User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

Account Managers: They serve as the lead point of contact for all customer account management matters. Product Marketing Manager: This person is tasked with developing product marketing campaigns , crafting compelling marketing messages, and coming up with ideas to retain customers. Average salary: $46,035/yr.

Sales Hiring 93

Sales Hiring SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting CTO Hire 93

SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2024

They talk about the culture code that was created in HubSpot’s early days and how they have continued to have strong retention rates and overall happiness in their employees. Along with our marketing software, along with our sales software. But first, I just wanna talk about employee retention for a minute.

Part-Time CTO 262

Part-Time CTO CTO Hire CTO Coach CTO 262

Valuize Consulting

JANUARY 25, 2024

While they touched on data strategy, tooling and metrics, all 3 experts emphasized that successful Digital Customer Success programs demand a holistic approach, embracing cross-functional collaboration and strategic adaptation. These roles should be complemented by professionals skilled in data engineering and systems infrastructure.

Customer Success 52

Customer Success Sales Recruiting Scale Strategy 52

User Pilot

JULY 22, 2023

In this guide, we’re going to show you how a land and expand strategy can help you grow your revenue generation from existing clients by deploying a foot-in-the-door approach with your sales team! You need a clear target market, proper positioning, product-market fit, and the right sales process for a land and expand strategy to work.

Strategy 72

Strategy Sales Recruiting Customer Success Acquisition 72

User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

It’s important to define and execute a clear user segmentation strategy for a number of reasons: customer segmentation helps you personalize in-app experiences, improve retention , and drive product success. You can also use segmentation to help you identify and target at-risk users accordingly to reduce the churn rate.

Strategy 88

Strategy Sales Recruiting Onboarding Churn 88

User Pilot

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Overall, customer value management can make your product more competitive. Sales reps can use the knowledge to shift sales negotiations from price to value. You can do it by tracking metrics like churn rate or NPS and through qualitative surveys. How do you recruit your interviewees?

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Management Scale Customer Lifetime Value SaaS 89

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.” When we do all hands meetings, we go through every KPI, every metric, ARR, margin, with every Gustee. If they’re saying, “Hey, this thing in recruiting is really messed up.

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VP of Engineering Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team 264

ChurnZero

JULY 9, 2020

Sure, you won customers over to get the initial purchase, but what about your post-sale courting? Upskill to Up Your Retention Game . Both customer functions are responsible for driving retention, growth, and advocacy in related but distinct capacities. Being a good partner and delivering outcomes is expected.

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Retention Strategy Scale Sales Recruiting 64

CustomerSuccessBox

MAY 9, 2022

While your company can recruit additional Customer Success Managers and improve the customer experience, you’ll also need a Customer Success dashboard that provides revenue insights into every aspect of the customer journey. Customer success metrics you should track. Metrics for success that are more advanced.

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Customer Success Sales Recruiting Outsourced Development Customer Lifetime Value 52

OpenView Labs

AUGUST 19, 2021

Sales recruiting is broken. The sad truth is that VP of Sales are turning over within 19 months —and that timeline is shrinking. . Not only that, the market has heated way back up and the VP of Sales is one of the most sought after roles. This isn’t linear and there are many shades of grey when it comes to sales. .

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Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale Startup 82

ChurnZero

APRIL 27, 2021

We certainly look at retention and net retention, though many of our companies have very few renewal cycles to evaluate at the time we invest. Other signs of explosive growth potential at this early stage are a highly efficient sales motion, though this is most often still a work in progress at this stage.

Scale 98

Scale Customer Success Payments Underperforming Technical Team 98

Valuize Consulting

DECEMBER 7, 2021

During their conversation, Stephen imparts his wisdom about how to approach budgeting for customer lifecycle investments, including Customer Success, and shares best practices for staffing and scaling a high-performance Customer Success organization to drive best-in-class Net Dollar Retention. leverage Training & Development.

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VP of Engineering Customer Success Sales Hiring Interviewing 98

ChurnZero

JANUARY 10, 2022

SaaS customer onboarding makes or breaks your customer retention. Your onboarding process is a learn-or-churn, adopt-or-get-dropped situation. It has a long-lasting impact on your customer and deep ties to their likelihood to churn. This is something that your Sales team can help you with.

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Onboarding Sales Recruiting SaaS Technical Review 98

Totango

JULY 19, 2021

This leads to greater customer success, which reduces churn and increases renewals. . It may be wise to look for applicants coming from diverse backgrounds, such as those with customer relations, sales or other service-orientated backgrounds. Churn Reduction. 1: Recruit the Right People. Customer advocacy.

Customer Success 123

Customer Success Sales Recruiting Compensation Scale 123

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 19, 2021

What’s more, Forrester’s study, Drive Conversational Experiences For A Future-Ready Customer Support Strategy , revealed how conversational support can fuel customer retention and business growth across the entire business. Teams that benefit: Sales, marketing. Teams that benefit: Sales, marketing, customer success.

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Underperforming Technical Team Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting 129

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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Sales Recruiting Technical Review Sales Hiring Outsourced Development 176

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. He will also provide insights on the differences between commercial and enterprise customers and the key metrics to keep an eye on as you grow your business.

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Sales Recruiting Construction Scale SaaS 167

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): .

