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Why Your Next Employee Should Be a Customer Success Manager

Retently

The Connective Tissue of a Company The first non-technical hire you make needs to be in Customer Success. Customer Success is the bridge between what your company does and what your customers need you to do. They offer a look into the minds of your customers and can shape the direction of your entire firm.

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Why You Should Throw Out Your CRM

Totango

You don’t need your CRM. How Your Customer Success Platform Can Replace Your CRM. Recurring-revenue businesses succeed by nurturing customer relationships over the entire lifecycle. Attempting to retrofit your CRM to accomplish this strategic initiative is likely an exercise in futility. Yeah, we said it.

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Trends shaping The Forrester Wave™: Customer Success Platforms report

Totango

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. Forrester recognizes the value customer success platforms can provide to B2B companies looking to foster retention, growth, and advocacy.

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Supercharging Your Tech Stack: The Relationship Between Your Customer Success Platform and CRM

Totango

In this series, we will discuss a different integration that Totango offers to help harness the powers of all of your technology platforms into one dynamic customer success platform to improve your team’s efficiency and take your customer success to the next level. Salesforce.

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Why a CRM is not sufficient for your Customer Success function?

CustomerSuccessBox

One is Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and the other is Customer Success (CS) platforms. According to a research study, 20% of the SaaS companies, especially small to midsize companies, often depend on their CRM to administer all customer life cycle tasks which do not suffice their Customer Success function.

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The Real Difference Between Customer Support and Customer Success

Retently

But there’s still one area that’s neglected all too often – Customer Success. As SaaS companies spring up, the essential Customer Success role is being rolled into Customer Service. What is the role of Customer Success? The Customer Success Manager (CSM) is thus not a passive role.

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Five Best Customer Retention Software Solutions for Customer Success

Totango

Customer Retention Software Cuts Down Client Churn. Customer retention software has become essential for effective SaaS customer success strategies. A winning SaaS business model must prioritize retaining customers, which is far more cost-efficient than acquiring new clients to offset churn. Onboarding.