ChurnZero

JULY 8, 2022

“Oh, by the way, what’s your customer retention?” It was the turn of the millennium, and I was raising a round for a B2B software company—one of four companies that I founded over the course of my 25-year career as a repeat entrepreneur. NRR offers the most clear-cut valuation of your customers’ success.

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 21, 2022

1/ Crash course in Customer Success and SaaS metrics. Many people think of SaaS and CS metrics as black and white. But the truth is, there are many ways to calculate and interpret—and game—metrics. Related reading: Key SaaS and Customer Success metrics you should care about – What’s a good CAC?

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ChurnZero

MARCH 24, 2023

The Customer Success industry is constantly evolving and developing new strategies for driving customer-led growth. 1: Is NPS a Customer Success metric? Stephanie Berner: My answer is unequivocally no— Net Promoter Score (NPS) should not be a CS metric. Here’s why. Value is very hard to measure.

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ChurnZero

MARCH 24, 2023

The Customer Success industry is constantly evolving and developing new strategies for driving customer-led growth. 1: Is NPS a Customer Success metric? Stephanie Berner: My answer is unequivocally no— Net Promoter Score (NPS) should not be a CS metric. Here’s why. Value is very hard to measure.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 20, 2021

This is a guest blog post by Justine Dennis, Manager, Customer Success & Support at Fusebill. . Mattias Putman and Ewout Meyns launched PieSync in 2014 with a goal in mind: keep customers satisfied. Mattias and I are very aware that PieSync’s success depends on that of our customers.

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Criteria Corp’s Customer Success Team (and a few furry friends). Criteria Corp’s Customer Success Team is primarily based in Los Angeles, but includes team members across the US (Chicago, Denver.). Learn what Patrick Blanton, Vice President of Customer Success shared about his team.

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CustomerSuccessBox

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Over the last few years, we’ve seen a lot of growth in the Customer Success space, which means there’s now even more content out there on the web for you to research, consume and rely on. Let’s look at the top customer success blogs. Role of Customer Success Manager in a SaaS Company. CustomerSuccessBox.

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Customer Bliss

MARCH 28, 2018

In today’s podcast episode, you’ll hear from six customer experience leaders in the B2B industry who share advice about the things they know now, that they wish they knew before they started their work. Invest Deeply in Listening to Your Customers. Listening to the customer never stops.

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Team Support

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

In Part 1 and Part 2 of this blog series based on the whitepaper co-produced by ServiceXRG and TeamSupport, we introduced the concept of how to position the investment in customer support as a strategic value aligned to current business practices and target outcomes, and about the evolving role of B2B customer support.

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Team Support

JANUARY 12, 2021

As we enter 2021 the strategic role of B2B Support must be aligned (or realigned) with overall corporate strategies. Company-wide initiatives to improve customer experiences (CX) and drive success are influencing Support to engage in new, more meaningful customer interactions.

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Totango

JULY 13, 2021

Strategy for customer success growth has changed as commerce has gone digital and big data has made marketing and sales customer-centric. Tell people about your business, get them in the store, sell them things, then look for more customers. Businesses need a new strategy for customer success growth.

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ChurnZero

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Another one of our favorite moments was our Founder, You Mon Tsang’s well attended session on the “ Top Customer Metrics For Your Board and Investors and How to Nail Them with ChurnZero’s CEO.” Customer Success begins in Sales and needs to be part of your funnel.

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Gainsight

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

And as you can tell by the chart, the runaway winners in the minds of most executives are: Expansion and Cross-sell: Want to reduce customer acquisition cost (CAC) ? Sell to your existing customer. Automating Customer Success (CS): Can’t add more Customer Success Managers ( CSMs)? B2B and B2C.

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CustomerSuccessBox

APRIL 19, 2022

From marketing to customer support to even customer success. But with the customer journey analytics tool, the team can leverage information from existing systems like natural language processors, text and speech analytics tools, and customer feedback management systems and use those insights to help address the customer needs.

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Lumoa

JUNE 30, 2022

The more your company invests in CX systems and teams, the more you’ll feel the positive impact on your customers (and your business metrics). How to sell customer experience across your organisation. It’s okay to start selling CX with generic stats about how valuable customer experience can be across industries.

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Gainsight

OCTOBER 19, 2023

We partnered with Benchmarkit, a B2B SaaS research firm, to find out. We surveyed nearly 400 companies throughout North America to create the Customer Success Index 2023 North America (or CS Index for short). Download the Customer Success Index 2023 North America. So what did we learn? To start, here’s the TL;DR.

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ChurnZero

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Why is it that the need for operations in marketing and sales is never questioned, yet Customer Success isn’t given the same allowance? Even though CSQLs have a lower customer acquisition cost, faster rate of return, and high close-rate, says Tony D’Auria, industry principal at Valuize, a customer lifecycle consultancy.

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CSM Practice

MAY 22, 2022

A profitable Customer Success framework is built on the various stages that a customer goes through in his/her relationship with your business. On the other hand, Customer Experience, which is an important component of Customer Success, is created at every level of the contact between the customer and vendor. .

