Totango

APRIL 30, 2021

Comparing the cost of customer retention versus customer acquisition underscores why retaining clients is so important. Here’s how to calculate both kinds of costs and why retention should form part of a profitable business strategy. Calculating the Cost of Customer Acquisition. The result is your average CAC.

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Totango

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Customer Success Playbook Strategies: Mapping a Path to Winning Outcomes. A customer success playbook maps out a game plan you can use to automate successful outcomes for your clients. Then we’ll consider the benefits of using success playbooks. What Is a Customer Success Playbook?

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ChurnZero

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

This is a guest post by Sara Barnes , vice president of Customer Success at Skilljar. Every Customer Success team focuses on keeping customers engaged and ultimately, preventing churn. In fact, customer education helps scale Customer Success , as the company scales business. .

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Totango

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

We all want to believe that we have a strong relationship with our customers. The digitization of business has created a customer-centric economy, and people switch services until they find the solution that suits them. Creating a strong customer engagement strategy makes sure every interaction delivers that value.

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Totango

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Customer retention is the continuation of a valued service. In B2B terms, it is still possible to maintain your customer relationship and even improve customer retention during uncertainty, but you will need to focus on five key steps: Understand Your Customer. Proactively Personalize Engagements.

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Kapta Customer Success

MARCH 13, 2023

Customer engagement is essential to long-term account retention and your company’s bottom line. We’ve talked about the connection between delivering customer value and customer retention.

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Education Services Group

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

As technology and tools for Customer Success evolve, pioneers in the industry are testing out new engagement strategies every day. In the Inaugural Customer Success Leadership Study , we found that many CS teams are still in the early stages of maturity when it comes to their tech stacks. When 72% of U.S.

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ChurnZero

MARCH 28, 2023

Early-stage SaaS businesses tend to put most of their focus on acquiring net new customers. For a little while, customer retention is a manageable task with existing staff. When you have only a handful of customers, your sales team, product team, customer support team—and even executives—can join forces to keep them happy.

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Totango

MAY 5, 2020

These businesses will be well-situated to speak to, lead, and ultimately retain customers through customer retention strategies in B2B like the following: Re-evaluate Current Digital Engagement Strategy Make Use of Key Engagement Metrics Personalize Communication Foster Lasting Relationships.

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Gainsight

APRIL 10, 2023

By Harshi Banka, Senior Director of Strategy, Digital Customer Success The last few months have been rough for SaaS businesses with multiple headwinds including the economic downturn, rising inflation, and decreasing investments. There’s no doubt that customer success (CS) has become existential to SaaS.

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Totango

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Building out customer success manager automation depends on the effective use of email and in-app messaging. Planning strategic emails at key milestones in your customer journey can help you deliver a smoother customer experience, yielding higher satisfaction and better retention rates. Onboarding Welcome Messages.

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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.

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Totango

AUGUST 21, 2020

An enterprise cannot survive without satisfied customers to support it. This has always been true, but never has it been more true than in the era of customer-centricity that we now live in. Investing in, and effectively managing, customer success is vital to ensuring the long-term stability and growth of your enterprise.

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Totango

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

What do you do when you realize that 95 percent of your customer base is tech-touch and you don’t have the manpower to properly engage with and measure this group? Getting Started: Tips for Implementing an Effective Customer Engagement Strategy. How many employees support digital engagement at Aruba?

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Totango

JANUARY 15, 2019

The most desirable customer in the world is your customer. While it’s no doubt a thrill to pursue and persuade a new customer to work with your enterprise, for software and subscription-based businesses, the real value lies in customer retention. The 5 Best Customer Retention Strategies for Subscription Businesses.

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ChurnZero

MAY 5, 2020

As businesses are thrust into uncharted territory, figuring out how to navigate customer retention strategies to minimize churn will determine their survival. For those who were unable to attend or would like a session refresher, below are the top takeaways for crafting your customer retention game plan. .

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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.” Are your compensation plans setting your business up for longer-term success or subscription contraction? saastrannual.

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Totango

JUNE 4, 2021

Use These Great Customer Engagement Ideas to Increase Retention. Engagement is key to retention and referrals. Here are seven great customer engagement ideas you can easily put into practice. The most basic way to do this is to address customers by name, a technique familiar with email marketing.

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ChurnZero

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

6 Steps to Rock Your Customer Success Software Implementation. As an Implementation Specialist here at ChurnZero, I can tell you firsthand that neglecting your Customer Success software implementation is a recipe for rework, or worse, abandonment. Trust the process. They know their tool best. Now go get them!

