FastSpring

JANUARY 19, 2023

NitroPack , a website performance optimization platform, has become one of the fastest-growing startups in CEE. Since it joined FastSpring in early 2020, the company has increased its revenue by 628% and is still growing fast. When NitroPack was first getting started, they used PayPal to accept and process payments. “It

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Subscription Flow

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

However, with the bustling world of opportunities to earn recurring revenue , subscription-based SMEs are also faced with unprecedented demands for speed, efficiency, compliance and customer support. Less tech-savvy business owners transitioning from legacy systems may want guided onboarding rather than self-service.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 10, 2022

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? No, you don’t need to be psychic – maintaining a joyful CX is made easier with platforms like FullStory. Pain points made powerful.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 30, 2023

They focused on building a payment platform that empowers international talent and independent contractors to get paid on time in a compliant way while also ensuring that companies can hire international talent and make payments efficiently. This insight led Deel to focus on solving payments and compliance.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Putting narrative order on the past decade, a 10-year-period that has somehow remained stubbornly nameless, is quite the challenge, but it’s impossible to make sense of the 2010s without understanding the role of software. The scale is extraordinary. There are about 3.2

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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. This can be done through a variety of platforms, including social media, email marketing, online ads, and content marketing.

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User Pilot

APRIL 29, 2024

Customer lifecycle segmentation separates customers according to their stage in the customer journey. Userpilot is a product growth platform with advanced segmentation features. You can segment your customers based on their feedback responses as well as in-app behavior. Book the demo to find out more!

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SaaStr

JULY 31, 2020

Founded in 2015, Chorus operates a SaaS platform that provides valuable insights from conversations – say with calls, video conferences and emails — for revenue teams. And some of the marquee customers include MongoDB, Gitlab and Qualtrics. . And some of the marquee customers include MongoDB, Gitlab and Qualtrics. .

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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

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Hybrid models and pre-payment discounts offer a good middle ground for scenarios where raw usage data isn’t the best value metric. Monthly active users (MAUs), gigabytes of storage (GB), and data points per minute (DPM) are a few examples of units that can be used to track/limit product usage or get customers to upgrade their plan.

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Baremetrics

JULY 8, 2021

In order to run efficiently, they needed the right tool to analyze data from Stripe and segment their customers. Solution: They signed up for Baremetrics. Right away, its analytics tools made it easy to calculate key SaaS metrics and segment customers based on customizable attributes. Table of Contents.

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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. To figure out where you should begin on your growth and scaling journey, it’s helpful to first orient yourself with where you stand using a Customer Success maturity model.

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Natalia Luneva

JANUARY 8, 2022

Facebook and Slack used to be the best community platforms for online businesses: they are free, everyone is using them, and they are easy to use. However, new online community platforms emerged to offer better interface, more customization opportunities, and the chance to create your own mini social network.

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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. The main reasons for customer churn are: Bad product-customer fit. Bad customer service. Drive customer success with contextual in-app guidance.

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Totango

AUGUST 21, 2020

In our latest installment in the CXO Series , we sat down with Keith Strodtman, COO, Customer First and Shelby Czarnota, Vice President, Customer Success Business Solutions at SAP as we discussed SAP’s Transformation and Innovation in Customer Success and why they deployed Totango as their One Customer Success Platform.

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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. What is customer churn?

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User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

TL;DR SaaS, or “Software as a Service,” is a business model that delivers centrally hosted software to subscribers over the internet. Customer Success Manager: This person is responsible for customer relationships and experience as well as acting as the voice of the customer.

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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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User Pilot

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Customer success has gone from strength to strength in recent years. With that in mind, we thought we’d take a look at the best customer success tools. of customer success tools out there, and it can be hard to know which is the right one for you. Let’s jump in… What are customer success tools?

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CustomerSuccessBox

MARCH 10, 2022

In this day and age, all B2B SaaS firms want to optimize Automation to scale Customer Success in their organizations. Why is Automation important to scale Customer Success? Especially if you’ve thousands of customers. That’s where ‘Automating Customer Success’ comes into play.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

I am Matt Garratt, Managing Partner of Salesforce Ventures, and we will be talking about the secrets to building a $1 billion vertical SaaS company, and we’re very fortunate to have two executives from leading enterprise software companies who have done this. These companies can scale really efficiently. Actually, two.

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User Pilot

JUNE 30, 2023

Which is the best AI writing assistant available for marketing and customer success teams in 2023? This article provides an overview of 19 popular AI content-writing tools that will help you create different content types, from in-app messages to long-form blog posts. There’s no simple answer to this question.

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OPEXEngine

AUGUST 17, 2021

If you fall into this camp or feel like your financial operations could use some help, we’ve found these best practices to work time and again for growing B2B SaaS businesses: Ditch the spreadsheets. Spreadsheets and disconnected systems open the door for errors. It’s easy to see why this approach won’t scale as your business grows.

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CustomerSuccessBox

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The net revenue retention rate which you may also state as the net retention rate in SaaS businesses is an indicator that depicts the profits and the revenue earned by the business. Ultimately, the purpose of generating revenue is what gets you in the business loop. Margin that is like software.

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SaaStr

MARCH 18, 2019

Formerly a senior leader at Google, Claire Hughes Johnson is now Chief Operating Officer at Stripe, where she’s helped guide the online payments firm through rapid growth. Stripe today has more than 1,400 employees and processes billions of dollars for millions of users worldwide. Lessons for scaling high-growth organizations.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

The first thing SMBs did was look at their credit card payments and cancel everything they could. Anyone processing a lot of SMB and credit-card deals saw churn probably double. But second, enterprise customers all renewed. Don’t worry about customer success hires and scaled sales reps. functioned.

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FastSpring

JANUARY 29, 2021

If your new year’s resolutions included anything about scaling your business or expanding into other countries, then there’s a lot to be excited about at FastSpring this month. Part of the beauty of our platform is that we take on all the merchant complexity related to global ecommerce.

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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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User Pilot

OCTOBER 17, 2023

As for customer insight examples, we’ve brought four ways to leverage them to help grow your business: Using welcome surveys to personalize the product experience to match users’ needs and preferences. Leverage event data to perform funnel analysis and identify areas of friction within the conversion process, then fix them.

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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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User Pilot

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Calculating the actual customer acquisition costs accurately can be challenging, and CAC payback doesn’t consider customer lifetime value or differentiate between high- and low-value customers. Collaboration between product , marketing, and sales teams is essential to effectively identify and target high-value customers.

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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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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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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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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Creating a new product category also creates a plethora of challenges – from spotting the right market niche to convincing customers that yours is a service they need. If people aren’t looking for your solution, you have to educate them about the problem your product solves. You started off in engineering, I believe.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Despite the extraordinary circumstances, we were very fortunate to have an extremely successful year at FastSpring, and I’m excited to share some of the major highlights below. We helped facilitate record growth for our customers. Not only did our customers thrive in 2020, but they also did so at a record level.

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