SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2019

You don’t need us to tell you this is mainstream—even Jack Dorsey, co-founder, and CEO of Twitter and Square is investing in customer success: Hello St. Louis Square Customer Success team! So are you invested in your customers? If you’re in the SaaS industry, chances are you’ve heard of customer success.

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Scale Marketplace as a Service Customer Success Scaling 109

Totango

JULY 22, 2022

When facing a struggling economy, it’s more important than ever to keep your customers engaged and reminded of why your products and services are critical to their success. We are constantly adding innovative new apps to our Customer Journey Marketplace , including our newest Engage Customers SuccessBLOC.

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Communication Marketplace as a Service Technical Review Engagement 100

Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 23, 2022

The process of purchasing software is increasingly complex – the choices for products and services are endless, and customers have a harder time parsing which companies to trust and which product will better cater to their needs. Customers are looking more and more to their peers before considering a purchase.

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Software Review Trends Software Marketplace as a Service 118

Totango

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Today we are releasing the Early Warning System SuccessBloc, which gives you instant visibility into customer signals and critical events, alerting you to proactively engage when needed. Get started with this powerful new bloc today by installing it from the SuccessBloc Marketplace. Overdue Payments and Outstanding Balances.

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Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payment Services Marketplace as a Service 62

OPEXEngine

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

An additional non-financial constraint is a fact that these customers typically lack experience in software procurement and implementation, and this adds friction to the sales cycle. Customer success is usually staffed by a mix of customer support, sales, and engineering folks contributing some portion of their time to the Cost of Revenue.

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SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Methods Marketplace as a Service 52

SmartKarrot

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

In the ever-evolving landscape of the business world, customer success has become an essential component for sustainable growth of business and long-term prosperity. Today, we will dive into the Top 7 Must-Have Customer Success Playbooks , which are indispensable for business growth.

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Customer Success Marketplace as a Service Churn Onboarding 10

CloudGeometry

MARCH 22, 2022

The intensity of competition in the SaaS marketplace puts a premium on new, stable, and reliable features. The winners offer a better and faster way to solve customer problems. Depending on the kind of SaaS you offer, there’s a lot to learn from talking to customers about your product.

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DevOps as a Service Software Delivery Well Architected Framework AWS 130

User Pilot

JULY 31, 2023

If so, you’re in the right place, as this article discusses 15 tools that are excellent alternatives to Intercom and will help you optimize customer service processes and deliver outstanding self-service support. Help Scout is a customer service software offering shared inboxes, live chat, and in-app messaging.

Social Media 83

Social Media SaaS Marketplace as a Service Communication 83

FastSpring

DECEMBER 19, 2019

What is most exciting to me about this milestone is that it enables us to reinvest in innovation to further our customers’ success. Earned Awards for Our Product and Customer Success Team. We take great pride in delivering the best ecommerce platform that helps software businesses succeed in the global marketplace.

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Technical Review Software Review Marketplace as a Service Innovation 64

SaaStr

JUNE 3, 2020

The SaaS Trust Crisis is making it harder to market and sell software and services than ever before. Thanks to Jason Lemkin and the SaaStr Team for putting on this event in a very tough time. com, where we’re building, deleting software marketplace, we’re also seeing software booming. The situation is getting worse.

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Software Review Scale Technical Review SaaS 196

Totango

MARCH 20, 2019

In today’s Customer Centered Economy, data integration and visualizations are table stakes — operationalizing a universal, company-wide approach to customer centricity is what delivers a competitive advantage to enterprises.

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Enterprise Marketplace as a Service Scale Innovation 53

FastSpring

DECEMBER 18, 2018

We’re thrilled to grow our sales and customer success teams in Europe. I can’t wait to continue building powerful features and tools that make selling online even easier for our customers around the world. Earned Awards for Our Product and Customer Success Team. Achieved GDPR Compliance.

