User Pilot

MARCH 23, 2023

What are the reasons for customer churn in SaaS? And how can customer success teams address them to ensure product growth? As a SaaS company, your ultimate goal is to retain customers and keep them happy with your product. 3: Poor customer service or experience with the sales teams can make customers churn.

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Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Unfortunately, things only get more difficult when it comes to running the whole business as a Shopify app developer. This article will cover 10 business tips for improving your Shopify app’s development, marketing, and sales. 10 business tips for Shopify app developers 1. The Shopify QA team are your friends 6.

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User Pilot

MARCH 27, 2023

We finish with an overview of product analytics tools that your team can benefit from. Marketing analytics focuses on tracking the performance of marketing campaigns, while product analytics is interested in product engagement and user behavior inside the product. As a result, product teams are able to make quicker decisions.

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CustomerSuccessBox

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Let’s look at the top customer success blogs. CustomerSuccessBox is an outcome-driven Customer Success software for B2B SaaS, which helps maximize retention, drive product adoption, and grow revenue for your B2B SaaS. As well as their actionable customer success platform they provide a widely respected blog.

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User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

Confused about trying to understand SaaS roles? SaaS companies have many moving parts, and it can be difficult to determine who does what. TL;DR SaaS, or “Software as a Service,” is a business model that delivers centrally hosted software to subscribers over the internet. What is a SaaS business model?

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Buffer Resources

JANUARY 15, 2024

Inaccurate, packed with "filler," or completely AI-generated — bad B2B (business-to-business) content is easy to spot and even easier to find online. "  B2B brands can follow Dock’s lead by reaching out to their customers and internal teams to find experts who might want to showcase their points of view.

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User Pilot

APRIL 30, 2024

In many ways, he has shaped how successful products are built and how teams can be organized to work toward excellence. If you’re interested in learning more about Marty, including his background and top blog and podcast recommendations, continue reading ahead. Marty Cagan is a popular name in the product management world.

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ChurnZero

MAY 4, 2023

Companies operating in the SaaS space also stand to gain by borrowing a page from this playbook and striving to build a community online. Research suggests SaaS companies that foster online customer communities strengthen key metrics that are important to Customer Success. We landed on a theme that made sense: a neighborhood.

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User Pilot

APRIL 7, 2023

What are the different types of B2B customer insights for SaaS businesses? When your product is catering to other businesses, it can be difficult for sales reps and other teams to understand the needs and experiences of the clients, especially if the client company sells multiple products. Their challenges and pain points.

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SaaStr

JUNE 7, 2021

While it can be frightening to think differently, doing so has helped him make Veeva the biggest vertical SaaS success story of all time. If you don’t have tickets, lock in Early Bird pricing today and bring your team! I was a software developer, a product person. As Veeva grew, that’s when the long-term vision came into play.

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User Pilot

AUGUST 1, 2024

Product marketing focuses on getting products into the hands of the right users, whereas product management focuses on developing the product. Customer acquisition strategies include strategies like content marketing , free trial offers , attractive lead magnets, referral programs, and partnerships with other SaaS companies.

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SaaStr

APRIL 14, 2023

Mistake #1: Viewing Investors Only As Capital As founders build a team, they focus on obtaining complementary skill sets. Of course, building great teams and finding product market fit is critical, but don’t forget about product investor fit. As global investors, GGV Capital looks at SaaS companies in the U.S., Absolutely.

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User Pilot

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Customer intent helps product teams understand customer needs and build solutions that delight users. How Userpilot can help you act on user intent to drive adoption , engagement, and account expansion. How Userpilot can help you act on user intent to drive adoption , engagement, and account expansion.

Scale 87

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OPEXEngine

JUNE 8, 2021

In the movie Glengarry Glen Ross, Blake, a successful salesperson, visits the real estate sales team and gives them a blistering motivational speech that has gone down in history as one of the best of all time. But in the world of enterprise SaaS, it’s not accurate. Enterprise SaaS, by definition, is also complex.

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SaaStr

JUNE 19, 2024

$100M is the magic number all SaaS companies are trying to achieve. The three core areas to focus on are: Evolving your growth engine Building and solving for when to become a multi-product platform Investing in your people and team #1: Evolving Your Growth Engine Let’s start with some context for Bitly’s journey. And you know what?

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User Pilot

JANUARY 12, 2023

The 4 principal ways to monitor user behavior in SaaS include tracking feature usage, custom behavior tracking with events, using heatmaps , and user funnel analytics. Amplitude — for monitoring in-app user activity, measuring user engagement, and optimizing in-app experiences. Use cases of user behavior analytics in SaaS.

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SaaStr

MAY 27, 2024

Lessons from the Best & Worst Deals (00:05:03) To succeed in today’s rapidly changing business landscape, startups need an ultra-committed binary team, especially two co-founders with an insane level of commitment. Poor decisions by founders, such as firing the entire sales and marketing team, can lead to investment losses.

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Baremetrics

AUGUST 1, 2021

Acquiring customers for SaaS is a completely different ball game altogether than, say, for the traditional business models (think: eCommerce, for instance). In the SaaS industry, acquiring new leads through short-term marketing promotions will not cut it--which works as a killer strategy for the eCommerce business model.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Sequoia Capital’s India arm put together a terrific summary of all their learnings about SaaS and Cloud from SaaStr Annual this year. They also did an A+ session at Annual with several top India SaaS founders, which you can catch below! Here’s 22 of the most relevant takeaways for India’s SaaS ecosystem.

