User Pilot

MAY 2, 2024

Customer retention is vital for product success and business profitability. You will also learn how to build a retention strategy, what metrics to track, and 10 bulletproof retention tactics for SaaS companies. TL;DR Customer retention is the ability to keep your customers actively using their products.

Retention 88

Retention Metrics Strategy Scale 88

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

In this week’s Workshop Wednesday , Salesforce Ventures Investor, Jessica Bartos, shares the 5 metrics every SaaS company should care about in any market environment, especially the one we’re currently in. Growth Is Still Number One Growth is still the number one metric, but it’s not the only one. You do that by showing momentum.

Metrics 201

Metrics Marketing SaaS SMB 201

User Pilot

JANUARY 28, 2024

Tracking relevant product performance metrics allows you to assess how successful your product is at satisfying user needs and achieving business goals. What metrics should you track though? Our guide covers 11 key performance metrics to analyze at different stages of the customer journey. Let’s dive in!

Metrics 90

Metrics Customer Lifetime Value Business SaaS 90

ChurnZero

MAY 25, 2023

Customer renewals are the lifeblood of a subscription business. Responsibility for renewals often falls to the Customer Success (CS) team. For example, survey research shows about half (50.2%) of all CS teams surveyed are directly responsible for customer renewals. Below are recommended metrics to consider.

Forecasting 97

Forecasting Customer Success Outsourced Development Metrics 97

Kellblog

MARCH 17, 2022

Earlier this week I appeared on a webinar with You Mon Tsang , founder and CEO of ChurnZero , a SaaS application aimed at helping subscription businesses reduce churn. Gross revenue retention rate, and why it’s gathering steam as an important metric. Benchmarks for many of these metrics from the KeyBanc 2021 SaaS Survey.

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Metrics Customer Success SaaS Benchmarks 100

ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Some Customer Success metrics are considered standard but there’s often more than meets the eye. SaaS professionals who geek out on metrics can find themselves in deep philosophical debates about the best numbers to track. There is often more than one way to calculate a given Customer Success metric; Gaming.

Customer Success 52

Customer Success Metrics Software Review Customer Lifetime Value 52

ChurnZero

MARCH 31, 2022

Did you catch our Customer Success and SaaS metrics crash-course webinar with leading SaaS expert Dave Kellogg, of Dave Kellogg Consulting ? We’d like to extend a huge thanks to Dave for his expert insights below, which will help you choose and use Customer Success and SaaS metrics in a more nuanced and purposeful way.

Customer Success 98

Customer Success Metrics Technical Review Scale 98

User Pilot

APRIL 22, 2024

In SaaS, it’s advised to follow customer success best practices to ensure that users achieve their desired outcomes with your product and become loyal advocates for your brand. TL;DR Customer success builds long-lasting relationships, increases customer retention , lifetime value , and advocacy, and informs product development.

Customer Success 69

Customer Success Retention Software Review Customer Lifetime Value 69

TriTuns

JANUARY 15, 2020

Developing equivalent metrics is essential for getting people to adopt your software! People and organizations are obsessed with data and metrics to “prove” results. What is the point of having data and metrics if you don’t use them to make better decisions and take action? Metrics Need to Change Behavior.

Metrics 81

Metrics Customer Success Software Review Systems Review 81

ChurnZero

MARCH 18, 2022

With so many SaaS metrics floating around, and even more opinions on when and how to use them, it can be hard to know if you’re measuring what really matters. Leading SaaS expert, Dave Kellogg, and ChurnZero CEO, You Mon Tsang, sat down to answer all the questions you want to know about SaaS metrics like ARR, NRR, GRR, LTV, and CAC (i.e.,

Customer Success 98

Customer Success Metrics SaaS Banking 98

Stax

JANUARY 28, 2024

Long before the digital age, newspaper and magazine companies have been using the subscription model to create and retain a consistent readership for their publications. The most potent benefit of the subscription-based business model is that companies are guaranteed a fixed revenue stream—if they can retain their customers or subscribers.

Payment Features 88

Payment Features Payment Methods Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 88

User Pilot

JANUARY 15, 2024

With an abundance of product analytics to track, having a robust SaaS KPI dashboard is essential to monitor the metrics that matter most. TL;DR A SaaS dashboard can be used to track important metrics and key performance indicators. Your custom SaaS dashboard should provide actionable data and be as automated as possible.

