Totango

JANUARY 21, 2020

The success of an enterprise depends more than ever on the Customer Success (CS) team. A CS team’s primary purpose is to build, maintain, and optimize lasting customer relationships by helping them fulfill and even exceed their own business goals. Customer Success Team Structure: Roles and Responsibilities.

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ChurnZero

MAY 20, 2021

When you build a Customer Success organization from the ground up, it’s easy to get caught in the trap of doing the wrong things well. To figure out where you should begin on your growth and scaling journey, it’s helpful to first orient yourself with where you stand using a Customer Success maturity model. Build Phase.

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ChurnZero

OCTOBER 30, 2020

What’s Next For Customer Success? No one knows what the future holds (as 2020 has made abundantly clear) but that didn’t stop us from asking top SaaS CEOs what’s next for Customer Success. In-product onboarding also affords CSMs more time to focus on the work that makes the greatest customer impact and return on effort.

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ChurnZero

AUGUST 21, 2020

So, to reprieve our collective cry for clarity, we asked industry experts to give their best predictions on the future of Customer Success. So, without further ado, here’s what our Customer Success experts had to say: You Mon Tsang , CEO, ChurnZero. Greg Saiz , VP of Customer Success, Betterworks.

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CSM Practice

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Video Title: Importance of Customer Success Strategy investments. Host: Irit Eizips , Chief Customer Officer & CEO | CSM Practice. Guest: Nick Mehta , Chief Executive Officer | Gainsight. 06:27 – Nick’s overview of cross-selling and upsell trends for existing customers. The Interview: .

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CSM Practice

OCTOBER 10, 2018

This summer, I received a call from one of my favorite customer success community leaders, Dave Blake who is the CEO for Client Success. Dave asked me if I might be interested in taking part as a judge for The Customer Success Innovator of the Year Award that takes place each year during CS100 Summit.

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CSM Practice

OCTOBER 10, 2018

This summer, I received a call from one of my favorite customer success community leaders, Dave Lake who is the CEO for ClientSuccess. As a judge, assessing the finalists included meeting with 5 forward-thinking brainiacs, who all shared fascinating new approaches to doing customer success better.

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Gainsight

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Our Chief Customer Officer, Ashvin Vaidyanathan , talks to customer success trailblazer Garin Landry in this conversation. Garin is the Insight Strategy Manager for Customer Operations and Strategy at Planview , a global leader in work and resource management (WRM). Ashvin: Hello, Garin!

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Gainsight

MAY 3, 2023

The future of Customer Success (CS) is digital, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be beautifully simple. At Pulse 2023 , the largest conference in the Customer Success industry, we’re dedicating an entire track to unpacking Digital Customer Success (DCS): Digital Strategies to Help You Achieve More With Less.

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Customer Bliss

MARCH 28, 2018

Implementing a Customer Success Strategy is a Cultural Transformation. Leading Customer Success in a B2B Business with Jose Vergara. Not everybody in the company will understand customer success because it’s a buzz word. Brainshark B2B Chief Customer Officer Diane Gordon.

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B2B Chief Customer Officer Net Promoter Score Culture 171

CSM Practice

OCTOBER 10, 2018

All About the Customer Success Performance Indicator . This summer, I received a call from one of my favorite customer success community leaders, Dave Lake (CEO for ClientSuccess ) who asked me if I might be interested in taking part as a Judge for The Innovator of the Year Award that takes place each year during CS100 Summit.

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Alida

JULY 6, 2017

For concrete ideas on how companies can scale their CX programs, we recently sat down with Kia Puhm , a Toronto-based executive with over 22 years of experience in customer success, marketing and software engineering. An organization should reflect a structure that will successfully support customers through their journey.

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West Monroe

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

These trends put added pressure on chief customer officers and the services leaders—including professional services/implementation, managed services, customer support, and customer success—whose functions are responsible for customer experience and ultimately growing net dollar retention (NDR).

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CSM Magazine

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Dan Darcy, Chief Customer Officer at Qualified , explains how business leaders can double down on amazing customer experiences to not only cut costs but grow despite a tough economy. We all know it’s more expensive to bring on a new customer than it is to retain an existing one.

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ChurnZero

APRIL 27, 2022

Understanding each of these will help you build an overall strategy that will ultimately help solidify your customer base. It’s important that you create a definition of value and communicate that to your customer. . These can vary from product to product or from customer to customer. Gathering customer feedback.

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Amity

JULY 26, 2018

In the growing field of customer success, it can be difficult to find the right people for the job, especially because some of them don’t even know that the job exists yet. This blog will teach you how to write an effective customer success job posting that will give you a pool of stellar candidates. Why and how?

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Amity

MAY 22, 2016

Customer success is an exciting and game-changing opportunity, and a prerequisite for the majority of B2B SaaS companies, but are you ready for it? According to an Aberdeen Report* on Customer Experience Management, the top three drivers for investing in customer experience management are: Improve customer retention – (42%).

