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Produced by
Customer Success Summit 2014
Customer Success Summit 2014
In-product growth hacking to increase revenue
Harpreet Singh
Senior Director, Product Management,
CloudBees
@singh_harpreet hsingh@cloudbees.com
Produced by
Customer Success Summit 2014
• #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

2
Produced by
Customer Success Summit 2014
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
3
Produced by
Customer Success Summit 2014
– 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…
4
Produced by
Customer Success Summit 2014
When my customers
are…
under immense time to market
pressures
smart developers, focused on delivering cool
technologies
Produced by
Customer Success Summit 2014
Fairly
static
customer
lists
Lifecycle Marketing
in the Packaged Software World
Lead
Nurturing
Consideration
Sale
Post
Sale
They noticed us!
This is why we are special
Seems like they might buy
Sold!
Upsell!
Most systems in house: Email marketing, customer lists
Marketing
Produced by
Customer Success Summit 2014
Lifecycle Marketing
in the Cloud Era (Freemium Model)
Lead
Nurturing
Consideration
Free Tier
Base Tier
Add ons
Enterpris
e
Tier
Post
Sale
Most systems external: Hosted, best-of-breed services
Users can move freely up
and down the tiers
Evangelist
“Growth
Hacker”
Customer
Success
Manager
7
Short cycle, as users
can try the free tier and
make the determination on
product feasibility themselves
Marketing
Produced by
Customer Success Summit 2014
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
8
Produced by
Customer Success Summit 2014
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
Produced by
Customer Success Summit 2014
• 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
10
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
Produced by
Customer Success Summit 2014 11
• 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
Produced by
Customer Success Summit 2014
• Popularity of Play!
– More articles here
– Reach out to the
community
– Better monitoring
– …
12
Play2
Java EE6 WP
Hibernate+Tomcat
Spring+Hibernate CF
Grails PetClinic CF
Node.js
Glassfish
AngularJS
Java GAE
Activiti Explorer
Sencha+Clojure
Facebook
Backbone+JAX-RS
Scala+Lift
Java Sauce
Clojure/Compojure
Java EE6 Sauce
Wordpress
Python GAE
Activity-based metrics
Play: Hypothesis testing and fail fast
Produced by
Customer Success Summit 2014
Impact of Developer Success
Engineers
13
Produced by
Customer Success Summit 2014
Established respond 2:1 over onboarding
Insight into behavior with the pre-revenue funnel
30% on-boarders @ Risk
10% are sales opportunities30% of paid customers were
helped by developer success
engineers just before they
converted
Produced by
Customer Success Summit 2014
Q & A
15
Produced by
Customer Success Summit 201416
Winning in 2014!
Think BigStart Small Move>>Fast!

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In-product Growth Hacking to increase revenue: Customer Success Totango Event 2014

  • 1. Produced by Customer Success Summit 2014 Customer Success Summit 2014 In-product growth hacking to increase revenue Harpreet Singh Senior Director, Product Management, CloudBees @singh_harpreet hsingh@cloudbees.com
  • 2. Produced by Customer Success Summit 2014 • #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  2
  • 3. Produced by Customer Success Summit 2014 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 3
  • 4. Produced by Customer Success Summit 2014 – 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… 4
  • 5. Produced by Customer Success Summit 2014 When my customers are… under immense time to market pressures smart developers, focused on delivering cool technologies
  • 6. Produced by Customer Success Summit 2014 Fairly static customer lists Lifecycle Marketing in the Packaged Software World Lead Nurturing Consideration Sale Post Sale They noticed us! This is why we are special Seems like they might buy Sold! Upsell! Most systems in house: Email marketing, customer lists Marketing
  • 7. Produced by Customer Success Summit 2014 Lifecycle Marketing in the Cloud Era (Freemium Model) Lead Nurturing Consideration Free Tier Base Tier Add ons Enterpris e Tier Post Sale Most systems external: Hosted, best-of-breed services Users can move freely up and down the tiers Evangelist “Growth Hacker” Customer Success Manager 7 Short cycle, as users can try the free tier and make the determination on product feasibility themselves Marketing
  • 8. Produced by Customer Success Summit 2014 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 8
  • 9. Produced by Customer Success Summit 2014 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
  • 10. Produced by Customer Success Summit 2014 • 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 10 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
  • 11. Produced by Customer Success Summit 2014 11 • 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
  • 12. Produced by Customer Success Summit 2014 • Popularity of Play! – More articles here – Reach out to the community – Better monitoring – … 12 Play2 Java EE6 WP Hibernate+Tomcat Spring+Hibernate CF Grails PetClinic CF Node.js Glassfish AngularJS Java GAE Activiti Explorer Sencha+Clojure Facebook Backbone+JAX-RS Scala+Lift Java Sauce Clojure/Compojure Java EE6 Sauce Wordpress Python GAE Activity-based metrics Play: Hypothesis testing and fail fast
  • 13. Produced by Customer Success Summit 2014 Impact of Developer Success Engineers 13
  • 14. Produced by Customer Success Summit 2014 Established respond 2:1 over onboarding Insight into behavior with the pre-revenue funnel 30% on-boarders @ Risk 10% are sales opportunities30% of paid customers were helped by developer success engineers just before they converted
  • 15. Produced by Customer Success Summit 2014 Q & A 15
  • 16. Produced by Customer Success Summit 201416 Winning in 2014! Think BigStart Small Move>>Fast!

Notas del editor

  1. So, as software developers, we really should be doing for our customers what we prefer ourselves.
  2. In the cloud, as-a-service world, with a freemium (sign up for free and try it) model or a time-trial model, it’s different. First of all the evaluation cycle is short. People try it out and decide without ever talking to you or a salesperson whether they want to invest more in it. Once they get serious, they might move to different tiered pricing that is tied to the level of usage, users, or something. In this world, Marketing’s more traditional activities are to drive the leads from anonymous visitors into known users. The other parts are now engaged in by people with different titles – evangelists, growth hacker (a trendy silicon valley term!), and customer success managers.
  3. Let’s make it more concrete by using CloudBees as an example. What we’re interested in is how people are using our service. Part of that is: what service are they using – like “what software has someone bought” in the old packaged software world. But more specifically, we want to know how engaged they are. Are they doing builds? Are they deploying new apps on a regular basis. Are they adding new users?
  4. But in our as-a-service world, we can so a lot better job. (Forgive my making a garbage collection joke here on the slide by using name of object spaces and collectors!) In our world, we have people who sign up but don’t’ do anything after looking around. We classify them as “onboarding”, and we engage with them differently than we do with those who dig in and actually start to use the service.
  5. But probably more importantly, once someone has stepped up to paying for the service, we have an opportunity to keep them happy using it in ways that are obviously just not possible with packaged software. Of course, part of the trick here is to know your audience, which being mostly developers, just want to be left alone.
  6. And this gives us some data that helps us determine where to put our investments. Now this changes because we roll out new ClickStarts every week, and some are accompanied by more visibility than others, but this is actual data we also share on our developer blog. What you can see here is that Play is very popular on CloudBees, as are the traditional Java stacks mixed with JavaScript UI frameworks like Backbone. Node.js is also popular, primarily because people want to find out what it’s about as far as we can tell. At any rate, we’re getting better at sorting out causality on these technologies as we go along. Today the data is there, but it’s hard to interpret.