User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

In this article, we’ve outlined the major roles that move the needle in terms of product growth alongside their KPIs and current salary ranges. TL;DR SaaS, or “Software as a Service,” is a business model that delivers centrally hosted software to subscribers over the internet.

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User Pilot

OCTOBER 15, 2023

TL;DR A SaaS conversion rate refers to the percentage of visitors who take a desired action on the website or in-app. You can use funnel analysis to fix any friction points within your product. Monitor retention during the trial period so you can make changes to drive more user engagement.

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SaaStr

JULY 26, 2022

SMBs don’t really budget for much, so if the business goes down, software purchases often go down very quickly too. Net net, most true SMB SaaS products often churn on the order of 3% per month almost no matter what you do. Be relentless about building features that increase retention. And it is. And measuring it.

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User Pilot

JULY 18, 2023

Tracking your customer churn rate will help you keep tabs on business growth. You will have data sets for analyzing your churn/retention history, which will better position you to make intelligent business decisions. Types of churn rates you should calculate: customer churn rate, revenue churn rate , and involuntary churn rate.

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User Pilot

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

According to Havard Business Review, customer acquisition requires 5 to 20 times more resources than customer retention. This article will walk you through 15 practical strategies to improve customer retention , boost loyalty, and ensure customer satisfaction. What is customer retention? Book a demo to get started!

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User Pilot

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

TL;DR Funnel analysis helps map out all the steps website visitors and in-app users take to achieve conversion goals , like signing up for your tool or completing the onboarding process. Create data-driven product roadmaps. Increase revenue growth. Ready to start tracking user funnels for your in-app user journeys?

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User Pilot

OCTOBER 5, 2023

This metric helps SaaS companies choose the most effective customer acquisition channels , diagnose inefficiencies in customer retention strategies , and inform pricing decisions. Collaboration between product , marketing, and sales teams is essential to effectively identify and target high-value customers. What is CAC payback?

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Baremetrics

JULY 30, 2021

Within their platform, users can manage various aspects of their online customers such as subscription, recurring billing, invoicing, payments, accounting, taxes, and more. Baremetrics on the other hand monitors subscription revenue for businesses that bring in revenue through subscription-based services.

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OPEXEngine

MAY 18, 2021

The growth stages are defined as: Early Stage – Product/Market Fit Stage, . Growth Stage – Scaling the Business, and . The following 4 metrics are critical to the valuation of a private SaaS business. SaaS Metric #1 – Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR). Almost all revenue is from new contracts.

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Chart Mogul

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Product analytics, customer data or user feedback from your CRM, as well as revenue analytics, all play an essential role in understanding and growing your business. The team has also been working hard all year to bring you these and many other improvements to the ChartMogul platform. Net and Gross MRR Retention Rates.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 18, 2022

We all know customer retention is more important than ever. Which is why it’s key to strengthen customer retention processes by automating them, keeping customers engaged, and detecting any signs of churn before they happen. Automate these 5 processes to boost customer retention. Educational sequences.

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SaaSX

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

For many startup software companies (and their founders), an early capital-efficient approach to growth can make a huge difference in the long run. It can make the difference between needing to make deep cuts when the business climate gets rocky versus making slight adjustments. Revenue per Employee. What Is Capital Efficiency?

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ChurnZero

MAY 20, 2021

In this preliminary phase, you’re still likely trying to reach product-market fit, you can count your customers on two hands, and you have a good sense of your customers’ satisfaction with your service despite not having any formal surveying. Traits: Product-market fit. $6M Pre-Build Phase. Build Phase.

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Baremetrics

JULY 20, 2021

Following HubSpot’s lead is a good way to prepare your SaaS product marketing plan, but to do so effectively you’ll need a step-by-step process to get started. In this article, we will walk through 7 steps for creating a solid marketing strategy for your SaaS product.

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Baremetrics

JANUARY 24, 2021

Transitioning to SaaS On January 1st 2020, we transitioned the company out of a strategic partnership (we were operating the platform under a non SaaS business model!). We were looking to relaunch the user-driven, SaaS side of our businesses. This means that our revenue churn was very low.

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User Pilot

AUGUST 14, 2023

Ask users to rate from 1 to 5 how easy it is to use your product. Product evaluation surveys. Which gauges how users feel about product performance and what they value the most. Product usage questions are specifically oriented toward how the user engages with your app. What is a product satisfaction survey?

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 26, 2019

Guillaume : So your the… as the founder and CEO of a very early stage, like almost pre-product market fits a startup. Alice : Definitely pre-product market fit. We’re still at a stage where the product evolves a lot. It was mostly just how to activate them, how to make them come back to the app.

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Totango

MAY 19, 2020

The continuing COVID-19 health crisis may well produce a recession that has a significant impact on the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) industry. As their customers are presented with changing markets and deal with the uncertainty that comes with current events, SaaS companies must be prepared for a potential wave of churn.

