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Did you know there are now over 30 dedicated Customer Success platforms! This makes the challenge of evaluating your options quite daunting. If you don’t want to juggle a ton of discovery calls with vendors just to find out what you can or can’t afford, this post is for you. The following is a list […]

Calculating customer health scores is a necessary (and transformative) step in building a strong Customer Success program for Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) companies. Below I review what health scoring in SaaS is all about and identify the variables you should consider when building your customer health scoring model.

In a previous post, we looked at How We Built More Than 100 Customer Success-Integrations between Akita and apps like Hubspot, Salesforce, Intercom and Zendesk. We outlined our 3-step process for keeping data in sync: Schedule, Retrieve, and Process. The Scheduler kicks everything off and is responsible for determining which data needs retrieving at any […]

Wondering what is customer retention, right? Customer retention simply means holding onto your existing customers. The problem is, however, that it’s not always a simple process to identify, understand, measure, and improve the rate at which you retain customers. 

First impressions are powerful in business. They can easily deter an interested party or can create a strong bond that will last for years. Having a great onboarding process goes beyond providing new customers with guidelines on how to use your product or service. It is a way to develop long-term relationships where customers feel […]

How do you accurately predict whether a customer will be successful using your solution and whether you will meet your long-term goal of maximizing profit from this customer?  Unfortunately, the onboarding process is different for every vendor and every customer. So building a successful, repeatable process is not an easy task.

Wondering what is customer segmentation analysis and how it can help with your customer base? Imagine your customers all had the same profile, the same goals with your solution, used your software in exactly the same way, bought the same number of licenses and engaged with your sales, support, and customer success teams identically.  Imagination […]

If you’re like me, then you can’t help but sing into a hairbrush when you listen to music. However, when I’m in public, I spare everyone the free concert and opt for a podcast instead.

Having a solid customer acquisition strategy is a must for any business, yet what counts the most is the business’s ability to keep the current customers satisfied and ready for recurring and bigger purchases. This process is called customer retention and we will be talking about predictive analytics for customer retention, but let’s point out […]