BetterCloud

MARCH 17, 2025

SaaS tools are fantastic, but keeping your tech stack from turning into a financial snowball can be tough. ets break down smart SaaS budgeting , so you can make your tech work for you, without blowing the bank. What is SaaS budgeting? These are the things youll discover when you take an inventory of your SaaS spend.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 23, 2018

Most sales and support teams are already well versed in conversations about data deletion, risk assessments and security frameworks, but those issues are going to become an even more prominent part of the discussion once GDPR comes into effect. GDPR makes organizations accountable for data breaches caused by third-party service providers.

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Underperforming Technical Team compliance Systems Review Marketplace as a Service 220

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. Yes, Slack started off with no sales team. Yes, Dropbox started off with no traditional sales team. It’s become apparent that for hypergrowth SaaS startups today, there are two distinct phases.

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SaaStr

JULY 22, 2019

That’s not a bad start. We are the world’s most complete and comprehensive instrumentation platform on the marketplace today, that is cloud-based, that is SaaS-based. When we started out, we built the company purely as a SaaS company. We work with mostly modern teams. Join us at SaaStr Europa 2020.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

It’s time to start thinking about retention at scale and bring onboard a customer success team. She joined the company in 2007 back when it was just 30 people and has been instrumental in helping the company scale both its team and its market share over the years. Why you need a customer success team.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Why it’s hard to build a two-sided marketplace [13:38]. Managing a technical team as a non-technical person [24:13]. Okay, it’s not that easy, but Sapper Consulting has built REGIE to keep the promise of sales enablement alive and keep your team doing what they do best, which is winning. Sam’s Corner [33:50 ].

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User Pilot

DECEMBER 9, 2021

In the competitive world of SaaS products, product positioning is definitely something your product marketing team can’t afford to ignore. Product positioning is a process that aims at determining how the service or product is situated on the market and why it is superior to those of your competitors.

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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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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. But not all SaaS products are alike. Other types of SaaS are relevant only to companies in specific industries.

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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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Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payment Services 167

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. In this saas marketing strategy guide, we are going to tell you everything about saas marketing. What is SAAS marketing?

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SaaSX

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Today’s digital marketplace is a vast and wild place. Plus, you’ll also be obliged to bring your entire team on board by encouraging your colleagues to roll out the welcome mat and adopt some partner-friendly best practices. It can get a little lonely out there. But don’t worry––we can help you jumpstart the process. . Ask yourself: .

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Outsourcing Services Strategy Underperforming Technical Team Technical Advisors 93

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.

Software Review 52

Software Review Engagement Software Scale 52

Neil Patel

JANUARY 21, 2021

But you can’t build a great SaaS or e-Commerce company without the help of digital tools. If you’re serious about growing your startup, you’ll eventually need to put down the pen and paper to-do list and upgrade to a SaaS solution. You don’t need any SEO or developer experience to use it. per user per month.

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Payment Methods Payment Solutions Outsourcing Services Payments 110

Neil Patel

MARCH 2, 2021

The more (positive) reviews and testimonials you have, the more likely prospective customers are to put their faith and money in your services. Instead, pursue the ones best aligned with the services you offer and your target audience. B2C” businesses sell goods and services directly to consumers. Let’s start with B2C.

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Software Review Technical Review Scale Merchant Services 127

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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Marketplace as a Service Business Model SaaS Payments Payments 40

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

The Winning By Design Blueprint Series provides practical advice for every part of a SaaS sales organization. Traditional Sales Growth vs SaaS Sales Growth. Historically, growth of a sales team was based on the revenue starting with $0M on day 1 of the year. SaaS Growth Rate. Calculating Growth Potential.

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SaaSOptics

APRIL 7, 2022

How do they benefit SaaS companies, and what tools are needed to implement a successful freemium offering? Here’s everything you need to know about freemium offers in product-led SaaS. Even the most SaaS-savvy users require a human touchpoint at some point in the buyer’s journey. What is Product-Led Growth (PLG)?

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Business Model Payment Features Business SaaS 74

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? Your first SaaS customer success hire.

