CustomerSuccessBox

APRIL 7, 2022

Puneet Kataria shares his experience and observation on how customer success teams can be agile in the Customer Success Vodcast hosted by tl;dv! Every customer success team during the onboarding, buzz around the term “Early value”, the question is how does it all start and even delivered?

Onboarding 52

Onboarding SaaS Payments Payment Methods Scale 52

SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2019

Prior to Kustomer, Vikas spent over 20 years implementing, consulting, marketing, and selling CRM and ContactCenter solutions with companies like LivePerson and Oracle. How does Vikas see the space play out in the coming years when it comes to acquisitions? When should one look to hire their first customer success reps?

SaaS Payments 128

SaaS Payments Cloud Technical Review Scale 128

FastSpring

APRIL 26, 2022

If you lose 7% of your customers to churn over a year , that’s a way different number than losing 7% of your customers every month. While it’s not a bad idea to be measuring both, your monthly churn rate should be much, much lower than your annual churn rate. Next, let’s look at how to develop a churn-reduction action plan.

Benchmarks 141

Benchmarks Churn Payments SaaS Payments 141

ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Building a strong pricing strategy starts with hiring a professional team to conduct a pricing audit. Conducting a pricing audit goes through five factors—acquisition, monetization, retention, pricing strategy, and discounts. Acquisition. Remember, acquired customers can still churn at any point. What is a pricing audit?

Payments 45

Payments Pricing Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Payments 45

Chargify

APRIL 23, 2019

There are specific stages a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company moves through during its life cycle. You may also hear this stage referred to as discovery , vision/mission , or problem/solution fit. and ‘Does my proposed solution solve it effectively?’ Spending too much on customer acquisition before product/market fit.

Scale 74

Scale SaaS Payments Scaling Payment Services 74

OpenView Labs

JANUARY 29, 2020

Freemium Model for SaaS – The Good, The Bad, and The In-between. The basic premise that the freemium business model operates on is this: Several hundred thousands of users sign up for the freemium plan, and then a good cohort of them will convert into paying customers. Freemium: It’s About Acquisition, Not Revenue.

Pricing 82

Pricing Payments SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 82

User Pilot

MARCH 25, 2024

Because it improves your business’ profitability, understanding and reducing churn also gives you a better customer acquisition cost to customer lifetime value (CAC: CLV) ratio. To calculate the churn rate, divide the number of customers lost by the total number of customers at the beginning of that period.

Underperforming Technical Team 104

Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Methods 104

SmartKarrot

AUGUST 11, 2021

The lifeblood of the SaaS business is its customers. SaaS, or software as a service, is a subscription-based model where customers pay subscription fees for services such as Dropbox, CRM, or perhaps Mailchimp, and this is how the companies earn monthly recurring revenues (MRM). Payment Method may not work.

SaaS Payments 19

SaaS Payments Churn Underperforming Technical Team Payment Methods 19

Upscope

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Upscope is a co-browsing solution. They're typically looking to buy our product for their customer success, account and support teams or to use our API to completely white label our solution for their own internal needs or as part of a product they sell to their customers. That about us page matters.

Enterprise 40

Enterprise SaaS Payments Pricing Payment Solutions 40

SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

Average Revenue per Customer. Customer Lifetime Value (LTV). Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC). & The second constituent there is the developer. Why do developers love SaaS products? How much is a customer going to bring you over his lifespan using your product? Customer acquisition.

SaaS Payments 241

SaaS Payments Metrics Payment Methods Scale 241

ChurnZero

APRIL 27, 2021

As ChurnZero recently secured a Series B investment bringing our total funding that has been raised to date to $35 million, we thought we’d take a look back and see the role that Customer Success plays at each respective stage of funding for SaaS companies. Early-Stage Funding & Customer Success.

Scale 98

Scale Customer Success Payments Underperforming Technical Team 98

Point Nine Land

JUNE 18, 2023

Everything you always wanted to know about cohort analysis (but were afraid to ask) Back in 2012, I wrote a blog post titled “Know your user cohorts” , which began like this: “One of the most important tools to better understand the usage of a web application — or a service, a game or a mobile app, it doesn’t matter — is a cohort analysis.

SaaS Payments 128

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payments SaaS 128

User Pilot

MAY 9, 2024

Develop educational content, like webinars or courses, to help users discover new use cases and features. This increases product value and customer satisfaction. Like a customer profile template or an in-app survey template. This is essential for the overall product success. Book the demo to learn more!

SaaS Payments 52

SaaS Payments Payment Services Onboarding Payment Solutions 52

SmartKarrot

JULY 14, 2020

You will only have to worry about the recurring payments, which is otherwise known as MRR, monthly recurring revenue. Aside from this, customer loyalty is of huge importance to all of these models, as that is the only thing that keeps them afloat. Customer loyalty plays a key part in every marketing strategy.

Business Model 10

Business Model B2B SaaS Payments Payment Features 10

Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

The New Solution Selling. Sales Development and Prospecting. The Sales Development Playbook. The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team. Here are the best books on selling (and related disciplines) that can help you hit your goals and develop your career. Here they are… The 97 Best Sales Books in 2020. The Challenger Sale.

Scale 141

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Payment Methods 141

Baremetrics

MARCH 23, 2020

For example, a churned user on a $50/mo plan isn’t nearly as bad as a churned user on a $500/mo plan. Just looking at user churn would gloss over the fact that you lost a major customer. The more info you can get on why customers churn, the better. It’s an app store optimization tool. First, is MobileAction.

