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Conversion, retention and churn benchmarks

VC Cafe

Understanding the benchmarks on conversion, retention, and churn for your business is therefore critical. Retention : The percentage of customers who continue to use a product or service after a certain period of time, typically measured over weeks, months, or years. The benchmarks are based on the US market.

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Build Success from a Struggling Agency with a Multimillion-Dollar Pivot

Duct Tape Marketing

19:00] What’s the average retention on an agency? [20:28] Naturally we were like, well, yeah, we can show you what we did, not even thinking that it was a business potential. If anything, it was like a retention strategy. You have to learn how to run the business too. The other one is their churn rates are too high.

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Acquire New Users by Adding Growth Hacking to your Marketing Strategy

ConversionXL

In the activation phase, measure these performance metrics: Conversion rate Number of customers using a product feature Drop-off rate Dwell time. Two-thirds of an organization’s business comes from existing customers, so pay attention to them. Address churn by engaging users. What do they want more of? Gamification.

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Product Design for SaaS Startups: Best Practices and Examples

ReadWriteStart

A SaaS UX design that is intuitive, efficient, and enjoyable can significantly impact user satisfaction, retention, and overall success. MRR is a crucial metric for measuring the growth of a SaaS business. Customer churn rate: Customer churn rate is the percentage of customers who cancel their monthly SaaS subscriptions.

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The Most Effective Early-Stage Growth Strategies for Emerging Businesses

ReadWriteStart

Growing a business is always challenging, but it’s often the hardest in the earliest stages of development. You’ll be operating with limited resources, limited knowledge, and quite possibly, a business model poised to change in the immediate future. The Prioritization of Customer Retention. Boost Customer Retention.

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Startup Benchmarks

VC Cafe

Is my churn rate below the category average? Benchmarks are typically specific to stage/business model/geo. The main B2C benchmarks have to do with traction: growth in user acquisition, user retention/churn, monetisation, as well as the effectiveness of consumer marketing + virality.

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Practical Advice For Growing Your Software Business w/ Lars Lofgren of KISSmetrics

ConversionXL

Calculate Your Churn. ” The easiest metric for subscription software products to check is churn rate. . “On SaaS, target churn rate should be around 2% monthly churn. The way KISSmetrics does this is by calculating the churn-rate for each level of subscription plan. image source.