Retention
6 Key Trends Changing Customer
CEO & Co-founder / Brightback
Guy Marion
GM / Crazy Egg
Suneet Bhatt
Agenda
What is automated customer retention
6 retention trends for B2B and B2C
companies
Final takeaways
Q&A
Agenda
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Automated customer retention for
high-volume subscription business
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Live since 2005. On over 300,000 websites today.
Crazy Egg helps you pay attention to the people visiting your website
so you can make the most of every website visit.
$42M ARR
lost in 5
years…
due to high churn,
nearly 4X the total
ARR reached by
ARR
MONTHS SINCE LAUNCH
0.5% Gross Churn (-3.5% Net)
1% Gross Churn (-2% Net)
2% Gross Churn (0% Net)
4% Gross Churn (3% Net)
$57M
$16M
$26M
$40M
The fastest growing companies retain more
it isPLUS 7x
acquire 

a customer
more expensive to
$ $ $ $ $ $ $
retain 

a customer $
than to
Yes No
Does your company have a published
MRR churn goal?
of companies

say customer
retention…
97%
97% yes
2.8% no
2019 State of Customer
Retention Survey
is a big win!
6 Key Trends
Based on the 2019
State of Customer Retention Survey
1
B2C companies know
they must do better at
retention.
Percent of
companies that 

feel retention is
prioritized
appropriately
68%
B2B
44%
B2C
2 B2Cs focus on support
while B2Bs focus on
customer education and
on boarding.
Was customer satisfaction improved
through better experience and support?
14%
B2B
32%
Hybrid
56%
B2C
Was customer satisfaction improved
through educating customers to facilitate
usage and mastery of our services?
34%
B2B
5%
B2C
15%
Hybrid
32%
B2B
28%
Hybrid
11%
B2C
Was customer satisfaction improved
through on boarding new customers
effectively?
3
Companies turn to
discounts and deals to
retain customers.
of B2Cs offer
bundles
51%58%
of B2Bs test
discount offers
AND
4
The future: know when
to engage and why.
Never on-boarded or 

figured it out
Aren’t seeing value 

(but still have the need)
Think they don’t have 

features they need
Feel ignored or frustrated 

by support
20%
of customers cancel 

for the wrong

reason
START
First value 

(successful trial)
Grow value 

(deployment)
Increase

Users Increase

Usage
Expand
Functionality
Churn
ChurnChurn
Classify and auto-
engage customers
who fail
No.
Yes, via our customer support team.
Yes, via our customer success team.
Yes, via our product.
Do you engage with customers at the
point of cancel?
Excluding product improvements, which of the
following initiatives would have the greatest
impact on customer retention?
B2C
Faster response times 

and better trained
customer support
Developing predictive
models to forecast
customer propensity to
churn or expand
Proactively engaging 

at-risk customers with
personalized offers
Hybrid
B2B
34%
15%
6%
27%
17%
12%
14%
22%
22%
5
Subscription businesses
churn an average of
2.0% - 3.9% of revenue
each month
Monthly MRR Churn Rate
28%
26%
27%
Average churn
per month
% of
respondents
B2C
B2B
Hybrid
Visibility into 

why customers
cancel
6
Only 1 in 4 subscription
companies are growing
more the 30% YoY
Percent of subscription companies with
growth between 30%-50% YoY

13%
B2C
23%
B2B
13%
Hybrid
Agenda
Bring acquisition and retention
into balance

Build a full retention lifecycle 

Look at cancellation like a funnel

Establish a churn goal
Takeaways
Thank You.
CEO & Co-founder

Brightback
Guy Marion
GM

Crazy Egg
Suneet Bhatt

6 Key Trends Changing Customer Retention