SaaS SuperBook: Saas Special Report and SLA Guide

SaaS Special Report
131 pages of tips, tricks, and tactics to help you build a profitable SaaS business.

• 14 Lessons from Four ISVs Who’ve Made the Transition to SaaS.
  Key practical advice for you to learn from others on how to build a subscription-based business addressing topics such as security, performance, negotiations, research, and revealing outsourcing partners.
  
  
• 66 Practical, Real Life Tips From Five Firms Who've Struck Triple-Digit Growth with SaaS.
  Learn how to raise millions in VC, transform your software from the unknown to a known, and leverage your partners to put your firm on the fast track to growth.
  
  
• 16 Tips on Marketing, Selling, and Pricing.
  Discover why your existing sales model won’t work, how to compensate sales reps, how to create and offer transition paths, and other practical tips to profitable marketing and sales of SaaS.
  
  
• 24 Pricing Points.
  Advice on how to price subscription software – including insight into how Salesforce.com does it.
  
  
• 28 Tips on How to Transform Your People.
  Get tips from OpSource on how SaaS affects your R&D, finance, sales, and marketing teams.
  
  
• Hosted Software – Where it works and where it doesn’t.
  Find the right business model for your SaaS business.
  
  
• 10 Facts to Create SaaS Value.
  How SaaS can widen your market... but you need to be in it for the long haul.
  
  
• 18 Ways to Prosper with SaaS.
  Reading the market, looking for early adopters, partnering with larger players, and fifteen other keys to profitability.
  
  
• 2 Keys to Success with SaaS.
  In summary, according to OpSource's Treb Ryan, the two keys deal with pricing and what you are offering.

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SLA Guide
57 pages chock full of practical information to help you prepare service level agreements between you — the SaaS Service Provider — and your service provider partners and customers.

• An Explanation of 14 key SLA Terms. Make sure you use the right language in your SLA contracts. The SLA Guide helps you by providing sample representations key contract terms: such as availability, bandwidth, change management, error resolution, security, data migration.
  
  
• Service Agreement Model Tool. Use this tool to learn how to format the terms contractually in your SLA.
  
  
• Survey of Worldwide Legislation Tool. This survey tool provides a worldwide overview of data privacy statutes, an extremely important consideration for the SaaS business owner.

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