FastSpring

JANUARY 26, 2024

With years of experience at managing customer success (CS), Jake Dipple knows how important it is to foster collaboration between businesses and their customers. In this episode of Growth Stage, host and CMO of FastSpring David Vogelpohl interviews Jake about his thoughts on: What Customer Success is at a high level.

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Customer Success VP of Engineering Payments Payment Methods 144

ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Some Customer Success metrics are considered standard but there’s often more than meets the eye. Sales and marketing professionals that geek out on metrics can find themselves in deep philosophical debates about the best numbers to track. You Mon is a serial entrepreneur and the Founder and CEO of ChurnZero.

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Customer Success Metrics Software Review Customer Lifetime Value 94

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

The definition of success will vary from business to business, from customer to customer. That said, customer success is evolving, and the importance of customer success continues to grow. Embed customer success into the core of your business. Offer enhanced value.

Customer Success 216

Customer Success Retention Company Culture Metrics 216

SaaStr

MARCH 11, 2021

Congratulations on finally hiring your VP of Sales! There are 3 general options: Your VP of Sales is responsible for net new revenue only. Post-sales, other than upsell which adds to net new revenue for this year, is someone else’s job. Your VP of Sales is responsible for the ARR target for the end of the year.

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Sales Hiring Metrics Sales Churn 261

Blulogix

MARCH 24, 2024

By BluLogix Team Mastering the Art of Complex B2B Recurring and Subscription Billing: Overcoming Customer Success Complexities Take your business further with BluIQ’s flexible, scalable, enterprise-grade intelligent billing solutions. Recurring & Usage Billing Navigating the Maze of Customer Success: 1.

B2B 97

B2B Subscription Payment Features Customer Success 97

SaaStr

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Customer success is all about outcomes. If you’ve raised venture capital, you know net revenue retention is important. What does NRR have to do with customer success? Anyone looking to grow their customer success team, or rather, drive growth and NRR, will have some valuable takeaways. Everything!

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Scale Sales Hiring Customer Success Scaling 161

User Pilot

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Tired of the increasing customer churn rate? Looks like it’s time to call in a retention specialist. A dynamic retention specialist will implement proactive strategies to improve the customer experience and increase loyalty, thus improving customer retention. What is a retention specialist?

Retention 105

Retention Customer Lifetime Value Churn Outsourced Development 105

User Pilot

JANUARY 22, 2024

What are the most common customer success models? What factors should you consider when choosing one for your SaaS business to provide the best assistance to your customer ? TL;DR Customer success models are frameworks that help organizations ensure that customers can use their products effectively to realize their goals.

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Customer Success Sales Hiring Scale SaaS 103

ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Customer Success Metrics that Your Investors and Board Care About. They care that you’re staffed appropriately to serve the needs of your customers, because ultimately that results in revenue. A huge part of how customer success collects intel and feedback from customers is by talking with them.

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Customer Success Metrics Engagement Software Review 98

ChurnZero

JULY 8, 2022

Oh, by the way, what’s your customer retention?” It was clear that, barring any wildly outlandish figures, customer retention wasn’t a dealbreaker in their decision to invest. Net revenue retention (NRR) is taking center stage as the qualifying metric for determining the health of a SaaS business.

Technical Review 98

Technical Review Software Review Retention Metrics 98

ChurnZero

JANUARY 6, 2022

Customer Success represents a large source of revenue-generation for SaaS businesses. Though Customer Success was originally regarded as a post-sale cost center, you can flip its narrative with the right metrics, positioning, and forecasting strategy. Choose Metrics that Emphasize Your Value.

Forecasting 98

Forecasting Customer Success Metrics Sales Funnel 98

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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Customer Success Metrics Technical Review Scale 98

Chart Mogul

MARCH 23, 2023

Are you effectively expanding revenue from your existing customer base? And, is your poor retention the reason for your slower growth in 2023? If you’re unsure, check your retention metrics. Are you effectively expanding revenue from your existing customer base? What is net revenue retention (NRR)?

Retention 52

Retention Metrics Revenue Scale 52

User Pilot

JUNE 26, 2023

Want to track the different types of product metrics to get product growth insights ? Product metrics are critical for product growth managers to develop the right product strategies and drive continuous value for customers. However, it isn’t easy to choose the right product metrics from the many SaaS metrics available.

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Metrics Customer Lifetime Value SaaS Acquisition 96

User Pilot

JANUARY 19, 2023

Looking to improve your retention rates by reducing customer retention costs? Retaining a customer may not always be less expensive than acquiring a new one. This is why it’s critical to understand retention costs and how to reduce them. In this article, we’ll explore customer retention costs.

Retention 98

Retention Customer Lifetime Value Onboarding Acquisition 98

Kellblog

MARCH 17, 2022

Logo retention rate, why a count-based rate works best when your customers are more or less “all the same” on deal size, and that you should use a dollar-based rate when they’re not. Available-to-renew (ATR) logo retention rate, which factors in only those customers who had a chance to renew or not.

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Metrics Customer Success SaaS Benchmarks 101

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.,

Customer Success 98

Customer Success Metrics SaaS Banking 98

ChurnZero

JUNE 15, 2021

In a world seemingly obsessed with hyper-growth, this may sound like heresy, but when evaluating a B2B software-as-a-service (SaaS) company, the most important metric we look at is retention. The Different Types of Retention Metrics. For example, how many of the customers you had one year ago are still customers today?

