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. Customer Success is all about delivering value.

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FastSpring

APRIL 26, 2022

Last week, I canceled an annual SaaS subscription (I had three weeks left until renewal). Interestingly, even though I paid for a year-long subscription, the company didn’t let me keep the last three weeks of access to its premium features. This action will immediately downgrade your subscription. Table of Contents.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 10, 2022

This strategy empowers you to pre-emptively deliver targeted, personalized messages and support via messenger-based channels. From a support perspective, creating FAQs and knowledge hubs should definitely be your first port of call – but what if you could reach your customer before frustration gets the better of them?

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FastSpring

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Get the latest from FastSpring’s Support leaders about important tax updates, fraud and chargeback strategies, our new Changelog, and more. Fraud, Chargebacks, and Mitigation Strategies Need FastSpring support? Visit our Support page. Set up a demo or try it out for yourself.

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Totango

JUNE 3, 2022

Customer success email templates form a foundation for effective CS automation. While customer success management can result in a rewarding payoff, it can also be very time-consuming if you don’t use the right strategies. Customer check-ins. Sales to Customer Success Handoff Email Template.

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Subscription Flow

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

One way to do that is through marketing and revenue-generating strategies such as freemium and product demos which are critical to growing one’s clientele. Another way is utilizing different SaaS marketing strategies, such as providing high-quality content and expanding product access.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 24, 2022

Building a business from the ground up always has its challenges, but maintaining a subscription-based business can be particularly difficult due to its ongoing nature. One of the most effective ways to run a subscription-based business is through a customer-centric strategy.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 24, 2022

Building a business from the ground up always has its challenges, but maintaining a subscription-based business can be particularly difficult due to its ongoing nature. One of the most effective ways to run a subscription-based business is through a customer-centric strategy.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Yet, funded startups can learn a lot from the bootstrapped ones to grow smoothly and generate revenue. Paddle’s Senior Product Manager, Allissa Chan, and Chief Strategy Officer, Patrick Campbell, share their experience of scaling a bootstrapped startup. This is where SaaS companies generate most their revenue.

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User Pilot

JULY 20, 2023

Attrition is the bane of every subscription business; low retention rates will result in a duce and the customer lifetime value and revenue will plummet. But you can turn all that around with the right strategies. The main reasons for customer churn are: Bad product-customer fit. Bad customer service.

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User Pilot

APRIL 29, 2024

Mastering SaaS renewals’ best practices can transform a routine administrative task into a strategic opportunity to drive customer success and propel your business toward sustainable growth. TL;DR The SaaS renewal process involves a series of actions on/before the renewal date that lead to a customer’s renewal.

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ChurnZero

MAY 20, 2021

When you build a Customer Success organization from the ground up, it’s easy to get caught in the trap of doing the wrong things well. That’s why it’s essential to invest in the people, processes, and technologies that create the most value for your customers and your organization.

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User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The ability to follow up on failed payments without putting customer retention at risk is a delicate task that must be handled carefully. Dunning emails tend to be the most effective way to remind customers about a failed payment and speed up the payment process by offering alternative options.

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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. In the old days, growing your business was easy. Tell people about your business, get them in the store, sell them things, then look for more customers.

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FastSpring

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Pricing your software correctly is a crucial part of selling software , but sometimes it’s hard to know if you’re on the right track with your pricing strategy. We’re sharing some tips for setting up a pricing model that attracts and retains long-term customers for your software company. Offer a Range of Options .

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ProfitWell

MARCH 2, 2020

The subscription economy is built on relationships. When your customers are happy, they stick around. That’s what makes a customer success strategy so important. Thinking proactively about how to build products that help customers achieve their goals is the best tool you have for building lasting relationships.

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Payrix

APRIL 2, 2024

A comprehensive Embedded Payments strategy isn’t complete without value added services. But, as a software platform, what value added services should you be considering? And when should you start thinking about these solutions and infusing them into your payment ecosystem and experience?

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User Pilot

APRIL 29, 2024

Customer segmentation enables teams to better understand customer needs and pain points and deliver personalized product experiences t o accommodate them. This improves satisfaction, retention, and brand loyalty , and improves the performance of marketing strategies. Book the demo to find out more!

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 27, 2020

In that essay , we also talked about how a more common route for a SaaS business is to become a platform. Platforms can create an immense amount of long-term value for companies, or be a minor component of their product strategy to maintain product/market fit. The Types of Platforms. Integration Platforms.

