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Dear SaaStr: What’s a Resonable Discount for an Annual Contract? How About a 3 Year Contract?

SaaStr

Dear SaaStr: What’s a Resonable Discount for an Annual Contract? How About a 3 Year Contract? What I mean what you want is a pricing structure that anticipates discounts so the net effect is revenue positive. Before then, think instead about marking up the prices of non-annual contracts to account for churn.

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Buy Out Contracts: At Least Think About Making Them Part of Your Sales Toolkit

SaaStr

So we’ve done a few good posts on SaaStr about how to steal a customer / prospect from a competitor on SaaStr here: How to Steal a Customer From the Competition (a good one) Want to Steal a Customer From the Competition? It’s that simple: A customer 6 months into a 12-month contract?

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The Top 5 Tips to Getting Sales Right in Any Market with Capchase’s CEO and Head of Marketing

SaaStr

They wanted to quantify this trend of a longer sales cycle, so they commissioned a study of 500 revenue leaders in the U.S. So i f deals take longer to close, you’re spending more money and paying people longer, so your customer acquisition costs are increasing, payback takes longer to materialize, and your LTV to CAC goes down.

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Dear SaaStr: How Do I Convince My Customers with Monthly plans to Upgrade to Annual Plans?

SaaStr

Q: Dear SaaStr: How Do I Convince My Customers with Monthly plans to Upgrade to Annual Plans? Large customers only pay via invoices, especially for any deal of any material size (>$10k a year). The smaller the customer, the more important micro-cash management is. The folks that care about price will take it.

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The 4 Best Responses to "I Need a Better Price"

Hubspot

When a buyer and seller don’t align on price, you might guess the sale won’t go through. In the 1970s, researchers studied the effect of seller ability to deviate from list price. They suspected sellers with higher pricing authority would close better deals. Sellers setting a precedent for price concessions.

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Sales Compensation Plans: Complete Guide + Examples

Salesforce

It includes their regular salary — typically calculated as annual pay — and other financial incentives, like commissions for sales and bonuses for reaching targets. These plans usually specify base salary, commission rates for sales made, and bonuses for hitting or exceeding sales targets. What are sales compensation plans?

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Dear SaaStr: What is a Good Refund Policy for a SaaS Product?

SaaStr

SaaS startups, especially those that sign customers to annual customers, will have customers that want to cancel those un-cancelable contracts and get a refund. Even customers that pay monthly on credit card will sometimes ask for a pro-rated refund for the most recent month. You signed the contract”.

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