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Aaron Beashel

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Alex co-founded the well-known SaaS company Desk.com before selling it to Salesforce and becoming the VP of Service Cloud (their second largest business unit, behind Sales Cloud). It was game-changing for the company, and for each team that implemented it. How to create a V2MOM framework for your company or team.

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SaaSOptics

MAY 19, 2022

Not only is it one of the main drivers of revenue growth for early-stage companies, but it’s a primary goal for SaaS businesses across market stages. For subscription-based SaaS businesses, your customer acquisition metrics indicate how effectively you acquire new users via sales, marketing, or a product-led approach like a free trial.

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User Pilot

JANUARY 31, 2023

In SaaS, you can grow your revenue only if your churn rate is low, so retaining at-risk customers is crucial. The main factors contributing to at-risk customers include poor onboarding process , lack of product value perception, lousy customer support, unfixed bugs, and no learning materials, resource center, and FAQs.

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Buffer Resources

OCTOBER 24, 2023

But, during my day job, I noticed that quality content (blogs and web copy readers would actually engage with) was missing from most service offerings.  After all, most leads consume three to four pieces of content from a vendor before engaging with their sales team.  This felt like a missed opportunity.

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User Pilot

JUNE 26, 2023

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. Tracking product metrics helps you develop well-informed product strategies.

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User Pilot

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Actually, there are multiple types of personas for different teams, levels of research, and use cases—which you need to understand if you want to connect with customers. So let’s cover each of them and see what you can do to improve your team’s effectiveness. What is a persona?

Underperforming Technical Team 84

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User Pilot

JULY 29, 2024

And you can always turn to your support or sales team for insights. Book a demo today to learn how Userpilot can help you identify and eliminate pain points in your SaaS product. Poor value proposition. Poor internal team collaboration. Poor ticket resolution rates. Poor communication or follow-up processes.

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User Pilot

JUNE 12, 2024

Empower your team : A great product manager empowers their team by delegating decision-making responsibilities. Empower your team : A great product manager empowers their team by delegating decision-making responsibilities. Benefit from engagement, feedback, and analytics features in one solution. Consider Zoho.

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User Pilot

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Wondering how you can improve the product adoption rate of your SaaS business? Time to value , customer lifetime value , product activation rate, feature adoption rate, and customer engagement score are the 5 most important product adoption metrics to track. What is product adoption in SaaS? Source: Mixpanel.

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User Pilot

MARCH 31, 2022

Tooltips are a neat little feature designed to draw attention and help users understand how to interact with your SaaS product. Product tours are a great example of providing a good onboarding experience – there’s no better way to onboard users to your SaaS product. The ‘developer’ way: Javascript, HTML, CSS.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

In the early stages of most SaaS startups’ lives, the CEO or founder often acts as the initial head of sales. In this post, I outline how SaaS founders should modify their approach and implement a simple sales methodology to increase their odds of success. The sooner you adopt these steps, the faster you’ll see growth.

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CustomerSuccessBox

MAY 25, 2022

Customer retention is an essential component of any successful B2B SaaS firm. Be aware of what and how to avoid these 7 SaaS customer onboarding mistakes to optimize your customers’ journeys. 7 SaaS Customer Onboarding mistakes to avoid. 7 SaaS Customer Onboarding mistakes to avoid. Present a solid future plan.

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User Pilot

JUNE 12, 2024

Ability to incorporate customer feedback : Incorporating customer feedback makes you develop and make appropriate iterations to your product for better customer retention. Product analysts play a critical role in translating user data into actionable insights for product teams. Looking into tools for product analysts?

VP of Engineering 52

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SaaStr

JULY 29, 2019

It got a lot of engagement from the SaaS veterans out there, so I thought it would be worth digging in more on each point: Regrets are different than mistakes. So what’s my list of SaaS regrets? The best ones are always accretive in SaaS. What Order Should You Hire Your Management Team In? #4. It Compounds.

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User Pilot

JANUARY 8, 2024

TL;DR A customer acquisition strategy is a comprehensive plan for attracting, engaging, and converting new customers into paying users. A customer acquisition strategy is a comprehensive plan for attracting, engaging, and converting new customers into paying users. How Clearcalcs improved user activation with Userpilot.

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User Pilot

MAY 11, 2022

You can use product usage data to develop an effective marketing strategy, improve products, retain customers , as well as to accelerate customer adoption. This article will walk you through each essential step of implementing user segmentation in SaaS products. Want to implement user segmentation to your SaaS? Let’s roll!

SaaS 86

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Buffer Resources

JANUARY 15, 2024

Inaccurate, packed with "filler," or completely AI-generated — bad B2B (business-to-business) content is easy to spot and even easier to find online. "  B2B brands can follow Dock’s lead by reaching out to their customers and internal teams to find experts who might want to showcase their points of view.

B2B 57

B2B Technical Advisors SaaS Payments Underperforming Technical Team 57

User Pilot

AUGUST 30, 2024

A well-crafted user experience map can be your secret weapon for understanding customers, identifying pain points, and boosting product engagement. In a project management tool, for example, this would be the project manager , team member, or client. SaaS customer journey stages. SaaS touchpoint examples. Let’s begin!

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