ChurnZero

AUGUST 14, 2020

At ChurnZero, we’re humble enough to admit that Customer Success software can’t do it all, and quite frankly, it shouldn’t. We stick to our circle of competence and focus on our area of expertise: Customer Success software. It’s Customer Success for us. Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Software.

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User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

Confused about trying to understand SaaS roles? SaaS companies have many moving parts, and it can be difficult to determine who does what. TL;DR SaaS, or “Software as a Service,” is a business model that delivers centrally hosted software to subscribers over the internet. What is a SaaS business model?

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User Pilot

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Managing customer accounts is a pretty tough job, but you know what’s even tougher? SaaS account management. With the emergence of software-as-a-service (SaaS) companies, the role of account managers has also evolved – and gotten harder. What is SaaS account management?

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ProfitWell

MARCH 2, 2020

That’s what makes a customer success strategy so important. Thinking proactively about how to build products that help customers achieve their goals is the best tool you have for building lasting relationships. Guiding people effectively through that journey helps them see the value your service provides at each step of the way.

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FastSpring

AUGUST 2, 2023

Now as a successful international business, TestDome has been with FastSpring through all of it, and even when other payment platforms launched intriguing new products, Mario never saw a good reason to leave FastSpring. Working with FastSpring support, these issues have been very easy to solve. Here’s why. Now, Stripe offers it.

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User Pilot

APRIL 29, 2024

How can you use them for better customer engagement ? TL;DR Segmentation is a process of grouping customers by shared characteristics. A segmentation survey is used to gather the data necessary to segment customers. It’s used to identify new opportunities and understand the needs of potential customers.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 29, 2021

RevOps has grown in importance as SaaS products have continued to proliferate and organizations have recognized the importance of good data, efficient workflows, and ensuring cross-department collaboration. Ensuring partnerships, sales, product, engineering, and customer success teams have the information they need when they need it.

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User Pilot

JANUARY 27, 2023

However, it would be naive to expect customers to part with their hard-earned cash without first trying out the product. As a SaaS product manager , how do you give users a chance to experience your product value? So why not look at our 15 B2B SaaS free trial best practices that will help you boost your conversion rates?

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User Pilot

JUNE 28, 2023

Sustaining user engagement throughout the entire onboarding process can feel like a task only large teams can achieve. Platformly uses a progress bar and empty state CTAs to simplify the onboarding process for their complex product. Tips for improving the onboarding experience : Use UI patterns to draw users towards activation points.

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Subscription Flow

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

However, with the bustling world of opportunities to earn recurring revenue , subscription-based SMEs are also faced with unprecedented demands for speed, efficiency, compliance and customer support. Less tech-savvy business owners transitioning from legacy systems may want guided onboarding rather than self-service.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 4, 2019

But what if you could have a better idea of the changes 2019 has in store for Customer Success professionals? We’ll see more applications of AI in Customer Success, but these will mostly be behind-the-scenes. the stuff that Customer Success teams are really meant to do).

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User Pilot

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Reducing the CAC payback period can help SaaS companies boost their financial performance and drive growth. TL;DR The CAC payback period measures the time it takes for a company to recover the money invested in new customer acquisition. There are 3 main reasons why a SaaS company should track the CAC payback period.

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Totango

AUGUST 23, 2022

By charting the points in your SaaS customers’ journeys, you can plan how to deliver clients’ desired outcomes and satisfying experiences that promote subscription renewals and higher revenue. In this way, customer journey B2B touchpoints serve as a powerful tool for increasing the effectiveness of your customer success strategy.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 18, 2024

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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ProfitWell

APRIL 17, 2020

If a customer struggles to use your SaaS product, then they're unlikely to feel that it's a good value/fit for them. It's in the best interest of every SaaS company to ensure its customers are able to understand and make the most of its products. The best way to do that is with a thorough customer success program.

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User Pilot

JULY 20, 2023

TL;DR Voluntary churn happens when customers cancel or downgrade their subscriptions while involuntary churn happens when a customer can’t continue using a service for reasons that are partially or entirely out of their control, most of the time related to payment processing issues. Bad customer service.

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User Pilot

JANUARY 31, 2023

How to prevent churn by identifying at-risk customers? In SaaS, you can grow your revenue only if your churn rate is low, so retaining at-risk customers is crucial. In this article, we will discuss the ins and outs of at-risk customers, how to detect them, and five actionable strategies to help you prevent churn.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 4, 2019

But what if you could have a better idea of the changes 2019 has in store for Customer Success professionals? We’ll see more applications of AI in Customer Success, but these will mostly be behind-the-scenes. the stuff that Customer Success teams are really meant to do).

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The Angel VC

MARCH 23, 2016

Almost exactly four years ago I published a financial plan template for SaaS startups based on a model that I had created for Zendesk a few years earlier. The original v1 model was a very simple plan for early-stage SaaS startups with a low-touch sales model. The "Revenues" line shows your end-of-month MRR for the respective month.

