User Pilot

OCTOBER 31, 2024

How to apply actionable metrics to different SaaS business stages. It tracks key metrics such as feature usage , user flows, and behavior patterns to explore user preferences and pain points. A product analytics strategy is essential for any business looking to make informed decisions about product development and user experience.

Strategy 105

Strategy Underperforming Technical Team Government Customer Lifetime Value 105

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 8, 2020

This is where metrics can be invaluable, giving clarity on performance, and circumventing potential issues. But with so much data to consider, how can you define the help desk metrics that matter for your team? What are help desk metrics? Help desk metrics vs. KPIs. Ticket volume or total conversations.

Customer Support 211

Customer Support Metrics Technical Review Scale 211

Stax

MARCH 16, 2025

As a SaaS business leader, reducing software user churn is an important part of maintaining your customer base and increasing revenue. Key metrics include customer churn rate, revenue churn, and net revenue retention (NRR). Bad software user experience User experience is everything when it comes to SaaS platforms.

Payment Solutions 88

Payment Solutions Software Review Churn SaaS Payments 88

SaaStr

JULY 10, 2021

So let’s take a look back to a deep dive with the CEOs on what they learned building their first senior teams: ———-. As a founder/CEO, building your first management team is something that you often lose sleep over. What makes you feel that you need to level up your management, set up your first management team?

Sales Hiring 263

Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Development Team Review CTO Hire 263

User Pilot

OCTOBER 19, 2024

Satisfaction in SaaS, therefore, isn’t simply about developing a nice product and launching it in the market. For instance, you can launch a CSAT survey after a customer interacts with your support team. For a broader measure of satisfaction, you’ll need to consider other customer success metrics. Userpilot review on G2.

Business 111

Business Underperforming Technical Team Customer Lifetime Value Systems Review 111

SaaStr

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Developers act, think, and behave differently than your average customer. As an API-first company, WorkOS focuses on selling primarily to developers. Doing Business with Developers. Developers haven’t typically been the buyers in enterprise software, so why should you build for developers?

Outsourced Development 212

Outsourced Development Underperforming Technical Team Development Part-Time VPE 212

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The success of an executive team often depends as much on their interpersonal harmony as their professional expertise. How does a team establish rapport with one another? Algolia’s Bernadette Nixon (Chief Executive Officer) and Michelle Adams (Chief Revenue Officer) have spent the past few years developing this relational toolbox.

Underperforming Technical Team 315

Underperforming Technical Team Leadership Outsourced Development Finance 315

SaaStr

JANUARY 12, 2023

Management teams must determine how to thrive in a downturn to position their businesses for profitable growth. The ‘Rule of 40’ is a valuable metric that can illustrate the degree of shift and what it means for companies fundraising and operating. However, management teams that pursued growth at all costs were punished severely.

Consulting 49

Consulting Underperforming Technical Team Management Marketing 49

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The best way to do that is to develop the right behaviors in your sales reps. There are many things that can drive revenue growth within your company, but as a sales leader, it all starts with your team. Here are five key areas to challenge your team on in order to grow both them and your company. How do you do that?

Underperforming Technical Team 121

Underperforming Technical Team Development Revenue Sales Hiring 121

FastSpring

JANUARY 23, 2025

Podcast Full Interview: Video Transcript Jesse Paliotto (00:04) Hello, everyone, and welcome to Growth Stage podcast, where we discuss how digital product companies grow revenue, build meaningful products and increase the value of their business. And then of course you generate revenue in much the same way as a blog. million ARR.

Scale 118

Scale Entrepreneurship Scaling Underperforming Technical Team 118

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. What is a business metric? Monthly recurring revenue (MRR): How much subscription revenue are you bringing in monthly?

Payment Solutions 98

Payment Solutions Outsourced Development Underperforming Technical Team Metrics 98

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Developing a product that solves a customer’s pain point provides a sense of pride and can drive the positive, emotional moment of awe that retains customers for the long haul. If the metrics are heading in the wrong direction, slow down. That doesn’t make them bad people. Business model. The same goes for your investors.

Underperforming Technical Team 49

Underperforming Technical Team Business Scale Business Model 49

Blulogix

DECEMBER 3, 2024

By BluLogix Team Planning for Growth: Using Revenue Insights Planning for Growth: Using Revenue Insights For businesses seeking to expand or enter new markets, strategic planning is critical to achieving successful outcomes.

Revenue 52

Revenue Underperforming Technical Team Payment Features Leadership 52

SaaStr

APRIL 5, 2021

I bet the freemium metrics appeared good, with positive growth and solid conversion rates. Hmmmm … well, to me, that’s not a bad place to be once a space, a category, gets to $100m+. And at a sales perspective, they’ll move to optimizing revenue per lead, over closing every possibly lead. Easier to Innovate.

Scale 294

Scale Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team Pricing 294

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 319

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring Engineering 319

Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2021

” The secret to shipping successful product, then, is clearly defining for your team the problem that you’re setting out to solve. A great problem statement supercharges product development. It inspires and guides your design team, it makes evaluation simple, and it creates direction for scoping and iteration.

