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Dear SaaStr: Which Tactics Always Work to Drive Down Churn, and Drive Up Retention?

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Dear SaaStr: Which Tactics Always Work to Drive Down Churn, and Drive Up Retention? Churn is a bummer, and high churn is bad. First, measure Churn. Know exactly what your churn is, and don’t judge it (too much). And make driving down churn each quarter a Top 5 goal of the company. Second, segment churn.

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Dear SaaStr: How Can a SaaS Business Reactivate Churned Customers?

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Dear SaaStr: How Can a SaaS Business Reactivate Churned Customers? This may sound simple, but the #1 thing you can and should do is create a series of marketing campaigns targeted only to churned customers. And also send that to your “lost” and churned customers. That will keep you top enough of mind. #2.

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Dear SaaStr: How Do I Best Prevent Churn?

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Dear SaaStr: How Do I Best Prevent Churn? You can’t eliminate churn. You can hide churn (e.g., My top suggestion is: Measure churn carefully, and consistently. Usually, your smallest customers will churn at the highest rate. And set a big annual goal to drive churn down say 20%. Instead, you drive it down.

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Big Companies Don’t Churn. They Quit You.

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Churn” is a term we all use in SaaS as a core metric, but its roots, as near as I remember and can tell, come from our B2C colleagues. Folks churn out of their Verizon plan, their Netflix subscription, etc. And sometimes they’ll churn even just for a modestly better deal. the dynamics are similar.

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How Clinic Sense Reduced Churn and Unlocked More Revenue

This often led to churn as customers decided to cancel or abandon their account, preventing ClinicSense from realizing the full lifetime value (LTV) of its users. ClinicSense is a SaaS platform that supports over 7,000 massage therapists who use it for appointment management, payments, scheduling, marketing activities and more.

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If Nothing Else – Segment Churn

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Everyone seemingly became an expert in churn. Your churn rate should be 0.123909% per month. Churn is not a GAAP metric. In fact, Christoph Janz had a great post a ways back noting how even public companies define churn differently. But they excluded churn in the first 60 days. It should be net negative.

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The Riskiest Venture-Backed Startups Are 3H’s: High Growth, High Churn and High Burn

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The burn and the churn. The burn was at a stunning $2m a month, and the churn had spiked. It’s sort of a death spiral: High churn, but no burn = struggle, but the engine self-perpetuates to an extent. What’s really hard to solve is The 3H’s: High Growth for a while — but High Churn. And High Burn.

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SaaS CX: The Optimal Failed Payment Recovery Strategy

Costly customer churn. Maintaining a positive customer experience during payment recovery is key to minimizing churn and improving retention. But this relationship can be at risk if their credit card payment fails. This situation worsens if your recovery strategy treats the customer as the problem. The result?

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The Customer Success Onboarding Playbook

A successful customer onboarding process improves efficiency, increases capacity and decreases churn. Customer onboarding is a very crucial – yet sometimes overlooked – step in the customer journey. This playbook features tips from industry leaders and outlines all the steps needed to create a best-in-class onboarding experience.

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SaaS Business Fundamentals: How Decline Codes Impact Failed Payment Recovery

A failed payment isn't just a lost transaction - it could mean a customer churning for good. But not all payment declines are the same. For SaaS businesses, decline reasons vary, shaped by customer demographics and the nature of your service.

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Monetizing Analytics Features: Why Data Visualizations Will Never Be Enough

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your embedded analytics. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.

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A Solution for Every Type of Churn: Solving Involuntary SaaS Churn

How is your SaaS business addressing involuntary churn? It leads to revenue losses and can be the largest source of churn, yet your company may not be taking it seriously. Involuntary churn needs to be treated with the same urgency as voluntary churn.

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Keep the Competitive Edge and Reduce Churn

Speaker: Johanna Rothman - Management Consultant, Rothman Consulting Group

Frustrated customers = high churn! The goal is to discover these reasons before customers churn. Armed with this insight, teams can implement well-informed strategies, preserving customer allegiance and diminishing the prevailing churn rates. This objective can be achieved by analyzing a blend of leading and lagging indicators.

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The Modern Customer Success Playbook

Quarterbacking your customers to long-term success and growth is proven to combat churn and transform customer success teams into revenue-drivers. Develop an effective customer health scoring model to mitigate churn and identify opportunities across your customer base. Satisfaction won’t cut it. But where do you start?

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The Hidden Costs of Poor Customer Onboarding

Churn starts within the first 30 days of customers purchasing a product. A lot of it comes down to the first impression customers get through the onboarding process. A poor experience can result in losing current and future customers, and unnecessary overhead.