SaaSHolic

DECEMBER 2, 2021

A bad onboarding experience won’t impact your bottom line as a SaaS company, but it will negatively affect your customer’s productivity. What makes an onboarding experience a bad one? BigCommerce is so focused on providing a robust onboarding experience that they even offer one-on-one consultation for their clients.

Onboarding 52

Onboarding Strategy SaaS Underperforming Technical Team 52

Valuize Consulting

APRIL 8, 2022

As a revenue leader, are you empowering and incentivizing all of your customer-facing teams to drive maximum NDR in your organization? Given the importance of net new sales to your company’s longevity and value, your Sales team should be empowered to wholeheartedly focus on acquisition. Evolve Your SaaS Revenue Model For Maximum NDR.

Innovation 52

Innovation Underperforming Technical Team Outsourced Development Compensation 52

ChurnZero

JANUARY 4, 2019

the stuff that Customer Success teams are really meant to do). One customer success trend I’m seeing is the need to develop more repeatable customer education programs. The biggest trend I see emerging in Europe, which started at the end of 2018 is Customer Success Plans becoming a staple asset of Customer Success teams.

Customer Success 73

Customer Success SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions 73

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? John Doherty of Credo.

Finance 111

Finance Startup SaaS Payments Payment Methods 111

SmartKarrot

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

To develop excellent customer experiences , consultants have worked hard to assist businesses in recognizing the magnitude of customer scores. The objective is to develop a strong customer base. The possibility that a client would renew their membership is perhaps the outcome chosen by one team. Boost renewal rates?

Customer Success 10

Customer Success Underperforming Technical Team Payment Solutions Payment Features 10

SmartKarrot

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

To develop excellent customer experiences , consultants have worked hard to assist businesses in recognizing the magnitude of customer scores. The objective is to develop a strong customer base. The possibility that a client would renew their membership is perhaps the outcome chosen by one team. Boost renewal rates?

Customer Success 10

Customer Success Underperforming Technical Team Payment Solutions Payment Features 10

OpenView Labs

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Lack of segmentation leads to weak product-market fit. This, in turn, signals potential churn, difficulties getting new sales reps productive, below-average win rates, weak pricing power and never-ending product roadmap discussions. One simple metric I use is the expected ARR per opportunity in a segment.

Benchmarks 41

Benchmarks Underperforming Technical Team Scale SaaS 41

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

For Samuel Hulick , a UX consultant and one of the biggest authorities out there on user onboarding, that means thinking less about the product itself and more about how to get users the results they’re after. Samuel Hulick: I actually started as a full stack developer. And it was basically my job to make it clickable.

Onboarding 254

Onboarding Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team 254

ChurnZero

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Sam has over 16 years of experience in consulting, product management, and leading customer success teams. Bloomfire allows teams to improve productivity and customer centricity by creating a self-service knowledge base. We had the right people on our team, but we needed to invest in technology to scale and formalize processes.

Customer Success 40

Customer Success Sales Hiring Scale Underperforming Technical Team 40

ChurnZero

JANUARY 4, 2019

the stuff that Customer Success teams are really meant to do). One customer success trend I’m seeing is the need to develop more repeatable customer education programs. The biggest trend I see emerging in Europe, which started at the end of 2018 is Customer Success Plans becoming a staple asset of Customer Success teams.

Customer Success 49

Customer Success SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions 49

SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2019

Prior to Kustomer, Vikas spent over 20 years implementing, consulting, marketing, and selling CRM and ContactCenter solutions with companies like LivePerson and Oracle. Here’s what Eyal and Megan talk about: How to develop software faster. Why does Vikas believe that a wave of SaaS incumbents are about to be displaced or disrupted?

SaaS Payments 137

SaaS Payments Cloud Technical Review Scale 137

Neil Patel

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Find an Amazon marketing consultant. 3 Ways an Amazon Marketing Consultant Can Help Grow Your Business. Most Amazon consultants focus on one goal: getting you more customers. Here are the main ways that a consultant can help. And they do this with poor store setup and product listings. Use them for these areas.

Consulting 112

Consulting Outsourcing Services Marketing Underperforming Technical Team 112

Chargify

APRIL 23, 2019

If you have a clear answer to the first question and a confident ‘Yes’ for the second, then you’ve got problem/solution fit and a hypothesis, and it’s time to start pressure testing your idea,” advises growth marketing consultant Lauren Bass. Establishing/implementing metrics and analytics**. Securing first paying customers.

