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Segmenting Your Customers for Customer Success
What are Customer Segments? Customer Segments are groups of customers created in order to apply separate engagement strategies. You’ve heard the term “all customers are equal”, well, that’s just ridiculous. Some are more valuable to you than others and they are all different, be it in their profile, how they consume your solution or what […]
20 Reported Problems with Customer Success Software (and How Akita Resolves Them)
As part of Akita’s recent re-launch, we have been looking at the channels where potential customers (and the CS community in general) can educate themselves about our solution. G2 crowd is a key player in the review/social proof space and forms an important part of most companies evaluation process when shopping for B2B software. It’s […]
Build a (no-code) NPS tool using Google Workspace!
tl;dr – You can put together an NPS survey tool with analytics using Google Forms and Google Workspace. Here’s the form. Here are the results. Many SaaS businesses measure their customers’ experiences by sending Net Promoter Score™ surveys. Even if you haven’t heard of an NPS™ survey before, you have likely seen one: “How likely […]
Customer Segmentation vs. Market Segmentation
Segmentation strategies play a crucial role in understanding and targeting audiences in any SaaS business. In the myriad of segmentation approaches, two methods stand out as the most efficient: customer segmentation and market segmentation. Although often used interchangeably, the given strategies have different purposes and methodologies, but they can both significantly impact a company’s growth […]
Important Customer Retention Metrics and How to Interpret Them
A laser focus on retention is at the heart of any sustainably successful SaaS business. The ability to keep existing customers coming back year after year while at the same time continuing to add new customers has a profound and compounding effect on your revenues. In order to achieve an elite level of retention, you […]
Improving Customer Retention with Journey Analytics
There are times in any physical journey when you are partly or largely under the control of (or at the mercy of ) an external service provider. Did the train arrive on time? Was there a free seat? Did you have to wait for your airport transfer? Was there a queue at airport security? Was […]
Customer Satisfaction and Retention: Definitions and Differences
Having trouble differentiating customer satisfaction and retention? Simply put, while measurable, customer satisfaction is subjective and experiential. Retention, however, is an objective, observable, and measurable phenomenon. You either retain a customer or you don’t. It’s clear. The satisfaction a customer feels, however, can change due to a real issue with the software or how that […]
Customer Retention Models for SaaS
Acquiring new customers is no easy task in today’s economy. Because it is so challenging, the sustainability of your business will depend on how successful you are at retaining customers and retaining your existing revenue streams. Building customer retention models for SaaS businesses that will maximize revenue retention, improve customer satisfaction and loyalty, and reduce […]
Customer Retention Strategies for SaaS
The SaaS market is filled with impeccably designed and developed tools that can resolve almost any problem. However, presenting your customers with a great tool and service is not enough to keep them coming back.