AskNicely

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

The Case for Executive Buy-in For an Advanced NPS Program. Growth-savvy customer success experts agree that creating a customer-first culture begins and ends with executive buy-in. And as we discussed in an earlier blog , an advanced NPS program doubles your likelihood to achieve both 100%+ growth and net-negative churn.

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Gainsight

JANUARY 4, 2021

As we embark on the New Year, now is the perfect time to catch up on Gainsight’s Customer Success resources from 2020. We compiled our best Customer Success resources from last year, from blogs to ebooks to webinars and podcasts. Launching Customer Success. Customer Success Team Management.

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ClientSuccess

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Any customer success leader worth his or her salt isn’t making strategic, department-wide decisions based on gut feelings. Instead, customer success leaders lean on hard numbers, insights, and data to help steer their team’s decision-making. Did they achieve these outcomes?

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ClientSuccess

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

There are an overwhelming amount of metrics that you can measure to track customer success. So, to break through the fray and give you a place to start, Client Success has created THE list of the most valuable customer success metrics. Did they achieve these outcomes?

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ClientSuccess

DECEMBER 12, 2022

In today’s competitive customer success landscape, it is essential that CSMs are adequately and appropriately compensated for their work. When making a switch from one compensation plan to another for your Customer Success Managers (CSMs), it’s important to make the transition as smooth and considerate as possible.

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ClientSuccess

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

In this post, I’ll address the most frequent question I’m asked by customer success leaders—what is the best compensation plan for Customer Success Managers (CSMs)? Compensation Plans for Customer Success Managers (CSMs). Download Customer Success Compensation Models Image. And he was right.

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Totango

AUGUST 21, 2020

As competitors become more customer-savvy and customers continue to raise the bar of their expectations, keeping customers happy is no longer the icing on the cake—it is now a main and necessary ingredient for business success, and it comes about primarily through the creation of customer value. CS Defined.

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Amity

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Ask anyone in sales or customer support regarding important customer success metrics, and almost always, churn is mentioned. Churn is short for ‘churn rate’ and refers to the percentage rate of customer loss or customer defection. Customer Success Metrics: Customer Health Score.

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Totango

AUGUST 21, 2020

In our latest installment in the CXO Series , we sat down with Keith Strodtman, COO, Customer First and Shelby Czarnota, Vice President, Customer Success Business Solutions at SAP as we discussed SAP’s Transformation and Innovation in Customer Success and why they deployed Totango as their One Customer Success Platform.

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Lumoa

APRIL 28, 2024

More than 80% of business leaders see customer experience as a growing priority in 2024. If you’re reading this blog post, you are probably one of them. But how can you support your customers on all the different channels they reach out on and offer a personalized yet unified response?

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Totango

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

These data sources are aggregated into a scorecard that shows the state of your client base, where they are in the customer journey, whether they are using your products, how engaged they are, and if they are willing to recommend your business to others. . Amongst these different data sources, Customer 360 accesses: Support tickets .

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AskNicely

MARCH 30, 2017

In fact, wouldn’t it be even better if you had a way to figure out why customers are unhappy and therefore likely to leave? That’s where Net Promoter Score (NPS) surveys can come to the rescue. Using NPS surveys – you can achieve all of the above and more. How do you know if your customers are satisfied?

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Totango

JULY 5, 2022

In uncertain economic times, attracting new customers becomes exponentially harder as budgets get tighter and priorities shift. Let’s take a look at four key actions to take right now that will not only help you prove your worth to your customers but will allow you to see instant results. . Dive into Customer Health.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 6, 2022

Customer Success represents a large source of revenue-generation for SaaS businesses. Though Customer Success was originally regarded as a post-sale cost center, you can flip its narrative with the right metrics, positioning, and forecasting strategy. When people think of top-line growth, they often think of Sales.

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Amity

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Amity decided to sit down with David Apple , Director of Customer Success at Typeform, to learn about the structure and culture of Customer Success in this fast-growing startup, and to find out how it has evolved since its beginning 3 years ago. I got lucky! I got lucky! So I was just at the right place at the right time!

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ChurnZero

OCTOBER 30, 2020

What’s Next For Customer Success? No one knows what the future holds (as 2020 has made abundantly clear) but that didn’t stop us from asking top SaaS CEOs what’s next for Customer Success. In-product onboarding also affords CSMs more time to focus on the work that makes the greatest customer impact and return on effort.

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Totango

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Apple and IBM Peanut butter and jelly Martha Stewart and Snoop Dogg Marketing and Customer Success They are all unexpected — yet incredibly successful — partnerships. On the other hand, the CCO focuses on what happens after the sale, overseeing onboarding, customer support, driving retention, and minimizing churn.

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Amity

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

This article was originally published on WnTD's blog. In a recent post , we talked about Customer Success Metrics, one of which was the Net Promoter Score (NPS). There is some debate on whether NPS is a useful metric or not. First, let’s go back to basics on what NPS is. Get in touch with us.

