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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ChurnZero

JANUARY 13, 2023

However, it’s tough to predict the future alone — so we asked Customer Success leaders across the industry to share their top trends for 2023. Second, the power of AI in customer experience will become more evident and accessible—an innovation we at ChurnZero have jumped on with the introduction of Customer Success AI.

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Totango

MARCH 4, 2022

B2B customer service is often confused with B2B customer success, but they are not the same. Despite their differences, however, they do share an intimate relationship – you need strong customer service to achieve customer success. What is B2B Customer Service? B2B vs. B2C Customer Service.

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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Customer Success Metrics that Your Investors and Board Care About. They care that you’re staffed appropriately to serve the needs of your customers, because ultimately that results in revenue. A huge part of how customer success collects intel and feedback from customers is by talking with them.

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Gainsight

AUGUST 29, 2021

When you think of customer success and marketing, you may be thinking that those two areas of the business—and their related strategies—aren’t very related. But the reality is that the entire company can benefit from having a solid customer success strategy and a customer-centric mindset. Overall customer health.

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CustomerSuccessBox

MARCH 10, 2022

Customer Success, as a function, is evolving fast. You might notice as a customer success manager that you’re spreading yourself too thin trying to take care of all of your customers at some point. Scaling entails accomplishing more with fewer customer success managers.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 4, 2024

It’s an exciting time to be in customer success. “2024 will continue to see the chief customer officer move into the leadership phase,” predicts ChurnZero CEO and co-founder You Mon Tsang. ” How will customer success teams evolve and adapt to meet those expectations, and what challenges will they encounter? .”

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ChurnZero

MARCH 11, 2022

You’re constantly either tackling incoming customer queries or firing off your own follow-ups. In that spirit, here are four email automation best practices you can use to take your Customer Success outreach up a notch. If you find yourself shooting off emails to customers just to fill the space, stop and ask yourself why.

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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Here’s the short and the long of it: if you’re a Customer Success leader who is looking for consolidated business, product, and customer data, then you can probably piggyback on the Business Intelligence (BI) tool your SaaS company already uses – and this will likely be heavily suggested (or even mandated) by your CEO or other C-suite leaders.

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CustomerSuccessBox

AUGUST 25, 2021

With a greater understanding of post-sales functions, many of the SaaS Businesses have already started implementing Customer Success as a dedicated functionality to run their Business. Customer health is not monitored. Health Score acts as an early warning signal, encouraging you to take proactive actions.

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Amity

OCTOBER 23, 2018

There is a long list of metrics for each pillar of Customer Success but for the purposes of this post I’ll focus on the key metrics for Customer Success Management and the metrics commonly used for CS as a whole (I’ll save customer support and customer education metrics for another post).

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 21, 2023

To make the right choices, however, you need a deep understanding of what your customers need and expect from you. A: Sometimes, the best way to understand if it’s having an impact is to validate it directly with a customer who has that need. For more customer success webinars and resources, click here.

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ChurnZero

AUGUST 13, 2021

Your digital-led Customer Success program will only be as good as the technology behind it. But how do you go about building your Customer Success tech stack the right way? During the webinar, we discuss: What a Customer Success tech stack is and why you should care. Hunter Montgomery , CMO, ChurnZero.

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Gainsight

DECEMBER 15, 2021

If you’ve been paying attention to our content the last few weeks, you know Gainsight is excited about our 10 New Laws of Customer Success. Of course, we know not everyone is as enthusiastic about the 10 New Laws of Customer Success. As our Chief Customer Officer Kellie Capote put it, the impact was “ squishy ” at best.

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CSM Practice

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

At early startup stages , customer success teams and other customer-facing teams are usually familiar with their customer base. This relationship-driven engagement model becomes difficult as the customer base becomes larger and more diversified. Why Should Customer Success Be Obsessed with Data?

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CustomerSuccessBox

AUGUST 27, 2021

Many startups in their early stages believe that customer success isn’t for them. This means you can be a startup with a seemingly scalable business model and still never become a scaleup for lack of (customer) growth. Thus, to scale up your startup you need to ensure customer success in relation to your business.

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Gainsight

APRIL 16, 2021

During my 5 years at Gainsight, from SDR to Solutions Consultant, a question that would come up regularly from prospects was, “All of this is great, the health scores, CTAs, etc., Whatever it might be, Horizon Analytics can visualize the required data to run a successful Customer Success Org. 1:1 Dashboard.

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Education Services Group

MAY 27, 2022

Last week, I listed out some common ideas and practices that we should not spend a lot of time chasing , leaving unanswered questions about what is worth the chase in Customer Success. With so many areas to stop chasing, where should we redirect our resources to get the most impactful results in the most efficient way?

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Gainsight

APRIL 2, 2021

I spoke with Kari Ardalan, Senior Manager of Customer Success Scaled Operations, who walked me through how her department succeeds. She was a field Customer Success manager with over ten years in CS. When Kari began there, the function of Ops was called “Customer Success Scaled Operations.”

