Totango

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

It is the sum of the profit you make from your customers over time, rather than any single sales event, and it is the most accurate method of anticipating revenue in a customer-centric, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) environment. Customer Lifetime Value SaaS Equation. Maximizing Customer Lifetime Value in SaaS.

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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. I’ve seen how it can help SaaS leaders unlock increased customer value attainment, higher net revenue retention (NRR) and accelerated product-led growth. SaaS companies operate on subscription terms.

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Totango

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

You should adopt a “time invested equals benefits gained” approach with your SaaS renewal best practices. The Top 5 SaaS Renewal Best Practices. We’ve gathered 5 of our favorite SaaS renewal best practices to help you remove the stress from your retention process: Define your customer. Automate renewals and upsells.

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CustomerSuccessBox

JUNE 27, 2021

Upselling in B2B SaaS is a strategy designed to sell a more feature-rich product edition to an existing customer. Prioritizing customer acquisition should not be your only priority for upselling growth. You have to look ahead towards long-term growth and retention to design strategic upsell paths. Let’s get started.

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CustomerSuccessBox

APRIL 27, 2022

Upselling is crucial for any B2B SaaS business. So, having B2B SaaS upselling strategies is vital for your business growth. If yes, then it might be time to set the ball rolling for an ‘Upsell’ conversation. Putting an upsell plan in place, knowing the strategies, etc. Cross-sell vs Upsell.

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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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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

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

ROI-focused SaaS strategies should be based on comprehensive data gathered from every customer engagement. Reducing Churn with SaaS Strategies. The digital transformation of business has empowered customers to expect responsive, personalized service from SaaS providers. Why SaaS Customers Churn. Rapidly Onboarding.

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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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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 choose and use Customer Success and SaaS metrics in a more nuanced and purposeful way.

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Totango

JANUARY 31, 2019

Every successful SaaS company must be a strict disciple of the culture of the customer. SaaS customer engagement, therefore, needs to inform the entire customer journey. In order to do that, you need to use the right SaaS customer engagement metrics. The number of individual users accessing your product within a broader account.

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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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Totango

JANUARY 4, 2019

Customer expectations and demands on enterprises have never been so high, or so personal—especially for SaaS companies who are at the forefront of both the modern wave of technology and the new customer-centricity business model. Now more than ever, winbacks, upsells, renewals, referrals, and feedback cannot be passive items on a checklist.

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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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ChurnZero

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Top SaaS CEOs Talk Compensation, Automation, and Investors. No one knows what the future holds (as 2020 has made abundantly clear) but that didn’t stop us from asking top SaaS CEOs what’s next for Customer Success. Will the Customer Success and Sales roles converge, especially for large enterprise accounts?”. “To

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ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

This is a guest article by Swati Garg , founder and CEO, Melo Associates , and Lindsay Lynch , senior recruitment consultant, Melo Associates , a recruitment firm focused on customer success hiring for SaaS and tech companies nationwide. Understanding of the unique challenges and opportunities associated with SaaS companies.

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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

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

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

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. Understanding the nuance behind Customer Success metrics will help you build consensus around which numbers are the best numbers to track for your SaaS company.

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CSM Magazine

JANUARY 28, 2025

For example, a SaaS company might offer an in-app tutorial detailing their platform’s key features. Drives Upsells and Cross-Selling Opportunities Educated customers are more aware of how your offerings align with their needs, making them more open to upgrading or trying complementary products.

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CustomerSuccessBox

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Renewal rates are the lifeline of any SaaS company. The growth of any SaaS business not only depends on new customers but also the renewal rate. High renewal rates provide a stable revenue source every month which helps you to focus on upsells, advocacy, and acquiring new customers. Allocate responsibility.

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Totango

JANUARY 22, 2019

Recurring revenue is the lifeblood of any SaaS enterprise operating within today’s new subscription economy. The digital transformation of business has led to an explosion of demand for SaaS products, but the low barrier to entry and the fluidity it has afforded customers has created immense competitive pressures.

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ClientSuccess

MARCH 2, 2021

For all of us working in the SaaS space, the constant barrage of new acronyms has become somewhat of a joke over the years. While Account Executives (AEs) have been managing customer accounts for many years now, the rise of the Customer Success Manager in the SaaS space has created some overlap – and confusion – between the two roles.

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CustomerSuccessBox

MARCH 7, 2022

Customer retention is the lifeblood of a SaaS company. Where the foundation of SaaS customer retention is renewals. SaaS renewal’ is a term relating to Software-as-a-Service companies that operate with a subscription-based financial model. How is the renewal process important in SaaS? Expansion Manager.

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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. Touchpoints also include occasions when clients interact with your software app in a SaaS context. Making upsell offers.

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Totango

MAY 6, 2022

Customer health score is one of the fastest and easiest ways to assess whether your SaaS customers are satisfied with your product and brand. We’ll define customer health score, what metrics go into it, and what it tells you about customer accounts. Adoption : How many licensed accounts sold are actually being used?

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CustomerSuccessBox

JULY 9, 2021

Importance of Customer Journey in SaaS. In the SaaS business, the customer is the ultimate boss. Mapping customer journeys in SaaS is very crucial to influence every interaction and make it a positive experience so that the customer remembers and is happy to come back. Benefits of customer journeys in SaaS. Escalation.

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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. Identifying customers in the market for upsell offers and referral invitations.

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CustomerSuccessBox

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Customer Success has become a must for every SaaS business with the advent of the subscription economy. For so many years, SaaS has focused so strongly on the acquisition that they have been blind to other aspects of the customer journey. Here is a free guide to take your SaaS business from a Reactive approach to Proactive approach !

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Totango

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Measuring product adoption by users is critical for SaaS and Cloud companies as this is the most telling indicator of the value customers are getting from products and services. In order to create this visibility, cloud and SaaS product teams need to instrument their applications (web, mobile, saas) to report on product usage.

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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. Upsell purchases. Examples include: Search engine queries and ads.

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CustomerSuccessBox

JUNE 5, 2019

TL;DR A single customer health score is not ideal for a B2B SaaS business. A SaaS customer goes through acquisition, onboarding, retention, and upsell. Ultimately, you have to identify unmet needs so that you can upsell / cross-sell. Applying it back to health of an account, a single customer health score is a deception.

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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. Product Usage – is the account above 80% license utilization with high usage across all features? Uncover Opportunities With Upsell Campaigns. The same holds true for our vendors.

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Education Services Group

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Instead, they’re simply “rebranding” their Account Managers as Customer Success Managers with little to no training or transition. Customer Success and Account Management Serve Different Purposes. The main purpose of an Account Manager is twofold. In general, Account Managers are in a sort of “standby” position.

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Totango

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

But the number of customer success metrics SaaS providers can track is extensive. Then we’ll look at nine of the most critical SaaS customer success metrics to monitor to ensure that your CS strategy achieves the intended results. These are just a few SaaS dashboard examples out of many you could create.

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Totango

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

At PowerToFly, customer success and account management teams must work together to support their clients—without overwhelming them. Across a large CSM team and a new Account Management team, that adds up.” Totango is a must for any company with a SaaS model.” “Totango has proven to be a game changer.”

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CustomerSuccessBox

APRIL 11, 2019

A lot of Customer Success leaders and Founders I have talked to since starting at CustomerSuccessBox have been confused about what customer tech stack to use at their SaaS businesses. Sales delivers customer acquisition vs. Customer Success delivers product adoption + retention + upsell.

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