ProfitWell

MARCH 23, 2020

There are a few key metrics that all subscription businesses should be completely on top of. Churn is the make or break of your subscription business. Churn is defined as the moment when a subscription ends and renewal does not happen, or when a customer cancels. The efficiency of your sales and marketing team.

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User Pilot

MARCH 9, 2023

The key causes of customer churn are poor customer support , buggy product, wrong product-market fit, bad user experience, poor onboarding process, high pricing, and long time-to-value. Bad customer support: One bad experience with your customer support team can push customers to consider leaving your product.

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Totango

OCTOBER 20, 2021

You can then develop standard procedures for helping customers achieve these outcomes, such as providing tutorials and support to guide new buyers through these steps. Renewal : Customers decide whether the value they’re deriving from your product warrants renewing their subscription and continuing their relationship with you.

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SaaSOptics

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

Based on a 2019 survey, Gartner forecasts that eighty-four percent of new software will be delivered as SaaS , and this percentage is expected to increase as existing providers transition to a subscription-based model. The main difference between accounting for a subscription vs. a traditional business is the method used.

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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. Source: OpenView Expansion SaaS Benchmarks Report . How to calculate CAC.

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User Pilot

OCTOBER 10, 2022

In this article, we’ll cover the key metrics you need to develop an informed feature adoption strategy and discuss how you can improve them. Feature adoption allows you to separate the successful features from the underperforming ones. Uncover weak spots and improve feature adoption. We’ve got you covered! Time to adopt.

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User Pilot

JULY 14, 2024

It can be helpful when conducting market research and developing a targeted marketing strategy to reach potential customers. If we take the same project management example, you can divide users based on whether they need your tool for individual task management, team collaboration, or complex project tracking.

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Baremetrics

OCTOBER 18, 2021

These industrious developers have even developed apps to calculate, track, and project all manner of metrics for Shopify shopkeepers, in addition to apps targeted at every other need imaginable. MRR is the amount of money you bring in monthly from subscriptions. Baremetrics monitors subscription revenue for Shopify Partners.

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ChurnZero

AUGUST 14, 2020

And by virtue of that, it’s essential that Customer Success software – like a Customer Success team – plays well with the others it works alongside if the customer is to truly come first. Bad satisfaction rating” alert so CSMs can immediately reach out to frustrated customers who cite having a poor experience. Who owns it?

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User Pilot

JANUARY 16, 2024

Perform a SWOT analysis, identify the strengths and weaknesses of your top competing products, etc. You may want to learn who your top competitors are, their value proposition , and their weaknesses. Can you help me with a list of the top 3 competitors in this space, their value propositions, and their weaknesses?

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Buffer Resources

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Consumers can purchase mascara on a whim, but they won’t casually drop hundreds of dollars for a yearly subscription to a B2B tool. A B2B purchase is rarely for just one person; a whole team uses the tool. SDR = Sales Development Rep. Check our social media benchmarks guide.

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Kellblog

MAY 10, 2020

Slide 1: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly. If you say we did $3,350K (see below) in new ARR in 1Q20, I don’t necessarily know if that’s good or bad. Moving to the next block we start by showing the ending period quota-carrying sales reps (QCRs) and code-writing developers (DEVs). What do I mean by context?

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ProfitWell

MARCH 27, 2019

On this episode of the ProfitWell Report, Sarah Bedrick , Co-Founder and Head of Marketing at Compt , is curious to know if we have any data on how open offices impact subscription growth. We studied just over one thousand subscription and SaaS companies who had teams that were co-located in the same location. Click to enlarge.

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User Pilot

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

After receiving the NPS data, product marketers should factor in performance trends, next focus topics, benchmarking, and segmentation. SaaS business models depend on repeat subscriptions, making it crucial for companies to retain as many customers as possible. Why do you need an NPS dashboard? NPS bar chart.

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Totango

OCTOBER 20, 2021

You can then develop standard procedures for helping customers achieve these outcomes, such as providing tutorials and support to guide new buyers through these steps. Renewal : Customers decide whether the value they’re deriving from your product warrants renewing their subscription and continuing their relationship with you.

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Baremetrics

OCTOBER 9, 2021

But what happens if your churn rate is significantly higher than what your direct competitors are benchmarking? In other words, if you fixed the specific issue(s) that made customers in that bracket leave, would their collective LTV justify the additional costs in development and overhead? What can you do to reverse this trend?

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Valuize Consulting

DECEMBER 7, 2021

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). When it comes to budget, organizations often haven’t established where the investment is coming from to fund the CS team.

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User Pilot

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

Customer service KPIs measure the performance of customer service teams and customer support management. You should track customer service KPIs to measure the performance of your support teams, improve customer satisfaction, and boost customer retention and loyalty. Measure the performance of your support team.

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Valuize Consulting

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Weaknesses in each, such as maintaining relevance and currency, are compounded by poor data hygiene, cross-organizational friction, and varied levels of organizational capability and maturity throughout their companies. This is particularly important in the subscription economy, where recurring revenue models prevail.

