Stax

MARCH 18, 2025

Join the payments-led growth movement Sign up to keep up-to-date with the latest trends in payments, vertical SaaS, and technology from industry experts. Part of this can be attributed to the SaaS model’s unique aspect of relying primarily on future revenue. Take a traditional business, like a furniture store.

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FastSpring

JANUARY 26, 2024

With years of experience at managing customer success (CS), Jake Dipple knows how important it is to foster collaboration between businesses and their customers. In this episode of Growth Stage, host and CMO of FastSpring David Vogelpohl interviews Jake about his thoughts on: What Customer Success is at a high level.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

The promise at the heart of the SaaS business model has always been that by sacrificing relatively large one-time payments, you’d maximize revenue over the long-term lifetime of the customer. In four letters, the promise of the SaaS model is CLTV (Customer Lifetime Value). The Customer Success Paradox.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 10, 2022

With lockdowns preventing in-store experiences, shoppers have gravitated towards brands that can provide the best online experience possible. And, as society reopens, it is vital to maintain ease of movement between in-store and online channels – not just for your customers, but for your teams. Proactive engagement.

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SaaStr

MAY 8, 2021

bills, “payment terms”, and often, repeated follow-up. But getting paid in a simple ACH or credit card payment each month can be magical. Annual deals can create unnecessary customer friction. Big customers will want to pay annually. At least until you are huge, and have a dominant brand.

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Stax

APRIL 17, 2025

Instead of pouring resources solely into acquiring new customers, smart SaaS businesses focus on increasing revenue from existing customers by guiding them to higher tiers, unlocking premium features, and expanding their usage. The key is to make the upgrade feel like a natural next step, not a hard sell.

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Totango

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Customer success is the key to building strong customer relationships. When your brand helps your customers succeed at their goals, they want to continue your relationship. Customer success nurtures the positive experiences of your brand, promoting repeat business and retention.

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Totango

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Customer success tools extend the functionality of your CS platform, multiplying its value. By connecting data from other success tools to your CS tool, you can view and manage all your customer data from one place instead of leaving it isolated in separate information silos. Billing: Zuora.

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CustomerSuccessBox

APRIL 7, 2022

It’s undeniable that the SaaS model works differently and attracts revenue on a monthly or annual basis, unlike the on-premise software that deals with one-time payments. So, it’s legit to have a customer success team in hand. Stay tuned and read on to incur extra SaaS revenue. Didn’t this get you curious already?

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SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

A few of the leading companies in the Cloud 100 list, as put together by Forbes, of leading enterprise software companies are in industry verticals and just on the Salesforce platform, the three most valuable companies built on the platform were industry-vertical companies, including nCino, Vlocity, and Veeva. Trisha Price: Yes.

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Unbounce

JANUARY 6, 2025

Stage 1: Top-of-funnel (TOFU) In the top-of-funnel (TOFU) stage, potential customers first become aware of your brand. Objectives at TOFU: Raise awareness for your brand through content marketing, advertising, etc. This integration helps you track leads, automate follow-ups, and maintain engagement with your prospects.

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Totango

AUGUST 23, 2022

By charting the points in your SaaS customers’ journeys, you can plan how to deliver clients’ desired outcomes and satisfying experiences that promote subscription renewals and higher revenue. In this way, customer journey B2B touchpoints serve as a powerful tool for increasing the effectiveness of your customer success strategy.

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User Pilot

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Increase conversion rates : Interactive demos get customers to test out your product’s features and fast-track the likelihood of product adoption. For instance, the spend management platform Pleo saw a 10X increase in conversion rates after implementing interactive demos. Gather deep customer insights with Userpilot.

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SaaStr

MAY 16, 2019

Gorgias helps brands automatically respond to basic questions, and track the impact of customer service on sales so support becomes a profit center. Join CEO Romain Lapeyre as he walks you through how to close your first 1000 customers based solely on data. Two books that were great to us were Predictable Revenue by Aaron Ross.

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User Pilot

JANUARY 10, 2022

How important is customer success KPIs to your SaaS business? The corporate world is becoming increasingly dependent on data and analytics to make informed business decisions. Customer success metrics help you analyze how effectively you help customers gain value from your SaaS product.

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FastSpring

JANUARY 27, 2022

Vinay solved this problem by implementing a special billing page that his customers could use without logging in. He then sent out a link to this page inside payment failure notification emails. Users could now forward the payment failure email to the right person, without that person having an Enchant account.

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User Pilot

JULY 4, 2023

Whether you’re collecting data for new customer signups, gathering user feedback , conducting customer success surveys, or anything else, an online form builder is a very useful tool to have in your toolbox. SurveyMonkey offers extensive customization and branding options.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 4, 2019

But what if you could have a better idea of the changes 2019 has in store for Customer Success professionals? We’ll see more applications of AI in Customer Success, but these will mostly be behind-the-scenes. the stuff that Customer Success teams are really meant to do).

