ChurnZero

MARCH 18, 2022

With so many SaaS metrics floating around, and even more opinions on when and how to use them, it can be hard to know if you’re measuring what really matters. Leading SaaS expert, Dave Kellogg, and ChurnZero CEO, You Mon Tsang, sat down to answer all the questions you want to know about SaaS metrics like ARR, NRR, GRR, LTV, and CAC (i.e.,

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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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ChurnZero

JUNE 17, 2022

Create a specific onboarding health score that accounts for these variances as well as the customer’s journey progress or lack thereof. Irit Eizips here from CSM Practice, the customer success strategy consulting firm. What this is showing is a group of all of the accounts in onboarding. Irit: Hi everyone. That is so important.

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Amity

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Jason brings the perspective of the consulting methods and approaches CSMs should employ to drive user adoption and ROI with their customers. Yet, this is often of the hardest points in an implementation for both customers and SaaS providers. Amity looks at CSM from the perspective of the tools and platforms CSMs need.

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Amity

APRIL 25, 2016

Customer Success Expert - Glide Consulting. The Glide Consulting Blog. Andrew draws from almost ten years of strategic business consulting experience to help clients achieve their goals in Customer Success. Dan is a recognized domain expert in Customer Success especially in a startup environment and in SaaS. CSM Corner.

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ChurnZero

OCTOBER 8, 2021

You start as a company of 10, signing up every employee with a Google Drive account. As your business grows, you’ll have more employees to sign up with a Google Drive account, plus the storage space you need will increase. We have two customers, both are large enterprises signed up to use a given marketing SaaS product.

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CustomerSuccessBox

AUGUST 8, 2019

If you own, manage or work for a Software as-a-Service (SaaS) business, you are embroiled in quite a heated competition on a daily basis. Let’s take a look at the purpose of customer success for SaaS businesses. SaaS businesses far and wide are now assigning market resources specifically to attain the goal of customer success.

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ChurnZero

MARCH 3, 2022

As Customer Success professionals you might find yourself building out something completely new at your organization, or just trying to break the status quo on what’s been done in order to help drive growth and expansion for your SaaS organization. How to crush SaaS customer onboarding: a roundup of expert advice.

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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. After each instruction-based webinar, customers have a 1:1 consultation with their Customer Success Manager. The same holds true for our vendors. Uncover Opportunities With Upsell Campaigns.

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Totango

JANUARY 22, 2024

In 2024, CS teams leveraging AI will stand out from the rest by quickly identifying customer problems and trends in data, providing account summaries to executives, and streamlining workflows. Human expertise, along with AI technology, transforms CS into a significant growth engine for their companies.

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 21, 2022

1/ Crash course in Customer Success and SaaS metrics. Presented by: Dave Kellogg , principal, Dave Kellogg Consulting. 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? It means one train can hide another.

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Kapta Customer Success

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Customer Success is one of the biggest buzzwords floating around the B2B SaaS space today. As a key account manager, it’s vital that you engage in Customer Success content that is insightful, valuable, and relevant, giving you that competitive edge to deliver amazing service to your clients. CX Journey. forEntrepreneurs.

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JustCall

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Soon after the SDRs or Sales Development Reps have done their job, AEs or Account Executives are sales professionals who are the first ones to interact with prospects. Account Executives, often called Sales Managers, are responsible for closing company sales and are directly responsible for generating revenue for your business.

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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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CustomerSuccessBox

OCTOBER 19, 2021

If you are a B2B SaaS company, you will have a multi-layered education process. Once you’re clear about what they want to achieve, it’s time to consult them, guide them, and help them reach their desired goal. To grow an account, each member of the team needs the right skills. Customer Education helps customers grow.

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CSM Practice

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Customer churn is a vital metric for the success of any SaaS company and its customer success team. Churn directly affects the sustainability and growth of SaaS businesses as small monthly increases in churn percentage can compound over time and drastically reduce revenue. Step 2: Map the Top 10 Reasons with Accounts.

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 29, 2020

A relic from bygone days of old-school Account Management, QBRs are a classic, but not timeless, practice; one that feels perfunctory and misplaced in today’s always-connected, data-enriched landscape. The SaaS Debate: Who Owns the Renewal and Upsell? 31 st Fastest Growing SaaS Company on SaaS Mag’s list.

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LiveChat

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Every company, especially SaaS businesses, face some of the following challenges and situations: High churn rate. These days, with cloud technology, SaaS and B2B economy, the sales model has shifted to renewal sales: pay-as-you-go and subscription plans. Or account management, when you worry about subscriptions and payments.).

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Totango

JULY 17, 2024

Perhaps, but industry data backs up this claim—SaaS companies are putting more resources and more strategic focus behind retaining and growing revenue from the existing customer base. It’s common to ring the bell when an account executive closes a sale, but don’t forget to give kudos to the CSM who found the opportunity as well.

