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SaaS “Industry-Centric” Business Models

OPEXEngine

“Industry-Centric” SaaS business models offer an alternative SaaS company categorization to the “Customer-Centric” SaaS model, which is defined based on the “go-to-market” strategy used by a management team. When SaaS business models originated, the most successful venture-backed startups used a horizontal model.

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What is a good SaaS Churn Rate?

Sixteen Ventures

Is 5% a good monthly SaaS Churn Rate? Read on to learn the answer… As a consultant to SaaS and Cloud providers that are looking to grow, I get asked what an acceptable SaaS churn rate is all the time. The lessons are accurate even in 2020. ” In 2020 I just say, “let’s make churn a non-issue.”

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The Last SaaS Churn Guide You’ll Ever Need to Read

Chart Mogul

In this blog post, we have collected everything you need to know about churn — along with links to the best resources on the internet. You’ll never need to visit another site to learn about churn. Now you know — just mention churn. Definition of churn. Churn is a concept specific to subscription businesses.

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Revenue Churn: How to Calculate, Track & Improve

Baremetrics

Revenue churn answers the question: how much MRR did we lose last month? Your answer says a lot about the long term health of your company as a SaaS or subscription business. The SaaS business model is built on the concept of retaining as much of your monthly recurring revenue (MRR) as possible. Try Baremetrics Free.

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The Broken State of SaaS Sales Rep Comp

SaaStr

So things got a bit broken with SaaS sales exec comp in the run-up up until 2020 … and then it got really broken in the crazy times of late 2020 and 2021. Not a bad thing per se, but it also put a lot of pressure on business models. It doesn’t make economic sense on its own. This makes no sense.

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How Nudge Coach reduced customer churn by over 70%

Baremetrics

Anyone managing a SaaS or subscription business is aware of customer churn. That means achieving any essence of “growth” requires replacing lost customers faster than the rate at which they churn. Managing churn is much like a constant game of plugging holes in a bucket so that you can eventually have a “rising tide” of water.

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Customer Success: The Definitive Guide to Customer-centric Growth 2020

Sixteen Ventures

Introduction from Lincoln for 2020. What I called the “Definite Guide to Customer Success” way back in 2014 is getting far more definitive for 2020 as I incorporate what I learned over the last year. Here’s to your success in 2020! . . . The Definitive Guide to Customer Success 2020. In the SIX(!)