February 2016
Successful Upselling
New Mobile Friendly Newsletter
Welcome to the new mobile friendly Cirrostratus Group Newsletter.

This month's theme is on successful upselling. Read my thoughts below on what the key requirements are for your SaaS company to be successful at up-selling. In coming months I'll explore each of this in more detail.

I am always interested in your plans for developing and offering cloud applications. Let me know what you're working on.

Paul Ressler
The Cirrostratus Group 
Seven Key Requirements for a Black Belt  in Successful Upselling
Seven colors of martial arts Taekwondo belts in order from low to high
  • The right customer
  • The right staff skills
  • The right staff motivation & incentives
  • The right product structure
  • The right information
  • The right tools
  • The right customer attitude - happy & satisfied
Link to Blog Post


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Key Drivers for SaaS Success
This presentation was given at the recent SaaStr Conference in February by David Skok. It is a great description of the overall SaaS business model and incorporates his thinking on a variety of SaaS structural and metrics topics. The cash flow trough and that it actually gets worse as growth accelerates is one thing that I think many SaaS entrepreneurs miss.