Courting and Cross-selling: The Secrets of Low-churn SaaS Firms

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McKinsey & Company’s research into SaaS companies serving large and mid-enterprise customers shows that companies with annual churn rates of 20% or more see slower growth in annual recurring revenue than others that manage to hold onto their customers. Shawn Lankton and Brian Stafford from McKinsey & Company joined Gainsight CEO Nick Mehta as they double clicked into the findings of their latest SaaSRadar research. How a great product experience can drive customer stickiness. Why cross-sell directly impacts churn reduction. How Customer Success teams are implementing proactive strategies to fight churn. The most successful Enterprise SaaS companies know that growing revenue only through new customer acquisition is the less efficient way to scale. Rather, they understand that growing revenue within your existing customer base - through up-sells, cross-sells, and expanded use - is the most profitable way to scale. In fact, Enterprise SaaS companies that grow revenue - and company valuation - by expanding revenue within their existing customer base also know the key to making this work is to focus on - and operationalize - Customer Success.

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McKinsey & Company |

Courting and Cross-selling:

The secrets of low-churn SaaS companies

August

2014

#customersuccess

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• Q&A panel on your right • Recording for colleagues who couldn’t make it• All attendees will receive slides• Twitter hashtag #customersuccess

Housekeeping

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Today’s Panelists

Nick MehtaCEO

@nrmehta

Brian StaffordPartner

brian_stafford@mckinsey.com

Shawn LanktonAssociate Partner

shawn_lankton@mckinsey.com

Courting and cross-selling: the secrets of low-churn SaaS companies

August 13, 2014

Gainsight Webinar

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Lower churn leads to faster growth

SOURCE: SaaSRadar, McKinsey’s proprietary database of B2B SaaS metrics (SaaSRadar.com)

Annual ARR growth

Low churn (<10%)

High churn (>20%)

90%

53%

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Who we studied

SOURCE: SaaSRadar, McKinsey’s proprietary database of B2B SaaS metrics

Later-stage startups: Revenue from $25M to 75M

With enterprise customers: ACV from $65k to 350k

Smaller companies and companies with smaller ACVs may be the topic of a future Webinar

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Top tactics of low churners

SOURCE: SaaSRadar, McKinsey’s proprietary database of B2B SaaS metrics (SaaSRadar.com)

▪ Killer products

▪ Lots of cross-sell

▪ Careful courting

▪ Investing in users

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A great product is a good start

SOURCE: SaaSRadar, McKinsey’s proprietary database of B2B SaaS metrics (SaaSRadar.com)

R&D spend / sales

Low churn (<10%)

High churn (>20%)

30%

10%

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It’s a no brainer, and the numbers don’t lie…

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Cross selling keeps customers

SOURCE: SaaSRadar, McKinsey’s proprietary database of B2B SaaS metrics (SaaSRadar.com)

Customers buying >1 product

Low churn (<10%)

High churn (>20%)

33%

0%

2

Broader product suites and more customer touchpoints

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Loyal customers cost more to get. . .

SOURCE: SaaSRadar, McKinsey’s proprietary database of B2B SaaS metrics (SaaSRadar.com)

M&S spend / Rev.

Low churn(<10%)

High churn(>20%)

53%

30%

3

Sales cycle length

5 months

3 months

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. . . and not everyone can sell

SOURCE: SaaSRadar, McKinsey’s proprietary database of B2B SaaS metrics (SaaSRadar.com)

Portion of FTEs on quota

Low churn (<10%)

High churn (>20%)

41%

71%

3

More lead qualification and sales engineering FTEs

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Keep taking care of customers post-sale

SOURCE: SaaSRadar, McKinsey’s proprietary database of B2B SaaS metrics (SaaSRadar.com)

Churn prevention FTEs / $1M ARR

0.3

0.1

Low churn (<10%)

High churn (>20%)

4

Proactively ensure customer success

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Consider participating in SaaSRadar

SOURCE: SaaSRadar, McKinsey’s proprietary database of B2B SaaS metrics (SaaSRadar.com)

100+

B2B SaaS participants

40 critical metrics

10+

hand-picked peers per cohort

$10M+ million ARR range

~2 hours to complete

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Brian Stafford

▪ Leads McKinsey’s SaaS practice

▪ Founded and ran a $100M software company pre-McKinsey

Shawn Lankton

▪ Leads our SaaSRadar benchmark

▪ Experience with sales and pricing for large and small software firms

Who we are

brian_stafford@mckinsey.com

shawn_lankton@mckinsey.com

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The performance waterfall

Opportunity Churn Downsell Retained Up-Sell X-Sell Total Bookings

$54,047,502.5

$8,012,106.2

$4,086,344.1

$41,949,052.2

$4,161,855.8

$8,576,439.0

$54,687,347.0

X-Sell = 16%

Churn = 15%

$M

Retention Rate = 78%

Bookings Rate = 101%

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Cross-sell is a key lever for customer retention

Q3'13 Q4'13 Q1'14 Q2'14 Total0%

2%

4%

6%

8%

10%

12%

14%

16%

18%

20%

10%

15%

18% 18%

16%

Cross-sell Performance By Quarter

Q3'13 - Churn

Q4'13 - Churn

Q1'14 - Churn

Q2'14 - Churn

Total - Churn

0%

1%

2%

3%

4%

5%

4%

4%

2%

1%

3%

Historical Cross-sell Performance for churned

business by quarter

Historical Cross-sell performance calculated by identifying any Cross-sell activity that occurred 4 quarters back from the quarter the customer churned (ex: the Cross-sell window for Q3’13 churned customers is Q3’12 – Q2’13).

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Rate

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Quarter of Cross-sell Quarter of Churn

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Cross-selling also limits churn exposure

Churn Reason Value

Competitor - Software $1.87

Lost Champion $0.84

No Traction $0.68

No Use Case $0.32

Product limitation $0.26

Total $4.16

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Differentiate from competitor

Identify champions across multiple orgs

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4 Solve multiple business problems

Drive user count across multiple orgs

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