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Customer churn is both a phenomenon and a critical metric. It describes the process of customers deciding to stop using or paying for your product or service. Churn’s impact is felt most keenly in subscription or SaaS companies where there is an imperative to retain customer relationships for as long as possible. How successful you […]

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 […]

At Akita, we love when companies look after their customers well. In the first of a two-part series, we look at the Irish cable and broadband provider: UPC Ireland (Now Virgin Media).

Understanding customers at scale has come a long way. Back in the day, companies used simple attributes to carve up their customer base in some way to apply different resources to support and/or expand those customers. Boy was it blunt though! Generally, it never got far beyond segmenting your account list by their spending or […]

Congratulations! Your SaaS business is thriving, and you’re growing your customer base. But with this exciting growth comes a new challenge: how to scale customer success. How do you maintain the personalised touch that keeps customers happy as your company expands?

Positive customer relationships are the foundation of any SaaS business. Both customer success and customer experience aim to boost customer satisfaction, but they are actually different concepts that address different segments of the customer journey.

How do you make sure you get this process right? Apart from having the right people and the right motivation, it would be remiss not to use the tools you already have or invest in some new ones, such as customer onboarding software so that everything required is being done to ensure your clients expectations […]

In the world of SaaS, customer churn can feel like a constant threat. But what if there was a secret weapon to turn happy trials into loyal customers? Customer success is what you seek, it’s a strategic approach that goes beyond basic support to ensure your users achieve their goals.

Customer satisfaction is the holy grail of any SaaS business. But how do you truly measure it? Enter CSAT and NPS, two powerful metrics that can shed light on your customer experience.