SaaStr

MAY 8, 2022

Why NRR is Probably The Wrong Core Metric for Your Customer Success Team. SaaStr 552: 5 Lessons on Building Your Sales Organization for Scale with Than Hancock, EVP of Sales @ Podium and Carlie Adams, Head of West Coast Sales @ Podium. 9 Things Your New Head of Product Should Do in Their First 30 Days.

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User Pilot

JANUARY 28, 2024

Tracking relevant product performance metrics allows you to assess how successful your product is at satisfying user needs and achieving business goals. What metrics should you track though? Our guide covers 11 key performance metrics to analyze at different stages of the customer journey. Let’s dive in!

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User Pilot

APRIL 22, 2024

In SaaS, it’s advised to follow customer success best practices to ensure that users achieve their desired outcomes with your product and become loyal advocates for your brand. TL;DR Customer success builds long-lasting relationships, increases customer retention , lifetime value , and advocacy, and informs product development.

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Chart Mogul

MARCH 19, 2020

Are you responsible for getting subscription metrics like MRR right? At ChartMogul, we auto-generate subscriptions and metrics from invoices and transactions — we believe this gives you the most trustworthy picture of where your business stands at the moment. This is a common question we hear from customers.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Meghan Gill, SVP of Sales Ops and Sales Dev at MongoDB, shares different consumption-based compensation models that drive the right behaviors. What Is A “Consumption” Business In the old days of software, you had a company like Oracle that popularized the perpetual license where customers own the software and vendors own the market.

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ChurnZero

MARCH 31, 2022

Did you catch our Customer Success and SaaS metrics crash-course webinar with leading SaaS expert Dave Kellogg, of Dave Kellogg Consulting ? We’d like to extend a huge thanks to Dave for his expert insights below, which will help you choose and use Customer Success and SaaS metrics in a more nuanced and purposeful way.

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User Pilot

JANUARY 15, 2024

With an abundance of product analytics to track, having a robust SaaS KPI dashboard is essential to monitor the metrics that matter most. TL;DR A SaaS dashboard can be used to track important metrics and key performance indicators. Your custom SaaS dashboard should provide actionable data and be as automated as possible.

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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

Check out this 2018 Europa session with Guillaume Princen, Head of France and Southern Europe @ Stripe, where he talks about the metrics you need to be focused on in your startup. If you don’t have the time to watch the whole session, here are the main metrics you should be mindful of. It’s basically lost customers.

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Kellblog

MARCH 17, 2022

Earlier this week I appeared on a webinar with You Mon Tsang , founder and CEO of ChurnZero , a SaaS application aimed at helping subscription businesses reduce churn. Gross revenue retention rate, and why it’s gathering steam as an important metric. Benchmarks for many of these metrics from the KeyBanc 2021 SaaS Survey.

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ChurnZero

MARCH 18, 2022

With so many SaaS metrics floating around, and even more opinions on when and how to use them, it can be hard to know if you’re measuring what really matters. Leading SaaS expert, Dave Kellogg, and ChurnZero CEO, You Mon Tsang, sat down to answer all the questions you want to know about SaaS metrics like ARR, NRR, GRR, LTV, and CAC (i.e.,

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TriTuns

JANUARY 15, 2020

Developing equivalent metrics is essential for getting people to adopt your software! People and organizations are obsessed with data and metrics to “prove” results. What is the point of having data and metrics if you don’t use them to make better decisions and take action? Metrics Need to Change Behavior.

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ChurnZero

MARCH 31, 2023

The purpose of a Customer Success team is to help a company’s customers get the most value out of its product. The hypothesis is, if a customer maximizes the obtainable value, they will remain loyal and spend more with the company. This isn’t merely a theory.

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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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SaaStr

JANUARY 11, 2024

A magic cure for sales costs that are just too high. I mean, Canva’s metrics for example are just awesome. Sometimes in great ways — forcing B2C subscription businesses to relentlessly provide a great end-user experience. And then sort of throw Customer Success at it. Or at least, they hoped so.

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Subscription Flow

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Here, in this article, we are going to jot down the SaaS financial metrics that investors look into before giving you funding for your project or business idea. Today, metrics or KPIs have made it easier for investors to see if they should invest in a project or not. So, here are the metrics that you need to monitor: 1.

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Chart Mogul

JUNE 1, 2023

In an uncertain market, customer retention is key. So if you are keeping a close eye on your retention metrics this year, you’re not alone. Retention is one of the most important metrics when building a successful SaaS business. In an uncertain market, customer retention is key. What is customer retention?

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User Pilot

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

What GTM metrics should you track as a product marketer? That’s why we’re going to show you 12 of the most important product analytics metrics that you’ll need in order to measure your product success. They can reveal customer interactions, patterns, and preferences. Customer acquisition cost.

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Sixteen Ventures

AUGUST 14, 2022

The purpose of Customer Success is not to make customers happy. It’s actually not even to make customers successful. NRR, if you’re not familiar, is a simple metric to understand, but actually quite complex and convoluted to implement in practice. Thus the premium placed on NRR as a valuation metric.

