Gainsight

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

When it comes to building long-term scalability and efficiency for their businesses, more and more SaaS companies are turning to channel and ecosystem partners as a critical strategy within their go-to-market programs. Ensuring clear and effective communication pathways between partners, vendors, and customers is paramount.

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ChurnZero

APRIL 11, 2024

Every customer success leader I know is being asked to do more with less. Being asked to do more with less has turned the concept of digital customer success from a nice-to-have to a must-have. Being asked to do more with less has turned the concept of digital customer success from a nice-to-have to a must-have.

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Totango

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

After several years of relentless pursuit of new business, 2023 made it clear to many companies that growth at all costs is not a sustainable strategy. Forrester recognizes the value customer success platforms can provide to B2B companies looking to foster retention, growth, and advocacy.

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Education Services Group

AUGUST 16, 2022

Customer Success Plans are key to starting your customer relationships off on the right foot. CSMs use them to guide their first interactions with the customer, helping them clarify and set expectations, set up an action plan for moving forward, and establish critical milestones to work toward through the customer journey.

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BirdEye

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Investing in processes and tools that contribute to customer delight significantly impacts the bottom line. This blog details the panel discussion on Grow sales by delighting customers with George Grigoryan – Marketing Director, SEV, and Vandana Agarwal, VP of Pre and Post-Sales, Birdeye and Justin Meredith.

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Gainsight

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

In the ever-evolving landscape of SaaS, Customer Success (CS) teams are facing a paradigm shift. Once primarily focused on customer satisfaction and retention, CS teams are now being called upon to think more commercially and demonstrate their direct impact on business revenue. Check out the full video below.

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One Millimeter Mindset

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Social communication etiquette is going over the top. In spite of the topics I scheduled on my editorial calendar, the theme of this week’s posts is rapidly becoming Communication. Communication between leadership, management and front line employees. This strategy continues our social communication. Have you noticed?

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CustomerSuccessBox

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

A seamless handoff from sales to customer success to implementation is necessary to deliver the promised early value. This is crucial to make your customer’s experience easier. CS professionals must have felt the grunt of a bad transition from Sales to Customer Success. Customer Retention.

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ChurnZero

APRIL 2, 2021

The Ripple Effect of Customer Success Software. When you contain the idea of and responsibility for Customer Success to a single department, it’s like a drop in the ocean. To spread Customer Success everywhere, you need to make a ripple. To spread Customer Success everywhere, you need to make a ripple.

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Amity

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

With Elizabeth's permission, we are republishing and sharing it with our community. The sales to customer success handoff is one of the most important intersections in the customer journey. It can make the difference between successful product adoption or a churn risk waiting to happen.

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ChurnZero

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Whether Customer Success or Sales should own the renewal, expansion, and upsell is a hot-button issue in today’s SaaS sphere. This Customer Success showdown, which took the form of an Oxford-style debate, was held at BIG RYG, ChurnZero’s annual Customer Success conference.

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Amity

APRIL 30, 2018

When one thinks of a Customer Success Manager, the ‘Happy To Help’ attitude is what usually comes to mind. That is what a CSM is; a multi-tasking, proactive individual who will always be more than willing to help a customer out , drive growth, add value to the company, all the while making the job look like a piece of cake.

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Gainsight

AUGUST 17, 2020

In the Customer Success world, as one CS exec told me recently, it’s become clear that “this is our moment.” With new business sales slowing and clients needing more help than ever, Customer Success has proven to be existential in 2020. CS 2020 Requires Alignment Across Customer Success, Sales, and Product.

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Totango

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Hiring team members with the right customer success manager skills is critical for the effectiveness of your CS team and strategy. We’ll cover these below, along with five best practices to follow when bringing a new customer success manager aboard your team. What Is a Customer Success Manager (CSM)?

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ChurnZero

JUNE 15, 2023

With less budget to go around, some SaaS companies are merging customer success and account management into one function that’s responsible for an account’s business strategy, product adoption, and value realization, as well as its renewal and expansion. CRMs are absolutely a must for automating and scaling sales operations.

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Totango

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Do you continue to get the same level of attention from that company’s customer success (CS) team? Or does communication slow or stop? As you can see from the customer’s perspective, the attention you offer after a sale is completed is just as important as the attention you show during the sales process.

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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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Gainsight

APRIL 15, 2022

Many of the world’s greatest companies find themselves in a similar situation today. Customers have more control than ever before, and companies that don’t build their offerings with the customer at the center will be left behind, sooner rather than later. . Customer success is a team effort, more Avengers than Batman.

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Gainsight

MARCH 7, 2022

Over the past few years, we’ve been keeping our eye on an incredibly positive trend in the most successful companies: closer, more collaborative relationships between Customer Success and Product teams. . And now, we’re seeing more and more companies recognize that neither team can drive success by themselves.

