SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

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. Romain Huet | Head of Developer Relations @ Stripe. Want to see more content like this?

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User Pilot

MARCH 5, 2025

Best for: SaaS product teams who want a powerful but easy-to-use platform to improve onboarding, increase product adoption, and drive user engagement. Ease of use and implementation Userpilot is known for its intuitive, no-code builder, making it easy to create and customize in-app experiences without needing developers.

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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. As such, they can face less competition because of the high barrier of entry that comes with developing specialist SaaS products.

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ProfitWell

MARCH 11, 2020

But as cost containment becomes a priority for businesses looking to thrive in the modern digitally-transformed marketplace, keeping existing customers happy and loyal is now a primary concern. But creating customer retention strategies requires a deep understanding of your retention issues. How is customer retention measured?

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 24, 2020

Unfortunately, your in-house team doesn’t have the required expertise to push through change. Our team at Neil Patel Digital has compiled the ultimate guide below to help you understand the nuances of working with a consultant for the best results. Spot knowledge gaps and weak points in strategy, and ask for alternatives.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 13, 2021

Although Linda started her career in sales, she has spent the past twelve years scaling post-sales teams and moving hyper-growth companies like Zendesk, Slack, and now Gong upmarket into the enterprise realm. So how do you create a strong, enterprise-ready team? Not just support on steroids: How to build a customer success team.

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OpenView Labs

APRIL 13, 2020

Proliferation of iterative, experiment-driven, nimble approaches to product development (also known as Agile). The convergence of these changes has led many to realize that “growth” is a team sport. Decisions made within the product can dramatically impact the success of a marketing team and the growth of a company.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Congratulations you’ve built a product that’s proven itself in the marketplace! At Twilio, I think my entire job there my first two years was throwing t-shirts at people, because everyone had a Twilio t-shirt I think in the developer community in 2010, and that was our marketing strategy. I have a team of people who work on numbers.

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Totango

JANUARY 17, 2019

Customer retention is vital to the health of your business. We’ve outlined six focus areas that will help you improve customer engagement and retention : Rapid onboarding. You can consider your customer to be in the onboarding phase right up until they start to gain value from your products and services. Escalation preparation.

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A Smart Bear

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

The implication is that this was unknowable or bad luck, but the truth is, this was a predictable result of not understanding the market. Sometimes that’s a dream team that weathers the storm that sinks the other boats. The bad news is, you don’t know ahead of time what that thing will be. Multitasking is bad.

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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. Reputational risks Risks associated with things like data breaches, poor customer service, company controversies, etc.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 10, 2019

WePay is a payments company for platform businesses like marketplaces, crowdfunding sites & small business software. We grew our team by 50% this year, continuing to grow. Chase Merchant Services that we’re now a part of processes $1.2 So I think like anything it’s been good and bad. Tina Hsiao : Yeah.

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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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OPEXEngine

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Over the past decade, software has created tremendous value for investors and businesses, thanks largely to its transformative effect on the economy , its role in developing new cloud-based business models, and its ability to increase efficiency in operations. Sticky after all. Four ways to drive value. Embrace the cloud operating model.

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ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

And yet, downplaying your team’s needs undermines CS’s current impact and future revenue-driving potential. According to our 2022 Customer Success Leadership Study, CS teams are already underfunded and under-resourced. My job is to continually inform and share knowledge that’s going out in the marketplace.

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Totango

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

A good first impression is integral to establishing trust in your team and confidence in your product’s ability to deliver value. . Today’s digital marketplace, with its flexible subscription models and highly customizable solutions, has empowered customers to shop around until they find a service that meets their unique requirements. .

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User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

The focus is on developing new demand and reconstructing market landscapes to make rivals obsolete. The Significance of the Blue Ocean Strategy In an increasingly crowded marketplace, the blue ocean strategy offers companies the opportunity to break out of hypercompetitive red oceans. Provide sufficient training and incentives.

