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The 6 Most Common Mistakes Founders Make When They Are Just Starting to Scale Revenue

SaaStr

It’s one thing to invest in an area where only 5% of your business is today. Bad operational model / misunderstanding the burn rate. Often, you can sort of intuit the business model up to $1m or $2m or so in ARR. Leave the pipedreams for $100m in ARR. Or at least, maybe $10m-$20m ARR. And stymie all of them.

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How to Fight Excessive Customer Churn: 4 Winning Strategies

Totango

Knowing how to fight customer churn is critical for keeping SaaS business models sustainable. The more customers you lose to churn, the more you have to invest in new customer acquisition to maintain your revenue, and the harder it becomes to grow your business. Invest in Your Customer Success Team.

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The Real Reason Your Company Invests in Customer Success

Sixteen Ventures

That is, reduce “logo” churn or, put another way, keep customers from canceling or not renewing. Contraction at Renewal is a massive drag on NRR that is often hidden by “great” customer retention rates or “below average” churn. Why they’re investing in you. Four Ways to Improve NRR. Increase Expansion. Mobilize Advocates.

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Clouded Judgement 3.22.24 - ERR vs ARR and the Conundrum of AI Revenue Streams Today

Clouded Judgement

In it's truest form, ARR is used by pure SaaS business models to describe the aggregate annual value of the entire customer set. Many laude the SaaS business model because ARR is inherently predictable - you know what you’re revenue will be over the coming 12 months, and sometimes even further out than that.

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The Top 7 Churn Management Strategies for B2B Enterprises

Totango

You are not powerless in the face of churn. There are almost always indicators that a customer is going to churn, which means that if identified early, a good Customer Success team can mitigate the risk and execute a successful recovery plan. Think of churn like a risk that can be negotiated like any other. . Why Churn Matters.

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5 Interesting Learnings from MongoDB at $1.5 Billion in ARR

SaaStr

I like this chart a lot showing both the awesome power of high NRR, and also how you have to invest in customers that scale with you over time. But those accounts grow dramatically over time, and don’t really churn. And here you can see the magic in Mongo’s business model. Go long, invest long.

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How to Manage Churn- with Irit Ezips!

CustomerSuccessBox

The capacity to forecast that a specific customer is at a high risk of churning while there is still time to do something about it is a major new possible revenue generator for any company. We, at CustomerSuccessBox , spoke to some of the Top Customer Success Influencers to know how they manage churn! Q: Please introduce yourself.

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