User Pilot

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Your SaaS product’s free trial conversion rate is one of the most important growth metrics to track. That’s because an integral component of the product-led growth strategy is your ability to convert a free trial user into a paying customer. The average conversion rate for SaaS companies varies between 18.6%

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User Pilot

OCTOBER 15, 2023

Conversion rate is one of the most important metrics to track in SaaS, and that’s why conversion rate optimization is an essential focus for growth in any business. TL;DR A SaaS conversion rate refers to the percentage of visitors who take a desired action on the website or in-app. What is the SaaS conversion rate?

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User Pilot

JUNE 28, 2023

Sustaining user engagement throughout the entire onboarding process can feel like a task only large teams can achieve. Kommunicate drives sales-less product adoption through product experiments and tracking adoption rates with Userpilot. Create a multimedia onboarding flow with product screenshots and videos.

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User Pilot

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Reducing the CAC payback period can help SaaS companies boost their financial performance and drive growth. This metric helps SaaS companies choose the most effective customer acquisition channels , diagnose inefficiencies in customer retention strategies , and inform pricing decisions. Let’s break them all down.

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OPEXEngine

MAY 18, 2021

We’ve talked to dozens of our SaaS customers, as well as investors to learn more about what is happening with these key metrics. SaaS metrics are viewed differently at different stages of growth and for different sales models, primarily whether a company is selling into an SMB or enterprise marketplace.

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User Pilot

JULY 5, 2023

Wondering how to improve customer satisfaction scores and foster long-term success for your SaaS business? Customer satisfaction has become critical for any SaaS business as customers have increasingly competitive options. A good customer satisfaction level ensures great product engagement to retain customers longer.

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OPEXEngine

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

There are many ways to classify SaaS companies, but differentiating companies based upon who their customers are presents the best approach for measuring performance and driving success for SaaS businesses. SMM SaaS Company Overview & Market Dynamics. SMM SaaS Company Overview & Market Dynamics.

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Chart Mogul

JUNE 24, 2021

Pricing localization is a strategy where you present the price of your SaaS differently depending on where the customer lives. The same could also be true for your SaaS business. In our B2B SaaS Pricing Masterclass , we detail the importance of SaaS pricing and how to get it right for your audience.

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User Pilot

JUNE 14, 2021

Are you looking to build a solid marketing automation strategy and don’t know where to start? In this article, I’ll cover what marketing automation is, how to set up an effective strategy for it, and go over some examples of how to use marketing automation at each stage of the user journey to drive product growth.

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Incredo

DECEMBER 3, 2019

We have interviewed tens of SaaS community members to understand how they perceive SaaS Christmas promotions. And here are the best answers we have received. #1 Denis Lunev Founder at DepositFix , Payment Integration for HubSpot “ The most expensive time of year to advertise on Google and Facebook is Black Friday and Christmas.

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User Pilot

JULY 18, 2023

TL;DR Customer churn is the rate at which users discontinue their subscription or stop using a particular product or service. For established SaaS companies, the average churn is between 5% to 7% per year, early-stage startups should expect an average annual churn of 10% to 15%. Bad customer service.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

As for Krish, under Krish’s leadership the team has grown to over 300 people and over 5,000 clients making it one of the next generation in truly global SaaS businesses started in India. In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Krish made his way into the world of SaaS and came to found one of India’s fastest growing SaaS companies in Chargebee?

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wepay

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

SaaS business growth isn’t always that different from non-SaaS business growth. For traditional businesses the focus is more on Convert and for SaaS it tilts a bit more toward Retain due to the prevalence of the subscription model. What is a go-to-customer strategy?

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Chargify

APRIL 23, 2019

There are specific stages a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company moves through during its life cycle. Understanding which stage your SaaS business is in can help determine the appropriate time to scale to the next phase—and do so successfully. The four major SaaS life cycle stages we’ll cover: Pre-startup. Pre-Startup.

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Baremetrics

JANUARY 24, 2021

Anyone managing a SaaS or subscription business is aware of customer churn. The Problem Our Situation What Causes Churn Mindset : Our guiding principles on churn Strategy: How to reduce customer churn to 5% Phase 1 Phase 2 Phase 3 Pulling it All Together. The benchmark customer churn for SaaS for SMBs is 5%.

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ProfitWell

OCTOBER 16, 2019

It’s the question on every SaaS founder’s lips: Is my churn rate too high? Worse, comparing average churn rates across different markets and industries will leave you mired in confusing statistics and contradicting studies. So how do you know what a healthy churn rate is for your SaaS company? Let’s find out. Image via Recurly.

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 27, 2020

This builds on the first essay in the series of how there has been an increase in interest of SAAS-like models interested in becoming marketplaces over time. In that essay , we also talked about how a more common route for a SaaS business is to become a platform. Integration platforms are ubiquitous in SaaS.

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FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

On this podcast, we share stories from global SaaS leaders like Ryan, that you can use to inspire new growth strategies in your own business. It really took a few pivots, and even name changes to get just the go to market efforts and product market fit right. Corporate learning is really enterprise SaaS.

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SaaStr

JULY 9, 2019

More than half of Kenya’s GDP is now transacted through a mobile, through arguably the most successful mobile banking and payment system called M-Pesa. However, back in 2013, in my previous career as a strategy consultant, I was doing a lot of work with telecoms companies in South Africa. For example, in Kenya.

