Help Scout

MAY 12, 2021

In this article, we discuss the role of support teams in retaining customers and show how to combine high-quality, empathetic customer service with a deliberate focus on business growth. What is customer retention and how is it measured? 15 practical ways customer service teams can improve retention.

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ClientSuccess

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Have you ever wondered about the difference between customer success and customer support? While both are important for ensuring customer satisfaction and retention, they have different objectives and approaches. Unlike customer support, which is reactive, customer success is proactive.

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ClientSuccess

JANUARY 11, 2023

The concept of customer success continues to rapidly gain traction as businesses strive to improve their customer experience. To help organizations get the most out of this important function, there are now a variety of resources available: from websites and white papers to webinars, conferences and technologies.

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Totango

JULY 11, 2019

Time and money that could have been saved—if you’d focused on customer retention. New customer acquisition costs a lot. To learn how much you’re spending, add up all of your sales and marketing expenses and divide that amount by the number of new customers won. Don’t pay it over and over to drum up one-time customers. .

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Totango

JULY 11, 2019

Time and money that could have been saved—if you’d focused on customer retention. New customer acquisition costs a lot. To learn how much you’re spending, add up all of your sales and marketing expenses and divide that amount by the number of new customers won. Don’t pay it over and over to drum up one-time customers. .

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ChurnZero

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

This is a guest post by Sara Barnes , vice president of Customer Success at Skilljar. Every Customer Success team focuses on keeping customers engaged and ultimately, preventing churn. In fact, customer education helps scale Customer Success , as the company scales business. .

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Totango

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Customer success vs. customer support: although these two terms appear similar, they actually refer to two different, yet complementary, functions within a company. Fulfilling a proactive role, customer success focuses on problem prevention and creates value by enabling clients to achieve business goals.

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Education Services Group

JUNE 4, 2019

That’s why customer communication is so important. You need to keep in touch with your customers, making sure that they’re satisfied with their experience and that they’re getting everything they need out of your product. So who’s in charge of communicating with customers, marketing or Customer Success?

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Totango

MAY 17, 2024

Leading companies and CS teams are paving the way by providing innovative solutions that leverage AI technologies to accelerate impact and drive customer retention and growth. solution can be as easy as consolidating your sales and customer success information. Connect engagement to communications Record your calls!

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Education Services Group

JULY 20, 2021

ESG’s own Madeline Evans, Britt Layman, and Marley Wagner joined last week’s ChurnZero webinar to discuss how high touch and tech touch engagement models can co-exist in Customer Success. Creating a company charter for your Customer Success initiatives is a good place to start. Watch it here if you missed it!).

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ChurnZero

AUGUST 13, 2021

Your digital-led Customer Success program will only be as good as the technology behind it. But how do you go about building your Customer Success tech stack the right way? During the webinar, we discuss: What a Customer Success tech stack is and why you should care. Q&A Recap.

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ChurnZero

MAY 3, 2019

If you want your business to be successful in the long run, it pays to give priority to customer retention. Landing a customer who will pay for life is like hitting the jackpot. After all, it takes five times more effort to land a new customer than to retain an old one. Invest in Customer Service.

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Education Services Group

JANUARY 25, 2023

Speaker: Joel Passen , CRO and Co-Founder of Sturdy During this session, host Peter Armaly was joined by Joel Passen to discuss practical applications of AI in the Customer Success world, challenges teams seeking to use AI are facing, and what’s on the horizon. The post Webinar Q&A Recap: Is CS the Next Frontier of AI?

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ChurnZero

JULY 7, 2020

The better the service, and the more customer-centric your business is, the more likely it is to succeed. Because customer retention is tightly correlated with customer satisfaction and customer service. The Difference Between Customer Support and Customer Success Teams. The sky’s the limit.

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Totango

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Your communication with your customer is the force multiplier that can unlock the full potential of your product. The advice, lessons, and encouragement you provide can guide your customer to achieve maximum return on their investment and drive growth that benefits both of you. Use Data-Driven Communication.

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Education Services Group

MAY 3, 2022

Speakers: David Sakamoto , Vice President of Customer Success at Gitlab , and Neal McCoy. Peter Armaly joined Marley Wagner to co-host this month’s Customer Success Unlocked webinar. Right, they’ve got to focus on the relationship and the success of the customer. appeared first on ESG.

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Gainsight

AUGUST 28, 2021

Today’s leading organizations are increasingly seeing the wide impact that effective customer success has on their entire business. Not only does strong customer success help companies retain customers and keep them engaged, but it can also serve as a major engine for growth. A Single Source of Truth.

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Education Services Group

MARCH 31, 2022

Speakers: Sara Bochino , Vice President of Customer Success at talech , Ari Hoffman, Global Director of Customer Advocacy at Crowdvocate and Megan Macaluso , Sr. Director of Customer Success Strategy at Convercent. Peter Armaly joined Marley Wagner to co-host this month’s Customer Success Unlocked webinar.

