FastSpring

APRIL 26, 2022

To investigate, Ryan Law, former CMO and cofounder of Cobloom, performed an analysis of six recent churn reports or studies and found that there is no consensus on the average churn rate for SaaS companies. While it’s not a bad idea to be measuring both, your monthly churn rate should be much, much lower than your annual churn rate.

Benchmarks 123

Benchmarks Churn Payments SaaS Payments 123

Chargify

MARCH 25, 2019

The freemium pricing model allows clients to experience your product prior to purchase. And while trial pricing does come with a very real risk of straining resources (we had to learn that lesson the hard way ), when executed correctly, this strategy can be a healthy source of new customers that stay with you for the long haul.

SaaS Payments 54

SaaS Payments Payment Methods Subscription Payment Features 54

SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2021

Co-founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah shared with us how they got there — and the top mistakes they made — just 3 quarters after their IPO. We have someone that probably 98 percent of you know virtually or socially in some sense, Dharmesh Shah, founder and CTO of HubSpot. But of course, it wasn’t always quite that big!

Part-Time VPE 233

Part-Time VPE Technical Cofounder CTO Hire New CTO 233

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Never believe that doubting yourself is a bad thing. That company only lasted another year before they were out of business, so it was a poor use of my energy, time, and being away from my family – a lesson I work to pass on to others new in roles today. Invest in your development internally and externally. Joyce Johnson.

Scale 130

Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring VP of Engineering 130

SaaStr

JUNE 28, 2019

Dave Kellogg is a leading technology executive, independent board member, advisor and angel investor. 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. How do I increase them?

Outsourcing Services 121

Outsourcing Services Scale Sales Hiring SMB 121