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A Guide to Customer Retention: Importance, Strategies & Metrics

User Pilot

Customer retention is vital for product success and business profitability. You will also learn how to build a retention strategy, what metrics to track, and 10 bulletproof retention tactics for SaaS companies. TL;DR Customer retention is the ability to keep your customers actively using their products. 5-25 times.

Retention 111
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Benchmarking Zoom's S-1:How 7 Key Metrics Stack Up

Tom Tunguz

The innovation results in higher quality calls. If we examine net dollar retention, the current value of last year’s cohort today net of churn and gross of expansion, we see Zoom is in the top decile at 140%. He and his team authored a new codec, which is far more resilient than others.

Metrics 277
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How to Bring Agile Innovation to Customer Success

Totango

When you bring agile innovation to customer success , you empower your CS strategy with the latest technology. Then we’ll lay out seven steps to bring agile innovation to customer success. Why Bring Agile Innovation to Customer Success? 7 Steps to Bring Agile Innovation to Customer Success. Define how to measure success.

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Benchmarking and Budgeting Go Hand in Hand

OPEXEngine

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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State of the Cloud 2023 with Bessemer Venture Partners (Video + Podcast)

SaaStr

Discover Bessemer Venture Partners’s annual State of the Cloud report, going through trends, benchmarks, and metrics that underpin the Cloud economy. So they came up with a North Star benchmark, used it as a hurdle rate by channel, and any channels that hit that benchmark would justify a continued investment. email reports)?

Cloud 233
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How to Create a Customer Advocacy Strategy for SaaS Companies

User Pilot

You will find out what customer advocacy is, how it improves retention and other key metrics, and learn about different types of customer advocacy programs and how to build them. This, combined with their high loyalty and retention , drives product growth. Keep innovating to add value to the product and maintain the competitive edge.

Scale 85
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Thanks to Cyvatar, Pacific Western Bank, Upzelo, UserGems, and Younium for Sponsoring SaaStr Annual 2023!

SaaStr

We track your progress and provide monthly executive level reporting on achievement against industry-recognized benchmarks and best practices. Upzelo helps you fight churn and increase retention through real-time data, customised offers and better customer feedback. We are not like other banks.

Banking 221