Sixteen Ventures

JULY 17, 2020

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. ” In 2020 I just say, “let’s make churn a non-issue.” Monthly vs. Annual Churn Rates.

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FastSpring

MARCH 9, 2022

Answer: It’s the pricing page. The path to a signup or purchase may include a variety of page views, but it almost always includes the pricing page. In this article, we’ll show you examples from a variety of SaaS pricing pages. 7 SaaS pricing page examples. Add a summary table for pricing plans. How do we know?

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Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

OCTOBER 29, 2018

High SaaS churn is a corollary of poor retention - but it can creep up unannounced, and rather than deal a single fatal blow, it causes death by a thousand small cuts. A high churn rate is highly undesirable as it shackles growth , is a source of friction and (rightly) raises tough questions about product/market fit.

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SaaStr

APRIL 26, 2023

Most of the website / presence growth came from price increases, which saw limited churn as a result. Churn was modest from their price increase, leading to material growth. Relatively inexpensive products selling to SMBs that are truly valuable don’t see much increased churn from moderate price increases. #3.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Churn increase due to greater scrutiny of costs Contract values declining More stakeholders involved in decision-making Capchase combined the study with their data set of thousands of SaaS companies and looked at what the best companies do to overcome these hurdles. It could be price, product composition, or payment terms.

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Baremetrics

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Bundle pricing is one of the many pricing strategies employed by companies in an attempt to increase their revenue and/or profit. In bundle pricing, a company collects many products and/or services together and sells them as a single item for a single price. The lower price is one of the key components.

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Subscription Flow

JANUARY 3, 2024

Consider the potential for growth if you make your pricing model a consistent priority for your company. Most SaaS companies, on the other hand, treat pricing as an afterthought, setting it and then forgetting about it, rather than viewing SaaS flexible pricing strategies as ongoing processes critical to their success.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 5, 2018

A study by Price Intelligently showed that a 1% increase in acquisition affects your bottom line by about 3.3%. That’s right: retention can be twice as powerful as acquisition. Read on to learn how to create a retention messaging strategy that will turn struggling signups into a series of churn-resistant power users.

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FastSpring

APRIL 26, 2022

In the language of SaaS, I churned. And the experience got me thinking: Was immediate removal of paid features the best chance to keep me from churning? When did I officially count as “churned”? Did they count me as churned on the day I canceled? In part one, we cover benchmarks and common churn formulas.

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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. More customers = more revenue.

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Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Cost plus pricing is one of the many pricing strategies employed by companies in an attempt to increase their revenue and profit. The basic idea behind cost plus pricing is to base your prices on the cost of production plus your desired profit margin. This makes it a very simple and safe pricing strategy.

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Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Negative net revenue churn? Net revenue churn is the exception to the rule, and it’s one of the few times you’ll hear founders get excited about a KPI being in the negative. So, why does everyone have such a positive attitude about negative churn? What is net negative churn? downgrades). downgrades).

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Tom Tunguz

MAY 5, 2022

Public markets do impact startup fortunes, but only inasmuch as the prices at which venture rounds clear. Pricing power warning signs take many forms including. increased logo and dollar churn. Costs of customer acquisition spike. The last time VC sentiment was so publicly negative, Twitter turned two.

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Chaotic Flow

JULY 9, 2013

SaaS marketing professionals know that customer acquisition is the name of the game. What they generally don’t know is that sustainable SaaS growth requires accelerating customer acquisition. Otherwise, churn wins and you stop growing. Every buyer bottleneck removed accelerates customer acquisition.

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ProfitWell

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Most SaaS companies approach churn management all wrong. They spend huge amounts of money and time getting customers in the door but don't think about addressing churn until it becomes a major problem. The number one reason most SaaS companies struggle to lower their churn rate is simply that they aren’t being proactive.

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SaaStr

APRIL 4, 2023

You’ll probably have a smaller lifetime customer value and customer budget for acquisition. Find The Balance Between CAC And LTV The achievable lifetime value defines your customer acquisition cost target. Every company is different and will have varying solutions, customer acquisition costs, and lifetime value.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

While the allure of customer acquisition can pull a founder’s attention, it’s equally important to dedicate resources to fighting churn and expanding revenue from existing customers. They discuss how Fox helped build a churn-fighting, upselling, and cross-selling machine that continues to generate revenue.

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ProfitWell

AUGUST 6, 2019

There’s no more vital metric for a SaaS company to keep track of than churn : the rate at which customers are leaving your business and taking their subscription dollars elsewhere. What is churn analysis? Churn analysis is the evaluation of a company’s customer loss rate in order to reduce it. Customer churn comes in many forms.

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User Pilot

MARCH 25, 2024

An accurate valuation is necessary to secure the right price for the company or adequate funding without diluting its share value. CAC = (100,000 + 300,000)/1000 = $400 Metrics for SaaS valuation: Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC). It helps gain the trust of investors or buyers and satisfies regulators and tax authorities.

