GetUplift

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Clearly, the case has been made for focusing on customer retention. There’s one very simple concept we need to internalize though before we dive into understanding strategies for customer retention. Gusto, a payroll tech company, is a good example of how changing consumer habits improves customer retention and loyalty.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Most of you are familiar with the customer life cycle, including customer acquisition, onboarding, adoption, cross-selling and upselling, and retention. . Stage 5: Employee Retention . The similarities between customer and employee retention are more obvious, with a goal of keeping good people around. . Constructive Conflict .

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ChurnZero

MAY 5, 2020

As businesses are thrust into uncharted territory, figuring out how to navigate customer retention strategies to minimize churn will determine their survival. For those who were unable to attend or would like a session refresher, below are the top takeaways for crafting your customer retention game plan. . What is Customer Goodwill?

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SaaStr

MARCH 19, 2021

They also address really wide-ranging industries from construction to restaurants, to designed infrastructure. Your success is not defined by going from 50 customers to 100— it’s about making sure that your interactions and product are focused on each individual customer to improve their ease of use and long-term retention.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Picking Your Core Verticals and Selling Outside of “Tech” 70% of Monday’s customers are non-tech — real estate, banking, construction, and even churches. Surprisingly, churches and construction companies signed up. By optimizing for NRR, gross retention, and net retention. So, how did two engineers get out of tech?

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Clouded Judgement

JUNE 9, 2023

Expansion revenue is still declining (we see this in falling net retention rates), but gross retention remains strong. They were also more constructive on cloud optimizations bottoming. New customer growth seems to be picking up. ” They’re also seeing some real strength in AI Services.

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Clouded Judgement

JULY 7, 2023

We’ll have to wait and see what retention is like a few weeks / months, but initial signups have been super impressive. The strength was driven primarily by a jump in leisure, hospitality and construction. Thursday was day 2 , and as of this writing (10pm on Thursday) there are 58m accounts already created.

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Clouded Judgement

MAY 5, 2023

Microsoft was more constructive that the optimization headwind would return to normal in the next couple or few quarters. I’m excited about the potential for a more constructive environment as we get closer to year end. Amazon not so much. What does seem clear - optimization headwinds are not getting stronger (good thing!).

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Valuize Consulting

MARCH 8, 2018

To create and sustain a growing and profitable B2B SaaS business you need a powerful revenue retention and expansion engine at its heart. As with all powerful and reliable engines, your revenue retention and expansion engine must be constructed with components that fit seamlessly together.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

For example, would you make a different choice if you knew development would be quicker, or if you were sure it would deliver better customer retention? what features can we develop in less than three months that we are confident will improve customer retention by more than 5%?). Stage 4: Identify your decision choices.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Instacart was taking a unique approach to tackling this category, using a four-sided marketplace dynamic: By partnering with physical grocers, they were able to leverage those partners’ existing investments in construction and inventory. Instacart didn’t need to build and stock warehouses.

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Blulogix

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The Benefits of Adopting Subscription Models Subscription models offer numerous advantages, including predictable revenue, enhanced customer retention, and the ability to scale with customer demand. It aligns perfectly with the digital age’s emphasis on continuous service and customer engagement.

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User Pilot

MARCH 10, 2024

It helps boost retention and drives customer loyalty. Incremental construction : Users prefer to build things in their sequence of choice. Cohort analysis refers to the process of tracking product engagement and retention over time for specific cohorts. Cohort analysis A cohort is a group of users with shared characteristics.

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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

That nuance is derived from three underlying factors: Construct. Customer Success metric 2: customer retention rate Customer retention rates measure a company’s ability to retain customers. That seems obvious, but here again, there is more than one way to calculate the customer retention rate including: Logo retention rate.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Another factor adding to this lack of constructive criticism is the experience of investors themselves. The revenue quality and retention rates are more a part of conversations now. That’s the role of a board in a startup’s journey. “If If you don’t have a board, get a board. Many new investors have not been through cycles.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 27, 2020

Take Caterpillar , the world’s largest construction equipment manufacturer, that has been selling tractors, engines, and other machinery for nearly 100 years. And every great customer metric is going to show a really strong relationship with customer engagement and retention on the one hand and customer churn on the other hand. “In

Scale 211

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Subscription Flow

DECEMBER 28, 2023

It will help you build constructive and productive teams and use investment in the right way. Retention Rate Another metric that is linked with conversion rate is the customer retention rate. However, here is the twist. Also Read: 10 Most Important Customer Success Metrics for SaaS Subscription Businesses 5.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 2, 2020

Diversity and inclusion: Along with having a top-line metric for recruiting and retention, Zapier gave every employee funds to support Black Lives Matter. . Support leaders need to enable teammates to drive to the right customer outcomes while also creating avenues for constructive feedback.

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Baremetrics

MAY 18, 2021

Trying to balance multiple efforts for marketing, sales, and retention can be extremely challenging. It’s most helpful to organize your efforts using a well-constructed SaaS sales conversion funnel. For your SaaS business, you have one key additional stages you need to consider: retention.

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SaaS Payments Customer Lifetime Value Payments SaaS 100

Totango

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Having a playbook in place can help you deliver better results for your SaaS customers and yield higher satisfaction, retention, and revenue for your business. Similarly, your customer success team can piece SuccessBLOCs together to construct playbooks for your entire customer journey. Optimize customer onboarding.

