churn

34 statements across 33 episodes · 21 bullish · 0 bearish · 32 people on the record · first statement May 20, 2016 by Jeff Epstein · across every show →

Everything said about churn, oldest first

May 20, 2016 positive
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Epstein: Raising prices and moving Ambassador upmarket significantly reduced customer churn
“So one of the things that we really learned was actually most people would think this is counterintuitive, but actually charging more and going up market Significantly reduced churn.”
Jeff Epstein May 20, 2016 ▶ 9:01 EP 300: This Law Student Quit to Build Referral Program Business Doing $2MM+ Per Year
Aug 7, 2016 neutral
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Lee: Churn metrics don't fit travel businesses due to infrequent repeat trips
“The churn doesn't really apply in the travel industry because once one person goes travel, they don't come back to for travel for at least like six months and mostly like one or two years.”
Kenneth Lee Aug 7, 2016 ▶ 8:35 EP 379: Secret Travel App, $120k 2015 with Kenneth Lee
Sep 1, 2016 neutral
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Trying to avoid customer churn completely is a mistake
“I don't think that, Avoiding churn is something positive. It comes with growth.”
Roy Mann Sep 1, 2016 ▶ 15:14 EP 404: $360k June 2016 MRR, $4M ARR, 5000 customers paying $72/mo on average with DaPulse founder Roy Man
Sep 10, 2016 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Collin: Fast core feature changes are Front's top churn driver
“And so number one would be people that dislikes how fast we've changed core features.”
Mathilde Collin Sep 10, 2016 ▶ 18:39 EP 413: SaaS, $242k MRR, $13 Million Raised to Re-Invent Business Email with Mathilde Collin of FrontApp
Sep 12, 2016 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Semin: Datanyze monthly churn is under 1%
“Yeah, no, churn, so churn for us is less than one percent a month.”
Ilya Semin Sep 12, 2016 ▶ 6:06 Datanyze $500k MRR, 500 Customers
Oct 16, 2016 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Hatchbuck maintains approximately 3% monthly customer churn
“We're around a three percent of churn”
Don Breckenridge, Jr. Oct 16, 2016 ▶ 11:14 EP 449: SMB SaaS <3% Churn, $5M Raised, $200k MRR Helping SMB's Manage Relationships with Hatchbuck CEO Don Breckenridge
Oct 16, 2016 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Average SMB SaaS monthly churn is between 3% and 7%
“In the SMB space, you'll see an average of three to seven percent.”
Don Breckenridge, Jr. Oct 16, 2016 ▶ 11:30 EP 449: SMB SaaS <3% Churn, $5M Raised, $200k MRR Helping SMB's Manage Relationships with Hatchbuck CEO Don Breckenridge
Jan 28, 2017
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Ekstrom: Prospectify annual customer churn is less than 5%
“It's less than five percent churn.”
Matt Ekstrom Jan 28, 2017 ▶ 8:47 EP 553: Prospectify Raises $1M at $4M Post Money Valuation, $25k MRR, for Better Prospecting with CEO Matt Ekstrom
Nov 21, 2017 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Pecherskyi: PromoRepublic reduced monthly logo churn to 5.8%
“5.8%.”
Max Pecherskyi Nov 21, 2017 ▶ 12:57 850: SaaS: How Promorepublic Went From $6k to $20k MRR
Dec 1, 2017 positive
Assertion Open · timeframe Dec 2017
Latka: Infusionsoft cut monthly churn from 8% to 2% with $2,000 fee
“Clay is like, he realized once he put a 2000 dollar setup fee on his retention, like went from eight was turned went from eight percent monthly down to like two percent monthly.”
Nathan Latka Dec 1, 2017 ▶ 11:39 860 10% Churn: When SaaS Pricing Gets Attached to Campaign Driven Product
Mar 6, 2018
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Karnjanaprakorn: Step-function churn improvements require core product changes, not hacks
“There's little things you could do that, that might get you know some Like incremental improvements in turn, but the big stuff function changes in turn are just core product experience.”
