User Pilot

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Let’s review everything your customer success team has to do in the absence of any customer success tools. Collect customer data to calculate complex formulas for tracking metrics, monitor customer health scores, and resolve support tickets while continuously trying to improve retention and expansion.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 4, 2020

A sales dashboard gives your team a fast and efficient way to see all the data that is most important to doing their job effectively. Most customer relationship management (CRM) tools have the built-in ability to create dashboards for your team. CRM data can be difficult and time-consuming to sort through.

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Underperforming Technical Team Data Sales Metrics 136

User Pilot

JANUARY 2, 2025

Its purpose is to collect data necessary to personalize the onboarding experience by highlighting relevant features or resources for each user type. The survey aims to better understand users workflows and help prioritize product development initiatives, like new integrations, that add the most value to its users.

Scale 102

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SaaStr

JUNE 21, 2024

These nine sales concepts, when done correctly, will greatly improve your sales and sales teams. #1: Most people think you need to hire more salespeople in a demand-poor environment. Demand-poor environments lead to problems like: Sales reps clinging on to opportunities for too long. That’s the wrong answer.

Sales Recruiting 290

Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale Outsourced Development 290

Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 12, 2019

A little over a year ago, I got the opportunity to start a new team within our sales organization – a team of Relationship Managers dedicated to growing our current customers at scale. To do the first, we had to hire, train, and write a playbook – the building blocks of any team. Relentlessly measure impact.

Sales Hiring 171

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team Scale 171

SaaStr

JUNE 4, 2021

Pomel focused his session on: Making your SaaS startup customer-centric: Hw event marketing has helped him integrate his engineering and sales teams. How many of you guys’ product rely on the highly functioning engineering team? Helping the engineering teams run smoothly and being super productive thanks to mentoring.

Scale 317

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SaaStr

JANUARY 24, 2024

How do you diagnose and solve churn? How should you handle presenting challenges to your C-suite team when you’ve just joined the company? Lattice had a product-led growth flow on the website while the sales team was still trying to sell the PLG companies The good news is Lattice had a lot of activity and initiatives at play.

Scale 273

Scale Sales Hiring Scaling Revenue 273

Stax

APRIL 15, 2025

There are some important variations to MRR that would be good for your sales team to be aware of, including new MRR, expansion MRR, and churn MRR. It can help forecast future revenue, keep on top of performance of various customer segments, and measure customer retention and churn.

Payments 88

Payments SaaS Payments Revenue Payment Services 88

FastSpring

APRIL 26, 2022

In the language of SaaS, I churned. And the experience got me thinking: Was immediate removal of paid features the best chance to keep me from churning? When did I officially count as “churned”? Did they count me as churned on the day I canceled? In part one, we cover benchmarks and common churn formulas.

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Benchmarks Churn Payments SaaS Payments 147

Totango

JANUARY 26, 2021

Being proactive about churn prevention provides an antidote to customer attrition. Read on to learn what churn is, how an attrition analysis can help you pinpoint why you’re losing customers, and what steps you can take to prevent customer churn. What Is Churn Rate and How Does It Relate to Customer Retention?

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User Pilot

AUGUST 26, 2024

Product data capture is essential for SaaS companies looking to understand user behavior, optimize user experiences, and drive product growth. From choosing the right data capture methods to navigating complex tools, SaaS companies must balance the need for detailed insights with the reality of technical constraints.

Outsourcing Services 105

Outsourcing Services Data Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 105

User Pilot

JANUARY 31, 2023

How to prevent churn by identifying at-risk customers? In SaaS, you can grow your revenue only if your churn rate is low, so retaining at-risk customers is crucial. In this article, we will discuss the ins and outs of at-risk customers, how to detect them, and five actionable strategies to help you prevent churn.

Churn 98

Churn Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 98

SaaStr

JULY 1, 2021

The second is pulling more around values, and how we approached team building. Even as a three person team, we went through an exercise to figure out what do we stand for, as a team? Sam : This is not my insight, but someone else says… I really do believe it, that the team you build is the company you build.