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ProfitWell

DECEMBER 9, 2019

From the rise of SaaS to the sudden glut of subscription boxes, the subscription business model has never been more popular. So much so that Gartner research predicts that in 2020, all new entrants to the software market and 80% of existing companies will offer some sort of subscription package. Use a reliable billing system.

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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. You may also hear this stage referred to as discovery , vision/mission , or problem/solution fit. and ‘Does my proposed solution solve it effectively?’ Finding channel/market fit. Are we still a startup? Pre-Startup.

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OPEXEngine

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Small and Mid-Market (SMM) SaaS Companies serve customers with annual revenues of $1 million to $1 billion and with a typical employee base of 100 to 1,000. Customer success is usually staffed by a mix of customer support, sales, and engineering folks contributing some portion of their time to the Cost of Revenue.

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ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Conducting a pricing audit goes through five factors—acquisition, monetization, retention, pricing strategy, and discounts. Customer acquisition proves to be more challenging and more expensive as your customer base grows and the untapped market shrinks. Monetization. Next is monetization. Retention.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

And so I’m so thrilled to welcome back Krish Subramanian, founder and CEO at Chargebee, the startup that lets you go beyond payment, billing, and recurring invoices to delivering subscription experiences that wow and what they’re doing now in the world of rev ops, trust me, it’s pretty mind blowing.

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OpenView Labs

APRIL 11, 2019

I started learning the true value of user growth frameworks as I worked through a handful of startups, constantly learning and iterating on ways to grow a business. I started the growth team and scaled Dia&Co’s customer acquisition and retention strategies. Product Fit – Not Just About the Market.

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wepay

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

The Software Pricing blog has a simple post listing ten straightforward strategies to help SaaS businesses grow. In the hourglass example, what pops out the funnel is customer success which in turn grows outward into more revenue for the company on all fronts.”. What is a go-to-customer strategy?

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ProfitWell

JUNE 15, 2020

How are churn and new revenue trending over time? MRR gain is new revenue from either acquired customers or upgrades in a given month. MRR loss is churn, or lost revenue from cancellations or downgrades. As consumer trends adapt—your business needs to adapt, as well. How to prioritize products with an ABC analysis.

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Casey Accidental

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In a previous post , I talked about how product work post-product/market fit shifts from zero to one innovation to features, growth, and scaling work. Format changes are usually only required around platform shifts already occurring or platform shifts a larger company is trying to drive.

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Hull

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

User adoption of your product can be executed in a couple of different ways, through different channels like: Inside the product itself. On external platforms, like Facebook. In this post, we are going to learn: The essential pillars of user adoption of your product. moment of your product through Facebook.

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SaaStr

JUNE 14, 2019

In his most recent role, Dave was the CEO @ Host Analytics where he quintupled ARR, halved customer acquisition costs and increased net retention rates before selling the company to a private equity sponsor. Before that Dave was SVP/GM of Service Cloud @ Salesforce where he led the $500m line of business for customer service applications.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 16, 2019

It’s easy to dream up a sophisticated solution to a problem, but first you need to validate your assumptions to ensure you’re on the right track before going nuts with features. To differentiate yourself in a crowded market, ease of use is only part of the equation. Where were we confident, and where were things a little bit shaky?

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OpenView Labs

MAY 1, 2019

Over the past few years, the term “Growth” has been one of the most frequently used buzzwords in the SaaS world, especially at product led growth businesses. Recently I surveyed over 350 SaaS companies and found that 43% of B2B software companies already have a dedicated growth team and 27% are looking to fill a growth role.

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User Pilot

MAY 14, 2021

Those that do often gain insights into the needs of their customers, which ultimately translate into an improved product experience for users, higher activation and greater retention. But what distinguishes a good onboarding survey from other types of business intelligence? Market-related questions. Keep it short.

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User Pilot

AUGUST 30, 2021

Which product analytics tools should you be using? And what type of analytics really matters for a product marketing manager? Some analytic tools are confusing, some are difficult to use, and some are downright irritating, making it hard to access the product growth insights you need. What are product analytics tools?

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User Pilot

AUGUST 14, 2023

With more players entering the SaaS market and the growing use of digital technology in marketing, traditional marketing alone cannot sustain your business. Therefore, leveraging growth marketing is crucial to stand out among your competitors. Activation: Users realize the value of your product ( Aha!

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User Pilot

MAY 12, 2024

TL;DR Lou Assist is a product adoption tool built by the customer success platform Totango. It lets product teams add in-app guidance in the form of modals, tooltips, hotspots, banners, and highlights that can be built without writing any code.

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SmartKarrot

MARCH 8, 2022

An exceptional thought leader and a brilliant coach to thousands of executives, Allison Pickens, is a leading expert on recurring revenue growth. In the revenue-centric SaaS world, Amarachi strives to provide customers with the highest value at every step of their customer journey. Allison Pickens. Anika Zubair. Anita Toth.

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User Pilot

MAY 8, 2024

Satisfying customer needs is essential for retention and loyalty. It gives the product a competitive advantage, improves brand reputation, and propels revenue growth. Common needs are related to functionality, reliability, usability , integration , support, customization, and cost-effectiveness.

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