ChurnZero

OCTOBER 5, 2022

This is a guest blog contributed by Emily Ryan, chief client officer at Valuize , a B2B consulting company that helps industry-leading technology organizations supercharge their customer lifecycle to drive best-in-class net dollar retention. The key to making your scorecard valuable is to develop a customer health score scale.

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User Pilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

TL;DR Regular roadmaps kill outcomes by forcing teams to think in the categories of features and timelines. It’s difficult to implement outcome-based roadmaps because stakeholders don’t trust product teams to deliver on business goals. Many companies lack differentiation strategies and drive product development by copying competitors.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

In B2B sales orgs, you’ll encounter two common models of the journey from prospect to closed deal. There’s sales pipeline , a 7-stage journey describing what your sales team must do to convert a lead to a customer. For your team, the goal is to share more information about your products without appearing overly promotional.

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Chargify

MARCH 25, 2019

Recurring subscriptions are becoming the norm in the business world, and for good reason. Subscription services give the end user control over costs and employee access, without the cumbersome contracts. But some software-as-a-service (SaaS) companies struggle with how to sell subscriptions.

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CustomerSuccessBox

MARCH 10, 2022

To deliver the service to the clients which a company’s sales team laid out has a real thing to deal with. If not met, it’s just up for a downfall while creating a poor experience for the clients. Developing and managing the protocols of client service processes. Training the team to meet the goals set. How to become one?

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FastSpring

APRIL 26, 2022

Last week, I canceled an annual SaaS subscription (I had three weeks left until renewal). Interestingly, even though I paid for a year-long subscription, the company didn’t let me keep the last three weeks of access to its premium features. This action will immediately downgrade your subscription. What Is Negative Churn?

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SaaSOptics

MAY 19, 2022

For subscription-based SaaS businesses, your customer acquisition metrics indicate how effectively you acquire new users via sales, marketing, or a product-led approach like a free trial. Below, we’ll dive into how to develop a customer acquisition strategy from start to finish. . How to Develop a Customer Acquisition Strategy.

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Totango

JULY 18, 2018

Customers often turn to Customer Service or Customer Support teams for help throughout the customer journey. With the right tools, Customer Support teams can become agents of Customer Success, and their work can lead to increased customer satisfaction, customer retention, and bottom-line growth.

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Chart Mogul

OCTOBER 3, 2019

This is where the value of subscription metrics comes to the fore — and specifically the customer acquisition cost (CAC) and the customer lifetime value (LTV). Every team has their own slightly different way of calculating the cost of customer acquisition. Poor distribution — not product — is the number one cause of failure.

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User Pilot

MARCH 15, 2022

Focusing on the proper metrics at this stage is crucial to how successful or bad your GTM plan will be. This go-to-market plan is used by product marketers and their team to ensure you smoothly launch your product to the right customers at the right time and stand out from the competition already existing in the market. GTM strategy.

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Chart Mogul

APRIL 29, 2021

We spend most of our waking hours thinking about how to build a reliable, beautiful product that helps subscription businesses grow faster using their customer and billing data. And importantly, our retention rate for these customers is high. We decided to focus our efforts exclusively on our best-fit customers: B2B SaaS.

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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? You can listen to the full vodcast here.

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CustomerSuccessBox

MAY 25, 2022

Customer retention is an essential component of any successful B2B SaaS firm. You’ll see higher retention and upsell with a good and well-planned onboarding strategy in place. You’ll see higher retention and upsell with a good and well-planned onboarding strategy in place. Do not overwhelm them with facts.

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Chart Mogul

APRIL 29, 2021

We spend most of our waking hours thinking about how to build a reliable, beautiful product that helps subscription businesses grow faster using their customer and billing data. And importantly, our retention rate for these customers is high. We decided to focus our efforts exclusively on our best-fit customers: B2B SaaS.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

One of our mantras here at Intercom is that customer retention is the new conversion. In an era when more and more businesses adopt a subscription model, strong customer retention is the key to sustainable long-term growth and requires a laser-like focus. . The ultimate goal is retention, not activation.

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Chart Mogul

OCTOBER 3, 2019

This is where the value of subscription metrics comes to the fore — and specifically the customer acquisition cost (CAC) and the customer lifetime value (LTV). Every team has their own slightly different way of calculating the cost of customer acquisition. Poor distribution — not product — is the number one cause of failure.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

And by focusing on the paths that help people reach those outcomes, you’ll unlock not only higher customer satisfaction but better conversion and retention rates and, ultimately, revenue. Samuel Hulick: I actually started as a full stack developer. Take pancakes, for example. And it was basically my job to make it clickable.

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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

If B2B SaaS were on a dating site, it’d be looking for a lifelong commitment; a scary thought for potential suitors when there are plenty more fish in the sea. With fierce competitors vying for your customers’ hand in subscription, you need to show them you care—and not just about their income ( goal diggers wanted). This is important.”

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SmartKarrot

JULY 14, 2020

The B2B Tech world is booming with SaaS business models. The SaaS business model is basically a subscription-based service. You will only have to worry about the recurring payments, which is otherwise known as MRR, monthly recurring revenue. Factors Favouring B2B Technology SaaS Now.