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ChurnZero

MAY 20, 2021

Even for more tenured Customer Success organizations, it’s an ongoing challenge to maintain consistency and perspective in your strategies and processes – keeping the customer at the center of your bustling and expanding operations. Traits: Product-market fit. $6M You get an impulse to define your internal processes.

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Chart Mogul

MARCH 9, 2020

An early entrant to the SaaS field, the company has pioneered a number of fields that are now commonplace in the industry — content marketing, the transparent startups movement, and remote work. We spoke to Buffer’s CEO Joel Gascoigne about his experience building Buffer and the role and place subscription data plays for the company.

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FastSpring

APRIL 13, 2023

From leading sales at Zillow to brand strategy at Tumblr to revenue at FiscalNote (a global policy platform), Justin Scott started noticing a trend. Across markets, companies were “taking big data sets and visualizing them in interesting ways to create user experiences.” It starts with self service. Justin Scott My pleasure.

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ProfitWell

MARCH 3, 2020

Then, we hear from Kyle Poyar over at OpenView on bringing sales into a self-service business. And finally, the evolution of B2B SaaS billing. What’s the next milestone disrupting the market? Listen wherever you get podcasts: Your top subscription news. Sales in a product-led initiative: feat. Now Hire Sales.

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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

So growth of the kind of subscription, eCommerce industry has been over 100% year on year for the past five years, according to McKinsey. So the first question is what made SaaS so successful. Customers love SaaS products and tools because it simply works. Basically you can more easily start using products.

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ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Your core is a lot like pricing in SaaS companies. Building a strong pricing strategy starts with hiring a professional team to conduct a pricing audit. Building a strong pricing strategy starts with hiring a professional team to conduct a pricing audit. Pricing strategy. It’s the center of your business. Acquisition.

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FastSpring

JUNE 22, 2022

We don’t have to look far to find examples of B2B SaaS companies that have found traction using a self-service or product-led motion. Look at Zoom or Slack: businesses designed for enterprise organizations that use B2C-like onboarding flows (such as product-led growth, or PLG) to fuel interest and adoption.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 16, 2019

The SaaS industry is constantly evolving, and for many companies in the space, that means having to evolve their business model. The classic example sees a company move from niche startup to mainstream scale-up, but it can also see companies hone their product-market fit by focusing on a more specialized, and yet more lucrative, user base.

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User Pilot

AUGUST 14, 2023

Are you struggling with creating an effective growth marketing strategy? With more players entering the SaaS market and the growing use of digital technology in marketing, traditional marketing alone cannot sustain your business. What is growth marketing? What is the growth marketing framework?

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ProfitWell

JUNE 15, 2020

Last week, MRR gain spiked to almost +16% because it was the beginning of the month and subscriptions renewed. Salesforce released its “State of Marketing Report,” offering trends from 900 marketers. This report is a quick but mighty read, jam-packed with data and trends to help you optimize your DTC marketing strategies.

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User Pilot

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

What GTM metrics should you track as a product marketer? On your way to building a go-to-market strategy to launch a new product, you might wonder the former question a lot. GTM metrics are pieces of data or indicators that help product marketers like you keep track of the success of their strategy.

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FastSpring

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Michael Bonfils is a marketer first, and a translator second. That’s the philosophy behind SEM International , the firm he founded that specializes in multilingual internationally-based digital marketing services. I interviewed Michael about successful global marketing strategies. How do we help our people?”

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Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

And if you still feel some questions remain unanswered, you can always reach us at marketing@chartmogul.com or on our Twitter account to ask your burning question about MRR or anything SaaS metrics-related. MRR stands for Monthly recurring revenue. Because MRR is based on subscriptions, it has a strong forward-looking element.

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SmartKarrot

AUGUST 10, 2021

It is especially true of SaaS products – where the value in an intangible implication that adoption could lead to better practices and revenue growth. The key to building successful service/products is data. That’s why behavior analytics forms the core function for SaaS. What is behavioral analytics?

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User Pilot

MARCH 9, 2023

Want to improve the current customer attrition rate in your SaaS company? Customer attrition is one of the main problems for SaaS companies. In this article, we’ll discuss customer attrition in depth and discuss the strategies you can use to reduce churn and increase customer retention and loyalty.

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SaaSOptics

APRIL 14, 2022

SaaS pricing is typically done on a subscription basis where customers pay a recurring monthly or annual fee to use a company’s software. In recent years, usage-based pricing has become popular amongst growing SaaS companies and their customers—but is it the right choice for your business? Types of Pricing Models.

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Outseta

JANUARY 20, 2020

What started as Dimitris (now my Co-founder at Outseta ) writing a few lines of code to collect rent payments from tenants he had living in a duplex in Providence, Rhode Island, turned into something worth hundreds of millions of dollars 15 years later. I learned a million lessons about SaaS, about start-ups, and about life along the way.

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User Pilot

JULY 24, 2023

What is SaaS marketing? We’re all familiar with the basics of SaaS product marketing such as attracting users to a SaaS product with a subscription business model. That said, there are key differences between a SaaS marketing strategy and standard digital marketing.

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