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. Dave has a long and tenured history serving in roles including CMO, and later, CEO.

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User Pilot

MAY 8, 2024

Wondering how to build a customer success dashboard for your team? From the article, you will learn what a customer success dashboard is, why you need it, and what metrics it should include. And how to build a dashboard for your customer success team using Userpilot analytics !

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User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

” And that’s also why AARRR metrics are called pirate metrics. Short for acquisition, activation, retention, referral, and revenue, these metrics help you measure and drive product growth. In this article, we’ll dig deeper into the AARRR framework and the relevant metrics associated with each stage.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 8, 2025

Naturally, their first customer was DoorDash and the quickly captured 95% of the gig economy market in their early days. When Lindsey joined, she inherited an already built-out self-serve/PLG model for small businesses and a mid-market and enterprise sales, customer success, and post-sales team.

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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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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

was pretty simplified, mostly made up of annual or monthly subscriptions. From 2010 until 2015, the SaaS world was becoming more complex with the introduction of static bundles and recurring revenue as an addition to the annual/monthly subscription model. While annual/monthly subscriptions still exist, they are more complex than ever.

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User Pilot

JANUARY 10, 2022

How important is customer success KPIs to your SaaS business? Customer success metrics help you analyze how effectively you help customers gain value from your SaaS product. When measuring customer success metrics, it’s never only about the results.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

IPO behind them, we can take a look behind its metrics. That’s a little more than a $65k revenue per customer on average. True software subscriptions are just $6k a year or so, on average. #7. 734 employees in sales and marketing (out of 2,200 total), and 669 in customer success. Now with a $30B (!)

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SaaStr

JANUARY 14, 2021

In this guide, Andrea Webb, the SVP of Customer Success & Retention at Solarwinds , and Tim Willey, the SVP of Commercial Strategy & Operations at ForgeRock , share their tips for understanding and combating churn. . Rule 1 – Customer vs. ARR Churn. Available to Renew Churn = $ ARR Lost/Starting $ ATR Pool.

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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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User Pilot

JULY 29, 2024

Looking for the best customer success management software to power up your product growth strategy, but you are overwhelmed with so many options in the market? TL;DR Customer success software refers to tools that help manage customer experiences and drive customers toward their desired outcomes.

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Neil Patel

MARCH 8, 2021

Customer support and customer success can be confusing for both beginners and experts alike. Both customer support and customer success teams are important for your brand’s ongoing growth and success, and the roles share similar skill sets. What customer support is and why it’s important.

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Blulogix

MARCH 25, 2024

By BluLogix Team Mastering the Art of Complex B2B Recurring and Subscription Billing: Navigating Financial Process Complexity in B2B Subscriptions The financial backbone of B2B subscription models rests on efficiently managing complex processes spanning billing, payments, revenue recognition, and reporting.

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Totango

JUNE 24, 2022

Customer success in SaaS differs from CS in other industries. The software service industry presents unique challenges for customer success management while also creating unique opportunities that call for specific strategies. Read on to learn the keys to effective customer success for SaaS clients.

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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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ChurnZero

MAY 25, 2023

Customer renewals are the lifeblood of a subscription business. Responsibility for renewals often falls to the Customer Success (CS) team. For example, survey research shows about half (50.2%) of all CS teams surveyed are directly responsible for customer renewals. Below are recommended metrics to consider.

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Totango

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Building out customer success manager automation depends on the effective use of email and in-app messaging. Planning strategic emails at key milestones in your customer journey can help you deliver a smoother customer experience, yielding higher satisfaction and better retention rates. Subscription or license renewal.

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User Pilot

MAY 2, 2024

Customer retention is vital for product success and business profitability. You will also learn how to build a retention strategy, what metrics to track, and 10 bulletproof retention tactics for SaaS companies. TL;DR Customer retention is the ability to keep your customers actively using their products.

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Totango

AUGUST 13, 2024

” Customer renewals are the lifeblood of any subscription-based business, directly impacting your company’s revenue, growth, and long-term success. These are not just any leads – they’re opportunities rooted in deep customer knowledge and relationship value. The partnership that we have is working.”

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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

JULY 31, 2024

LTV (Customer Lifetime Value) measures the total revenue expected from a single customer account throughout its lifetime. MRR (Monthly Recurring Revenue) is the total predictable monthly revenue from all active subscriptions. This activation metric indicates how effectively you turn signups into active users. Average TTV.

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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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Totango

AUGUST 8, 2021

Driving software adoption through customer success in the 2020s is a precision business. Create a Cross-Functional Customer Journey Team. Choose the Right Customer Success Software that provides a 360-degree view of your customer. Driving Software Adoption through Customer Success Begins with Understanding.

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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. 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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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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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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Totango

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Customer Success Playbook Strategies: Mapping a Path to Winning Outcomes. A customer success playbook maps out a game plan you can use to automate successful outcomes for your clients. Then we’ll consider the benefits of using success playbooks. What Is a Customer Success Playbook?

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SaaStr

JANUARY 7, 2021

In this episode, David Skok , General Partner @ Matrix Partners , uncovers the crucial step missing when it comes to finding product-market fit for B2B companies, how to set-up your sales team for success early on, and what metrics really matter when it comes to a payback period.

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ChurnZero

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

This is a guest post by Sara Barnes , vice president of Customer Success at Skilljar. Every Customer Success team focuses on keeping customers engaged and ultimately, preventing churn. In fact, customer education helps scale Customer Success , as the company scales business. .

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User Pilot

APRIL 26, 2024

Customer success is a core growth driver for any SaaS business. The SaaS market is crowded with tons of similar products and the best ones that stand out are those who delight their customers regularly. Are you wondering how to retain your customers and make them love your product? No worries! Let’s get started!

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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. A Customer Success team has the time and resources to respond this way.

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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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User Pilot

DECEMBER 3, 2021

When it comes to measuring product growth , there are dozens of metrics to consider, but which is the most important? Other metrics like LTV:CAC ratio, expansion MRR , and revenue churn can help fill in the blind spots that the magic number missed. In essence, the SaaS magic number is a metric that measures sales efficiency.

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User Pilot

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Is the "North Star Metric" just another bit of SaaS jargon somebody has coined to rename something everybody already knows about? What other SaaS companies use the North Star Metric and how can you find yours? In this article, I'll go over what the North Star is, why this metric matters, and how to find yours.

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Stax

JUNE 18, 2024

Subscription models offer companies large and small the opportunity to build predictable revenue and high customer lifetime value. But managing subscriptions effectively and freeing up time and resources for expansion is no picnic.

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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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