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Dear SaaStr: We Have More Than 20% Churn Our First Month. What Should We Do?

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Dear SaaStr: We Have More Than 20% Churn Our First Month. And even where you don’t see 20% churn the first month with SMBs, it often lurks, because most B2B apps in SaaS don’t even get 80% of their SMBs activation the first month. If they don’t see value quickly, they’ll churn before they even give you a chance.

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Dear SaaStr: What Are Some Signs of Potential Churn Even if Usage is Strong?

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Dear SaaStr: What Are Some Signs of Potential Churn Even if Usage is Strong? Even with strong engagement, there are subtle signs that a customer might churn. These shifts can lead to reevaluations of tools and vendors, even if engagement is high. More here: Measure Your Churn.

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Gong Crosses $300,000,000 in ARR. Is Sales Engagement Back?

SaaStr

Gong in the early days of this wave was often hurt by consolidation, but today it seems to be benefitting as it itself has become a much broader platform and multi-product. It begs the question: is the sales and revenue acceleration space back?

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Big Companies Don’t Churn. They Quit You.

SaaStr

Churn” is a term we all use in SaaS as a core metric, but its roots, as near as I remember and can tell, come from our B2C colleagues. Folks churn out of their Verizon plan, their Netflix subscription, etc. And sometimes they’ll churn even just for a modestly better deal. the dynamics are similar.

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The Modern Customer Success Playbook

The evolution of every high-functioning, effective customer success strategy centers around three C’s: connected experiences, an engaging customer journey, and a culture built on customer-centricity. Create highly targeted segments to drive more contextual and personalized engagements. Satisfaction won’t cut it. But where do you start?

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5 Interesting Learnings from Zoom at $4.7 Billion in ARR

SaaStr

Average Monthly Self-Serve (“Online”) Churn Hit New Low of 2.7% a Month Churn especially SMB churn remains Zoom’s biggest challenge at its mature state, but it’s been pushing customers to annual and longer contracts and more. It’s seen churn fall to 2.7% And it still trades at 5x ARR. #1.

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Measure Your Churn. But What’s Even More Important is to Measure Your “Almost Churn”. 5 Tricks to Help You Here.

SaaStr

Churn is a paramount topic in SaaS , as we all know. If every dollar of ARR is worth $6+ in the long term, including upsells and second order revenue … then of course, by the same token, for every dollar of ARR that churns … you’re losing $6 of notional ARR. But maybe even more important is measuring Almost Churn.

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Monetizing Analytics Features: Why Data Visualizations Will Never Be Enough

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your embedded analytics. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.