Churn 145

Churn Payment Methods Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 145

Sales Hacker

MAY 9, 2019

Once you understand how to create a fair compensation plan for your sales team, you can check out some examples: Sales Development Rep (SDR) Compensation Plan Example. Here’s a simple example to begin with that covers the SDR, AE and Customer Success Manager (CSM) functions: Table 1. Example Compensation Plans.

Compensation 102

Compensation Sales Hiring Development Team Review Sales Recruiting 102

SaaStr

DECEMBER 10, 2019

WePay CEO Bill Clerico and COO Tina Hsiao discuss how the company went from launch to acquisition. WePay is a payments company for platform businesses like marketplaces, crowdfunding sites & small business software. The day that acquisition closed, we became a 250,000 person company. Tina Hsiao : Awesome.

Payment Services 136

Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payments 136

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

374: ZoomInfo founder and CEO Henry Schuck shares how he built a business from scratch and grew it into one of the most successful IPOs of the 21st century—and what it was really like…the good, the bad, and most of all, the ugly. This episode is sponsored by Outgrow.

Sales Hiring 159

Sales Hiring Scale Payments Cloud 159

Incredo

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Do you want to grow your SaaS sales team and improve your processes? maintain healthy atmosphere in your Smarketing team, make smart choices regarding your SaaS sales model, strategy, pricing, . Skills for SaaS Sales Team. 6 Essential skills for SaaS inside sales team to boost product’s sales. 3 examples for you).

SaaS Payments 157

SaaS Payments Payment Methods Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring 157

User Pilot

JULY 24, 2023

A few strategies you can try include: Using content marketing to lower acquisition costs. Proactively addressing customer needs. Having a clear SaaS marketing plan is essential to landing new users, keeping the customers you already have, and increasing their lifetime value over time. Increasing signups with a free trial.

SaaS Payments 94

SaaS Payments Marketing Payment Solutions SaaS 94

ProfitWell

OCTOBER 23, 2019

A literal downfall, in poor Icarus’s case, after his wings melted mid-flight. They launch a product, start bringing in some solid revenue, and put all their efforts into acquiring new customers. Thankfully, you don’t need to end up like poor Icarus. 1: You’re attracting the wrong customers. He was excited to go flying.

Churn 56

Churn Payment Methods Payment Services SaaS Payments 56

ChurnZero

JANUARY 17, 2020

If your company is exploring the idea of implementing a dedicated Customer Success (CS) platform, the question of where to start can be daunting. These tools have a profound impact on free ing up team member time.? . Take comfort in the fact that every CS team must start somewhere! Blog Author: Alex Weihmann.

SaaS Payments 72

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payments Underperforming Technical Team 72

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Emilie Maret | Fellowship Team @ The Family. We’re a team of former investors and operators from the likes of Facebook, Deliveroo, and the Swedish payments company Klarna. We are a purely B2B fund, focused on software and fintech. So if you’re a software founder in that stage, come talk to us.

New CTO 143

New CTO Sales Hiring B2C CTO Hire 143

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 29, 2019

It’s no surprise that one of the key levers for growth as you go from startup to scale-up is your sales team. How quickly you’re able to accelerate growth depends on your ability to build a nimble sales org and develop a strong sales strategy. These lay the foundation that enables your team to run as efficiently as possible.

Scale 172

Scale Sales Hiring Scaling Payment Services 172

SaaStr

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Jos White of Notion and Christian Lanng of Tradeshift team up to show you how to work within, and sometimes around, rules in the workplace. But invoicing happens to be connected to something really, really important, which is payments. So if you get the invoice, you get the payment and that’s a lot more interesting.

Payments 103

Payments Payment Features SaaS Payments Underperforming Technical Team 103

Sixteen Ventures

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Customer Success is transformative. Whether you have a Software-as-a-Service, subscription or membership business or you sell one-off products or services and simply want to do business with your customer more than once, Customer Success should be your driving purpose. … The Customer Success Book.

Customer Success 136

Customer Success SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services 136

The SaaS Garage

MARCH 12, 2020

And no, this gatherng was not triggered by the current crisis but, needless to mention, we did spend some time mingling about the “bad old tmes” of the post Sept. take such words with caution “Don’t panic, stay calm and watch the development.” Approach your customers. 11 and Neuer Markt aera.

Underperforming Technical Team 94

Underperforming Technical Team Payment Solutions Payment Methods Venture Capital 94

The SaaS Garage

MARCH 12, 2020

And no, this gatherng was not triggered by the current crisis but, needless to mention, we did spend some time mingling about the “bad old tmes” of the post Sept. take such words with caution “Don’t panic, stay calm and watch the development.” Approach your customers. 11 and Neuer Markt aera.

Underperforming Technical Team 52

Underperforming Technical Team Payment Solutions Payment Methods Venture Capital 52

SaaStr

MARCH 13, 2020

Why does Harry believe investing in customer success is far more important than customer acquisition? * So at about 13, I set up an eBay business, and we actually used PayPal obviously to process all of the payments. Our team met with David just a few days after our initial conversation in San Francisco.

SaaS Payments 208

SaaS Payments Payment Methods Finance Payments 208

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Retention truly is the foundation of growth for software as a service (SaaS) companies, but oftentimes, it is overlooked and undervalued. 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. This is always a huge mistake.

Churn 152

Churn SaaS Payments SaaS Payments 152

SaaStr

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Ep 270: Jeppe Rindom is the Founder & CEO @ Pleo, the simple spending solution for your company automating expense reports and simplifying company expenses. As for Jeppe, prior to founding Pleo he was the CEO @ Nodes, a design and development house that worked with brands including Loreal, BMW and Lego. Loving our podcast content?

Scale 118

Scale SaaS Payments SMB Sales Hiring 118