User Pilot

JULY 30, 2023

Customer retention vs acquisition cost: Which metric matters more? Thus, striking the right balance between acquisition and retention costs significantly improves profitability and sustainability. TL;DR Customer acquisition is the process of attracting and converting prospective users into paying customers.

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Acquisition Retention Customer Lifetime Value User Experience 91

User Pilot

MARCH 6, 2023

What’s product-led acquisition? TL;DR Product-led acquisition (PLA) is an organic way of growing a customer base through recommendations from existing customers. The benefits of PLA include considerably lower customer acquisition costs, exponential user base growth, and lower dependence on changes in paid advertising.

Scale 95

Scale Acquisition Scaling Customer Lifetime Value 95

User Pilot

JULY 22, 2023

Customer acquisition cost vs lifetime value: which one should you prioritize? Let’s dive in to find out and also discuss how you can improve both your customer acquisition cost and lifetime value. TL;DR Customer acquisition cost (CAC) is the money a business spends on acquiring new customers. Customer Acquisition Cost.

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Acquisition Customer Lifetime Value Onboarding Retention 78

User Pilot

AUGUST 30, 2023

With many customer acquisition channels available, how do you choose the right one? Read on to find the best acquisition channels for your SaaS and how to create winning customer acquisition strategies that drive growth. TL;DR Customer acquisition is the process of attracting and converting new customers into paying customers.

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Acquisition Strategy Social Media Customer Lifetime Value 59

Buffer Resources

OCTOBER 9, 2023

This could lead to lower advertising competition and costs on Meta platforms. Meta's Subscription Model WSJ unveils Meta’s ad-free subscription pricing, impacting ad visibility on Instagram and Facebook – this may affect ad engagement rates. Ad-Free Subscription Plan TikTok tests a $4.99

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Social Media AI Search Subscription Payment Features 82

User Pilot

AUGUST 30, 2023

With many customer acquisition channels available, how do you choose the right one? Read on to find the best acquisition channels for your SaaS and how to create winning customer acquisition strategies that drive growth. TL;DR Customer acquisition is the process of attracting and converting new customers into paying customers.

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Acquisition Strategy Social Media Customer Lifetime Value 52

User Pilot

AUGUST 30, 2023

With many customer acquisition channels available, how do you choose the right one? Read on to find the best acquisition channels for your SaaS and how to create winning customer acquisition strategies that drive growth. TL;DR Customer acquisition is the process of attracting and converting new customers into paying customers.

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Acquisition Strategy Social Media Customer Lifetime Value 52

ProfitWell

MAY 21, 2020

Customer acquisition vs. customer retention—which one is better? Nevertheless, many companies focus the majority of their time and resources on acquisition. In reality, though, retention offers a much higher ROI on advertising spend for certain business models—and is often much more cost-effective than its counterpart.

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Acquisition Retention Advertising Customer Lifetime Value 98

ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

The subscription revenue model is hardly new. But in the past few years, subscriptions have seen a bit of a resurgence. In fact, you'd be hard-pressed to find an industry that hasn't seen at least one subscription success story: Cars. Even the humble houseplant doesn’t seem immune to the subscription economy.

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Payment Features Payments Subscription Revenue 74

FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Revenue refers to the total earnings a company generates through its core operations like sales of products or services, rents on a property, recurring payments , interest on borrowings, etc. The Future of Revenue: Subscription Revenue. Revenue calculations come before removing any expenses, such as discounts and returns.

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Payments Payment Methods Payment Features Payment Services 82

SaaSOptics

MAY 19, 2022

What Is Customer Acquisition? Customer Acquisition is the process of acquiring new customers in a business. For subscription-based SaaS businesses, your customer acquisition metrics indicate how effectively you acquire new users via sales, marketing, or a product-led approach like a free trial. Plain and simple.

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Acquisition Scale Strategy Software Review 59

Totango

APRIL 30, 2021

Comparing the cost of customer retention versus customer acquisition underscores why retaining clients is so important. Calculating the Cost of Customer Acquisition. To calculate your average CAC, total up all the marketing and sales costs that go into your acquisition efforts for a given period. The result is your average CAC.

