User Pilot

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Let’s review everything your customer success team has to do in the absence of any customer success tools. Best customer success software for startups and small companies. Best customer success software shortlist ClientSuccess – starting from $15,000/year. Defining a customer success tool and other FAQs.

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How To Buy Saas

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

In fact, 92% of businesses say CRM software is crucial to achieving their revenue goals. Effective sales teams are also 81% more likely to be consistent CRM users , underscoring how vital these systems are for success. Its early vision was to end software as we knew it instead delivering enterprise applications via the internet.

Scale 52

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User Pilot

MARCH 5, 2025

That’s where customer engagement software comes in. How I chose the best customer engagement software My evaluation process combined thorough feature analysis , a careful review of user feedback, and insights from industry reports. But how do you track and strengthen these connections? Criterion Does It Deliver?

Software Review 52

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SaaStr

JULY 1, 2025

So ICONIQ Growth is back with their 2025 State of AI Report: Survey Overview It has some great data from 300 high growth software companies building AI products. Customer-facing products that hallucinate kill trust and churn users. It’s not about replacing developers—it’s about 10X-ing their output.

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User Pilot

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Unfortunately, the research backs this up, with a staggering 90% of users reporting that they stopped using an app due to poor performance. Poor performance includes slow loading times, complex design, confusing navigation, and unresponsive features. To assign meaning to whether the numbers are good or bad, context is crucial.

Data 105

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Blulogix

JUNE 18, 2025

By BluLogix Team Channel Chaos: How to Monetize Through Partners Without Losing Control—What the MGI Report Says In MGI Research’s 2025 Agile Billing Top 50 Buyer’s Guide , BluLogix earned recognition not just for usage billing and mediation, but for something most billing platforms barely touch: n-tier partner monetization.

Payment Features 52

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User Pilot

APRIL 2, 2025

In this article, I’ll show you how Userpilot helps product teams cut through the noise and understand what really matters in mobile user behavior: no data science degree required. The platform’s code-free implementation makes it accessible for product managers who want insights without constantly relying on developers.

Mobile 66

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User Pilot

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Every SaaS company faces problemsproduct performance issues, low NPS, churn. This guide breaks down a simple, step-by-step RCA process designed for SaaS teams. This guide breaks down a simple, step-by-step RCA process designed for SaaS teams. Lets say theres an increase in churn of 9%. When is it happening? Path analysis.

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How To Buy Saas

MAY 26, 2025

Picture this youre drafting an email and your software suggests the next sentence with uncanny accuracy, or youre chatting with a customer service bot that feels almost human. As the figure shows, theres often a feedback loop teams analyze data quality by training a small model or using heuristics, then refine the dataset further if needed.

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Theyquestion the status quo, and relentlessly pursue their customers’ success, using ChurnZero software to power their initiatives and achieve breakthrough results. The Ollie team reimagined the process, using ChurnZero to structure and systemize their onboarding and keep customers on track.

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GetUplift

MARCH 24, 2025

Gravitating toward competitors can also help make people on your team feel safe with the direction youre going. Maybe generic messaging brings in some people that you wouldn’t otherwise bring in, but these people arent your best-fit customers, and they can be more likely to switch and churn than your best-fit customers.

Strategy 52

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Sales Hacker

JULY 8, 2025

But behind every product launch and revenue milestone is a team – and building that team is one of the hardest and important parts of the journey. Build the team that builds the company.” – that is part of your go-to-market strategy responsible for growth. I love this part. Doug is a multi-time founder and product leader.

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User Pilot

APRIL 24, 2025

Want to advance your career in product management or find top talent for your team? This article shares exciting product manager roles focused on retention and churn and showcases standout candidates in the field. Stripe They’re looking for a senior Product Manager to lead a pillar within our LPM Cost Optimization team.

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User Pilot

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

With session recordings , you can spot thrashed cursors in action and fix them before users churn out of frustration. Its a behavioral red flag that reveals user frustration caused by poor UX issues that might otherwise go unnoticed. Once you identify a problem area, session replay software can help visualize user behavior.

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Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Technical Review Social Media 52

User Pilot

MAY 17, 2025

In fact, 52% of users have abandoned a mobile app due to poor localization , and over 60% of B2B buyers say theyll choose a localized product over a more expensive one in a foreign language. Your localized experiences, combined with other in-app personalization strategies, will enable you to consistently deliver value and reduce user churn.

Mobile 66

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Developers act, think, and behave differently than your average customer. As an API-first company, WorkOS focuses on selling primarily to developers. Doing Business with Developers. Developers haven’t typically been the buyers in enterprise software, so why should you build for developers?

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Outsourced Development Underperforming Technical Team Development Part-Time VPE 210

SaaStr

JULY 10, 2021

So let’s take a look back to a deep dive with the CEOs on what they learned building their first senior teams: ———-. As a founder/CEO, building your first management team is something that you often lose sleep over. What makes you feel that you need to level up your management, set up your first management team?

