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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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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Callminer

APRIL 23, 2019

For example, one of the PCI DSS requirements is to encrypt payment details. 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.

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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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Revation Systems

JANUARY 5, 2023

For example, early in my career I was asked to choose between two different ERP software vendors for our manufacturing business. Now that I’ve (hopefully) illustrated the connection security has in developing trust, let’s talk about best practices when evaluating prospective vendors to ensure they pass the trust test.

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ShepHyken

JUNE 10, 2016

I agree that the hospitality industry seems to be the perfect place to find excellent examples of good (and bad) business practices as well as examples of customer service. Take Delta Hotels for an example. For example, at many hotels I’ve been in, customers are given what is promised and at the promised price.

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

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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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JustCall

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

Predictions and Challenges in lead Scoring for SaaS Enterprises. In 2022, the SaaS space’s annual growth rate is expected to surpass 17%. Surveys show that SaaS is viewed as the most important technology to help achieve business goals. Clearly, the future looks bright for SaaS companies. What is SaaS Lead Scoring?

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ChurnZero

MARCH 28, 2023

Early-stage SaaS businesses tend to put most of their focus on acquiring net new customers. A few examples include when a customer: Attends a webinar; Uses a product; Calls support; Travels to a user conference; Experiments with a new feature; and Pays an invoice. However, this isn’t scalable. Event participation.

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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. Let’s look at some of the best net retention rate and how they are doing good at it. Best practices: Consumption vs subscription.

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Education Services Group

JANUARY 13, 2023

As businesses embrace the everything-as-a-service transformation, some find it more difficult than others to make the shift to SaaS. There’s a term for when a business takes the leap from traditional to SaaS: swallowing the fish. 5 tips for CS leaders managing the transition from traditional to SaaS.

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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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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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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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Education Services Group

AUGUST 25, 2023

The meme provides hilarious examples of how in “ the latest viral TikTok trend, young women are explaining money habits or spending choices that make no mathematical sense. Such as if you buy anything that costs less than $5, it isn’t real money because, at that price, it’s practically free.” appeared first on ESG.

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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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ChurnZero

JULY 19, 2022

SaaS companies, however, have more to lose than your local grocery store if those customers don’t sign up for more. Use this guide on how to improve free trial-to-paid conversions to help you increase your SaaS free trial conversion rate. How to calculate your SaaS free trial conversion rate. Help free trial users succeed.

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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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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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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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SmartKarrot

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

But for a SaaS revenue forecast, you have to take many factors into account. There are many revenue streams that exist in a SaaS business. Hence, in a nutshell, the SaaS revenue forecast needs many parameters to be taken into account. And we are going to see them all along with the best practices you must follow towards this.

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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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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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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. Strategy 2: Customer Benchmarking using Best-Practices Studies. I’ve written more about this link in a recent post.

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Totango

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Having a playbook in place can help you deliver better results for your SaaS customers and yield higher satisfaction, retention, and revenue for your business. To give a customer success playbook example, let’s say a customer has just started the onboarding process. What Is a Customer Success Playbook?

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Totango

JUNE 24, 2022

Customer success in SaaS differs from CS in other industries. Read on to learn the keys to effective customer success for SaaS clients. Read on to learn the keys to effective customer success for SaaS clients. How Is Customer Success for SaaS Different from Other Businesses.

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Totango

AUGUST 16, 2022

Customer retention software has become essential for effective SaaS customer success strategies. A winning SaaS business model must prioritize retaining customers, which is far more cost-efficient than acquiring new clients to offset churn. For example, you can use automated monitoring of client accounts to track user adoption rates.

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ClientSuccess

MAY 8, 2019

A purely data driven approach may give you false-positive or false-negative signals By taking a holistic approach at all touch points of the customer experience—not just those directly tied to product or usage—SaaS companies more accurately determine the health of their customer base and take actions that improve customer health and retention.

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ClientSuccess

MARCH 8, 2018

Here is an example how a product leader is working with customer success. 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.

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ClientSuccess

JANUARY 25, 2018

This series, now a community for frontline Customer Success Managers (CSMs) , discusses trends, best practices, and advice that can help the frontline. We’re lucky to have this week’s frontline CSM best practice come from Erica Newell – a CSM from the Trenches veteran – of Marketware. Company : Marketware. Key Takeaway.

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Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The book lays out some of the best practices for maintaining credibility for the Net Promoter System. For example, Bain and Company, where Reichheld worked when inventing the concept, was the first to adopt it. All of these actions destroy the credibility of the scoring process, Reichheld says. .

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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 21, 2022

1/ Crash course in Customer Success and SaaS metrics. Many people think of SaaS and CS metrics as black and white. Related reading: Key SaaS and Customer Success metrics you should care about – What’s a good CAC? 20 quick insights on Customer Success and SaaS metrics – The audience chat was on fire during this webinar.

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Totango

JUNE 8, 2022

OK, maybe not the world, but they have become an increasingly important factor these days for helping SaaS companies understand whether their products and services are keeping customers engaged and delivering value, so they can prevent churn, increase expansion and earn higher valuations. Embedded best practices.

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Totango

MARCH 19, 2021

Today’s SaaS customer journey re-envisions the customer’s experience as a circular flywheel, emphasizing the continuity between pre-sales and post-sales experience and between the way successful customer retention sets the stage for brand advocacy and the recruitment of new prospects.

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