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. 3: Poor customer service or experience with the sales teams can make customers churn.

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User Pilot

JANUARY 10, 2024

User research methods for SaaS: Usability testing User testing User interviews Focus groups Session replays First click testing User feedback surveys Card sorting A/B testing Product analytics Heatmaps Userpilot can help you conduct user experience (UX) research and easily interpret the data. What is user research?

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User Pilot

DECEMBER 13, 2023

How do you develop a robust UX strategy? TL;DR UX strategy provides guidance to the UX design team on how to create and improve experiences that satisfy user needs. TL;DR UX strategy provides guidance to the UX design team on how to create and improve experiences that satisfy user needs. This is the main focus of the article.

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User Pilot

MARCH 14, 2024

Looking for customer analytics use cases that can significantly improve your SaaS? This article lists key use cases for SaaS and explains how to implement them to unlock customer satisfaction and product growth. 9 use cases for customer analytics in SaaS: Test your onboarding flows with A/B testing. You’re at the right place.

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Customer Lifetime Value SaaS Underperforming Technical Team Churn 105

SaaStr

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The last 18 months have seen the biggest changes in the VP of Sales in his SaaS career. We’re still learning what world we’re in — some people interview over Zoom, some are focused on how to build teams in the current age, and many are dealing with a weird overhang from the SaaS explosion of 2021, quiet quitting, layoffs, and team turnover.

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User Pilot

APRIL 7, 2023

What are the different types of B2B customer insights for SaaS businesses? When your product is catering to other businesses, it can be difficult for sales reps and other teams to understand the needs and experiences of the clients, especially if the client company sells multiple products. Their challenges and pain points.

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User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

Confused about trying to understand SaaS roles? SaaS companies have many moving parts, and it can be difficult to determine who does what. TL;DR SaaS, or “Software as a Service,” is a business model that delivers centrally hosted software to subscribers over the internet. What is a SaaS business model?

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User Pilot

MARCH 27, 2023

We finish with an overview of product analytics tools that your team can benefit from. Product analytics are used not only by the product team but also by the customer success and the marketing team, as well as UX designers and devs. As a result, product teams are able to make quicker decisions.

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User Pilot

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Actually, there are multiple types of personas for different teams, levels of research, and use cases—which you need to understand if you want to connect with customers. So let’s cover each of them and see what you can do to improve your team’s effectiveness. What is a persona?

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Valuize Consulting

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Stephen is a Customer Success Executive in the SaaS industry, specializing in customer renewals and relationships, with 20+ years of organizational development experience. When it comes to budget, organizations often haven’t established where the investment is coming from to fund the CS team. leverage Training & Development.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Gorgias is the leading contact center for e-commerce and it’s been a fun one to track at SaaS, from 1,000 to 3,000 to now 7,000 customers. I sent cold emails and LinkedIn messages and ended up with nine interviews. From those nine interviews, I received four offers. 7 Tips to get 7,000 Customers.

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User Pilot

JANUARY 22, 2024

A product marketing framework is like a compass that guides you through the complex, fast-paced world of SaaS. For your product marketing strategy, however, you’ll need to align your sales and marketing teams, create a value-based pricing strategy , collect and apply customer feedback , and map out the customer journey.

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FastSpring

APRIL 26, 2022

Last week, I canceled an annual SaaS subscription (I had three weeks left until renewal). In the language of SaaS, I churned. In part two, we’ll cover five churn-prevention strategies that have been successful in other SaaS businesses. Part I: SaaS Churn Benchmarks. Is There an Ideal Churn Rate for SaaS?

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User Pilot

JANUARY 29, 2023

Developing features without validation results in bloated products and unnecessarily drives the cost of development up. Product teams should invest in validation when developing the MVP. If your users respond well to them, you can iterate on them and develop them incrementally.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 24, 2024

Mark Roberge , SaaStr fan-favorite and Co-Founder and Managing Director of Stage 2 Capital brought together some of the top CROs in SaaS during the SaaStr Annual to share some of their greatest learnings and pivotal moments leading some of the Cloud 100 SaaS companies. The bad news is it wasn’t driving the results they wanted.

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Buffer Resources

JANUARY 15, 2024

Inaccurate, packed with "filler," or completely AI-generated — bad B2B (business-to-business) content is easy to spot and even easier to find online. Interview them. According to one study, it also costs over $50 billion annually due to wasted resources alone. But what makes B2B content good ? Tough question.

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OpenView Labs

MARCH 8, 2021

And that’s exactly why we’ve put together this list of the best resources around SaaS and B2B sales. Conducting interviews. What Interviewing 600+ Sales Reps Taught Me About Team Building. Loom’s Peter Prowitt shares the biggest mistakes to avoid if you’re interviewing for a sales position.

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ChurnZero

JULY 22, 2022

Does your Customer Success team have a shallow view of onboarding? The webinar’s Q&A session covered popular onboarding questions in SaaS like how long it should take a customer to reach first value, what should you do when a customer disengages, and how to hold customers accountable at scale. I recommend you interview customers.

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Point Nine Land

OCTOBER 23, 2023

We recently hosted the Point Nine Founders Summit, featuring several panels and presentations from founders, CFOs, COOs, and sales execs on building early sales teams and hiring your first successful sales leaders. It helps keep the product team focused on customer feedback and providing value in exchange for revenue.

