FastSpring

APRIL 26, 2022

Last week, I canceled an annual SaaS subscription (I had three weeks left until renewal). In the language of SaaS, I churned. And the experience got me thinking: Was immediate removal of paid features the best chance to keep me from churning? When did I officially count as “churned”? Part I: SaaS Churn Benchmarks.

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User Pilot

MARCH 25, 2024

While acquiring new customers is important, it’s more expensive than customer retention. In this article, we explore what customer attrition is, why it matters, and 15 effective strategies for strengthening customer relationships, boosting loyalty, and driving long-term growth. Book a demo now to learn more!

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User Pilot

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Managing customer accounts is a pretty tough job, but you know what’s even tougher? SaaS account management. With the emergence of software-as-a-service (SaaS) companies, the role of account managers has also evolved – and gotten harder. What is SaaS account management?

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Stax

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

For modern Software as a Service (SaaS) companies, the automobile is replaced by primarily digital and cloud-based solutions and software. And because of the digital nature of SaaS businesses and their subscription-based business models, the ability to collect data on how the company is performing is easier and faster than ever.

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User Pilot

JANUARY 26, 2023

There are ten metrics you can use to measure customer loyalty. Celebrate customer success with gamification. Send payment reminders both through email and in-app to prevent involuntary churn. Check product usage analytics to identify at-risk customers and contact them for help. loyal customers.

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User Pilot

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Based on the insights you generate, you can create better experiences for website visitors and users, driving more engagement, conversion, and retention. Step 1: Define your conversion points There are several conversion points in SaaS, each action bringing users closer to being paid customers or loyal users of your premium plans.

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User Pilot

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

So, let’s start with the basics: TL;DR A Go-To-Market (GTM) strategy is an action plan that outlines the time, the place, the positioning, the audience, and the goal of a new product or service. They can reveal customer interactions, patterns, and preferences. Customer acquisition cost. Customer churn rate.

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User Pilot

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

For SaaS products, achieving sustainable revenue growth is often a top-level goal, aligning with broader business objectives like market expansion , profitability, and shareholder value. Regular tracking allows you to swiftly identify these anomalies, enabling proactive corrective action. High churn can erode revenue gains.

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Point Nine Land

JUNE 18, 2023

Everything you always wanted to know about cohort analysis (but were afraid to ask) Back in 2012, I wrote a blog post titled “Know your user cohorts” , which began like this: “One of the most important tools to better understand the usage of a web application — or a service, a game or a mobile app, it doesn’t matter — is a cohort analysis.

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User Pilot

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

According to Havard Business Review, customer acquisition requires 5 to 20 times more resources than customer retention. Thus, it only makes sense that you work hard to retain any customer that makes a purchase. TL;DR Customer retention is a measure of a company's ability to keep its customers over a period.

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Baremetrics

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Churn is the share of your customer base that has stopped using your service over a defined period of time. Churn can be calculated in two ways, namely customer churn and revenue churn , and there are good reasons to calculate both. 1 What is customer churn? What is customer churn?

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User Pilot

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Reducing the CAC payback period can help SaaS companies boost their financial performance and drive growth. TL;DR The CAC payback period measures the time it takes for a company to recover the money invested in new customer acquisition. There are 3 main reasons why a SaaS company should track the CAC payback period.

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Subscription Flow

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Many SaaS businesses follow a subscription based model with subscription life cycles of varying periods. Thus, the success of any Software as a Service ( SaaS ) businesses greatly depends on customer retention. SaaS Renewal refers to customers choosing to renew their subscription to a SaaS product.

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Baremetrics

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Confused about customer churn vs. revenue churn? Churn means lost money or lost customers. These metrics help you understand two different things: Customer churn — the number of people you've lost. Revenue churn — the amount of revenue you've lost. Customer churn = customers lost.

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Baremetrics

APRIL 6, 2021

ProfitWell is a cloud-based app that generates real-time financial and subscription metrics for data-driven SaaS enterprises. But ProfitWell does not benefit all SaaS companies. Baremetrics is one such ProfitWell alternative that optimizes SaaS analytics. The number of SaaS metrics available on Baremetrics is impressive.

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User Pilot

JULY 24, 2023

What is SaaS marketing? We’re all familiar with the basics of SaaS product marketing such as attracting users to a SaaS product with a subscription business model. That said, there are key differences between a SaaS marketing strategy and standard digital marketing. Offering self-service support.

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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

Average Revenue per Customer. Customer Lifetime Value (LTV). Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC). & So the first question is what made SaaS so successful. If you kind of that question, thinking about the stakeholders and the decisions and companies of using SaaS products, there’s kind of three types.

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Baremetrics

MAY 18, 2021

Working to acquire, qualify, and convert leads is a critical part of SaaS business success, whether you’re a startup or an established enterprise. Trying to balance multiple efforts for marketing, sales, and retention can be extremely challenging. Your SaaS funnel is a model that visualizes important stages along the customer journey.

