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OK, who ruined my renewal?
I had one of my regular conversations with a Customer Success Manager (CSM) recently. For the uninitiated, CSMs are the new breed of customer account managers tasked with increasing renewal rates and contract sizes at SaaS businesses.
Nobel Prize Research that Minimizes Customer Churn?
Even for companies with a laser focus on Customer Success, the period before a key client renewal can be a nervous one. How the customer ‘feels’ about your service at renewal is as (or more) important than the actual value they accrue. Every renewal is an opportunity to churn so it’s essential they ‘feel’ they […]
AirBnBootstrap: Moving Abroad to Stretch the Runway
Akita can fairly be described as a “capital-efficient” startup. Early last year I was accepted into an early-stage accelerator in Dublin, Ireland which invested €20,000 to help get things started. On top of this, we joined Amazon’s Activate program which provided $15,000 in hosting and support credits for AWS. I’d say I probably kicked in another €10,000 of […]
Akita now available on Tekpon!
The SaaS community can now find Akita’s Customer Success platform through the Tekpon software review platform. The listing can be found HERE. If you are looking for Customer Success software and need to understand which platforms might suit your use case or fit your profile or budget, visiting Tekpon.com allows you to browse through the […]
What Happened at SaaSiest 2023 (What I’ll Do Different Next Year)
Does taking over 30 thousand steps in 2 days justify eating doughnuts for breakfast? I hope so … my feet are sore but I’m feeling optimistic after spending 2 days at SaaS Nordic’s Saasiest2023 conference in Malmo, southern Sweden. I attended to get a live sense of how SaaS companies are feeling about the technology […]
Framework for Delivering Customer Support in a SaaS Environment
We sometimes share content from partner companies. Below, Patryk Kępa from Elastic Email discusses their framework for delivering Customer Support in a SaaS environment. How do we at Elastic Email, successfully communicate with customers to help maintain long-term valuable relationships?
How to Calculate the ROI of Customer Success Software
Tldr: skip to the bottom to access a spreadsheet that calculates the Return on Investment (ROI) of a Customer Success platform PLUS a quick explainer video on how to use the spreadsheet. Customer Success Platforms (CSPs) are designed to move the needle on Net Revenue Retention (NRR). Improving your rate of NRR directly impacts your […]
A Practical Guide to Customer Health Scoring
As part of a series of short [15-minute] demo/webinars to address some of the key topics in Customer Success. We delivered a session entitled to customer health scores.
Achieving a 360 Degree Customer View [video]
As part of a series of short [15-minute] demo / webinars to address some of the key topics in Customer Success. We delivered a session focused on … The 360 Customer View … In less than 15 minutes, we looked at