Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

In this blog post, we will cover how you can design a referral program that’s right for your business and then launch it with ease. Lowers churn. Every SaaS business should be tracking and monitoring its churn rate. In fact, every SaaS should be optimizing as best they can to reduce churn.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

If you like this, go see his Shockwave Innovations blog ) Anyone that has taken an accounting class or learned basic business financials knows the interaction between key elements of a P&L (revenue, cost, expense) and a balance sheet (assets, liabilities, equity). (Guest post by Gordon Daugherty.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 26, 2016

In product business it is often measured over multiple purchases and assumptions are made about the repeat rates and in the enterprise or services world LTV can be based on churn rates, which are notoriously hard to predict in an early-stage business. Poorly calculated LTVs can become BVs (bankruptcy values).

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 2, 2020

But there are so many ways a person can become aware about a product—they may see a paid advertisement; Google a question and land on a blog post; or come across somebody’s mention in social media. Our Awareness stage includes new users who visit the website, blog, and marketplace listing within a given month, removing duplicate visitors.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 30, 2022

For us at CEO Blog Nation, we get it. The traditional push marketing approach has given way to a new approach that entails engaging customers through social networking, blogs and video. Not working on feature requests has, in a large way, contributed to our churn rates. Photo Credit: Bailey Whissel.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

For example, if you have an eCommerce website , you’ll want to measure unique visitors, referrals, bounce rate, and similar. If you’re running a subscription business , you’ll want to track churn rate, monthly recurring revenue, lifetime value, and so on. Getting started is the hard part.”.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Depending on the nature of your business, it could be the number of clicks, time on the website, pages viewed, downloads, email/blog subscription, or trial signup. Customer churn rate: shows the percentage of customers lost in a given period (e.g., canceling their subscriptions or not making a repeat purchase.).

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

In the retention phase, measure these performance metrics: Retention rate vs. churn rate Customer churn Net Promoter Score Email open rates Email click-through rate. These communication channels also provide valuable insights into customer behavior to improve retention strategies.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 6, 2019

You have a low churn rate and you are in the business for last five years at a minimum. His content marketing skills and love for the startup ecosystem derives him to write and publish content about startups and entrepreneurship on Cloudways blog and on other platforms. Growth stage. In the growth stage, you do what?

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 3, 2021

The idea here is to develop “content” in the form of blog posts, whitepapers, eBooks, photos, illustrations, videos, podcasts, and anything else that can inform and/or entertain your audience. New blogs don’t get much attention naturally, so you’ll need a complementary strategy to get the most out of this approach. Content Marketing.

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Ben's Blog

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

We have a very high churn rate, but as soon as we turn on email marketing to our user base, people will come back” – Yes, of course. When the facts don’t align with the good news, a clever manager will find the narrative to make everybody feel better—until the next meeting. “We

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The Equity Kicker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

I’ve been asked how to analyse cohorts by a couple of companies recently, so I thought I’d distill my thinking here into a blog post. You can also use it for with subscription businesses (including SaaS) but in these situations calculations based on churn rate might be simpler and more effective.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Calculate Your Churn. ” The easiest metric for subscription software products to check is churn rate. . “On SaaS, target churn rate should be around 2% monthly churn. The way KISSmetrics does this is by calculating the churn-rate for each level of subscription plan. image source.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 6, 2013

This article is part of Drew’s series, 12 Days of Ideas: Building and Marketing Web Products, published his personal blog. Our total number of customers immediately began falling; fewer people signed up while our churn rate remained the same. Pricing a product is so. Are we scaring people away? What’s the product worth?

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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

There are lots of great blog posts and articles out there that talk about social platform metrics. Over the course of the next few weeks, we’ll be diving into each section in more detail in a series of blog posts: Part 1: High-level metrics. Knowing the number of users that have churned allows you to calculate your churn rate.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 25, 2022

But as a social media pro or an ad person or a blog post writer, you're going to take these almost as drafts and improve on them and then publish them. So there's about 70 different vendors featured in the book that are a good starting point on the marketing AI Institute blog. And it's doing it now. Who's gonna open emails.

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Seeing Both Sides

OCTOBER 24, 2015

Since I see a few common patterns of mistakes, I thought I'd add to the LTV literature and point out the top three reasons many investors roll their eyes when they see entrepreneurs present inflated, poorly constructed LTVs: 1) Your churn rate is understated. A monthly churn rate of 1%?

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 20, 2015

blog here ). But if you don’t – now you have many cynical VCs lining up critiquing your CAC/LTV ratios, your churn rates, your poor performing cohorts. Amnesia sets in and we get back on the merry-go-round. I saw this great image on Twitter courtesy of Simon Wardley , CC3.0 I see it in many young pups.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Reducing churn rate. Take the revenue you earn from a customer, subtract the money spent on acquiring and serving them, and see how long they generate profit before churning. LTV = ARPA * % Gross Margin / % MRR Churn Rate. How One SaaS Startup Reduced Churn By 71% Using “Red Flag Metrics”.

