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What's on my SaaS scorecard

By Ryan Doom · Blog

A laptop showing a SaaS metrics dashboard

What metrics do I care most about for Boast? What are our biggest Key Performance Indicators?

We use Baremetrics, which analyzes our Stripe credit card processing activity and builds a dashboard to give insight into the business. Using Baremetrics, Google, and HubSpot, we consolidate the following metrics onto a scorecard weekly. Each of these bullet points also has a corresponding goal to meet to stay on target for our next milestone.

  • Marketing site visits — total count that week of site visitors.
  • Downloads / form fills — how many marketing qualified leads we got that week.
  • Trial signups — how many people are kicking the tires on a trial.
  • Total new contacts — total new contacts for nurturing.
  • Demos — client demos given that week.
  • New customers — how many new paid customers we got that week.
  • Trial to customer rate — a trend line on our trial-to-customer close ratio.
  • User churn — current churn rate from our Baremetrics dashboard. This is usually 3–6%.
  • LTV — our current average Lifetime Value of a customer.
  • CAC — client acquisition cost based on ad spend and marketing / internal efforts.
  • Ad spend — ad spend for that week.
  • MRR — current monthly recurring revenue number as of that week.
  • MRR growth rate — for a nice trend line on our scorecard.
  • Visitor to trial rate — what percentage of visitors we're converting to a trial.

Have questions about our SaaS scorecard or what data points are relevant? Ask me anything.

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Ryan Doom

Ryan has a degree in computer science but a passion for the full stack of business — the finer points of design, development, sales, marketing, and building effective teams. He's been in the biz for 20+ years and is the founder of Boast, Accessible Metrics, and Web Ascender.