among businesses of all sizes because of its effective tech services. Cloud computing services have helped businesses conveniently access and utilize tools to perform different tasks. This blog delves into the three types of Cloud Computing services: IaaS PaaS SaaS.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 16, 2022

How do you enter a highly competitive marketplace, carve a niche for yourself, and then scale the business to $100 million+ ARR? Entering a hyper-competitive marketplace . Entering a crowded marketplace as a new business can be intimidating, especially when established players with a solid customer base surround you.

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SaaStr

MARCH 1, 2022

5%+ pricing increases help fuel growth. Cloud product pricing went up 5% a year last year, and legacy server products went up much more. Should you have annual price increases in SaaS? Not trying to over-monetize their $2B Marketplace — revenues flat there. I’d argue No until you are at scale.

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TrackStreet

OCTOBER 11, 2023

What’s more important to develop for our products – MAP retail pricing or MSRP? Aren’t MAP pricing and MSRP more or less the same thing? Can we have both MSRP and MAP pricing for our products? Therefore, having a UMAP policy allows the manufacturer to control the cheapest price that their product can be advertised.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Upwork is one of those products and marketplaces many of us use all the time — including Team SaaStr — but we don’t often see discussing that much as a public SaaS / Cloud company. A good take rate for a marketplace. While not unexpected, its a similar distribution to both other marketplaces and many SaaS businesses.

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 23, 2023

“Because of our overall differentiation, more than 18,000 organizations now use Azure OpenAI service, including new-to-Azure customers.” ” Third, the paid Copilot business - the assistant across Microsoft products is now roughly a $360m ARR business, assuming every customer pays list price.

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FastSpring

OCTOBER 23, 2024

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? Very simply, a merchant of record (MoR) is a legal entity that sells services or goods to a customer. How Is an MoR Different From a Payment Service Provider ?

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How To Buy Saas

MAY 10, 2024

Fortunately, beginner Instagram users and brands can access tools and services that allow fast growth on Instagram, which would otherwise take weeks or months to achieve naturally. This article will uncover all reputable services for Instagram growth that the online community admires. of packages: 8 Price range: $0.89 – $39.90

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User Pilot

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Having a hard time choosing the perfect customer self-service software? This article covers: Key benefits of the self-service method. Seven of the best software tools to choose from, along with their features and pricing. Good customer self-service portals help to: Answer customer queries instantly. Offer 24/7 support.

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Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Price analysis is a shortcut to understanding what the market considers a fair and reasonable price. Sometimes the information needed for a more in-depth analysis of the market isn’t available, or the timeframe in which you need to make a decision is too short for a more accurate pricing strategy. Conduct a pricing experiment.

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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. We look at annual churn, given the nature of those businesses that have annual or multi annual contracts with much bigger price items and tickets. This wasn’t the case.

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Casey Accidental

JANUARY 23, 2019

They have also heard about marketplaces that have given all of the power to the supply, and also marketplaces where supply has no power. These issues usually arise in two areas, which particularly, but not exclusively, affect marketplaces. The second issue is around who controls the quality of the service.

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FastSpring

MARCH 8, 2024

However, as SocialBee utilizes many different ways to package and monetize their software as a service subscriptions, they began discovering new ways to test the FastSpring platform’s capabilities. We saw not just lip service that you would do things, but that you actually did them.”

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Casey’s first sequencing business models essay talked about the transition from a SaaS business model to marketplace business model, and why it’s so difficult. In this essay, we’ll go deeper into the gradients of marketplace models that a company can sequence to, and as a follow up, we will do the same for platforms.

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SaaStr

JULY 13, 2022

Only go-getters survive in the SaaS marketplace. From increasing competition to new products in the marketplace, there are too many variables for a salesperson to control. Contract processes, packaging, and pricing might change. Mistake 10: Not pricing for organic growth. Mistake 4: The lack of enablement .

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