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[Q&A] Ready to Scale: The Tech Stack That Drives Your Digital Customer Success Program

ChurnZero

[A] Anika: We’re in a very, very different space where, first of all, you’re having Customer Success departments report into different heads versus, when I think of Customer Success before, it was a part of Marketing and Sales, and it was an add-on. You want to be considered like a Sales or a Marketing department.

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10 Things to Remember When Making the Move from AMs to CSMs

Education Services Group

AMs tend to be sales-focused. Customer Success Managers, on the other hand, should focus on the customer’s goals and what’s bringing the customer the most value. Too often, however, customers perceive CSMs to be more interested in making sales than in driving their success. Consider the compensation.

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Not Just for Startups: Test and Refine CS Strategy with an Incubation Model

Education Services Group

A CS incubation model is a system to define, test, and iterate a new CS process with a portion of your customer base. If proven effective in incubation, you then roll the new process out to the rest of your team of Customer Success Managers and your entire customer base. Customers change.

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[Q&A] Ready to Scale: The Tech Stack That Drives Your Digital Customer Success Program

ChurnZero

[A] Anika: We’re in a very, very different space where, first of all, you’re having Customer Success departments report into different heads versus, when I think of Customer Success before, it was a part of Marketing and Sales, and it was an add-on. You want to be considered like a Sales or a Marketing department.

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Forrester: Advocate Marketing Is Critical To B2B Success

Influitive

Brands that focus on developing personal relationships with customers and driving engagement across their lifetime are better able to win, serve and retain customers. Advocate marketing, along with stronger customer success programs, ensures we can do that.”. Companies can benefit from ad-hoc acts of customer advocacy.

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Learning to Adapt in an Ever Changing Market With Nate Brown

Kustomer

The Importance of Listening in Every Stage of a Customer’s Journey. Another useful tactic to adapting in a new market is understanding how the customer communicates in various stages of their experience. As the market and customer changes, companies change. It’s a referral based metric.

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6 Best Practices to Ensure Customer Success During COVID-19

CSM Practice

Recent research by Gainsight has shown that 65-80% of companies are on a hiring freeze for the next few months, 30-45% have halted hiring indefinitely, and 60-70% of sales leaders polled reported a delay in sales cycles. These numbers are an indication that sales are slowing down. 1. Communicate with Your Customers.