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VP of Engineering Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team 293

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 16, 2018

But that approach doesn’t just apply to your supply chain management, revenue or churn rates – most fundamentally, it also applies to people and our performance. They help managers evaluate how their employees are doing, the value they bring to a team and how their work can be improved. But KPIs carry the risk of seeming impersonal.

Customer Support 154

Customer Support Underperforming Technical Team Scale Construction 154

Chart Mogul

JULY 8, 2020

Tired of the same ol’ “X proven ways to reduce customer churn”? SaaS companies dedicate a lot of time and money to the same goal — they want to give customers a reason to stay and reduce churn. But no matter what that personality is for your brand, it’s consistency that counts for reducing customer churn.

Branding 133

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SaaStr

JULY 15, 2022

Jason Lemkin: You certainly can hire a whole content team and build 10,000 pieces of content, but I will tell you what I have always seen work is one incredible piece a week. Getting access to the crown jewels and highly sensitive data as a four-person startup is hard, but if it’s a segregated piece of data and a pilot.

Scale 293

Scale Outsourcing Services Sales Hiring VP of Engineering 293

User Pilot

APRIL 2, 2025

It’s built for product people who need clear insights without drowning in data. In this article, I’ll show you how Userpilot helps product teams cut through the noise and understand what really matters in mobile user behavior: no data science degree required. Why choose Userpilot for mobile analytics?

Mobile 66

Mobile Underperforming Technical Team Onboarding AWS 66

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 19, 2021

And for your support team, using the right conversational support tool and framework allows them to maximize their resources, so they can focus on solving complex queries and building long-term customer relationships. But conversational support doesn’t just benefit your support team. Teams that benefit: Sales, marketing.

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Underperforming Technical Team Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting 129

SaaStr

JANUARY 21, 2020

Justin used Sales Culture to grow a successful PatientPop team to 140 employees and 55 million in revenue. When I was hired, I came in with one salesperson and zero dollars in recurring revenue and over the next four years grew the sales team to over 140 employees and 55 million in recurring revenue. Want to see more content like this?

Sales Recruiting 332

Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale Sales 332

Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Shopify is a huge opportunity for developers looking to expand into the micro-SaaS space. The Shopify App Store brings together Shopify app developers and Shopify shop owners for their mutual benefit. Why you need to track business metrics for Shopify App Developers 10 business metrics for Shopify App Developers 1.

Payment Solutions 98

Payment Solutions Outsourced Development Underperforming Technical Team Metrics 98

User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Let’s face it: qualitative data analysis is vital to understanding why users act in a particular way and how they feel about your product in a way that quantitative product analytics can’t. This article will teach you how to analyze qualitative data to inform product development and improve the product experience.

Data Analysis 105

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 8, 2020

But with so much data to consider, how can you define the help desk metrics that matter for your team? As Seth Godin once put it: “Don’t measure anything unless the data helps you make a better decision or change your actions.” Transparency naturally occurs when you implement clear, measurable goals.

Customer Support 211

Customer Support Metrics Technical Review Scale 211

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Then, armed with these insights, you can create an empathetic, data-driven customer journey that helps your customers achieve their vision of success. Tara and her team used it to take a deep dive into the customer’s journey through the product and make a focused effort to truly understand each step along the way.

Retention 34

Retention Scale Marketing Underperforming Technical Team 34

Neil Patel

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The bad news is that marketers waste 37 to 95 percent of their marketing budget. You’ll want to break each of these areas down in enough detail so you (and your team) can work with each of these areas properly. Web developers spend their time on sites like ArsTechnica, Reddit, SitePoint, etc. Focus is really important.

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User Pilot

MARCH 25, 2024

TL;DR Customer attrition or customer churn is the loss of a customer(s) by a business. Understanding and limiting customer churn improves customer loyalty and the customer’s lifetime value. To calculate the churn rate, divide the number of customers lost by the total number of customers at the beginning of that period.

