Totango

AUGUST 3, 2021

A freemium strategy is one of the best ways to sell a SaaS product. However, common freemium SaaS mistakes can thwart this otherwise effective approach. Here we’ll help you steer clear of the most frequent pitfalls SaaS companies encounter when deploying a freemium sales model. Limiting storage space.

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Totango

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Your SaaS customer journey map lays out optimized outcomes that lead to customer renewals, upsells, and referrals. First, we’ll define what a SaaS customer journey is, break it down into stages, and explain why mapping it out is important. What Is a SaaS Customer Journey? What Are the Stages in a SaaS Customer Journey?

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Callminer

APRIL 23, 2019

Expert PCI Compliance Tips & Best Practices. Below, we’ve rounded up 17 tips and best practices for PCI compliance from industry and regulatory experts. Expand your call recording practices. Train agents thoroughly on everything compliance-related and integrate PCI best practices into their scripts.

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Totango

OCTOBER 23, 2020

By utilizing certain customer onboarding best practices in your enterprise, you can ensure that your clients successfully learn to use your product, see its value for their business, and start on the right path toward high lifetime value. 7 Customer Onboarding Best Practices to Set Clients Up for Success.

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Totango

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Customer Enablement Essentials: What B2B and SaaS Brands Need to Know. This helps deliver more satisfying customer experiences , promoting customer renewals and referrals, which are critical to B2B SaaS businesses. These methods may be used in both B2B and SaaS contexts. First, we’ll define what customer enablement is.

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ClientSuccess

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Research Vectors by Vecteezy Many customer success leaders in the SaaS space are faced with the same question: who should own customer renewals? In this blog post, we’ll explore three different ownership models that help define roles between sales and customer success teams when it comes to customer renewals.

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CustomerSuccessBox

DECEMBER 4, 2018

In the SaaS world, the customer-acquisition-cost (CAC) is high and the initial payment is peanuts compared to the lifetime value (LTV) of the customer. Without a high customer retention rate, a SaaS company will shut down, no matter how great the other metrics are. Customer Retention Best Practices. Are you ready?

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CustomerSuccessBox

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Let’s look at the top customer success blogs. CustomerSuccessBox is an outcome-driven Customer Success software for B2B SaaS, which helps maximize retention, drive product adoption, and grow revenue for your B2B SaaS. As well as their actionable customer success platform they provide a widely respected blog.

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 9, 2020

If you’re eager to learn more about the Customer Success space too, we’ve compiled a list of industry blogs you should follow and bookmark that can help provide you with all the insights, strategies and guidance you need. Must-Read Customer Success Blogs. The Success League Blog. Tri Tuns Blog. SuccessCOACHING Blog.

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ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Discover the lessons these three SaaS CEOs have learned from leading customer-centric businesses through an economic slump, and how you can apply them. Part of adopting an agile mindset means making fast decisions with the best information you have. A SaaS business’s greatest source of intel is direct customer feedback.

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Totango

JULY 31, 2020

For SaaS companies especially, the speed and ease with which your customers can progress through new user onboarding will act as the first indicators of how smooth their use of your product will be going forward. How SaaS Enterprises Can Streamline New User Onboarding. Proactively Optimizing SaaS Onboarding.

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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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Totango

MAY 19, 2020

The continuing COVID-19 health crisis may well produce a recession that has a significant impact on the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) industry. No one is certain how this will change the long and short-term behaviors of customers, lenders, and enterprises in a SaaS world. Create a Community for Sharing Best Practices.

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aircall

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

To make that happen, you’ll need to clearly define your sales training process, invest in the right training programs, and follow best practices for training sessions. . Sales Team Training Best Practices Checklist for Your Salespeople. It’s not a bad idea to document your company’s best practices for sales team training.

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Top 10 Blog Posts from 2020. In this article, we question the “Q” in QBR and if Customer Success teams are blindly following a best practice that may no longer be relevant to their customers’ success. The SaaS Debate: Who Owns the Renewal and Upsell? 31 st Fastest Growing SaaS Company on SaaS Mag’s list.

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ClientSuccess

AUGUST 14, 2019

As you structure your CSM compensation plans, here are three best practices to keep in mind: 1. The role of a SaaS industry CSM has become increasingly complex because it covers so many different parts of the customer lifecycle. Customer Success Blog: Compensation Plans for Customer Success Managers. Who Owns the Renewal?

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

The plethora of solutions or blogs may not be useful when it comes to gaining insight and knowledge. SaaS (software as a service) companies have seen an exponential growth in the business sphere. There is some insightful content around SaaS that can be an inspiration to readers. The 20 Best SaaS Blogs You Must Follow.

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CustomerSuccessBox

JUNE 9, 2021

Plus, here’s a reason Why your SaaS might need an onboarding specialist? Bonus Tip: 5 Steps to defining a perfect Customer Onboarding process for a SaaS Customer. The post Who should manage customer onboarding in a SaaS company? appeared first on The Customer Success Blog for B2B SaaS from CustomerSuccessBox.

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CSM Practice

JULY 6, 2020

To many, SaaS has always been tricky, and the current global economic downturn caused by the Coronavirus pandemic has only exacerbated it. At the moment, SaaS companies appear to be under immense financial pressure, resulting in a dramatic increase in vendors seeking guidance on how to adapt, survive, and even thrive during this downturn.