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Guy Nirpaz

OCTOBER 25, 2011

This week, Jason Cohen wrote a very comprehensive blog on software-as-a-service churn: Deep Dive – Cancellation Rate in SaaS Business Models. I required everybody at Totango to read this blog and recommend that you do the same. Jason looks at many different definitions for the SaaS Cancellation Rate metric.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 18, 2016

Are they staying with your products/services for a long time or using for a short time and leaving (this is called “churn”). A churn rate is the percent of customers who terminate their relationships with your company in a specific period (a month, for example).

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 27, 2013

Last year I wrote a blog post on entrepreneurs with a chip on their shoulders. My friend Seth Levine covered this well in his blog post on “ Handling Rejection ” which you should also read. I could link to a bunch of blog posts that come across this way but prefer not to single anybody out. Here’s the deal.

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Guy Nirpaz

OCTOBER 3, 2011

in Scott Gruher’s blog post on “ Go to Market Strategy: How Much are Your Customers Worth? ”, his recommendation is to treat customers based on their values. However, CTLV and CAC are not the only metrics a company should measure – there are other metrics (such as churn rates, account activation rate, account usage statistics, etc.),

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

The churn rate increased, and then the stock plummeted by 70 percent. Do you have any books, podcasts, or blog posts that you recommend to CEOs thinking about growth in their startup? There are blogs that I read. At least that was the thinking. But customers weren’t happy. 10 billion.” David Zhang. Yeah, too many.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 21, 2014

Lifetime value will also get there and you increase your lifetime value by decreasing your churn rate, i.e. the rate at which people churn out of your product or service, but decreasing your churn will take months to catch up and show the bottom line and your absolutely want to decrease your churn.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2016

You Need to Find Your Mojo A Chip On Your Shoulder A few years ago I wrote a blog post on entrepreneurs with a chip on their shoulders. Your churn rates are too high. I think it’s an important read. But building a successful startup is hard. Your app isn’t getting enough repeat visitors.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Churn rate was high for a service that many organizations saw as a “nice to have.” Turns out, getting high-quality blog content delivered consistently was a big one. Starting as a productized digital PR service, we solved a single problem for a specific audience: getting martech companies featured in marketing blogs.

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Up and Running

APRIL 27, 2012

These same entrepreneurs read blog posts by Mark Suster, Nic Brisbourne, Eric Ries, and perhaps even Steve Blank, while wholeheartedly embracing the Lean Start-up methodology. Prioritizing what to do is something many entrepreneurs are less qualified to do. Who needs a business plan when there is work to be done?”

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The company once had the market’s highest churn rate and lowest Net Promoter Score (NPS). By switching from manual analysis data to predictive analytics, Sprint could quickly analyze user behavior to spot customers at risk of churn and identify retention offers. Set KPIs that relate to your goals. Use Parse.ly

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 13, 2019

Even measuring monthly traffic to the blog, Foong continued, was pointless—the content strategy prioritized long-term potential (i.e. For a SaaS company with a hundred customers, two customers churning isn’t going to move the needle. However, churn compounds. That 2% churn rate that wasn’t a problem at the start?

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

new customer aquisition, conversion rate, and churn rate ). For example, if you want to see how a landing page contributes to your goal of increasing sales, conversion rate is a good metric to track. Scroll depth , bounce rate , average page views , average time on page , shares, blog post comments, form conversions.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 21, 2014

How Groove Reduced Churn by 71% By Defining “Why” Customers Quit. churn rate meant the company’s growth was unsustainable. Leverage what you learn to intervene with high-risk users and lower your churn rate. Now to the case studies…. Despite a steady stream of new users, SaaS startup Groove’s 4.5%

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Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

These new channels, Twitter and Facebook and YouTube and Tumblr and, yes, even blogs, are very distinct customer / participant experiences. The blog post is also sprinkled with my own words of folksy wisdom as to how you should use the channel for maximum impact. As always look at the trends, the longer term the better.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Churn and Churn Rate. Churn is the number of customers that cancel your service in a given month – when they leave, they’ve “churned out” and are no longer subscribing to your service. Churn rate is the percentage of customers that leave every month. MRR (Monthly Recurring Revenue).

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 27, 2012

This churn rate, as it’s called, is comprised of subscribers who unsubscribe, mark your email as spam, change employers (and therefore email addresses), and so on. On top of the 30% churn rate, there is a portion of your list – in many cases a significant portion – who are unemotionally subscribed. .

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

The problem, though, is as your company grows, so, too, does your churn rate. With negative cash flow, you need more customer revenue to replace that which is churned. So far, we’ve looked at activating free trials and welcome new customers. Growth is good, of course. You want to reach more people.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Some notable metrics are revenue growth rates, free cashflow, leverage ratios, historical financing amounts, returns on marketing spend, customer acquisition costs, lifetime value of customers, customer churn rates, and team social scores. See their blog post on multiples.).

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