Michael Karnjanaprakorn Mar 6, 2018 ▶ 10:46 955 How Skillshare Doubles YoY to $30m+ With Huge Content Library
Mar 22, 2018
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Customer churn is the ultimate win-loss record for a software business
“Churn really tells you where you're at, ultimately tells you where you're at. So you can do all the customer data you want, right? And you can find out sentiment and all that. But ultimately at the end of the day, churn tells you whether, whether, how you're d…”
Matt Straz Mar 22, 2018 ▶ 15:32 971 How Namely Passed 1000 Customers and $40m in ARR
Apr 27, 2018 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Outbound.io cut churn in half by targeting technical growth marketers
“You know, I would say we reduced churn probably we probably cut it in half when we were able to get our persona right. so before, you know, we had different, we had apples and oranges. We had people who wanted to send email blasts. We had people who wanted to…”
Josh Weisberg Apr 27, 2018 ▶ 7:18 1007 How Outbound.io Grew to $30k MRR Before Exiting to ZenDesk
Jun 28, 2018 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Elastic.io experiences roughly 5% annual churn driven by org changes
“Well, it's maybe five percent a year. And actually the churn is, we see the churn due to the changes in the organizational structure, but very, very little ones. There's no churn due to the product replacements.”
Renat Zubairov Jun 28, 2018 ▶ 11:00 1069 Elastic CEO: We're A More Professional Zapier
Jul 12, 2018 neutral
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Hua: Churn is a lagging metric that creates false security
“And so we started tracking usage and different adoption metrics and that gave us way more leading indicators because turn is the ultimate lagging indicator where you're like, you feel safe just ignoring it for a long time because it doesn't come up until final…”
Nancy Hua Jul 12, 2018 ▶ 12:46 1083 How she 2x ARR yoy in mobile testing space to $6m in ARR
Jul 16, 2018 neutral
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Latka: Zero churn might indicate a SaaS product is priced too low
“If you have zero churn, it might mean your price point's too low. Nobody's churning. Churn can be a good thing.”
Nathan Latka Jul 16, 2018 ▶ 12:23 1087 Yeah I'd sell (Live negotiation)
Aug 13, 2018 positive
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Olson: Moving upmarket to larger deals typically reduces customer churn
“When you move up market, you know, the larger the deal size, typically you see lower churn”
Todd Olson Aug 13, 2018 ▶ 3:58 1115 How Pendo CEO Uses War Chest to Acquire Companies, Integrate
Aug 19, 2018 positive
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Zenhom: Hosting bi-weekly product update webinars for customers reduces SaaS churn
“And then I do every two weeks I do a webinar as well for our members, which is just open Q and a, as well as exploring and showing them the new features that released that last month. And it's also helps reduce churn is to get people to understand that, Hey, b…”
Omar Zenhom Aug 19, 2018 ▶ 9:12 1121 Webinar King? "We grew 180% yoy Bootstrapped to $7.1m in ARR"
Aug 27, 2018
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Oechsle: Swiftpage monthly logo churn is under 1.5%
“So right now we, our churn is about 1.5%, a little under 1.5% on a monthly basis.”
John Oechsle Aug 27, 2018 ▶ 3:11 1129 He Bought $70m Of ARR w/ Other Peoples Money, Kept 60%+ Equity for Common
Aug 28, 2018 positive
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Psarras: Customer support is the primary way to beat churn in SaaS
“I think personally that support in this business is basically the way to be churned.”
Yannis Psarras Aug 28, 2018 ▶ 7:53 1130 "We're way cheaper than Mailchimp", is that enough?
Sep 5, 2018 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Shopper Approved has a 0.8% monthly revenue churn rate
“Churn is .8%.”
Scott Brandley Sep 5, 2018 ▶ 6:23 1138 Goldman almost sold us for $12m, thankfully it failed
Oct 23, 2018 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Lynch: Assembla monthly logo churn is around 1%
“We have it. It's significantly less. I mean, it's about one percent maybe, maybe a little bit higher, but.”
Paul Lynch Oct 23, 2018 ▶ 14:27 1186 Why Assembla Sold to Venture Equity Firm, Using GDPR to Hit 60% yoy Growth
Dec 19, 2018 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Mask: Infusionsoft's churn rate remains steady at 2% to 3%
“Yeah, churn's still the same.”
Clate Mask Dec 19, 2018 ▶ 9:52 1243 Infusionsoft North of $100m in ARR, Details of Mars Mission to 5m SMB Customers
Dec 28, 2018 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Typeform's monthly logo churn hovers around 5%
“Yeah, around the five percent mark.”
