For Entrepreneurs with David Skok

JANUARY 3, 2018

In working with a number of SaaS portfolio companies, I have found that there are two causes of churn that occur more frequently than any others. Customer Success churn SaaS SaaS churn SaaS customer engagement SaaS customer retention SaaS renewals SaaS retention Startup HelpThey are: Failure to successfully onboard the customer Loss of the champion who drove the purchase Looking at these in order: Failure to successfully onboard It’s easy to understand.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Q: What can you do to lower your customers churn rate? If every customer knows “Casey” is her rep, and who she can turn to … churn will go down. Leading to less churn. Don’t lump your smaller customers together with the big ones — or they will churn at a much higher rate.

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Kellblog

AUGUST 30, 2020

The purpose of this post is to provide a teaser to entice you to attend my session, Churn is Dead, Long Live Net Dollar Retention Rate , bright and early on Wednesday, September 2nd at 8:00 AM. The three, fairly lethal problems with churn rates.

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Customer Success-Driven Growth

JULY 17, 2020

Is 5% a good monthly SaaS Churn Rate? Read on to learn the answer… As a consultant to SaaS and Cloud providers that are looking to grow, I get asked what an acceptable SaaS churn rate is all the time. As I stated in 2013, the answer to “What is a good SaaS Churn rate,” was, “you want a churn rate to be ‘as low as possible.'” ” In 2020 I just say, “let’s make churn a non-issue.” Is 5% Monthly Churn Good?

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Download this template that includes calculations, formulas, definitions and a customizable dashboard. The template includes subscription momentum metrics (ARR, customer count, avg. ARR), churn and retention metrics, and customer lifetime value metrics.

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ProfitWell

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Most SaaS companies approach churn management all wrong. They spend huge amounts of money and time getting customers in the door but don't think about addressing churn until it becomes a major problem. Trying to fix your churn after things have already gone off the rails is a bit like playing the lottery—the odds of success are slim to none. The number one reason most SaaS companies struggle to lower their churn rate is simply that they aren’t being proactive.

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ProfitWell

AUGUST 6, 2019

There’s no more vital metric for a SaaS company to keep track of than churn : the rate at which customers are leaving your business and taking their subscription dollars elsewhere. Churn can be powered by a number of factors, and even small month-on-month increases in churn percentage can be ruinous to planning, so understanding what churn is and how to analyze it is paramount. What is churn analysis? Customer churn comes in many forms. churn analysis

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Chart Mogul

JULY 8, 2020

Tired of the same ol’ “X proven ways to reduce customer churn”? SaaS companies dedicate a lot of time and money to the same goal — they want to give customers a reason to stay and reduce churn. Good copy can help reduce customer churn. Best Practices brand churn retention

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Totango

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

To paraphrase the famous saying, there are only two things that are certain in business: churn and taxes. And, in the case of churn at least, by learning from what you cannot avoid you can prevent yourself from suffering any loss that will do real harm. What Causes Churn?

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Totango

APRIL 20, 2020

It is critical to manage churn especially in this time of uncertainty As topline growth may be stagnant due to the crisis, it’s even more important to protect your core base and reduce churn. If you don’t, they will churn. A Checklist for Customer Churn Analysis.

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to languish until something—an unhappy customer, plummeting revenue, a spike in customer churn— demands change. felt the pain of churning customers or failing. average sales price or increased customer churn—and. churn rates. Churn.

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SaaStr

MAY 21, 2020

The post The Silent, Lurking Churn: Activation Rates Less Than 90% appeared first on SaaStr. It took me a little while to see activation rates as literally one of the 3-4 most important metrics in SaaS, but it probably is. I started to track activation rates at a lot of start-ups I work with, and I saw numbers that shocked me. I often say 60% or so activation rates 30 days in. Think about that.

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ProfitWell

APRIL 3, 2019

On this episode of the ProfitWell Report, Nathan Beckord , Co-Founder and CEO of Foundersuite , wants to know the best ways to combat churn, and we think it's safe to assume Nathan isn't the only one on the churn-solving mission. So to locate the best tactics to combat churn, we studied and gathered data from just over eight thousand subscription companies. Yet, just because churn is a fact of life, doesn’t mean we can’t optimize for tactics that reduce churn considerably.

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Totango

MAY 21, 2019

So, instead of always seeking new customers, focus on keeping existing customers happy and preventing churn. Customers can churn for a variety of reasons, and it’s not always clear why they are leaving. Fortunately, there are strategies that will help you discover the causes of customer churn so that you can take steps to mitigate them. The Most Common Causes of Customer Churn. To pinpoint why your customers may be churning, begin with data.

