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. Monitoring customer satisfaction metrics and intervening when low satisfaction levels are detected.

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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.

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Kayako

JULY 27, 2017

As a support team manager, you’re already wearing a ton of hats – bet you didn’t think data wizard would be one of them, huh? But this is your life as a manager developing a SaaS customer support model that scales. And there’s so many metrics you can track ! Using smart data can change other areas of your company.

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Metrics SaaS Surveys Enterprise 80

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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SaaS Best practices Upselling Journey mapping 74

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. The benefits of a fast, simple onboarding process are myriad.

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SaaS Healthcare Customer retention Enterprise 127

ClientSuccess

MAY 8, 2019

I’m excited to continue on with our blog series on customer success metrics. In our last post on this topic, we covered the top four categories of customer success metrics. The topic I will cover in this blog is on the top five customer success health metrics. Customer Success Health Metrics.

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SaaS Metrics Accountability industry standards 59

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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SaaS Best practices Enterprise Finance 77

ChurnZero

MARCH 28, 2023

Early-stage SaaS businesses tend to put most of their focus on acquiring net new customers. As you measure customer engagement, it’s important to include behavioral indications to augment survey data. Some useful behavioral indicators include: Product usage data. However, this isn’t scalable. Customer support history.

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SaaS Chief Customer Officer Surveys Feedback 52

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? Best practices to better engage your investors and board.

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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. Even Data is reliable, accurate and complete, it can still become overwhelming. Customer Health Metrics. Customer Usage Metrics.

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Metrics Upselling SaaS Accountability 52

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. Let’s look at some of the best net retention rate and how they are doing good at it. Which is the key customer retention metrics to track?-

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SaaS Best practices Enterprise Customer retention 52

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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Metrics SaaS Accountability Upselling 89

aircall

APRIL 16, 2021

SaaS software, also known as cloud-based software, has now gone mainstream, making it easy for teams to leverage all the software programs they need to work collaboratively, wherever they are. Let’s look specifically at how SaaS software can help sync your sales and support teams so they work together in perfect harmony.

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SaaS Sales Coaching APIs 62

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. Make sure outside client metrics are clearly defined for all CSMs, if applicable. .

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Best practices Metrics Upselling SaaS 40

Education Services Group

MARCH 18, 2020

This also means that CS is primarily referenced with some level of connection to SaaS. But just because CS originated within SaaS does not mean that it only applies to businesses with an ‘as-a-service’ business model. Non-SaaS businesses are hopping on board the Customer Success train to meet market demand and consumer expectations.

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SaaS Best practices Metrics Benchmark 52

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. . Improves data collection: Collecting data is a very important part of the sales process and building the best salespeople.

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CSM Practice

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

The answer varies for different companies, but the customer success team performance metrics below are an excellent place to start. As a customer success team leader , these metrics provide a solution to demonstrate the value of your customer success team to top executives and other teams. Customer Financial Metrics.

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Metrics Customer advocacy Customer centricity Customer effort 59

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. Even Data is reliable, accurate and complete, it can still become overwhelming. Customer Health Metrics. Customer Usage Metrics.

Metrics 52

Metrics SaaS Customer retention Upselling 52

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. Even Data is reliable, accurate and complete, it can still become overwhelming. Customer Health Metrics. Customer Usage Metrics.

Metrics 52

Metrics SaaS Customer retention Upselling 52

delighted

MAY 10, 2019

Here’s our heavily curated list of 16 tried-and-true best practices for increasing survey responses without sacrificing quality. B2B/SaaS Product Feedback. For more complicated B2B or SaaS platforms, this could be a couple of weeks after onboarding and platform implementation. So how do you increase survey response rates?

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Best practices Surveys Feedback B2B 66

Totango

JULY 21, 2020

Through constant, customized communication, reviewed and honed business goals, and a platform that collects data and makes it actionable, your Customer Success team can lead you through this once-in-a-generation challenge. The current COVID-19 pandemic has not been kind to many industries, and SaaS is no exception. Knowledge is power.

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SaaS Calibration Enterprise Customer retention 64

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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Metrics Education Upselling SaaS 52

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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Amity

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

SaaS customer success leaders publicly encourage greater adoption of this practice. I’ve found that SaaS vendors use seven distinct strategies to empower CSMs with customer benchmarking. The first two are longstanding strategies that rely on third-party data. I’ve written more about this link in a recent post.

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ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

The top metrics in CS are all revenue metrics. NRR, which tracks the percentage of recurring revenue retained from existing customers, is now the top metric for CS teams in almost every revenue band. Related: Which Customer Success best practices should you keep or let go in 2023? Learn from three SaaS CEOs.

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SaaS Metrics Best practices Benchmark 98

ChurnZero

DECEMBER 21, 2022

1/ Crash course in Customer Success and SaaS metrics. Many people think of SaaS and CS metrics as black and white. But the truth is, there are many ways to calculate and interpret—and game—metrics. Related reading: Key SaaS and Customer Success metrics you should care about – What’s a good CAC?

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SaaS Benchmark Metrics Consulting 98

JivoChat

MARCH 10, 2022

It is always backed with data — concrete data. . Data-driven marketing is one of the top priorities of marketers. 76% of marketers make decisions based on data analytics and allocate around 16% of their marketing budget to the same. . Data-driven marketing is one of the top priorities of marketers.

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Marketing Real estate Advertising Telemarketing 75

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.

Metrics 52

Metrics Education Best practices Accountability 52

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.

Metrics 52

Metrics Education Best practices Accountability 52

Lumoa

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

From lead conversion rates (CVR), click-through rates (CTR), and Net Promoter Scores (NPS), companies use multiple metrics to analyze the effectiveness of their CX strategy. Then, use metrics like churn rate, CSAT, and CVR to gauge which touchpoints are negatively impacting CX.

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Customer Experience Chatbots Analytics SaaS 83

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. Engaging decision-makers in discussions about performance goals and metrics provides a transparent, objective basis to demonstrate product value.

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CSM Practice

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Every customer success metric you can measure falls into one of these four categories: Customer Health Metrics. Customer Financial Metrics. Customer Usage Metrics. Customer Success Team Performance Metrics. In this blog series, we’ll examine each customer success metric category in separate blogs.

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Metrics Accountability Surveys SaaS 52

CSM Practice

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Every customer success metric you can measure falls into one of these four categories: Customer Health Metrics. Customer Financial Metrics. Customer Usage Metrics. Customer Success Team Performance Metrics. In this blog series, we’ll examine each customer success metric category in separate blogs.

Metrics 52

Metrics Accountability Surveys SaaS 52

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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SaaS industry standards Upselling Education 71

CSM Practice

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

The answer varies for different companies, but the customer success team performance metrics below are an excellent place to start. As a customer success team leader , these metrics provide a solution to demonstrate the value of your customer success team to top executives and other teams. Customer Financial Metrics.

Metrics 52

Metrics Customer advocacy Customer centricity Accountability 52

CSM Practice

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

The answer varies for different companies, but the customer success team performance metrics below are an excellent place to start. As a customer success team leader , these metrics provide a solution to demonstrate the value of your customer success team to top executives and other teams. Customer Financial Metrics.

Metrics 52

Metrics Customer advocacy Customer centricity Accountability 52

delighted

MAY 10, 2019

Here’s our heavily curated list of 16 tried-and-true best practices for increasing survey responses without sacrificing quality. B2B/SaaS Product Feedback. For more complicated B2B or SaaS platforms, this could be a couple of weeks after onboarding and platform implementation. So how do you increase survey response rates?

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