SaaS stands for Software as a Service. That means a Software for which the business model is Subscription based with a recurring fees. The opposite would be on-Premise software which you buy once for an upfront fee but don't necessarily need to pay any recurring fee to keep using.
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As a SaaS vendor, should you provide data export?
Some people tend to avoid Software as a Service due to the fear of vendor lock in. Therefore, you are losing customers by not offering a data export option.
However, you don't want to be "helping" ...
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CRM with Customer Portal
I am looking for a Customer Relationship Management program that also allows the customer to create or edit orders. There are many different CRMs but info@hand is the only one I was able to find ...
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What are effective online advertising tactics in promoting your Saas?
My company sells a software-as-a-service. We're a business-to-business layout. SEO, press releases, Twitter, and Facebook aside, we're looking for other ways to get the word out. We're looking for ...
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How to target Software Product Development companies to provide them QA/testing support?
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New startup - how to handle billing?
My subscription-based application is going to be written in Ruby on Rails; I have two routes I can go as far as billing is concerned:
I can use a hosted service that takes care of managing the ...
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Know any SaaS Start up / ISV Ratios?
Many fields have standard guideline ratios for numbers. For example, in the catalog industry the rule I hear is that all costs excluding labor should never exceed 70% of revenue for a product.
Does ...
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SaaS Interface for Applications
Question to SaaS start-ups. Would you rather partner with a User Interface professional through the build of the application or purchase the service as a product which defines exactly what you'll get ...
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Should SAAS have tiered pricing for different countries?
For a start-up providing a web-app to customers on a subscription basis, do you think that the benefits of different geographic pricing outweigh the downside?
My rationale is that while North America ...
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Subscription revenue: $40 a year or $3-5 a month?
Hey there, I'm the founder of a site that helps families keep in touch. We're going to be buying our cash register soon, so we're figuring out our revenue model.
We're deciding between two types of ...
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Founding a startup while at school
I'm a Software Engineering student, have lots of ideas and read technology/startup blogs like a maniac. I've been developing web applications and websites for many years and was looking forward to ...
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Marketing Video Ideas
Part of my marketing mix for my SaaS will be creating/using a promotional video. I'll place it on my marketing website, YouTube, and SEO/SEM campaigns. I understand that the most effective videos ...
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How to do a trial offer?
We'd like to offer 30 day trial for a subscription service.
Has anyone experimented with that?
We will probably do a bunch of testing with it but I'd really like to hear your experiences on:
1) ...