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CustomerSuccessBox

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Customer Success has become a must for every SaaS business with the advent of the subscription economy. But just having a customer success department does not solve issues with your churn rate, customer lifetime value, retention rate, or MRR/ARR. It starts by understanding why customer success is important.

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CustomerSuccessBox

JUNE 20, 2022

Now that you’ve chosen to read this article, I suppose you are already aware of the weightage that the Customer Success function holds for your SaaS business. And when it comes to delivering the right customer success function to your clients you are as good as the tool you use. What is a Customer Success Software?

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User Pilot

MAY 16, 2023

What are value metrics? We also examine a few examples of how companies use value metrics in their pricing strategy. TL;DR Value metrics are the features of a product that customers associate with its value and are happy to pay for. To identify your value metrics look at your product use cases. Why do they matter?

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OPEXEngine

MAY 10, 2021

In fact, attracting, retaining, and establishing profitable long-term relationships with customers is even more important for SaaS companies because it’s the key to the recurring revenue model they’re built around. A company’s net promoter score is an indication of how many of its customers are active promoters of its product.

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CustomerSuccessBox

APRIL 7, 2022

It’s undeniable that the SaaS model works differently and attracts revenue on a monthly or annual basis, unlike the on-premise software that deals with one-time payments. So, it’s legit to have a customer success team in hand. Assess the quality of the customer success efforts. In the end!

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Valuize Consulting

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Level Up Your Customer Success Organization. In the subscription economy, there’s no debate about whether or not to invest in Customer Success (CS); 70% of rapidly growing businesses say that Customer Success is extremely important ( Hubspot , 2017). The fourth challenge is complexity.

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Totango

JULY 13, 2021

Strategy for customer success growth has changed as commerce has gone digital and big data has made marketing and sales customer-centric. Tell people about your business, get them in the store, sell them things, then look for more customers. Businesses need a new strategy for customer success growth.

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User Pilot

JANUARY 19, 2023

Do you want to measure your product’s success using quantitative metrics? You need to have a solid understanding of key quantitative metrics if you want to focus on and improve essential aspects of SaaS businesses like success measurement and customer retention. What are quantitative metrics?

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The winners of 2022’s ChurnHero Awards, recognizing and celebrating ChurnZero customers who champion Customer Success with remarkable results, have been announced! Today, we’re proud and delighted to recognize the following Customer Success teams as 2022 ChurnHeroes. Today, this customer segment’s NRR is at 124%.”

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Totango

APRIL 5, 2019

Customer success metrics are used to discover what kind of customer experience you are really delivering. The goal of customer success is to generate recurring revenue by creating customer lifetime value. And with customer success metrics, you can measure whether your efforts are working.

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Chaotic Flow

MARCH 25, 2014

My first serious lesson in the criticality of SaaS metrics was about six years ago when I was unexpectedly stumped in a board of directors meeting. In 2014, we not only have a much better understanding of the financial levers that drive SaaS business success, we are on the verge of a metrics revolution in the way SaaS businesses are managed.

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ChurnZero

APRIL 27, 2021

As ChurnZero recently secured a Series B investment bringing our total funding that has been raised to date to $35 million, we thought we’d take a look back and see the role that Customer Success plays at each respective stage of funding for SaaS companies. Early-Stage Funding & Customer Success.

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User Pilot

JULY 31, 2023

What A/B testing metrics should you choose? This means you need to follow a good framework and track the right metrics if you want to prove your success. As well as provide 10 A/B testing metrics that can lead your SaaS to achieve measurable business goals. Customer satisfaction score ( CSAT ). Active users.

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Kellblog

MARCH 13, 2020

In days of yore, chief revenue officer (CRO) was just a gussied-up title for VP of Sales. Back in the pre-subscription era, basically all the revenue — save for a little bit of services and some maintenance that practically renewed itself — came from sales anyway. Then the subscription era came along.

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CustomerSuccessBox

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

A seamless handoff from sales to customer success to implementation is necessary to deliver the promised early value. This is crucial to make your customer’s experience easier. CS professionals must have felt the grunt of a bad transition from Sales to Customer Success. Customer Retention.

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User Pilot

APRIL 24, 2024

If you want to ensure customers renew each time, continue reading ahead. In this article, we’ll share everything you need to know for increasing customer renewals. TL;DR SaaS renewals includes the process of renewing a subscription to an online-hosted software service. Why is SaaS renewal management important?

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 20, 2021

This is a guest blog post by Justine Dennis, Manager, Customer Success & Support at Fusebill. . Mattias Putman and Ewout Meyns launched PieSync in 2014 with a goal in mind: keep customers satisfied. Mattias and I are very aware that PieSync’s success depends on that of our customers.

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User Pilot

AUGUST 31, 2023

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. Customer acquisition funnel stages in SaaS are Awareness, Consideration, Evaluation, Conversion.

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ChurnZero

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Another one of our favorite moments was our Founder, You Mon Tsang’s well attended session on the “ Top Customer Metrics For Your Board and Investors and How to Nail Them with ChurnZero’s CEO.” Are your compensation plans setting your business up for longer-term success or subscription contraction?

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