ChurnZero

AUGUST 14, 2020

Not product management. And by virtue of that, it’s essential that Customer Success software – like a Customer Success team – plays well with the others it works alongside if the customer is to truly come first. Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Software. It’s Customer Success for us. What is a CRM? Who owns it?

Payments 87

Payments Payment Solutions Customer Success Software Review 87

Neil Patel

APRIL 12, 2021

They offer some of the best-known subscription boxes around, reflecting an increasingly popular (and potentially lucrative) business model. Why Should You Launch a Subscription Box? According to MarketsandMarkets , the subscription and recurring billing market will grow to around $7.8 Recurring Business Revenue.

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ChurnZero

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Every Customer Success team focuses on keeping customers engaged and ultimately, preventing churn. But as a company scales and brings in new accounts, CSMs can start to feel like Lucy and Ethel in the chocolate factory—the customers keep rolling along faster than CSMs can properly manage them! It doesn’t have to be this way.

Education 98

Education Customer Success Underperforming Technical Team Scale 98

Blulogix

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

By BluLogix Team Strategically Aligning Your Business Needs with the Ideal Platform In the vast sea of digital transformation, selecting the right monetization platform can feel like navigating through uncharted waters. Regulatory Compliance and Security: Ensure the platform complies with relevant industry regulations (GDPR, PCI DSS, etc.)

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Payment Features Underperforming Technical Team Operational efficiency. Technical Review 52

Scytale

MARCH 19, 2024

In this blog, we’ll walk through best practices for getting audit-ready, from getting your documentation together to prepping your team. Process improvements: The audit process often identifies areas for improvement in your internal controls, security procedures, risk management, and governance.

Payment Services 52

Payment Services Payment Solutions Payments SaaS Payments 52

SaaStr

JANUARY 24, 2024

Mark Roberge , SaaStr fan-favorite and Co-Founder and Managing Director of Stage 2 Capital brought together some of the top CROs in SaaS during the SaaStr Annual to share some of their greatest learnings and pivotal moments leading some of the Cloud 100 SaaS companies. The bad news is it wasn’t driving the results they wanted.

Scale 216

Scale Sales Hiring Scaling Revenue 216

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

MARCH 23, 2020

Companies which don’t use mental models risk unleashing mayhem with poor choices or becoming bloated and bureaucratic by reducing the volume and speed at which decisions are made - both scenarios are undesirable and will impact growth. OKRs are a useful mental model - they make it crystal clear what people and teams should be striving for.

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Underperforming Technical Team Scale Sales Hiring Marketplace as a Service 213

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 3, 2018

Product management is about solving problems. Rohini Pondhi , product management lead for Square’s Invoices product, knows this challenge well. Here are five quick takeaways: Instead of relying on word of mouth to permeate the team, write things down. At Square, I manage a product called Square Invoices.

Payment Methods 195

Payment Methods Merchant Services Scale Payment Features 195

Totango

JANUARY 26, 2021

For example, if you sell a subscription SaaS product, a simple procedure for calculating your monthly churn rate would be: Take how many subscribers canceled their subscriptions that month. The retention rate is calculated in a similar way, except you start with how many subscribers renewed their subscription that month.

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Churn Retention Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 90

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 23, 2018

Most sales and support teams are already well versed in conversations about data deletion, risk assessments and security frameworks, but those issues are going to become an even more prominent part of the discussion once GDPR comes into effect. People that monitor and support your community need to be privacy minded.

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Underperforming Technical Team compliance Systems Review Marketplace as a Service 220

User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

Chief Operating Officer: Responsible for overseeing day-to-day operations, providing strategic advice, and managing the company’s operations. Engineering Manager: In charge of planning, designing, and overseeing projects. They also manage finances and supervise one or more engineering teams.

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Sales Hiring SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting CTO Hire 98

User Pilot

OCTOBER 10, 2022

In this article, we’ll cover the key metrics you need to develop an informed feature adoption strategy and discuss how you can improve them. Feature adoption allows you to separate the successful features from the underperforming ones. Uncover weak spots and improve feature adoption. We’ve got you covered! Time to adopt.

