Gainsight

OCTOBER 19, 2023

We surveyed nearly 400 companies throughout North America to create the Customer Success Index 2023 North America (or CS Index for short). And Customer Success has evolved beyond firefighting to become a mission-critical revenue driver during the down economy. So what did we learn? To start, here’s the TL;DR.

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Education Services Group

JANUARY 4, 2023

It’s no secret that 2022 was a little bumpy for business, yet we saw many Customer Success leaders meeting industry challenges head-on. Customer Success leaders are pulled in so many directions that prioritizing our aspirations can feel impossible. Everybody’s heard of Customer Success, and the industry is growing.

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Education Services Group

MAY 23, 2022

Customer Success Analyst. VP of Customer Success. Customer Success Manager. The demand for Program Managers in Customer Success was a quiet undertone in almost every session but was specifically evident on the CS Operations side of the house. The future of customer engagement.

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CustomerSuccessBox

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

And it calls for customer success software which is a higher version of customer relationship management software – CRM, that is curated to gauge specific goals of driving success, and especially to cater to SaaS businesses. Brief on customer success management software. Sales Activities.

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Education Services Group

DECEMBER 4, 2019

You also have to think long-term, ensuring the success of those customers so they’ll stick around for the next subscription cycle and the one after that. And the key to optimizing revenue is Customer Success. What’s Customer Revenue Optimization? Customer Revenue Optimization (CRO) is a new twist on B2B sales.

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Education Services Group

JULY 5, 2022

I was lucky enough to attend The Customer Conference Europe 2022 in London, and after taking in what was a very full two days of information, thoughts, opinions, and interaction, I’ve untangled all that I experienced and observed to come away with five key points that really resonated: 1. Customer Success is not one-size-fits-all.

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Gainsight

JUNE 2, 2022

Gainsight is not just about customer success. We are about Net Revenue Retention (NRR) and customer retention. Every year, Gainsight’s CEO, Nick Mehta, invites fellow CEOs to sit with him and discuss their views, insights, and trends impacting customer success and business as a whole.

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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

What’s the Job Outlook for Customer Success Professionals? Embarking in an emerging career field like Customer Success brings great possibility—and uncertainty. So, what’s the job outlook for Customer Success professionals? Will this role have high growth potential? 6 in the U.S. #2 2 in Mexico. #6

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Education Services Group

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The 2021 Customer Success Leadership Study is out! Especially when they are telling a story about how Customer Success is booming. Without further ado – here’s a quick recap of the 2021 Customer Success Leadership Study! I don’t know about you, but I love data. Numbers are the best.

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CX University

MARCH 18, 2024

Personalization boosts companies’ growth rates by 6-10% on average and improves marketing efficiency, sales, and loyalty, all contributing to ROI when investing in a personalization tool. Customer Retention. Hyper-personalization can lead to improved customer loyalty, repeat purchases, and longer customer lifetime value.

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SmartKarrot

MARCH 8, 2022

In celebration of International Women’s Day, we are honored to present our Top 50 Women Leaders in Customer Success to Follow list for 2022, celebrating 50 influential women leaders and their inspiring stories of strength and success. Her diverse yet unique skills include customer life cycle optimization from pre-sales.

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Education Services Group

JANUARY 8, 2021

I’ve compiled seven Customer Success goals to kick-start your CS prosperity and expansion in 2021. I will…love my customers. As things return to “normal” (whatever that means), it will be easy to jump right back into an old mentality of “new sales are king,” especially if your growth stalled in 2020.

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ChurnZero

JULY 8, 2022

Oh, by the way, what’s your customer retention?” It was clear that, barring any wildly outlandish figures, customer retention wasn’t a dealbreaker in their decision to invest. NRR offers the most clear-cut valuation of your customers’ success. Invest in customer success.

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SmartKarrot

JANUARY 5, 2022

Thanks to the untiring zeal of its passionate community, Customer Success has grown to become the phenomenal force that it is today. Here’s our Top 50 Customer Success Influencers list for 2022 celebrating the inspiring visionaries and trailblazers who are helping shape the field and its future evolution.

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ClearAction

APRIL 13, 2023

Brand Integrity and Your Ideal Customer Lynn Hunsaker Ideal Customer Profiles can be your key to sales velocity, retention, recurring revenue, and CAGR (compound average growth rate). Your Business Development managers may not have considered the bigger picture of success: brand integrity.

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Team Support

OCTOBER 27, 2022

But if a business does commit fully, one of the greatest effects is a spike in retention. Customer retention and loyalty is the essential focus of good customer service – much like how the point of the high jump is to, you know, jump high. The average customer churn rate is 21%.

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SmartKarrot

JANUARY 28, 2022

The future of the customer success field is extremely bright. And, I am not saying that just because I am writing a blog on the biggest customer success trends and predictions for 2022. There are quite a lot of fantastic things to expect in the customer success field in 2022. Keep reading….

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

As a customer success leader, one of your most important jobs is budgeting for the customer success department. But there is still a lot of parity required for organizations to give customer success equal prominence as other departments in the organization. The need for budgeting for customer success.

