Totango

JUNE 24, 2022

Customer success in SaaS differs from CS in other industries. The software service industry presents unique challenges for customer success management while also creating unique opportunities that call for specific strategies. Read on to learn the keys to effective customer success for SaaS clients.

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Kellblog

JUNE 10, 2021

This is a quick post to share the slides I presented today at the GainSight Pulse Everywhere 2021 conference in a session entitled Net Dollar Retention, Key Benchmarks at $50M, $200M, and $1B in annual recurring revenue (ARR). In the session we discuss: The answer, which is 104%. Median NDR which is surprisingly invariant across size.

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FastSpring

MAY 20, 2024

Moving some, all, or simply more of your software offerings from a one-time perpetual license model to a software as a service (SaaS) subscription model can be daunting, but it’s so powerful for building dependable, recurring revenue. Letting FastSpring handle the subscription infrastructure. Start small with an incremental approach.

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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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Chart Mogul

JULY 6, 2023

We’ll also share the latest benchmarks on negative churn among SaaS businesses. Benchmark your churn metrics against 2100+ SaaS businesses How negative churn causes explosive growth How to achieve net negative revenue churn What is churn? If you want, you can learn more about churn basics and benchmarks on our blog.

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OPEXEngine

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Just as SaaS companies are aware that hosting, professional services, customer support, and third-party licenses, sit squarely in COGs—so too are there continuing questions about whether customer success, sales commissions, and R&D expenses should sit in COGs or should be in OPEX.

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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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SaaStr

MAY 13, 2021

429: In this episode, ProfitWell Founder & CEO Patrick Campbell shares benchmarks from over 23,000 companies and offers a helpful framework to re-evaluate your retention strategy and increase your CLV (Customer Lifetime Value) between 10 and 60%. Patrick Campbell.

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OpenView Labs

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

The value of your contracted subscriptions taking into account revenue added/lost from components such as new sales, renewals, upsells, churn, etc. SaaS expert and consultant Lincoln Murphy reveals why the roots of customer dissatisfaction, attrition, and a high churn rate can often be traced back to problems with your sales process.

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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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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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Chart Mogul

JUNE 1, 2023

Let’s say that of that original group, you retained 300 customers (while 100 customers churned in the last year). So, your customer retention is calculated by dividing 300 by 400. Your customer retention is 75%. In the example below, you can see the percentage of customers retained since April 2022.

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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

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

How can you compare your score to others in your industry, or to any general benchmarks? As a Customer Concierge at Delighted , I spend most of my time talking to companies about their Customer Experience (CX) programs and how to improve them, and I’ve heard these questions from so many of them. External Benchmarks.

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Totango

JANUARY 29, 2021

When your product directly helps your customers achieve their goals, your brand wins their loyalty. Playbooks for customer success managers help drive processes that promote winning client outcomes. What Is a Customer Success Playbook? Why Do You Need Playbooks for Customer Success?

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Kellblog

MARCH 17, 2022

Earlier this week I appeared on a webinar with You Mon Tsang , founder and CEO of ChurnZero , a SaaS application aimed at helping subscription businesses reduce churn. How it differs for new customer and expansion ARR. Benchmarks for many of these metrics from the KeyBanc 2021 SaaS Survey. LTV/CAC ratio.

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Payrix

MAY 14, 2024

Before joining Worldpay for Platforms, he was CRO at Chargebee, a subscription revenue management platform that manages billing subscriptions and payments for companies throughout the world. I mean, we have a PayFac customer right now, that’s transitioning their whole payments model.

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OpenView Labs

DECEMBER 8, 2021

What was once an upfront investment with clear-cut milestones and handoffs between Sales and Customer Success (“CS”) is now a continuous and complex journey where the initial contract is just a company’s metaphorical foot in the door to a larger expansion opportunity (and bulk of the future revenue). Background on Customer Success.

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Totango

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

A customer success strategy is a proactive plan for guiding your clients to outcomes that satisfy their needs. When your customers enjoy more value, your product adoption rates rise and customer retention rates go up. This promotes success for your company as well as your customers.

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CustomerSuccessBox

JULY 19, 2021

We all live in a subscription economy today. We are no longer in the ownership economy, which basically means that you don’t have customers who are purchasing your product but rather you have subscribers who are renting or subscribing to your product or service. These are Top Customer Success Statistics in 2021.

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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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User Pilot

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

TL;DR While churn rate vs retention rate measures two different aspects of the customer journey, the goal for both is the same: to routinely track and improve them. The churn rate refers to the percentage of customers discontinuing their subscriptions during a given time period. Customer Churn Rate Formula.

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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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Payments Payment Solutions Customer Success Software Review 87

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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FastSpring

AUGUST 11, 2020

When it comes to software and online purchases, those transactions are increasingly moving to a subscription-based model, where customers put their purchases on autopilot so they can have continuous access to SaaS products. Subscription services are what customers want. How to move to a subscription revenue model.

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ChurnZero

MAY 8, 2020

Customer Success is a relatively new discipline and has not faced a major economic event such as COVID-19. We all know Customer Success professionals who have been laid off or furloughed. Speakers: Mikael Blaisdell , Executive Director, The Customer Success Association. are built into this model.

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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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ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

There are a lot of moving parts when it comes to ensuring your subscription business stays healthy. Find out why SaaS analytics are important, which to track, and which tools are best for your subscription business. Find out why SaaS analytics are important, which to track, and which tools are best for your subscription business.

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SaaS Payments Subscription Payment Features Technical Review 85

ChurnZero

MAY 15, 2020

As an emerging discipline, Customer Success has not experienced a global health or financial crisis during its relatively brief lifetime. Facing massive economic instability for the first time, Customer Success teams had to devise crisis preparedness and communication plans as well as customer retention strategies to minimize churn.

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ChurnZero

MARCH 18, 2022

They also discussed the impact of these metrics on your plans as a Customer Success professional and your company overall. Key SaaS and Customer Success metrics you should care about. What boards and investors expect from your Customer Success organization. Customer Success around the web.

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Totango

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

We believe in data-driven, proactive customer success that lets you take control of your churn risk and strengthen your customer relationships. Reducing churn in this customer-centered subscription economy means placing the customer at the center of everything you do. Maintaining customer success efforts.

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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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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

APRIL 24, 2024

If you want to ensure customers renew each time, continue reading ahead. In this article, we’ll share everything you need to know for increasing customer renewals. TL;DR SaaS renewals includes the process of renewing a subscription to an online-hosted software service. Why is SaaS renewal management important?

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OPEXEngine

JULY 1, 2022

For these reasons, it is critical to compare your acquisition and retention costs against benchmarks that are fine-tuned to companies with very similar business models. Comparing CAC to Customer Success Expense. Compare the above benchmarks to those for vendors selling contracts with ACVs averaging about $110,000/year.

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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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Totango

AUGUST 23, 2017

Customer Success Summit is the industry-leading conference on customer success because it brings together experienced customer success professionals and industry thought-leaders, as well as research institutes for industry benchmarking. To that end, one of the keynotes from #CSSummit17 was Thomas E.

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