OpenView Labs

DECEMBER 21, 2020

What does the future hold for B2B software? Every year we ask the OpenView network to weigh in, and this time around many folks unsurprisingly made predictions around a trend most of us in SaaS had to adapt to (and, to be honest, are still figuring out) in 2020: remote work. SaaS will need to engage or get left behind.”.

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FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

In our first post about our online community , we mentioned launching the Global SaaS Leaders Slack group because we saw a need for the kind of software-and-SaaS-focused community we’d want to be a part of. The group is professionally moderated, there’s no cost, and you don’t need to be a FastSpring customer to apply.

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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.

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User Pilot

DECEMBER 3, 2022

There are five different stages in the customer experience lifecycle – reach, acquisition , conversion , retention , and loyalty. The reach stage of the customer journey describes the moment when customers first hear about your business. In SaaS, this is usually the moment they start a free trial or freemium plan.

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Subscription Flow

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Now more than ever, it is crucial for businesses to invest in SaaS customer journey in this era of the complete overhaul of the digital world. What is SaaS customer journey? You can improve every facet of your SaaS business with an accurate mapping of the customer journey.

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CustomerSuccessBox

MAY 28, 2021

A Saas business which has already evolved itself to bring in a Customer Success Software integrating it with Subscription Management, Support, CRM and product usage data knows exactly- “What is the secret to Saas growth”. Now that involves two main essential activities- Retaining Customers and Upsell to consumers.

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CustomerSuccessBox

APRIL 3, 2022

Customer Success ensures that your customers remain happy customers. Its objective is to guarantee that your customers get the most value from your product. Sending an email with the appropriate intent at the right time is essential to a good customer success email. Customer Success Email Templates.

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User Pilot

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Customer success has gone from strength to strength in recent years. More and more SaaS companies are starting to realize how important it is, and so they’re investing more time and effort into it. With that in mind, we thought we’d take a look at the best customer success tools. Churnbuster.

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ChurnZero

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Whether Customer Success or Sales should own the renewal, expansion, and upsell is a hot-button issue in today’s SaaS sphere. As such, we decided to tap industry experts for a verbal duel on the subject where the winners take home the esteemed (and priceless) prize of bragging rights and SaaS street cred.

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Baremetrics

MAY 13, 2021

While we’ve spoken at length about working on financial modeling for your SaaS business , it’s important not just to have that data—you need to apply it. In addition to your financial model, you need to select a SaaS sales model that helps you improve the metrics and grow your business. Try Baremetrics free. Table of Contents.

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Totango

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

SaaS Tools to Jumpstart Your Business Growth: Five Essential Apps. Software-as-a-Service ( SaaS ) tools automate your business functions, fueling your growth by increasing efficiency. This promotes higher customer satisfaction and retention, elevating sales and increasing revenue. What Are SaaS Tools?

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OpenView Labs

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

And there’s more and more bifurcation between the ‘haves’ – the fast growers – and the ‘have nots’ of SaaS than ever before. The new data reveals a similar picture for private SaaS startups. . Get more from your existing customers. Marketing: Market to existing customers rather than just prospects.

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User Pilot

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

User adoption is essential for B2B SaaS companies, as it helps customers to learn about your product, adopt features , stick around, and nurture product growth. And your role at a customer success team? Here are four steps for building a user adoption strategy: Do customer research and create user personas.

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CustomerSuccessBox

JULY 19, 2022

Successful SaaS companies grow in two ways: by acquiring new customers and by retaining existing customers (i.e., Renewing customers contribute significantly to your annual recurring revenue (ARR), which is an important part of the revenue stream that allows businesses to predict and strategize their internal investments.

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FastSpring

APRIL 26, 2022

Last week, I canceled an annual SaaS subscription (I had three weeks left until renewal). In the language of SaaS, I churned. In part two, we’ll cover five churn-prevention strategies that have been successful in other SaaS businesses. Part I: SaaS Churn Benchmarks. Is There an Ideal Churn Rate for SaaS?

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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, . build smoother connections both with your prospects through optimized sales process. And from SaaS sales models to SaaS pricing.

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User Pilot

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

User adoption is essential for B2B SaaS companies, as it helps customers to learn about your product, adopt features , stick around, and nurture product growth. And your role at a customer success team? Here are four steps for building a user adoption strategy: Do customer research and create user personas.

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Incredo

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Prologue to SaaS upsell Three months ago when you had only 600 subscribers, you chose a pricing plan that allowed you to send emails to a maximum of 2,000 users. Let’s finally find out what’s the difference and focus on the most rewarding SaaS upselling techniques. Customers that stay committed to your company for years!

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SaaStr

MARCH 13, 2020

Prior to Pipe, Harry co-founded Skurt raising over $11M in the process before being acquired by Fair.com. In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Harry made his way from the UK to founding one of Silicon Valley’s hottest SaaS startups with the founding of Pipe. * Harry has also angel invested in the likes of BreathePod and Try.com.

