CSM Practice

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Guessing has no place in a changing customer success industry. Now more than ever, customer success leaders must use relevant and actionable customer success metrics to make guided decisions and strategies to deliver success. Customer Health Metrics. Customer Usage Metrics.

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 21, 2022

1/ Crash course in Customer Success and SaaS metrics. Presented by: Dave Kellogg , principal, Dave Kellogg Consulting. Many people think of SaaS and CS metrics as black and white. But the truth is, there are many ways to calculate and interpret—and game—metrics. What metrics do investors care about most?

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Totango

JUNE 24, 2022

Customer success in SaaS differs from CS in other industries. The software service industry presents unique challenges for customer success management while also creating unique opportunities that call for specific strategies. Read on to learn the keys to effective customer success for SaaS clients.

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ChurnZero

JUNE 17, 2022

It requires a genuine understanding of your customer cohorts and their goals, perceptions, and needs. To share how to choose, track, and act on effective onboarding metrics, ChurnZero Customer Success Enablement Team Lead Bree Pecci joined CSM Practice for a drill-down into customer-centric onboarding.

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CSM Practice

MAY 13, 2020

To those of us in customer success, it is even more clear that the pandemic has caused an unprecedented shift that is already affecting our customers, their journeys, their expected business outcomes , and our ability to fulfill them. 1. Be Customer-Centric.

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CSM Practice

APRIL 13, 2021

Being a Customer Success Manager (CSM) is a non-stop learning process that requires hands-on management at every stage. At its most basic, customer success seems simple; however, in practice, it is complex and challenging as it should help to satiate every customer’s needs. . Challenges.

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Lithium

JULY 31, 2023

Updated insights include new analytics APIs, health and engagement metrics, reports, and more. AI-enhanced moderation: Supercharge community management with workflow automation, organization, and AI-driven content filters that let you spend more time on strategy and less on routine tasks.

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Retently

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

From tracking the real, long-term results of a campaign to judging the potential for customers to refer your company to their friends and colleagues, Net Promoter Score is a versatile metric that belongs in any marketing manager or consultant’s arsenal.

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ClientSuccess

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

While the customer success world (and the larger SaaS economy in general) has experienced its fair share of ups and downs this year, the industry will be even more prepared in the future. . Here are 3 predictions for 2021 that will help customer success teams and leaders alike strategize, plan, and prepare: .

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 25, 2024

How will customer success jobs, and the skills they require, evolve in 2024? With technology advancing and customer expectations rising, customer success has become an essential force driving business growth and customer loyalty within the SaaS industry.

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ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Customer Success is gaining ground, influence, and budget within organizations. Based on a detailed survey of more than 1,000 Customer Success leaders, this is the most comprehensive study of the evolving CS landscape to date. Download your full copy of the 2022 Customer Success Leadership Study here.

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Gainsight

JANUARY 4, 2021

As we embark on the New Year, now is the perfect time to catch up on Gainsight’s Customer Success resources from 2020. We compiled our best Customer Success resources from last year, from blogs to ebooks to webinars and podcasts. Launching Customer Success. Customer Success Team Management.

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Education Services Group

MAY 20, 2022

I see a lot of chasing in Customer Success: chasing metrics that our data doesn’t support, chasing insight, chasing answers to the reason customers churn, and chasing a haven of exemplary plays and processes to mitigate risk and drive value. Stop chasing metrics without documenting the business outcomes they are driving.

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Totango

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Our increasingly customer-centric economy has established Customer Success as critical to every business’s overall strategy. Any CS team member knows that happy customers make for a thriving enterprise, but the same cannot always be said for C-level executives or your board of directors.

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Totango

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Luckily, there’s a measure for that, too: customer satisfaction metrics. Customer satisfaction quantifies the degree to which a customer is pleased by a product, brand, or overall experience. How to Track Customer Satisfaction with NPS . That’s why the Net Promoter Score (NPS) is a key metric to track.

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ChurnZero

MARCH 24, 2023

The Customer Success industry is constantly evolving and developing new strategies for driving customer-led growth. 1: Is NPS a Customer Success metric? Stephanie Berner: My answer is unequivocally no— Net Promoter Score (NPS) should not be a CS metric. Here’s why. Value is very hard to measure.

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ChurnZero

MARCH 24, 2023

The Customer Success industry is constantly evolving and developing new strategies for driving customer-led growth. 1: Is NPS a Customer Success metric? Stephanie Berner: My answer is unequivocally no— Net Promoter Score (NPS) should not be a CS metric. Here’s why. Value is very hard to measure.

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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The working relationship between customer success and support teams can make, break, or even supercharge your customer experience, as Jaclyn Mullen of TheLoops showed attendees of ChurnZero’s most recent webinar. We often hear that change starts at the top, but that’s not always the case; you can manage up too.

