Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 10, 2021

We had him on the podcast recently to talk about his new book, Winning on Purpose: The Unbeatable Strategy of Loving Customers. Instead of complaining that people don’t use Net Promoter appropriately, Reichheld decided to present an alternative that’s an appropriate metric to hold people accountable.

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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. After all, the very motive of these companies is to adapt to the situation, and further improve the overall performance through expansion selling strategies. 1. Fewer New Prospects.

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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. After all, the very motive of these companies is to adapt to the situation, and further improve the overall performance through expansion selling strategies. 1. Fewer New Prospects.

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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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ChurnZero

JULY 29, 2022

With the rise of the SaaS model, retention has dethroned acquisition as the primary means to achieve long-term growth and high valuation. To tap retention as a growth channel, you need a customer success strategy that elevates your customer success teams and puts customers at the heart of everything you do. Data and technology matter.

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Totango

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Customer Success team accountability isn’t something you just worry about figuring out later once your CS team is up and running. This makes CS team accountability easier and 1:1s more productive to ensure the team is meeting customer and company-wide goals. . Collaborating on strategy and problem solving.

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ProProfs Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

The importance of SaaS Customer Service is visible in these two data-proven statistics: AmericanExpress reports that 70% of consumers will go with the company that offers excellent customer support. As you can see, delivering the perfect saas customer support experiences is directly correlated with your churn and retention.

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Totango

APRIL 24, 2020

Rather, customer retention for SaaS enterprises is a result of the customer experience. The continued growth of the SaaS model, led by the multi-billion-dollar successes of B2B giants Microsoft and Salesforce , reflects a more responsive relationship between customer investment and ROI. 6 SaaS Customer Retention Best Practices.

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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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SaaS Journey mapping Best practices Customer advocacy 96

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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Nicereply

DECEMBER 17, 2024

SaaS companies accomplish this in a multitude of ways, from providing excellent customer service to ensuring their product meets user needs. One key metric that helps SaaS businesses gauge their success in these areas is the Customer Effort Score (CES). Product Usability SaaS platforms often involve intricate features and workflows.

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ChurnZero

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Whether Customer Success or Sales should own the renewal, expansion, and upsell is a hot-button issue in today’s SaaS sphere. As such, we decided to tap industry experts for a verbal duel on the subject where the winners take home the esteemed (and priceless) prize of bragging rights and SaaS street cred. You need specialists.

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Nicereply

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Whatever the case, with the right customer win-back strategies in place, reactivating former customers may greatly add up to your bottom line. Here’s why you should pay attention to bringing lost customers back and what strategies may efficiently work for your business in 2022 and beyond. Is it worth winning back lost customers at all?

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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? The Account Executive (AE) that closed the initial – new logo – sale continues to collaborate with the CSM throughout the relationship and owns any expansion opportunities and the renewal.

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Nicereply

JUNE 18, 2020

SaaS and eCommerce have been around long enough that some companies now have customers for over a decade. We’re hoping we can get your brain juices flowing to help you find your next strategy to improve even further. Implement your choice of strategies below to get a peek into your customer’s brains. That’s great!

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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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ChurnZero

AUGUST 11, 2020

Did you know that 60% of SaaS companies reported a negative impact on customer retention and upsell deals due to the pandemic? This article shares three successful approaches B2B SaaS companies took to retain customers in the first wave. This is a guest blog post by Anita Toth, Chief Churn Crusher. . This is shocking. Train to Listen.

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Totango

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Getting Started: Tips for Implementing an Effective Customer Engagement Strategy. What helped you build your customer journey map and what were the main factors you took into account? What were the main challenges you found when implementing a digital strategy? . Sometimes there are several contacts associated with an account.

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ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

As Rosabeth Kanter, Harvard Business School professor and best-selling author who specializes in strategy, innovation, and leadership for change, puts it: “Change demands new learning.”. To truly engage your customer-students, they must take ownership of their learning and be held accountable to its pursuance.

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Totango

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Knowing how to fight customer churn is critical for keeping SaaS business models sustainable. Here we’ll look at four proven strategies for reducing customer churn. Churn decisions occur at renewal time, making your renewal strategy a key to churn reduction. Follow best practices to create an effective renewal strategy.

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ChurnZero

JUNE 17, 2022

Striking a happy medium between challenging and realistic starts with you measuring the right things, inferring meaning from their output, and using that insight to inform your strategy. Create a specific onboarding health score that accounts for these variances as well as the customer’s journey progress or lack thereof.