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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

What’s the Job Outlook for Customer Success Professionals? Embarking in an emerging career field like Customer Success brings great possibility—and uncertainty. So, what’s the job outlook for Customer Success professionals? This means a vigilant focus on growing customer retention and lifetime value.

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Totango

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

That is the idea behind tech-touch customer success solutions: thoughtful, relevant, value-driven communication delivered only when it has a positive impact on the customer. When your enterprise starts to fulfill its growth potential, it becomes impossible to greet every customer with one-on-one attention.

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Confirmit

OCTOBER 18, 2018

What Is Customer Retention? Customer retention refers to an organization’s processes and activities that aim at stopping customers from churning or switching to a competitor. Increasing customer loyalty is a key goal of any business, and contributes greatly towards sustainable growth.

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Education Services Group

JANUARY 28, 2022

Let’s just say if you missed our first Customer Success Unlocked webinar of 2022, you’re going to want to keep reading and watch the session on-demand ! So, the Customer Success team today at most orgs is a very poor steward of the customers’ needs and experience.

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ChurnZero

JUNE 12, 2020

Following the trajectory of these more established functions, the next natural progression in Customer Success’ evolution is specialization. As Customer Success teams continue to mature, and their need to scale and automate grows , having their own operations roles will become evermore essential and prevalent.

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ClientSuccess

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Here’s a quick look at some effective strategies to keep your existing customers happy. Closely monitor customer health metrics on a regular basis. . Sam Fiel, Customer Success Manager at ClientSuccess, defines customer health as “the current state of customer satisfaction after a given engagement (i.e.

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CustomerSuccessBox

JUNE 18, 2021

Customer success is important for SaaS businesses as they’re a constant voice of the customer for your business.CustomerSuccessBox builds the all-in-one solution for customer success that goes beyond just health scores and viewing portfolios. Customer Onboarding. Customer Success Manager.

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AskNicely

AUGUST 17, 2018

Bezos goes on to say, “(customer obsession)…requires you to experiment patiently, accept failures, plant seeds, protect saplings, and double down when you see customer delight. You need to communicate it from the inside out by creating a culture shift.”. Treat your customer as an advisor. What is that shift?

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ChurnZero

AUGUST 13, 2021

Your digital-led Customer Success program will only be as good as the technology behind it. But how do you go about building your Customer Success tech stack the right way? During the webinar, we discuss: What a Customer Success tech stack is and why you should care. Q&A Recap.

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Education Services Group

MAY 25, 2022

Having co-founded the massively popular CS community, Gain Grow Retain, and as Higher Logic’s Chief Customer Officer, Jay Nathan has a wealth of knowledge about Customer Communities and how to successfully launch (or revamp) them. We asked him to join us for this month’s webinar to discuss exactly how to do that. .

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Education Services Group

JUNE 15, 2022

I’ve talked before about how internal engagement can help promote strong Customer Success. Here at ESG, we believe that employee success is not only helpful to a healthy and thriving Customer Success organization, it’s fundamental. What do you think is the link between employee success and CS?

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ChurnZero

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Q&A: How to Build Effective Customer Success Plans. Every Customer Success Plan has a secret sauce that turns it from just a plan on paper to something a team can actually execute and deliver successfully. She has become the “go-to” person for building the ultimate Customer Success model. Q&A Recap.

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ClientSuccess

JULY 13, 2022

If one were to take an informal poll of CSMs asking what their number one goal with customers is, a majority would probably answer something along the lines of “keep my customers happy.” After all, what do happy customers mean? Happy customers have a personal bond with their vendor organization and their CSMs.

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ChurnZero

JUNE 14, 2019

12 Steps to Conducting a Productive Customer Success Brainstorming Session. Automation is a game-changer for almost any department, but surprisingly Customer Success teams are a bit behind some of their counterparts (i.e. So why is it that not all Customer Success teams have become pros when it comes to CS automation?

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Amity

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Editor’s note: This is a living document, and our goal is to update it regularly with the best resources around customer success. The Best Customer Success Resources of 2016. Surely, you are staying up to date on the latest customer success trends – did someone say “customer marketing”?

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ChurnZero

MARCH 3, 2020

Top 10 Must Attend Conferences in 2020 for Customer Success Professionals. It’s also a great opportunity to meet and network with peers within the Customer Success community. Leading Customer Success Summit 2020 Date: April 8, 2020 Location: Portland, OR.

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

You need to retain customers, and the best way to do that is with winning customer success strategies. A key aspect of customer retention and customer success is ensuring you get customer loyalty. Customer marketing is vital to enhance customer experience. contact-form-7].

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SmartKarrot

APRIL 28, 2023

Role: VP of Customer Success Location: Reading, England, United Kingdom (On-site) Organization: Redstor As a VP of Customer Success, you’ll be making sure our consumers are completely satisfied with our goods and services is your responsibility as our newly created Vice President of Customer Success.

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ChurnZero

JUNE 28, 2019

4 Customer Success Lessons That You Can Learn From Playing Tetris. But what could it possibly have to do with Customer Success? Continue reading to discover the four lessons that Customer Success practitioners can learn from this well-aged classic game. A similar lesson can be applied to Customer Success.

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