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Gainsight

AUGUST 14, 2020

I often get asked by Customer Success executives how to discuss retention metrics with their Board of Directors. The focus on retention metrics has been further accelerated in this climate as companies double down on Customer Success. Metrics and names censored for confidentiality.

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CustomerSuccessBox

MAY 31, 2021

The Customer Success Manager has an integral role in ensuring healthy Customer relationships by evaluating and analysing the customer needs and acting as a customer advocate to promote customer loyalty. Essential Responsibilities of Customer Success Managers. Onboarding Customers.

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Gainsight

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Many leaders say they’re focused on building (or just maintaining) their customer success teams. In this challenging economic environment, customer education and community are seen as nice-to-have extras for down the road. What if you could use customer education and community to scale customer success and do more with less?

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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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Totango

AUGUST 21, 2020

In our latest installment in the CXO Series , we sat down with Keith Strodtman, COO, Customer First and Shelby Czarnota, Vice President, Customer Success Business Solutions at SAP as we discussed SAP’s Transformation and Innovation in Customer Success and why they deployed Totango as their One Customer Success Platform.

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ClientSuccess

AUGUST 3, 2020

Over the last decade or so, the role of the Customer Success Manager has exploded, due in large part to SaaS organizations and updated onboard models. The increased visibility of the customer success function introduced the need for the customer success technology platform, and the industry hasn’t looked back since.

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ChurnZero

MARCH 17, 2022

As a follow-up to our well-attended webinar on “ The startup’s guide to Customer Success ” with Jennifer Chiang (the author of the book by the same name), we wanted to get more of our audience’s questions answered. Speaker: Jennifer Chiang , Head of Customer Success, Seso.

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Gainsight

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

And as you can tell by the chart, the runaway winners in the minds of most executives are: Expansion and Cross-sell: Want to reduce customer acquisition cost (CAC) ? Sell to your existing customer. Replace 10 AEs with 1 Partner / Channel Manager. Automating Customer Success (CS): Can’t add more Customer Success Managers ( CSMs)?

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 17, 2021

They enable businesses to provide more value to their existing customers and bring in additional revenue as a result. . Considering that studies have shown that acquiring a new customer is exponentially more expensive than retaining an existing one, expansion management becomes more important than ever. Clarity is key.

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ChurnZero

APRIL 14, 2023

Alignment between Customer Success (CS) and product teams isn’t something that just happens—it takes work. The teams must have a shared understanding of customer needs, the company’s vision, and each other’s roles in fulfilling both. Think about it from a customer’s perspective. Both elements are important.

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ClientSuccess

AUGUST 30, 2018

Notably, Carine Clark , CEO of Banyan , presented at last year’s premier customer success leadership event in Sundance, Utah, and her message was both powerful and practical. The rest of the company includes your CEO, which, in Carine’s opinion, shouldn’t be as hard as many customer success teams expect.

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CustomerSuccessBox

JUNE 27, 2022

Customer Success Enablement may be a term you’ve never heard of, but you’ve probably heard of sales enablement. Although it’s a crucial idea and job in the Customer Success industry, it still hasn’t fully earned the recognition it deserves. Customer Success Enablement – Definition.

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ClientSuccess

OCTOBER 2, 2019

We often hear the roles of Customer Success Manager (CSM) and Account Manager (AM) used interchangeably. While yes, at the end of the day both roles work directly with customers to ensure success, the ways that they carry out the responsibility are notably very different. Defining the Role of a CSM.

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ChurnZero

JUNE 17, 2022

It requires a genuine understanding of your customer cohorts and their goals, perceptions, and needs. To share how to choose, track, and act on effective onboarding metrics, ChurnZero Customer Success Enablement Team Lead Bree Pecci joined CSM Practice for a drill-down into customer-centric onboarding.

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CSM Practice

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Every customer success metric you can measure falls into one of these four categories: Customer Health Metrics. Customer Financial Metrics. Customer Usage Metrics. Customer Success Team Performance Metrics. You can follow the links above for each metric category.

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CSM Practice

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Every customer success metric you can measure falls into one of these four categories: Customer Health Metrics. Customer Financial Metrics. Customer Usage Metrics. Customer Success Team Performance Metrics. You can follow the links above for each metric category.

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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.” Customer Success begins in Sales and needs to be part of your funnel. Customer Success Around the Web.

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Amity

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Amity decided to sit down with David Apple , Director of Customer Success at Typeform, to learn about the structure and culture of Customer Success in this fast-growing startup, and to find out how it has evolved since its beginning 3 years ago. It eventually became a size which I was not able to manage on my own.

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ClientSuccess

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

As SaaS organizations and their customers slowly but surely get used to the ‘new normal’ that 2020 ushered in, customer success managers and team leaders are more focused than ever before. 5 resources to set your CSMs up for success. 5 resources to set your CSMs up for success.

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