SaaStr

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

A few ideas on how to help the sales team make this your best year so far: Hire dedicated sales / revenue ops. Many of you will have little to no dedicated help in sales operations , even up to $10m ARR or beyond. If that’s you, or your VP of Sales, or even your VP of Marketing … it can sort of work for a while.

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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. For this reason, unlocking the optimal SaaS customer onboarding experience is invaluable.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Everything from hiring on the GTM side to layering in a sales-led motion into PLG. Let’s dive into what’s making that hybrid model successful: PLG and Sales Led? Given this, you must understand the role that each facet of the business plays in promoting that product, from marketing and sales to customer service.

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Totango

JANUARY 26, 2021

Being proactive about churn prevention provides an antidote to customer attrition. Read on to learn what churn is, how an attrition analysis can help you pinpoint why you’re losing customers, and what steps you can take to prevent customer churn. What Is Churn Rate and How Does It Relate to Customer Retention?

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Totango

AUGUST 18, 2022

A Customer Onboarding Checklist for Successful CS Teams. A lot goes into crafting the ideal onboarding process for SaaS products. One way to tackle these challenges is to utilize a customer onboarding checklist for your CS team that delineates all of the targets that need to be hit during this stage of the customer journey.

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Chargebee

DECEMBER 31, 2023

Your employees play a vital role in improving retention rates, from communicating value during the sales process to providing first-class customer service.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 30, 2020

There’s a set of questions I get asked all the time: Should you pay sales reps on renewals? Should you pay sales reps on upsells a long time down the road? Should you pay sales reps on … ? I am a huge proponent of paying sales professionals well. for the sales team. Pay closers on closing. Not renewing.

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User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The ideal user onboarding process is centered around customer needs. This article holds your hand and shows you practical steps to deliver engaging onboarding experiences that drive growth. Additionally, you'll see: Onboarding flow examples from top SaaS companies. How to track onboarding performance and improve.

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User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The ideal user onboarding process is centered around customer needs. This article holds your hand and shows you practical steps to deliver engaging onboarding experiences that drive growth. Additionally, you'll see: Onboarding flow examples from top SaaS companies. How to track onboarding performance and improve.

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User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The ideal user onboarding process is centered around customer needs. This article holds your hand and shows you practical steps to deliver engaging onboarding experiences that drive growth. Additionally, you'll see: Onboarding flow examples from top SaaS companies. How to track onboarding performance and improve.

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User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The ideal user onboarding process is centered around customer needs. This article holds your hand and shows you practical steps to deliver engaging onboarding experiences that drive growth. Additionally, you'll see: Onboarding flow examples from top SaaS companies. How to track onboarding performance and improve.

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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

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The ideal user onboarding process is centered around customer needs. This article holds your hand and shows you practical steps to deliver engaging onboarding experiences that drive growth. Additionally, you'll see: Onboarding flow examples from top SaaS companies. How to track onboarding performance and improve.

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Totango

JULY 31, 2020

Onboarding sets the stage for customer retention by beginning a positive long-term relationship between you and your customer. For SaaS companies especially, the speed and ease with which your customers can progress through new user onboarding will act as the first indicators of how smooth their use of your product will be going forward.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 3, 2019

On this week’s show, we catch up with email marketing strategist, Val Geisler, as she walks us through some practical emailing tips, her process for onboarding, and why she likens career progression to a spiral staircase. Think about onboarding like you’re hosting a dinner party. The dinner party approach to onboarding.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 17, 2023

Sales-led vs. product-led is a hot topic right now, and Jason Eubanks, Chief Revenue Officer of Harness, shares the answer during this week’s Workshop Wednesday — held every Wednesday at 10 a.m. What’s his response to startups figuring out which strategy to begin with, product-led or sales-led? “It How do you achieve both?

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Neil Patel

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Now it’s time to start the client onboarding process and welcome the new client into the fold. After all, you already made the sale. Client onboarding is the first step to creating a long-term relationship with a new client. Get it wrong, and you risk losing a sale and leaving a bad impression. Not so fast.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 25, 2019

We hear about all the growth hacks to get new users into your product, and the latest patterns in user onboarding (we’ve even written a book on it ). The reality is that churn is a natural part of business, and it’s important that you work towards truly understanding it. Build a feedback loop.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 23, 2019

If you have a good sales team, they are leaving nothing on the table. If they aren’t — you need a new VP of Sales). Whatever great work the sales team did in 2017 will be 100% behind them on Jan 2. A few ideas: Hire dedicated sales ops. Many of you will have little to no dedicated help in sales operations.

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Totango

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Onboarding is defined as the actions your company takes after a customer signs up to use your product. A successful onboarding experience can lay the foundation for a loyal lifetime buyer, while a negative experience can push your new customer directly into the hands of a competitor. The Three Stages of Onboarding .