Metrics 84

Metrics SaaS Customer Lifetime Value Retention 84

Blulogix

MARCH 20, 2024

By BluLogix Team Mastering the Art of Complex B2B Recurring and Subscription Billing: Understanding the Renewal Process in B2B Subscriptions In the competitive landscape of B2B subscriptions, the renewal process is a critical moment of truth. They reflect customer satisfaction and the perceived ongoing value of your service.

Payment Features 52

Payment Features B2B Subscription Customer Lifetime Value 52

Totango

JUNE 24, 2022

Customer success in SaaS differs from CS in other industries. The software service industry presents unique challenges for customer success management while also creating unique opportunities that call for specific strategies. Read on to learn the keys to effective customer success for SaaS clients.

Customer Success 103

Customer Success SaaS Technical Review B2C 103

SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

Check out this 2018 Europa session with Guillaume Princen, Head of France and Southern Europe @ Stripe, where he talks about the metrics you need to be focused on in your startup. If you don’t have the time to watch the whole session, here are the main metrics you should be mindful of. It’s basically lost customers.

SaaS Payments 230

SaaS Payments Metrics Payment Methods Scale 230

Totango

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Customer Success Playbook Strategies: Mapping a Path to Winning Outcomes. A customer success playbook maps out a game plan you can use to automate successful outcomes for your clients. Then we’ll consider the benefits of using success playbooks. What Is a Customer Success Playbook?

Customer Success 87

Customer Success Onboarding Construction Retention 87

Chart Mogul

JUNE 1, 2023

In an uncertain market, customer retention is key. So if you are keeping a close eye on your retention metrics this year, you’re not alone. Retention is one of the most important metrics when building a successful SaaS business. In an uncertain market, customer retention is key. What is customer retention?

Retention 90

Retention Metrics Benchmarks SaaS 90

ChurnZero

MARCH 31, 2023

The purpose of a Customer Success team is to help a company’s customers get the most value out of its product. The hypothesis is, if a customer maximizes the obtainable value, they will remain loyal and spend more with the company. A Customer Success team has the time and resources to respond this way.

Customer Success 98

Customer Success VP of Engineering Investment Benchmarks 98

Subscription Flow

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Many SaaS businesses follow a subscription based model with subscription life cycles of varying periods. Thus, the success of any Software as a Service ( SaaS ) businesses greatly depends on customer retention. SaaS Renewal refers to customers choosing to renew their subscription to a SaaS product.

SaaS Payments 59

SaaS Payments Customer Success Payment Services Payment Solutions 59

Subscription Flow

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Here, in this article, we are going to jot down the SaaS financial metrics that investors look into before giving you funding for your project or business idea. Today, metrics or KPIs have made it easier for investors to see if they should invest in a project or not. So, here are the metrics that you need to monitor: 1.

Metrics 52

Metrics SaaS Finance Acquisition 52

Chart Mogul

MARCH 19, 2020

Are you responsible for getting subscription metrics like MRR right? At ChartMogul, we auto-generate subscriptions and metrics from invoices and transactions — we believe this gives you the most trustworthy picture of where your business stands at the moment. This is a common question we hear from customers.

Payment Features 75

Payment Features Subscription Metrics Payment Solutions 75

OPEXEngine

MAY 10, 2021

In fact, attracting, retaining, and establishing profitable long-term relationships with customers is even more important for SaaS companies because it’s the key to the recurring revenue model they’re built around. A company’s net promoter score is an indication of how many of its customers are active promoters of its product.

Customer Success 52

Customer Success Metrics Payments Scale 52

Subscription Flow

JANUARY 5, 2024

While the importance of SaaS B2B metrics has already been covered to death, what has not been covered in as much detail is the whisking out of important B2B SaaS product metrics from the unimportant ones. Read more: The Most Important Metrics to Secure SaaS Funding in 2024 What are B2B SaaS product metrics?

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B2B Metrics SaaS Benchmarks 52

Sixteen Ventures

AUGUST 14, 2022

The purpose of Customer Success is not to make customers happy. It’s actually not even to make customers successful. NRR, if you’re not familiar, is a simple metric to understand, but actually quite complex and convoluted to implement in practice. Thus the premium placed on NRR as a valuation metric.

