ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

At ChurnZero, our mission is to be the best Customer Success platform out there – and Customer Success teams sit at the heart of this goal. Since the field of Customer Success is still maturing, we feel it’s key to learn from others in the industry. Amanda Berger, Chief Customer Officer, Lucidworks.

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OPEXEngine

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

In this article, one in a series of three covering each of these SaaS customer categories, we will focus exclusively on Small/Mid-Market SaaS companies. Small and Mid-Market (SMM) SaaS Companies serve customers with annual revenues of $1 million to $1 billion and with a typical employee base of 100 to 1,000. Direct Sales.

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OPEXEngine

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The shift to cloud-based subscription models is creating even more value in a thriving sector. But while software’s success in the marketplace has lifted the valuations of software companies, our analysis suggests that some firms may still be undervalued. Sticky after all. Four ways to drive value.

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Chargify

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Can you imagine running your recurring revenue business without any CRM in place? As B2B SaaS leaders know, your CRM is the lifeline between you and your customers, prospects, and future. Increase Customer Delight. Sounds impossible if you ask us. Salesforce is undoubtedly the colossal of CRMs in the market.

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ChurnZero

MAY 17, 2022

WASHINGTON , May 17, 2022 — ChurnZero , a leading Customer Success platform, has earned multiple accolades from business and SaaS industry groups for its product innovation and industry leadership. ’s premier technology companies and an employer of choice, growing revenue over 100% annually for the last three years.

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Chart Mogul

APRIL 24, 2020

With a pandemic underway, software-as-a-service businesses, in normal times the beneficiaries of relatively stable compounding growth, are now facing an existential threat: recurring revenue streams are drying up, at least in part. Revenue is down!” Arrested attention. And those early warning systems? Click To Tweet.

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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. Subscription Transaction Volume Surpassed One-Time Purchase Volume. The subscription economy is clearly here to stay. Earned Awards for Our Product and Customer Success Team.

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OpenView Labs

OCTOBER 11, 2019

After a few years, however, we realized that a subscription model would deliver more value for us and for our users. It would help us establish a more predictable and consistent income based on recurring revenue instead of one-time purchases. I’ve had roles in almost every function from sales to product to customer success.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 18, 2019

They didn’t know it at the time, but they had also created an entire business category: an on demand, short-term rental marketplace, which has shot the value of their business north of $38 billion. Over the past four years, the number of Customer Success Managers (CSMs) in the industry has increased 400%.

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SaaSOptics

MAY 19, 2022

Customer Acquisition is the process of acquiring new customers in a business. Not only is it one of the main drivers of revenue growth for early-stage companies, but it’s a primary goal for SaaS businesses across market stages. More customers = more revenue. How to Develop a Customer Acquisition Strategy.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Seeing a real demand for business courses in their consumer marketplace, the team identified an opening in the market to disrupt corporate training and hypothesized that employers would be more than willing to pay. Today Udemy for Business boasts 80% of the Fortune 100 – the top 100 largest US companies by revenue – as customers.

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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. Higher multiples.

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Totango

JUNE 9, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic may have radically altered the marketplace around us, but the fundamentals of customer renewal strategies remain the same. Customers have always based their renewal decisions on emotional connections, financial realities, and the amount of trust they have that a service can deliver sustained value.

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Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

No Wait, of Course That Is the Single Most Important SaaS Metric by Jason Cohen, A Smart Bear The purpose of a metric is to be a tool in service of your goals, timeline, size, circumstance, even philosophy, not as a master you are thoughtlessly obligated to obey.

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ProfitWell

JANUARY 15, 2020

The subscription model is booming—meaning more and more companies are acquiring the model—giving your SaaS business even more motivation to remain competitive. To keep up with the ever changing market behavior, analysts also conduct research on subscription market analysis. Pricing is the lifeblood of revenue and money made.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 18, 2018

We’re thrilled to grow our sales and customer success teams in Europe. This year we welcomed Sian Wang as CFO , Brian McTeague as VP of Revenue Operations, Sarah Bottorff as VP of Marketing, and Scott Herriman as SVP of Engineering. Earned Awards for Our Product and Customer Success Team. Achieved GDPR Compliance.

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Chart Mogul

APRIL 24, 2020

With a pandemic underway, software-as-a-service businesses, in normal times the beneficiaries of relatively stable compounding growth, are now facing an existential threat: recurring revenue streams are drying up, at least in part. Revenue is down!” Arrested attention. And those early warning systems? Tweet this quote.