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CustomerSuccessBox

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Customer Success has become a must for every SaaS business with the advent of the subscription economy. But just having a customer success department does not solve issues with your churn rate, customer lifetime value, retention rate, or MRR/ARR. It starts by understanding why customer success is important.

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PK

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

We’ve talked in past posts about how Millennials are stepping into B2B buying roles and overturning traditional ideas about how buyers want to interact with technology companies. But what about after the sale has closed? The answer: invest in customer success. HubSpot is a marketing, sales, and service software provider.

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ChurnZero

JUNE 15, 2021

In a world seemingly obsessed with hyper-growth, this may sound like heresy, but when evaluating a B2B software-as-a-service (SaaS) company, the most important metric we look at is retention. The Different Types of Retention Metrics. Logo retention is the simplest and represents how many customers you retained over a set period.

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ChurnZero

JUNE 7, 2019

It’s time for another installment of our blog series where we spotlight a Customer Success professional and get their take on the industry as well as get to hear some of their top tips they’d like to share. Jason is an Associate Partner at Customer Imperative , responsible for overseeing the strategic consulting business.

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CustomerSuccessBox

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The adage “time is money” is the ultimate reality that supports the success of your organization in the SaaS sector. A variety of options are accessible to customers today in this cutthroat industry. However, customers are also searching for a quick time to value (TTV). In B2B SaaS, what does time to value mean?

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Totango

JULY 24, 2020

Client expansion is the bird-in-the-hand approach to B2B enterprise growth. The digitization of business has changed the way SaaS and subscription enterprises derive value from their customers and given rise to a mutually beneficial model. You cannot schedule an upsell engagement at a predetermined time in the customer journey.

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Totango

MARCH 24, 2020

Keeping pace with your customer’s evolving needs and experiences throughout their journey is essential to remaining a part of their plans. The most effective way to follow this progress is to break down the journey into modular B2B customer lifecycle stages. Goal-Based, Results-Driven Customer Success.

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CustomerSuccessBox

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Customer Success(CS) is the most efficient way to grow your MRR/ARR. Yet, Customer Success is looked upon as a ‘ cost center ’. Customer Success teams, typically, follow the recurring revenue model (followed by almost every SaaS business). It wasn’t deployed to manage each and every customer relationship.

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Gainsight

DECEMBER 20, 2020

And in the world of Business-to-Business (B2B) relationships, we have learned how critical our clients are to making it through ups and downs. Specifically, the Customer Success world learned 10 important lessons in 2020: 1. Customer Success Helps Businesses Survive Through the Pandemic. .

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 18, 2020

With each passing year the Customer Success industry matures and meets new challenges along the way, and this year has been nothing short of challenging in many ways. . Q&A Recap: Speakers: Megan Macaluso , VP Customer Success & Operations, ESG. Jay Nathan , Chief Customer Officer, Higher Logic.

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ChurnZero

JUNE 2, 2021

SaaS Capital joined us for a webinar to share the results from their 10th annual B2B SaaS benchmarking survey. Lessons learned over the last year from the Customer Success community. An overview of the current B2B SaaS market and valuation drivers. Slow down sales and marketing and you can get to breakeven.

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Team Support

JUNE 18, 2020

In Part 1 of this series, we discussed some strategies for helping to navigate new B2B (business-to-business) customer relationships during uncertain economic times. But what about existing customers? After all, some customers contact you frequently with various questions or issues or are willing to speak up more than others.

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Amity

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Amity sat down with Maranda Dziekonski , HelloSign's VP of Customer Operations, to chat about all things Customer Success: data, churn, team management, and much more. I’m the Vice President of Customer Operations at HelloSign. What does the culture of Customer Success look like at HelloSign?

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CustomerSuccessBox

JUNE 20, 2022

Now that you’ve chosen to read this article, I suppose you are already aware of the weightage that the Customer Success function holds for your SaaS business. And when it comes to delivering the right customer success function to your clients you are as good as the tool you use. What is a Customer Success Software?

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CustomerSuccessBox

JULY 2, 2019

Though every company will have a different customer onboarding process as per their requirements but there are some basic things every B2B SaaS company should follow. In the previous blog , we covered the first topic of discussion: Moving from reactive support to proactive success. Who should manage the onboarding of customers?

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Team Support

JANUARY 26, 2021

“By building a repository of self-support resources in the Customer Hub, we will soon launch a robust Knowledge Base as a one-stop shop for all relevant tools, information, and resources,” says Alain Alejandro, SQA/Support at QC Software. TeamSupport is so customizable, it’s perfect for B2B companies.

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Amity

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Winning by Design is a premier provider of strategy consulting and coaching programs for SaaS Sales and Customer Success organizations. They are the leaders in SaaS Sales consulting and training, and have recently added Customer Success to their area of expertise. What’s the benefit of being remote?

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CustomerSuccessBox

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The key activity that is important to good execution of customer success is the renewal process obviously. And this goes without saying that whether it is the customer success team that’s managing it or another part of your organization, it is very critical. Read: Why is customer retention important for B2B SaaS.

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LiveChat

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Companies that take customer service seriously and make it a priority in the early stages of existence, shouldn’t forget about customer success management. It’s often mistaken with customer support, so let’s clarify. Customer success management is the next layer on the top of a successful customer support team.

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