Totango

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

After several years of relentless pursuit of new business, 2023 made it clear to many companies that growth at all costs is not a sustainable strategy. This shift presents a compelling opportunity for B2B enterprises to invest in tailor-made tools for their post-sales organizations and customer success (CS) teams.

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Report Trends Customer Success Self Service 92

ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

The bar for providing a top-notch customer experience (CX) seems to be rising year after year, regardless of whether you operate in B2B or B2C. Companies that are able to meet these expectations will be able to retain more customers and increase satisfaction, which can ultimately lead to more revenue growth.

Customer Success 135

Customer Success How To Return on Investment Customer Centricity 135

Totango

APRIL 4, 2024

“What’s your company’s most important business outcome in 2024?” If you asked your customer success (CS) and sales leaders this question, what do you think each of them would say? Pre-sale interactions are unbelievably crucial for setting the tone for the overall customer experience. We need sustainable growth.

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Sales Customer Success Customers Communication 89

Team Support

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Managing customer relationships, on the other hand, has been incredibly challenging. We have always been focused on teams helping businesses support their customers through collaboration, and understanding customer relationships no matter where they are,” says Eric Harrington, co-founder and COO of TeamSupport.

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Customer relationships Company B2B B2C 45

Gainsight

DECEMBER 21, 2023

For a long time, proactive vs reactive was a common debate among Customer Success professionals. Now, the verdict is in, and everyone agrees that proactive Customer Success Managers (CSMs) are best positioned to drive value and deliver a better customer experience. Control over the customer experience.

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Customer Success Company How To Effort Score 52

Gainsight

APRIL 8, 2024

The role of Customer Success has undeniably been one of change in the last few years. According to Gainsight’s research, anticipating customer needs before they arise is key to fostering strong relationships and preventing churn. Well, creating a customer community is just taking this IRL version online and 24/7.

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Customer Success Training Engagement Customers 52

Retently

MAY 26, 2023

If you’re part of a brand management or customer success consultancy, Net Promoter Score® could be the all-in-one customer satisfaction metric you’ve been looking for. Designed to accurately assess customer sentiment, Net Promoter Score has several benefits that other customer satisfaction metrics don’t.

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Net Promoter Score Consulting NPS Customer Success 146

Totango

JUNE 15, 2022

When this happens, it’s critical to figure out a resolution that not only addresses the overall problem, but deepens your customer relationship in the long term. Customers want to feel valued, and if an organization is not meeting their needs promptly and satisfactorily, it can lead to frustration, and eventually, to churn.

Customer relationships 81

Customer relationships Chatbots Metrics Customers 81

TeamSupport

JULY 27, 2018

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) can have many different definitions, and can sometimes cause confusion. Does CRM include correspondence before a company becomes a customer, such as sales and marketing? Should CRM extend to all areas of a business, including internal IT teams who don’t interact with customers?

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Customer Relationship Management Customer relationships B2B Customer Success 45

Totango

JUNE 15, 2022

All companies are going through the exercise of evaluating their investments, deciding what to cut and what to keep, what strategies to use, and simply, how to weather the storm. We’ve been here before, however, and we know that during uncertain times, protecting your customer base is the most important thing you can do for your business.

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Customer Success Customer relationships Exercises Communication 102

ClientSuccess

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Have you ever wondered about the difference between customer success and customer support? While both are important for ensuring customer satisfaction and retention, they have different objectives and approaches. Unlike customer support, which is reactive, customer success is proactive.

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Customer Success First Call Resolution eBook Customer Satisfaction 70

ClientSuccess

JUNE 15, 2021

If there is one lesson that SaaS organizations learned during the last year, the importance of a loyal customer base can not be overstated. During a year where many companies had to make complex strategic decisions, and new sales weren’t exactly flying in at a rapid pace, existing customer accounts helped keep the lights on.

Customer Success 52

Customer Success Company eBook Customer relationships 52

Totango

MAY 24, 2022

Customer relationship management software is great for sales, but it isn’t a substitute for a customer success platform. A customer relationship management app is software used to store data about prospect and client interactions in a single database to support sales, marketing, and other business functions.

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CRM Customer Success Customer Relationship Management Customer relationships 90

ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

This week we feature an article by Noa Danon, co-founder and CEO of EverAfter, a company that helps build lasting relationships with customers and partners using data and content. She writes about how companies can keep their customers happy while looking for opportunities to sell more.

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Sales Company Customer Experience Customer Success 155

ClientSuccess

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Understanding Vectors by Vecteezy As an industry and a discipline, customer success managers are getting better at delivering a higher percentage of positive customer experiences. Making an apology to customers after things go wrong is positively related to satisfaction with restoring the customer relationship.

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Customer Success Customer Journeys eBook Exercises 80

Totango

JULY 28, 2021

Following best practices for hiring a customer success manager can make a critical difference in the quality of your customer relationships. Customer success managers serve as the face of your company in dealing with clients, playing a key role in ensuring satisfying experiences of your brand.

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Customer Success Management Guidelines Customers 118

Totango

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Customer success tools extend the functionality of your CS platform, multiplying its value. By connecting data from other success tools to your CS tool, you can view and manage all your customer data from one place instead of leaving it isolated in separate information silos. CRMs: Salesforce and HubSpot.

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Tools Customer Success Software Self Service 111

TeamSupport

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

One of the unique ways a SaaS company operates is that they exist in a constantly changing environment. But, with all these changes, problems can and will arise that require the attention of your customer team. Don’t have a customer success team built up and fully thriving in your business?

