ChurnZero

MARCH 18, 2022

With so many SaaS metrics floating around, and even more opinions on when and how to use them, it can be hard to know if you’re measuring what really matters. Leading SaaS expert, Dave Kellogg, and ChurnZero CEO, You Mon Tsang, sat down to answer all the questions you want to know about SaaS metrics like ARR, NRR, GRR, LTV, and CAC (i.e.,

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Subscription Flow

JANUARY 5, 2024

While the importance of SaaS B2B metrics has already been covered to death, what has not been covered in as much detail is the whisking out of important B2B SaaS product metrics from the unimportant ones. Read more: The Most Important Metrics to Secure SaaS Funding in 2024 What are B2B SaaS product metrics?

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CustomerSuccessBox

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Customer Success has become a must for every SaaS business with the advent of the subscription economy. But just having a customer success department does not solve issues with your churn rate, customer lifetime value, retention rate, or MRR/ARR. It starts by understanding why customer success is important.

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ChurnZero

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

This is a guest post by Sara Barnes , vice president of Customer Success at Skilljar. Every Customer Success team focuses on keeping customers engaged and ultimately, preventing churn. In fact, customer education helps scale Customer Success , as the company scales business. .

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ChurnZero

AUGUST 14, 2020

At ChurnZero, we’re humble enough to admit that Customer Success software can’t do it all, and quite frankly, it shouldn’t. We stick to our circle of competence and focus on our area of expertise: Customer Success software. It’s Customer Success for us. Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Software.

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ChurnZero

JUNE 24, 2022

In our webinar, 2022 SaaS retention benchmarks , SaaS Capital Manager Director Rob Belcher shares the results from their 11th annual B2B SaaS benchmarking survey. You can download the full report for net retention and gross retention benchmarks as well as retention metrics in relation to ACV, growth, size, and more.

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User Pilot

APRIL 29, 2024

Mastering SaaS renewals’ best practices can transform a routine administrative task into a strategic opportunity to drive customer success and propel your business toward sustainable growth. Use interactive walkthroughs to drive customer success. Offer self-service support to improve customer satisfaction.

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SaaS Payments Business SaaS Payment Solutions 80

FastSpring

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Customers are so used to free trials, they have almost come to expect it from a new service. Netflix, for example, markets free trials heavily because their data shows that they work, retaining about one in three people for a subscription. Benchmark Growth with Measurable Metrics. Implement Recurring Payments.

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Valuize Consulting

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Level Up Your Customer Success Organization. In the subscription economy, there’s no debate about whether or not to invest in Customer Success (CS); 70% of rapidly growing businesses say that Customer Success is extremely important ( Hubspot , 2017). The fourth challenge is complexity.

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OPEXEngine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

In working with hundreds and hundreds of SaaS CFOs over the past 15 years, I’ve noticed that effective and strategic CFOs incorporate accurate benchmarking into the daily business of the company and especially into the budgeting and planning process. . Use Benchmarks At the Start of the Budgeting Process.

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User Pilot

JANUARY 19, 2023

Do you want to measure your product’s success using quantitative metrics? You need to have a solid understanding of key quantitative metrics if you want to focus on and improve essential aspects of SaaS businesses like success measurement and customer retention. What are quantitative metrics?

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User Pilot

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Both metrics are important to track if you want to implement a successful product retention strategy. In this article, we will cover: Formulas to calculate each of these metrics. Other important metrics related to churn and retention efforts. There are two types of churn to look out for: customer churn and revenue churn.

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 12, 2014

This post is part of a continuing series evaluating the S-1s of publicly traded SaaS companies in order to better understand the core business and build a library of benchmarks that might be useful to founders. Today, we’ll explore one of the enterprise behemoths, both in market cap and average revenue per customer: WorkDay.

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User Pilot

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Looking for the right product engagement metrics to track and see how well users are interacting with your product? As a product manager, you need to track product engagement metrics as it allows you to measure user engagement and find ways to deliver more value to your daily active users. Ready to get started? Let’s go!

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Chart Mogul

MARCH 23, 2023

Are you effectively expanding revenue from your existing customer base? If you’re unsure, check your retention metrics. Gross revenue retention (GRR) and net revenue retention (NRR) are the key metrics to understand how well … How good is your business at retaining customers?

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 18, 2020

With each passing year the Customer Success industry matures and meets new challenges along the way, and this year has been nothing short of challenging in many ways. . Q&A Recap: Speakers: Megan Macaluso , VP Customer Success & Operations, ESG. Jay Nathan , Chief Customer Officer, Higher Logic.

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Tom Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2014

This post is part of a continuing series evaluating the S-1s of publicly traded SaaS companies in order to better understand the core business and build a library of benchmarks that might be useful to founders. Tableau sells software the old-fashioned way, with perpetual licenses not subscriptions.

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User Pilot

MAY 17, 2021

With so many product growth insights available to every product marketer, it’s sometimes hard to understand which metrics are relevant and which you should be tracking to measure the success of your product marketing. What is a Product Marketing KPI metric? How to measure Product Marketing success?

