FastSpring

JANUARY 26, 2024

With years of experience at managing customer success (CS), Jake Dipple knows how important it is to foster collaboration between businesses and their customers. In this episode of Growth Stage, host and CMO of FastSpring David Vogelpohl interviews Jake about his thoughts on: What Customer Success is at a high level.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 30, 2023

20X year 1⃣ 12X year 2⃣ 5X year 3⃣ #deelspeed @deel [link] — Shuooo (@shuoshuooshuooo) January 23, 2023 When we look at SaaS companies’ success stories, everything looks great on their growth maps. However, the truth is that every company has tried, failed, and restarted before getting to success.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

So, despite SaaS multiple and the public markets being at near record highs, we’ve seen things start to … wobble a bit overall in tech: The WeWork IPO simply failed , and the Peloton and Direct Smile IPOs were broken. One of the greatest SaaS companies of all times, but still, it turned out to be mortal. Slack is mortal.

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User Pilot

JANUARY 31, 2023

How to prevent churn by identifying at-risk customers? In SaaS, you can grow your revenue only if your churn rate is low, so retaining at-risk customers is crucial. In this article, we will discuss the ins and outs of at-risk customers, how to detect them, and five actionable strategies to help you prevent churn.

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Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Retention truly is the foundation of growth for software as a service (SaaS) companies, but oftentimes, it is overlooked and undervalued. High SaaS churn is a corollary of poor retention - but it can creep up unannounced, and rather than deal a single fatal blow, it causes death by a thousand small cuts.

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FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

In our first post about our online community , we mentioned launching the Global SaaS Leaders Slack group because we saw a need for the kind of software-and-SaaS-focused community we’d want to be a part of. are what we like to have in an online forum. As a business person yourself, you know how it works.

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User Pilot

OCTOBER 31, 2023

TL;DR A free trial is a sales strategy that allows prospective customers to use your product for a limited time. Types of free trial models in SaaS: opt-in and opt-out free trials, freemium , free trial after a demo, and free trial with gamified extensions. What’s a free trial in SaaS? Book a demo to learn more.

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User Pilot

APRIL 29, 2024

How can you use them for better customer engagement ? TL;DR Segmentation is a process of grouping customers by shared characteristics. A segmentation survey is used to gather the data necessary to segment customers. It’s used to identify new opportunities and understand the needs of potential customers.

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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. Personalizing customer workflows according to their needs.

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User Pilot

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Customer lifetime value , repeat customer rate, product adoption rate, and customer churn rate are key metrics to measure alongside your customer retention rate. Personalize the experiences of your new customers to accelerate their time to value. Use notification banners to prevent involuntary churn.

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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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Sixteen Ventures

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Customer Success is transformative. Whether you have a Software-as-a-Service, subscription or membership business or you sell one-off products or services and simply want to do business with your customer more than once, Customer Success should be your driving purpose.

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Baremetrics

MARCH 23, 2020

I spent over a week speaking with different SaaS founders and marketers about how they successfully reduced churn for their business. churn by doing something every SaaS business should be doing, but most don’t. of his customers. of his customers. What is churn? in just a few months.

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SaaStr

MAY 8, 2021

I felt like when I was a SaaS CEO and had to go profitable, they helped saved my rear. But as time has gone by, and I’ve worked with more SaaS companies, I’ve also seen the downside of annual contracts at many start-ups as well: Annual deal collections can be tough for start-ups. Big customers will want to pay annually.

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Panintelligence

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Ask anyone in Fintech SaaS about the shifts of the last 18 months and you’ll hear stories about investment shortages, rising churn rates, and market consolidation. This presents a significant challenge to Fintech SaaS founders. Our latest Fintech SaaS series intends to find out. Gone are the days of the free-money era.

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Kellblog

MARCH 6, 2019

Enterprise SaaS has drifted to a model where many, if not most, companies do multi-year contracts on annual payment terms. Most enterprise SaaS products are high-consideration purchases. Most SaaS vendors will jump at the opportunity to lock in a longer subscription term. How did we get here?

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Totango

MAY 19, 2020

The continuing COVID-19 health crisis may well produce a recession that has a significant impact on the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) industry. No one is certain how this will change the long and short-term behaviors of customers, lenders, and enterprises in a SaaS world. Collaborate With the Rest of Your Organization.

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FastSpring

JANUARY 19, 2023

NitroPack , a website performance optimization platform, has become one of the fastest-growing startups in CEE. When NitroPack was first getting started, they used PayPal to accept and process payments. “It Our platform calculates VAT, sales, and GST taxes and collects them on behalf of our customers. The problem?