Scale 74

Scale SaaS Payments Scaling Payment Services 74

FastSpring

JANUARY 27, 2022

For example, Jon Torres — a digital marketing consultant specializing in SaaS commerce — noticed that, for some of his clients, refund requests spiked around renewal time. “It Note: FastSpring offers advanced subscription management services that support free trials, monthly and annual paid plans, proration, discount management, and more.

Merchant Services 135

Merchant Services Payment Services SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 135

ChurnZero

MARCH 20, 2020

Additional research showed that “[M]any of its Customer Success Managers fell short in this area, despite their technical backgrounds because they lacked the recent field experience needed to engage deeply with frontline operations teams.” Morgan advises that “Change agents need to develop a strong voice.” Improve Your Public Speaking.

Technical Advisors 52

Technical Advisors Technical Review Customer Success Software Review 52

FastSpring

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Full Interview: Audio Only Full Interview: Video 3 CRO Insights From Dave Gowans Why Full Funnel CRO Is Especially Important for SaaS and Subscriptions “The easiest and most straightforward bit of CRO is what you can do on the website,” Dave says. Stream the entire conversation or read the highlights below. Jump to highlights.

Payment Methods 178

Payment Methods SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payments 178

Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

These materials will take you from the basics SaaS Metrics — 101 to more advanced topics like Go-To-Market and Product-Led Growth (PLG). Here is a comprehensive list of SaaS blogs that goes through the most common metrics and terms. Only a handful of metrics really matter. I’ve tried – just ask my in laws.

Scale 52

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring SaaS 52

Outseta

MARCH 18, 2019

Wes Bush is a SaaS marketer who has quickly developed a reputation as “the free trial vs. freemium guy.” He helps SaaS leaders launch and optimize free trial and freemium models via his consultancy, Traffic is Currency , and is also the founder of the Product-Led Summit. The free trial vs. freemium framework Geoff Roberts: Awesome.

Payment Methods 40

Payment Methods SaaS Payments Payments Payment Solutions 40

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. Jason Lemkin: But usually your teams can’t do that. That’s a great example. This always works. ” I’ve never seen that one work.

Scale 236

Scale Outsourcing Services Sales Hiring VP of Engineering 236

SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

The SaaStock team will be landing in São Paulo to run the region’s first Pan-Latin American SaaS conference, SaaStock LatAm. Some of his first professional positions were Engagement Manager at McKinsey, as well as a management consultant at Value Partners. She’ll be talking about her approach to sales as a team sport.

Technical Review 207

Technical Review Scale Entrepreneurship Sales Hiring 207

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Never believe that doubting yourself is a bad thing. That company only lasted another year before they were out of business, so it was a poor use of my energy, time, and being away from my family – a lesson I work to pass on to others new in roles today. Invest in your development internally and externally. Joyce Johnson.

Scale 130

Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring VP of Engineering 130

Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

If you could visualize your data and share your findings with key team members? There are also free different subscription levels, depending on your needs: Power BI Free: With Power BI Free, you can access the Power BI Desktop app to create and manage reports. Well, I’ve got great news for you. Power BI Pro: Starting at $9.99

Marketing 114

Marketing Social Media Underperforming Technical Team Marketplace as a Service 114

SaaStr

MAY 10, 2019

231: Jason Reichl is the Founder & CEO @ GoNimbly, the first SaaS consultancy to focus on revenue operations. Currently growing 100% year over year, working with companies to un-silo their operations and create one strategic revenue ops team to support their Go To Market strategy. What does Jason view as vanity metrics?

Sales Hiring 136

Sales Hiring Scale Underperforming Technical Team Consulting 136

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

263: Building a company made up of distributed teams presents a plethora of complex challenges that can derail productivity and impact employee retention. But with it comes immense benefits and competitive advantages such as the diversification of ideas, speedier product development, and representation in important regions and time zones.

Sales Hiring 137

Sales Hiring Scale Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 137

Incredo

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Do you want to grow your SaaS sales team and improve your processes? maintain healthy atmosphere in your Smarketing team, make smart choices regarding your SaaS sales model, strategy, pricing, . Skills for SaaS Sales Team. 6 Essential skills for SaaS inside sales team to boost product’s sales. 3 examples for you).