Acquisition 63

Acquisition Retention Social Media Advertising 63

Baremetrics

APRIL 13, 2020

Being a Subscription Video On Demand (SVoD) service, subscribers are the lifeblood of our business. Therefore, any sharp spike in churn (cancelled subscriptions) can be catastrophic to us. We were steadily acquiring well under our target Cost-Per-Acquisition (CPA) of £30, so we decided to increase our budget on numerous occasions.

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Subscription Payment Features Data Marketing 99

Neil Patel

APRIL 12, 2021

They offer some of the best-known subscription boxes around, reflecting an increasingly popular (and potentially lucrative) business model. Why Should You Launch a Subscription Box? According to MarketsandMarkets , the subscription and recurring billing market will grow to around $7.8 Recurring Business Revenue.

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Outsourcing Services Payment Methods Subscription Payment Features 123

SaaStr

MAY 25, 2022

These professionals had to earn their spot by selling Expensify subscriptions. Advertising is not inherently profitable. Unlike traditional business models, don’t look at advertising as the solution to customer acquisition. The conference essentially funded itself via the partners before they even showed up. Key takeaway.

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Scale Marketplace as a Service Business Model Advertising 239

ProfitWell

APRIL 3, 2020

Subscription businesses face a variety of challenges unique to their specific model. Successfully financing a subscription company involves the use of specific metrics and accounting methods. Certain practices make it much easier for a subscription business to properly gauge its health. Recurring revenue is king.

Finance 52

Finance Subscription Payment Features Venture Capital 52

User Pilot

OCTOBER 18, 2023

In this guide, we’re going to go over what the CAC payback period is, why it’s worth calculating, and how to reduce your customer acquisition costs altogether! TL;DR The customer acquisition cost (CAC) tracks the amount your business spends to acquire each customer (with an industry average of $702 for SaaS companies).

Customer Lifetime Value 102

Customer Lifetime Value Acquisition Retention Churn 102

Casey Accidental

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Acquisition, retention, and monetization potential of your first product is another reason B2B tends to expand earlier. From a customer acquisition perspective, the companies grew in very different ways too. Pinterest significantly evolved how its core product worked, changing both the acquisition and retention loops over time.

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Payments Scale Payment Solutions Technical Review 113

ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

The good news is that the most important subscription KPIs are constant across SaaS businesses, whether you’re selling a timekeeping software or an accounting tool. Read on to find out what the top six subscription KPIs are, why you should be tracking them, and how. Why subscription companies need to track KPIs. SaaS Bookings.

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Subscription Payment Features Customer Lifetime Value Benchmarks 80

Baremetrics

AUGUST 23, 2021

Leading SaaS and subscription businesses rely on Baremetrics to track the success of product launches, essential business metrics, and more. Paid advertising 4. For instance, you discover that small business owners are spending a lot of time on creating, sending, and tracking invoices. Start your free trial today.

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Strategy Scale Payment Features Software Review 104

Chargify

OCTOBER 21, 2020

As many leading companies know, customer subscription management isn’t a “set it and forget it” concept. It is important for businesses to constantly analyze the health of their subscription model to make sure it is truly working for their customers and their bottom line. Objectively Measuring Your Subscription Business.

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Subscription Payment Features Payment Services SaaS Payments 63

ProfitWell

JANUARY 2, 2020

The subscription economy has shifted the power balance in favor of the customer. Subscriptions are built on ongoing relationships with customers, so companies selling subscriptions need to understand how to monetize this relationship on a recurring basis. That’s what makes subscription sales so difficult.

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B2C Subscription Payment Features Payments 52

Stax

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

“A man who stops advertising to save money is like a man who stops a clock to save time,” – Henry Ford In 1913, Henry Ford brought the assembly line to the automobile industry, because he knew that prioritizing efficiency in his plants would make him more profitable. One thing to consider is integrated payments.

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SaaS Payments Payments Payment Services Stax 88

ProfitWell

APRIL 28, 2020

Many companies are now switching from a perpetual licensing model to subscription-based licensing. In this post, we'll compare the perpetual licensing model with subscription licensing so you can choose the right one for your product. Comparing pricing structures: perpetual licensing vs subscription.

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Subscription Payment Features Software Pricing 54

User Pilot

JANUARY 12, 2024

In this example, the bar chart compares the number of standard, free, and enterprise invoices created over the last 7 days. A horizontal bar chart comparing invoice creations on Userpilot. Sales growth versus advertising spend. Visualizing trends in customer acquisition over a period. Trial users versus paid users, etc.