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Chart Mogul

APRIL 24, 2019

Here she shares her thoughts on setting mobile growth strategy, measuring success, and of course, key subscription metrics for teams with mobile apps. GetResponse provides an all-in-one online marketing platform for teams that need to build landing pages, send emails, run webinars, and more. A bit of background. Enter mobile.

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SmartKarrot

DECEMBER 24, 2021

In a few years, we have seen lots of B2B SaaS businesses flourish. Running a B2B SaaS business requires a shift in metrics that founders rely upon. Most people run their SaaS business just like any other B2B business. After developing a hypothesis, you can test it by launching a Minimum Value Product (MVP).

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SmartKarrot

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

To develop excellent customer experiences , consultants have worked hard to assist businesses in recognizing the magnitude of customer scores. The objective is to develop a strong customer base. The foundation of your customer health score is determined by the objective your team is aiming for using the customer success health score.

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SmartKarrot

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

To develop excellent customer experiences , consultants have worked hard to assist businesses in recognizing the magnitude of customer scores. The objective is to develop a strong customer base. The foundation of your customer health score is determined by the objective your team is aiming for using the customer success health score.

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SaaStr

JUNE 4, 2019

I actually worked in sales for five and a half years and that’s probably why I have tended to gravitate to B2B marketing. So, they’re a B2B piece. You have to be listening to customer feedback and incorporating that as you’re developing your messaging, your positioning, your product names.

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FastSpring

JANUARY 27, 2022

Note: FastSpring offers advanced subscription management services that support free trials, monthly and annual paid plans, proration, discount management, and more. How Castos upsells subscription tiers. His podcast hosting company uses data analytics that looks at which users are most likely to grow out of their current subscriptions.

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SaaStr

MARCH 20, 2020

Before Slack, Rachel spent 4 years at LinkedIn where she led the product marketing team for content experiences. Before Slack, Rachel spent four years at LinkedIn, where she led the product marketing team for content experiences. And so that’s when I went to Slack to start their growth marketing team.

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Totango

JULY 1, 2022

For B2B SaaS companies, customer loyalty drives subscription renewals and brand advocacy, making it a critical component of a profitable business model. This blog will look at why customer loyalty is vital for B2B SaaS businesses and how successful companies effectively cultivate it. What Is Customer Loyalty?

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ChurnZero

MARCH 20, 2020

Additional research showed that “[M]any of its Customer Success Managers fell short in this area, despite their technical backgrounds because they lacked the recent field experience needed to engage deeply with frontline operations teams.” Morgan advises that “Change agents need to develop a strong voice.” Be Data-Minded.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 15, 2018

If you missed episode 28, check it out here: PODCAST 28: How High Growth SaaS Companies Build and Lead Sales Teams w/ Chris Degnan. When you should be focusing on gross retention vs. net retention. Gross Retention vs. Net Retention [25:55]. Aircall is a phone system designed for the modern sales team.

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Point Nine Land

JUNE 18, 2023

In fact, it’s almost impossible to get a really good understanding of a service’s usage without looking at activity and retention numbers on a cohort-by-cohort basis. By conducting a cohort analysis, you can track customer behavior, retention, churn, and revenue over time. Should I look at churn or retention cohorts?

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

An Accenture study found that the cost of customer attrition due to poor customer service in the U.S. That’s because for a Customer Success team, satisfaction is just the minimum. Like many other organizational units, B2B Marketing has evolved as the business landscape shifted towards a buyer-centric model. Cross-team members.

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ChurnZero

JULY 12, 2019

Perhaps product problems, loss of a key user in the account, a bad use case… Sure, these are some reasons why customers may churn, but the reality is that your churn rate is deeply connected to the quality of onboarding journey your users go through. Do you need to improve team communication? Check Slack. Online meetings?

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Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

We trust leaders to make decisions on what tools they need to get the most out of their teams. Guide to SaaS Revenue Recognition and Deferred Revenue in SaaS by Ben Murray, The SaaS CFO SaaS revenue recognition is an ongoing priority for SaaS accounting teams. Keep an eye out as we will be making regular updates.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2019

Here’s what Eyal and Megan talk about: How to develop software faster. But I think what it boils down to is also how newer technology is being developed and the ability for it to inter-operate with other platforms. This podcast is an excerpt of Eyal and Megan’s session at SaaStr Annual 2019. Missed the session?

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Incredo

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Why software reviews are your best friends and why you need them? #1 Bad reviews teach, good reviews sell Not all of your reviews will be positive. Bad reviews point out to your weaknesses, helping you better your customer support, product, onboarding, whatever issue they address.

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CustomerSuccessBox

APRIL 9, 2021

Why choosing the right Customer Retention Software has become so important for B2B SaaS Business? To know the answer, let’s have an overview of how customer retention works for B2B SaaS Business. With the Subscription economy, customers require very few upfront costs, and contracts are simple and for a shorter duration.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Before Optimizely, Travis spent 6 years at Salesforce in a number of sales roles including building the first Platform Sales team. What does Travis advise founders when it comes to uniting customer facing teams? * Why does Travis believe net retention must always be the guiding North Star? Loving our podcast content?

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