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User Pilot

DECEMBER 1, 2021

When working with SaaS products, a constant task you’ll find yourself obsessed with is how to increase user adoption. In this blog post, we’re going to learn 7 tested user adoption strategies for SaaS companies including real-life examples. Churn is the enemy of SaaS businesses. Let’s get started!

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User Pilot

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Feedback, as it combines qualitative and quantitative data to provide a comprehensive understanding of your customers so you can make better decisions. Customer service data to spot common problems in your service, analyze common queries, and predict customer behaviors and trends.

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OPEXEngine

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

There are many ways to classify SaaS companies, but differentiating companies based upon who their customers are presents the best approach for measuring performance and driving success for SaaS businesses. SMM SaaS Company Overview & Market Dynamics. SMM SaaS Company Overview & Market Dynamics.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

As for Krish, under Krish’s leadership the team has grown to over 300 people and over 5,000 clients making it one of the next generation in truly global SaaS businesses started in India. In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Krish made his way into the world of SaaS and came to found one of India’s fastest growing SaaS companies in Chargebee?

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User Pilot

MARCH 31, 2023

How do you build a successful free-to-paid conversion strategy for your SaaS? This is a question every customer success manager must address in order to turn free users into paying customers. 15% is a good free trial conversion rate for SaaS products. What’s a good free trial conversion rate in SaaS?

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Natalia Luneva

JANUARY 8, 2022

Similar platforms are usually used by community managers, marketing managers, customer support managers, and product managers to engage users, retain customers, facilitate the support process, and gather product feedback. Why should SaaS startups build communities? Let’s start comparing!

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FastSpring

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Elevate Your Business With FastSpring Contextual Customer Churn: Turning the Tide With Proven Retention Strategies The Only Thing That’s Constant With Tax Law Is Change Need FastSpring support? Visit our Support page. Ensure that your website has robust security measures in place to protect customer data.

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SmartKarrot

MARCH 8, 2022

In celebration of International Women’s Day, we are honored to present our Top 50 Women Leaders in Customer Success to Follow list for 2022, celebrating 50 influential women leaders and their inspiring stories of strength and success. Her diverse yet unique skills include customer life cycle optimization from pre-sales.

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OpenView Labs

JANUARY 13, 2022

45% of SaaS companies said they had some form of usage-based pricing, up from 34% in 2020. Fully embracing usage-based pricing rather than traditional seat-based subscriptions is analogous to making the transition from on-prem to SaaS in the first place. Customer Value Management will supercede customer success, Steven Forth.

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Payrix

APRIL 2, 2024

A comprehensive Embedded Payments strategy isn’t complete without value added services. But, as a software platform, what value added services should you be considering? And when should you start thinking about these solutions and infusing them into your payment ecosystem and experience?

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SmartKarrot

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Customer Success (CS) roles and dedicated CS teams have risen in these last few years. In 2019, there were 40,000 CS job vacancies available in the UK alone, and the number is constantly growing with increasing competition in the SaaS market. Customer Success Trends that C-Level Leaders should Note.

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Tom Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2014

This post is part of a continuing series evaluating the S-1s of publicly traded SaaS companies in order to better understand the core business and build a library of benchmarks that might be useful to founders. All of the businesses we’ve looked at in the past have been purely SaaS businesses.

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User Pilot

APRIL 23, 2021

Without exception, all the SaaS businesses I’ve ever spoken with want to keep their churn rate down. That’s because retention and activation , not acquisition, are the main drivers of profitability in the SaaS world. You’re not going to recoup all that investment with just one round of monthly payments per customer.

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SmartKarrot

AUGUST 11, 2021

“A customer is a King”, an age-old business mantra that emphasizes the importance of customers or would-be customers in every business. The same is true for companies who are dealing in SaaS products. The lifeblood of the SaaS business is its customers. Fewer features in your SaaS product.

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Upscope

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

We found SaaS enterprise pricing to be quite confusing at first but having been through the process enough now, here's our advice for our younger selves. Enterprise 1: Mid-sized company They want to build Upscope into their own support tool so their staff can instantly screen share with customers. Do usage based pricing.

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SmartKarrot

APRIL 13, 2020

SaaS companies have transformed the way global businesses work. Ever since its inception in the 1960s, SaaS has evolved from a mere time-sharing system to innovative and efficient applications that can be accessed on multiple computers. In this blog we’ll talk about SaaS business and top 50 SaaS companies in 2020.

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CustomerSuccessBox

JULY 14, 2021

Adoption is the phase where customers get acquainted with your product, integrate it into their workflow and learn ways to use it that maximizes their benefit. Customers only adopt a product if it helps them achieve their goal. Why the Adoption Phase Matters in SaaS. This is the time they need your support 24/7.

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OpenView Labs

JANUARY 29, 2020

Freemium in SaaS is old news. The much-discussed pricing strategy took over the SaaS world and helped fuel the phenomenal success of SaaS pioneers like Dropbox, Evernote, SurveyMonkey and Hootsuite. SaaS companies have gotten much smarter about when to apply a freemium model to their products – and how to do it.

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