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5 Challenges to Proactive Customer Success

Amity

The history of Customer Success dates all the way back to 1995 when Concur became the first SaaS company by putting their product into what is today known as the cloud. In 2004, Salesforce came up with the Customer for Life program, and set the foundation for all of the reasons we are so focused on Customer Success today.

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Part 2: How Customer Support Drives and Grows Recurring Revenues

Team Support

ServiceXRG suggests that by establishing standardized service sales processes and leveraging service sales automation, companies can assure that every service opportunity adheres to configuration and quoting practices. Learn more at servicexrg.com.

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Part 2: The Strategic Role of B2B Customer Support

Team Support

This is the first step in customer retention. Collaborate: On th at note, rather than acting alone in response to customer issues as they have historically done, Support must collaborate with the customer success, sales, renewal, professional services, and training teams to coordinate customer engagement and retention strategies.

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10 Leaders Share Their Customer Success Career Paths

Amity

Customer Success seems to be the new “it” job in SaaS. From new grads to established professionals with various backgrounds, there’s a growing interest in how to get into Customer Success. I got started in this industry back in 2004, shortly after I graduated from college.

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Part 1: B2B Customer Support Transformation Imperatives

Team Support

Companies that are moving to subscription-based relationships with customers and seeking to bolster recurring revenue streams must leverage Support as an integral part of their post-sales strategies to sustain and expand customer relationships and drive recurring revenues.

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Part 3: The Strategic Role of B2B Customer Support

Team Support

In Part 1 and Part 2 of this blog series based on the whitepaper co-produced by ServiceXRG and TeamSupport, we introduced the concept of how to position the investment in customer support as a strategic value aligned to current business practices and target outcomes, and about the evolving role of B2B customer support.

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Part 1: How Customer Support Drives and Grows Recurring Revenues

Team Support

Product sales practices must fully embrace the role of services in helping customers to adopt and apply products. It is no longer sufficient to sell only product features and assume customers can be successful [after the sale]. Create Awareness and Demand for Services. Learn more at servicexrg.com.

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