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Three Ways SaaS Organizations Can Create Recurring Revenue Without Spending a Dime

USIO

In the competitive world of Software as a Service (SaaS), generating recurring revenue is essential for sustainable growth. While many strategies involve significant investments in marketing, sales, and technology, there are also effective methods to boost recurring revenue that require minimal financial outlay.

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How to Leverage Pricing and Packaging to Drive Growth, Revenue, and Profit with Miro, Loom, OpenAI, and Splunk 

SaaStr

So, you should think about it the same way and use it intentionally to drive growth, revenue, or whatever else, but think about it more than something you set at once and forget. But if you’re trying to maximize revenue, you have to find the revenue maximization point.

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How Much Revenue Must a Company Generate to IPO?

Tom Tunguz

We corrected the trailing 12 months’ revenue at the time of IPO for inflation & plotted the data. Before 2018, only one company IPOed with more than $200m in revenue. In fact, the median revenue at IPO at $90m. Today, the median revenue at IPO is $189m (corrected for inflation), more than double.

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The Software Industry's Productivity Boom: Analyzing Revenue per Employee Trends

Tom Tunguz

I realized It has been a decade since I’ve updated revenue-per-employee metrics. Revenue per employee spans approximately $200k-$900k. In 2013, the average revenue per employee of these companies totaled $200k. In 2023, these companies added about $37k in revenue per employee, but the range spans $18-71k.

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How Clinic Sense Reduced Churn and Unlocked More Revenue

ClinicSense is a SaaS platform that supports over 7,000 massage therapists who use it for appointment management, payments, scheduling, marketing activities and more. Despite having a relatively low payment failure rate, the company discovered that the failures disrupted the customer experience.

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How Revenue Multiples Really Fall After Each VC Round

SaaStr

More here: [link] The post How Revenue Multiples Really Fall After Each VC Round appeared first on SaaStr. At least if you do raise VC capital, understand the chart above very well. It also means the next round is often even harder that most founders realize.

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5 Interesting Learnings from Gartner at $6 Billion in Revenue

SaaStr

And … 92% of its revenue is from subscriptions. Today, Gartner has now crossed $6 Billion in revenue, with a stunning $35 Billion market cap. 92% of Revenue is Recurring If you’ve bought Gartner research, you know this. A lot of “pseudo SaaS” doesn’t see this type of revenue retention.

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A Solution for Every Type of Churn: Solving Involuntary SaaS Churn

Caused by failed payments, this overlooked source of friction quietly erodes both customer retention and revenue. It leads to revenue losses and can be the largest source of churn, yet your company may not be taking it seriously. How is your SaaS business addressing involuntary churn?

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SaaS Essentials: Failed Payment Solution Guide

For SaaS businesses, improving retention is one of the easiest and most effective ways to drive revenue and profits. With a clear link between failed payments and customer churn, having a robust failed payment recovery solution isn’t optional—it’s essential. Achieving your retention goals starts with the right solution.

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SaaS Business Fundamentals: How Decline Codes Impact Failed Payment Recovery

Understanding your decline reason make up can be a game changer when it comes to improving retention and revenue. For SaaS businesses, decline reasons vary, shaped by customer demographics and the nature of your service.

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How Do SaaS Companies Fit Into the Payments Revenue Food Chain?

Ever wondered who gets a share of that 3% credit card transaction fee? This guide explains how that fee is divvied up and how SaaS companies are becoming a more important player (gaining a larger share) by embedding payments into their solution.

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Take Payments Without Losing The Profits

If you are a vertically focused software company and hate giving up a big piece of your revenue pie to third parties, explore becoming a payment facilitator. Transform your business by increasing your revenue share, taking control of your merchant’s experience, and owning your risk management decisions.

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Get More Help With Merchant Onboarding and Get Payments Going Your Way

As software companies become a larger part of the payments world, you will have to determine how much of a role you want to play and how far up the payments revenue food chain you want to go. By becoming a Payment Facilitator, you gain more control and ownership of the payment functions and keep a larger share of the payments revenue pie.

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More Freedom. Because It's Hard to Control Payments When Your Payments Provider is Controlling You.

As software companies become a larger part of the payments world, they will have to determine how much of a role they want to play and how far up the payments revenue food chain they want to go. By becoming a PF, they gain more control and ownership of the payment functions and keep a larger share of the payments revenue pie.

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Blueprint to Modernize Analytics

The longer you wait to modernize your application’s analytics, the harder you’ll eventually feel the pain of lost customers and missed revenue. When it comes to your revenue and customer loyalty, don't be reactive, be proactive. If it sounds like a daunting task, that's because it is.