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Retention Metrics Churn Customer Success 59

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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Customer Success Investment Sales Hiring Retention 97

ChurnZero

JULY 7, 2020

Most people would say a great product or an aggressive marketing and sales strategy. Even though this is partly true, the reality is that happy customers make successful businesses. The better the service, and the more customer-centric your business is, the more likely it is to succeed. Build a Great Infrastructure.

Customer Support 90

Customer Support Customer Success Retention Customer Lifetime Value 90

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?

Metrics 98

Metrics Customer Lifetime Value Retention Onboarding 98

ChurnZero

MARCH 24, 2023

The Customer Success industry is constantly evolving and developing new strategies for driving customer-led growth. 1: Is NPS a Customer Success metric? Stephanie Berner: My answer is unequivocally no— Net Promoter Score (NPS) should not be a CS metric. Here’s why. Value is very hard to measure.

Customer Success 98

Customer Success Technical Review Systems Review Metrics 98

ChurnZero

MARCH 24, 2023

The Customer Success industry is constantly evolving and developing new strategies for driving customer-led growth. 1: Is NPS a Customer Success metric? Stephanie Berner: My answer is unequivocally no— Net Promoter Score (NPS) should not be a CS metric. Here’s why. Value is very hard to measure.

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Customer Success Technical Review Systems Review Metrics 97

ChurnZero

JUNE 24, 2022

In our webinar, 2022 SaaS retention benchmarks , SaaS Capital Manager Director Rob Belcher shares the results from their 11th annual B2B SaaS benchmarking survey. You can download the full report for net retention and gross retention benchmarks as well as retention metrics in relation to ACV, growth, size, and more.

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Benchmarks Retention Software Review Technical Review 98

Valuize Consulting

JANUARY 25, 2024

Mastering Digital Customer Success: Insights From Valuize Spark Toronto What does your Digital CS model look like today and what was the journey like to get here? In the rapidly evolving B2B recurring revenue economy, the focus on Digital Customer Success is more pertinent than ever.

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Customer Success Sales Recruiting Scale Strategy 52

ChurnZero

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Why is it that the need for operations in marketing and sales is never questioned, yet Customer Success isn’t given the same allowance? Even though CSQLs have a lower customer acquisition cost, faster rate of return, and high close-rate, says Tony D’Auria, industry principal at Valuize, a customer lifecycle consultancy.

Scale 97

Scale Customer Success Revenue Retention 97

ChurnZero

DECEMBER 21, 2022

1/ Crash course in Customer Success and SaaS metrics. Many people think of SaaS and CS metrics as black and white. But the truth is, there are many ways to calculate and interpret—and game—metrics. Related reading: Key SaaS and Customer Success metrics you should care about – What’s a good CAC?

Customer Success 98

Customer Success Scale Underperforming Technical Team Benchmarks 98

Valuize Consulting

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Net Dollar Retention is the most important valuation metric in the technology industry. With analysts, investors, CEOs and CFOs all focused on this one powerful metric, you’re at great risk of falling behind the competition if you don’t prioritize NDR. NDR Is The Metric Of Choice For Investors. NDR Is Your MVP.

Retention 52

Retention Metrics B2B Customer Success 52

ChurnZero

JUNE 21, 2022

You may have heard of sales enablement, but Customer Success enablement might be a new term for you. Although it’s an important concept and role in the Customer Success space, it hasn’t quite gained the traction it needs to be in the spotlight. The definition of Customer Success enablement.

Customer Success 94

Customer Success Technical Review Education Onboarding 94

ChurnZero

JULY 22, 2021

By creating healthy boundaries, Customer Success and Sales don’t have to spend their days assessing and arguing over every expansion situation. Your rules of engagement should be based on which team is genuinely the best fit in each scenario and has the greatest likelihood of gaining sales traction. Circle of influence.

Customer Success 98

Customer Success Engagement Sales Acquisition 98

ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Customer Success is gaining ground, influence, and budget within organizations. Based on a detailed survey of more than 1,000 Customer Success leaders, this is the most comprehensive study of the evolving CS landscape to date. Download your full copy of the 2022 Customer Success Leadership Study here.

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Leadership Trends Customer Success Investment 98

Valuize Consulting

AUGUST 24, 2021

Mobilize Your Team Around Your Most Pressing Value Metric. Net Dollar Retention (NDR) has quickly become the most important value metric in SaaS organizations and for good reason; NDR provides a clear picture of a company’s overall health and valuation. Know Your Customer’s Journey. Plan For Customer Success.

Retention 52

Retention Metrics Compensation Innovation 52

Valuize Consulting

AUGUST 24, 2021

Mobilize Your Team Around Your Most Pressing Value Metric. Net Dollar Retention (NDR) has quickly become the most important value metric in SaaS organizations and for good reason; NDR provides a clear picture of a company’s overall health and valuation. Know Your Customer’s Journey. Plan For Customer Success.

Retention 52

Retention Metrics Compensation Innovation 52

CustomerSuccessBox

APRIL 7, 2022

So, it’s legit to have a customer success team in hand. But with effective customer success, it’s possible to attain those extra gains from the SaaS revenue model. Assess the quality of the customer success efforts. Be that you use just one metric or are in the process of identifying many.

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Customer Success Payments SaaS Payments Revenue 98

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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VP of Engineering Customer Success Sales Hiring Interviewing 98

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.

Metrics 52

Metrics SaaS Finance Acquisition 52

Chart Mogul

MAY 3, 2023

Retention is arguably the most critical metric in SaaS regardless of a company’s stage. We sit down with Daniel Bakh, CEO & Co-founder at Fullview, Parker Moore, Head of Customer Success at Vitally, and Enzo Avigo, CEO & Co-founder at June to discuss recent trends in this key metric.

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