Customer Success 98

Customer Success Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Management 98

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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SaaS Payments Payment Methods Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring 157

SaaStr

MARCH 1, 2019

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? What were the commonalities of leading indicators of churn? Is it fair to always surmise that when serving SMB one will always have a higher rate of churn?

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Scale SMB Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring 116

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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Scale Sales Hiring Revenue VP of Engineering 212

Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 15, 2021

Whether it’s software engineering , sales , or support, agile principles can enhance team performance and outcomes by focusing on the customer’s needs. Candidates speak with multiple people on our team (starting with the recruiter and ending with the CEO) to find out if they’re a good fit for our company and vice versa.

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Scale Payment Methods Payment Services Scaling 235

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. At this stage, you should be asking yourself these main questions: Am I tracking metrics and looking to optimize pricing?

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Business Model SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payments 54

ChurnZero

AUGUST 28, 2020

SaaS onboarding makes or breaks your customer retention. It’s a learn-or-churn, adopt-or-get-dropped user experience. Onboarding has a long-lasting impact with deep ties to a customer’s likelihood to churn. The significance of the Sales to Customer Success handoff cannot be understated. That’s a mistake.).

Onboarding 59

Onboarding Sales Recruiting Software Review Technical Review 59

OpenView Labs

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The game has changed when it comes to recruiting. Hiring managers should prepare by putting together pitch materials (usually a 2-3 page deck) to give candidates a deeper look at your company and culture – beyond what’s on your website. Recommended resource: Let’s Stop Calling Churn a Customer Success problem.

Payment Services 80

Payment Services Benchmarks SaaS Payments Merchant Services 80

SmartKarrot

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Recruit, hire, mentor and coach Customer Success team members. Assist with client marketing correspondence (newsletters, campaigns, sales print materials, welcome packets, surveys, etc.). Work with Account Director on potential target client list and sales strategies. Grow usage of BrightEdge within each account.

Sales Recruiting 19

Sales Recruiting Customer Success Sales Hiring Outsourced Development 19

User Pilot

JUNE 28, 2023

Introducing core features, driving user activation, and maximizing retention rates after the user onboarding experience will all impact the user journey moving forward. Osano reduced delinquent churn with progressive billing popups. TL;DR The Room increased user activation by 75% using driven action UI patterns. Get a demo now!

Onboarding 75

Onboarding SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions 75

Totango

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Your sales team lands a new customer with great potential. While the product provides many benefits, one that is particularly interesting is it shortens the sales cycle (decreasing time to revenue). So they ask every new customer how long their average sales cycle is. Let the data make the sale for you.

Sales Recruiting 62

Sales Recruiting Scale Social Media Technical Review 62

Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 3, 2021

If you’ve got a good setup, then more teams equal more product, and more product equals more marketing and more sales and all sorts of stuff like that. The only challenge there is your recruiting capacity, right? ” It’ll reduce our churn, potentially increase expansion. So you can hire more and hire faster.

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Strategy Software Review Development Team Review Sales Recruiting 228

SmartKarrot

MARCH 15, 2023

Role: Director, Customer Success Location: Houston, TX, United States (Remote) Organization: Innovapptive Inc As a Director of Customer Success, you’ll ensure great client happiness, adoption improvements, retention, and expansion, you should lead and manage the customer success team of strategic accounts.

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VP of Engineering Customer Success Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring 19

SmartKarrot

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Role: VP Customer Success Location: Irvine, CA, US (Hybrid) Organization: IntelligenceBank As a VP of Customer Success, you will achieve business targets for upsell, product usage and engagement, retention ARR and churn prevention for the North American region. set by your manager.

Sales Recruiting 19

Sales Recruiting Customer Success Payment Services Payment Facilitation 19

SaaStr

MARCH 13, 2020

Pipe’s lending model is so centered around churn prediction, what does their churn analysis look like at Pipe? How does Harry think about the right way to structure churn postmortems? Harry Stebbings: I mean I absolutely love it and it is game changing, but it’s also so reliant on your ability to accurately predict churn.

SaaS Payments 213

SaaS Payments Payment Methods Finance Payments 213

The Angel VC

AUGUST 10, 2011

One could almost say that CAC and CLTV are for a SaaS company what wholesale price and sales price are for a retailer. So for a bigger SaaS player, sales and marketing costs are the driver of profitability. If CTLV is high, churn can't be that big. Provided that there is some data on these two metrics, that is.

Sales Recruiting 155

Sales Recruiting Startup Customer Lifetime Value SaaS 155

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. What are your metrics? What are your goals?

Customer Success 87

Customer Success Sales Recruiting Finance Sales Hiring 87

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.

Scale 177

Scale Customer Success Strategy Sales Hiring 177

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

They started in the point of sale market, and then as the company scaled, they rolled out new value props and modules for payroll, or Toast capital, or ways to manage your employee base. This is really founder-led sales. Byron gave a great example with Toast, one of my favorite portfolio companies. That’s your CAC.

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Sales Hiring Scale Payments Cloud 158

SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Role: Head of Customer Success Location: San Francisco, CA, United States Organization: Ikigai As the Head of Customer Success, you’ll manage the onboarding of new clients and ensure a smooth transition from sales. Promote a culture and metrics centered on customer satisfaction and responsiveness.

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Customer Success Sales Recruiting Technical Review Outsourced Development 19