ChurnZero

JUNE 17, 2022

To share how to choose, track, and act on effective onboarding metrics, ChurnZero Customer Success Enablement Team Lead Bree Pecci joined CSM Practice for a drill-down into customer-centric onboarding. Onboarding metrics serve two main purposes. Basing onboarding metrics on your internal operations can produce false positives.

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Totango

AUGUST 9, 2022

This article will give you six best practices for optimizing your B2B customer segmentation. Six Best Practices for B2B Customer Segmentation. Effective B2B customer segmentation depends on adhering to best practices. What Is B2B Customer Segmentation? Keep your data accurate and current.

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Totango

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Best practices for effective QBR meetings. For SaaS B2B clients, QBR meetings tend to focus on assessing value as measured by KPI performance benchmarks. For SaaS B2B clients, possible attendees may include: Managers of end-users. How to run your meeting. How to structure QBR meetings effectively. Performance analysis.

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Totango

JULY 1, 2022

For B2B SaaS companies, customer loyalty drives subscription renewals and brand advocacy, making it a critical component of a profitable business model. This blog will look at why customer loyalty is vital for B2B SaaS businesses and how successful companies effectively cultivate it. First, we’ll discuss what customer loyalty is.

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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. Key Customer Engagement Metrics. Identifying active users.

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Totango

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The tiers of a SaaS company’s customer success team structure may have a variety of roles. How to Structure a Customer Success Team: Four Best Practices. Customer success organizations will enjoy an optimal performance by following some established best practices. What Roles Are on a Customer Success Team?

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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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Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Unfortunately, Reichheld says too many organizations use NPS as a stick or a metric for earning bonuses. The book lays out some of the best practices for maintaining credibility for the Net Promoter System. He says that the financial metrics most companies use for valuations point you toward the wrong investments.

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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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Kayako

JULY 27, 2017

But this is your life as a manager developing a SaaS customer support model that scales. And there’s so many metrics you can track ! Some of the best metrics can help you to analyze the health of your team and their relationship with your customers. 5 Metrics that shape your SaaS customer support model.

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CustomerSuccessBox

JUNE 5, 2019

TL;DR A single customer health score is not ideal for a B2B SaaS business. The best practices for configuring a health score include. Monitoring the right metrics, i.e., don’t mix support signals with product adoption signals. Acting on poor leading metrics till health score is good. So why does it not work?

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ChurnZero

JUNE 24, 2022

What does this mean for B2B SaaS businesses? In our webinar, 2022 SaaS retention benchmarks , SaaS Capital Manager Director Rob Belcher shares the results from their 11th annual B2B SaaS benchmarking survey. It’s the largest survey of private SaaS companies in the world with over 1,500 responses.

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ChurnZero

MAY 4, 2023

Companies operating in the SaaS space also stand to gain by borrowing a page from this playbook and striving to build a community online. Research suggests SaaS companies that foster online customer communities strengthen key metrics that are important to Customer Success.

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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

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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AWS Machine Learning

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

In the first part of the series, we showed how AI administrators can build a generative AI software as a service (SaaS) gateway to provide access to foundation models (FMs) on Amazon Bedrock to different lines of business (LOBs). Finally, you can build your own evaluation pipelines and use tools such as fmeval.

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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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Education Services Group

APRIL 27, 2022

Instead, I want to do some level setting on some specific metrics and flaws I see in the industry. CES (Customer Effort Score): For a metric that has the potential to be a real-time feedback avenue for customers, why does the way we ask this question seem like a kid seeking praise from a parent after doing a summersault?

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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. Monitoring customer satisfaction metrics and intervening when low satisfaction levels are detected.

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JivoChat

JANUARY 15, 2023

In this article, I’ll show you six lead generation best practices that you can implement to help your business turn more leads into happy customers. A lead could be anyone who has asked a question about a product on your ecommerce site, to someone who signed up for a demo of your SaaS product. What is Lead Nurturing? In Summary.

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ChurnZero

MARCH 7, 2025

An active digital customer community is a competitive advantage for any B2B SaaS company. For B2B SaaS companies, a strong community is a key component to building great customer relationships. 2: Align community metrics with organizational goals. Related: How to encourage your CS team to contribute to your community.

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ClientSuccess

MAY 8, 2019

I’m excited to continue on with our blog series on customer success metrics. In our last post on this topic, we covered the top four categories of customer success metrics. The topic I will cover in this blog is on the top five customer success health metrics. Customer Success Health Metrics. Customer Engagement.

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Totango

AUGUST 12, 2020

The rise in SaaS and subscription business models with low upfront costs and regular renewal windows means customers can make emotional and rapid decisions to leave an agreement with little consequence. Or, get started with best practices for free today. Choose the Right Customer Success Platform.

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Totango

MAY 19, 2020

The continuing COVID-19 health crisis may well produce a recession that has a significant impact on the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) industry. No one is certain how this will change the long and short-term behaviors of customers, lenders, and enterprises in a SaaS world. Create a Community for Sharing Best Practices.

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ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Discover the lessons these three SaaS CEOs have learned from leading customer-centric businesses through an economic slump, and how you can apply them. Part of adopting an agile mindset means making fast decisions with the best information you have. A SaaS business’s greatest source of intel is direct customer feedback.

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Amity

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Tracking the proper metrics is essential in understanding how your business is performing. For now let’s concentrate on the following four main metrics. Expansion revenue can have a big impact on your SaaS metrics and your bottom line. Net Promoter Score (NPS). Customer Health. Net Promoter Score.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 17, 2020

ChurnZero Power-Users Share Tips, Tricks and Best Practices. In a SaaS company it is vitally important to know how and when my customers are using the platform in order to take advantage of a patterns… [one can] see an upsell opportunity or save a customer from churning by seeing a decline in usage.” . Features adoption .

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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 4, 2022

Customer Success Metrics that Your Investors and Board Care About. In this article, we share Kristen’s best advice on how you can use metrics to reframe your customer stories, so they’re primed for investor engagement. What metrics do investors care about? Best practices to better engage your investors and board.

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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. What Is the Best Compensation Plan for CSMs?

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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. The best approach is a multidimensional customer health model.

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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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AWS Machine Learning

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

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. There are three general types of vector databases: Dedicated SaaS options like Pinecone. Vector database features built into other services.

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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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ClientSuccess

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

There are an overwhelming amount of metrics that you can measure to track customer success. So, to break through the fray and give you a place to start, Client Success has created THE list of the most valuable customer success metrics. If your company is B2B, this could be interpreted as average revenue per logo.

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CSM Practice

MAY 16, 2020

At CSM Practice, we are following the Covid-19 situation and its impact on customer success closely. And as we collectively work together to lower the curve, we would like to provide some guidance based on best practices to smoothen customer journeys during the Coronavirus pandemic. 3. Adjust Your Metrics and KPIs.

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ChurnZero

JUNE 17, 2022

To share how to choose, track, and act on effective onboarding metrics, ChurnZero Customer Success Enablement Team Lead Bree Pecci joined CSM Practice for a drill-down into customer-centric onboarding. Onboarding metrics serve two main purposes. Basing onboarding metrics on your internal operations can produce false positives.

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