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Totango

JANUARY 17, 2019

Not to get too philosophical, but each journey begins with a first step, and in the SaaS domain, that means 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. A rapid onboarding process is your first chance to impress. Prepare for Escalation.

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SaaS Marketplace as a Service Underperforming Technical Team Scale 74

Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 19, 2020

As digital first companies (and teams) we are in a really good position to get creative about fostering community online whether with clients, colleagues or family. Can you elaborate a little bit for our audience about how exactly you guys work and what exactly are the services that you offer? We come in and really help people do that.

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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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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.

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Software Review DevOps as a Service Software Underperforming Technical Team 52

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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Systems Review Technical Advisors Scale Technical Review 98

Sales Hacker

MAY 22, 2020

The downside of this is that you’ll need to invest a lot of time and effort into engaging with those leads and making them want your product/service. Sales Accepted Leads, on the other hand, already had their first, second, and third touch with your unique value propositions, product, or service. The answer lies in pop-ups.

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Payment Methods SaaS Payments Sales Payment Services 127

Sales Hacker

MARCH 30, 2021

How to build a winning sales team. Developing A Winning Sales Team [16:24]. It provides the information that helps me succeed, translating down into my sales team as I’m coaching and mentoring them. I did a couple of startups from there, in the CRM ecosystem, then got into TOA, which was field service in the cloud.

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Scale Payments Technical Advisors Sales Recruiting 112

SaaSOptics

MAY 19, 2022

Not only is it one of the main drivers of revenue growth for early-stage companies, but it’s a primary goal for SaaS businesses across market stages. For subscription-based SaaS businesses, your customer acquisition metrics indicate how effectively you acquire new users via sales, marketing, or a product-led approach like a free trial.

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Acquisition Scale Strategy Software Review 59

User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Blue ocean strategy has become an increasingly popular business framework over the past two decades, especially in the SaaS industry. The focus is on developing new demand and reconstructing market landscapes to make rivals obsolete. Develop creative “what-if” scenarios to design potential blue ocean offerings.

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Strategy Technical Review Business Innovation 90

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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Merchant Services Payfac Payment Services SaaS Payments 88

How To Buy Saas

JANUARY 1, 2021

Your course gets the advantage of getting promoted in these online course platform marketplaces. Online Course Marketplace. Online Course Marketplaces. In a course marketplace, the course you create becomes part of a catalog and you get an existing student base to sell online courses to. Learn about saas marketing here.

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Payment Methods Payments Payment Solutions Marketplace as a Service 98

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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Payments Business Model Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 56

FastSpring

APRIL 13, 2023

When Justin and his initial team started looking for a way to capitalize on VR/AR technology, they focused their attention on the “made-to-order” industrial market. But Dopple’s team took the opposite approach. It starts with self service. But that’s not where they started. What are the values of the brand?

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Payment Methods Marketing Payments SaaS Payments 147

Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

For years we have been reading and hand-picking the best SaaS blog posts to share with 24K+ SaaS Roundup subscribers. Subscriber or not, anyone who wants to increase their SaaS knowledge will benefit by reading the curated posts below. In all seriousness though, that’s kinda what Horizontal SaaS promises (or tries) to be.

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Chargify

AUGUST 17, 2017

In the world of SaaS it is common for sustaining growth to be harder than attaining initial growth. That’s what we’re covering in today’s post: 12 actionable ways to reignite your SaaS growth. Even if you haven’t hit a growth ceiling, the following growth tips apply to just about any SaaS company. SaaS Growth Ceiling.

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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. One of the best things you can do for your customers’ success as a SaaS provider is to ensure that you walk them through a wholesome onboarding experience. What makes an onboarding experience a bad one?

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User Pilot

OCTOBER 31, 2022

As any savvy product manager will know, picking the right tool is essential to the success of your SaaS – so it’s worth taking the time to choose carefully. 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.

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Onboarding Software Review Marketplace as a Service Underperforming Technical Team 98

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 8, 2020

How to build a more diverse team [24:50]. Through that, he went to university where he studied AI and cybernetics, ultimately leading big teams in EMEA for AppDynamics. Learn how modern sales teams with deals, win deals now. Modern sales teams, winning deals using 6sense. Show Introduction [00:09]. Sam’s Corner [34:03].

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