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)?

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User Pilot

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Digital product metrics reveal how customers interact with your product. However, not all metrics are created equal. In this article, we hone in on the best metrics for product teams looking to drive product growth. We discuss 15 of the most important metrics and examine what to consider when choosing which metrics to track.

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Metrics Customer Lifetime Value Scale SaaS 104

Subscription Flow

APRIL 18, 2024

How do you keep increasing your revenue in a marketplace that has reached its point of saturation? Read more: The Attain & Retain Strategy for You—Membership Engagement to Boost Retention Section 1: Understanding Subscriber Engagement and its Importance. It is measured using various metrics. The sections are as follows: 1.

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Engagement Customer Lifetime Value Revenue Subscription 94

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Metrics are the key to evaluating success and setting goals, but not every SaaS business should orient itself around the same one-size-fits-all numbers. This flexible mindset creates just the right conditions for embracing evolving business models and new metrics. The Metric Monolith: The Rise and Fall. Gross Retention = 90% +.

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Metrics Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence Technical Review 198

SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2023

Learn about the most important SaaS metrics for founders in 2023 with the CEOs of the most metric-oriented company, monday.com, and the founder of SaaStr. For a quick recap on SaaS metrics: What is ARR in SaaS? ARR stands for Annualized Recurring Revenue, although its real-world definition has evolved over time.

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Totango

MAY 14, 2021

Customer retention is the keystone in any customer success strategy. There are many different types of customer retention metrics that one can track. Which customer retention metrics have the biggest impact on your business? Customer Retention Rate. The result is your customer retention rate.

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Metrics Retention Software Review Customer Lifetime Value 65

User Pilot

AUGUST 9, 2023

Wondering how to calculate customer retention rate and why? It’s important to measure the customer retention rate to see how well your product retains customers and to monitor any changes to try and improve it. TL;DR Customer retention rate measures the percentage of customers a company keeps over a specific timeframe.

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Retention Customer Lifetime Value Churn Metrics 98

User Pilot

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Which one is better, customer acquisition vs retention? Both are critical metrics to measure in your product, but is there an outright winning that you should solely focus on for your product growth ? This article will examine customer acquisition and retention and determine which one you should focus on.

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Acquisition Retention Customer Lifetime Value Churn 105

User Pilot

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Wondering how churn rate vs retention rate are different? Both metrics are important to track if you want to implement a successful product retention strategy. In this article, we will cover: Formulas to calculate each of these metrics. Other important metrics related to churn and retention efforts.

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Tom Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

Revenue, $M. Revenue Growth. -. Net Dollar Retention. GitLab is the third fastest growing software company at IPO, registering 87% revenue growth in 2020, while charting 88% gross margins. More compelling than simply the growth in count is the disparity in Net Dollar Retention of these large customers.

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User Pilot

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

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. Measuring KPIs to gauge the success of retention efforts. What is a retention specialist?

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Retention Customer Lifetime Value Churn Outsourced Development 105

User Pilot

AUGUST 16, 2023

Without retaining users , you’re throwing away money and resources spent acquiring customers that’s why having a retention playbook is helpful. A user retention playbook will keep your customers happy and continue using your product for longer. Book a demo now if you want to improve retention in your company and increase revenue.

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User Pilot

DECEMBER 23, 2023

New user retention is essential for product success. It also explores: The difference between retention and churn The importance of tracking retention Various stages of user retention How to measure it effectively What retention metrics to track, and Tried and tested strategies to increase user retention.

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Retention Customer Lifetime Value Social Media Churn 104

User Pilot

DECEMBER 9, 2021

What is Net Revenue Retention? And should you care about improving this retention metric? In this article, we’ll take an in-depth look at what Net Revenue Retention is, why it matters and the multiple approaches you can take to improve it. What is Net Revenue Retention (NRR)?

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Retention Revenue Software Review SaaS 98

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

SaaStr

MAY 18, 2021

But one thing that is almost always true, is you get more renewals, more upsells, and more net revenue retention from your largest customers. Their new revenue retention is about 85%. As a best-of-breed player, its net revenue retention is about 100%. Squarespace is almost all not just SMB, but self-service.

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Subscription Flow

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Maximizing recurring revenue, increasing sales, retaining customers , and achieving all such business targets is the dream of every subscription business retailer. There are certain subscription billing performance metrics that if you track will help you a lot in achieving certain specific business targets. Haven’t you found out yet?

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User Pilot

MARCH 31, 2023

Analytics vs metrics – how do they differ from each other? Though both are important, analytics and metrics have distinct meanings and purposes in your data analytics process. In this article, we will go through analytics and metrics, their examples, and how you can analyze metrics to drive growth for your SaaS business.

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Metrics Customer Lifetime Value Data Analysis Engagement 98

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

In this week’s Workshop Wednesday , Salesforce Ventures Investor, Jessica Bartos, shares the 5 metrics every SaaS company should care about in any market environment, especially the one we’re currently in. Growth Is Still Number One Growth is still the number one metric, but it’s not the only one. You do that by showing momentum.

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SaaStr

APRIL 28, 2022

We’ve talked for 10 years about the power of compounding, recurring revenue. So don’t get me wrong — NRR is a Top 3 Metric for any SaaS company. And it doesn’t put retention as goal #1. Individual CSMs can much more influence retention and GRR than NRR. Low NRR is a flag, a canary in the coalmine.