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ChurnZero

MARCH 22, 2019

Did you know: For every 1% increase in revenue retention, a SaaS company’s valuation increases by 12% after five years? This was just one of the takeaways from our well-attended webinar this week on- Understanding the Real Impact of Improving Retention and Customer Success Best Practices. Q&A Recap.

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Valuize Consulting

AUGUST 17, 2020

Deferred payment terms on subscription renewals, additional discounts, free professional services—these offers might work now, but can you afford to keep applying them next quarter or next year? This distinction between use vs. use that creates measurable value for the customer is critical and too often overlooked.

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Hull

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

We’ve compiled a list of common B2B use cases along with links to our related resources pages with tactical takeaways to get up-and-running in no time. Define your ideal customer profile: A CDP can combine data from many different data sources to give you valuable insight into what your ideal customer looks like and how they may behave.

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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?

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ProfitWell

AUGUST 18, 2020

Reliance told her that she would need to buy-out the remainder of her two years in one lump sum payment, plus the interest the company would lose over those two years, and she would have to pay an additional hefty administration fee too. The administration fee alone totaled nearly three of her monthly payments.

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SmartKarrot

MARCH 8, 2022

In celebration of International Women’s Day, we are honored to present our Top 50 Women Leaders in Customer Success to Follow list for 2022, celebrating 50 influential women leaders and their inspiring stories of strength and success. Her diverse yet unique skills include customer life cycle optimization from pre-sales.

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User Pilot

JULY 6, 2023

It lacks analytics features, customization options, and overall it might not be worth the price for some companies. Get a Userpilot Demo and see how you can effectively measure customer loyalty and satisfaction. We know it’s perfect for customer success and product marketing because we built it for it. Jotform emails.

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User Pilot

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Looking for a good user analytics tool and wondering which one of Heap, Pendo, and Baremetrics is the best option for your SaaS company? In this post, we’ll discuss exactly that – which tool is best for user analytics depending on the different criteria that different SaaS companies may have. Let’s compare them!

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SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2019

In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Vikas made his way into the world of SaaS and came to be at the rocketship that is Kustomer. * Why does Vikas believe that a wave of SaaS incumbents are about to be displaced or disrupted? Why is it so crucial to invest in enablement in the early days? What is a good payback period? *

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

What does Travis advise founders when it comes to uniting customer facing teams? * Why does Travis believe that SaaS has upended the economic model but not the engagement model? How does the engagement model with customer need to shift? Why does Travis believe net retention must always be the guiding North Star?

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ChurnZero

APRIL 15, 2022

Like a magician flexing their psychic power, pinpointing the most ideal time to present your customer with an expansion opportunity can’t be left to intuition. But knowing when customers are primed for expansion isn’t always obvious. SalesIntel is a leading sales intelligence platform and B2B contact data provider.

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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. With so many tools at your disposal, it can be challenging to determine how to best leverage a Customer Success platform and hit the ground running.

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CustomerSuccessBox

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

An average SaaS business spends 92% of their first-year revenue on customer acquisition. In other words, it takes 11 months to pay back their customer acquisition cost. CAC is also known as the cost of convincing a potential customer to buy your product or service. CAC and Customer Success.

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CustomerSuccessBox

JULY 14, 2021

Adoption is the phase where customers get acquainted with your product, integrate it into their workflow and learn ways to use it that maximizes their benefit. Customers only adopt a product if it helps them achieve their goal. Why the Adoption Phase Matters in SaaS. What is a good adoption rate in SaaS?

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Navint

JUNE 25, 2019

What is the right price to maximize revenue, attract new customers, or reduce subscription churn? In a recent discussion with Peter Zotto, the Chief of Staff of the subscription pricing experts ProfitWell , he said the majority of SaaS companies out there today don’t really know the right way to price their SaaS products.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

359: The Secrets to Vertical Growth, What it Really Takes to Build a $1B SaaS Company with Matt Garratt, SVP, Managing Partner @ Salesforce Ventures, Trisha Price, Chief Product Officer @ nCino and David Schmaier, CEO & Founder @ Vlocity. There’s a lot of services. This episode is sponsored by Linode.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 24, 2019

I’m an entrepreneur-turned-investor, co-founder of an early generation one, SaaS company called Message Labs that we founded in 2000. Exited to Semantic in 2008 and had a good exit for the early SaaS businesses then set up Notion and we focus on SaaS companies, mainly in Series A in the European market.

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SmartKarrot

JUNE 2, 2022

Customer experience is crucial for any B2B SaaS business. Any B2B SaaS business must keep the customers with the business with a good customer experience. In fact, a customer experience that satisfies customers leads to reduced churn. 8 Inspiring B2B Customer Experience Examples.

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