Underperforming Technical Team 104

Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payment Solutions 104

Totango

MAY 2, 2022

To help you navigate the process, we’ve developed a four-part blog series about the mistakes you should avoid when choosing a CS platform. In this article, we’ll look at the mistake of not thinking of customer success as a team sport. . Selecting the right customer success platform for your organization can be challenging.

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Underperforming Technical Team Customer Success Finance Enterprise 112

Totango

MAY 5, 2021

It is important that companies collect this valuable voice of customer data , and then use it to best leverage results into effective action. . Generally sent to customers right after onboarding or other key events, this data can be utilized to leverage success by: Helping you perfect your onboarding process. .

Data 118

Data Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Technical Review 118

Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 23, 2020

Once every decade or two, developments in technology trigger monumental changes in an industry. The Conversational Support Funnel has three layers: Proactive Support with messaging to answer customer questions in the product experience, reducing the number of queries reaching the support team.

Customer Support 245

Customer Support Scale Underperforming Technical Team Scaling 245

User Pilot

APRIL 22, 2024

Review feature usage data. Extract feature development insights. Involve cross-functional collaboration with the sales team, product team, engineering, and other relevant stakeholders. Niche features. How to effectively analyze product features: Define your objective. Specify the metrics to track. Ready to begin?

Underperforming Technical Team 105

Underperforming Technical Team Software Review User Experience Retention 105

SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2021

Turns out a founding team of six MBAs creating a full suite of products sold solely to SMBs can become a multi-million dollar public company in nine years – and continue growing rapidly ($77.6 Dharmesh : …said, “This is a very bad idea. million in 2013 to $115.9 million in 2014.). A couple of quick notes of warning.

Part-Time VPE 290

Part-Time VPE Technical Cofounder CTO Hire New CTO 290

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Certainly you’re reducing churn. For example, if you’re getting ready to close the deal, sales team’s pretty darn excited. And those are things like what is our churn rate? You have to be aware, you have to listen, and you have to talk about the bad things your customers are saying about you.

Scale 240

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring Software Review 240

Baremetrics

AUGUST 6, 2021

Plan your hiring process long before adding people to the team. In a small company, someone with a unique perspective is likely to contribute more meaningful ideas than someone who aligns perfectly with the rest of the team. Want to Reduce Your Churn? For most companies, this plan will involve bringing on new people.

Underperforming Technical Team 130

Underperforming Technical Team Outsourced Development Consulting Scale 130

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Many organizations create customer success teams but there’s no clear definition as to how these teams develop long-term value for both the customer and the business. Some sales teams consider a customer success manager as the post-sale counterpart of an account executive. The role of customer success teams.

Sales Hiring 123

Sales Hiring Customer Success Scale Underperforming Technical Team 123

Natalia Luneva

JANUARY 13, 2021

This article will answer the main questions that SaaS founders and market ers have about losing SaaS customers, in other words, user churn: What is SaaS churn definition and why lowering it matt ers? How to calculate this metric and what’s the average SaaS churn rate? How can Sa aS companies reduce its churn rate?

SaaS Payments 105

SaaS Payments Payment Methods Churn Payment Services 105

ChurnZero

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Every Customer Success team focuses on keeping customers engaged and ultimately, preventing churn. 65% of respondents said it’s common practice to share customer training data with the Customer Success organization. Customer Success teams typically answer the same questions over and over again as they gain new clients.

Education 98

Education Customer Success Underperforming Technical Team Scale 98

User Pilot

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Reasons for customer dissatisfaction: Your product feels like it’s not fully developed. Different factors can lead to customer dissatisfaction – bad products, bad service, high prices, or something else. A product is considered poor when the quality of the product doesn’t correspond to customer expectations.

Underperforming Technical Team 98

Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Onboarding Scale 98

User Pilot

MARCH 9, 2023

In this article, we’ll discuss customer attrition in depth and discuss the strategies you can use to reduce churn and increase customer retention and loyalty. TL;DR Customer attrition, also known as customer churn , takes place when customers leave your product or service. What is customer attrition?

Underperforming Technical Team 98

Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services 98