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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Chargebee

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

DTC eCommerce is moving from the traditional sales/market-based metrics to retention-based analysis to understand business profitability. Are you keeping up?

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User Pilot

APRIL 22, 2024

In this article, we’ll share 17 best practices that you can implement today to increase retention , revenue, and engagement. TL;DR Customer success builds long-lasting relationships, increases customer retention , lifetime value , and advocacy, and informs product development. But what strategies work?

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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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ChurnZero

JULY 8, 2022

Oh, by the way, what’s your customer retention?” It was clear that, barring any wildly outlandish figures, customer retention wasn’t a dealbreaker in their decision to invest. Cut to 2022, and the idea that a SaaS company could secure venture funding without investors digging deep into retention metrics seems comical, if not reckless.

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SaaStr

APRIL 28, 2022

So don’t get me wrong — NRR is a Top 3 Metric for any SaaS company. Lazier than almost anyone in sales, even the ones that really only work 20 hours a week. Put differently, a CS team might coast if the goal is 120% NRR and basically the product itself, together with the sales team, sort of gets you there already.

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Chart Mogul

MARCH 23, 2023

And, is your poor retention the reason for your slower growth in 2023? If you’re unsure, check your retention metrics. Gross revenue retention (GRR) and net revenue retention (NRR) are the key metrics to understand how well … How good is your business at retaining 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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Tom Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Sales Efficiency. -. Net Dollar Retention. The first is sales efficiency. The company spent $47m in 2019 on sales and marketing, and $52m in 2020, an increase of $3m or 6%, while growing revenues 49%. The 2020 sales efficiency is 0.54. Revenue, $M. Revenue Growth. -. Gross Margin. Net Income Margin. Customer Count.

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Tom Tunguz

AUGUST 14, 2022

Last week, Office Hours welcomed Bill Binch, former CRO at Pendo, EVP Worldwide Sales at Marketo & operating partner at Battery to share his views on building world-class sales organizations. Bill & I exchanged emails about Deliberately Underselling as Sales Strategy. Logo-based quotas focus the team on speed to close.

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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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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 20, 2022

Strong sales reps are the lifeblood of your business and how you choose to invest in them matters. For frontline sales managers, attributes like competency, quality of work, ease of execution, and length of contribution indicate reps’ overall job success, but you can’t rely on those inputs to tell you if they are personally satisfied.

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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 210

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Meghan Gill, SVP of Sales Ops and Sales Dev at MongoDB, shares different consumption-based compensation models that drive the right behaviors. They reoriented their sales team and de-incentivized reps from making deals upfront. It was creating friction in the sales cycle. This is MongoDB’s approach.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

There are many parts to a high-performing sales organization – the right people, processes and strategy, to start. That’s not to say there’s no art to practicing sales. Much of what defines our most outstanding sales reps is their ability to deeply understand our prospects’ and customers’ business needs and speak directly to them.

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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 74

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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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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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 83

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. For the purposes of this discussion, I am going to focus on net revenue retention.

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Tom Tunguz

MARCH 24, 2019

sales efficiency, meaning one dollar of sales and marketing spend results in $1.80 If we examine net dollar retention, the current value of last year’s cohort today net of churn and gross of expansion, we see Zoom is in the top decile at 140%. These metrics are the result of exceptional product market fit.

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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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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 13, 2020

That’s Tom Ronen, Head of Customer Success for monday.com , on a topic that’s been on many of our minds lately: retention. We sat down with Tom and Kaitlin Pettersen, our Global Director of Customer Support, in a recent webinar that focused on how support teams can increase retention and reduce churn among their customers right now.

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CloseSaaS

MARCH 31, 2022

Customer retention is the key to profitable growth. Learn the top customer retention metrics your SaaS company should be tracking.

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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. What are product health metrics? Let’s start!

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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? How do they differ?

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Kellblog

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Unlike Meritech Public Comps , where you can see metrics for the best [1], public SaaS companies, this private company data is somewhat harder to come by (the only other source that springs to mind is RevOps Squared ) and, for most of us, it provides much more realistic comparables than Meritech [2]. Net dollar retention (NDR) of 109%.

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ChurnZero

JUNE 24, 2022

In our webinar, 2022 SaaS retention benchmarks , SaaS Capital Manager Director Rob Belcher shares the results from their 11th annual B2B SaaS benchmarking survey. You can download the full report for net retention and gross retention benchmarks as well as retention metrics in relation to ACV, growth, size, and more.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 8, 2020

This is where metrics can be invaluable, giving clarity on performance, and circumventing potential issues. But with so much data to consider, how can you define the help desk metrics that matter for your team? What are help desk metrics? Help desk metrics vs. KPIs. Ticket volume or total conversations.

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Customer Support Metrics Technical Review Scale 211

InsightSquared

MAY 7, 2019

Sales is the Growth Engine. Sales is the engine driving SaaS company value. Top and bottom line performance are totally dependent on the sales organization and its performance. And sales expense is typically the largest expense item on a growth SaaS company’s income statement. Typical SaaS Sales Metrics.

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Tom Tunguz

MARCH 18, 2019

the company generated $107M of trailing 12 month revenue, services 33% of the Fortune 500, grew revenue at 48% and has a net retention rate of 139% across 10,800 customers. Let’s first look at one of the key SaaS metrics: the dollar attention. Next, let’s compare the sales efficiency.

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Chart Mogul

MARCH 1, 2023

Retention isn’t a silver bullet, but in SaaS, it’s the closest thing to it. Why is retention so pivotal? What does good retention look like? And does higher retention mean higher growth? We analyzed it all in our inaugural ChartMogul SaaS Retention Report. Why is retention so pivotal? per annum.

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User Pilot

JULY 13, 2023

In this article, we’ll go through how to measure growth of a company by delving deep into the basics, relevant metrics, and each necessary company growth rate formula. Important metrics to measure the growth of a company We’ll now look at some important metrics that will help you measure a company’s growth.

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Metrics Customer Lifetime Value Benchmarks Churn 89

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. There is often more than one way to calculate a given Customer Success metric; Gaming.

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Subscription Flow

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Here, in this article, we are going to jot down the SaaS financial metrics that investors look into before giving you funding for your project or business idea. Today, metrics or KPIs have made it easier for investors to see if they should invest in a project or not. So, here are the metrics that you need to monitor: 1.

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Metrics SaaS Finance Acquisition 52

Kellblog

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Retailers drive growth in two ways: They open new stores They increase sales at existing stores. Opening new stores is great, but it’s an expensive way to drive new sales and requires a lot of up-front investment. It’s for this reason that retailers routinely publish same-store sales in their financial results.

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Sales Hiring Enterprise Metrics Sales 94

Tom Tunguz

APRIL 29, 2019

Also, we’ll compare metrics to a peer group with similar ACVs. Slack records 143% net dollar retention, which is top decile according to Redpoint’s freemium study , and dead center of the peer group and equal to Zoom. Slack’s sales efficiency exceeds 111%, which is sensational. Let’s compare gross margin.

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