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Introduction | The Guide to SaaS Metrics The Software as a Service (SaaS) model is different since the initial sale rarely covers the cost of acquiring the customer. Instead, SaaS companies recoup their upfront investment over time, often in monthly or annual subscription fees. The critical question is: How quickly can despair turn into profitability? And how big is the prize outside the triangle? CATEGORY DESCRIPTION METRICS Unit Economics How profitable is each customer relationship over its lifetime?...

The perfect pricing model doesn’t exist - by Matt Hodges You’ll never be done … At the end of the day, there’s no silver bullet when it comes to pricing. There are just many things you can and should probably test. Be ready to make trade-offs – whether that’s knowingly leaving money on the table or being OK with fewer customers who pay you more. Make peace with the fact that your pricing will never be perfect....

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The Frustration Loop | ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman’s blog This lead me to an idea: The Frustration Loop The premise is simple. When spam is detected, instead of blocking the blog, fake system error or failure in the most frustrating way possible. Waste their time and make them give up. I got the idea from The Password Game which I highly recommend checking out. Since implementing The Frustration Loop the amount of spam has dropped from about 30% of new blogs, to less than 5% (nothing is perfect)....

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Today, suddenly two companies in the same space crossed my radar : Bondable | The Cloud Integration Enablement Platform Zapier – Automate the Web Together with the earlier “If This Then That”, seems like more and more people are starting to feel the need to hook up together several disparate web services. IFTTT / Put the internet to work for you.

Stripe: Payments for developers Stripe makes it easy to start accepting credit cards (…) today. **Full-stack payments ** You don’t need a merchant account or gateway. Stripe handles everything, including storing cards, subscriptions, and direct payouts to your bank account. Stripe.js lets you build your own payment forms while still avoiding PCI requirements. Available only in the US and Canada, unfortunately 🙁

Customer Self Service Achieving significant revenue at a low price point naturally entails driving complexity and cost out of the purchase to clear the floodgates for high volume. **Transactional Sales ** As price increases, customers become less willing to part with their cash without at least knowing there are actual trustworthy human beings behind your website URL. **Enterprise Sales ** While most SaaS startups gravitate toward transactional sales or customer self-service, some SaaS startups have products that provide so much value per customer and are so complex to buy that their natural starting point is traditional enterprise sales....

The math of SaaS revenue growth A conversation with the CEO of a SaaS company today reminded me of the importance of the rule of 78s. What is this “rule”, you ask. If you run a recurring revenue business, it is the most important number you have never heard of. Incremental revenue added in January will produce revenue for 12 months; incremental revenue added in February will produce revenue for 11 months; …; incremental revenue added in December will produce revenue for 1 month....