Transportation 279

Transportation Travel Underperforming Technical Team Finance 279

SaaStr

OCTOBER 30, 2021

I considered the four companies and chose Gorgias based on my experience with their team during the interview process. When I first joined the Gorgias team, there were two founders, two engineers, and myself as the first non-technical hire. There are two things that help me analyze data: metrics and filters. .

Scale 287

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Underperforming Technical Team 287

SaaStr

APRIL 5, 2023

A bad experience with a revenue operations leader might taint your view of the position at all future companies, but that would be a mistake, as CRO Confidential podcast host Sam Blond learned first-hand. These leaders act as partners and build out a strong team. Not every leader is created equally.

Sales Hiring 245

Sales Hiring Education Scale Strategy 245

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 7, 2024

He previously built the pre and post sales solutions team at mParticle from zero to supporting hundreds of enterprise customers. Is there a lot of internal or customer work that needs to be done or managed by your team? While mParticle has a killer, commercially focused CS team, inertia affected the team as well early on.

Underperforming Technical Team 124

Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Sales Hiring Scale 124

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

User Pilot

DECEMBER 31, 2024

You get something that truly works for you, and we get to connect with people who value what we offer and have the potential to become power users (and sources of sustainable revenue!). Custom dashboards to track key metrics at a glance. The alternative? Thats not what were about. Session replays to see how users navigate your product.

Technical Review 105

Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Onboarding 105

SaaStr

JULY 1, 2021

Dropbox just hit one billion dollars in annual revenue. 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? How have the other two of you thought about building out your team?

VP of Engineering 296

VP of Engineering Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team 296

ChurnZero

OCTOBER 25, 2024

There are so many questions to answer when considering how to scale a customer success team. What about team leads? When do I split my one team into two teams? How do I split one team into two? And I know you want to scale your customer success team in the right way. I know it’s a lot of pressure.

Scale 52

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Customer Success Scaling 52

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

User Pilot

APRIL 2, 2025

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. The platform’s code-free implementation makes it accessible for product managers who want insights without constantly relying on developers.

Mobile 66

Mobile Underperforming Technical Team Onboarding AWS 66

Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 8, 2021

It was seen as a necessary part of a business, but not something that drove revenue or influenced customers’ buying decisions. Another survey reveals that 84% of businesses report an uplift in revenue as one of the primary benefits of improving their customer experience. Support teams want it. That time is over.

Technical Review 222

Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Customer Support Marketplace as a Service 222

SaaStr

JULY 25, 2021

You can have the great product and a great team, but the market of small or very niche. The second one is the team, obviously depending on how earlier the team has a huge factor because you may be so early in your journey that there’s nothing else to point to, but the track record of the team. Jyoti Bansal: Yeah.

Sales Recruiting 263

Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale VP of Engineering 263

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. Whether it’s technology or sales, revenue, marketing, you can outsource the edge, you can outsource integrations, you can outsource experiments for sure.

Scale 296

Scale Outsourcing Services Sales Hiring VP of Engineering 296

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.

Customer Success 105

Customer Success Enterprise Software Review Startup 105

Neil Patel

MARCH 2, 2021

Customer acquisition cost (CAC) is a metric that has been growing with the emergence of Internet companies and web-based advertising campaigns that can be tracked. In this environment, the CAC metric is used by both companies and investors. What the CAC Metric Means to You. The first company (Example 1) has a poor metric.

Acquisition 145

Acquisition Metrics Customer Lifetime Value Advertising 145

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 2, 2020

But obsessing over efficiency can mask what’s most important, and most rewarding, to support teams – actually helping customers. Support teams exist to solve customers’ problems, not to deflect them or find the fastest way to hit the “close” button. In her own words , “When you take care of your customers, the revenue comes.”

Outsourcing Services 253

Outsourcing Services Investment Underperforming Technical Team Outsourced Development 253

Sales Hacker

MAY 20, 2021

You should approach this tactically with honed and consistent metrics. You need to measure and repeat so you and your sales team only put effort into promising prospects abroad. Develop a focused sales approach. You need to develop a buying persona for each stakeholder profile. What about size?

Scale 119

Scale Metrics Outsourcing Services Sales Recruiting 119

Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 7, 2018

Today he’s the founder and CEO at GrowthHackers , whose software, community and annual conference help teams work together to drive breakout growth results for “must have” products and services. The North Star Metric is Sean’s way of quantifying the point where customers experience the value of your product.

VP of Engineering 196

VP of Engineering Growth Hacking Underperforming Technical Team Onboarding 196

FastSpring

APRIL 26, 2022

“It’s likely that a finance or sales tools will be less susceptible to churn than a marketing tool, simply because it’s perceived to be more directly responsible for revenue.”. Because word-of-mouth for us is actually much bigger fuel than the revenue that we’re collecting or churning or dropping or whatever.”.

Benchmarks 147

Benchmarks Churn Payments SaaS Payments 147

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. 1 Decide What Metrics Matter. What is a Sales Dashboard? Who is the dashboard for?

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Underperforming Technical Team Data Sales Metrics 136

User Pilot

JUNE 26, 2023

Want to track the different types of product metrics to get product growth insights ? 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.

Metrics 96

Metrics Customer Lifetime Value SaaS Acquisition 96

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. It’ll be tough to focus on lots of metrics at once. This means 62 percent of companies are unprepared.

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Underperforming Technical Team Strategy Development Payment Methods 145