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CustomerSuccessBox

APRIL 19, 2021

The real skill behind customer retention is helping customers achieve success. It would be great if you could rely directly on customer feedback to understand their satisfaction levels but more often than not these satisfaction surveys are lagging indicators. By then 50% of your customer base has already churned.

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CSM Practice

MAY 13, 2020

As a response to help companies mitigate the impact of COVID-19 on Customer Success organizations around the globe. CSM Practice conducted a weekly survey to observe potential improvements with how the crisis impacted SaaS companies and customer success management teams. Sales and Customer Success.

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Totango

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

With a focus on lifetime customer success rather than on quick revenue raising, you can turn your renewal process into a celebration of an ongoing partnership. It’s a customer-centered approach that reflects the broader economy we currently operate under, one where the customer expects individualized treatment.

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Education Services Group

MAY 28, 2021

Let’s talk Customer Success Plans. What’s a Customer Success Plan, you ask? Well, let’s just say it’s the wind beneath your customer’s wings. It’s the recipe for their success. My amazing metaphors aside, Customer Success Plans are essentially the “what” and “how” of delivering on your CS strategy.

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Totango

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

What do you do when you realize that 95 percent of your customer base is tech-touch and you don’t have the manpower to properly engage with and measure this group? Getting Started: Tips for Implementing an Effective Customer Engagement Strategy. How many employees support digital engagement at Aruba?

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CSM Practice

DECEMBER 19, 2021

This saying applies to your Customer Success Technology stack more than anything else. The tools in your stack must work together to provide an exceptional customer experience. . Customer Success is a rapidly evolving function. Yet, Customer Success is often undervalued and underfunded.

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ChurnZero

MARCH 5, 2021

Have you ever bemoaned this common refrain after a customer unexpectedly churns? Your customer said they were happy. Customer engaging? Customer satisfied? Customer seeing results? But still, when presented with the opportunity to leave, your customer just up and churns on you. Confirmation Bias.

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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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CustomerSuccessBox

JUNE 24, 2022

This blog focuses on the excellent customer success techniques that will help you improve your recurring revenue. This blog will walk you through some genuine reasons why you should not miss out on investing in Customer Success. Why you should invest in Customer Success? Easy retention via customer success.

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CustomerSuccessBox

AUGUST 31, 2021

Customer Success is the key to driving retention, renewals and thereby, increasing recurring revenue for the business. Although it’s upon the Customer Success team to drive retention, renewals, etc., Senior Customer Success (CS) leader VP of Customer Success Head of Customer Success.

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Education Services Group

APRIL 21, 2021

If you’re wondering what the ESG Customer Success Maturity Model is and why we built it, go back and read the first installment of this three-part series. Here in part two, I’ll talk about the second phase of Customer Success maturity – Operationalize. If you’ve already devoured that and are ready for more, read on!

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CustomerSuccessBox

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

However, what has changed more radically is the way the technology is purchased and adopted by a customer. Undoubtedly, this change has crept into the Customer Success world as well. This is why the blog explains why the ‘ LAER model in Customer Success’ is too important a topic to ignore. What is a LAER model?

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inSided

APRIL 7, 2020

“ The leading indicators for customer retention and expansion tend to be around the level of engagement between the client and the vendor. ” — Ashvin Vaidyanatham (Chief Customer Officer at Gainsight) and Ruben Rabago (Chief Strategist at Gainsight) in their book, ‘The Customer Success Professional's Handbook.’.

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Totango

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

What do you do when you realize that 95 percent of your customer base is tech-touch and you don’t have the manpower to properly engage with and measure this group? Getting Started: Tips for Implementing an Effective Customer Engagement Strategy. How many employees support digital engagement at Aruba?

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CustomerSuccessBox

DECEMBER 4, 2018

In the SaaS world, the customer-acquisition-cost (CAC) is high and the initial payment is peanuts compared to the lifetime value (LTV) of the customer. That means the customer needs to renew their contract more than once. You may believe that if the customer does not have any problem, the customer will renew the contract.

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CustomerSuccessBox

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The SaaS industry has realized how important Customer Success and user retention are. To achieve long-term growth, customer success teams need the best software that helps them know their customers well and satisfy them. CustomerSuccessBox is rated as the Top Customer Success Software by G2.

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Retently

MAY 9, 2024

Boosting your B2B customer retention rates is incredibly important for nurturing a sustainable business. It’s a thrill to land a new customer, no doubt. Many companies get caught in this cycle because they prioritize new customer acquisition so heavily that they overlook how many customers they’re losing along the way.

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Gainsight

DECEMBER 14, 2020

So even one negative experience could cause a customer to leave and never return. At scale, this could cost your business its customer retention rate. This means that now, more than ever, is the time for companies to evaluate and optimize customer journeys to keep their customers engaged and happy.

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