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ProfitWell

OCTOBER 16, 2019

It’s the question on every SaaS founder’s lips: Is my churn rate too high? A “good” churn rate for one company might be terrible for another. Worse, comparing average churn rates across different markets and industries will leave you mired in confusing statistics and contradicting studies. So how do you know what a healthy churn rate is for your SaaS company? Why is it so hard to define an average churn rate—and what does that mean for your subscription business?

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According to this year’s survey, 92 percent of respondents reported an increase in competitive differentiation, 90 percent reduced customer churn, and 91 percent improved win rates. Improve Win Rate Reduce Churn Differentiate Your. 2018 STATE OF. EMBEDDED. ANALYTICS.

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Baremetrics

MARCH 31, 2020

Picture this: Over the past six months, your churn rate has gone from a respectable 4%, to now, over 10%. Or, you can pause, take a step back and analyze what went wrong by doing some churn analysis. In this article, we’re going to break down a simple three step process you can use to analyze your churn. At the end of this guide, you’ll be able to figure out: Which customers are churning Why they’re cancelling How to fix the problem What is customer churn analysis?

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ProfitWell

OCTOBER 29, 2019

We all know that churn is the not-so-silent killer of SaaS businesses. In fact, according to Tomasz Tunguz , the median SaaS business loses approximately 10% of its revenue to churn every year. Churn prevention is your proactive strategy for keeping customers around. It involves looking at the underlying reasons for churn and then formulating a plan to combat issues that may lead to churn before they happen. What is churn prevention? churn

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Totango

MARCH 3, 2020

A high churn rate can tarnish your enterprise’s otherwise good reputation. The first step to fixing a high churn rate is to learn its causes and how to address them. What Causes a High Churn Rate? It’s not possible to predict every cause of churn, but knowing the main types helps in fighting it. Common causes of churn include: Slow setup, slow TTV. Any one of these issues alone, if severe enough, could cause churn. Customer Retention & Churn

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Rebilly | Insights Into Subscription Billing

APRIL 3, 2019

It’s every subscription business’s goal to keep churn as low as possible. Churn — the percentage of customers you lose every month — can be tough to beat, and it can ruin your bottom line. The post How to Use Content to Reduce Churn appeared first on Rebilly. Churn churn customer retention LTVOf course, there are reasons for losing a customer that are completely out of your control.

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ProfitWell

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Their success blinds them to the hidden dangers every SaaS company faces—dangers like high customer churn. Understanding the top reasons why customers churn—and knowing how to adapt your approach and keep them around—is vital for keeping your SaaS business sustainable and profitable. Customers are far more likely to churn before achieving their first success. Poor customer service can often lead to high churn—but there are multiple ways you can go about fixing it.

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SaaStr

APRIL 1, 2020

Downgrades are not churn. It may be time to segment your “churn” into lost customers vs. downgrades. In a recurring revenue model, a customer that churns is a customer you never really had at all. And A Downgrade is Not Churn. Many of you will come under a lot of pressure these days to pause accounts, to downgrade accounts, and more. It’s challenging almost everywhere.

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ChurnZero

APRIL 17, 2020

Today we are unveiling a new churn monster to talk about this all too real churn risk – the Black Swan. A Black Swan churn monster is a customer who is affected by an unforeseen and very unpredictable circumstance with potentially severe consequences and widespread impact.

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ProfitWell

JANUARY 29, 2019

If they don’t feel like they’re getting value, then they’ll churn. Hence why annuals can be instrumental in lowering churn and ramping growth. Well, annuals do reduce churn pretty substantially, because your customers have one purchasing decision per year versus twelve. SaaS Metrics profitwell SaaS benchmarks profitwell report churn Wistia annual monthly plan arpu plans

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Speaker: Collin Stewart, Co-Founder & Co-CEO, Predictable Revenue

As you scale your SaaS business, you want to be armed with all the necessary tools to ensure optimal growth, which ultimately stems from how effective your sales team is. After identifying that you have a great product that the market needs, the next step is to determine if you have the proper messaging, if you are using the correct channels, and if you have the most effective tactics in place. Join Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Predictable Revenue Collin Stewart to learn how to use this formula to fast-track your startups’ growth journey.

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Totango

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Fear of customer churn can make you feel you’re standing above a trap door, like the floor could fall away at any moment. We believe in data-driven, proactive customer success that lets you take control of your churn risk and strengthen your customer relationships. Reducing churn in this customer-centered subscription economy means placing the customer at the center of everything you do. In short, customer knowledge conquers churn fear. Why SaaS Customers Churn.

