Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

It allows for a leaner web team structure without sacrificing feature velocity, and truly gives developers the freedom to build for customer value, instead of managing infrastructure. About a year ago, we started seeing Upstash show up as a popular key-value store choice for new applications.

Investment 106

Investment DevOps as a Service AI Search Application Development 106

SaaStr

JUNE 9, 2023

And second, value the best sales execs. And finally, realize once you get a great pitch down, and really do your homework, and really add value — you’re not being a pest. And finally, realize once you get a great pitch down, and really do your homework, and really add value — you’re not being a pest.

Startup 243

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Totango

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Totango, customer success software your business can’t outgrow, provides unlimited scalability and unmatched time to value that helps cross-functional enterprise teams drive productivity, retention, and expansion. Our aim has been to provide our team with far more visibility and actionability with respect to data, both internally (i.e.,

Business 103

Business Software Review Technical Review Retention 103

SaaStr

JUNE 20, 2021

When it came to pricing, Klaviyo decided to pursue a value-based model instead of a cost-based model. Says Bialecki, “We realized that a lot of companies looked at their customers as transactional…they didn’t realize the value of either pre-purchase or post-purchase, that relationship.”. Key Takeaways.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

It’s a gift of a lifetime to be in a position to help founders and their executive teams realize their dream of building and scaling a successful company. I find that way of framing the value prop helps founders hone their vision for their products. #4. What’s the #1 bit of advice you’d give to SaaS founders today?

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SaaStr

APRIL 10, 2023

They began thinking about this segment because they realized they needed to properly engage their startups. After getting this customer segment through the front door, work on driving lifetime value and offering reasons for startups to stay and grow. However, they realized the usage hit a ceiling, and they hoped to drive usage up.

Startup 195

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SaaStr

APRIL 3, 2024

Jennifer emphasized the importance of having the right motives and values as a leader, such as growing people, expanding markets, and building value for others, to sustain long-term success. But the real value is surfacing deep context that helps humans to do incredible things at a much faster rate. How do you go long in SaaS?

Generative AI 224

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SaaStr

APRIL 21, 2023

Take your top 10 biggest, most engaged customers who derive the most value from your company and love you. As with webinars, blog posts, and everything else, this requires consistency. If you do a webinar, swap with your partner every 3-4 weeks and bring them real value. Now, go find 30 other prospects exactly like them.

Outsourcing Services 188

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Blulogix

MARCH 20, 2024

It’s an opportunity to reaffirm value, fortify relationships, and drive predictable revenue. Recurring & Usage Billing The Importance of Customer Renewals: Renewals are the heartbeat of the subscription model, directly influencing customer lifetime value and long-term company health.

Payment Features 52

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SaaStr

APRIL 27, 2023

But this only works if you’ve truly added value to the prospect during their discovery and trial process. Asking — After Having Provided a Ton of Value. The prior point If you have helped your prospect plan, upgrade and even pilot an important and valuable change to their business process, they you have added value.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Deliver value early – in the product and external to the product In the product The concept of delivering value early is not just a philosophy; it’s a quantifiable metric known as “Time to Value.” ” This metric gauges the duration for users to realize the benefits, measuring onboarding efficiency.

VP of Engineering 93

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Buffer Resources

OCTOBER 24, 2023

But, during my day job, I noticed that quality content (blogs and web copy readers would actually engage with) was missing from most service offerings.    This was a great initial confidence boost - I couldn’t believe some very serious companies across the Atlantic were paying me to write blog posts for them. 

Outsourcing Services 116

Outsourcing Services Scale Outsourced Development Underperforming Technical Team 116

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Imagine the increased success your product development team could achieve with a thorough understanding of the ideal target audience, including the specific product aspects they value and are willing to pay more for and why customers choose your product over others. Is it that you don’t have as good of a product as you thought?

