customer retention

7 statements across 7 episodes · 3 bullish · 1 bearish · 7 people on the record · first statement Oct 9, 2018 by Tom Hale · across every show →

Everything said about customer retention, oldest first

Oct 9, 2018 neutral
Disclosure
Hale: Retaining a customer is worth about $420 to SurveyMonkey
“In our business, the value of a retained customer is about 420 bucks.”
Tom Hale Oct 9, 2018 ▶ 19:49 SurveyMonkey's Secrets to Keeping Customers Happy for 20 Years
Jan 8, 2021 positive
Insight
Molina: Prioritizing feature adoption over contract sales increases retention
“The less we try to sell contracts or annualized customers for growth and ACV, and instead focus on feature adoption and education, the more we see increased retention.”
Javier Molina Jan 8, 2021 ▶ 22:30 How Sales and Product Really Should Work Together with MongoDB | SaaStr Software Community
Feb 26, 2021
Insight
Kopp: Most SaaS retention issues break down during team handoffs
“I think we're a lot of the retention issues breakdown as in handoffs.”
Tim Kopp Feb 26, 2021 ▶ 8:33 The Playbook to Boosting Net Retention (Quickly) with Terminus's CEO | SaaStr Software Community
Nov 19, 2021
Insight
Startups must solve retention before tackling unit economics
“I believe that we have to tackle our customer retention and success first, then focus on unit economics, not do them at the same time.”
Mark Roberge Nov 19, 2021 ▶ 21:02 The Most Common SaaS Sales Potholes and How to Avoid Them with Mark Roberge, HubSpot's ex-CRO
Dec 9, 2021 positive
Insight
Lemkin: Accelerating deployment speed is the best cheat to improve SaaS retention
“The other one that I think is almost a call that the people don't talk enough about is as activation rates and time to deployment. Right. And that is one of your best cheats here to improve things is to get your customers to deploy as instantly as possible.”
Jason Lemkin Dec 9, 2021 ▶ 9:56 Ask Me Anything About Customer Success with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin and ChurnZero CEO You Mon Tsang
Feb 11, 2022 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Gorgias customers with higher CX scores retain roughly 20% better
“They retain about 20% better if they have a higher customer experience score.”
Romain Lapeyre Feb 11, 2022 ▶ 36:24 Acquiring 10,000 SMB Customers Solely from Data with Gorgias' CEO Romain Lapeyre
Mar 14, 2025 negative
Opinion
Mehta: Net Promoter Score is not valuable due to poor response rates
“This is a good metric. It's good to track it. Also, you often don't get good response rates. You also get random people filling it out. So most people don't find this super valuable.”
Nick Mehta Mar 14, 2025 ▶ 11:12 The Top 10 Customer Success Metrics Investors Care About in 2025 with Gainsight CEO Nick Mehta
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