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Metrics Strategy Underperforming Technical Team Onboarding 97

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

There’s sales pipeline , a 7-stage journey describing what your sales team must do to convert a lead to a customer. For your team, the goal is to share more information about your products without appearing overly promotional. For your team, this step is about making your prospects realize they need your products or service.

Sales Funnel 119

Sales Funnel Outsourcing Services Underperforming Technical Team Social Media 119

ChurnZero

JULY 22, 2022

Does your Customer Success team have a shallow view of onboarding? They’re an open source big data platform and the director of onboarding said, “Management wants me to build out a whole risk mitigation plan.” I get more contacts and we address it immediately, so that’s risk management as well. I have two handoffs.

Scale 98

Scale Onboarding Scaling Underperforming Technical Team 98

Frontegg

AUGUST 19, 2021

Users don’t want to write emails or engage with support teams anymore. Onboarding, user management, subscriptions – let’s take a closer look at the potent self-service and PLG combo. This results in constant engagement with support and sales teams, something that puts them under pressure and leads to frustration.

SaaS Payments 98

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions Underperforming Technical Team 98

Chargify

MARCH 25, 2019

Recurring subscriptions are becoming the norm in the business world, and for good reason. Subscription services give the end user control over costs and employee access, without the cumbersome contracts. But some software-as-a-service (SaaS) companies struggle with how to sell subscriptions.

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SaaStr

JULY 25, 2021

You can have the great product and a great team, but the market of small or very niche. The second one is the team, obviously depending on how earlier the team has a huge factor because you may be so early in your journey that there’s nothing else to point to, but the track record of the team. Jyoti Bansal: Yeah.

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User Pilot

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Startups use these surveys in the early stages of product development to measure the degree to which a product satisfies market demand. If at least 40% of respondents say they would be very disappointed, then you’ve managed to build a product that effectively addresses your target customers’ needs and brings value to them.

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Retention Scale Underperforming Technical Team Churn 98

Incredo

OCTOBER 17, 2019

or “how long should I spend on developing my software ?”. To answer your questions correctly, we need to ask for clarification and more details about your software, its complexity and company goals. If you search on Google, Youtube or Quora, answers will tell you that 7%, 9%, 10% or more is the common approach.

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SaaS Payments Compensation Payment Services Sales Recruiting 150

Incredo

OCTOBER 17, 2019

or “how long should I spend on developing my software ?”. To answer your questions correctly, we need to ask for clarification and more details about your software, its complexity and company goals. If you search on Google, Youtube or Quora, answers will tell you that 7%, 9%, 10% or more is the common approach.

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SaaS Payments Compensation Payment Services Sales Recruiting 144

Chargify

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Managing offers, reliable billing, and subscription lifecycle management is complex, creating an iceberg effect for companies that decide to tackle it on their own. It allows us to upgrade, downgrade, or cancel a client’s subscription easily. “I wish we would have gone with Chargify from the beginning.”.

Merchant Services 51

Merchant Services Subscription Payment Features SaaS Payments 51

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

As Head of Sales for Spendesk, Nico was initially inspired by the vision of founder Rodolphe Ardant who had spotted a gap for ‘spend management’ in the B2B market based on personal banking trends. So they created a software that provides control, visibility, and payment methods for corporate finance teams.

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Scale Payment Methods Payment Solutions Marketing 162

SaaSOptics

MAY 19, 2022

For subscription-based SaaS businesses, your customer acquisition metrics indicate how effectively you acquire new users via sales, marketing, or a product-led approach like a free trial. Below, we’ll dive into how to develop a customer acquisition strategy from start to finish. . How to Develop a Customer Acquisition Strategy.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 10, 2021

To create an effective and efficient sales funnel, your sales and customer support teams need to be well trained and in sync with each other. This guide will look at how you can include the support team in the sales process. We will also walk through some primary benefits of having the two teams on the same page. Reduce churn.