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 27, 2020

In that essay , we also talked about how a more common route for a SaaS business is to become a platform. Platforms can create an immense amount of long-term value for companies, or be a minor component of their product strategy to maintain product/market fit. The Types of Platforms. Integration Platforms.

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User Pilot

JANUARY 11, 2024

Indeed, focusing on onboarding unlocks three key benefits: Building user trust : The onboarding process is the first interaction users have with your platform. It is your chance to build trust through a clear, secure, and efficient process. For example, a payment app like PayPal can be used for either shopping or money transfer.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 29, 2019

Stripe’s Head of North America Revenue & Growth, Jeanne DeWitt, on driving growth through customer expansion. Our Head of Sales Ops, Jeff Serlin, and our Director of Demand Generation, Brian Kotlyar, on how sales and marketing should work together to build a single revenue plan. Jeanne DeWitt talks driving expansion revenue.

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Totango

AUGUST 11, 2021

For example, if data indicates that a customer has not completed their account profile, a workflow can be triggered which sends the customer a reminder and a link to a tutorial on how to finish their profile. Communication is the key to a positive customer experience. Deliver Consistently High Customer Service.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 13, 2021

The new joint solution is improved by having the OEM technology embedded into its application, providing increased value to the end customer. The licensor enjoys a new revenue stream. The end-customer is the beneficiary of a new and improved solution – everybody wins. It is not sold as a standalone application.

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Chart Mogul

APRIL 5, 2019

Do you know how much of your churn is due to failed payments? Our content program aims to create, curate, and make available resources that make it easier to grow a subscription business. Many SaaS and subscription businesses grapple with how to develop the right mechanisms in order retain customers and revenue.

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CustomerSuccessBox

MAY 28, 2021

A Saas business which has already evolved itself to bring in a Customer Success Software integrating it with Subscription Management, Support, CRM and product usage data knows exactly- “What is the secret to Saas growth”. Now that involves two main essential activities- Retaining Customers and Upsell to consumers.

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FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Companies don’t just invest in new programs to benefit random business people on the internet; they do it because it serves their own business in some way. And yes, having a successful online community is a great way for FastSpring to expand its brand recognition and maybe even bring in some leads once in a while.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 26, 2019

Today marketing, there’s only me doing it and then I have someone in customer success who is helping me and so we’re mostly using Intercom for one-on-one interaction with our users. So the budget for the team was about a million and that team would bring in about 5 million in revenue. Guillaume : Cool. Alice : Yes.

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User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The ability to follow up on failed payments without putting customer retention at risk is a delicate task that must be handled carefully. Dunning emails tend to be the most effective way to remind customers about a failed payment and speed up the payment process by offering alternative options.

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FastSpring

JANUARY 29, 2021

Some of the updates to our platform include faster seller onboarding, support for more languages, and a play-by-play rundown of how we’ve made PSD2 compliance effortless for our sellers. Part of the beauty of our platform is that we take on all the merchant complexity related to global ecommerce.

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FastSpring

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Elevate Your Business With FastSpring Contextual Customer Churn: Turning the Tide With Proven Retention Strategies The Only Thing That’s Constant With Tax Law Is Change Need FastSpring support? Preparation is the key to providing your customers a positive experience during this peak sales season. Visit our Support page.

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User Pilot

JANUARY 26, 2023

But first, let’s talk about what customer loyalty is: TL;DR Customer loyalty is an emotional bond between a brand and its customer that makes them consistently do business with a particular brand and recommend it to other potential customers. Advocacy comes after customer loyalty.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 7, 2020

Customer Success. Team Lead – New Business. Senior Vice President, Strategic Sales & Revenue. Predictable Revenue Inc. President | Chief Revenue Officer. Enterprise Business Development Manager. Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). Chief Revenue Officer. SVP | Chief Revenue Officer.

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Stax

JANUARY 28, 2024

This business model has now been adapted very well in the internet age, especially in the SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) and eCommerce industries. The most potent benefit of the subscription-based business model is that companies are guaranteed a fixed revenue stream—if they can retain their customers or subscribers.

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User Pilot

JULY 6, 2023

1 – Userpilot Userpilot is a customer success platform with the ability to create, design, and trigger in-app surveys , either from scratch or by using any of the multiple templates available. We know it’s perfect for customer success and product marketing because we built it for it. Userpilot pricing. #2

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ProfitWell

AUGUST 18, 2020

Reliance told her that she would need to buy-out the remainder of her two years in one lump sum payment, plus the interest the company would lose over those two years, and she would have to pay an additional hefty administration fee too. The administration fee alone totaled nearly three of her monthly payments.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 18, 2022

On the other hand, if a customer finds a product difficult to use, they can consider it inhibitive for their business. They’ll stop using the product, stop engaging with your brand, and, eventually, churn. We need our customers to find their “aha!” Send them from Customer Success Managers.

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Baremetrics

MAY 4, 2020

And if you’re not careful, it can slowly eat away at your revenue and bleed your company dry. The customers whose subscriptions end because their credit card payments failed and they never made up for the payment. dunning emails) to customers when their payments fail is your best bet at recovering that lost revenue.

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