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May 20, 2022

5 Usage-Based Pricing Examples to Improve Your Pricing Strategy

Griffin Parry, Founder m3ter
Griffin ParryCEO and Co-Founder, m3ter

As the shift toward usage-based pricing (UBP) continues – both in SaaS and other industries as well – companies are unlocking new opportunities to drive revenue.

Pricing Strategy

May 12, 2022

Practical PLG Tactics That All SaaS Companies Can Adopt

Todd Gardner
Todd GardnerManaging Director, SaaS Advisors

The following article is not a “play-book” for converting your SLG business to a PLG business. That is an extremely heavy lift. Instead, Todd Gardner outlines practical operational tactics common in PLG businesses that have been successfully used in sales-led companies to foster growth.

Pricing Strategy

Apr 28, 2022

The Impact of Net Revenue Retention on SaaS Company Valuations

Todd Gardner
Todd GardnerManaging Director, SaaS Advisors

Todd Gardner founded SaaS Capital, a leading venture debt firm, and has deep domain knowledge in SaaS. In this guest blog, he explains why Net Revenue Retention (NRR) has such a profound impact on a SaaS company’s valuation, and provides some basic tools to quantify the valuation impact.

Pricing Strategy

Apr 07, 2022

Hiring at m3ter

Alexandra Ardelean, m3ter
Alexandra ArdeleanPrincipal Engineer, m3ter

At m3ter, many of us are senior staff, so collectively we’ve had our share of interviews. We’ve seen the good, the bad, and the ugly both from the interviewee and the interviewer's point of view. We learned from all of our experiences and used them to design an interview process that works for us.

Other

Mar 18, 2022

Usage-Based Pricing Is the Best Way to Drive Net Revenue Retention

Todd Gardner
Todd GardnerManaging Director, SaaS Advisors

Todd founded SaaS Capital, a leading venture debt fund, and has deep domain knowledge in SaaS. In this guest blog, he discusses why NRR is the single most important metric for a SaaS business, and how usage-based pricing can improve it.

Pricing Strategy

Mar 02, 2022

Your tech stack for usage-based pricing

Marek Rubasinski, m3ter
Marek RubasinskiVP, Business Development & Partnerships, m3ter

Good news: your existing systems don’t need to change, they just need better access to data

Pricing Operations

Feb 22, 2022

One Month in…What’s Life @ m3ter Really Like?

Natasha Norman
Natasha NormanDirector of People & Talent at m3ter

Head of People & Talent Natasha Norman is back with another update for our "Life @ m3ter" series. This time, she's giving us an update on her thoughts on the company, one month in.

People

Feb 09, 2022

Life @ m3ter - Early Reflections

Natasha Norman
Natasha NormanDirector of People & Talent at m3ter

Our newly joined Head of People & Talent reflects on what drew her to m3ter, her first impressions on arrival, and her plans for team and culture going forwards.

People

Feb 08, 2022

m3ter Launches From Stealth With $17.5M in Funding

Griffin Parry, Founder m3ter
Griffin ParryCEO and Co-Founder, m3ter

Today, m3ter launches from stealth with $17.5 million in funding. With support from Kindred Capital, Union Square Ventures, Insight Partners and all our other investors, we look forward to making usage-based pricing easy for every SaaS business.

Product Updates

Feb 07, 2022

Usage-Based Pricing in Software - A Primer

Griffin Parry, Founder m3ter
Griffin ParryCEO and Co-Founder, m3ter

Usage-based pricing is being increasingly used within the SaaS space. This short guide explains what it is, highlights the trends that are driving its adoption, explores its advantages, and reviews common deployment challenges.

Pricing Strategy

Jan 31, 2022

The Operational and Go-To-Market Implications of Usage-Based Pricing

John Griffin, co-founder m3ter
John GriffinCRO and Co-Founder, m3ter

Deploying usage-based pricing requires new operational and GTM capabilities. We review four of the key challenges, and discuss how they all share an underpinning - usage and spend data.

Pricing Strategy

Jan 24, 2022

The m3ter Origin Story: Why We’re Simplifying UBP

Griffin Parry, Founder m3ter
Griffin ParryCEO and Co-Founder, m3ter

m3ter's CEO discusses the problems the company was founded to address, and his direct experience of them.

Other

Jan 17, 2022

Is Usage-Based Pricing Right for My SaaS Business?

Todd Gardner
Todd GardnerManaging Director, SaaS Advisors

Todd Gardner founded SaaS Capital, a leading venture debt fund, and has deep domain knowledge in SaaS. In this guest blog, he considers the circumstances in which usage-based pricing is a good fit.

Pricing Strategy

Jan 10, 2022

m3ter’s Distinctive Approach to Usage-Based Pricing

Griffin Parry, Founder m3ter
Griffin ParryCEO and Co-Founder, m3ter

We have first hand experience of the challenges of deploying and managing usage-based pricing. This has influenced our perspectives on what is most important when offering a metering and pricing service like ours.

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