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User Pilot

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Thus, it only makes sense that you work hard to retain any customer that makes a purchase. This article will walk you through 15 practical strategies to improve customer retention , boost loyalty, and ensure customer satisfaction. What is customer retention? How to calculate your customer retention rate.

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Totango

AUGUST 23, 2022

By charting the points in your SaaS customers’ journeys, you can plan how to deliver clients’ desired outcomes and satisfying experiences that promote subscription renewals and higher revenue. First, we’ll look at what customer journey B2B touchpoints are and which ones are most critical in the B2B customer journey.

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FastSpring

AUGUST 2, 2023

As a startup with only two or three people, it would be absolutely impossible to go international without this kind of platform.” Are you looking for a merchant of record that will partner with you to grow your business internationally? Selling internationally is key to their business model. Here’s why. Now, Stripe offers it.

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User Pilot

OCTOBER 24, 2023

In this guide, we’ll be going over what usage-based pricing is, the benefits of a usage-based pricing model, different types of usage-based pricing, and a few examples from SaaS companies that have effectively deployed this strategy! Usage-based pricing could use tiers, units, volumes, or impact as its basis for subscription cost.

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Chart Mogul

MAY 15, 2020

SevenFifty’s VP of Finance and Operations, Jonathan Tartell tells us how they used their existing revenue data to improve financial reporting and create a compelling vision for investors. SevenFifty provides a platform that connects all three actors. The Challenge: Track revenue metrics and act on them. What is SevenFifty.

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Chart Mogul

MAY 15, 2020

SevenFifty’s VP of Finance and Operations, Jonathan Tartell tells us how they used their existing revenue data to improve financial reporting and create a compelling vision for investors. SevenFifty provides a platform that connects all three actors. The Challenge: Track revenue metrics and act on them. What is SevenFifty.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 31, 2021

We’re excited to announce that you can now send transactional messages using Intercom, empowering you to send all your customer messages from one easy-to-use platform. These messages can be triggered based on specific customer actions or dates, such as an upcoming subscription renewal or customer birthday.

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CustomerSuccessBox

APRIL 3, 2022

Customer Success ensures that your customers remain happy customers. Its objective is to guarantee that your customers get the most value from your product. Sending an email with the appropriate intent at the right time is essential to a good customer success email. Customer Success Email Templates.

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Totango

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The contract renewal stage of the customer lifecycle is a critical component of driving retention for SaaS products. Knowing how to use technology to optimize your contract renewal process can increase your retention rates and your revenue. First, we’ll review what contract renewal is and what it means to automate the process.

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CustomerSuccessBox

MARCH 15, 2022

Improves Customer Engagement Increases recurring revenue (ARR/MRR) via increasing customer engagement Builds Trust. Customers that sign up for a free trial are a great marketing target because they’ve already committed to your business enough to sign up and maybe provide relevant information.

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FastSpring

JULY 10, 2019

Thinking about transitioning to a subscription-based business model? In fact, according to a recent report from Gartner, more than 90 percent of software providers are expected to migrate to a subscription-based business model by 2022. We know this is a big decision for businesses. You’re not alone.

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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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User Pilot

MARCH 23, 2023

What are the reasons for customer churn in SaaS? And how can customer success teams address them to ensure product growth? As a SaaS company, your ultimate goal is to retain customers and keep them happy with your product. However, sometimes things don’t go as planned, and customers churn.

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Valuize Consulting

MAY 11, 2020

Customer success technology is one of the breakout tech categories that has emerged over the past 5 years. The rise of the customer success ‘domain’ in B2B software companies has driven this new market category. Choosing the right tech begins with having a solid evaluation criteria for your selection process.

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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. Measuring MRR churn gives companies a more accurate picture of the impact of customer churn on their bottom line.

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ProfitWell

MARCH 9, 2020

The subscription business model has seen an immense rise in popularity in recent years, and with good reason. The subscription-based economy grew 350% between 2012 and 2019, and subscription businesses grew revenues about five times faster than S&P 500 company revenues during that time.

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User Pilot

MARCH 31, 2023

How do you build a successful free-to-paid conversion strategy for your SaaS? This is a question every customer success manager must address in order to turn free users into paying customers. Opt-out free trials require payment information upfront, which can be a turn-off for some customers.

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User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

Chief Technical Officer : Responsible for outlining the company’s technological vision, implementing technology strategies, and ensuring that the technological resources are aligned with the company’s business needs. In large companies, the CSM also oversees other customer success roles.

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