Totango

JANUARY 31, 2019

Every successful SaaS company must be a strict disciple of the culture of the customer. SaaS customer engagement, therefore, needs to inform the entire customer journey. In order to do that, you need to use the right SaaS customer engagement metrics. Key Customer Engagement Metrics. Identifying active users.

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Totango

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Why Your QBR SaaS Model Needs an AI Makeover. Quarterly business reviews (QBRs)[LINK] have become a standard practice for software providers, but today’s QBR SaaS model is rapidly transforming. Here we’ll show you how to update your SaaS QBR strategy to keep up with the latest technology and best practices.

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ClientSuccess

DECEMBER 21, 2021

However, when it comes to knowing which metrics to track, not all customer success leaders are on the same page. There are widespread metrics like NPS and sentiment and high-level numbers like churn rate and retention rate. Product adoption: this metric tracks how many users at a specific customer are using the product or service.

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CustomerSuccessBox

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Customer Success has become a must for every SaaS business with the advent of the subscription economy. For so many years, SaaS has focused so strongly on the acquisition that they have been blind to other aspects of the customer journey. Here is a free guide to take your SaaS business from a Reactive approach to Proactive approach !

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ClientSuccess

MARCH 2, 2021

For all of us working in the SaaS space, the constant barrage of new acronyms has become somewhat of a joke over the years. While Account Executives (AEs) have been managing customer accounts for many years now, the rise of the Customer Success Manager in the SaaS space has created some overlap – and confusion – between the two roles.

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CSM Practice

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Now more than ever, customer success leaders must use relevant and actionable customer success metrics to make guided decisions and strategies to deliver success. Out of the myriads of customer data that can be measured, in this blog, I will emphasize the most important customer success metrics you need to focus on based on best practices.

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ClientSuccess

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

There are an overwhelming amount of metrics that you can measure to track customer success. So, to break through the fray and give you a place to start, Client Success has created THE list of the most valuable customer success metrics. If your company is B2B, this could be interpreted as average revenue per logo.

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CSM Practice

JUNE 6, 2020

The valuation of a SaaS company is based on its recurring revenue stream. SaaS Companies with high renewal rates can generate a regular, predictable recurring revenue stream more efficiently. SaaS Companies with high renewal rates can generate a regular, predictable recurring revenue stream more efficiently.

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Totango

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

The freemium SaaS model , where you offer limited free use of your product to promote a premium version, has become common in the tech industry. But is it the best way to sell a SaaS product? We’ll take a closer look at what the freemium SaaS model is and what its pros and cons are. What Is the Freemium SaaS Model?

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CustomerSuccessBox

APRIL 29, 2022

* ABS corp , a B2B SaaS firm acquired as many customers as it wanted. Plan the best SaaS Retention strategies that ensure customers stay with you for long. SaaS retention strategies that work help you turn hard-won consumers into long-term customers, and long-term customers into powerful advocates! Yet, success remained elusive.

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CustomerSuccessBox

MAY 25, 2021

Have you ever heard any SaaS founder or VP -CS saying,” I‘m okay with losing a few customers every month?”. Customer retention is critical — particularly for B2B SaaS companies. Loyal customers contribute to your revenue growth through Upsells, providing referrals, and advocacy. Probably not. And the reason is manifold- .

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Totango

APRIL 5, 2019

Customer success metrics are used to discover what kind of customer experience you are really delivering. And with customer success metrics, you can measure whether your efforts are working. Customer Success Metrics Lead to Action. Adoption Metrics: Measuring the customer’s use of the product. Business Metrics.

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CSM Practice

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Now more than ever, customer success leaders must use relevant and actionable customer success metrics to make guided decisions and strategies to deliver success. Out of the myriads of customer data that can be measured, in this blog, I will emphasize the most important customer success metrics you need to focus on based on best practices.

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CSM Practice

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Now more than ever, customer success leaders must use relevant and actionable customer success metrics to make guided decisions and strategies to deliver success. Out of the myriads of customer data that can be measured, in this blog, I will emphasize the most important customer success metrics you need to focus on based on best practices.

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CustomerSuccessBox

JUNE 24, 2022

Every SaaS business lives and breathes by reducing churn and increasing recurring revenue. Monthly Recurring Revenue is a SaaS metric that you should be tracking in order to see where your SaaS business stands. It helps companies keep up with the accounts they’ve closed, and maintain, retain, and expand them.

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ChurnZero

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Top SaaS CEOs Talk Compensation, Automation, and Investors. No one knows what the future holds (as 2020 has made abundantly clear) but that didn’t stop us from asking top SaaS CEOs what’s next for Customer Success. What’s Next For Customer Success?

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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Customer Success Metrics that Your Investors and Board Care About. In this article, we share Kristen’s best advice on how you can use metrics to reframe your customer stories, so they’re primed for investor engagement. What metrics do investors care about? What metrics do your investors and board care about?

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CSM Practice

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

This can be done by tracking actionable customer usage metrics and using adoption analytics to shape the customer experience at different points in their life-cycle journey. Most customer success metric fall into one of these four categories: Customer Usage Metrics. Customer Financial Metrics. Customer Heath Metrics.

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CSM Practice

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

The job of the customer success team entails myriads of responsibilities, including proper onboarding, increasing product usage, proactively managing accounts, customer engagements, and training , expanding and renewing accounts, and so on. Customer Financial Metrics. Customer Health Metrics. Customer Usage Metrics.

