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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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

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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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

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. The Top 5 Customer-Centric Marketing Strategies for SaaS Companies. It’s a way of thinking.

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ChurnZero

JUNE 1, 2022

If they attended a webinar, I knew for how long. […] It was incredible. The CSMs were managing 150 accounts each and all they had was Salesforce, their email, and a phone. That was really a flaw in the way we thought about managing our customers and managing our SaaS businesses.”. This was 15 years ago.

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ClientSuccess

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

While the customer success world (and the larger SaaS economy in general) has experienced its fair share of ups and downs this year, the industry will be even more prepared in the future. . Customer success will go from an important part of the SaaS industry to one of the most critical parts of the industry.

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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

MARCH 28, 2023

As a SaaS organization scales, there inevitably arises a distinction between SMB customers and enterprise customers. The allocation of resources, in particular, is a critical factor that can either make or break a customer success team’s large account management process. Here are a few factors to consider: 1.

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ChurnZero

JUNE 2, 2023

A Customer Success Manager at a Series-B stage SaaS company had just learned a key contact—their customer champion—was moving on to a new role. She shared the anecdote on a recent webinar we hosted and below are some of the key points she discussed. Sometimes they are promoted or take on a new role elsewhere.

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ChurnZero

JUNE 19, 2020

To answer that and more, we invited SaaS Capital’s Managing Director, Rob Belcher, and Software Equity Group’s Managing Director, Allen Cinzori, to join us for a webinar. During the webinar, we discussed: How customer retention impacts the valuation of your company. If you missed the webinar, you can watch it on demand.

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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. Spread Wisdom With Webinars. Webinars are often thought of for top-of-funnel lead generation and nurture, but they can be just as effective for customer marketing.

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ChurnZero

MAY 2, 2024

The 2024 B2B SaaS Benchmarking Survey by SaaS Capital is the most comprehensive and up-to-date source of its kind for SaaS and customer success leaders who want to know where they stand compared to peers and competitors. Takeaway 1: Equity is hard to get right now, and very few people are doing it.

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PeopleMetrics

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

is a weekly live webinar session where experts from our team answer YOUR questions about customer, employee and patient experience measurement and management – and sometimes we show you how you can achieve your goals using tools within our experience management platform. The new features we're adding this year. Watch on YouTube. ? ? ?.

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ClientSuccess

AUGUST 31, 2020

Your customer success department – as well as your organization’s executive leadership – understands that customer success managers need more visibility and insight into account activity in order to make the best decisions for customers, which is where your new customer success platform comes into the picture.

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CustomerSuccessBox

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Webinars are a condensed and easy way to find out more about a topic you like. We’ve gathered some of our favorite customer success webinars. Webinar 1 – How to Onboard Customers Remotely. Join us to discuss onboarding customers remotely on this webinar. Webinar 2 – How to do Churn analysis.

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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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Amity

DECEMBER 9, 2016

Are enterprise clients most concerned with security, uptime and having access to an account manager? As Sarah puts it: “We wouldn't be able to delight our customers without marketing initiatives including webinars and other content generated to help them achieve their outcomes. Here’s the comparison: Control.

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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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ClientSuccess

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

When a SaaS organization is in the midst of scaling, there comes a time when there starts to be a clear differentiation between SMB customers and enterprise customers. This last factor – resource allocation – can make or break a customer success team’s large account management process.

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ClientSuccess

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

After a whirlwind 2020, one of the biggest takeaways in the customer success space is that flexibility, visibility, and customer communication are the foundational keys for making any account be successful. Can we use this platform to manage customers throughout their entire account relationship? And finally, transparency.

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CSM Practice

MAY 13, 2020

SaaS companies also need to shift their focus to customer success and operationalize customer-centricity. ? Get Updates about your Customer. SaaS businesses must also be prepared to make quick changes to their offering in favor of customer needs as we navigate these uncertain times.

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Totango

JULY 21, 2020

The current COVID-19 pandemic has not been kind to many industries, and SaaS is no exception. In March of this year, SaaS stocks reached a 20 percent decline from their selling highs. Communications SaaS companies have watched the growth rate of subscriptions rise by 1.4X. Stay Agile As a Company.

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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. What functions the interaction serves.

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Totango

OCTOBER 11, 2021

One key to higher adoption is extending the onboarding process beyond the initial account set-up phase. Setting up a new customer’s account is rightly emphasized as a key part of the onboarding process and a foundation for further SaaS adoption. Continuous Onboarding.

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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. Recurring revenue models have taken over the world.

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ClientSuccess

JULY 13, 2021

Modern CSMs working in the SaaS industry wear a lot of hats – and we mean a lot. They’re project managers, act as a liaison between customers and other teams, escalate incidents and issues, keep customers moving forward in their project plans, and are responsible for the general well-being of customer account health. The bottom line

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ClientSuccess

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Over the past several years, customer success has gone from a department only forward-thinking organizations had to an integral part of every single SaaS company in the world. Just as collecting data and metrics is a part of the foundational principles of a SaaS organization, so too are KPIs foundational to the world of client success.

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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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Totango

JUNE 3, 2022

An excellent opportunity to engage clients is inviting them to an event, such as a webinar or seminar. Email: Hi, [Customer Name], I wanted to let you know about a free webinar coming up that will show you how to get the most out of [product]. The webinar is available at [date, time]. Here’s a sample template.

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ClientSuccess

AUGUST 28, 2020

Regardless of how successful your accounts were trending in the early months of 2020, an out-of-nowhere economic crisis is the perfect catalyst for organizations to ‘trim’ their vendor list down to the essentials. Webinar: Churn Prevention – How to Make Breakthroughs in Customer Success. Toolkit: Churn Management Toolkit .

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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. At each stage, you need some kind of a health score to evaluate the status of the account and decide how you would engage with the account to take it ahead in the journey.

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Totango

MARCH 8, 2022

Hosting CS webinars, teleconferences, and seminars. 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. Supporting CS research. CS in Focus.

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CSM Practice

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

With the value of the software-as-a-service (SaaS) market estimated to hit $225 billion in the US by 2025 , the industry offers lucrative opportunities for tech entrepreneurs. However, launching a SaaS company can be risky. for SaaS companies, compared to over 10% for paid advertising clicks. Growing a SaaS company?

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ChurnZero

AUGUST 14, 2020

They focus on opportunity management – like the manual activities that typically exist within accounts. Get direct access to CRM data, such as accounts, contacts, opportunities, cases, subscription data (renewal date, license count, total contract value, etc.) What is a CRM? Who owns it? Sales or Sales Operations. Who owns it?

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Totango

APRIL 4, 2024

I recently hosted a webinar with four leaders from our team to learn how they work together to bolster retention, expansion, and upsells as a truly unified CS and sales front. Read on for three key takeaways from this discussion, or listen to the no-holds-barred conversation by watching the full webinar on-demand.

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ChurnZero

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

9 Customer Retention Strategies for SaaS. Higher retention rates can mean higher customer loyalty for your business, something that’s crucial for success, especially for SaaS. Our NPS Cheat Sheet can help you get started with this SaaS retention strategy. New resources, such as ebooks or upcoming trainings and webinars.

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