David Okunyev Dec 28, 2018 ▶ 11:27 1252 Typeform Now At $19m ARR, 50m Forms Each Month, 40,000 Customers
Dec 29, 2018 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Smajić: GetAccept maintains sub-1% monthly gross logo churn
“It's still just below one percent on monthly.”
Samir Smajić Dec 29, 2018 ▶ 4:10 1253 GetAccept Breaks 4000 Customers, Grew ARR 3x to $1.7m in ARR Last 12 Months
Apr 1, 2020 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Monthly churn dropped from 7% to 3.2% after the company buyback
“When we took the company back, churn was at about seven percent, and I think now we're sitting at about 3.2%.”
Steve Cody Apr 1, 2020 ▶ 13:07 1712 Investors put in $10m, He Left, Bought Back Company for Pennies on Dollar, How?
Feb 6, 2021 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Loomly experiences monthly churn at the lower end of 3% to 7%
“It's on the lower end of the benchmark for which, you know, is between three and seven percent for reference. So we are on the lower end of that.”
Thibaut Clément Feb 6, 2021 ▶ 17:21 How Loomly Hit 7k Customers, $4.2m SaaS Revenue Starting With An Agency
Apr 19, 2021 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Referizer experiences 5.5% to 6.5% monthly churn
“Around six percent. 5.5 to 6.5.”
Andrei Spivak (Andrei Spivovic) Apr 19, 2021 ▶ 20:48 How He Hit $2m in Revenue Cold Calling 20,000 PER WEEK
Aug 1, 2021 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Launching a freemium plan lowered Systeme.io's monthly churn to 8%
“So we have a high churn. It was like nine to 10%. Now we've got lower it's getting closer to eight percent because we launched a freemium plan. That was three months ago. So with freemium, because people have more time to actually experience the product, the c…”
Aurelien Amaker Aug 1, 2021 ▶ 13:24 Bootstrapped Founder Buys $1.4m Dream Home Funded by his Marketing SaaS Tool
Feb 6, 2022 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Johnson: Revi monthly churn is sub-1% excluding COVID-driven restaurant closures
“Churn is only 2.8% since COVID and that includes businesses... Monthly... And that includes businesses that we lost to COVID. So if you take those businesses out, you know you know, those businesses who didn't survive COVID, You know, it's sub one percent.”
Eugene Johnson Feb 6, 2022 ▶ 13:29 POS System Does $15m GMV, Biz Makes 1%, $1m+ Run Rate Serving 150 Customers
Oct 24, 2022 positive
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SaaS companies should track revenue leakage rather than overall churn
“So the tip here is don't look at churn. Look at what we call revenue leakage. Revenue leakage is everything that make us lose money.”
Mauricio Quiguela Oct 24, 2022 ▶ 13:31 9 mistakes sales reps make when they finally send the docusign to the prospect
Nov 6, 2022 positive
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Baker: Workflow-embedded SaaS experiences dramatically lower churn than browser-based tools
“Very, very difficult for a customer to leave you if you're embedded into their workflows. They're not going to turn you off. If you're not, and they're using your platform on a web browser, for example, it's very, very easy for them to switch it off, move to a…”
Adam Baker Nov 6, 2022 ▶ 21:05 How to shoot through the scale gap (hardest part of scaling rev is between $1M ARR - $6M ARR)
Jul 13, 2023 positive
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Ferber: Cross-product data consumption creates customer lock-in and mitigates SaaS churn
“When you have multiple products, The same client, using your multiple products, you're, you start locking up your clients. So, usually one product consumes data from another product, and this creates a lockup and it's great for, mitigate your churn”
Yuri Ferber Jul 13, 2023 ▶ 3:08 Top 3 Considerations When Growing Your Business from Single Product to Multi-Product
May 16, 2024 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Martin: Raising Prices by 20% Boosted Revenue With Almost No Churn
“We realized that there was almost no impact on conversion and churn by raising our prices by 20%, which just automatically raised revenue by 20%.”
Liam Martin May 16, 2024 ▶ 16:08 13 Lessons I Learned Bootstrapping to $20m in Revenues
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