Sales Hiring 194

Sales Hiring Product Marketing Scale Marketing 194

Predictable Revenue

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

But what we started to realize after introducing Question-Based Selling (QBS) to our sales organization is that it’s impossible to know what to say without understanding the person and/or organization we were selling to. The post How Question-Selling Can Triple the Value of Your Service appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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Blulogix

JANUARY 6, 2024

Here are some key reasons why realizing your revenue potential is vital: 1. Rather than solely focusing on acquiring new customers, you can extract additional value from your existing ones. Realizing your revenue potential ensures a steady flow of income that can be reinvested in your business, enabling sustainable growth.

Payments 52

Payments Subscription Payment Features SaaS Payments 52

Totango

MAY 17, 2024

This sequence could trigger a campaign and series of automated workflows to get the customer back on track, all without requiring significant effort from a CSM.The ultimate goal is to help customers realize higher value more quickly, which is the holy grail of CS and AI infusion.

Innovation 89

Innovation AI Underperforming Technical Team Scale 89

SaaStr

APRIL 27, 2022

Realizing opportunity and making changes. When I was learning about the software development kit (SDK) concept, I realized that I could integrate CRM software into a mobile app. As I was delving deeper into this idea, I realized ?just The premise of what I built was to bridge the network among users and app developers.

Outsourced Development 221

Outsourced Development Mobile Pricing Software Development 221

Totango

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

When you think about the opportunity for partnership between marketing and CS, it’s how you can retain that customer and increase their lifetime value. The key to ongoing success is to demonstrate the value of your product or service and reiterate this value at every step of the customer’s journey.

Scale 93

Scale Customer Lifetime Value Acquisition Customer Success 93

SaaStr

AUGUST 10, 2022

Leadership took user feedback seriously, and spent lots of time iterating on the product to ensure that users could get the most value from it. Originally, Miro was a B2C company, but after listening to customer feedback over the years, they realized the software was being used in a productivity-oriented capacity. Key Takeaways.

Sales Hiring 196

Sales Hiring Scale Company Culture Leadership 196

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

SaaS businesses are discovering that customers choose and recommend them based not on flashy marketing or super fancy product features but on the experience of engaging with the company and the value it delivers. Annual contract value (ACV) builds companies, but net revenue retention sustains them. Key takeaways.

Sales Hiring 230

Sales Hiring Customer Success Scaling Construction 230

User Pilot

MAY 20, 2024

Affiliate programs offer your most loyal customers a commission on every sale made through a referral link, which they include on their website, blog, or newsletter. Keep innovating to add value to the product and maintain the competitive edge. How do you build a successful customer advocacy program?

Scale 66

Scale Strategy Social Media SaaS 66

SaaStr

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Churn increase due to greater scrutiny of costs Contract values declining More stakeholders involved in decision-making Capchase combined the study with their data set of thousands of SaaS companies and looked at what the best companies do to overcome these hurdles. But as founders, we value everything as ARR growth.

SaaS Payments 206

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payments Payment Features 206

User Pilot

MARCH 6, 2024

To let users experience the product value , consider a freemium plan or free trial , and create onboarding flows to guide them to activation. Its purpose is to help teams understand user behavior at different stages of the journey and improve the process of converting prospects into customers and maximizing their lifetime value.

Social Media 104

Social Media Sales Funnel Acquisition Retention 104

Totango

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

We partner with expert vendors across categories in order to support our vision that customer success requires superior alignment across the C-suite to drive business outcomes and customer value.” And, that growth comes from consistently and quickly delivering customer value.

Enterprise 115

Enterprise Revenue Scale Innovation 115

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

It means that companies who are growing at over 60% as they hit $100 million in ARR are valued five times more than companies that are growing just a little less than that, say, at 20-60% as they hit $100 million ARR. But actually, as it turns out, the markets don’t really value profit, they really care about growth.

B2C 275

B2C Scale Consulting Software Review 275

Totango

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Forrester recognizes the value customer success platforms can provide to B2B companies looking to foster retention, growth, and advocacy. All of these actions propel customers toward a faster realization of their goals while eliminating low-value customer success manager (CSM) tasks. Customer health. Upcoming renewals.

