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Why Can’t SaaS Companies Just Mint Cash?

SaaStr

Does it cost so, so much to host a few million lines of code on AWS? But … if your competition is bounded, your brand is positive, your churn is net negative, and your contracts are pre-paid … and your ACVs aren’t abnormally low … SaaS can rain cash. Churn burns a lot of cash at scale. So is SaaS cursed?

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3 Customer Retention Strategies for the Pandemic’s Next Wave

ChurnZero

This is a guest blog post by Anita Toth, Chief Churn Crusher. . Did you know that 60% of SaaS companies reported a negative impact on customer retention and upsell deals due to the pandemic? Customer retention, along with new customer acquisition, has been challenging for most companies when the pandemic hit.

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Nov 18 – Customer Success Jobs

SmartKarrot

Role: Director, Customer Success Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada Organization: Book4Time Inc. As a Director of Customer Success, you will assume direct responsibility for a handful of extremely strategic customers in providing a white-glove level of Customer Success. Ensure Smartly.io

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The SaaS Trust Crisis with Godard Abel (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

And then I spent a year at Salesforce working on Marc Benioff’s extended leadership team, and really had a chance to learn how important trust can be, and also really learn from Salesforce, from Mark, how do you really build a global SaaS leader at scale? And so we will have additional churn challenges across SaaS.

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The Art of Ensuring Customer Success During Mergers and Acquisitions

SmartKarrot

Customer success is one aspect of corporate SaaS mergers and acquisitions that is sometimes overlooked. Organizations are guilty of putting it on the back burner even though it is one of the most crucial factors in success. Maintaining the focus on customer success throughout the mergers and acquisitions process is difficult.

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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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Q&A with Maria Pergolino, Anthony Kennada, Aaron Ross and Jason Lemkin (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Anthony : I’ll add more too and this sounds like a sponsored answer, but customer success becomes even more important as we sort of think about where growth is coming from. Obviously, marketing and investments are expensive and we know the cost to keep a customer is obviously a lot less. I mean, literally. We were wrong.