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ChurnZero

MARCH 28, 2023

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. As you grow your customer base, you must also dedicate resources to Customer Success. A successful subscription model depends on retention.

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West Monroe

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

These trends put added pressure on chief customer officers and the services leaders—including professional services/implementation, managed services, customer support, and customer success—whose functions are responsible for customer experience and ultimately growing net dollar retention (NDR).

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ChurnZero

JULY 2, 2020

To understand the why and how behind putting the customer at the center of your business, we hosted a webinar with two founding team members of customer-first organizations: ChurnZero’s Chief Customer Officer Abby Hammer and inSided’s CEO/Co-Founder Robin van Lieshout. There are variations in how that can work.

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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

That’s why ChurnZero believes customer retention and loyalty are the most important stages of customer lifecycle management. For example, Forrester says just “11% of B2B decision-makers” say metrics for customer retention and loyalty are tracked by marketing leaders.

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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

That’s why ChurnZero believes customer retention and loyalty are the most important stages of customer lifecycle management. For example, Forrester says just “11% of B2B decision-makers” say metrics for customer retention and loyalty are tracked by marketing leaders.

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Amity

JULY 28, 2014

Customer success is an exciting and game-changing opportunity, and a prerequisite for the majority of B2B SaaS companies, but are you ready for it? So are you asking yourself right now (and maybe turn to your colleague to do the same), “Are we ready for customer success?”. Customer success doesn’t just happen.

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Talkdesk

AUGUST 25, 2015

Modern companies must adapt to this shift in customer attitudes by developing and iterating upon their customer success strategies. The days of focusing on customer acquisition alone are over,” explained Omer Gotlieb, co-founder and chief customer officer at Totango , at Talkdesk’s weekly lunch and learn session last Wednesday.

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Gainsight

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

If so, you may have seen the recent uptick in interest and advertisement for positions as a Customer Success Operations Manager or Administrator. For example, some companies ask for seven years of experience in CS operations in a field less than ten years old. Can you tell when a green customer is about to churn?

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Gainsight

DECEMBER 2, 2019

When a customer leaves, it’s known as churn. A successful customer retention strategy will build symbiotic business relationships, drive brand equity, and encourage customer loyalty amongst your customer base. Benefits of a Customer Retention Strategy. Webinars: Customer Retention Strategy Examples.

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

At such times, CCO is the only leader who has to bear the brunt; after all, customer success is at an adolescence phase! Due to this very reason, it becomes extremely difficult for the CCOs to pitch budget ideas for customer success successfully. . The CCO’s guide to winning budget for customer success.

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Amity

NOVEMBER 25, 2014

Amity had the good fortune of sitting down with a pioneer in Customer Success, Paul Teshima the original SVP of Customer Success (circa 2005) at Eloqua – now the Founder and CEO of Nudge Software , to talk about demonstrating the need for Customer Success. Here are the “aha!” We don’t think so.

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Gainsight

JUNE 9, 2021

Whether you wanted to hear about Customer Success (CS) and Sales alignment, scaling through hypergrowth, or health score iterations, we had a little something for everyone. Here are the track highlights: Chart-Topping Customer Success Operations. Top Picks: Simplifying Customer Success.

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ChurnZero

JULY 9, 2020

Sure, you won customers over to get the initial purchase, but what about your post-sale courting? That’s why they got into this relationship with you in the first place – and why customer success has become a non-negotiable. If you teach a customer how to use your product to fix a problem, you’re in the game.

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SmartKarrot

MARCH 24, 2022

In other words, you need to delight the customer consistently, repeatedly. So, how to delight the customer? As a Chief Customer Officer, your most important job is to create a culture of customer delight, and your entire team needs to be aligned towards that goal. Creating a culture of customer delight.

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Totango

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Your customer success team structure forms the organizational backbone supporting your CS strategy. A well-designed structure can help you streamline your operations for greater efficiency to deliver your customers better results. We’ll share four essential keys to structuring a customer success team.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 26, 2021

This is a guest blog post by Jay Nathan, Chief Customer Officer at Higher Logic. 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.

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CSM Practice

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Irit Eizips, CSM Practice Chief Customer Officer and CEO was featured by Business Therapy, an engaging series where a number of professional challenges and problems are discussed in depth. We specifically work with customer success teams, so we conducted a weekly survey to see what other customer success teams are going through.

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ChurnZero

OCTOBER 25, 2019

Q&A: Rethinking Customer Onboarding to Accelerate Success. . Increasingly, Customer Success teams talk about helping customers successfully achieve their desired business outcomes, yet they do very little during onboarding to help customers achieve the results they require. Q&A Recap.

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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. You will see it in the way customers talk about the product. Customers demand it.

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ChurnZero

JULY 2, 2021

SaaS companies must be cognizant of and weigh the implications brought about by a sole focus on these metrics when assessing the performance of and building strategies for Customer Success. NRR reflects your ability to retain and expand customers. Example: Your business enters January with an MRR of $27,000.

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