Customer Success 97

Customer Success Investment Sales Hiring Retention 97

User Pilot

MAY 16, 2023

What are value metrics? We also examine a few examples of how companies use value metrics in their pricing strategy. TL;DR Value metrics are the features of a product that customers associate with its value and are happy to pay for. To identify your value metrics look at your product use cases. Why do they matter?

Metrics 88

Metrics Customer Lifetime Value SaaS Pricing 88

CustomerSuccessBox

APRIL 7, 2022

So, it’s legit to have a customer success team in hand. But with effective customer success, it’s possible to attain those extra gains from the SaaS revenue model. Assess the quality of the customer success efforts. Be that you use just one metric or are in the process of identifying many. In the end!

Customer Success 98

Customer Success Payments SaaS Payments Revenue 98

ChurnZero

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

This is a guest post by Sara Barnes , vice president of Customer Success at Skilljar. Every Customer Success team focuses on keeping customers engaged and ultimately, preventing churn. In fact, customer education helps scale Customer Success , as the company scales business. .

Education 98

Education Customer Success Underperforming Technical Team Scale 98

Teamgate

AUGUST 11, 2023

In this article, we’ll delve into the concept of Customer Success strategies, primarily seen in SaaS (Software as a Service) businesses, and how these strategies can be adapted and implemented in non-SaaS enterprises.

Customer Success 52

Customer Success Strategy Business SaaS 52

Totango

APRIL 5, 2019

Customer success metrics are used to discover what kind of customer experience you are really delivering. The goal of customer success is to generate recurring revenue by creating customer lifetime value. And with customer success metrics, you can measure whether your efforts are working.

Customer Success 73

Customer Success Metrics Customer Lifetime Value Product ROI 73

Valuize Consulting

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Level Up Your Customer Success Organization. In the subscription economy, there’s no debate about whether or not to invest in Customer Success (CS); 70% of rapidly growing businesses say that Customer Success is extremely important ( Hubspot , 2017). The fourth challenge is complexity.

VP of Engineering 98

VP of Engineering Customer Success Sales Hiring Interviewing 98

Totango

JULY 13, 2021

Strategy for customer success growth has changed as commerce has gone digital and big data has made marketing and sales customer-centric. Tell people about your business, get them in the store, sell them things, then look for more customers. Businesses need a new strategy for customer success growth.

Customer Success 101

Customer Success Payment Methods Payments Payment Services 101

Payrix

MAY 14, 2024

Before joining Worldpay for Platforms, he was CRO at Chargebee, a subscription revenue management platform that manages billing subscriptions and payments for companies throughout the world. What metrics are used to demonstrate a software company’s strength and success? They’re moving to a subscription-based model.

Payments 147

Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 147

Neil Patel

MARCH 8, 2021

Customer support and customer success can be confusing for both beginners and experts alike. Both customer support and customer success teams are important for your brand’s ongoing growth and success, and the roles share similar skill sets. What customer support is and why it’s important.

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Customer Support Customer Success Underperforming Technical Team Customer Lifetime Value 120

User Pilot

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

What GTM metrics should you track as a product marketer? That’s why we’re going to show you 12 of the most important product analytics metrics that you’ll need in order to measure your product success. They can reveal customer interactions, patterns, and preferences. Customer acquisition cost.

SaaS Payments 80

SaaS Payments Metrics Customer Lifetime Value Marketing 80

Valuize Consulting

DECEMBER 21, 2022

As technology companies adapted to the array of challenges over the past year, many organizations re-examined what customer success means in today’s environment. From generating robust Customer Intelligence to reducing churn, here are the year’s most popular pieces of thought leadership from the Valuize content library.

Customer Success 52

Customer Success Churn Subscription Payment Features 52

Totango

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Building out customer success manager automation depends on the effective use of email and in-app messaging. Planning strategic emails at key milestones in your customer journey can help you deliver a smoother customer experience, yielding higher satisfaction and better retention rates. Subscription or license renewal.

Customer Success 106

Customer Success Management Onboarding Retention 106

Chaotic Flow

MARCH 25, 2014

My first serious lesson in the criticality of SaaS metrics was about six years ago when I was unexpectedly stumped in a board of directors meeting. In 2014, we not only have a much better understanding of the financial levers that drive SaaS business success, we are on the verge of a metrics revolution in the way SaaS businesses are managed.

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Metrics Business SaaS Scale 156