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User Pilot

AUGUST 31, 2023

What is customer acquisition for SaaS, and how can you leverage it to drive sustainable growth ? Customer acquisition marketing refers to the subset of strategies and activities within customer acquisition that focus on marketing techniques to attract and convert potential customers. Book a demo now to learn more.

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Subscription Flow

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

In the fast-paced business environment of today, it is imperative to comprehend the significance of SaaS renewal management. You run the risk of losing out on important opportunities if your contracts are set to automatically renew and you do not have a strong SaaS renewal management system.

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CustomerSuccessBox

JUNE 17, 2022

How unfortunate is it to see a subscriber canceling their recurring payment! Product analytics is the process of evaluating how your customers or users engage with your product. This enables your product team to identify and track engagement data and optimize the product. Why is it not easier to predict churn?

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Incredo

JULY 14, 2019

Whether you are a startup owner, a manager of a growing business or the CEO of an established company, you might find yourself asking questions like “ Should our SaaS subscription model be monthly, annually or both ?” History of the subscription pricing model: From newspapers to the rise of SaaS subscription. Key finding?

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Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

There might not be an industry more addicted to its metrics than SaaS, and there is good reason for it. Coming from data and engineering backgrounds, most SaaS founders know that good decisions require good data, and great decisions require as much good data as you can find. But how many SaaS financial metrics are you really tracking?

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User Pilot

MARCH 9, 2023

Want to improve the current customer attrition rate in your SaaS company? Customer attrition is one of the main problems for SaaS companies. Although you’ll inevitably lose customers occasionally, you should always keep the attrition rate at a minimum. What is customer attrition?

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Baremetrics

OCTOBER 9, 2021

While Stripe is indispensable for the average online business, providing many different tools, reports, and customizations that power online payment processing , when it comes to finding the billing history for Stripe customers, things are needlessly complicated. Stripe is a fully integrated suite of payment products.

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User Pilot

APRIL 3, 2024

Choose the right monetization model that aligns with your product’s value and user payment willingness. Product-led growth metrics like product qualified leads, activation rate , onboarding completion rate, and CLV define customer success in product-led innovation. Tailor the customer journey with Userpilot.

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User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

Confused about trying to understand SaaS roles? SaaS companies have many moving parts, and it can be difficult to determine who does what. TL;DR SaaS, or “Software as a Service,” is a business model that delivers centrally hosted software to subscribers over the internet. What is a SaaS business model?

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 18, 2024

The role of the chief customer officer has become an essential function in subscription-based business models such as software-as-a-service (SaaS), where customer retention is paramount and requires executive-level leadership. SaaS businesses, meanwhile, benefit from predictable streams of recurring revenue.

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User Pilot

OCTOBER 6, 2022

How can you analyze customer behavior in-app to deliver unparalleled in-app experiences? What customer data can you collect to derive valuable insights and improve retention? In this piece, we’ll cover everything you need to know about customer behavior analysis. What influences customer behavior?

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FastSpring

JUNE 28, 2019

As interest in subscription services continues to rise, maximizing customer lifetime value becomes even more important than ever before. Keep reading to learn why your SaaS company should keep a close eye on your churn rate and see why focusing on customer retention is a viable strategy for long-term success.

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Blulogix

JANUARY 5, 2024

Subscription Billing Definition: Subscription billing is a business model in which customers pay a recurring fee at regular intervals, typically monthly or annually, in exchange for access to a product or service. Importance: A high churn rate can erode your recurring revenue quickly.

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User Pilot

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

User adoption is essential for B2B SaaS companies, as it helps customers to learn about your product, adopt features , stick around, and nurture product growth. And your role at a customer success team? TL;DR User adoption is the journey in which a customer becomes a regular user of your product and makes it part of their life.

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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. What is churn analysis? Churn analysis is the evaluation of a company’s customer loss rate in order to reduce it.

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Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Whether you created your SaaS product to help solve a problem you had or because you wanted some extra income, the truth is that your SaaS business is a valuable asset. Running a profitable SaaS business allows you to take control of your own schedule - some would even say your life! We’d hate for that to happen to you.

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User Pilot

MAY 29, 2023

Retention funnel analysis focuses on the users who drop off at different stages of the journey. The churn funnel, also known as the cancellation funnel , tracks the steps before the users leave the product for good. The less common use of the term is linked to the product management process. What is a product management funnel?

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Totango

AUGUST 23, 2022

B2B Customer Journey Touchpoints: A Guide for CS Teams. B2B customer journey touchpoints mark the roadmap toward successful outcomes for clients and CS teams. In this way, customer journey B2B touchpoints serve as a powerful tool for increasing the effectiveness of your customer success strategy. Customer service.

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Baremetrics

MAY 26, 2021

Customer advocacy is a major concept when it comes to marketing for SaaS subscription businesses. Customer advocacy is a subsect of customer service, wholly focusing on customer’s needs and wants on an ongoing basis. This helps in the daily and immediate improvement of the product or the service.

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