BlueOcean

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

When we are talking to organizations in the sales cycle, we will often hear from SaaS companies that the customer success role is too complex, too critical, too deeply embedded in their internal operations to ever be outsourced. We are here today to say, with respect, they’re wrong. It’s kind of ironic because many (most?) Ill-defined KPIs.

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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Some Customer Success metrics are considered standard but there’s often more than meets the eye. SaaS professionals who geek out on metrics can find themselves in deep philosophical debates about the best numbers to track. There is often more than one way to calculate a given Customer Success metric; Gaming.

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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

JUNE 24, 2022

Customer success in SaaS differs from CS in other industries. The software service industry presents unique challenges for customer success management while also creating unique opportunities that call for specific strategies. Read on to learn the keys to effective customer success for SaaS clients.

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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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BlueOcean

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

When we are talking to organizations in the sales cycle, we will often hear from SaaS companies that the customer success role is too complex, too critical, too deeply embedded in their internal operations to ever be outsourced. We are here today to say, with respect, they’re wrong. It’s kind of ironic because many (most?) Ill-defined KPIs.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 10, 2022

SaaS customer onboarding makes or breaks your customer retention. For this reason, unlocking the optimal SaaS customer onboarding experience is invaluable. Read our guide here for the 8 SaaS onboarding best practices to step up your onboarding experience. Work Cross-Functionally During SaaS Customer Onboarding.

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ClientSuccess

JULY 7, 2020

While customer sentiment is, of course, important, it’s amazing how many metrics CSMs, customer success leaders, and executives rely on to measure and gauge the health of customer accounts. In many cases, the same SaaS usage metrics that sales and product teams use also apply in customer situations. Overall product usage rates.

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ChurnZero

MAY 4, 2023

There’s a closely held growth secret among large B2B professional services firms, like consultants, accountants and law firms, that Customer Success Managers (CSMs) might appreciate: The more relationships a client has across a firm, the lower that client’s flight risk.

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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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CustomerSuccessBox

MARCH 11, 2019

Customer Onboarding Metrics help measure how efficient the onboarding process is and which parts need improvement. Different companies can measure different customer onboarding metrics as per requirements. Why customer onboarding metrics? This is one of the most important customer onboarding metrics that needs to be measured.

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Totango

AUGUST 25, 2022

Six Customer Engagement SaaS Strategies That Work. For software service providers, customer engagement SaaS strategies play a central role in a successful business model. In this article, we’ll offer some tips for a winning customer engagement SaaS strategy. Next, we’ll share six keys to effective SaaS customer engagement.

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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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ClientSuccess

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

In the world of customer reporting, CSMs can bucket customer metrics into a few different categories: Sentiment-based data points help CSMs keep tabs on how customer contacts and accounts feel about a product, service, or even the customer team assisting them in their relationship. How can SaaS companies use Average Session Duration .

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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

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

The SaaS industry was hit hard in late 2022 through 2024. The metrics of retention (gross revenue retention or net revenue retention) are now cemented as the qualifying metrics when investors and boards ask about a company’s health. As drivers of recurring revenue, CS teams are critical to the health of SaaS organizations.

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CSM Magazine

MARCH 3, 2022

SaaS tools have become extremely popular in the project management industry, transforming the way it operates. Here you will discover five leading SaaS tools for your office. Software as a Service (SaaS) has become the new normal of the 2020s. 5 SaaS tools office managers should be using this year.

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ChurnZero

OCTOBER 26, 2021

2021 SaaS Awards Announced – APPEALIE Honors The Very Best In Software. APPEALIE has announced the winners of the 2021 SaaS Awards and ChurnZero is honored to be recognized for the fifth year in a row. 41 SaaS apps were recognized for their demonstrated excellence and customer outcomes. LiquidPlanner. Stack Overflow.

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The essential handbook for building the modern customer success program Are you ready to elevate your SaaS business with a robust customer success program? Dive into “the ultimate guide to customer success in SaaS” and gain the insights and strategies you need to create a high-performing customer success team.

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CustomerSuccessBox

MAY 2, 2022

For that, you need to know about the key Customer Onboarding metrics to track. In order to measure the onboarding efforts, there is a need for customer onboarding metrics. So let’s see what Customer Onboarding metrics at this stage can be used. 5 Customer Onboarding Metrics to track. Metric 1: Effort to Value.

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AWS Machine Learning

JULY 6, 2023

A number of AWS independent software vendor (ISV) partners have already built integrations for users of their software as a service (SaaS) platforms to utilize SageMaker and its various features, including training, deployment, and the model registry.

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Totango

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Customer Success Dashboard Metrics: Nine Top KPIs You Need to Monitor. 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.

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Kayako

JULY 27, 2017

As a support team manager, you’re already wearing a ton of hats – bet you didn’t think data wizard would be one of them, huh? 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 ! 5 Metrics that shape your SaaS customer support model.

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LiveChat

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Companies that take customer service seriously and make it a priority in the early stages of existence, shouldn’t forget about customer success management. Customer success management is the next layer on the top of a successful customer support team. Customer success is a proactive approach to customer relationship management.

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ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Keep reading for our tips on how to improve customer experience at your SaaS company. The onboarding process is the first impression that your SaaS company makes on the customer after they’ve paid for your service. A less than ideal onboarding process can negatively impact the SaaS customer experience.

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CustomerSuccessBox

APRIL 7, 2022

It’s undeniable that the SaaS model works differently and attracts revenue on a monthly or annual basis, unlike the on-premise software that deals with one-time payments. But with effective customer success, it’s possible to attain those extra gains from the SaaS revenue model. Stay tuned and read on to incur extra SaaS revenue.

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AWS Machine Learning

JUNE 16, 2022

Zendesk is a SaaS company that builds support, sales, and customer engagement software for everyone, with simplicity as the foundation. Customers like Zendesk have built successful, high-scale software as a service (SaaS) businesses on Amazon Web Services (AWS). This post is co-written with Sowmya Manusani, Sr.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 20, 2021

This is a guest blog post by Justine Dennis, Manager, Customer Success & Support at Fusebill. . PieSync is a SaaS business that offers solutions to synchronize cloud applications. Like many B2B SaaS businesses, happy customers are at the core of PieSync’s success. This is often the case for many B2B SaaS businesses. “We

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Solvvy

JULY 8, 2022

You may have heard, “You can’t manage what you can’t measure.” Quantitative metrics allow you to assign a number to the current state, compare it to the past, and track your company’s progress toward your goals. Managers can use those metrics to guide strategy improvements and employee training.

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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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Totango

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Go-to-market teams need to prioritize customer ROI as the driver of decision-making, metrics tracking, and relationship management. The post The one thing SaaS go-to-market teams keep getting wrong (and how to fix it) appeared first on Best Customer Success Blog: Articles for Enterprise Growth. said Edward.

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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.

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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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CSM Practice

MAY 28, 2020

What is the average Customer Success Manager Salary? 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.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 6, 2022

Customer Success represents a large source of revenue-generation for SaaS businesses. Though Customer Success was originally regarded as a post-sale cost center, you can flip its narrative with the right metrics, positioning, and forecasting strategy. Choose Metrics that Emphasize Your Value. But Customer Success? Not so much.

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ProProfs Blog

APRIL 17, 2020

But without numbers or metric data in hand, coming up with any new strategy would only consume your valuable time. For example, you need access to metrics like NPS, average response time and others like it to make sure you come up with relevant strategies that help you retain more customers. So, buckle up. 1: Customer Churn Rate. #2:

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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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