SaaS Payments 157

SaaS Payments Payment Methods Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring 157

SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2019

We have the subscription revenue. The subscription economy. And we’ve got this megaphone called social media, that every single customer can talk about a great product experience, and they can also talk about a bad one. For Slack, it was one that a team sends 2000 messages. Totally changes the game. What happened?

Scale 206

Scale Sales Hiring Revenue VP of Engineering 206

User Pilot

JANUARY 26, 2021

It helps product and product marketing teams piece together and analyze the cross-channel data to improve their touchpoints. With this perspective, you are ready to take on crucial metrics that impact your annual revenue like Lifetime Value (LTV), Customer Retention, and churn. But then what? Or: Join our free email course!

Artificial Intelligence 98

Artificial Intelligence Data Machine Learning Underperforming Technical Team 98

SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2021

Turns out a founding team of six MBAs creating a full suite of products sold solely to SMBs can become a multi-million dollar public company in nine years – and continue growing rapidly ($77.6 Dharmesh : …said, “This is a very bad idea. million in 2013 to $115.9 million in 2014.). I said, “Holy crap.

Part-Time VPE 218

Part-Time VPE Technical Cofounder CTO Hire New CTO 218

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 31, 2017

While some experts view selling as an art of persuasion, all successful businesses approach it as a science composed of data, methods, metrics and processes. Based on a number of factors, your team should set an ideal customer profile and screen prospects based on this benchmark. What is a Sales Process? Popular Sales Methodologies.

Sales 82

Sales Underperforming Technical Team Artificial Intelligence Social Media 82

Outseta

MAY 8, 2020

What I’m hoping this post provides is an objective look at the world of technology start-ups—the good, the bad, and the ugly. Before I lived it, I thought of the tech world as being very business oriented—a place owned by analytical types and developers writing rigid blocks of code that looked like gibberish to me.

Part-Time VPE 102

Part-Time VPE Fractional VPE Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team 102

User Pilot

JANUARY 15, 2021

But making the effort to understand the fundamentals will allow you to make significant improvements to all your growth metrics faster. Why Google Analytics is not a product analytics tool , and how product analytics differs from and relates to product metrics. But look out for vanity metrics !

SaaS Payments 90

SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payments Underperforming Technical Team 90

Baremetrics

MARCH 23, 2020

The reason why it’s such a vital metric is that it has a greater affect on your business. For example, a churned user on a $50/mo plan isn’t nearly as bad as a churned user on a $500/mo plan. Or do you proactively guide them to make sure they’re getting the most from their subscription?

Churn 145

Churn Payment Methods Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 145

ChurnZero

JUNE 3, 2022

VC and PE firms now ask founders about the metrics owned by CS teams, specifically NRR and GRR , within the first ten minutes of conversation. I bet most, if not all, of them were based on a subscription. You Mon: When I think about being a leader, it’s all about how do I get my team to succeed. That’s No.

Customer Success 52

Customer Success Sales Hiring B2B Technical Review 52

ChurnZero

JUNE 3, 2022

VC and PE firms now ask founders about the metrics owned by CS teams, specifically NRR and GRR , within the first ten minutes of conversation. I bet most, if not all, of them were based on a subscription. You Mon: When I think about being a leader, it’s all about how do I get my team to succeed. That’s No.

Customer Success 52

Customer Success Sales Hiring B2B Technical Review 52

ProfitWell

OCTOBER 2, 2019

When it comes to measuring retention rate alone, there are dozens of different metrics that startups use. What’s more, a simple consultation with Google might suggest to you that the only way to really predict your company’s churn is to build a tailored end-to-end solution of your own. What is churn prediction? Even small numbers, 1.0%

Churn 61

Churn Payments SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 61

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 178

Merchant Services Scale Sales Recruiting Sales 178

Baremetrics

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Sean Ellis, who ran growth in the early days of Dropbox, LogMeIn, and Eventbrite benchmarked nearly a hundred startups with his customer development survey. Ideally, both metrics should be in the single digits, if not below 5%. The Quick Ratio, unlike other metrics, tells you how dire the situation is. Uplaunch / Superhuman ).

Retention 136

Retention Strategy Payment Solutions Technical Advisors 136