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Neil Patel

JANUARY 20, 2021

Post your team photos like Zappos. Don’t Just Promote Products and Services. Bombarding your fans with 10 poor-quality updates in an hour. Most people form groups around: Their brand/business Their products/services A specific lifestyle e.g. a book club or a journalling club Specific topics e.g. a content marketing group.

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User Pilot

OCTOBER 31, 2022

You might also want to set up a comprehensive in-app resource center to help users solve their own problems – and reduce the burden on your support team. You need to understand how customers are responding to using your application or service and build up an idea of their loyalty over time. Geoffrey Moore.

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SaaSOptics

MAY 19, 2022

Below, we’ll dive into how to develop a customer acquisition strategy from start to finish. . How to Develop a Customer Acquisition Strategy. Funneling time, energy, and resources into developing a stellar customer acquisition strategy is only helpful if it’s designed with your target market in mind.

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SaaSHolic

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Product onboarding is an essential part of customer activation and retention for businesses that are SaaS providers. A bad onboarding experience won’t impact your bottom line as a SaaS company, but it will negatively affect your customer’s productivity. What makes an onboarding experience a bad one? BigCommerce.

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Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

No Wait, of Course That Is the Single Most Important SaaS Metric by Jason Cohen, A Smart Bear The purpose of a metric is to be a tool in service of your goals, timeline, size, circumstance, even philosophy, not as a master you are thoughtlessly obligated to obey. Keep an eye out as we will be making regular updates.

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How To Buy Saas

MAY 22, 2022

Target Audience: A CRM platform primarily serves salespeople, but a marketing automation system assists members of the team is focusing on marketing. Marketing Automation refers to the process of using an automation service to automate repetitive marketing tasks. It’s typically utilized for short-term purchases.

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User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

The focus is on developing new demand and reconstructing market landscapes to make rivals obsolete. The Significance of the Blue Ocean Strategy In an increasingly crowded marketplace, the blue ocean strategy offers companies the opportunity to break out of hypercompetitive red oceans. Provide sufficient training and incentives.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Never believe that doubting yourself is a bad thing. That company only lasted another year before they were out of business, so it was a poor use of my energy, time, and being away from my family – a lesson I work to pass on to others new in roles today. Invest in your development internally and externally. Anita Nielsen.

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SmartKarrot

JULY 5, 2021

Role: Director, Customer Success (Federal) Location: Arlington, VA, US Organization: Decision Lens As a Director of Customer Success, you will manage the Federal customer success team through recognition, training, mentoring, feedback and goal-setting. Provide clear strategic and tactical direction to the team.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 8, 2021

According to one Microsoft Global State of Customer Service report , 90% of consumers surveyed said that customer service is an important factor in their choice of, and loyalty to, a brand, while nearly two-thirds (58%) would sever their relationship with a business due to poor customer service.

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SmartKarrot

AUGUST 22, 2022

VOC is often used in marketing, product development, sales, customer service, and management. Voice of the customer (VoC) is a process that helps companies understand what their customers want to improve their products or services. It is also known as the voice of the marketplace or the consumer.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

Rob Gonzalez: Operationally, I look at, in particular, my experience at Endeca, but also another startup that sold to pharmaceutical companies and other life sciences businesses and financial services companies called Cambridge Semantics. And there’s a lot of benefit to running a software as a service, in general.

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SaaStr

MARCH 20, 2020

317: Rachel Hepworth is VP of Marketing @ Pilot, the startup that offers the best bookkeeping, tax and CFO services for growing businesses. Before Slack, Rachel spent 4 years at LinkedIn where she led the product marketing team for content experiences. And so that’s when I went to Slack to start their growth marketing team.

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How To Buy Saas

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Effective sales teams are also 81% more likely to be consistent CRM users , underscoring how vital these systems are for success. By the end of this guide, youll have a clear understanding of each platforms strengths, weaknesses, and ideal use cases. Lets dive in! Today, Salesforce is positioned as the enterprise CRM leader.

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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. Poor marketing. A better strategy is to prioritize building your audience alongside developing the product. In this world, growth trumps all other priorities.

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