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Kellblog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

I just finished delivering my presentation at SaaStr Annual 2020, dubbed Churn Is Dead, Long Live Net Dollar Retention.

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ChurnZero

MAY 31, 2019

Churn Monster #12: Championless. It’s now been a full year since we first launched the churn monster blog series, can you believe it? Over the course of the past year we have featured a new churn monster each month and taken a look at a life-like scenario involving that churn monster (i.e. customer churn risk ) and how that churn monster might be successfully defeated. Today, we are going to talk about a championless churn monster.

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Totango

MAY 8, 2020

A SaaS churn analysis is more than a quick calculation of your customer churn rate. It provides a window into the causes and effects that are affecting your churn rate, including your customers’ needs and whether they are being met. SaaS Churn Analysis Benefits. It is tempting to want to minimize churn rate and its impact by rationalizing and overshadowing it with optimistic retention projections. The Value of Churn Analysis During a Crisis.

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The SaaS CFO

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Net negative churn occurs when your expansion revenue from existing customers totals more than your lost revenue from existing customers. The post What is Net Negative Churn in SaaS appeared first on The SaaS CFO. Churn Nathan Latka Net Negative ChurnThis SaaS metric does not factor in any revenue from new customers, just existing customers. As Nathan Latka puts it in his “The Top” podcast, this is the holy grail of SaaS. Your recurring revenue […].

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ProfitWell

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Understanding which of your customers is most likely to churn can be an anxious business for a SaaS company. Churn can appear to happen suddenly owing to any number of potential factors, and customers who do churn are unlikely to write you a “Dear John” letter explaining why it wasn’t you; it was them. There’s a wealth of data on breaking down the likelihood of churn per customer—maybe too much data. What is churn prediction? churn, 2.5% churn, 5.0%

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Kellblog

AUGUST 1, 2019

I think for many sales-aggressive enterprise SaaS startups, a fair amount of churn actually happens at inception. 100% of those customers failed in implementation and 100% of them churned. I call this “ inception churn ,” because it’s churn that’s effectively built-in from inception — the customer is sent, along with a partner, on a doomed journey to solve a problem that the system was never designed to solve.

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The SaaS CFO

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Guide to Churn and Retention Metrics You’ve often heard that churn is a company killer for SaaS and subscription businesses. To be more specific, high customer churn and long CAC payback periods will most definitely burn through your cash and ultimately lead to the demise of your business. The post How to Calculate Churn and Retention in SaaS appeared first on The SaaS CFO. Churn Churn Formula Revenue Retention

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ReSci

MAY 31, 2020

The post Sidetrack churn with Ready to Buy, At Risk, and Churned stages appeared first on ReSci. Client Success eCommerce Marketing Guides and Resources at risk churned client success email marketing marketing strategy needs nurturing ready to buyWe've had a busy week here at Retention Science! We hosted a webinar earlier this week, and threw an event for local eCommerce executives just last night, right here in Los Angeles.

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Baremetrics

JULY 8, 2020

Customers churn because they don’t want to use your product anymore, right? There’s this “little” thing called involuntary churn that’ll slowly eat away at your business if you let it go unchecked. But ignoring involuntary churn will cost you money. What is involuntary churn?

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Chart Mogul

MARCH 14, 2019

Onboarding emails meet churn indicators. Ah, churn. Though the term likely makes you shudder, a customer churning isn’t always as unfortunate as you might think. Churn is a natural part of subscription businesses, but it’s everyone’s goal to make it as low as possible. Churn is calculated after a user has left your service, but what if you could use it for a proactive measures instead of reactive tactics?

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Rebilly | Insights Into Subscription Billing

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

If you’ve been in the subscription business for a while, you’re no stranger to involuntary churn — or the desire to reduce it. Even as a new business owner, you probably know churn is something you’ll deal with regularly, voluntary or not. Luckily, there are steps you can take to reduce involuntary churn. However, you can’t set a goal to reduce involuntary churn until you know where you’re starting from. In other words, step one to reducing churn is to track it.

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ChurnZero

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Churn Monster #5: Manic Customer. With Halloween approaching there’s all sorts of spooky things around us, which makes it a perfect time for us to talk – churn monsters! These churn monsters take big bites out of your customer base, which can be very scary. Fight Customer Churn!

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The Angel VC

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

While doing some research for another post I just stumbled on this excellent overview from Pacific Crest on the churn rates of publicly listed SaaS companies. I’ve seen posts with churn benchmarks of public SaaS companies before, but this one is by far the most comprehensive collection I’ve seen and I think it’s very useful. What’s maybe even more interesting than taking a look at the numbers themselves is to see how different companies define churn (or the inverse, retention).

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