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First-party Data: Benefits, Types, Collection Methods & Use Cases

User Pilot

Trigger contextual customer feedback surveys. Dig into your CRM systems and customer support interactions to gather insights. Track social media interactions to understand customer sentiment. Case in point: we created a SaaS product metrics benchmark report based on first-party data from 547 companies—go check it out!

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State of the Cloud 2019: Europa Edition with Alex Ferrara, Bessemer Venture Partners (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

It was around that time about 12 years ago that Jeff Bezos launched AWS, and some of you may remember that, when he did this, Wall Street analysts were looking at him and saying, “Why would you take what’s already a very unprofitable business and drive it further into the red by investing in this AWS initiative?”

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How to Categorize Expenses in a SaaS Startup v2.0

Baremetrics

You’ll need Cost of Revenue to calculate your Gross Margin, which in turn you need to calculate Customer Lifetime Value (LTV), Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC) Payback Time and to understand your company’s unit economics in general. A good way to do that is to look at the R&D spend as a % of your revenue.

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How to categorize expenses in a SaaS startup

Baremetrics

You’ll need this to calculate your Gross Margin , which further enables you to calculate Customer Lifetime Value and other key SaaS metrics. This is where you record all of the costs that go to providing your service, such as hosting and customer support payroll. Engineering.

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Bulletproof your software with these 12 best application security tools (SAST, DAST, CSPM & WAF)

Audacix

Pricing and support: The tools should offer a range of pricing options and provide strong customer support to help you address any issues that may arise. It's designed to protect your web applications from common web exploits and allows you to create custom rules to block specific types of attacks.

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Retention Marketing: How to Build a Retention Strategy that Works

User Pilot

If it’s more cost-effective in the important respects (profitability, cash flow etc) to acquire new customers than to retain old ones, do that instead. Besides value, having great UX and great Customer Support are the things that will win you loyal customers. All that matters is: The retention rate you have now.

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Intercom’s Fergal Reid and Ciaran Lee on the making of Resolution Bot

Intercom, Inc.

?. Anyone who’s tangled with customer support knows: getting an answer to your question is one thing, but actually landing on a useful resolution to your problem can be another. Two years ago, we introduced Answer Bot to address our customers’ most important questions. It did a terrific job, but we knew we could do even better.