Recurring Billing 101 for Service SMBs
Cards expire. Bank declines happen. Customers forget. If you're not running smart dunning, you're leaking 6-8% of MRR every month. Here's the playbook.
Hard-won lessons from running 1,500+ service SMBs across LATAM. Recurring billing, bilingual operations, AI for SMBs, growth playbooks. No fluff.
There are 5.8 million Hispanic-owned US businesses generating $700B+ in revenue. The amount of bilingual enterprise-grade SaaS built for them: nearly zero. Here's why that's about to change — and what it means if you're one of them.
Cards expire. Bank declines happen. Customers forget. If you're not running smart dunning, you're leaking 6-8% of MRR every month. Here's the playbook.
ServiceTitan is great if you have 50+ techs and $400K/yr in software budget. Here are 4 honest alternatives if you don't — including their tradeoffs (yes, even ours).
AI for SMBs isn't a chatbot. It's the unglamorous backend work: drafting quotes from voice notes, summarizing 30-min support calls into 3 bullets, predicting which customers will churn next quarter.
Florida service SMBs serving Hispanic customers run into the same compliance questions. Spanish-language invoice requirements, sales tax on services, 1099 reporting. We unpack it.
We ran the math on US Hispanic Chamber of Commerce membership for service SMBs. Spoiler: 12-18x ROI if you actually work the directory. Here's how.