Stax

MARCH 18, 2025

However, a SaaS company providing global HR and payroll solutions may have a few hundred customers paying a monthly or annual feein other words, making recurring payments over a longer period of time. Churn is the percentage of customers that end their subscriptions within a certain amount of time. Churn rate.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Developing a product that solves a customer’s pain point provides a sense of pride and can drive the positive, emotional moment of awe that retains customers for the long haul. This approach gets to the heart of the subscription-based business model. That doesn’t make them bad people. Business model. Give them a chance to grow!

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 29, 2019

In this week’s episode we’ve dug down into the podcast vaults to bring you some of the best insights shared by our guests about scaling sales. It’s no surprise that one of the key levers for growth as you go from startup to scale-up is your sales team. John Barrows: Passion and work ethic.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 7, 2024

He previously built the pre and post sales solutions team at mParticle from zero to supporting hundreds of enterprise customers. Is there a lot of internal or customer work that needs to be done or managed by your team? While mParticle has a killer, commercially focused CS team, inertia affected the team as well early on.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2019

Businesses also win if, as a result of AI, teams are able to create more white-glove moments that turn users into customers for life. He joined me for a conversation on tackling issues that come up as you scale your customer experience. When scaling your customer experience, remember AI can’t simulate human empathy.

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SaaStr

MARCH 26, 2019

Scaling the company’s employee base, sales teams, marketing, and operations—all while preserving its culture—has required a laser focus on first principles, smart processes, and effective hiring. In this talk, Claire will share these and other lessons for scaling high-growth organizations. Our team is in Room 111.

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FastSpring

JANUARY 27, 2022

Note: FastSpring offers advanced subscription management services that support free trials, monthly and annual paid plans, proration, discount management, and more. How Castos upsells subscription tiers. His podcast hosting company uses data analytics that looks at which users are most likely to grow out of their current subscriptions.

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User Pilot

JANUARY 2, 2025

The survey aims to better understand users workflows and help prioritize product development initiatives, like new integrations, that add the most value to its users. The survey asks them how likely they are to recommend Wise to a friend on a scale of 010, which is quick to answer, making the feedback collection process frictionless.

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SaaStr

JULY 25, 2021

As two CEO who love the art of sales and scaling, this one really was special. Jyoti Bansal : And then he started talking about sales and Dev during the breakfast he convinced me if you can marry the right kind of sales scaling and execution then that’s when your business will really, really take off.

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SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2019

Regardless of what stage you are in, he provides a framework to systematically approach this stage and what you should focus on to get to scale faster. We are screwing up the scale. We have the subscription revenue. The subscription economy. Join us for SaaStr Annual 2020. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW. Seventy-five percent.

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Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

MARCH 23, 2020

One of the biggest challenges businesses face when they grow is scaling effective , autonomous and quick decision-making. In short, they make it easy to see what each team, department and organisation is working on, omitting and their respective goals. Again, it was an easy to use model which scaled effective decision-making.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 3, 2018

Finding those problems to solve, however, becomes increasingly difficult as you scale – where the volume of feedback, and noise level of the vocal minority, compounds by the day. Rohini Pondhi , product management lead for Square’s Invoices product, knows this challenge well. At Square, I manage a product called Square Invoices.

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Neil Patel

APRIL 12, 2021

They offer some of the best-known subscription boxes around, reflecting an increasingly popular (and potentially lucrative) business model. Why Should You Launch a Subscription Box? According to MarketsandMarkets , the subscription and recurring billing market will grow to around $7.8 Recurring Business Revenue.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 29, 2021

And so, Mark Rudden and his team had to figure it all out by themselves. Fortunately, Mark had quite a bit of experience working and scaling teams in demanding, hypergrowth environments. SaaS is the subscription business. Building a great sales team: How Intercom fosters and maintains its sales culture.

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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

So growth of the kind of subscription, eCommerce industry has been over 100% year on year for the past five years, according to McKinsey. The second constituent there is the developer. Why do developers love SaaS products? Low touch you’re gonna talk a lot about what we call customer success teams. Transcript.

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User Pilot

MARCH 24, 2025

Want to advance your career in mobile product management or find top talent for your team? You will collaborate with engineering, design, and business teams to deliver cutting-edge mobile solutions that improve efficiency, user adoption , and overall product performance. Who would be a BAD fit for this job?

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ChurnZero

JULY 22, 2022

Does your Customer Success team have a shallow view of onboarding? But when it feels like each customer has different goals and definitions of success, how do you create an onboarding program that caters to these individual needs and at the same time can scale? I have the internal handoff from pre-sales to post-sales customer teams.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 7, 2025

The GTM Podcast is available on any major directory, including: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Fred Viet serves as the Chief Sales Officer at Aircall, overseeing global sales and playing a key role in scaling the company’s reach over the last four years. It helps me and the team be so much more productive.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

In an era when more and more businesses adopt a subscription model, strong customer retention is the key to sustainable long-term growth and requires a laser-like focus. . Tara joined the company in 2017 and has been instrumental in helping the company scale and retain more customers through a unique customer-centric approach to marketing. .