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ChurnZero

AUGUST 11, 2020

As customers struggle to adjust and manage, they’ll want to know their troubles are being heard by the businesses they interact with. Customer Success teams are in a unique position to listen to their customers’ challenges. Just like in the first wave, your customers’ lives will be turned upside down once the next wave hits.

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Retention Strategy Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 97

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 16, 2019

For several years, I ran account management at a marketing agency — a business model infamous for mismatched expectations and subjective quality of delivery. I’ve seen lots of good AND bad handoffs, and learned what to look for the hard way. A bad handoff can increase the customer’s time to ROI. But I’m getting ahead of myself.

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Underperforming Technical Team Sales Outsourced Development Onboarding 50

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

For the past 25 years, she’s been helping people and businesses draft their own style guides and write better emails, chats, and social media messages to improve both communication and the customer experience. One thing I wanted to start with was messaging that’s not effective, the kind of fails and blunders of written communication.

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Payment Methods Airlines Branding Communication 118

ProfitWell

MARCH 2, 2020

The subscription economy is built on relationships. A customer success strategy is also one of the most important tools that SaaS and subscriptions have for boosting retention rates. When a customer encounters an issue with a product or service, they’ll reach out to a customer service/support team to resolve them.

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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. Letting FastSpring handle the subscription infrastructure.

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Payments SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions 78

All that Saas

JUNE 22, 2021

It doesn’t matter what the size of the team is, they can do it all, plan projects, conduct meeting, and multi-task. Teams need to collaborate for ideas, execute projects, and increase knowledge to cultivate stellar work. This is why teams and organizations prefer Ayoa because it takes online collaborative whiteboards to a new level.

Software Review 52

Software Review Technical Review Systems Review Payment Methods 52

OpenView Labs

AUGUST 2, 2019

Giving in to stress and frustration only leads to bad decisions that could eventually sink you. This said, you still have to communicate with them frequently. Even if you don’t completely ignore finance, you may be managing it the wrong way. You may also end up unnecessarily paying for redundant subscriptions and tools.

Startup 40

Startup Part-Time VPE Payment Solutions Underperforming Technical Team 40

Neil Patel

OCTOBER 13, 2020

According to Wasp Barcode Technologies, the five biggest challenges facing small businesses center around employee management and profit. It’s a great way to record your invoices, share posts across social media, or get a text notification if an important client emails you. IFTTT stands for If This, Then That.

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Outsourcing Services Outsourced Development Sales Hiring Technical Review 141

SaaStr

MARCH 26, 2019

Formerly a senior leader at Google, Claire Hughes Johnson is now Chief Operating Officer at Stripe, where she’s helped guide the online payments firm through rapid growth. Know who is the foundation of your product and build your product for that user (in Stripe’s case, developers). Our team is in Room 111.

Scale 152

Scale Payment Services Payment Methods Scaling 152

ChurnZero

APRIL 17, 2020

One of the first things you do is flag this concern to your management team so your organization can help rally around the customer. After speaking with your POC again you find out that they unfortunately had to furlough a number of team members, which accounted for the decline in usage. What do you do? . Plan of Action.

Churn 52

Churn Payment Services Underperforming Technical Team Travel 52

User Pilot

MARCH 18, 2021

Why does retention management take so much time and effort? Customer Retention Strategy #1 – The Importance of Positioning and Managing Expectations. But how the marketing team decides to tell your story will determine who it connects with. vs. The Product Growth Tool for Product Teams. Which one would you buy from?

Retention 52

Retention Strategy Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 52

FastSpring

APRIL 13, 2023

When Justin and his initial team started looking for a way to capitalize on VR/AR technology, they focused their attention on the “made-to-order” industrial market. But Dopple’s team took the opposite approach. But it’s not great yet about communicating that information in a real world way. In offline, things are embodied.

Payment Methods 142

Payment Methods Marketing Payments SaaS Payments 142

Baremetrics

JANUARY 24, 2021

Anyone managing a SaaS or subscription business is aware of customer 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. We educated them on key functionality and attempted to get them to book a call with a member of our team.

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