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This has a huge impact on unit economics and begins to explain why winning companies place such a large focus on upsells as they mature. The bigger your customer base, the bigger the opportunity to move the needle through upsells.

Upsells aren’t always easy, and depending on the dynamics of your business model they may not even seem like an option. I believe the average company focuses so much on growth through new accounts because that path seems larger, more obvious, and, frankly, easier. But, as we all know, oftentimes the hard thing to do and the right thing to do are one in the same.

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The average Quick Ratio of fastest growing SaaS companies (those with a CAGR of over 50%) is 3.9: generating $3.9 in revenue for every $1 lost to revenue churn

For a SaaS business of almost any scale, the valuation impact of better retention is in the tens of millions over time

The median startup spends 92% of first year revenue on customer acquisition, taking 11-months to payback their Customer Acquisition Cost

54% treat upselling and add-on sales as high priority

Because of the losses in the early days, which get bigger the more successful the company is at acquiring customers, it is much harder for management and investors to figure out whether a SaaS business is financially viable.

How to Reduce Churn

It’s 9x cheaper to retain existing customers than acquire new customers: costing $0.13 to acquire any additional dollar of revenue

When determining Sales Capacity, “it’s worth noting that some percentage of new sales hires won’t meet expectations, so that should be taken into consideration when setting hiring goals. Typically we have seen failure rates around 25-30% for field sales reps, but this varies by company. The failure rate is lower for inside sales reps. can be counted as half of a productive rep”

Best-in-class SaaS companies achieve 5-7% annual revenue churn – equivalent to a loss of $1 out of every $200 each month

The median SaaS business loses about 10% of its revenue to churn each year and that works out to about 0.83% revenue churn a month

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Invention is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration.

If your Net Revenue Churn is high (above 2% per month) it is an indicator that there is something wrong in your business; which may have a dramatically negative effect on your company’s growth. Source: Mckinsey

36% of SaaS businesses managed to reduce their revenue churn over the last 12-months

High-growth companies are 8X more likely to reach $1 billion in revenues than those growing less than 20%.

When determining Sales Capacity, “it’s worth noting that some percentage of new sales hires won’t meet expectations, so that should be taken into consideration when setting hiring goals. Typically we have seen failure rates around 25-30% for field sales reps, but this varies by company. The failure rate is lower for inside sales reps. can be counted as half of a productive rep”

In 2018, the market size of information technology outsourcing amounted to 62 billion U.S. dollars.

The top 50% of the fastest growing SaaS businesses generate much higher upsells than their competitors. The larger the business, the greater the impact of upselling

General Dynamics is a market leader in the aerospace and defense industry. In 2018, a total of 105,600 people were working at General Dynamics.

It’s 9x cheaper to retain existing customers than acquire new customers: costing $0.13 to acquire any additional dollar of revenue

Software and online services are in a period of dizzying growth