Kellblog

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

While Davos , Main Street , and Wall Street may differ on scale and scope, everyone agrees that the economy is turning. Stock-based compensation (SBC) is increasingly controversial. Management teams should prepare themselves for activist investors and adapt their financial profile to keep valuations high. Valuations are down.

Software Review 119

Software Review Development Team Review Underperforming Technical Team Scale 119

Neil Patel

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Everything from a site builder, perhaps using a website template to web design and using social media to develop your new business website. So then, you decide to upgrade to a subscription plan. This is just as bad as not having a website in the first place. While they aren’t extremely expensive, they aren’t cheap, either.

Underperforming Technical Team 145

Underperforming Technical Team Social Media Marketplace as a Service Software Review 145

ChurnZero

JUNE 11, 2021

Customer health scores give Customer Success teams a deep understanding of a customer’s health and are a leading indicator that there may be an issue with an account or customer. A customer health score is a value that indicates the likelihood that a customer will renew their subscription or service with your company.

Software Review 96

Software Review Systems Review Scale Underperforming Technical Team 96

Kellblog

AUGUST 7, 2019

I’ve been asked about this a few times lately, less because people value my accounting knowledge [1] but rather because people are curious about the CAC impact of such deals and how to compensate sales on them. The question on my mind is how do I look at this from a new ARR bookings, ending ARR, CAC, and sales compensation perspective?

Deferred Revenue 74

Deferred Revenue Pricing Payments SaaS Payments 74

SaaStr

AUGUST 19, 2022

Jason recently opened up an AMA on Twitter Spaces to answer questions about how to scale faster. Michiel Rauws (@michielrauws2): So, my question is, we’ve been scaling our SaaS business. We can scale accounts, when we get them, very well. And 75% of the team continuing business as usual. So much talk about downturn.

Scale 216

Scale Sales Hiring Scaling VP of Engineering 216

OpenView Labs

MAY 13, 2021

To scale efficiently and effectively, expansion-stage companies need to focus their efforts on a specific subset of customers who are most similar to their best current customers, not a broad universe of potential customers. Customer segmentation is the way. What is customer segmentation and why does it matter?

Scale 60

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Software Review 60

Baremetrics

MAY 7, 2019

Choosing the right combination of funding for your business is just as fundamental as choosing the right co-founders (or not), the right market, the right product, and the right team. To get started in finding the right funding options, answer these two questions as thoroughly and honestly as possible: What do I value?

Finance 111

Finance Startup SaaS Payments Payment Methods 111

ChurnZero

JULY 12, 2019

Perhaps product problems, loss of a key user in the account, a bad use case… Sure, these are some reasons why customers may churn, but the reality is that your churn rate is deeply connected to the quality of onboarding journey your users go through. Do you need to improve team communication? Check Slack. Online meetings?

Scale 75

Scale Onboarding Customer Success Underperforming Technical Team 75

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

How does David think about scaling sales teams? How should founders think about sales rep compensation? Number two, you have a team of people that you’ve worked with before and some of whom will come along with you. How should founders think about budget and resource allocation in this search for PMF?

Scale 199

Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting 199

Tom Tunguz

MAY 4, 2016

Plus, value-added resellers charged buyers on a per-project basis which doesn’t align neatly with the recurring subscription intrinsic to SaaS. By leveraging another company’s sales team, your startup’s cost to book a marginal revenue dollar decline, as revenue scales and net margin increases.

Underperforming Technical Team 100

Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring Compensation Scale 100

SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2019

Regardless of what stage you are in, he provides a framework to systematically approach this stage and what you should focus on to get to scale faster. We are screwing up the scale. We have the subscription revenue. The subscription economy. Join us for SaaStr Annual 2020. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW. Seventy-five percent.

Scale 209

Scale Sales Hiring Revenue VP of Engineering 209

User Pilot

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

TL;DR Collecting customer feedback is an important task for any product team. It helps you understand your users’ needs, the weaknesses of your product, and collect real-time usage insights to inform future feature and product decisions. 4) Ability to analyze the results – both quantitative and qualitative.