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Education Services Group

JUNE 12, 2023

A prospective customer has learned about your business, they’ve spoken to Sales, and they feel like yours is the right solution for them. You’re officially rewarded for your work and are observing them move into the next stage of the customer journey – Acquisition! Sales has made promises that CSMs now have to fulfill ASAP.

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Education Services Group

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Yet, despite those rough patches, we started this year looking ahead to a bright future for Customer Success. Now that we’re nearly 75% of the way through, 2022 is proving to have its own set of challenges to throw at us all , with lots of ups and downs. Customer Success organizations need to get cozy with revenue growth.

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Education Services Group

OCTOBER 4, 2022

But I still see far too many Customer Success leaders (yes, even smart ones!) Be sure you’re making a real distinction between segmentation and tiering in your Customer Success strategy. Number one and number two in the Customer Success Maturity Model. Don’t be silly!” Then, I’m relieved.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 13, 2022

As the demand for Customer Success surges within SaaS, so too does the need for effective leaders to spearhead this expanding function and steer its strategy and success. Over the course of the pandemic, Customer Success has cemented itself as a central business driver of growth and profit. Follow Adi on LinkedIn.

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Gainsight

JUNE 23, 2022

Right now, 2022, the Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP) Nasdaq Emerging Cloud Index is down nearly 40 percent from its peak. Varying impact on sales and customer retention from issues in your client base or industry. Chief customer officers should consider ways to efficiently scale.

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Education Services Group

JANUARY 28, 2022

Let’s just say if you missed our first Customer Success Unlocked webinar of 2022, you’re going to want to keep reading and watch the session on-demand ! So, the Customer Success team today at most orgs is a very poor steward of the customers’ needs and experience.

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

This is why we have created and curated a list of 30 top SaaS influencers you must follow in 2022 to receive excellent SaaS advice. Top 30 SaaS Influencers You Need to Follow in 2022. He also founded SaaScribe to help founders, customer success teams , sales executives, marketing professionals, and growth hackers.

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Gainsight

JUNE 11, 2021

The themes today centered around Human-First Customer Success and Transforming Customer Centricity. Human-First Customer Success. The Key to Customer Success: Leadership with Jay Nathan, Chief Customer Officer at Higher Logic and Co-founder of Gain Grow Retain at Higher Logic.

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The credit for these changes goes to the customer service experts who helped redefine the industry. Today, almost all companies, irrespective of the industry they operate in, give special attention to customer service and make rigorous efforts to ensure customer success. Bob Thompson. Evan Shumeyko. Marsha Collier.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JANUARY 5, 2022

Your company has surpassed its annual goals for customer retention, referrals, and satisfaction. C-level leadership is thrilled, and the customer experience program you helped develop was instrumental to this success. You also included less structured measurements, like what customers were telling you in user reviews.

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ChurnZero

MARCH 31, 2023

The purpose of a Customer Success team is to help a company’s customers get the most value out of its product. The hypothesis is, if a customer maximizes the obtainable value, they will remain loyal and spend more with the company. This isn’t merely a theory.

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CustomerSuccessBox

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

But if you work out to retain existing ones and achieve a high net retention rate, this keeps away the need to acquire new customers. Because a net retention rate above 100% means you are excelling in receiving repeat purchases, upsells, cross-sells, and expansions. Which is the key customer retention metrics to track?-

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Totango

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Your customer success team structure forms the organizational backbone supporting your CS strategy. A well-designed structure can help you streamline your operations for greater efficiency to deliver your customers better results. We’ll share four essential keys to structuring a customer success team.

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Not just brand loyalty, CX is a key factor when making purchase decisions, customer retention, and even word-of-mouth advertising. Considering this importance, we have brought a list of 75 customer experience statistics to you. These will help you efficiently create an excellent experience for your customers.

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CSM Practice

DECEMBER 29, 2020

With us today we have Irit Eizips, a customer success thought leader whose mission is helping startups to fortune 100 enterprises, establish proactive and scalable customer retention and expansion selling strategy. We’re inviting customer success executives to meet with one another.

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Education Services Group

MARCH 27, 2023

In Customer Success, we use data for all sorts of things like analyzing customer health scores , looking for trends in Voice of the Customer (VoC) programs , and capacity planning for short and long-term strategic decision making. Earlier this year, we talked about Customer Success trends we expect to see in 2023.

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CustomerSuccessBox

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Here are some of the Customer Success trends in 2022 that will help you make sense of the incoming changes. The world has understood the need for customer-centric systems and customer success at once. Customer Success trends in the year 2022. Customer Journey Mapping. Automation.

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Gainsight

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Customer success has taken the business world by storm, and not just in tech and SaaS. Check out this State of Customer Success report based on LinkedIn data —you’ll see it’s a good time to be in customer success. Companies are investing more in customer success. How do we know?

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Gainsight

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Economic output declined sharply in the first half of 2022, and the U.S. This is especially evident in the Software-as-a-Service industry, where layoffs, hiring freezes and a slowdown in sales are creating never-before-seen headwinds. He’s also the co-author of two books: Customer Success and The Customer Success Economy. “A

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