CSM Practice

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

On the thirteenth episode of the 1 to 10 podcast, we sat down with Irit Eizips , CEO and Customer Success Evangelist at CSM Practice. What would it be like if you were the customer in your business? Because when your customers succeed, your business succeeds. In a nutshell, this is why customer success is so important.

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CSM Practice

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

On the thirteenth episode of the 1 to 10 podcast, we sat down with Irit Eizips, CEO and Customer Success Evangelist at CSM Practice. What would it be like if you were the customer in your business? Because when your customers succeed, your business succeeds. In a nutshell, this is why customer success is so important.

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Customer Success eBook Roadmap Customer Journeys 49

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.

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Customer relationships Roadmap Customer Success eBook 59

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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Centercode

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Our team was right there, too, and we’re proud to say that we continued not only to support our customers with our platform and services, but we supported testing professionals with in-depth content to help them adapt and improve. How Defined Processes Are Shaping Success in 2020 (Blog). Engaging Testers.

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Gainsight

APRIL 21, 2022

We compiled our best Product Experience resources from last year, from blogs, ebooks, and webinars. As the category creator of customer success and the definitive thought leader, this list is filled with the help you need to deliver the ultimate Product Experience for your customers. Creating a Product Roadmap?

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ClientSuccess

JULY 1, 2019

If there is one thing customer success professionals know, it’s that ensuring customer satisfaction with a product or solution requires the attention and resources of far more than a single person. The most successful organizations don’t simply have customer success teams ; they have customer success companies. .

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Customer Success Managers have a lot on their plate. . CSMs are responsible for the challenging but rewarding task of keeping their customers engaged with their company, quelling any major concerns or issues customers are facing, and helping customers extract the most value from their product. .

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 10, 2020

As SaaS gets more serious about Customer Success, their representation on the executive and C-suite level will follow (as envisioned in our 2020 Customer Success predictions ; see #2). Based on LinkedIn research, Customer Success r oles saw 34% annual growth —qualifying them as one of the top emerging jobs in 2020.

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Customer Success Chief Customer Officer Leadership Customer Retention 52

ClientSuccess

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

This last factor – resource allocation – can make or break a customer success team’s large account management process. Work in tandem with other departments: One of the great things about having enterprise customers is that they are heavily invested in your technology and your team as a whole.

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ClientSuccess

MARCH 8, 2018

Customer success leaders help drive an overarching strategy to ensure that customer success is a core pillar across the entire organization. When an organization is fully aligned around the success of current (and future) customers, it becomes easier to sign, work with, and grow these customer accounts.

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ClientSuccess

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Welcome to our blog series CSM from the Trenches, a community for frontline Customer Success Managers (CSMs) that discusses trends, best practices, and advice for the frontline. Being on the CSM frontline allows us to directly influence the success of our clients. I love that; as our clients are successful, we’re successful.

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ClientSuccess

SEPTEMBER 15, 2018

While it’s clear why Customer Success should be involved in executive initiatives and C-Suite planning, the reasoning behind including other departments in customer success strategy planning may take a little explanation. Three Reasons Why Marketing Needs a Seat at Your Customer Success Strategy Meetings.

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Gainsight

APRIL 5, 2022

For product leaders and managers who receive feedback from all directions, it can be especially hard to pin down a direction for product roadmaps in these multipronged companies. That insight can fuel your product roadmap decisions and shed light on ROI. User expectation gaps emerge. Replicate your best product experiences.

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ClientSuccess

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

While many customer success teams use NPS as a performance metric to gauge team members’ success, there is potentially even more value in the data from a customer marketing angle. A best practice is for customer marketing to create a separate NPS survey specifically for marketing purposes.

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Gainsight

MAY 3, 2022

With that info, you could add engagements or adjust your product roadmap, building a bridge to more frequent upgrades. It’s one reason nearly 60% of SaaS leaders mark customer renewals as a high priority. It sparks proactive customer success. Take control of your team’s product-led success efforts.

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Gainsight

OCTOBER 14, 2022

These are just a few of the questions that customer success (CS) experts explored in a recent episode of CS Essentials by Gainsight: Talking About ROI , a Success League Radio production. This series is also hosted by Tim Van Lew, Director of Customer Success Strategy at Gainsight.

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ChurnZero

APRIL 8, 2020

How Online Communities Create Customer Advocacy and Retention. This is a guest post by Danielle Juson is a Customer Success Community expert at inSided. Isn’t it great when you have a customer that not only keeps using your product, but shouts about how great it is too? developing customer advocacy is a must.

