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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FastSpring

JANUARY 19, 2023

When NitroPack was first getting started, they used PayPal to accept and process payments. “It That’s actually the super big problem for all EU SaaS founders,” Georgi explained, “because being in the EU, you need to take care of these things from the very beginning.” This solution lasted less than a month. The problem?

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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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SaaStr

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Every successful SaaS business strategy requires a full-potential ambition aimed at sustained profitable growth. Every SaaS company strives to adapt to the emerging changes in the market as soon as possible and achieve sustainable growth. The service you deliver. Lesson 5: Build a successful company culture.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Apple survived the death of Steve Jobs in October 2011 under the thoughtful stewardship of Tim Cook, and continued to essentially be the iPhone company, while branching into wearables and services. Rise of the cloud and SaaS businesses. Rise of mobile. To give some perspective, there were about 300 million smartphones sold in 2010.

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Think Strategies

MARCH 27, 2018

Cloud Service Intelligently Streamlines the Accounts Payable (AP) Workflow Process. THINKstrategies announced today that Yooz has been named a winner of the Best of SaaS Showplace (BoSS) Award. This program promotes the measurable business benefits delivered by today’s Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions.

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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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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

AUGUST 9, 2019

In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Vikas made his way into the world of SaaS and came to be at the rocketship that is Kustomer. * Why does Vikas believe that a wave of SaaS incumbents are about to be displaced or disrupted? Why is it so crucial to invest in enablement in the early days? What is a good payback period? *

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Chargify

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

The title says it all…calculating sales commission shouldn’t be a pain in the SaaS. Yet, after countless conversations with SaaS sales teams, including our own, we concluded that everyone shares the same sentiment—it IS a pain in the SaaS. . But it is just math, right? Partner/Referral Sales.

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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

Science, conscious consumers, and next-gen founders will drive ESG’ innovation in 2022. 45% of SaaS companies said they had some form of usage-based pricing, up from 34% in 2020. Plus companies face significant change management hurdles if they choose to migrate their legacy subscription customers onto a new pricing model. .

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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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SaaSX

JUNE 2, 2019

Growing a SaaS company at >50% YOY (at scale) is hard. But it’s also true in sales, marketing, customer success, operations, support, and product. But it’s also true in sales, marketing, customer success, operations, support, and product. For me, urgency is a critical success factor in driving outsized growth.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

359: The Secrets to Vertical Growth, What it Really Takes to Build a $1B SaaS Company with Matt Garratt, SVP, Managing Partner @ Salesforce Ventures, Trisha Price, Chief Product Officer @ nCino and David Schmaier, CEO & Founder @ Vlocity. There’s a lot of services. This episode is sponsored by Linode. Actually, two.

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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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SmartKarrot

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

To understand the SaaS business growth, let’s take a quick look at the SaaS history through this analogy. After the construction, the builder sells the apartment to different customers. But with the advancement of SaaS, the growth model has changed drastically. Now, the customers will never own the apartments.

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Subscription Flow

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Many SaaS businesses follow a subscription based model with subscription life cycles of varying periods. Thus, the success of any Software as a Service ( SaaS ) businesses greatly depends on customer retention. SaaS Renewal refers to customers choosing to renew their subscription to a SaaS product.

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SmartKarrot

JULY 1, 2020

As B2B companies are on the verge to innovate their respective business models, they have come to learn more about the interminable power the customers have. To ensure that your customers achieve their actual desired outcomes, it is you who has to work them towards the goal. To begin with Client Segmentation.

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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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SmartKarrot

JANUARY 25, 2022

The critical nature of software for business growth is a key reason for the exceptional growth of Software as a Service (SaaS) companies in recent times. Encouraged by the success and importance of SaaS, Australia has actively adopted the cloud ecosystem and founded brilliant SaaS-driven companies and platforms.

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ProfitWell

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Patrick went through the history of SaaS, and Neel broke down some of our latest innovations. Nick Mehta , CEO of Gainsight, and his colleague, Kate Peter dropped knowledge on how to drive customer success across SaaS businesses. Customer success is the third-fastest growing profession.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 28, 2023

At a recent Workshop Wednesday , SaaStr founder and CEO Jason Lemkin answered the community’s most pressing questions about SaaS — from investor appetites and IPOs in 2024 to managing and hiring a Head of Sales as a solo founder to AI and the future of customer success. The number one is Klaviyo, the only SaaS IPO in two years.

