Welcome to our Change the Game in 5 Minutes Series. Today, we are sharing lessons from Sam Johnson, Chief Customer Officer of Jamf, and Ben Michael, their Director of Customer Success. We wanted Sam and Ben to share their insights on driving scale and how they think about renewals. Also, is there something beyond their
How Gainsight Uses An Outcomes Based Framework to Drive NDR
Well, we made it to 2021, everyone! Before you start patting yourself on the back, take a look at your company’s customer base. You will probably notice a fairly consistent trend over the last year, which is you have many customers who did not expand their relationship with you. The lack of expansion is acceptable
Preserving Revenue with PX: How Measuring NDR is Easier With Retention Focus
The one metric that many SaaS companies use consistently to determine revenue from current customers is Net Dollar Retention (NDR). In this time of economic upheaval, it is a metric needed to prove to your board and stakeholders that you are on the right track. NDR can be expressed in a formula with specific components.
Introducing NDR TV
Today’s SaaS leaders have begun to increasingly recognize the importance of a new metric unique to the SaaS world – Net Dollar Retention (NDR). Given the enthusiasm around NDR, quite arguably the North Star for measuring the impact of Customer Success, we’re excited to announce an entirely new series focused entirely helping you learn strategies
When a “Green” Customer Churns: Learnings from Data and Churn Interviews
Have you ever had a customer churn unexpectedly? It’s never easy, especially when they are a “green” customer from all indications and health scores. So, how do you plan for it? Or can you? Iceberg IQ, is proficient in the customer-exit interview. They advise that there rarely is such a thing as a “blind churn.”
CS March Madness: Lessons from Getting to the Final Four That Can Be Applied To Customer Success
As spring approaches, anticipation builds for a special event—March Madness! The time of year where brackets are drawn, team placement or seeds picked, and 68 Division I basketball teams fight it out in the single-elimination tournament. Sweat, blood, cheers, and tears lead teams to the Final Four and the NCAA National Basketball Championship. There are
8 Things Whitney Houston Taught Me About Category Creation
On February 4, 2021, my team reminded me of my 8th anniversary at Gainsight (Gainaversary!) Contrary to what some people might think, I was not an original Gainsight founder. I joined our two founders (Jim Eberlin and Sreedhar Peddineni) very early (around $100K ARR) before officially launching Gainsight in 2013. To paraphrase a great quote
How Customer Success can manage customer feedback effectively
So far in our Close the Loop series, we’ve talked about how Customer Success and Product can work together to close the loop and how inSided’s own customer feedback and ideation process has evolved over the years. At this point, it shouldn’t be news to anyone that successful customers can grow a business faster than
5 Questions Wall Street Investors Should Ask SaaS CEOs
When public market investors aren’t busy going long or short on GameStop, they are bidding up cloud stocks to all-time highs. There has never been a better time to be a public software company. But in any frothy environment, you can find a mix of cream rising to the top—and dirt along for the
How PTC Drives Success with CS Operations
Top customer success teams share a growing theme: their own operations team. I first became a CS Ops leader in 2014, and I’ve seen time after time the value of the software, enablement, templates, data, and more that I’ve helped provide. What’s the first question I ask any CS Ops leader, though? “What do you