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Clouded Judgement

APRIL 11, 2024

Through these interactions, I’ve built up mental benchmarks for metrics on which I place extra emphasis. My hope is that this analysis can provide startup entrepreneurs with a framework for how to manage their businesses around SaaS metrics (e.g., net retention and CAC payback). Is Software Rebounding?

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CustomerSuccessBox

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

A major shift in the distribution model of software meant that SaaS metrics needed to evolve. We will be discussing all Net Revenue Retention in this blog. What is Net Revenue Retention? But SaaS leaders know the importance of Net Revenue Retention and tracking it. Calculating Net Revenue Retention.

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Retention Revenue Artificial Intelligence Systems Review 52

User Pilot

JUNE 19, 2023

What is cohort retention analysis? How do you leverage it to reduce churn and improve your retention rates ? TL;DR Cohort retention analysis tracks how distinct groups of users engage with the product over a period of time. It is also useful for predicting future revenue. What is cohort retention analysis?

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Retention Social Media Customer Lifetime Value Acquisition 98

OPEXEngine

JUNE 2, 2020

If your startup is a SaaS (or any other business with customers paying on a recurring subscription basis), churn is a critical metric – particularly net revenue churn and gross revenue churn – that will need constant measurement. What is revenue retention? Net Revenue Retention Rate.

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Retention Churn Revenue Metrics 52

User Pilot

JULY 30, 2023

Customer retention vs acquisition cost: Which metric matters more? Thus, striking the right balance between acquisition and retention costs significantly improves profitability and sustainability. So let’s see when you should prioritize one metric over the other and how you can boost your customer retention rates.

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Acquisition Retention Customer Lifetime Value User Experience 98

User Pilot

APRIL 23, 2023

Do you know which product health metrics to track to achieve long-term success for your SaaS business? The right metrics and data will offer valuable product growth insights to help you make data-driven decisions about optimizing your products’ performance. Lifetime value determines revenue potential from each customer.

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Metrics Customer Lifetime Value SaaS Scale 97

Tom Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Revenue, $M. Revenue Growth. -. Net Dollar Retention. Amplitude’s revenue growth rate is in the top quartile for modern software companies at 49%. The company spent $47m in 2019 on sales and marketing, and $52m in 2020, an increase of $3m or 6%, while growing revenues 49%. Gross Margin. Sales Efficiency. -.

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User Pilot

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Net monthly recurring revenue (MRR) growth enables you to calculate the change in your company’s recurring revenue on a month-to-month basis. As we will see in this article, there are several key factors that affect monthly revenue. A similar concept is ARR, annual recurring revenue. How to calculate MRR growth rate?

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Metrics Customer Lifetime Value Churn Retention 105

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

If you’re forecasting short on your global revenue target, do you know how you’ll make up the difference? Sales KPIs versus sales metrics: Is there a difference? Some might argue that there are fine-grained distinctions to be made between KPIs and metrics. New logo revenue. Net expansion revenue. Expansion dollars.

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Sales Hiring Metrics Revenue Sales 188

SaaStr

MARCH 11, 2021

There are 3 general options: Your VP of Sales is responsible for net new revenue only. The VPS is responsible for closing $Xm in net new revenue this year, period. Post-sales, other than upsell which adds to net new revenue for this year, is someone else’s job. This is the cleanest structure for a true closer. Maybe not.

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Sales Hiring Metrics Sales Churn 261

SaaStr

JUNE 11, 2020

In B2C and high-churn environments, it’s indeed a critical metric. But in SaaS, in the earlier days, we inherited a lot of our lingo and metrics from B2C web services. They were earlier to mass-scale recurring revenue services on the web than B2B was. So we used their core metrics like “Churn” and “Lifetime value”.

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Metrics Customer Lifetime Value B2C B2B 192

User Pilot

JANUARY 19, 2023

Looking to improve your retention rates by reducing customer retention costs? This is why it’s critical to understand retention costs and how to reduce them. In this article, we’ll explore customer retention costs. Customer retention cost (CRC) is the amount you spend on customer retention over a specific period.

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Retention Customer Lifetime Value Onboarding Acquisition 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. In other words, it includes expansion revenue as well as downgrades and cancels.

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Retention Metrics Churn Customer Success 59

Tom Tunguz

JUNE 18, 2019

Over the last decade or so, I’ve compiled a metrics sheet to summarise a SaaS business. Redpoint SaaS Metrics Template. The template is broken into six sections: People, Bookings & Revenue, Cash, Sales, Marketing, Customer Success. This section covers employee satisfaction, headcount, and recruiting metrics.

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Metrics Sales Recruiting Startup SaaS 202

ChurnZero

JUNE 9, 2023

Good sales teams typically get the budget, headcount and tools they desire because the function is tied to revenue. 8 metrics to position Customer Success as a profit center with finance While sentiment-based metrics like Net Promoter Score ® (NPS) and customer satisfaction are important, they don’t frame CS work from a financial perspective.

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Finance Metrics Customer Success Headcount 98

CustomerSuccessBox

MAY 25, 2021

That’s because Customer Retention is critical. Customer retention is critical — particularly for B2B SaaS companies. Loyal customers contribute to your revenue growth through Upsells, providing referrals, and advocacy. Click here to know why customer retention is important. Calculating Customer Retention.

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Retention Metrics Outsourced Development SMB 52

Clouded Judgement

MARCH 29, 2024

Revenue multiples are a shorthand valuation framework. Given most software companies are not profitable, or not generating meaningful FCF, it’s the only metric to compare the entire industry against. Multiples shown below are calculated by taking the Enterprise Value (market cap + debt - cash) / NTM revenue.

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