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

AUGUST 7, 2020

From strategies in recruitment and team building to sales tactics, these leaders from Salesforce, nCino, and Vlocity, will discuss the top tips for moving beyond horizontal SaaS and building a billion-dollar SaaS company. I was amazed by the app exchange. I was amazed by how big Salesforce was in the ecosystem. Actually, two.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

So I’m Nick Mehta, CEO of Gainsight and you probably have heard of Gainsight in the world of customer success and really excited to have two different voices in the world of how companies think about their customers. Nick Mehta: Power of the developer, or the API economy, both of you play very much in both those trends.

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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

The second constituent there is the developer. Why do developers love SaaS products? How much is a customer going to bring you over his lifespan using your product? Customer acquisition. Low touch you’re gonna talk a lot about what we call customer success teams. They love SaaS products.

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ChurnZero

APRIL 27, 2021

As ChurnZero recently secured a Series B investment bringing our total funding that has been raised to date to $35 million, we thought we’d take a look back and see the role that Customer Success plays at each respective stage of funding for SaaS companies. Early-Stage Funding & Customer Success.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Creating a new product category also creates a plethora of challenges – from spotting the right market niche to convincing customers that yours is a service they need. If people aren’t looking for your solution, you have to educate them about the problem your product solves. You started off in engineering, I believe.

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User Pilot

MARCH 25, 2024

Because it improves your business’ profitability, understanding and reducing churn also gives you a better customer acquisition cost to customer lifetime value (CAC: CLV) ratio. To calculate the churn rate, divide the number of customers lost by the total number of customers at the beginning of that period.

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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. However, sometimes things don’t go as planned, and customers churn. moment faster. #3:

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 10, 2019

WePay is a payments company for platform businesses like marketplaces, crowdfunding sites & small business software. We grew our team by 50% this year, continuing to grow. I’ve learned a lot about just the financial system at scale. So I think like anything it’s been good and bad.

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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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User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

TL;DR SaaS, or “Software as a Service,” is a business model that delivers centrally hosted software to subscribers over the internet. They also manage finances and supervise one or more engineering teams. In large companies, the CSM also oversees other customer success roles. Average salary: $95,566/yr.

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User Pilot

JANUARY 31, 2023

Identifying at-risk customers is crucial for understanding their behavior, improving customer satisfaction , and reducing churn rate. What are at-risk customers? At-risk customers are users who have subscribed to your products or services and are showing signs that they may leave and cancel their subscriptions.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 9, 2019

Once you understand how to create a fair compensation plan for your sales team, you can check out some examples: Sales Development Rep (SDR) Compensation Plan Example. Here’s a simple example to begin with that covers the SDR, AE and Customer Success Manager (CSM) functions: Table 1. Example Compensation Plans.

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User Pilot

DECEMBER 19, 2022

There are 2 main notification types: in-app or push. In-app notifications are a mixture of UI elements like modals , tooltips , checklists, banners , and more. You can also send push notifications for users who are not in your app’s environment and try to bring them back. In-app notification types. Checklists.

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Baremetrics

MARCH 23, 2020

For example, a churned user on a $50/mo plan isn’t nearly as bad as a churned user on a $500/mo plan. Just looking at user churn would gloss over the fact that you lost a major customer. The more info you can get on why customers churn, the better. It’s an app store optimization tool. First, is MobileAction.

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ProfitWell

MARCH 2, 2020

That’s what makes a customer success strategy so important. Thinking proactively about how to build products that help customers achieve their goals is the best tool you have for building lasting relationships. It compounds, fostering stronger relationships that retain customers long-term. What is customer success?

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

The New Solution Selling. Sales Development and Prospecting. The Sales Development Playbook. The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team. Here are the best books on selling (and related disciplines) that can help you hit your goals and develop your career. Here they are… The 97 Best Sales Books in 2020. The Challenger Sale.

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SaaSOptics

MARCH 1, 2022

What makes finance teams throw up their hands and say, “I just need a tool that can do X!” finance teams are responsible for planning the financial roadmap of an organization and keeping everything in balance. So, where do point solutions fit into all this? . On the other hand, point solutions (QuickBooks, Xero, etc.)

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Emilie Maret | Fellowship Team @ The Family. We’re a team of former investors and operators from the likes of Facebook, Deliveroo, and the Swedish payments company Klarna. We are a purely B2B fund, focused on software and fintech. So if you’re a software founder in that stage, come talk to us.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 29, 2019

It’s no surprise that one of the key levers for growth as you go from startup to scale-up is your sales team. How quickly you’re able to accelerate growth depends on your ability to build a nimble sales org and develop a strong sales strategy. These lay the foundation that enables your team to run as efficiently as possible.