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Gainsight

MAY 31, 2022

According to Bill Thrash, SVP of Customer Success at Critical Start , customer success has grown from a niche practice to a culture driver in organizations. Critical to that culture, and the effectiveness of customer success, is the CS team’s relationship with sales.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 13, 2023

However, it’s tough to predict the future alone — so we asked Customer Success leaders across the industry to share their top trends for 2023. Second, the power of AI in customer experience will become more evident and accessible—an innovation we at ChurnZero have jumped on with the introduction of Customer Success AI.

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ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

This is a guest article by Michael Su , senior consultant of Customer Success, The Success League. Customer Success is still a young field and a new concept for many companies. When I ventured out to build my first Customer Success department at a tech software company, my leadership team thought I was nuts.

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Totango

JULY 11, 2023

G2 recognizes Totango as a leader in customer success G2 , the software industry’s largest and most trusted marketplace, unveiled their 2023 summer report, and there are cheers all-around, as Totango was honored with 15 leader badges, including “Most Implementable” in the Enterprise Implementation Index for Customer Success software!

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Totango

MAY 17, 2023

When it comes to understanding customer needs, marketing, sales, and CS teams are the experts, so it’s on us to work together to define today’s most valuable growth opportunities. VP of Customer Success at Veriforce, Andy Kearney. The idea that CS can own the entire customer journey is both unrealistic and outdated.

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CustomerSuccessBox

AUGUST 3, 2021

During the entire process with the customer, pre-sales and post-sales, there is a need for a close relationship between Customer Success and Sales. This close relation can be built with good communication and articulation between both teams. Steps to Establish a Successful Knowledge Transfer.

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ChurnZero

JULY 29, 2022

A customer’s decision to stay with you doesn’t come from a single interaction; instead, it reflects their entire experience across your organization. To tap retention as a growth channel, you need a customer success strategy that elevates your customer success teams and puts customers at the heart of everything you do.

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Totango

MAY 17, 2022

Wondering what is the best CRM for B2B sales? We’ll walk you through what customer relationship management B2B software is, what its benefits are, and a list of the top CRM companies, including the outstanding features and best uses for each. Easy access to customer contact data and notes. SAP Sales Cloud.

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ChurnZero

JUNE 9, 2023

Good sales teams typically get the budget, headcount and tools they desire because the function is tied to revenue. However, that’s not always the case for Customer Success (CS) teams even though they are often responsible for renewals and expansions. CS teams communicate using a different language than finance.

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Gainsight

JANUARY 26, 2022

In the era of Customer Success 2.0, the solid force of customer-centricity ensures that no department is isolated within your company, certainly not the Customer Success team. CS adds value to all parts of your business, whether Product, Sales, or Marketing. Creating Alignment Between Sales and CS.

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ChurnZero

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

In the business landscape today, Customer Success is a bit of an outlier. It’s newer when compared to more established departments like sales and marketing. One other thing that makes Customer Success particularly unique in an organization: formal Customer Success training, or lack thereof.

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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. These numbers are an indication that sales are slowing down.

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Education Services Group

MARCH 8, 2022

He ends the post asking, “How do you make sure that you communicate the right things to your customers?”. Well, those of us in Customer Success, specifically those in the Digital or Scaled CS space, are very familiar with this dilemma. Every department owns their own piece of the customer lifecycle pie.

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ClearAction

JULY 20, 2023

Customer Success Technology Buyer Guide Lynn Hunsaker Customer success technology is sure to grow in importance and array. I lived in Silicon Valley for the past 3 decades and saw the inside story across a wide variety of applications of customer success technology.

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Technology Customer Success Consulting ROI 62

West Monroe

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Since you’re not wearing VR goggles today to engage with customers, it’s safe to say you made the right decision in not overturning your sales organization to a virtual sales process. So, what is gen AI, and how can it impact your sales organization? Consider an e-commerce company that sells fashion apparel.

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Totango

APRIL 12, 2022

At Totango’s 2022 Global Executive Forum , customer success leaders from around the world came together to connect with their peers, share ideas and learn about new products and opportunities. Top 10 Insights from Customer Success Executives. The Customer Comes Before the Product. Never Stop Iterating.

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Totango

JUNE 10, 2022

As we saw in our 2021 State of the Customer Success Industry and Salary Report , the role of Customer Success Manager (CSM) is one of the fastest-growing jobs in the industry. In a recent webinar titled “Navigating Your Customer Success Career Path”, Totango’s Sr. Customer success is still new.

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Totango

JUNE 3, 2022

Customer success email templates form a foundation for effective CS automation. While customer success management can result in a rewarding payoff, it can also be very time-consuming if you don’t use the right strategies. Customer check-ins. Sales to Customer Success Handoff Email Template.

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