SaaStr

MAY 8, 2020

* What does Jessica believe is the right way for sales reps to engage with new customers during this time? How should sales teams and CS respond to requests for discounts? What specific and deliberate things can startups do not just to prevent churn but also to increase usage and upsell? This podcast is sponsored by Guru.

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InsightSquared

AUGUST 14, 2019

For sales professionals, AI is not only impacting your personal life, but it will soon influence your professional work too if it hasn’t already done so. Many of today’s forward-thinking companies have already begun using AI in their sales strategies. Strengthens Communication With Sales Leads.

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Valuize Consulting

DECEMBER 7, 2021

In the subscription economy, there’s no debate about whether or not to invest in Customer Success (CS); 70% of rapidly growing businesses say that Customer Success is extremely important ( Hubspot , 2017). When it comes to budget, organizations often haven’t established where the investment is coming from to fund the CS team.

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Tom Tunguz

MAY 12, 2015

Year Adoption Retention Expansion. Over the course of the panel, we discussed the ways to recruit, structure, and manage vibrant customer success teams. In 2014, his team spent 70% of their time on retention with the remaining 30% split between adoption and expansion. 2014 20% 70% 10%. 2015 35% 55% 10%.

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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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ProfitWell

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Heightened customer retention. All businesses care about customer retention, but in SaaS business models, it is 10 times more important because retention is the only thing that keeps you afloat. Do I have a strong monetization strategy in hand for when I do decide to seek some form of investment? Consistent updates.

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ChurnZero

MARCH 6, 2020

Founder Annette Franz shares a quote from sales expert Zig Ziglar that shows how a people-first philosophy is your business growth strategy: “You don’t build a business. There’s a smorgasbord of studies that overwhelmingly prove the multi-faceted benefits of investing in a people-first culture. The good news is that….

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The Angel VC

AUGUST 10, 2011

I recently wrote that investors (myself included) should do a better job of making their investment criteria transparent to founders. One could almost say that CAC and CLTV are for a SaaS company what wholesale price and sales price are for a retailer. If CTLV is high, churn can't be that big. along the way.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 13, 2021

Although Linda started her career in sales, she has spent the past twelve years scaling post-sales teams and moving hyper-growth companies like Zendesk, Slack, and now Gong upmarket into the enterprise realm. Since then, you’ve spent over 12 years in post-sales leadership. Going through all parts of the customer journey.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

Billion story from its launch in 2008 to its 2018 acquisition by Recruit Holdings. Hear about the early days of Glassdoor; tactical lessons on scaling—from building a business model and recruiting an all-star management team to advice on building a compelling, innovative company culture; and learn whyGlassdoor’s $1.2

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Can we recruit hiring new team members from January to April, or from January to June this year, just to make sure that as we enter in the next year, we’re able to start off with some wins and not get upside down. Or your retention might not be where you want it to be. Every board meeting is going to suck.

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ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

We know leveraging customer success and a super tight user-product relationship reduces churn, improves retention, and increases expansion revenue. They offer a free checking account and a $19.99 a month, which will encompass banking, investing, trading, loans, and cash back rewards. Welcome to the MoneyLion's den.

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ProfitWell

DECEMBER 10, 2019

When companies put paid programs in place, everything changes—fostering a brand new revenue stream that they can use to invest in new customer-centric ideas. With this pay-for-loyalty model, “Instead of talking about margins and mark-ups,” Tien points out, retailers are “talking about membership churn and retention.

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SmartKarrot

JUNE 9, 2022

As we grow, hire, coach, and mentor a customer success team passionate about helping customers get the most from their investments in Sync. Ensure their teams deliver efficiently in alignment with key partners in Sales, Product, and Engineering. Conduct customer health checks to identify risk and mitigate churn risk.

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SmartKarrot

JANUARY 21, 2022

Help set and track towards company-wide expansion, retention, and churn metrics. Work cross-functionally with sales to ensure successful deployments across Twingate’s largest deployments. Create and execute a talent strategy that recruits, onboards, and develops diverse talent.

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SmartKarrot

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Partnering with the Sales and Product teams to define product goals and Tread’s roadmap. Training (on and off site), onboarding new users, and managing technical requests and queries. Training (on and off site), onboarding new users, and managing technical requests and queries. Develop key relationships with subscribers.

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SmartKarrot

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Role: Vice President of Customer Success Location: Remote, New York, United States Organization: Deep Labs As a Vice President of Customer Success, you will drive Customer Success at the clients through increased renewal rates, expansion of use case, and reduced churn. Own the entire customer lifecycle after onboarding, including renewals.

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ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

To help you and your team with this arduous process, we hosted a video panel-style webinar on this topic so you could to hear advice on: End-of-year retention and upsell efforts. It’s all about sending direct mail during the holiday and it also tends to be our highest sales quarter and therefor it’s also our highest renewal quarter.

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SaaStr

JULY 1, 2021

You can be like, “OK, our culture is we’re going to work super hard, and churn out a lot of features, and sell a lot of product.” I want to come be your VP of sales and, you’re going to meet me for the first time. Spencer : For me, the key things for a VP of sales is, “OK, tell me about your best reps.

