in product growth hacking to increase revenue
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Customer Success Play by Harpreet Singh, Senior Director of Product Management at CloudBees at the 2014 Customer Success Summit.TRANSCRIPT
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Customer Success Summit 2014
In-product growth hacking to increase revenue Harpreet Singh Senior Director, Product Management, CloudBees @singh_harpreet [email protected]
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• #1 Continuous Delivery PaaS • Global startup:
– Aus, NZ, France, Switzerland, Netherlands, Belgium, Ireland, US (MA, VA, TX, IL, WA, CA)
• The most fun place I have ever worked J
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What led me to Customer Success
• Setup GlassFish monetization – Sun’s application server
• Customer Success
– “People like being helped and not sold to”
• @CloudBees have setup, managed the Jenkins biz establishing it from 0 -> multi-million
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– improve and fine-tune what I’m offering?
– connect more intelligently with my users?
– help prospects succeed on the platform?
– convert free users to paying customers?
How can I…
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When my customers are…
under immense -me to market pressures
smart developers, focused on delivering cool technologies
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Fairly sta*c
customer lists
Lifecycle Marketing in the Packaged Software World
Lead
Nurturing
Considera*on
Sale
Post Sale
They no-ced us!
This is why we are special
Seems like they might buy
Sold!
Upsell!
Most systems in house: Email marke-ng, customer lists
Marke*ng
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Lifecycle Marketing in the Cloud Era (Freemium Model)
Lead
Nurturing
Considera*on
Free Tier
Base Tier
Add ons
Enterprise Tier
Post Sale
Most systems external: Hosted, best-‐of-‐breed services
Users can move freely up and down the -ers
Evangelist
“Growth Hacker”
Customer Success Manager
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Short cycle, as users can try the free -er and make the determina-on on product feasibility themselves
Marke*ng
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Lessons Learned: Fail fast
• Lesson #1 – Monitor everything – data, data, data…
• Lesson #2 –
– Health-based metrics. Flag and address dis-engagements real time
• Lesson #3 –
– Activity-based Metrics: Hypothesis testing & fail fast
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Subscribed to a service • Jenkins • RUN@cloud (Deployment
PaaS) • Forge (Git, SVN) • DB service • Partner service
– MongoHQ – NewRelic – PaperTrail – …
Performed an action • Web UI login • Jenkins
– Created a Job, Installed a plugin, Ran a job…
• Deployment PaaS – Deployed an app, restarted
app, app stopped, app hibernated…
• Others – Canceled account, added a
paid DB, added a user
Monitor everything Play: Sensors everywhere in the product
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• Time and activity based
• Grade users based on risk profile
• Separate onboarding from established users
• Offer hands-on help for established users
Health-based metrics Play: Flag and address dis-engagements real time
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Green
Sign-‐Up
Yellow
Red
Lost
Use?
Use?
Use?
1 wk
2 wks
3 wks
4 wks
Time
Onboarding
Yellow
Red
Lost
Use?
Use?
Established
Green
Use? Y
Y
Y
N
N
N
N
N
N
Y
Y
Y
Convert
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• Track number and types of activity over time
– Scale and adjust “smart” communication over time
• Users can become inactive and then reactivate
• Technical, not sales communication
Green
Paid
Yellow
Alarm Bells
Lost
Use?
Use?
Use?
1 wk
2 wks
3 wks
4 wks
Time
Paying
Y
Y
Y
N
N
N
Health-based metrics Play: Flag and address dis-engagements real time
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• Popularity of Play! – More articles here – Reach out to the
community – Better monitoring – …
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Play2
Java EE6 WP
Hibernate+Tomcat
Spring+Hibernate CF
Grails PetClinic CF
Node.js
Glassfish
AngularJS
Java GAE
Ac*vi* Explorer
Sencha+Clojure
Backbone+JAX-‐RS
Scala+LiU
Java Sauce
Clojure/Compojure
Java EE6 Sauce
Activity-based metrics Play: Hypothesis testing and fail fast
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Impact of Developer Success Engineers
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Established respond 2:1 over onboarding
Insight into behavior with the pre-revenue funnel
30% on-‐boarders @ Risk
10% are sales opportuni-es 30% of paid customers were helped by developer success engineers just before they converted
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Q & A
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Winning in 2014!
Think Big Start Small Move>>Fast!