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User Pilot

APRIL 3, 2024

TL;DR Product-led innovation emphasizes improving the product to attract customers, reducing reliance on marketing for growth. Product-led innovation focuses on developing a personalized product that naturally attracts and retains customers. User persona example.

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ProfitWell

APRIL 17, 2020

If a customer struggles to use your SaaS product, then they're unlikely to feel that it's a good value/fit for them. It's in the best interest of every SaaS company to ensure its customers are able to understand and make the most of its products. The best way to do that is with a thorough customer success program.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Every successful SaaS business strategy requires a full-potential ambition aimed at sustained profitable growth. Every SaaS company strives to adapt to the emerging changes in the market as soon as possible and achieve sustainable growth. The service you deliver. Lesson 3: Let customers do the talking.

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Totango

AUGUST 23, 2022

By charting the points in your SaaS customers’ journeys, you can plan how to deliver clients’ desired outcomes and satisfying experiences that promote subscription renewals and higher revenue. In this way, customer journey B2B touchpoints serve as a powerful tool for increasing the effectiveness of your customer success strategy.

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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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OpenView Labs

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Every year we ask the OpenView network to weigh in, and this time around many folks unsurprisingly made predictions around a trend most of us in SaaS had to adapt to (and, to be honest, are still figuring out) in 2020: remote work. SaaS companies will evolve their products and messaging to support a fluid hybrid working model—office/home.

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Incredo

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Do you want to grow your SaaS sales team and improve your processes? maintain healthy atmosphere in your Smarketing team, make smart choices regarding your SaaS sales model, strategy, pricing, . build smoother connections both with your prospects through optimized sales process. And from SaaS sales models to SaaS pricing.

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Totango

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The contract renewal stage of the customer lifecycle is a critical component of driving retention for SaaS products. Knowing how to use technology to optimize your contract renewal process can increase your retention rates and your revenue. First, we’ll review what contract renewal is and what it means to automate the process.

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ChurnZero

AUGUST 14, 2020

At ChurnZero, we’re humble enough to admit that Customer Success software can’t do it all, and quite frankly, it shouldn’t. We stick to our circle of competence and focus on our area of expertise: Customer Success software. It’s Customer Success for us. Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Software.

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CustomerSuccessBox

APRIL 3, 2022

Customer Success ensures that your customers remain happy customers. Its objective is to guarantee that your customers get the most value from your product. Sending an email with the appropriate intent at the right time is essential to a good customer success email. Customer Success Email Templates.

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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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Tom Tunguz

MARCH 19, 2020

Second, gauging customer health. Most SaaS companies will have existing customers. Some of these customers will be insulated from the virus. Customer success and account management teams should focus on understanding customer health. Others may benefit from it. Many of them will suffer from it.

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User Pilot

JUNE 28, 2023

Sustaining user engagement throughout the entire onboarding process can feel like a task only large teams can achieve. Osano reduced delinquent churn with progressive billing popups. Platformly uses a progress bar and empty state CTAs to simplify the onboarding process for their complex product. Get a demo now!

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

With more customers expecting a hyper-personalized, real-time experience, the demand for AI technology in marketing has never been greater. From lead generation to lead nurturing to conversion, funnel AI tools help marketers improve their strategy and streamline their processes. Who Should Use Systeme? Use Exceed.ai

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CustomerSuccessBox

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Customer Success has become a must for every SaaS business with the advent of the subscription economy. But just having a customer success department does not solve issues with your churn rate, customer lifetime value, retention rate, or MRR/ARR. Customer Success is all about delivering value.

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User Pilot

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Customer success has gone from strength to strength in recent years. More and more SaaS companies are starting to realize how important it is, and so they’re investing more time and effort into it. With that in mind, we thought we’d take a look at the best customer success tools. Churnbuster.

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Subscription Flow

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Chargebee is one such SaaS product, but there are a number of reasons why a company, especially a startup or SME, could be looking into Chargebee competitors. Less tech-savvy business owners transitioning from legacy systems may want guided onboarding rather than self-service. Subscription Flow also integrates with PayStack and Square.

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Totango

JUNE 3, 2022

Customer success email templates form a foundation for effective CS automation. While customer success management can result in a rewarding payoff, it can also be very time-consuming if you don’t use the right strategies. Customer check-ins. Sales to Customer Success Handoff Email Template.

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CustomerSuccessBox

JULY 11, 2022

Especially, with a big account churn. Anyone who jumps ship is a dead-end for customer success in their eyes. These establishments devote all of their time and resources to pampering newcomers, allowing other customers to suffer the door slamming on their exit. The route includes account churn. What is offboarding?

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