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User Pilot

AUGUST 31, 2023

You’ll find a number of auto-collected events that are mainly for marketing and conversion purposes such as: click impression session subscription in-app purchases download Auto-collected events in GA4. The tool is still under development, so there are a number of known issues that can cause problems for users. Heap pricing.

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Totango

OCTOBER 20, 2021

You can then develop standard procedures for helping customers achieve these outcomes, such as providing tutorials and support to guide new buyers through these steps. Renewal : Customers decide whether the value they’re deriving from your product warrants renewing their subscription and continuing their relationship with you.

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Baremetrics

AUGUST 1, 2021

Speaking with respect to the SaaS customer acquisition costs industry benchmark , here's what the data tells us: Ideal LTV:CAC Ratio: Growing SaaS businesses should aim for a ratio of 3:1 or higher, considering that a higher ratio translates to greater sales and better marketing ROI. for leads at each stage of your funnel.

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Subscription Flow

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

However, in the case of a bad checkout experience, there are many other retailers for eCommerce customers to go to. How to Add Paystack to Shopify with SubscriptionFlow With our state-of-the-art subscription management technology, SubscriptionFlow, integrating Paystack into your Shopify store is a breeze.

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User Pilot

OCTOBER 20, 2022

This helps you develop strategies to increase customer retention and reduce churn. NPS benchmarks. Although an NPS score above 0 means you have more happy customers than not, it’s recommended to check industry benchmarks to set targets for what score you want to achieve and which competitors to beat.

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Baremetrics

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Sean Ellis, who ran growth in the early days of Dropbox, LogMeIn, and Eventbrite benchmarked nearly a hundred startups with his customer development survey. Bad pricing practices are easy excuses for customers to cancel. Guessing is a bad strategy. survey User Churn and Revenue Churn Quick Ratio.

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ProfitWell

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

In the subscription-based pricing model, customers pay on a regular basis for continued use of a service or product. SaaS companies tend to face five major problem areas when it comes to growth: Poor unit economics. Poor user retention. Poor MRR retention. Poor acquisition volume. Poor conversion.

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User Pilot

JANUARY 15, 2021

You need to make sure they are SMART, quantitative and benchmarked. 51% of people will never return to a company that they’ve had a bad experience with. Bear in mind, there are likely to be a lot of stakeholders in your business outside the product team who deserve to be consulted at this stage of the KPI setting process.

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Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Benchmarks across the PLG user journey The hardest part of PLG might actually be… marketing?! We trust leaders to make decisions on what tools they need to get the most out of their teams. Software subscriptions are the life of every SaaS business and must be accounted for properly in your general ledger. Forget about Threads.

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ChurnZero

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Even worse, since the subscription starts at signature, they were stuck paying for two products. Second, no professional services team existed yet. That means the company was dependent on the development team to deliver those customizations. How did things get to that point? Finally, these features werent on the roadmap.

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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. Source: OpenView Expansion SaaS Benchmarks Report. How to calculate CAC.

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OpenView Labs

MAY 13, 2021

That’s why, in a customer segmentation process like the one described in this guide, it’s critical to develop customer segment hypotheses and variables, and then validate them with a well-developed, scientific research process. Stakeholders: The senior staff from the various departments and teams (e.g.,

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User Pilot

AUGUST 15, 2021

It helps you understand what your customers value most and guides your product development efforts and in-app onboarding process. are you converting trial users to paying customers at a lower rate than the industry benchmarks ? By replicating the good and improving on the bad you can turn disengaged users into power users.

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Baremetrics

JANUARY 24, 2021

Anyone managing a SaaS or subscription business is aware of customer churn. This is when the good stuff starts to happen within a subscription business In this post I’m going to share the strategy and steps we followed to reduce our monthly customer churn by over 70%, and explain how we positioned Nudge Coach for efficient, long-term growth.

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User Pilot

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

SaaS – by definition – works on a subscription model. They can uncover use cases that you hadn’t anticipated, pointing you towards future developments that will fulfill the needs of wider and different audiences. The team quickly traced the issue down to…the people whom they once thought were the “power users”.

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ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Building a strong pricing strategy starts with hiring a professional team to conduct a pricing audit. A pricing audit assesses your subscription business’ pricing process to ensure consistency across similar accounts, maximize profitability, and benchmark against other companies. Identify weaknesses and opportunities.

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OPEXEngine

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Did the new training program for Business Development Reps result in better conversion rates. 1 dollar in S & M spending achieves $1 net new revenue is not a great result – for all the efforts of your sales and marketing teams, you are just covering their cost. Magic Number.

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ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Keeping your customers as long as possible is the key to running a sustainable subscription business. Align team incentives around retention. Sales teams like to track dollars in the bank each month. Meanwhile, product teams are busy tracking how many features they've delivered and story points they've completed.

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