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FastSpring

APRIL 26, 2022

If you lose 7% of your customers to churn over a year , that’s a way different number than losing 7% of your customers every month. 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. Next, let’s look at how to develop a churn-reduction action plan.

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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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SaaStr

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Jos White of Notion and Christian Lanng of Tradeshift team up to show you how to work within, and sometimes around, rules in the workplace. But invoicing happens to be connected to something really, really important, which is payments. So if you get the invoice, you get the payment and that’s a lot more interesting.

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ChurnZero

OCTOBER 5, 2022

In times of economic uncertainty, customer churn is one of the top operational risks facing any subscription-based company. While it may be tempting to resort to Hail Mary tactics (such as deferred payments and discounts) to reduce churn, you must instead focus on sustainable and scalable retention strategies.

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Point Nine Land

JUNE 18, 2023

Everything you always wanted to know about cohort analysis (but were afraid to ask) Back in 2012, I wrote a blog post titled “Know your user cohorts” , which began like this: “One of the most important tools to better understand the usage of a web application — or a service, a game or a mobile app, it doesn’t matter — is a cohort analysis.

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How To Buy Saas

JULY 22, 2024

Developing a high-quality patient portal has become necessary for healthcare providers seeking to improve patient engagement, satisfaction, and outcomes through enhanced transparency, access, communication, and self-management tools. Key questions to ask: What portal features and content add the most value for managing your health?

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Well, first, there are two distinct types of platform models SaaS companies tend to pursue, with drastically different chances of success and fundamental value for the company. In an integration platform, the product integrates with other types of software the product’s customers already use. Integration Platforms.

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User Pilot

AUGUST 14, 2023

Which measures the customer’s experience with a specific product, feature, or team interaction. Product usage questions are specifically oriented toward how the user engages with your app. We created six customer satisfaction survey templates for the following purposes: Measure customer satisfaction with your onboarding process.

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ChurnZero

APRIL 15, 2022

Bad timing sticks out a mile.”. Like a magician flexing their psychic power, pinpointing the most ideal time to present your customer with an expansion opportunity can’t be left to intuition. But knowing when customers are primed for expansion isn’t always obvious. How did Chelsea and her team achieve these phenomenal results?

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OpenView Labs

JANUARY 29, 2020

Freemium Model for SaaS – The Good, The Bad, and The In-between. The basic premise that the freemium business model operates on is this: Several hundred thousands of users sign up for the freemium plan, and then a good cohort of them will convert into paying customers. How To Acquire & Monetize Freemium SaaS Customers.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

In this special episode, we sat down with Zanade to talk about allyship, empowering Black-owned businesses, and what it takes to change deeply seated systemic issues and affect policy at a national level. Later’s Farhan Virji on adapting B2C support strategies for B2B teams. Intercom on Product: Keeping the momentum going as you scale.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 17, 2020

If your company is exploring the idea of implementing a dedicated Customer Success (CS) platform, the question of where to start can be daunting. These tools have a profound impact on free ing up team member time.? . Take comfort in the fact that every CS team must start somewhere! Blog Author: Alex Weihmann.

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Chargify

APRIL 23, 2019

There are specific stages a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company moves through during its life cycle. You may also hear this stage referred to as discovery , vision/mission , or problem/solution fit. and ‘Does my proposed solution solve it effectively?’ Ensuring your product, marketing and sales teams are aligned.

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ProfitWell

OCTOBER 23, 2019

A literal downfall, in poor Icarus’s case, after his wings melted mid-flight. They launch a product, start bringing in some solid revenue, and put all their efforts into acquiring new customers. Thankfully, you don’t need to end up like poor Icarus. 1: You’re attracting the wrong customers. He was excited to go flying.

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Kellblog

AUGUST 7, 2019

Say you sign a three-year deal with a customer that ramps in payment structure: year 1 costs $1M, year 2 costs $2M, and year 3 costs $3M. Let’s say in this example the customer is getting the exact same value in all 3 years (e.g., Payment structure. $1M. Price-Ramped). GAAP revenue. $1M. GAAP unbilled deferred revenue.

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CustomerSuccessBox

APRIL 7, 2022

Puneet Kataria shares his experience and observation on how customer success teams can be agile in the Customer Success Vodcast hosted by tl;dv! Every customer success team during the onboarding, buzz around the term “Early value”, the question is how does it all start and even delivered?

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ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Building a strong pricing strategy starts with hiring a professional team to conduct a pricing audit. In these three steps, you’ll align pricing with your goals, review current strategies, and identify potential weaknesses. Identify weaknesses and opportunities. Finding your target customers is the first step.

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