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Data Scale Payment Features Trends 104

User Pilot

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Customer acquisition cost. The percentage of subscribers who discontinue their subscriptions within a given time period. The profitability of your advertising expenditure provides a clear picture of the effectiveness of your ad campaigns. For the MRR, you sum up the recurring revenue from all your customers in a given month.

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SaaS Payments Metrics Customer Lifetime Value Marketing 96

User Pilot

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

There are various metrics to track the customer path, such as: Awareness stage metrics Acquisition stage metrics Activation stage metrics Adoption stage metrics Retention stage metrics Revenue stage metrics Referral stage metrics To create a successful customer path, follow the steps below: Conduct user path analysis to identify the happy path.

Customer Lifetime Value 99

Customer Lifetime Value SaaS Software Review Acquisition 99

User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The most important metrics to track are: Customer acquisition cost : The amount spent to acquire a new customer. Monthly recurring and annual recurring revenue: The total amount your product generates monthly and yearly. Are they related to subscription and billing? Customer acquisition cost formula.

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Metrics SaaS Customer Lifetime Value Acquisition 98

Chart Mogul

MARCH 16, 2018

How do you measure mobile app monetization in the context of subscription revenue? Apple’s expanded support for subscriptions on iOS gives advanced control over pricing tiers and managing subscribers. Many of the same app monetization metrics exist for subscriptions, but the way they’re measured differs considerably.

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Payments Mobile Payment Solutions Subscription 49

Neil Patel

JUNE 23, 2021

If you’re using paid advertising as part of your marketing campaign, you need to be creative and strategic. It’s more important, though, to make your advertising strategy and your copy unique and compelling. Next, try to use the words ‘you’ and ‘your’ in your advertising strategy. Most ads are a waste of money.

Strategy 136

Strategy Social Media Advertising Engineering 136

User Pilot

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Digital ad click-through rate Digital Ad CTR measures the percentage of users who click on your advertisement compared to the total number that view the ad. Customer acquisition cost (CAC) Customer acquisition cost is a key metric that measures the total expense incurred in acquiring a new customer. CSAT formula.

Metrics 85

Metrics Customer Lifetime Value SaaS Mobile 85

Baremetrics

APRIL 23, 2021

SaaS businesses rely on customer loyalty for recurring subscription revenue rather than one-time purchases. They have to accurately predict how long customers will maintain their subscriptions to forecast their financial future appropriately. Check out our post on 30 SaaS founders on raising money and venture capital.

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Metrics Customer Lifetime Value SaaS Venture Capital 71

Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The entire budget has been spent on R&D with nothing left for customer acquisition. The second mistake is to overspend on the product, and underspend on customer acquisition. Is less than a third allocated to marketing and customer acquisition? Am I Really Ready to Go To Market?

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Scale Marketing SaaS Underperforming Technical Team 98

SaaStr

JUNE 5, 2020

With the Salesforce IPO in 2004, we saw the first sign that institutional investors were comfortable with a standard set of SaaS metrics: Churn, sales efficiency , ARPU, LTV, customer acquisition cost , and so on. . It’s hard to imagine a world where analysis didn’t understand recurring, subscription based revenue for technology products.

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Venture Capital Technical Review SaaS Scale 218

Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Method 1 Method 2 Use Baremetrics to calculate all of your metrics including LTV for Shopify Partner Apps Customer acquisition cost (CAC) and LTV Knowing what your LTV is for each customer segment is critical Why is it important to segment the LTV for Shopify Customer Apps? Baremetrics monitors subscription revenue for Shopify Partners.

Payment Solutions 105

Payment Solutions Payment Methods Payments SaaS Payments 105

BrightBack

JUNE 15, 2022

The move of DTC eCommerce from once-through purchases to subscriptions requires a new set of metrics to evaluate customer experience. In our experience, businesses that are primarily acquisition-focused find their ROAS numbers and CAC trend upwards over time. Moving from ROAS to LTV/CAC.

Metrics 52

Metrics Retention Advertising Acquisition 52

FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Depending on what calculation you use, LTV can paint an honest picture of whether your customers are spending and staying long enough to cover acquisition costs and hopefully—make you a profit. Tracking your LTV/CAC ratio allows you to spend the right amount on customer acquisition while still making a profit.

Scale 128

Scale Payment Methods Payments SaaS Payments 128