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Consumption-based pricing models: transition guidance for CFOs

OPEXEngine

For example, technology companies like AWS, GCP, and Snowflake offer no contracts for customers interested in using their self-service option or beta-testing the solution. This is true even when there are minimum commitment contracts or a committed pool of fund contracts due to the lack of understanding usage uptake.

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5 Best Practices for Effective Customer Escalation Management

Totango

They want a human being—not an automated message or a robotic phone system. That is, right after they post on social media about the awful company that sold them a bad, unsupported product. High-value customers are more valuable to retain, so you may want to give them more generous compensation offers. Is a refund in order?

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The Art of Ensuring Customer Success During Mergers and Acquisitions

SmartKarrot

In practice, this entails maintaining current portfolios and connections while making sure that every customer success person is aware of the new product and company strategy, how the product helps you accomplish business outcomes and the future impact on customers due to tech collaborations. Like what you are reading? contact-form-7].

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David Barrett, CEO of Expensify: Good Intentions, Bad Advice: How to Keep Your Board Aligned with Your Vision (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

That was in no small part due to having a board that was aligned with David’s vision. It’s a brutal, awful slog in the start. I would say, it’s always good to call out just how awful it is to be a founder, to be an entrepreneur, because that is a unique perspective that you bring to the board room that no one else shares.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week: May 3, 2019

SaaStr

Before that Manny was a Senior Product Manager @ Amazon where he engineered the compensation system for Amazon Associates and Web-Services which accounts for 15% of Amazon’s traffic. You have to quickly evolve from being driven by the next intervention to thinking in systems. It’s all about customer obsession!

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PODCAST 135: Pushing Through the Zone of Discomfort Towards Personal Growth with AJ Bruno

Sales Hacker

What’s broken with compensation plans? [26:28]. AJ Bruno: QuotaPath is a dead simple sales compensation tool for sales teams, for ops, for finance, anyone that’s ever struggled with comp plans, struggled with the ins and outs, explaining it, what if I close these deals, we built a tool for you. Who influenced AJ [33:28].

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SaaStr Podcast #394 with Sunil Dhaliwal and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

A hundred percent of our economics are shared, meaning: Not that every person has the same compensation in the fund, but it’s not that if your deal does better than my deal in given fund, that you’re going to get juiced up and I’m going to get juiced down. Sunil Dhaliwal: There was no systems management tools.