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CustomerSuccessBox

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

A major shift in the distribution model of software meant that SaaS metrics needed to evolve. If you are a SaaS business, churn is your devil with the pitchfork. But SaaS leaders know the importance of Net Revenue Retention and tracking it. NRR is the most widely used customer success metric.

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ChurnZero

JULY 9, 2020

These SaaS companies offer comprehensive training programs, resources, and events to their customers and even the larger professional community. Your results are ideally backed by hard ROI metrics to validate success, but sometimes the strongest outcome is a “soft” ROI metric, such as process improvements and productivity increases.

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Amity

AUGUST 30, 2018

Companies that don’t want to miss out on the trend of branding themselves as “customer-centric” might consider repackaging an existing team, like Account Management, as Customer Success. This would be a short-sighted move since Customer Success and Account Management are distinguished by more than just a naming convention.

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Education Services Group

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Instead, they’re simply “rebranding” their Account Managers as Customer Success Managers with little to no training or transition. Customer Success and Account Management Serve Different Purposes. The main purpose of an Account Manager is twofold. In general, Account Managers are in a sort of “standby” position.

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ClientSuccess

OCTOBER 2, 2019

We often hear the roles of Customer Success Manager (CSM) and Account Manager (AM) used interchangeably. The ultimate difference between a Customer Services Manager and an Account Manager is both in their area of concentration and how each target their customers. . Let’s talk about Account Managers first.

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CustomerSuccessBox

JUNE 20, 2022

Now that you’ve chosen to read this article, I suppose you are already aware of the weightage that the Customer Success function holds for your SaaS business. In general, this tool offloads the heavy work of tracking and managing all the customer success metrics. Benefits of having a Customer Success Software for your SaaS business-.

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CustomerSuccessBox

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The net revenue retention rate which you may also state as the net retention rate in SaaS businesses is an indicator that depicts the profits and the revenue earned by the business. Because a net retention rate above 100% means you are excelling in receiving repeat purchases, upsells, cross-sells, and expansions. Datadog – $1.2B

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CSM Practice

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

This can be done by tracking actionable customer usage metrics and using adoption analytics to shape the customer experience at different points in their life-cycle journey. Most customer success metric fall into one of these four categories: Customer Usage Metrics. Customer Financial Metrics. Customer Heath Metrics.

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CSM Practice

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

This can be done by tracking actionable customer usage metrics and using adoption analytics to shape the customer experience at different points in their life-cycle journey. Most customer success metric fall into one of these four categories: Customer Usage Metrics. Customer Financial Metrics. Customer Heath Metrics.

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Amity

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Gary’s background is in the wine industry, which got me thinking about the way we talk about Customer Success primarily in the context of the SaaS industry - understandably so, as this is where its roots lay. Non-SaaS companies need to look for industry-specific triggers that give a glimpse into the crystal ball of retention.

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CustomerSuccessBox

OCTOBER 5, 2021

In SaaS businesses, ARR/MRR is the lifeline for their existence. Surprisingly, only 10% of SaaS businesses ever get past the 125% MRR rate. The following are the key considerations that you must look at (for improving retention, increase renewals & upsells, etc. Account health KPIs- Product adoption, customer usage, etc.

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Amity

JANUARY 20, 2017

Companies that don’t want to miss out on the trend of branding themselves as “customer-centric” might consider repackaging an existing team, like Account Management, as Customer Success. This would be a short-sighted move since Customer Success and Account Management are distinguished by more than just a naming convention.

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ChurnZero

MARCH 24, 2023

1: Is NPS a Customer Success metric? Stephanie Berner: My answer is unequivocally no— Net Promoter Score (NPS) should not be a CS metric. So many CEOs and CROs are searching for a singular metric to measure performance because they’re used to managing sales teams. Here’s why. Value is very hard to measure.

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ChurnZero

MARCH 24, 2023

1: Is NPS a Customer Success metric? Stephanie Berner: My answer is unequivocally no— Net Promoter Score (NPS) should not be a CS metric. So many CEOs and CROs are searching for a singular metric to measure performance because they’re used to managing sales teams. Here’s why. Value is very hard to measure.

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CustomerSuccessBox

JULY 15, 2021

For a SaaS business, it is the average revenue extracted per user and for any eCommerce or any other product business, it is the unit. ARPU is a very useful metric for the analysis of a company’s overall revenue generation and growth at a per-unit level. Why is ARPU an essential SaaS growth metric? Lord Kelvin.

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Totango

MAY 10, 2022

A customer engagement strategy is critical for retaining and growing SaaS clients. A customer engagement strategy is an action plan for promoting active client use of your SaaS product. Regular usage of accounts and product features. Trials of upsell products. What Is a Customer Engagement Strategy?

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SmartKarrot

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

In the dynamic realm of B2B, where every move counts, mastering the art of upselling is no longer a mere choice but a strategic imperative. In this discourse, we’ll unravel seven B2B upsell strategies that, in my experience, work wonders for boosting Net Revenue Retention (NRR) and fortifying customer relationships.

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ClientSuccess

JULY 20, 2021

As a CSM working in SaaS, you already know customers are worth their weight in gold to your business. The past year has highlighted precisely how critical current customers are to the success of SaaS organizations, thanks in large part to net retention rates. Net retention rates encompass all changes to your customer accounts.

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