Trends 93

Trends Customer Success Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence 93

Totango

DECEMBER 7, 2023

In Part 1 of our “Harmonizing the Hustle between sales and customer success” podcast series with the Customer Success Collective, Chris Dishman , SVP of Global Customer Success at Totango, drilled into the unique ability CS has in aligning cross-functional partners—sales, product, and marketing—to the opportunities that can drive customer value.

Revenue 91

Revenue Sales Customer Success Technical Review 91

SaaStr

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Between 2016 and 2023, you see the ACV (average contract value) going up and up. Over time, they realized the product value was best spent with high-complexity organizations. When considering product market fit and seeing value back when Docebo got traction in 2012, they gave away a ton of value with ridiculously low ARR.

Sales Hiring 191

Sales Hiring Scale SMB Outsourced Development 191

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Join these incredible companies to experience all the value of SaaStr! Merge provides the tools to transform how B2B companies realize customer-facing integrations. We’ll see 2,500+ of the best SaaS founders, execs, and VCs June 6-7 at 2022 SaaStr Europa ! Grab tickets here. .

Payment Features 171

Payment Features Payments SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 171

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

As Gleklen says, “We actually see this monolith falling apart, and it’s falling apart primarily due to what we view as two of the biggest drivers for value creation today: Machine learning and product-led growth.”. These two drivers influence varying metrics in different ways that don’t necessarily negatively impact cloud business outcomes.

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Metrics Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence Technical Review 204

ChurnZero

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Salesforce co-CEO, Bret Taylor , said it best during a recent earnings call: “The focus of the conversation has shifted meaningfully towards productivity, efficiency and time to value.” . At the same time, business leaders are realizing that reckless growth isn’t the answer in 2022 and beyond. . Time to value. Productivity.

Education 98

Education Customer Success Venture Capital Churn 98

User Pilot

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Interest – when the customer starts researching the product to gather more information about its features and benefits, for example, from product-led content like blog posts, tutorial videos , or webinars. For example, viewing 3 BOFU blog posts and 3 case studies could indicate that the prospect has reached the consideration stage.

Marketing 105

Marketing Sales Funnel Forecasting Customer Lifetime Value 105

Subscription Flow

JANUARY 30, 2024

Realizing that customer relationships in the SaaS industry do not stop at the point of sale is analogous to understanding SaaS subscription renewal supervision; what distinguishes successful SaaS companies is this recognition. Customers now have more options and value thanks to their usage-based or monthly plans.

SaaS Payments 59

SaaS Payments B2B Strategy Payment Services 59

User Pilot

MAY 2, 2024

It’s crucial for SaaS businesses because it drives revenue growth, increases customer lifetime value , reduces customer acquisition costs , and fosters positive word-of-mouth marketing. Personalized customer experiences tailor customer journeys to their specific needs and use cases to guide them more efficiently to value.

Retention 111

Retention Metrics Strategy Scale 111

BetterCloud

APRIL 2, 2024

But here’s the kicker: nobody in the company realized that Asana is still active, and the renewal date has passed, costing the company another year of Asana. Just like in the introduction of this blog, the marketing team found a need for Asana. Fast forward a year and things have changed. This scenario might sound familiar.

Technical Review 52

Technical Review Software Review SaaS Benchmarks 52

Buffer Resources

JUNE 9, 2023

Instead, we’ve put together this blog post with more about our application process for the Content Writer role at Buffer and some general themes we noticed in applications we were rejecting. However, a values assessment continues throughout the interview rounds. (It’s What was the outcome? What did you learn?

Social Media 83

Social Media AI Interviewing Data Analysis 83

Groove HQ

AUGUST 15, 2019

I was talking with my sister, Elizabeth, and she was helping me come to an embarrassing realization. Groove’s “Core Values”—the ones I had so […]. The post Why We Dropped “Fun” as a Core Value appeared first on Groove Blog. “Having fun yet?”

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