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What Bootstrapped Companies Do Better than VC-Backed Ones with Paddle Chief Strategy Officer Patrick Campbell and Senior Product Manager Allissa Chan (Video)

SaaStr

Lever #3: Cancellation flow. Users cancel SaaS products for different reasons: not seeing ROI on their investment, poor customer service, not seeing the value proposition, availability of a cheaper alternative in the market, lack of features, and a buggy product. Feedback collection is the focus here to prevent future churn.

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Dear SaaStr: When Is It Worth Enforcing an Autorenewal Clause if the Customer Doesn’t Want to Pay?

SaaStr

Add an auto-renewal process to your standard contract, bu t allow them to cancel for any reason by providing notice prior to the renewal. So my rough best practice is: Try to get annual contracts for deals > $3k a year, if the customer is OK with it. It can help a lot with cash flow — if you are good at collections.

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Dear SaaStr: My Customer Missed the Deadline for AutoRenewal. How Do I Handle This Situation?

SaaStr

At a business level, remember that a customer that cancels — even late — means you screwed up. Even if they don’t, they might have left for a small reason (e.g. You lost the customer. You didn’t provide enough value to renew. You failed this customer. They might come back later.

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Maybe Every SaaS Contract Should Have An Automatic Out Clause

SaaStr

Maybe in the 2020s, it’s time to stand behind our products more and just let every customer cancel whenever they want. For any or no reason: First, if the customer is unhappy and isn’t going to renew, in the long run it doesn’t matter if they cancel on month 4 or simply don’t renew on month 12.

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The three-step guide to creating a proactive at-risk customer strategy

ChurnZero

This is a guest blog contributed by Stephanie Neale, CEO of Blind Zebra , a sales and client success training company for B2B pros. The first subject line you see is “Cancellation.” There are patterns and universal reasons for cancellations. Don’t stop at just one reason per account. Define churn reasons and signs.

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How to Reduce Customer Churn Rate: 17 Effective Strategies

User Pilot

TL;DR Voluntary churn happens when customers cancel or downgrade their subscriptions while involuntary churn happens when a customer can’t continue using a service for reasons that are partially or entirely out of their control, most of the time related to payment processing issues. Why do customers churn? Payment notification banner.

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Maximize Revenue with the Customer Engagement Model

Subscription Flow

Keeping this new development in the SaaS world in mind, we will be dividing the blog into 2 sections to better help you understand subscriber engagement in general, and then explore ways in which you can devise/tweak your own customer engagement models to increase your business’s overall revenue. The customer’s purchasing behavior 2.