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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 15, 2020

Criteria Corp started with Account Managers and was a largely reactive team. They do additional discovery as part of the onboarding process, onboard effectively, and then manage the account to drive Engagement, Adoption and ultimately the renewal. How did CS begin at your organization, and what is your team’s primary focus?

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CustomerSuccessBox

MAY 6, 2021

For example- In the case of renewals, the account would automatically get enrolled in a renewal playbook, they’re supposed to make sure the playbook for the account gets completed in X days. The CSM for the account explains the plan . If that doesn’t happen, you escalate to your manager and so on. is completed.

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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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Totango

MARCH 8, 2022

As customer success management has grown in importance for building SaaS customer loyalty , the number of customer success communities has grown. Gain Grow Retain is a free, open community for CS leaders from B2B SaaS companies. CSM Practice is a CS consulting firm that serves technology and services organizations. CS in Focus.

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ChurnZero

MARCH 31, 2022

Did you catch our Customer Success and SaaS metrics crash-course webinar with leading SaaS expert Dave Kellogg, of Dave Kellogg Consulting ? We’d like to extend a huge thanks to Dave for his expert insights below, which will help you use Customer Success and SaaS metrics in a more nuanced and purposeful way.

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Amity

MAY 6, 2014

De-Risking the First 90-Days for Your SaaS Customer. Jason brings the perspective of the consulting methods and approaches CSMs should employ to drive user adoption and ROI with their customers. Yet, this is often of the hardest points in an implementation for both customers and SaaS providers. Today’s customers demand more.

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ClientSuccess

JUNE 17, 2019

In today’s world of SaaS customer success, most CSMs and/or Account Managers are held to some sort of revenue goal. This is what’s commonly known as joint account planning. Joint account planning takes customer success a step further by analyzing and strategizing how a specific customer account could grow.

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CustomerSuccessBox

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

A Customer Success Manager’s role differs on the basis of a high/low touch base model and the size of the accounts – small, medium and enterprise. If your company has a platform to understand the health of the account, then your life is sorted. The Accounts/Finance to raise invoices or confirm if the payment has been made.

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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

SaaS professionals who geek out on metrics can find themselves in deep philosophical debates about the best numbers to track. That’s according to a landmark webinar we hosted last fall titled, “A Crash Course in Customer Success and SaaS Metrics” with Dave Kellogg and You Mon Tsang. It helps articulate the health of a SaaS business.

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Totango

AUGUST 18, 2022

A lot goes into crafting the ideal onboarding process for SaaS products. In the SaaS industry, onboarding is the process of guiding a new customer through the steps they need to start using the product they just purchased. Assigning account managers. Activating accounts. Why Optimizing Your SaaS Onboarding Matters.

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ClientSuccess

MARCH 5, 2020

Customer success is one of the most important – and fastest-growing – factors of today’s SaaS business models. More and more companies are looking to customer success teams to help guide their overarching business strategy (even in sales, marketing, and product) and to help manage and cultivate long-term account growth.

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ChurnZero

JUNE 22, 2021

Surprisingly, those same SaaS executives routinely make bad decisions simply because they misinterpret their data. My name is Kristen Hayer, and I’m the CEO of The Success League, a Customer Success consulting firm. Created by: Nils Vinje , Founder & CEO, Glide Consulting. Customer Operations.

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Amity

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

The SaaS world can be distilled into four main quadrants: horizontal and vertical solutions, at high or low average selling points. Customer Success Managers working with horizontal SaaS need high empathy and an open mind. Relevant experience includes a background in consultancy or business development. Vertical Solutions.

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CustomerSuccessBox

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Every SaaS company knows how important Customer Success is and what results it can bring if implemented properly. A CSM is not an extension of customer support or the account management team. S/he should be a consultative resource for top-tier clients. Let us start with a quote. There is only one boss. The customer.

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ChurnZero

JUNE 15, 2023

With less budget to go around, some SaaS companies are merging customer success and account management into one function that’s responsible for an account’s business strategy, product adoption, and value realization, as well as its renewal and expansion. number of daily logins) to the account level.

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Totango

APRIL 4, 2024

One tool that Katie finds helpful in her role is a RACI matrix that designates accountability to relevant stakeholders involved in a project, task, or decision. RACI stands for Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, and Informed and is a great tool for: Overcoming ambiguity. Closing communication gaps.

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Satrix Solutions

AUGUST 25, 2020

The main draw for upselling to existing customers is that it provides a new revenue stream with no (or minimal) additional customer acquisition cost (CAC) that obtaining new accounts require. It is dependent on building consultative partnerships with decision-makers with the goal of adding value to their business.

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