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Three chief customer officer job descriptions we love

ChurnZero

The role of the chief customer officer has become an essential function in subscription-based business models such as software-as-a-service (SaaS), where customer retention is paramount and requires executive-level leadership. SaaS businesses, meanwhile, benefit from predictable streams of recurring revenue.

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Balancing SaaS Growth and Profits to Maximize SaaS Company Valuation

OPEXEngine

The typical SaaS company grows faster, loses more money, and has a higher valuations than product sale companies. Public SaaS Companies. -8%. High-growth SaaS companies are often unprofitable. However, many unprofitable SaaS companies are cash flow positive because of the upfront SaaS payments by B2B clients.

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Why we're abuzz that Brightback is joining Chargebee!

BrightBack

billing, product, CRM, support), to deploy and test personalized user experiences that actually save customers, and to hire product managers with the time to run ongoing experiments, track results, and optimize at scale. What’s Next?

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Top 50 Women Leaders in Customer Success 2022

SmartKarrot

Her portfolio is gilded with leadership roles like board director, investor, COO, and P&L owner. An alumna of Yale and Stanford, Allison has contributed to the Customer Success industry as the COO of Gainsight, a prominent customer success company, and a 1B USD unicorn. Amarachi Ogueji. Anita Toth. Annette Franz.

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In the Subscription Economy, Only the Truly “Customer Centric” Will Survive!

SmartKarrot

Customer-centric thinking is crucial to building long-term relationships. You can build customer relationships with three important concepts-. Developing use cases and new cases for the product or service Boosting brand loyalty Increasing customer reliance on products or services. The era of the customer.

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The SaaS Financial Model You’ll Actually Update (Updated 2019)

Baremetrics

Since the original version of this post from early 2017, we’ve worked with many more SaaS companies and a common theme has been moving companies from a starter template to a more robust financial model. This model allowed me to work with dozens of SaaS startups using spreadsheets, while we built our financial modeling software Flightpath.

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A Step-by-Step Guide to Landing Your First Enterprise Client

SmartKarrot

But as more business companies choose the SaaS (Software as a Service) path, now is a fantastic time to enter this industry. . In this write-up, I will first explain what makes enterprise clients different and then take you through the all-important enterprise sales terminology that every B2B SaaS company should know.