If you’re just getting started to acquire your very first customers, churn may not be a big deal, but as soon as you get over a hundred customers to churn becomes crucial. And by crucial, I mean it can be the difference between the success and failure of your business. A high … Read more
Terms like revenue, billing, collections, bookings are often used interchangeably and although interrelated, they mean different things in the world of SaaS. Booking, revenues and billings are among the three most commonly used metrics that’s why we have dedicated a separate post for these three. For the sake of explaining, let’s consider … Read more
We recently discussed how revenue should be recognized in a SaaS company, comparing it to bookings and billings, and it’s pretty straight forward. Profit is harder to define. There are multiple ways to keep track of it, with metrics such as Operating Income, Net Income, Free Cash Flow, Cash Flow or something … Read more
What comes to your mind when you read the letters ARR? Well, if you’re in the financial market you may refer to the NYSE:ARR stock, if you’re a tech guy you may think of Application Request Routing; but for us SaaS professionals, ARR means two things only: Annual Run Rate and Annual Recurring … Read more
At its core, customer engagement score is a single metric that is used to measure how engaged your customers are. The metric is represented by a number based on customer activity and usage of your product or service — the higher the number the happier and more engaged the customer. Together with customer … Read more
The famous investor and also founder of Techstars, Brad Feld — recently wrote a post on this blog titled “The Rule of 40% for a Healthy SaaS Business”. A couple of days later, Tomasz Tunguz an also famous venture capitalist at Redpoint Ventures also wrote a post about it, titled “The Data Behind The Rule of 40%”. … Read more
Churn is the enemy of any subscription company. In a general definition, churn is the number or percentage of subscribers to a service that discontinues their subscription to that service in a given time period. In order for a company to expand its clients base, its growth rate must exceed its churn … Read more
Yearly billing can make all the difference in the world for the health of your SaaS business, and I’m going to show you why. The way a company decides to bill its customers will directly impact revenue streams needed to maintain cash flow and business operations. If you’re building a SaaS company looking … Read more
Have you ever heard about the subscription economy? The term refers to the business of offering subscriptions to consumers. For some companies, their entire business relies on a subscription business model. Examples of these include Netflix, Spotify, Zipcar, and all SaaS companies such as Salesforce and HubSpot. It’s actually not that … Read more