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Gainsight

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

In a market where retention and customer expansion are a top priority for revenue growth, the effectiveness of health scoring can be a game-changer. You’ll know your customer health scorecards are an asset when you can confidently respond to the executive inquiry: “What does your customer base look like right now?”

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Totango

AUGUST 11, 2022

Finally, we’ll cover how customer success software can help you automate your digital client relationship-building strategy. Customer relationships are important for any business, but digital client relationships occupy a position of central importance for SaaS companies. How Digital Client Relationships Are Different.

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Totango

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

That is the idea behind tech-touch customer success solutions: thoughtful, relevant, value-driven communication delivered only when it has a positive impact on the customer. When your enterprise starts to fulfill its growth potential, it becomes impossible to greet every customer with one-on-one attention.

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CSM Practice

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Some foundational questions still require attention in our growing customer success community. These questions include customer success funding and reporting, as well as appropriate customer segmentation. Mature SaaS companies are generally more concerned with the elements of scaling customer success.

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CSM Practice

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

All businesses promise to deliver value to their customers. The starting point for excellent customer success is that the promises are kept, empowering the customers to achieve their business goals. However, customer success extends to driving long-term customer lifetime value through various processes and operations.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 26, 2021

A J oint Success Plan is a simple but powerful tool for outcome-based customer success management. It’s designed to help solution providers align with their customers’ business goals and objectives. Customer success continues to evolve as a practice within companies that enjoy recurring revenue models.

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Gainsight

OCTOBER 19, 2018

All over the world, companies are using data science to cultivate a healthy customer base. Let’s go on a quick journey to explore three major components of a holistic data science strategy and how these can improve your Customer Success strategies. The Limit Does Not Exist…Yet. Look around you.

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Thematic

MARCH 27, 2024

This highlights a disconnect: Customers crave positive experiences, yet businesses sometimes must listen proactively. Churn –  lost revenue, tarnished reputation, and wasted effort.  The Resource Optimization Attempting to improve every customer's experience can be expensive and time-consuming.

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BirdEye

AUGUST 3, 2023

However, it’s not just about wishful thinking; it’s about understanding the key metric to make this dream a reality – the customer satisfaction score (CSAT). Customer satisfaction is not just a feel-good metric; it directly impacts a business’s bottom line. Why measure CSAT score?

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Gainsight

APRIL 26, 2022

Similarly, many enterprise organizations feel a sense of accomplishment once they have established a customer success team. After metric-based customer success strategies have been put in place, companies typically enjoy a meaningful increase in their net retention rate (NRR). And why not? Why CS Ops Matters.

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Totango

DECEMBER 29, 2021

It uses data from sources such as support tickets and satisfaction scores to identify features that will meet customer needs. It further incorporates data after new features have been implemented to verify that customers are getting the desired results. How to Build a Customer-Centric Roadmap: Three Steps.

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Gainsight

MAY 6, 2020

This realization has caused many of our customers to declare “Thank God we have Gainsight right now!” [*actual customer quote]. Perhaps you have investigated Customer Success technology in the past but decided the timing was not right. Here are 3 reasons you’ll want to revisit CS technology right away: 1.

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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

In honor of the 61st Annual Grammy Awards that are airing this Sunday evening, we decided to pick some of the songs from the nominations list and create a Customer Success playlist to help power you through your day. The same holds true in the Customer Success world. ChurnZero Resource – ROI Calculator.

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ChurnZero

OCTOBER 8, 2021

This means understanding a customer’s goals and tailoring Customer Success strategies around what the customer wants to achieve. To do this, Customer Success teams are using Customer Success vectors. What are Customer Success vectors? That is, KPI metrics are lagging indicators.

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ChurnZero

AUGUST 13, 2021

Your digital-led Customer Success program will only be as good as the technology behind it. But how do you go about building your Customer Success tech stack the right way? During the webinar, we discuss: What a Customer Success tech stack is and why you should care. Hunter Montgomery , CMO, ChurnZero.

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Gainsight

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Before you say, “ thank u, next ” to 2018, check out Gainsight’s top blog posts, webinars, and resources of 2018. Top 5 Customer Success Blog Posts of 2018. You can’t have a business without a product and you can’t maintain a customer base without Customer Success. Click here to read the blog.

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 20, 2019

20 Customer Success Predictions for 2020 . T hat’s why we asked some of the top Customer Success (CS) leaders to share their industry predictions for 2020. Vanessa Hannay , Director of Customer Success, Muck Rack . Making customers happy is no longer good enough. . . The year was 1909.

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CustomerSuccessBox

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

Customer health score gathers all the significant data of customers and analyzes the future behavior for a predictable time. Measure customer health scores to know how your customers are performing in real time. Likewise one can find up-selling opportunities by analyzing the customer health score.

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