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Stax

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Here’s an interesting stat: 70% of businesses consider subscription and membership models indispensable for future commercial growth and expansion. They must engineer a well-rounded solution that makes handling subscriptions a breeze (and yes, it is as hard as it sounds). However, only 10% of them currently employ these models.

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Incredo

OCTOBER 2, 2019

ur development ?tr?t?g? You already estimate how many new team members you should hire and how much new equipment you should acquire to produce high-quality pieces of video & audio content (not to mention about time, consistency, and having fresh ideas). . SaaS companies fighting f?r ur share in the m?rk?t. nt relies on d?f?n?ng

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 18, 2020

He even managed to help pivot the company from a programmatic transactional revenue model to a subscription model over the course of, not just the last three months during COVID, but over the course of the last few years. Sam Jacobs: Is it a subscription service? Is it recurring revenue, or is it delivered in a different way?

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Tom Tunguz

MAY 4, 2016

Plus, value-added resellers charged buyers on a per-project basis which doesn’t align neatly with the recurring subscription intrinsic to SaaS. By leveraging another company’s sales team, your startup’s cost to book a marginal revenue dollar decline, as revenue scales and net margin increases.

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Building on the definitions from that essay and introducing a few new ones, here are the types of business models we’ll cover: SaaS: software that businesses access online and purchase via a subscription e.g. Slack, Adobe, Atlassian. Payments also allow the company to enforce policies that build trust in the marketplace. Refund Policy.

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ChurnZero

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Every Customer Success team focuses on keeping customers engaged and ultimately, preventing churn. But as a company scales and brings in new accounts, CSMs can start to feel like Lucy and Ethel in the chocolate factory—the customers keep rolling along faster than CSMs can properly manage them! Lighten the load CSM’s normally carry.

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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

The SaaStock team will be landing in São Paulo to run the region’s first Pan-Latin American SaaS conference, SaaStock LatAm. Talk: Scaling & Exiting: Dreams, Designs & Dramas. In 2010, he founded Influitive, which helps B2B companies employ brand advocates for faster growth and development. Talk: Sales is a Team Sport.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

So they created a software that provides control, visibility, and payment methods for corporate finance teams. Spendesk thinks about building its company in three stages: startup, growth, and scale. Instead, focus on fostering a culture of communication and feedback loops between the team. Nico: Correct.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Jos White of Notion and Christian Lanng of Tradeshift team up to show you how to work within, and sometimes around, rules in the workplace. Nobody ever build a social network for business on this scale. Christian Lanng : So we started with something very, very narrow, which was invoicing. You pay a subscription.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

So how can you leverage that product’s success to obtain the valuation and funding you need to scale? Everyone’s always like, “how did you guys scale so quickly,” and like, everyone loves this product. Your sales team becomes more efficient, your customer success team becomes efficient, your customers like you more.

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SaaSOptics

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

Based on a 2019 survey, Gartner forecasts that eighty-four percent of new software will be delivered as SaaS , and this percentage is expected to increase as existing providers transition to a subscription-based model. The main difference between accounting for a subscription vs. a traditional business is the method used.

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Totango

JULY 28, 2021

Encouraging subscription renewal. While the conventional approach has been to assign one customer success manager per customer account, digital customer success platforms now make it possible for teams to administer success at scale by leveraging automation to deliver one-to-many success management. Suggesting upsells.

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User Pilot

MARCH 23, 2023

And how can customer success teams address them to ensure product growth? Reasons why customers churn: #1: Customers churn when there is a bad product-customer fit and your product’s features don’t align with their needs. 3: Poor customer service or experience with the sales teams can make customers churn.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

In August of 2016, Rachel Hepworth embarked on a unique challenge: start a growth marketing team at one of the most successful startups of this generation – one that had long relied heavily on word of mouth. I stumbled upon Eric Ries and Steve Blank, the concept of customer development – it was a revelation.

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User Pilot

APRIL 30, 2024

From this article, you will find out how to develop a strong growth marketing strategy and learn growth marketing tactics for different customer journey stages. Market development targets new markets with existing products, while product development – existing markets with new products. If so, we’ve got you covered.

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Totango

JULY 1, 2022

For B2B SaaS companies, customer loyalty drives subscription renewals and brand advocacy, making it a critical component of a profitable business model. In a B2B SaaS context, SaaS customer loyalty is expressed primarily through actions like subscription renewals, upsell purchases, referrals and product engagement.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

After working on NASA’s Space Shuttle Main Engine, he went on to develop Portfolium, a social networking platform that allows students and graduates to showcase skills beyond the traditional resume to potential employers. But before universities would do business with them, they needed assurance on their security posture.

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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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