Value is a tory that is told with customers across the customer journey, from pre sales through to customer success. In this post Ibbaka Chief Value Officer Karen Chiang tells the story of the Ibbaka customer value journey. She provides an approach relevant to all B2B SaaS companies. This is a follow up from Karen and Rashaqa Rahman’s PeakSpan Master Class: The Value Narrative – Integrating Value & Improving Engagement Across the Customer Lifecycle.

Karen Chiang has become the Chief Value Officer for Ibbaka. In this role she is responsible for how we deliver value to our customers around the value cycle and for ensuring we deliver a high V2C (Value to Customer) to all the companies on the Ibbaka platform.

This blog post discusses the importance of value in customer engagement and introduces the Value Cycle. It explains how value creation, communication, delivery, documentation, and capture are essential for building strong customer relationships. The post also presents a simple scorecard for evaluating a company's performance in each area of the Value Cycle.

Gross Retention Rate (GRR) remains vital in the realm of SaaS metrics. Not only does it offers a clear insight into customer value and satisfaction, alongside Net Revenue Retention (NRR), but it serves as a crucial pillar for achieving long-term, sustainable growth. Track this metric religiously, integrate it as a KPI, and allocate resources wisely to enhance your gross retention trajectory over time.

One of the key barriers to adopting value-based approaches, including value-based pricing is a lack of customer understanding. The best way to organize your research into customer value is a customer journey map. This tool is underutilized in pricing discovery. Here we show how to build a customer journey map that will inform your pricing.