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ClientSuccess

JULY 23, 2019

Welcome to our blog series CSM from the Trenches, a community for frontline Customer Success Managers (CSMs) that discusses trends, best practices, and advice for the frontline. Being on the CSM frontline allows us to directly influence the success of our clients. I love that; as our clients are successful, we’re successful.

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ClientSuccess

APRIL 20, 2017

Paul Pizza is a veteran in the Customer Success space with his experience starting in the late 1990’s when most didn’t even know what the term meant. Back when Paul first started working with customers, “Customer Success” was considered a hybrid between account management and customer service.

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ClientSuccess

AUGUST 27, 2019

Welcome to our blog series CSM from the Trenches, a community for frontline Customer Success Managers (CSMs) that discusses trends, best practices, and advice for the frontline. Being on the CSM frontline allows us to directly influence the success of our clients. I love that; as our clients are successful, we’re successful.

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Gainsight

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Operationalize Your Customer Success Efforts. No single action will impact your NRR more than operationalizing your Customer Success team. Someone needs to be in charge of the big picture, strategic decisions that make it easier for your CSMs to do the work of fostering adoption and expansion in your customers. .

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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

A good customer onboarding process should…. Provide a clear roadmap – From the onset of your customer relationship you should share a strategic plan that outlines where you are going, and the steps needed to get there. Customer Success is about helping your customers realize value with your product.

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Customer Retention Return on Investment eBook Roadmap 59

SmartKarrot

JANUARY 5, 2021

The evolving field of Customer Success owes its origin and rapid rise to a passionate community of pioneers, proponents, and practitioners. Here’s our Top 50 Customer Success Influencers list celebrating those frontiersmen and women pushing the boundaries and making Customer Success the force that it is today.

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Wootric CX Blog

MARCH 1, 2020

An established SaaS company that’s moved beyond the startup phase wants to unite its various customer Experience efforts. The goal is a unified view of the customer journey, and the implementation roadmap looks something like this: Switch support service + send CSAT surveys after each closure. Upgrade the NPS program.

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Gainsight

JANUARY 30, 2023

How can Product and Customer Success teams actually improve the product experience? Deploying In-product Communications to Guide the User Experience Guides, knowledge centers, and surveys are well-known and widely used tools to help customers learn and succeed with a product. But what does that look like in practice?

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ChurnZero

MARCH 31, 2020

7 Key Takeaways from ‘Fortifying Customer Relationships During COVID-19’ Webinar. During this time of economic instability, it’s critical that Customer Success teams protect and provide business continuity to their customers. Our panelists included: Ashley Willhalm, Director of Customer Experience at PipelineDeals.

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Customer relationships Leadership Customer Success Communication 72

ClientSuccess

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

I love that; as our clients are successful, we’re successful. We’re lucky to have this week’s frontline Customer Success Manager (CSM) best practice come from Mieke Maes of Intuo. Mieke has been a Customer Success Manager for Intuo since August 2017, but brings with her nearly 3 years of Customer Success experience!

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ClientSuccess

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Customer success, like any other department, is dependent on metrics. Customer success managers (CSMs) and leaders rely on these metrics to ensure they’re delivering the best possible experience to customers, and to determine repeatable workflows. During the Onboarding Stage, customer success takes center stage.

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ClientSuccess

APRIL 7, 2017

Once a deal is signed, the ink is dry, and the kick off meeting is scheduled, it’s time for your customer success managers (CSMs) to drive a proactive approach to an awesome customer experience. This is where you move from logo to people oriented customer success. The Hand Off of People’s Goals and Needs.

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ROI eBook Customer Success Roadmap 40

ClientSuccess

DECEMBER 18, 2017

This series, now a community for frontline Customer Success Managers (CSMs) , discusses trends, best practices, and advice that can help the frontline. She brings with her nearly 10 years of customer success, coaching, and other customer-facing experience! From : Erica Newell , Lead Client Success Manager.

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SurveySparrow

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

The simplest formula for Customer Lifetime Value that anyone with technical knowledge can understand is this: Customer Lifetime Value = Customer’ spend – Cost of acquiring – the cost of marketing – the cost of serving the customer. 7 Create a knowledge base.

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Pointillist

JULY 25, 2018

Before we get into the details of how to plan for a smooth and successful data integration, it is helpful to understand the basics behind it. During onboarding, the data will remain on your Pointillist-hosted SFTP server until the customer success team has created and quality-checked the requisite ingestion script.

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