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Totango

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Customer support teams work with clients to fix these issues in real-time, helping them to find a solution while documenting the problem in-question—all while providing a friendly, constructive experience. Surveying customers to understand how they can best be supported.

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SmartKarrot

OCTOBER 13, 2023

A high customer retention rate is a testament to a company’s customer-centric approach, resulting in increased profits, positive word-of-mouth, and enhanced brand reputation. Considering this, here are five crucial strategies every customer retention playbook should include: 1.

Retention 10

Retention Strategy Marketplace as a Service Innovation 10

ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

That nuance is derived from three underlying factors: Construct. Customer Success metric 2: customer retention rate Customer retention rates measure a company’s ability to retain customers. That seems obvious, but here again, there is more than one way to calculate the customer retention rate including: Logo retention rate.

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Customer Success Metrics Software Review Customer Lifetime Value 52

FastSpring

JANUARY 26, 2024

The realization of value in the product by meeting customer’s goals will endear the product and the company to customers, increasing retention and therefore ARR. And as a result, increased productivity, increase staff retention, etc. So some customers may be looking to improve their employee engagement scores.

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CustomerSuccessBox

APRIL 12, 2022

Discovering new and innovative ways to help your customers with better product usage will ensure retention in the longer run. It is important to understand how your customers are using your product and to identify the engagement rate. Taking care of KPIs.

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CustomerSuccessBox

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

It has the ability to have a beneficial impact on a company’s retention and, consequently, enhance revenue. Other fundamental indicators can yield comparable results and aid in retention while putting less strain on your team’s time, resources, and mental capacity. Then, why is it not used widely?

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Metrics SaaS Software Review Onboarding 52

Frontegg

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

Let’s look closely at the basic tools necessary to ensure the smooth engagement, onboarding and retention of your customers and users. If you continue to look outward towards your users and customers for feedback and guidance, you will end up showcasing a carefully designed and constructed “customer friendly” final product.

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SaaS Software Review Social Media Technical Review 98

Neil Patel

MAY 4, 2021

What’s more: research shows they generate double the sales of paid ads and with a 37% higher customer retention rate. Here’s a Venn diagram of people who need and can handle constructive criticism. If you become a person who can actually handle constructive criticism, critics will mold you into a more polished influencer.

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Social Media Strategy Construction Branding 145

Baremetrics

MAY 26, 2021

You should also calculate churn quarterly and annually to have a clear sense of whether you need to refocus your marketing efforts from acquisition to retention. If you haven’t appropriately forecast your churn—both voluntary and involuntary —you can say so long to your carefully constructed financial model.

Metrics 59

Metrics Customer Lifetime Value SaaS Forecasting 59

CustomerSuccessBox

MARCH 17, 2022

By defining the major milestones in a customer’s relationship with you, you may construct a customer journey map. It’s important to construct functional boundaries to manage enterprises. Suggested Read : The Ultimate Guide on Customer Journey Mapping. Benefits of a Customer Journey Map. Why do you need a Customer Journey Map?

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User Pilot

JANUARY 9, 2024

Keep error messages simple and include a constructive solution. Funnels : Whether it's the conversion funnel or the retention funnel , you can analyze them both. Promote recognition by making elements, actions, and options easily visible. Provide shortcuts to aid the efficiency of expert users. Heatmap analysis in action.

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Software Review SaaS Interviewing User Experience 105

Neil Patel

DECEMBER 3, 2021

However, you can introduce procedures to limit the possibility of staff living, like: making a point of understanding your employees offering greater flexibility where you can recognizing early stages of burnout and acting before it becomes a crisis or resignation issue introducing a talent retention program optimizing the employee experience.

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Incredo

OCTOBER 17, 2019

You can do that if sales team is actively included in customer retention process and contributes to customer success. You do pay them for the initial deal and retention is another department’s job. Marketing and customer success teams are in charge for retention. That’s not about being wrong, that’s more about being unfair.

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SaaS Payments Compensation Payment Services Sales Recruiting 150

CustomerSuccessBox

MARCH 28, 2022

Millions of data points are there, yet you’re only guessing customer retention drivers. Hence, only the view will not drive net retention! It should not be a ‘game of luck’ to get to a 125 percent + NDR ( Net Dollar Retention ). False positives and negatives- Customer Success tools are based on certain rules, set up manually.

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Artificial Intelligence Customer Success AI Technical Review 52

Incredo

OCTOBER 17, 2019

You can do that if sales team is actively included in customer retention process and contributes to customer success. You do pay them for the initial deal and retention is another department’s job. Marketing and customer success teams are in charge for retention. That’s not about being wrong, that’s more about being unfair.

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SaaS Payments Compensation Payment Services Sales Recruiting 144

OPEXEngine

AUGUST 31, 2021

Lauren Kelley, CEO of OPEXEngine , a leading independent third-party provider of SaaS benchmarks, provides a great illustration of tech debt using the analogy of how financial models are constructed. R&D employee retention: There are correlations between high growth, efficiency, and employee retention.

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OPEXEngine

AUGUST 31, 2021

Lauren Kelley, CEO of OPEXEngine , a leading independent third-party provider of SaaS benchmarks, provides a great illustration of tech debt using the analogy of how financial models are constructed. R&D employee retention: There are correlations between high growth, efficiency, and employee retention.

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