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OpenView Labs

APRIL 7, 2021

Product as a growth driver: Atlassian spends only 19% of their revenue on sales & marketing (slower growing New Relic spends 55% for comparison), making its CAC payback appear to be best-in-class. That’s because most of their growth is powered by the product itself through a highly efficient self-service motion.

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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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ProfitWell

MARCH 27, 2020

Here are some ways that knowledge bases help to facilitate that goal: Increase customer success - If a customer can't figure out how to use your product or struggles in trying to understand how to do things efficiently, they're going to become frustrated and spend less time using it.

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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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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. Join CEO Romain Lapeyre as he walks you through how to close your first 1000 customers based solely on data.

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SaaStr

JUNE 10, 2021

Ep #402: Mårten Mickos, CEO of HackerOne, explains their innovative approach of packaging customer value derived from a variety of activities into an annually recurring subscription offering that delivers outstanding value to customers while simplifying the buying process and the customer journey.

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Chargify

AUGUST 17, 2017

Check out The Subscription Metrics 8 Top SaaS Companies Obsess Over & Why ). Lemkin reviewed a number of SaaS companies that experienced growth stalls somewhere in the $20M – $40M ARR (Annual Recurring Revenue) and found a pattern: “The ones that stall out at $20m ARR, or thereafter? Start there.

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Totango

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

As the digitization of the marketplace reaches near-saturation, organizations will compete for customers based on value derived—and this will be driven by customer success. Customer success and retention have therefore become critical to achieving maximum customer lifetime value.

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SaaStr

JUNE 10, 2020

Are you a revenue driver or a cost center? Marketing leaders must focus their teams on the areas that will drive revenue while they cut costs – the biggest impact for the business. We’re all aware we see declining pipeline in revenue, cost controls are at the high, we’ve got major expense scrutiny.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2021

Michelle Pietsch VP of Revenue @ Dooly. Devon Rutherford, Managed Services Program Manager & Pre-Sales Manager @ Leaseweb. Matteo De Renzi, Global Marketplace MD @ GT Gettaxi (Gett). Megan Gallagher, Revenue Enablement Manager @ WalkMe. Jessica Weimer Vice President, Global Revenue Marketing @ Podium.

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All that Saas

JULY 8, 2021

In this roundup, we are going to talk about some of the best email marketing services and software on the market for effective delivery, automated marketing, and increased outreach & sales. Do you want to build strong customer relationships? What are the Best Email Marketing Services in 2021? You need to switch to emails.

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Unbounce

JUNE 16, 2020

Over the long term, it can also deliver increased revenue, higher customer lifetime value (LTV), and reduced customer acquisition costs (CAC). These are often built with agencies, consultants, and managed-service-providers (MSPs) in mind. This generates recurring revenue. Already pretty valuable, right?).

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Jessica Weimer Vice President, Global Revenue Marketing @ Podium. Christa Diaz, Senior Director, Customer Success @ Hired. Suzanne Xie, Head of Invoicing @ Stripe. Maya Colato VP of Customer Experience @ Mapistry. Tolithia Kornweibel, Chief Revenue Officer @ Gusto. Michelle Pietsch, VP of Revenue @ Dooly.

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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

February 8, 2023 — ChurnZero, the platform and partner for Customer Success, has earned the G2 2023 Best Software Awards for Fastest Growing Product and Best Product Management Product, based on customer reviews submitted to G2. Washington, D.C.,

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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

Average Revenue per Customer. Customer Lifetime Value (LTV). Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC). & So growth of the kind of subscription, eCommerce industry has been over 100% year on year for the past five years, according to McKinsey. So the first question is what made SaaS so successful. MRR, obviously.

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SmartKarrot

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

The basic version being free and the premium version halts in three subscriptions plans. The team designs the surveys (which can be taken securely via mobile) and administers them. The company then helps the more than 11,000 schools that use its services to analyze and act on the amassed data. It comes in two plans as of now.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 6, 2022

Sales teams often struggle with configuration of price quotes when dealing with complex products or services or large product catalogs. This leads to discounts being given too generously or too soon, reducing sales margins, and making it more difficult to hit revenue targets.

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Totango

JULY 30, 2019

The way you feel as you travel versus when you arrive at your destination is a great metaphor for the distinction between customer experience vs. customer success. Customer experience refers to the feelings, emotions, and perceptions customers have when using your product. Experience vs. Value.

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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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Sales Hacker

APRIL 21, 2021

“It looked like being the pain in the butt BDR who asked way too many questions, broke anything that could possibly be broken, and paid for my own subscriptions to software just because I wanted to tinker with things before I had to bother asking for approval and budget.”. Customer experience becoming a critical revenue driver.

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