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SmartKarrot

MAY 25, 2021

In addition, establish/ demonstrate Return on Investment (ROI) for contracted services obligations. The Engagement Manager creates, communicates, and maintains Customer Engagement plans on all assigned accounts and addresses non-assigned account needs on an at-risk basis. Implement proper CS tracking and reporting.

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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

One is your churn. SaaS businesses have churn. Churn, think we’re all familiar with what churn is. Churn defines your average lifetime of your customer. We talked about churn. Five percent monthly churn gives you a 20 month average lifetime. MRR, obviously. Average Revenue per Customer.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 3, 2021

Where should you invest your resources? If you’re short on time, here are a few quick takeaways: You can’t balance short-term and long-term investments without considering the existing product strategy. Choosing the right investment is a balancing act of art and science. And yet, now might be a good time to hit the accelerator.

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SmartKarrot

JANUARY 20, 2021

Role: Vice President of Customer Success Location: Remote, United States Organization: Lockstep As a Vice President of Customer Success, you will manage all aspects of the Customer Success team at Lockstep. Build, recruit, retain, and grow a team of great customer success representatives.

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SaaStr

MARCH 1, 2019

As for Tom, he joined Redpoint in 2008 and has since led investments in Kustomer, Looker, Expensify, and Gremlin all prior guests on the show, I hasten to add. How does Tom think about calculating churn when it comes to multi-year contracts? * What were the findings on what good looks like when it comes to logo retention?

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Stax

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Software as a Service (SaaS) has made business software more accessible by offering cloud-based, on-demand access to a range of solutions, from project management and collaboration to sales and marketing. This creates an intensely competitive landscape with a higher churn rate, but greater customer acquisition opportunities.

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Full Session

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Investing in a tool like Hotjar can help you improve the user experience and your company’s profits. Usability testing recruitment. With Inspectlet, you’ll have always-on visitor recordings that allow you to step into your customer’s shoes to improve and potentially increase your sales conversion rate. Session recording.

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SmartKarrot

MAY 12, 2020

It zeroes into customer loyalty and customer retention. This includes a broader scape including onboarding, training, and maximizing facets that provide the highest Return of Investment (ROI). Recruitment Aspect. When it comes to the zone of recruitment, the field of customer success is roughly a decade or so old.

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SmartKarrot

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

All other functions in a business – Marketing, Sales, Product management, etc., And unwanted incidents, like customer churn, can be prevented way before they take place. And, this is why you must build a customer success team: Customer retention. Customer retention. are the same as they used to be before.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 28, 2019

Enough with the excuses for not having hired your real VP of Sales, or that VP of Engineering, or whatever. Hire a real recruiter. Hire more sales reps in the areas where they are profitable. Invest in Your Brand and Customer Marketing. This is the one investment everyone skimps on, but always works. Not in April.

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SmartKarrot

AUGUST 9, 2022

Modern SaaS organizations can leverage business catalysts to perform day-to-day tasks more effectively, increase customer satisfaction, reduce churn , and lower support costs. Recruiting a new employee is typically significantly more expensive than retaining an existing employee. Employee Training and Talent Management.

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SmartKarrot

AUGUST 9, 2022

Modern SaaS organizations can leverage business catalysts to perform day-to-day tasks more effectively, increase customer satisfaction, reduce churn , and lower support costs. Recruiting a new employee is typically significantly more expensive than retaining an existing employee. Employee Training and Talent Management.

Scale 10

Scale Sales Recruiting Business SaaS 10

ChurnZero

APRIL 27, 2021

As ChurnZero recently secured a Series B investment bringing our total funding that has been raised to date to $35 million, we thought we’d take a look back and see the role that Customer Success plays at each respective stage of funding for SaaS companies. And we thought, who better to ask than those that chose to invest in us along the way.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 5, 2019

Rajesh is going to walk you through the key elements of winning the long game in SaaS – how to win customers, how to create long-term relationships, and how to avoid churn. It was just a catch phrase we would use but became the cornerstone, if you would, of our customer retention strategy. Churn management is a journey.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 26, 2021

Sofia Varga, Director of Recruiting. Alan Alda, Manager of Recruitment Marketing. Linda Hale, HR Manager (East). Eli Whitney, HR Manager (Central). Jennifer Cartwright, HR Manager (West). Here are a few examples keeping with our recruiting example: . Executive Sponsor: . Primary Contact(s): .

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

One of the early co-investments with my prior firm in Bessemer was in Shopify. If you look at companies like Cornerstone OnDemand, which we invested in a long time ago, it took them some time to get to 100 million of ARR. This is really founder-led sales. With Twilio, for example, they expanded into email.

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SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2019

Awesome revenue growth on the X axis, awesome revenue retention on the Y. Hundred percent revenue retention, 200% revenue growth. Option A is we can go have awesome revenue retention, 100% revenue retention, but mediocre growth. Option B is awesome revenue growth, 200%, but mediocre revenue retention, 70%.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

* How does David think about scaling sales teams? How does one know when is the right time to hire your first sales reps? What have been his lessons on optimizing payback period for sales reps? How should founders think about sales rep compensation? How does David think about payback period on a per rep basis?

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