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Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

MARCH 23, 2020

Companies which don’t use mental models risk unleashing mayhem with poor choices or becoming bloated and bureaucratic by reducing the volume and speed at which decisions are made - both scenarios are undesirable and will impact growth. OKRs are a useful mental model - they make it crystal clear what people and teams should be striving for.

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Baremetrics

AUGUST 6, 2021

As a SaaS founder, a hundred tasks are bound to occupy your mind on a daily basis. Plan your hiring process long before adding people to the team. In a small company, someone with a unique perspective is likely to contribute more meaningful ideas than someone who aligns perfectly with the rest of the team. Try Baremetrics free.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 29, 2021

And so, Mark Rudden and his team had to figure it all out by themselves. Fortunately, Mark had quite a bit of experience working and scaling teams in demanding, hypergrowth environments. SaaS businesses are obsessed with renewing customers, so why wouldn’t they put the same effort into their employees? Putting people first.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 7, 2023

As the Director of Corporate Development & Strategic Partnerships at WP Engine , Carl has worked on many acquisitions and partnerships, including brands like Flywheel, Perfect Dashboard, Block Lab, and recently, Delicious Brains. “This is everyday for me, so I love talking about it,” says Carl Hargreaves about mergers and acquisitions.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

sales team. I would argue it was one of the first SaaS companies of its time, but back then we called it an ASP, an application service provider. I did all sorts of things there from sales, to project management, to running the engineering team, hiring. This is where I got my chops in growing and scaling enterprise sales teams.

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User Pilot

APRIL 19, 2024

You will learn effective techniques for collecting and analyzing data , with practical tips on applying your findings to benefit your SaaS. Applying insights from market research to product development and marketing strategies can significantly enhance business growth. These choices can make or break your SaaS company.

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User Pilot

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Product launch checklists help align the efforts of all team members, enhance quality assurance, help mitigate risks, enable the evaluation of the launch, and help you deliver a better customer experience. Develop a product that meets customer needs and expectations. If you can find buyers at this stage, you’re onto something.

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Chart Mogul

JULY 15, 2021

Same when you reach 100 people.” – Hiroshi Mikitani, Rakuten CEO, based on an interview with Phil Libin. As teams grow, it gets harder to rally around key goals. My Droyd co-founder, Brieuc, led Ops at AB Tasty as they grew from 50 to 200+ employees, then went on to advise various Series A-C SaaS companies with their Operations.

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Chart Mogul

JULY 15, 2021

Same when you reach 100 people.” – Hiroshi Mikitani, Rakuten CEO, based on an interview with Phil Libin. As teams grow, it gets harder to rally around key goals. My Droyd co-founder, Brieuc, led Ops at AB Tasty as they grew from 50 to 200+ employees, then went on to advise various Series A-C SaaS companies with their Operations.

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Underperforming Technical Team Revenue Scale Communication 52

User Pilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

TL;DR Regular roadmaps kill outcomes by forcing teams to think in the categories of features and timelines. It’s difficult to implement outcome-based roadmaps because stakeholders don’t trust product teams to deliver on business goals. Many companies lack differentiation strategies and drive product development by copying competitors.

Scale 105

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Scytale

MARCH 19, 2024

In this blog, we’ll walk through best practices for getting audit-ready, from getting your documentation together to prepping your team. DOWNLOAD THE WHITEPAPER Checklist for Preparing for Your Next Third-Party Compliance Audit Put Together a Dedicated Audit Team Appoint key staff from across your organization to a dedicated audit team.

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Payment Services Payment Solutions Payments compliance 52

Totango

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Hiring team members with the right customer success manager skills is critical for the effectiveness of your CS team and strategy. We’ll cover these below, along with five best practices to follow when bringing a new customer success manager aboard your team. What Is a Customer Success Manager (CSM)?

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User Pilot

JANUARY 8, 2024

This is particularly important in SaaS, where the CAC payback period is anything from a few months to over one year. Host product webinars to reach your target audience Develop webinar content that educates your audience on industry trends, common challenges, and how your product addresses these issues.

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FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

Ryan Austin had VP-level experience in training when he decided to start a consulting business to help enterprise-level companies with their corporate learning and development initiatives. Ryan and his team noticed so many inefficiencies across the L&D workflows. “It There are now over 150 enterprise companies using the platform.

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Payment Solutions Payment Services SaaS Payments VP of Engineering 111

Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

It’s an approach that’s served him well along the road to building the HubSpot sales team, where he was CRO for nine years. This has created large amounts of data for running teams. . And the teams now need a more defined structure. Mark Roberge knows which he prefers. When to optimize for scalability.

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User Pilot

MARCH 28, 2024

User analytics play an essential part in the product development and management process. Its aim is to help teams understand user behavior and offer actionable insights on how to improve the user experience. Armed with such insights , teams can better prioritize product initiatives to deliver more customer value faster.

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User Pilot

JUNE 20, 2023

Obtaining (and acting on) users’ opinions of your product through user feedback and interviews and more. Then, you interview them to identify what they learned in that time about your product’s purpose, trustworthiness, and usability. However, most UX designers will tell you that empty states are an example of poor UX.

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User Pilot

AUGUST 14, 2023

Analyzing user sentiment is an essential step for all product developers and marketers to take. Whenever survey respondents fail to answer honestly, the most likely outcome is that you'll need to repeat the online survey in order to collect more accurate feedback the next time around — costing you more time, money, and team resources.

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