Software Review 52

Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Onboarding 52

User Pilot

APRIL 26, 2024

Creating a customer journey map can help your SaaS customer success team identify key AHA moments for them to drive customers towards. Customer success teams are your first line of defense in ensuring users accomplish their JTBD (job to be done) so don’t hesitate to invest in employee training. Churn rate. Customer stickiness score.

Customer Success 81

Customer Success Customer Lifetime Value SaaS Churn 81

User Pilot

MAY 8, 2023

TL;DR Appcues is another no-code user onboarding platform that helps non-technical teams track and analyze product usage. It enables product teams to track product usage and user behavior to guide product development and optimize the user experience. So let’s delve into the details! Try the best one now!

Software Review 52

Software Review Technical Review SaaS Underperforming Technical Team 52

User Pilot

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

TL;DR Collecting customer feedback is an important task for any product team. It helps you understand your users’ needs, the weaknesses of your product, and collect real-time usage insights to inform future feature and product decisions. 4) Ability to analyze the results – both quantitative and qualitative.

Software Review 52

Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Onboarding 52

User Pilot

MARCH 15, 2023

Appcues is a no-code user onboarding platform that helps non-technical teams track and analyze product usage. Rather than reinventing the wheel, your developers should prioritize their efforts around enhancing your software – making it faster or more visually appealing – and regularly shipping updates that delight your customers.

Software Review 52

Software Review Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Onboarding 52

User Pilot

MARCH 15, 2023

Appcues is a no-code user onboarding platform that helps non-technical teams track and analyze product usage. Rather than reinventing the wheel, your developers should prioritize their efforts around enhancing your software – making it faster or more visually appealing – and regularly shipping updates that delight your customers.

Software Review 52

Software Review Technical Review Onboarding Systems Review 52

User Pilot

MAY 4, 2023

UserIQ is a platform primarily tailored for customer success teams but can also be utilized for product adoption purposes. Appcues dashboard Appcues is a no-code user onboarding platform that helps non-technical teams track and analyze product usage. However, some users have reported experiencing several glitches while using the tool.

Software Review 52

Software Review SaaS Technical Review Onboarding 52

SaaStr

JULY 1, 2020

She manages a huge global team. It has a portion of its revenue that’s very sensitive to the economy and a lot of startups in the customer base, good and bad, right? I’m looking at it and I’m like, “Who’s got the Wall Street Journal subscription? Four, people in the sale? Jason Lemkin: None.

Merchant Services 184

Merchant Services Scale Sales Recruiting Sales 184

Sales Hacker

JUNE 30, 2020

The process for developing a new habit [13:08]. Sales teams have had to quickly adapt to a new normal. It can help your sales teams increase their pipeline win rates and deal sizes. It is really a mandatory must-have part of your toolkit if you’re managing any kind of sales team at scale.

Underperforming Technical Team 78

Underperforming Technical Team Scale Artificial Intelligence Travel 78

User Pilot

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Applying product-led growth practices also reduces your customer support and success costs – as your agents don’t need to reply to the same repetitive questions over and over again, and can replace them with reactive tooltips themselves without any help from the developers. Building a product tour in Appcues is relatively easy.

Software Review 52

Software Review Onboarding Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team 52

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

As for Allison, in her 5 years at Gainsight her list of achievements in endless from running all functions that drive value for Gainsight customers, now a 150 person team, to building out the corporate development function to being the right hand to the CEO. How can one approach setting up a services team for scale?

Engineering 28

Engineering Scale Underperforming Technical Team Customer Success 28

ChurnZero

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Today’s customers recognize the competition in the subscription market and look for renewal-worthy experiences built upon enduring returns. To deliver on their expectations takes true customer-centricity and a strong customer success team who can do far more than “be there” for your customers. Set a baseline of service and scale it.

Subscription 98

Subscription Payment Features Scale Business 98

Sixteen Ventures

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Whether you have a Software-as-a-Service, subscription or membership business or you sell one-off products or services and simply want to do business with your customer more than once, Customer Success should be your driving purpose. How to Develop a Customer Success Strategy. Metering / Billing / Payment Process.

Customer Success 136

Customer Success SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services 136