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SaaStr

JULY 1, 2021

PlanGrid builds beautiful, simple software for the construction industry. The second is pulling more around values, and how we approached team building. Even as a three person team, we went through an exercise to figure out what do we stand for, as a team? Getting the team right is so key here.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Scaling a support team is challenging enough as it is. Maybe you’ve just extended support hours and it’s becoming harder to plan shifts for different time zones; maybe you’re spending hours figuring out schedules for the week ahead; maybe the inflow prediction was a bit off and now your team is under or overstaffed.

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Outsourcing Services Scale Software Sales Hiring 206

SaaStr

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Co-founder and CEO at Greenhouse, Daniel Chait, sits down with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin to share what’s new at Greenhouse, a successful recruiting software company at $200M in ARR today. Hiring is complicated, so you have to build a lot of software to get to $200M ARR. You could do vanilla 101 SaaS practices and succeed.

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Chart Mogul

JULY 8, 2020

Tired of the same ol’ “X proven ways to reduce customer churn”? SaaS companies dedicate a lot of time and money to the same goal — they want to give customers a reason to stay and reduce churn. But no matter what that personality is for your brand, it’s consistency that counts for reducing customer churn. Click To Tweet.

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Kellblog

JULY 8, 2020

Mark’s a seasoned startup executive, he’s go-to-market oriented, and he has some large-company chops that he developed earlier in his career. Here’s an edited version of Mark’s top ten enterprise software startup mistakes list, along with a few comments prefaced by DK. Ignoring churn greater than 15%.

Sales Hiring 145

Sales Hiring Startup Software Review Enterprise 145

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

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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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

The second constituent there is the developer. Why do developers love SaaS products? 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. MRR, obviously.

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SaaS Payments Metrics Payment Methods Scale 247

Chaotic Flow

AUGUST 18, 2015

SaaS businesses develop intimate, long term relationships with their SaaS customers. Churn Starts on Day One. It is typical in B2B software for customer acquisition to eat up 50% or more of total costs. In traditional licensed software, that cost is immediately recovered when a deal is closed by the revenue of the deal.

Customer Success 138

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FastSpring

JANUARY 27, 2022

Each of the companies Jon worked with lowered churn by creating a better notification process, including a reminder about their renewal six weeks prior to the billing cycle. In this piece, we offer seven case studies from SaaS companies — small tweaks they made to reduce churn and increase customer LTV. Small things matter,” Jon added.

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Merchant Services Payment Services SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 146

SaaStr

JULY 15, 2022

Jason Lemkin: You certainly can hire a whole content team and build 10,000 pieces of content, but I will tell you what I have always seen work is one incredible piece a week. Sure, we’ll give you a million dollars a year, but you basically have to build custom software. Jason Lemkin: But usually your teams can’t do that.

Scale 293

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Totango

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Whether you’re not using a customer success platform yet or you’re using an aging CS tool, there comes a time when you need to upgrade CS software. They can store customer contact data, identify sales opportunities, schedule sales appointments, record notes from sales meetings and manage sales teams. You Can’t Evaluate Customer Health.

Software 98

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 23, 2019

Even the strongest customer testimonials won’t prevent churn if people don’t understand how to use your product. Done poorly, your hard-won user can quickly become a churn statistic. A poor onboarding experience can lead to refunds or cancellations that you can’t afford. Here’s the proof.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 23, 2020

Once every decade or two, developments in technology trigger monumental changes in an industry. The Conversational Support Funnel has three layers: Proactive Support with messaging to answer customer questions in the product experience, reducing the number of queries reaching the support team. The Conversational Support Funnel.

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User Pilot

JULY 29, 2024

Looking for the best customer success management software to power up your product growth strategy, but you are overwhelmed with so many options in the market? TL;DR Customer success software refers to tools that help manage customer experiences and drive customers toward their desired outcomes. We’ve got you covered!

Customer Success 105

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Certainly you’re reducing churn. And there’s lots of examples and if you’ve seen these TED Talks, you hear about Apple, Think Different and you hear about Salesforce in their early days and no software. So most of my career was over the last 10 years was that Sage Intacct and we sold accounting software.

Scale 240

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 19, 2021

And for your support team, using the right conversational support tool and framework allows them to maximize their resources, so they can focus on solving complex queries and building long-term customer relationships. But conversational support doesn’t just benefit your support team. Teams that benefit: Sales, marketing.

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Natalia Luneva

JANUARY 13, 2021

This article will answer the main questions that SaaS founders and market ers have about losing SaaS customers, in other words, user churn: What is SaaS churn definition and why lowering it matt ers? How to calculate this metric and what’s the average SaaS churn rate? How can Sa aS companies reduce its churn rate?

SaaS Payments 105

SaaS Payments Payment Methods Churn Payment Services 105

FastSpring

MAY 20, 2024

Moving some, all, or simply more of your software offerings from a one-time perpetual license model to a software as a service (SaaS) subscription model can be daunting, but it’s so powerful for building dependable, recurring revenue. Prepare for renewals with value adds to reduce churn.

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Chart Mogul

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Schremser tells us the story of how the Usersnap team turned churn analytics into a powerful tool to improve their product. Churn rates can keep business owners and leaders up into the wee hours of the night, head-scratching why it can’t be reduced to a reasonable amount. We were able to figure out why our churn was so high.

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