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Netomi

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

In today’s digital-first world, and an era of remote and hybrid workplaces, the number of SaaS solutions used by companies on a daily basis is overwhelming – in 2021, organizations worldwide were using an average of 110 SaaS apps! How AI helps SaaS companies connect with customers in the moments that matter most.

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Totango

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

A customer success strategy is a proactive plan for guiding your clients to outcomes that satisfy their needs. In this guide, we’ll lay out a seven-step customer success strategy you can use to promote winning outcomes for your clients: Prioritize a culture of customer success. Proactively guide customer growth.

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Lumoa

MARCH 20, 2018

sw bug fixes, wrong information corrected on the web site) Product development decisions : reprioritizing things on the product development roadmap taking the feedback into account (e.g. more friendly behavior in customer service) Marketing to take the info into account in better targeting (e.g. Do you love CEM as much as we do?

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CSM Practice

MAY 28, 2020

More and more SaaS businesses are realizing the value of having a customer success team to ensure the continued success of their customers. Successful customers are more likely to renew and pay more through renewals and expansion, ensuring a steady revenue growth for SaaS businesses. What is the average Customer Success Manager Salary?

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Totango

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

SaaS Tools to Jumpstart Your Business Growth: Five Essential Apps. Software-as-a-Service ( SaaS ) tools automate your business functions, fueling your growth by increasing efficiency. Here we’ll guide you through the essential SaaS tools you need for business growth. What Are SaaS Tools? SaaS Customer Success Tool.

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ClientSuccess

MAY 8, 2020

Dear SaaS CEO’s, Now, more than ever, is the time to double-down on your customers AND customer success within your company. . I’m one of you because I’m a fellow SaaS CEO. If you’re a SaaS CEO in an ideal industry such as video conferencing, collaboration, health-tech, ed-tech, etc., Let’s think this through.

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CSM Practice

MAY 22, 2020

More and more SaaS businesses are realizing the value of having a customer success team to ensure the continued success of their customers. Successful customers are more likely to renew and pay more through renewals and expansion, ensuring a steady revenue growth for SaaS businesses. 3. Base + VariablePlan.

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CustomerSuccessBox

OCTOBER 2, 2019

In this article, we’re going to dig into three key strategies to adopt when onboarding your new customers. For each strategy, we’ll discuss how to go about implementing them—and how doing so can lead to success for your customers and your business. 3 Onboarding Strategies to Spur User Adoption and Empower Your New Customers.

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ClientSuccess

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Customer success is a unique department within a SaaS organization. In the past few years, however, SaaS organizations – including executives, decision makers, and board members – have started to realize that a strong customer success department is critical to the long-term success of an organization.

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AWS Machine Learning

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

That will safeguard your prompts in case of accidental loss or as part of your overall disaster recovery strategy. The data sources may be PDF documents on a file system, data from a software as a service (SaaS) system like a CRM tool, or data from an existing wiki or knowledge base. Vector database features built into other services.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 24, 2022

One of the most effective ways to run a subscription-based business is through a customer-centric strategy. Customer centricity is a customer-focused mindset that places the user’s experience at the forefront of the business strategy. How to Create Your Customer-Centric Strategy. Or what is customer-centric service ?

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ChurnZero

OCTOBER 8, 2021

58% of businesses focus their customer experience strategy on increasing value for their customers. This means understanding a customer’s goals and tailoring Customer Success strategies around what the customer wants to achieve. You start as a company of 10, signing up every employee with a Google Drive account.

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Totango

AUGUST 11, 2022

Knowing how to build client relationships digitally is critical for SaaS businesses. Most interactions with your SaaS customers are digital, making handling these opportunities decisive for customer satisfaction, loyalty, repeat business and referrals. Why Digital Client Relationships are Crucially Important for SaaS Businesses.

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Totango

AUGUST 23, 2022

By charting the points in your SaaS customers’ journeys, you can plan how to deliver clients’ desired outcomes and satisfying experiences that promote subscription renewals and higher revenue. In this way, customer journey B2B touchpoints serve as a powerful tool for increasing the effectiveness of your customer success strategy.

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Totango

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

For a SaaS company, an excellent QBR strategy can help you ensure you’re providing a product experience that will make customers want to renew their subscription during renewal time. In this article, we’ll cover the essentials of QBRs and how to make them work for your SaaS business. What Is a QBR?

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ProProfs Blog

APRIL 17, 2020

That’s one of the reasons why y ou formulate strategies to retain your customers. But without numbers or metric data in hand, coming up with any new strategy would only consume your valuable time. In this thorough guide, you’ll come across: Different SaaS customer success metrics. 8: Average Revenue Per Account. #9:

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