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VHT

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Think of SaaS vendors such as Salesforce whose customers must be educated about the Salesforce platform to truly get the most out of their purchase. The post Best Practices in Web Callback appeared first on VHT. In the tech world, this is very common.

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CSM Practice

JULY 6, 2020

To many, SaaS has always been tricky, and the current global economic downturn caused by the Coronavirus pandemic has only exacerbated it. At the moment, SaaS companies appear to be under immense financial pressure, resulting in a dramatic increase in vendors seeking guidance on how to adapt, survive, and even thrive during this downturn.

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Totango

JULY 21, 2020

The current COVID-19 pandemic has not been kind to many industries, and SaaS is no exception. In March of this year, SaaS stocks reached a 20 percent decline from their selling highs. Communications SaaS companies have watched the growth rate of subscriptions rise by 1.4X. Stay Agile As a Company.

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ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

7 Tips for Building a Successful Customer Onboarding Process by Rahul Sridhar (G2) This blog will explore key strategies and best practices for building a successful customer onboarding process. The old saying, “It costs less to keep existing customers than to chase after new ones,” comes to mind.

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 27, 2019

I f ChurnZero were to release a greatest hits compilation of our top content, milestones, and life events in 2019, this blog post would be it. We hope you enjoy reading this best-of highlights reel; we loved making it happen. . Top 10 Blog Posts from 2019 . Overall SaaS Category Winner in 2019 APPEALIE Awards .

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Mindtouch

MARCH 14, 2017

Self-service help materials are the most efficient way to achieve customer success, allowing your customers to onboard, train, support, and learn best practices—at their pace. The post Top Two Secrets to Customer Success in SaaS appeared first on MindTouch Blog.

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Totango

JANUARY 17, 2019

Not to get too philosophical, but each journey begins with a first step, and in the SaaS domain, that means onboarding. Customer renewal success is critical for SaaS enterprises. Building SaaS Customer Loyalty Focused on Mutual Growth. In this guest blog, Niraj Rout, Founder at Hiver, shares some small, but costly blunders.

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ClientSuccess

MAY 8, 2019

I’m excited to continue on with our blog series on customer success metrics. The topic I will cover in this blog is on the top five customer success health metrics. Whereas DAU/MAU ratio measures the frequency of using a SaaS solution, product adoption measures *breadth* and *depth* of using a SaaS solution.

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ClientSuccess

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Welcome to our blog series CSM from the Trenches, a community for frontline Customer Success Managers (CSMs) that discusses trends, best practices, and advice for the frontline. We’ve compiled a list of 12 Customer Success Best Practices That Can Positively Impact Your Work as a CSM. How has it helped you? ”.

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Totango

DECEMBER 6, 2021

What 2021 Taught SaaS Businesses about Customer Success. As the business world adapted to the challenges of 2021, SaaS companies re-examined what customer success means in today’s digital-first environment. Then, we’ll review how the freemium model has emerged as the optimal way to introduce prospects to SaaS products.

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ClientSuccess

MARCH 8, 2018

Check out our resources below for more customer success best practices and insights for how your organization can can ensure your product and customer success teams are fully synced: eBooks: Ultimate Guide to SaaS Customer Success Metrics. Blog Posts: Popular Compensation Plans for CSMs.

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ClientSuccess

JUNE 27, 2018

This could mean fun, casual blog posts with plenty of memes and visual aides, or a new case study that features an amazing success story. eBooks: Ultimate Guide to SaaS Customer Success Metrics. Blog Posts: Customer Success in the C-Suite—Aligning the Board and Exec Team. Four Fold Mission of Customer Success.

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Totango

MARCH 8, 2022

Providing a forum to share CS strategies, tips, and best practices. Nine Best Customer Success Communities in 2022. As customer success management has grown in importance for building SaaS customer loyalty , the number of customer success communities has grown. It also seeks to stimulate discussion of best practices.

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AWS Machine Learning

JANUARY 26, 2024

The goal of this post is to empower AI and machine learning (ML) engineers, data scientists, solutions architects, security teams, and other stakeholders to have a common mental model and framework to apply security best practices, allowing AI/ML teams to move fast without trading off security for speed.

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ClientSuccess

JANUARY 25, 2018

For those just joining my blog series CSM from the Trenches , welcome. This series, now a community for frontline Customer Success Managers (CSMs) , discusses trends, best practices, and advice that can help the frontline. Five LinkedIn Best Practices to Build, Grow, and Improve Client Relationships. Key Takeaway.

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Totango

MAY 10, 2022

A customer engagement strategy is critical for retaining and growing SaaS clients. In this blog, we’ll look at the essentials of a customer engagement strategy, particularly how to use it to engage enterprise clients. A customer engagement strategy is an action plan for promoting active client use of your SaaS product.

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Totango

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The contract renewal stage of the customer lifecycle is a critical component of driving retention for SaaS products. Contract renewal is the stage in your SaaS customer’s lifecycle where they decide whether or not to extend a subscription that is about to expire. What Is Contract Renewal? In-App Promotions.

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 28, 2018

This has been quite a year for the ChurnZero blog. We even got a shout out from HubSpot as a top blog you should be reading in 2018. As the year comes to a close, we thought we’d offer up a useful roundup of our ten most popular blog posts from the year. 10 Punny Customer Success Jokes. ChurnZero Resource.

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