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Marketplace as a Service Sales Hiring Scale Leadership 64

Neil Patel

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

NP Digital is a performance marketing agency built by marketers, and our global offices allow us to deliver our specialized services to clients worldwide. Below, we’ll explain how each of our agencies works, the services they provide, and what to expect from each of them in the future. NP Digital Marketing Services.

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VP of Engineering Marketing Marketplace as a Service Social Media 126

SaaSOptics

MAY 19, 2022

The answer lies in your product or service’s value proposition. For example, if you’re a product-led company, you may consider a freemium business model to build a user base of free trial customers quickly. Your product roadmap is misaligned with customer needs. Customer Acquisition Tactics . Cold Outreach.

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Acquisition Scale Strategy Software Review 59

SaaStr

MARCH 20, 2020

317: Rachel Hepworth is VP of Marketing @ Pilot, the startup that offers the best bookkeeping, tax and CFO services for growing businesses. Listen to the start of the episode for a promo code to our upcoming events! How does Rachel see marketing move ever close to the function of customer success today?

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 27, 2020

In part two of our Sequencing Business Models series , we talked about the different types of marketplaces and what needs to be built to be effective in each of them. This builds on the first essay in the series of how there has been an increase in interest of SAAS-like models interested in becoming marketplaces over time.

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Payments Business Model Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 56

SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

Anthony : I’ll add more too and this sounds like a sponsored answer, but customer success becomes even more important as we sort of think about where growth is coming from. Obviously, marketing and investments are expensive and we know the cost to keep a customer is obviously a lot less. The customers love her, right?

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Sales Hiring Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting 213

User Pilot

APRIL 10, 2023

Large user base: it allows you to increase user population quickly, which is essential for products that rely on the network effect, like social networks, messaging apps, or e-commerce marketplaces. Product usage data: lots of users mean lots of usage data that can be used to iterate on your MVP. Loom upgrade prompt. In-app upgrade prompt.

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Strategy SaaS Onboarding Marketplace as a Service 80

Neil Patel

APRIL 20, 2021

Until that happens, you’ll find it difficult to sell your actual products or services. Most people and companies think products and services sell because of their great features. Let’s look at an example in the world of marketing consulting services and products. service, program, online course, etc.) That’s not the case.

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Sales Outsourcing Services Marketplace as a Service Underperforming Technical Team 137

User Pilot

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

for user onboarding ), and offering self-service support with a Resource Centre can help your users expand their knowledge base. There is usually lots of information imparted in a set sequence of events – full product tours can be time-consuming, and have typically been used for things like employee onboarding.

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SaaS Onboarding Marketplace as a Service Engagement 89

ChurnZero

JANUARY 13, 2022

As the demand for Customer Success surges within SaaS, so too does the need for effective leaders to spearhead this expanding function and steer its strategy and success. Over the course of the pandemic, Customer Success has cemented itself as a central business driver of growth and profit. Follow Adi on LinkedIn.

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VP of Engineering Customer Success Outsourcing Services Technical Review 98

SaaStr

JUNE 10, 2020

They’ve got to find their travelers and get them home, but there’s more than that that we’re hearing from our customers. Everyone, customer success. Launch it to our customers, launch it to the sales team, launch it to prospects.” They’re going to build a bunch of things that we need.

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Travel Marketing Scale Outsourcing Services 187

SaaSHolic

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Product onboarding is an essential part of customer activation and retention for businesses that are SaaS providers. One of the best things you can do for your customers’ success as a SaaS provider is to ensure that you walk them through a wholesome onboarding experience. Emails can also be event-triggered. Product Tours.

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User Pilot

AUGUST 30, 2023

Product Drive is Userpilot’s FREE online event where experts from top companies come to share growth and marketing insights. The event is for anyone responsible for driving growth for their product. How to become an outcome-based leader instead of one that sticks to a one-dimensional approach to product development.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

268: Ryan Bonnici is the CMO @ G2, the company that allows you to get the right software and services for your business with over 897,000 user reviews to help you make smarter buying decisions. Due to his success, Ryan has been named to Forbes’ List of World’s Most Influential CMOs. Pssst Loving our podcast content?