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SmartKarrot

MAY 26, 2020

This is how the hosting environment gave birth to ‘as-a-service’ models. The field of XaaS is all about customer engagement. Let’s look at the process in which SaaS evolved from the ‘as-a-service’ model to a modern-day like today, where XaaS has become a reality. It is way more than just engaging customers.

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Chart Mogul

MAY 15, 2020

The company is bringing technology-driven innovation to this huge but antiquated market. At the time, we had years worth of financial data on our subscribers; but it was organized in a way that made it difficult to analyze and report on our SaaS KPI metrics across different customer bases and cohorts. What is SevenFifty.

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Chart Mogul

MAY 15, 2020

The company is bringing technology-driven innovation to this huge but antiquated market. At the time, we had years worth of financial data on our subscribers; but it was organized in a way that made it difficult to analyze and report on our SaaS KPI metrics across different customer bases and cohorts. What is SevenFifty.

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FastSpring

MAY 25, 2023

FastSpring previously presented on SaaS fees pricing and packaging to combat stagflation in 2022, but this article is based on an updated presentation delivered in March 2023 by David Vogelpohl. This article offers tips for optimizing pricing and packaging of your SaaS products in a less-than-stellar economy: What is stagflation?

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CustomerSuccessBox

MAY 28, 2021

A Saas business which has already evolved itself to bring in a Customer Success Software integrating it with Subscription Management, Support, CRM and product usage data knows exactly- “What is the secret to Saas growth”. Now that involves two main essential activities- Retaining Customers and Upsell to consumers.

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SaaStr

JULY 20, 2021

Cecily Sackey, Senior Customer Success Manager @ Capchase & Alex Pedraza, Head of New Business @ Capchase. Emerging Insurance Disruptors: Are they Really SaaS? The financial services industry – banking, lending, insurance – has long benefited from deep competitive moats that limited competition and stifled innovation.

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

This thing also applies to customer success. Your customer success strategy will define the direction your company takes. But, your customer success operations will ensure that you reach your destination without any diversion. It is responsible for managing the operations that relate to customer success.

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User Pilot

AUGUST 31, 2023

What is customer acquisition for SaaS, and how can you leverage it to drive sustainable growth ? Customer acquisition marketing refers to the subset of strategies and activities within customer acquisition that focus on marketing techniques to attract and convert potential customers.

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User Pilot

MAY 8, 2023

What are the main customer onboarding trends to watch out for in 2023? Userpilot’s State of SaaS Onboarding 2023 has just landed and we’re sharing the key insights. Primary onboarding flows should be short and focused on training customers in basic functionality. Fasten your seatbelts and let’s get right to it!

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SmartKarrot

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The land-and-expand strategy starts when you land a small deal with an organization and use the contract to form a solid relationship with the organization by providing superior service. Then, you continue to sell to the business across different projects and expand your services and profit margins over time.

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CustomerSuccessBox

MARCH 3, 2022

When for the firms, Customer Success came into sight helping out customers before a situation knocked up mattered a lot. Read on to know about the Customer Success books for Customer Success Managers (CSMs) to read in 2022. Did you know, “Happy customers are repeat customers”?

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yoursales

JANUARY 28, 2022

When it comes to sales technology quite often sales tech isn't picked based on what YOU need, but based on what your network have been using for their sales process. What you should be making decisions based on is, which sales processes generates the best outcomes you're after - and for your customers. Buyer Enablement.

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Mucker Capital

OCTOBER 27, 2023

In this Mucker Growth session, Kyle Poyar from OpenView delves into the critical topic of pricing for SaaS startups, aiming to rectify prevailing mistakes in your pricing strategies. Optimizing SaaS pricing is an ongoing process, and one that most startup founders struggle to perfect.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

362: The Future of the Customer with Bernadette Nixon, CEO @ Algolia, Jay Snyder, Chief Customer Officer @ New Relic, and Nick Mehta, CEO @ Gainsight. Customers’ expectations are higher than ever with more access to information and options. One, it starts high up in the sales process, right?

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