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Amity

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Amity sat down with Bradley Liou , Director of Customer Success at Densify to ask him about all things Customer Success. Read our interview with Bradley to find out where Customer Success started at Densify, where it is now, and where it’s headed in the future. A lot of the time things are reactive.

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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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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Top 10 Blog Posts from 2020. 9 Well-Meaning Yet Harmful Phrases to Avoid with Customers. This article is a roundup of the not-so-obvious phrases you should avoid saying to a customer no matter how well-intentioned or deserved. Check out this post to see if you’re inadvertently sending subliminal negativity to your customers.

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Totango

JANUARY 29, 2021

When your product directly helps your customers achieve their goals, your brand wins their loyalty. Playbooks for customer success managers help drive processes that promote winning client outcomes. What Is a Customer Success Playbook? Why Do You Need Playbooks for Customer Success?

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ChurnZero

MARCH 31, 2022

Did you catch our Customer Success and SaaS metrics crash-course webinar with leading SaaS expert Dave Kellogg, of Dave Kellogg Consulting ? We’d like to extend a huge thanks to Dave for his expert insights below, which will help you choose and use Customer Success and SaaS metrics in a more nuanced and purposeful way.

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CustomerSuccessBox

APRIL 11, 2019

A lot of Customer Success leaders and Founders I have talked to since starting at CustomerSuccessBox have been confused about what customer tech stack to use at their SaaS businesses. So this got me thinking about what should be the Customer Success Tech Maturity Model. Level 1: CRM + Excel.

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SurveySparrow

MAY 6, 2020

You can track this using the NPS survey at customer touchpoints. Again, NPS is a metric that you can use to check this. Lack of customer support. NPS helps measure the effectiveness of the customer service team. NPS can help track its efficacy. There are many more reasons for customer churn.

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ChurnZero

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Customer Advocacy: How to Get Your Customers and Customer Success Team Invested. At ChurnZero’s virtual RYG, we held a panel discussion with Customer Success leaders who offered up their best advice on how to get both your customers and your team invested in your customer advocacy program.

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CSM Practice

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

A good customer success team drives continuous value to the customer at every point in the customer life-cycle journey. Customer success teams use playbooks and strategies in their ongoing efforts to ensure customers achieve operational success and maximize value from your solution offerings.

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CSM Practice

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

A good customer success team drives continuous value to the customer at every point in the customer life-cycle journey. Customer success teams use playbooks and strategies in their ongoing efforts to ensure customers achieve operational success and maximize value from your solution offerings.

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ChurnZero

MAY 14, 2021

How to Define, Measure, and Advocate for Customer Success Operations. Have you ever wondered: What’s the difference between Customer Success Management and Operations? When should I add Customer Success Operations and how do I advocate for the role? Rachel Yockey , Vice President of Experience at Realync.

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PeopleMetrics

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

It has become all too common for B2B SaaS companies to survey their customers once a year through a moment-in-time customer relationship survey, with at least one section addressing the ultimate question of Net Promoter Score (NPS). If you are focused on customer retention, then you need to know the answer to?the

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ChurnZero

JULY 17, 2020

This is a guest blog post by Irit Eizips , Chief Customer Officer and CEO of CSM Practice. . Keeping a renewing client allows you to increase your Customer Success team’s efficiency and grow your SaaS business. In some cases, the renewal process is owned by the Sales team (not the Customer Success team).

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ClientSuccess

JULY 5, 2017

For customer success leaders, these roadblocks or pitfalls can be the tipping point between customer satisfaction and customer churn. 5 Common Success Post-Sales Pitfalls. Understanding Post-Sales Lifecycle Management. Pitfall #1: The Sales Handoff (Poor Knowledge Transfer).

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CustomerSuccessBox

DECEMBER 6, 2021

With the grace of a number of Customer Success communities, we have come a long way to 2022. Where now we see a new avatar of the emerging customer success, with the rise of customer advocacy and expansion putting in greater emphasis on customer onboarding. Lincoln Murphy. Alex Farmer. Dave Jackson.

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 28, 2018

This has been quite a year for the ChurnZero blog. We’ve published +60 posts on a variety of Customer Success related topics like customer churn, product adoption, customer journeys and more. We even got a shout out from HubSpot as a top blog you should be reading in 2018. 10 Punny Customer Success Jokes.

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Lumoa

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Your customers are a wealth of information on how you can improve your marketing, sales, and customer experience. You’ll be richly rewarded: 78% of customers have a more favorable view of brands that ask for feedback. Strategically reacting to customer feedback can increase customer loyalty and retention.

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Gainsight

MARCH 31, 2020

If you’ve been following customer success blogs recently, a lot has been said and written about how to communicate better and consistently in times of crisis like the one we’re all going through. In addition, 60–70% of sales leaders polled are reporting delayed sales cycles.

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ChurnZero

JULY 7, 2020

This is a guest blog post by LiveAgent. . What makes a successful business? Most people would say a great product or an aggressive marketing and sales strategy. Even though this is partly true, the reality is that happy customers make successful businesses. Their primary focus is to drive customer satisfaction.

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