Customer Success 80

Customer Success Company Roadmap Communication 80

TeamSupport

JULY 27, 2018

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) can have many different definitions, and can sometimes cause confusion. Does CRM include correspondence before a company becomes a customer, such as sales and marketing? Should CRM extend to all areas of a business, including internal IT teams who don’t interact with customers?

Customer Relationship Management 40

Customer Relationship Management Customer relationships B2B Customer Success 40

Gainsight

OCTOBER 5, 2022

And we’d like to take that idea one step further—during an economic downturn it is vital that customer success teams continue to proactively build relationships. With new sales stagnant or declining, SaaS companies have to be laser-focused on customer retention, advocacy, and expansion to buck the downtrend and maintain growth.

Customer relationships 59

Customer relationships Roadmap Customer Success eBook 59

Gainsight

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Their dedication to revolutionizing customer experience. These leaders, embody a new era of Customer Success (CS) and Community leadership, where innovation and empathy converge to redefine customer satisfaction. In a world where customer retention reigns supreme, their insights are invaluable. What unites them?

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Customer Success Meeting Self Service Chief Customer Officer 52

ClientSuccess

JANUARY 11, 2023

The concept of customer success continues to rapidly gain traction as businesses strive to improve their customer experience. Here’s an overview of what we call the Golden Rule of Customer Success – 8 Guiding Principles: Understand customer needs, goals and motivations. In fact, a lot.

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Customer Success eBook Loyalty Conference 80

CSM Practice

JUNE 4, 2021

How do you know if your customer success team’s initiatives are truly working and which of them are not? Identifying appropriate metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs) from the get-go will help your high touch customer success team work more efficiently because the goals are clear-cut and measurable. .

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Customer Success Company Net Promoter Score NPS 52

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. If your company is B2B, this could be interpreted as average revenue per logo.

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Metrics Customer Success Net Promoter Score Effort Score 75

Team Support

MARCH 3, 2021

In Part 1 of this blog series we introduced the new imperative for customer support and customer success—achieving success for your customers… and for your bottom line. The second way is to use B2B customer support tools to proactively strengthen your customer relationships and reduce churn.

Customer Success 98

Customer Success B2B Customer relationships Customer Retention 98

Totango

APRIL 18, 2019

The new customer-centered economy marks a fundamental change in the business/customer relationship. It’s no longer wise for businesses to focus the majority of their efforts on seeking new customers. But they aren’t a guarantee of revenue; customers can cancel at any time. Nurture Every Customer Equally.

Customer relationships 74

Customer relationships Strategy Effort Score Customer Centricity 74

Totango

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Customer success tools extend the functionality of your CS platform, multiplying its value. By connecting data from other success tools to your CS tool, you can view and manage all your customer data from one place instead of leaving it isolated in separate information silos. CRMs: Salesforce and HubSpot.

Tools 88

Tools Customer Success Software Self Service 88

ClientSuccess

JANUARY 30, 2023

Vectors by Vecteezy As the growth of your business accelerates, you may face a difficult decision: when and how to scale up your customer success team. Scaling up at the right time with the right approach ensures that customers get the support they need while reducing burnout in your organization.

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Customer Success eBook Customer relationships ROI 70

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.

Customer Success 101

Customer Success Customer Centricity Customer Satisfaction B2C 101

Education Services Group

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

I’m talking about the 2022 Customer Success Leadership Study (much more exciting, IMHO). For the third year in a row, we’re tracking all the twists and turns unfolding in the Customer Success industry. Customer Success is growing, which is no surprise. that have a specialized Customer Success Platform (CSP).

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Study Leadership Customer Success Industry 98

ChurnZero

JANUARY 10, 2023

No matter what your role in Customer Success, creating and ideating on new content, strategies and engagements is key to the customer relationships you build and the results you drive. What is Customer Success AI ? How can AI help Customer Success? How do I use Customer Success AI?

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Customer Success Customers Course Strategy 98

Totango

JULY 19, 2021

And in this customer-centered economy, your customer success (CS) team is invaluable. The team’s goal is to retain your hard-won customers and help them grow by deepening the customer relationship and ensuring they are realizing value with your product every step of the way. Customer advocacy.

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Customer Success Tips Feedback Customers 123

Totango

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Hiring team members with the right customer success manager skills is critical for the effectiveness of your CS team and strategy. We’ll cover these below, along with five best practices to follow when bringing a new customer success manager aboard your team. What Is a Customer Success Manager (CSM)?

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Customer Success Management Exercises Social Media 91

ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Acquiring and keeping new customers is obviously at the core of running any successful business, and one thing about it is certain: for customers to keep using your product, they have to like it. When you pursue product-led growth from a Customer Success angle, you’re even more likely to build up that customer loyalty.

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Customer Success Net Promoter Score Metrics Strategy 98

Totango

JULY 16, 2019

This has irrevocably changed how enterprises need to approach customers. Instead of capturing the bulk of customer value at the initial sale, digital companies now rely on an ongoing process of renewal and upsell that can potentially continue for years. How to Nurture the Customer Relationship.

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Customer relationships Metrics Effort Score Customer Success 68

ClientSuccess

JANUARY 12, 2022

This is why establishing an executive sponsor program is critical to customer success – with an executive or team leader on your team working directly as an advocate for your customers, it’s easier to get more done both on the product side and on the customer success side. Toolkit: Team Leadership Toolkit.

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Customer Success eBook Measurement Leadership 75

ChurnZero

AUGUST 17, 2021

Of course, those of us in the Customer Success industry know that CS has become a very popular practice, department, and role specifically over the last 5-6 years, but what does this growing interest in the topic really look like? So, let’s take a look at interest in “Customer Success” as a search term on Google over time. .

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Trends Customer Success eBook Industry 98