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Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale Software Review 136

SmartKarrot

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The insights derived can help tailor products, services, and experiences that mirror their expectations and desires. Segmentation: The age-old saying, “One size doesn’t fit all,” rings especially true in the customer-centric realm. The route t o customer loyalty is paved with understanding and solving their problems.

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Retention Strategy Marketplace as a Service Innovation 10

Neil Patel

JANUARY 20, 2021

Don’t Just Promote Products and Services. Most people form groups around: Their brand/business Their products/services A specific lifestyle e.g. a book club or a journalling club Specific topics e.g. a content marketing group. It also makes for a powerful tool to market your products/services. BuzzFeed got 1.7

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Social Media Software Review Branding Engagement 145

Totango

AUGUST 7, 2020

The challenge of the digital marketplace is to make every customer feel like they are your only customer. Thankfully, the same advances that helped build that digital market also make it possible to provide every customer with personalized service. What Is Customer Success Automation?

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Customer Success Marketplace as a Service Scale Customer Lifetime Value 62

SaaStr

MAY 15, 2020

333: Bridget Gleason is the Head of Sales and Customer Success @ Tidelift, the company providing managed open source, backed by maintainers. Listen to the start of the episode for a promo code to our upcoming events! Why does Bridget believe the best starting point for customer success is “company culture and value”?

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Sales Hiring Scale Technical Review Outsourcing Services 208

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Congratulations you’ve built a product that’s proven itself in the marketplace! So how can you leverage that product’s success to obtain the valuation and funding you need to scale? Your sales team becomes more efficient, your customer success team becomes efficient, your customers like you more. SaaS, right?

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Investment Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring Software Review 101

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

It’s time to start thinking about retention at scale and bring onboard a customer success team. Our Director of Customer Support Kaitlin Pettersen recently spoke with Kayti about her experience setting up Yelp’s customer success organization. Why you need a customer success team.

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VP of Engineering Customer Success Churn Scale 108

SmartKarrot

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

But as more business companies choose the SaaS (Software as a Service) path, now is a fantastic time to enter this industry. . Another area where quality must stand out is in customer service. Large enterprise clients operate in highly competitive marketplaces and sectors where it takes a lot of effort to make a difference.

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Enterprise Outsourcing Services Scale Payment Services 10

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 16, 2019

“Think of pricing along a continuum with self-service pricing at one end and enterprise at the other” As you scale and evolve your business, there are a few key questions to ask as you determine your pricing strategy: Do you anchor off competitors (if any exist) or substitutes? Gaining new customers.

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User Pilot

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Another impressive dimension of Userpilot’s software is event tracking and feature tagging. You can easily create and track combinations of distinct in-app events (including subtle actions like hovers or forms, not just clicks). This allows you to create a bespoke and custom onboarding experience for different user segments.

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Onboarding Software Review Marketplace as a Service Engagement 90

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

That was a super cool event. But you’ve really focused in the area of customer success. And our job is to basically find a way to bring that to life, be ambassadors of the brand and bring it out to the marketplace. In the upper left is a strap from a Dreamforce event, but you see the Apttus there.

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Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team 232

SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

So I’m Nick Mehta, CEO of Gainsight and you probably have heard of Gainsight in the world of customer success and really excited to have two different voices in the world of how companies think about their customers. We’ve got everything from self-service all the way up to the enterprise.

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Payment Methods Merchant Services Scale Payments 233

Totango

MAY 1, 2020

Retaining existing customers is especially important during uncertain economic times, when fewer new customers may be signing on with your service. That’s why customer retention management software is a vital component of your retention strategy.

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Retention Software Management Marketplace as a Service 62