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OPEXEngine

JUNE 11, 2020

You hear the terms SaaS, subscription, term licenses and perpetual license software tossed around frequently. At OPEXEngine, we pull apart the different nuances of each business model to make sure we are benchmarking companies correctly. The product is hosted by the vendor or a 3 rd party (like AWS).

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OpenView Labs

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

45% of expansion stage SaaS companies now say they have a usage-based or consumption-based pricing model, according to data from OpenView’s forthcoming 2021 Finance and Operations benchmarks report. . In a pure consumption-based or pay-as-you-go model, every day the customer is making a decision about whether to use a product.

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Kellblog

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The first slide is focused on the ARR leaky bucket, metrics derived from ARR, and ARR-related product.ivity measures. Slide 1: The Leaky Bucket of ARR and Related Metrics. Not to be confused with cash conversion score which is defined as an inception-to-date metric, not a period metric. Expansion ARR as % of new ARR.

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User Pilot

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Our guide explores: What exactly CAC payback is Why you should be tracking it How to calculate the CAC payback period for your SaaS What other metrics you need to track How to reduce your CAC payback period We also look at how Userpilot can help you do the job. First, calculating the actual customer acquisition costs is quite challenging.

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Baremetrics

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Confused about customer churn vs. revenue churn? Churn means lost money or lost customers. These metrics help you understand two different things: Customer churn — the number of people you've lost. Customer churn = customers lost. But which of these churn metrics should you use? Get started for free.

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CustomerSuccessBox

JULY 14, 2021

Generally, a subscription-based business, renewals, and recurring payments hold the key values. If paying customers aren’t fully utilizing your software, they will cancel or not renew their subscription. There are several key metrics using which you can calculate your adoption rate.

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FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

But our customer relationships can also be strengthened by giving members additional access to those of us at FastSpring. FastSpring already offers a diverse, responsive support team for customers and their buyers, and we have customer success managers for some of our customers with particularly large or complex businesses.

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OpenView Labs

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

This week we released our third annual Expansion SaaS Benchmarks report. But benchmarks alone are not enough. We’ve got to make the leap from benchmarks to action. Here’s our advice on how to use the benchmark data to grow even faster in 2020. One simple metric I use is the expected ARR per opportunity in a segment.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

What is Customer Success and why do you need it? Gain a new customer, you increase revenue. What happens when you lose more customers than you gain? It may happen sooner or later, but failure is the only prospect a business faces when customer loyalty plunges. Guide overview: What is Customer Success?

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Totango

AUGUST 25, 2022

SaaS customer engagement strategies promote higher engagement, more successful outcomes, and more satisfying experiences. It increases customer satisfaction and loyalty, driving higher subscription renewal rates, reduced churn, and more sales from upsells and referrals. The key metric here is churn.

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SmartKarrot

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Role: VP of Customer Success (Remote) Location: Remote, Arlington, VA, US Organization: PeopleGrove As a VP of Customer Success, you will hire, onboard, retain, and develop a world-class remote customer success team. Renew and upgrade subscriptions of clients according to customer’s current need.

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Totango

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Your customer’s complete journey includes every step in their interaction with your brand, from the time they first become aware of your company and products through their initial experience as a customer to their reflection on their experience when they consider whether to renew their subscription or promote you to others.

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OPEXEngine

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

If there is one thing I have learned in my decades of building businesses, it is that KPIs are most useful if you are clear about the goal of the metric. Customer success, even if it sits in sales, is not associated with acquiring new customers, and its expenses should not be included in CAC.

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CustomerSuccessBox

JUNE 30, 2022

Reflecting on the fact that customer retention is the backbone of SaaS. This eventually translates into the importance of keeping track of the User Adoption Rate , especially when you’re running a subscription-based business model. The elements of User Adoption Success Metrics. User Adoption Rate benchmarks in SaaS.

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ChurnZero

JUNE 19, 2020

During the webinar, we discussed: How customer retention impacts the valuation of your company. How Customer Success can effectively drive retention. What data you need to get the investment in your Customer Success team. Now, it’s the recurring stream that’s related to the subscription revenue.

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SaaS Payments Retention Metrics Payment Solutions 72

Totango

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Your customer’s complete journey includes every step in their interaction with your brand, from the time they first become aware of your company and products through their initial experience as a customer to their reflection on their experience when they consider whether to renew their subscription or promote you to others.

Scale 72

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Benchmarks Onboarding 72

Totango

AUGUST 18, 2022

Describing where to access self-service and customer support tools. Educating the customer on how your platform can support their business goals. Ensuring a smooth handoff between the Onboarding Team to the Customer Success Team. Your team and your customers don’t have to guess what happens next.

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User Pilot

DECEMBER 9, 2021

And should you care about improving this retention metric? While getting new customers is important, retaining existing customers is much easier and less costly. Net Revenue Retention (NRR) is a SaaS metric that calculates the percentage of revenue retained from existing customers over a specific period of time.

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Totango

MAY 6, 2021

We’ll discuss what customer retention means as a concept, as a strategy and as a metric. And we’ll offer an eight-step path to increasing customer retention by following best practices and leveraging the power of automation. In other words, the more often your customers renew, the better your customer retention.

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