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 26, 2022

Reducing churn is at the forefront of all marketers’ minds. From a Customer Success and Marketing perspective, optimizing the customer experience might look like exploring support tickets, talking to customers, and running reports on recently churned customers to find out why. Minimized Churn Risks.

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Baremetrics

MARCH 23, 2021

Analyzing user behavior within a cohort is the starting point of a strategy to reduce churn. Cohort analysis is essential because it gives you more in-depth information about customer churn. Get deep insights into MRR, churn, LTV and more to grow your business. be honest How well do you know your business? Try Baremetrics Free.

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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. One surefire road to customer churn is the customer not knowing how to use the product. Welcoming and onboarding email sequences are a free hit — they get opened.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Going from sales-led to PLG is doable, but it is not easy. Sales-led organizations struggle to adapt to a PLG mindset.”. Let’s use sales-led organizations as a comparison point. If a company has started out with a heavy sales focus, its onboarding process within the actual product may not be intuitive enough for customers.

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CustomerSuccessBox

JUNE 8, 2022

The capacity to forecast that a specific customer is at a high risk of churning while there is still time to do something about it is a major new possible revenue generator for any company. We, at CustomerSuccessBox , spoke to some of the Top Customer Success Influencers to know how they manage churn! Q: Please introduce yourself.

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User Pilot

MAY 16, 2022

Product-led onboarding is something of a revolution in the SaaS industry. It’s not a ‘hack’ or a quick fix: it’s a mindset shift in how you approach your user onboarding process. As you’d expect, different SaaS companies adopt slightly different approaches around product-led onboarding.

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CustomerSuccessBox

MAY 25, 2022

While keeping your clients satisfied can feel like a challenge at times, churn is frequently caused by mistakes in the onboarding process. You’ll see higher retention and upsell with a good and well-planned onboarding strategy in place. Suggested Read : The Ultimate Guide to Customer Onboarding. Customization.

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CustomerSuccessBox

JUNE 7, 2022

The capacity to forecast that a specific customer is at a high risk of churning while there is still time to do something about it is a major new possible revenue generator for any company. We, at CustomerSuccessBox , spoke to some of the Top Customer Success Influencers to know how they manage churn! Top Influencer 2021 by Engati.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The framework above is a lean canvas to help you understand your customers’ needs post-sale. Chances are: You’ve hired your first Head of Sales, and you’re probably about to see a lot of growth on the sales side. Your selling team will 3x, and sales will become codified. Renewals. Being truly cross-functional.

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Baremetrics

JANUARY 24, 2021

Anyone managing a SaaS or subscription business is aware of customer churn. That means achieving any essence of “growth” requires replacing lost customers faster than the rate at which they churn. Managing churn is much like a constant game of plugging holes in a bucket so that you can eventually have a “rising tide” of water.

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User Pilot

APRIL 30, 2024

Whereas PIM manages product data across sales channels for consistency and accuracy. It encompasses every aspect of a product’s interaction with its users, from initial discovery through onboarding , daily use, and beyond—all to retain users. PIM, however, aims to streamline product information management, sales, and marketing.

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CustomerSuccessBox

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Here, he discusses the steps to be followed for effective Customer Onboarding. Can you define successful onboarding? What are the ingredients of a perfect customer onboarding? What are the KPIs and metrics you track for onboarding? What happens if customer onboarding goes wrong? Pre-sales / Post Sales).

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Baremetrics

MARCH 9, 2021

What is churn management? Are there any two words that SaaS companies hate more than customer churn? The good news is that there are a number of tips and tools, like Baremetrics, to improve customer experience and customer satisfaction, measure and analyze churn, and develop strategies to put an end to churners.

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Totango

AUGUST 28, 2020

A lot goes into crafting the ideal onboarding process for SaaS products. One way to tackle both of these challenges at once is to utilize a customer onboarding checklist for your CS team that clearly delineates all of the targets that need to be hit during this stage of the customer journey. Why Optimizing Your SaaS Onboarding Matters.

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Totango

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

We know that sales and customer success (CS) teams must work together to drive revenue growth and expansion. Check out three highlights from the conversation, and listen to the full podcast to gain more insights and tips on how your teams can create a mutually beneficial relationship between CS and sales.

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User Pilot

MAY 2, 2024

Key metrics to measure customer retention include customer retention rate , customer churn rate , customer acquisition cost, and customer effort score. Secondary onboarding introducing advanced features unlocks additional customer value. Use product analytics to find friction points and anticipate user churn. To prevent it.

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Valuize Consulting

APRIL 26, 2022

A Cross-Functional Approach To Churn Prediction. From Support data and usage data to your organizational milestones and client relationships, your organization is chock full of powerful insights that can help you with churn prediction, spotting at-risk customers and identifying upsell and cross-sell opportunities.

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