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Big Companies Don’t Churn. They Quit You.

SaaStr

Churn” is a term we all use in SaaS as a core metric, but its roots, as near as I remember and can tell, come from our B2C colleagues. Folks churn out of their Verizon plan, their Netflix subscription, etc. And sometimes they’ll churn even just for a modestly better deal. the dynamics are similar.

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6 Customer Communication Pain Points in SaaS + How to Resolve Them

User Pilot

Left unaddressed, customer communication pain points can cause dissatisfaction and eventual churn. Resource center analytics. Provide multiple support options with a resource center. Based on this, you can optimize your support channels and resources to provide proactive and personalized customer support. CSAT surveys.

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What’s More Important, New Customers or Retention? It’s a Trick Question

SaaStr

It’s a trick question, of course — the crazy high net negative churn of top SaaS companies means that of course retention matters more than new customers. Even though we tend to do actually do the opposite in terms of how many resources we deploy …. Q: What is more important, getting new customers or customer retention?

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How To Keep Your Customers For a Decade. Or Longer.

SaaStr

Some take-aways: If You Truly Have Net Negative Churn and High NPS — Then Almost Any Reasonable CAC Makes Sense. But you have to have insane NPS/CSAT + truly high net negative churn (120%-140%) for this math to really work. There won’t be enough people, team or resources. Really, quite a lot.

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Prisoners, And Why It Doesn’t Really Matter Your App Is So Hard to Rip Out

SaaStr

Our Churn is Basically Zero in the Enterprise. Compare Freemium churn rates of 2-3% a month, to Enterprise SaaS net churn (including upsell / upgrades) that is often less than zero … man it sounds like those Enterprise customers don’t go anywhere. Once we’re in, it’s so hard to rip us out.

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Advice Every SaaS Founder Needs to Know in 2024 with Sam Blond and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

In 2021 and 2022, the money was a net negative, and what GTM organizations did was twofold. In 2020, 2021 and 2022, the trend in SaaS was to expand hires in sales, marketing, and other resources ahead of actually having the demand to feed them. Ideally, they won’t churn six months out.

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Too Many Churned Users? How to Minimize Churn in SaaS

User Pilot

Churn is the enemy of product growth. A churned user means lost future revenue and a waste of the resources it took to acquire them. How do you lower your churn rate and make sure all your users stick around? In this article, we’ll show you: What customer churn is and why it matters. Let’s get started.

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