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Practical Advice on SaaS marketing

AUGUST 1, 2018

Churn is bad for software-as-a-service (SaaS) companies. But knowing there’s a churn problem is one thing; fixing it is something else. To bring down churn, we need to understand what’s behind the numbers. Wrong customers Sometimes high churn happens when SaaS providers sell to the wrong customers.

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USIO

JANUARY 15, 2024

This reduces the churn rate, ensuring a more stable customer base. Adaptability to Market Changes: SaaS businesses can adapt quickly to market changes by adjusting subscription plans and pricing. As the user count increases, so does the revenue without a proportional increase in customer acquisition costs.

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OPEXEngine

JULY 1, 2022

In today’s market, the path to growth for B2B SaaS companies is to continue following the two SaaS lodestars: customer acquisition and customer retention. The Fundamental Value of the SaaS Model is that Customer Retention is Cheaper than Customer Acquisition. The balance can be tricky. . Comparing CAC to Customer Success Expense.

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Baremetrics

APRIL 20, 2020

Specifically, we’re going to go through how to use cohort analysis to reduce churn and retain more customers. In most cases, SaaS companies analyze cohorts based on either behavior, or acquisition. But for our purposes, we want to focus on retention and acquisition. Let’s jump right into it! What are Cohorts?

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Chart Mogul

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Customer churn rate, also known as logo churn rate is a key indicator of the health of your SaaS business. At a high level, the customer churn rate gives you the rate at which your customers are canceling their subscriptions. A high customer churn rate can be deadly for your business. It is also known as ARPU or APRC.

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User Pilot

OCTOBER 5, 2023

TL;DR The CAC payback period measures the time it takes for a company to recover the money invested in new customer acquisition. This metric helps SaaS companies choose the most effective customer acquisition channels , diagnose inefficiencies in customer retention strategies , and inform pricing decisions.

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Baremetrics

AUGUST 5, 2021

We need it to make informed decisions about customer acquisition expenses. In our previous post , we explored pitfalls in using "churn" metrics. We found that "churn" misleads us in some circumstances, such as when there are many short-term customers. That "churn" is the same metric we tested in our previous post.

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Baremetrics

MARCH 23, 2020

I spent over a week speaking with different SaaS founders and marketers about how they successfully reduced churn for their business. churn by doing something every SaaS business should be doing, but most don’t. And one showed me a simple tactic their company used that helped reduce churn from 9% to 7.5% What is churn?

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Totango

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Similarly, to be successful, an enterprise needs to be able to prevent churn and increase revenue growth. In football terms, gross retention, or gross revenue retention (GRR), is like the defense, determined to block any attempts by the opposing team (churn) to breach your end zone (revenue stream). Calculate it!

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Chaotic Flow

JULY 21, 2015

SaaS customer acquisition should focus on maximizing available market penetration, not increasing available market size, and to do that you have to have a very clear picture of your target SaaS customers. Bad prospects waste precious sales cycles and marketing dollars, driving up your customer acquisition costs.

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Clouded Judgement

APRIL 11, 2024

The first few months of this year felt like a lot of churning in the market. This has all resulted in the median stock price declining 5% YTD. For businesses selling predominantly to SMB customers, these benchmarks are all slightly lower given the higher-churn nature of SMBs. Is Software Rebounding? Who are the real AI winners.

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Sixteen Ventures

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

It’s critical to understand why your customers churn, but if you’re relying solely on the reason the customer gives you for that churn, you’re definitely missing the actual reason. It’s easy, but it’s not going to get you the answer you need to keep future churn from happening. Churn: Syntax and Nomenclature.

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Chart Mogul

AUGUST 20, 2020

4x entrepreneur Andrew Gazdecki shares how you can better prepare yourself for your startup's acquisition, and make the journey a rewarding one. The better prepared you are for an acquisition, the smoother it’ll go, leaving you financially, operationally, and psychologically stronger during negotiations. Speak to other founders.

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ProfitWell

JANUARY 13, 2020

There’s a question that every startup founder, subscription service provider, and ecommerce store owner, needs to ask themselves on a regular basis: Is this the most effective price for my product or service? Finding an effective price helps you solidify your position, build trust with your customers, and achieve your business goals.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 27, 2020

New Relic’s net negative churn / net dollar retention has dropped to 98% in the last quarter, despite a record 77% of revenue being from the enterprise. If New Relic had even 120% NRR, it’s growth rate with the exact same rate of new customer acquisition would be 137% instead. It’s the secret to scaling effectively.

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Baremetrics

JANUARY 24, 2021

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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ProfitWell

MAY 21, 2019

What is customer acquisition? Customer acquisition is the process of gaining new customers. Customer acquisition is one of the most popular growth levers for SaaS businesses because it is the most literal way to grow your customer base. Acquisition for a SaaS company means signing up new, paying customers.

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Chart Mogul

APRIL 27, 2022

Churn gets a lot of bad press. In the early stages of building a company, churn gives you quick feedback which other metrics seldom do. You can run tests on your platform, and then see feedback within the next few … Churn gets a lot of bad press. In this post, we go deep into churn. What Is Churn?

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