FastSpring

APRIL 26, 2022

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”? Did they count me as churned on the day I canceled? In part one, we cover benchmarks and common churn formulas.

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User Pilot

APRIL 24, 2024

TL;DR SaaS renewals includes the process of renewing a subscription to an online-hosted software service. Proactively managing SaaS renewals and customer engagement reduces both involuntary and voluntary churn. Renewal management varies by company size but usually the customer success team handles this vital process.

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Totango

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Customer success tools extend the functionality of your CS platform, multiplying its value. By connecting data from other success tools to your CS tool, you can view and manage all your customer data from one place instead of leaving it isolated in separate information silos. CRMs: Salesforce and HubSpot. Billing: Zuora.

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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

Average Revenue per Customer. Customer Lifetime Value (LTV). Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC). & So growth of the kind of subscription, eCommerce industry has been over 100% year on year for the past five years, according to McKinsey. So the first question is what made SaaS so successful. One is your churn.

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Totango

JULY 13, 2021

Strategy for customer success growth has changed as commerce has gone digital and big data has made marketing and sales customer-centric. Tell people about your business, get them in the store, sell them things, then look for more customers. Setting foot in a physical store has become completely optional.

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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. A diagram showing how product-led growth works for product-led innovation.

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User Pilot

MARCH 23, 2023

What are the reasons for customer churn in SaaS? And how can customer success teams address them to ensure product growth? As a SaaS company, your ultimate goal is to retain customers and keep them happy with your product. However, sometimes things don’t go as planned, and customers churn.

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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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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 16, 2019

No matter the specifics of how your company adapts and grows, it’s crucial to be aware of how your pricing strategy relates to other aspects of your business. It’s all too easy to make the mistake of adopting a pricing model that is ill-suited to other aspects of your company, such as the go-to-market strategy or sales strategy.

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Totango

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Customer success tools extend the functionality of your CS platform, multiplying its value. By connecting data from other success tools to your CS tool, you can view and manage all your customer data from one place instead of leaving it isolated in separate information silos. CRMs: Salesforce and HubSpot. Billing: Zuora.

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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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Totango

JANUARY 2, 2024

In an era when customer success (CS) has become pivotal, it’s no longer enough to have a team dedicated to CS. More importantly, you need an organizational strategy that ensures your customers don’t just come to you but stay, thrive, and become your biggest promoters.

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Blulogix

MARCH 25, 2024

By BluLogix Team Mastering the Art of Complex B2B Recurring and Subscription Billing: Navigating Financial Process Complexity in B2B Subscriptions The financial backbone of B2B subscription models rests on efficiently managing complex processes spanning billing, payments, revenue recognition, and reporting.

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Totango

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Customer success is the key to building strong customer relationships. When your brand helps your customers succeed at their goals, they want to continue your relationship. Customer success nurtures the positive experiences of your brand, promoting repeat business and retention.

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ProfitWell

APRIL 17, 2020

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. What is a customer success program? Are you prioritizing customer success?

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User Pilot

APRIL 29, 2024

Mastering SaaS renewals’ best practices can transform a routine administrative task into a strategic opportunity to drive customer success and propel your business toward sustainable growth. TL;DR The SaaS renewal process involves a series of actions on/before the renewal date that lead to a customer’s renewal.

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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. Here’s to your success in 2020! . .

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User Pilot

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

TL;DR Customer communication encompasses all interactions between a business and its customers, while customer communication strategy is what you’ll use to improve these interactions amongst new and existing customers. Personalize customer communications based on user expectations.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 18, 2022

Which is why it’s key to strengthen customer retention processes by automating them, keeping customers engaged, and detecting any signs of churn before they happen. Automate these 5 processes to boost customer retention. One surefire road to customer churn is the customer not knowing how to use the product.

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User Pilot

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Free trials can impact cash flow and revenue generation, especially if a significant portion of trial users don’t convert into paying customers. This article explores 15 strategies to help you achieve that. TL;DR A free trial is a sales strategy that allows prospective customers to use your product for a limited time.

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User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The ability to follow up on failed payments without putting customer retention at risk is a delicate task that must be handled carefully. Dunning emails tend to be the most effective way to remind customers about a failed payment and speed up the payment process by offering alternative options.

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User Pilot

APRIL 29, 2024

Customer segmentation enables teams to better understand customer needs and pain points and deliver personalized product experiences t o accommodate them. This improves satisfaction, retention, and brand loyalty , and improves the performance of marketing strategies. Book the demo to find out more!

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ProfitWell

MARCH 2, 2020

That’s what makes a customer success strategy so important. Thinking proactively about how to build products that help customers achieve their goals is the best tool you have for building lasting relationships. It compounds, fostering stronger relationships that retain customers long-term. What is customer success?

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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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SaaStr

MAY 4, 2022

Market trends: why is it easier than ever to build an online business? Despite all these growing pains, it’s still never been a better time for online businesses. You can now outsource most of your business needs, from e-commerce (like Shopify) to website building (like Wix). Design a product that aligns you with your customers.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 30, 2023

They focused on building a payment platform that empowers international talent and independent contractors to get paid on time in a compliant way while also ensuring that companies can hire international talent and make payments efficiently. The path to success is filled with challenges at every milestone. Listen to your team.

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Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

OCTOBER 29, 2018

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. A high churn rate is highly undesirable as it shackles growth , is a source of friction and (rightly) raises tough questions about product/market fit.

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Totango

MAY 19, 2020

As their customers are presented with changing markets and deal with the uncertainty that comes with current events, SaaS companies must be prepared for a potential wave of churn. When the driver of uncertainty is a macro-scale force beyond our influence, it is not clear what the best method is for dealing with these circumstances.

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User Pilot

JUNE 19, 2023

TL;DR Conversion happens when someone takes a desired action on your app or website. Common conversion examples include visitor to trial, trial to paid, and freemium to paying customers. Customer success conversion funnel: onboarding , repeat purchase that results from adoption , then account upgrades.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Every successful SaaS business strategy requires a full-potential ambition aimed at sustained profitable growth. Lesson 1: Create a clear product differentiation strategy. Product differentiation strategy entails capitalizing on your company’s uniqueness to attain a competitive advantage in a saturated market.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Paddle’s Senior Product Manager, Allissa Chan, and Chief Strategy Officer, Patrick Campbell, share their experience of scaling a bootstrapped startup. Feedback collection is the focus here to prevent future churn. Remember, your cancellation flow should strive to offer customers full control over deciding whether to unsubscribe.

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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.

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User Pilot

MARCH 7, 2023

Churn happens even to the most successful SaaS companies. Your job is to reduce churn as much as possible. That’s why we have ten reasons why your users are canceling their subscriptions and what you can do to mitigate them and drive long-term customer retention. Unsatisfactory customer service.

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ChurnZero

MAY 20, 2021

When you build a Customer Success organization from the ground up, it’s easy to get caught in the trap of doing the wrong things well. That’s why it’s essential to invest in the people, processes, and technologies that create the most value for your customers and your organization. You don’t know why your customers churn.

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Totango

AUGUST 23, 2022

In this way, customer journey B2B touchpoints serve as a powerful tool for increasing the effectiveness of your customer success strategy. In this article, we’ll cover what you need to know about B2B customer journey touchpoints and how to plan them out to deliver tremendous customer success.

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ProfitWell

OCTOBER 23, 2019

They launch a product, start bringing in some solid revenue, and put all their efforts into acquiring new customers. Their success blinds them to the hidden dangers every SaaS company faces—dangers like high customer churn. 1: You’re attracting the wrong customers. 3: Your customer support needs work.

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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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