Gainsight

DECEMBER 21, 2023

For a long time, proactive vs reactive was a common debate among Customer Success professionals. Now, the verdict is in, and everyone agrees that proactive Customer Success Managers (CSMs) are best positioned to drive value and deliver a better customer experience. Control over the customer experience.

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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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ChurnZero

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

When asked to sell to customers, Customer Success Managers (CSMs) are often scared of coming off as too pushy or getting a “no.” There’s a common (albeit misplaced) fear among CSMs that sales talk will tarnish their customer’s trust and set fire to the relationships they’ve worked so hard to build. .

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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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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 21, 2022

1/ Crash course in Customer Success and SaaS metrics. Presented by: Dave Kellogg , principal, Dave Kellogg Consulting. You can find companies where if you just look at the net expansion rate, you go, wow, it’s 125%. Related reading: Key SaaS and Customer Success metrics you should care about – What’s a good CAC?

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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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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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ClientSuccess

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

While customer success leaders, HR representatives, and other key stakeholders are often involved in the hiring process at every step of the way, the structure of your organization could warrant additional team members from different departments being involved in the hiring process. Customer Success Deep Dive.

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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. But the most crucial is the need for knowledge transfer about the customer. Steps to Establish a Successful Knowledge Transfer.

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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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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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Help Scout

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

The first named customer success group was created in 1996. While the original driver for the role was to grow relationships and increase revenue, the customer success specialist job description has changed quite a bit since then. Learn from those examples, and apply the elements that fit for your team and situation.

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ClientSuccess

MAY 25, 2023

ClientSuccess launches SmartCS , its groundbreaking AI-driven solution designed to empower customer success managers and executives with data-driven insights, optimized workflows, prescriptive recommendations, and intelligent actions.

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Gainsight

MARCH 26, 2021

In the CS world, the equivalent is “should we focus on Customer Success or Sales?” In the beginning, there was Sales. Well, maybe some other stuff was before that, but Sales goes back a long way. The vendor sold a customer a product. As such, they created Customer Success teams out of an urgent need.

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Gainsight

JANUARY 4, 2021

As we embark on the New Year, now is the perfect time to catch up on Gainsight’s Customer Success resources from 2020. We compiled our best Customer Success resources from last year, from blogs to ebooks to webinars and podcasts. Launching Customer Success. Customer Success Team Management.

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ChurnZero

MARCH 24, 2023

The Customer Success industry is constantly evolving and developing new strategies for driving customer-led growth. 1: Is NPS a Customer Success metric? So many CEOs and CROs are searching for a singular metric to measure performance because they’re used to managing sales teams. Here’s why.

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ChurnZero

MARCH 24, 2023

The Customer Success industry is constantly evolving and developing new strategies for driving customer-led growth. 1: Is NPS a Customer Success metric? So many CEOs and CROs are searching for a singular metric to measure performance because they’re used to managing sales teams. Here’s why.

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ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Customer Success is gaining ground, influence, and budget within organizations. Based on a detailed survey of more than 1,000 Customer Success leaders, this is the most comprehensive study of the evolving CS landscape to date. Download your full copy of the 2022 Customer Success Leadership Study here.

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Amity

OCTOBER 18, 2017

Customer Success teams interact with many cross-functional departments, building and maintaining relationships from Support to Account Management. But few relationships have more impact on future customer success than the one between Customer Success and Sales.

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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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Gainsight

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

And as you can tell by the chart, the runaway winners in the minds of most executives are: Expansion and Cross-sell: Want to reduce customer acquisition cost (CAC) ? And as you can tell by the chart, the runaway winners in the minds of most executives are: Expansion and Cross-sell: Want to reduce customer acquisition cost (CAC) ?

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ClientSuccess

MARCH 25, 2020

With so many integrations, add-ons, and premium features coming up in what seems like every sales conversation, standing out from the crowd can take a miracle – or the right angle. Sure, product enhancements and price points might catch customer’s attention right out of the gate, but it’s the long-term value that prompts a buying decision.

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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Is your Customer Success team: Butting heads with Sales during onboarding. Getting bombarded by Marketing for unrestricted customer access. Put simply, Customer Success does a lot of things for a lot of people. ChurnZero vRYG panelists included: Sana Farooq , Director of Customer Success, FloQast.

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Kapta Customer Success

APRIL 5, 2019

Sales is hard enough as it is. Take time to understand your client’s unique situation so you can present them with a solution that fits their needs perfectly. Take time to understand your client’s unique situation so you can present them with a solution that fits their needs perfectly. Every company has weaknesses.

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Gainsight

AUGUST 14, 2020

I often get asked by Customer Success executives how to discuss retention metrics with their Board of Directors. The focus on retention metrics has been further accelerated in this climate as companies double down on Customer Success. What Can You Learn From Customers Who Stay? all drove strong retention.

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Education Services Group

JUNE 9, 2022

Recently, I was in a very intense game of Topgolf with two of my friends and colleagues, Sheik Ayube and Peter Armaly (VPs of Business Development and Customer Success, respectively, here at ESG). If you’ve ever been in Sales or been in a position to observe Sales Reps…let’s chat for a second. The Reason.

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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Customer Success Metrics that Your Investors and Board Care About. They care that you’re staffed appropriately to serve the needs of your customers, because ultimately that results in revenue. A huge part of how customer success collects intel and feedback from customers is by talking with them.

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Totango

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Our increasingly customer-centric economy has established Customer Success as critical to every business’s overall strategy. Any CS team member knows that happy customers make for a thriving enterprise, but the same cannot always be said for C-level executives or your board of directors.

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ChurnZero

OCTOBER 5, 2021

No worries if you weren’t able to attend (or even if you did and are looking for a recap), we have pulled together our top ten Customer Success takeaways from SaaStr Annual 2021 that we wanted to share with you here. Are your compensation plans setting your business up for longer-term success or subscription contraction? .

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One Millimeter Mindset

JULY 9, 2020

It just could be that client retention folks are the best salespeople in your company. Professionals involved in the post-sale care and feeding of newly-acquired customers. Also, the people who directly answer client questions throughout that customer’s life cycle. Client retention professionals course-correct clients.

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ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

With sweeping layoffs, forecast misses, and budget cuts in the news, there’s one question running through the mind of every Customer Success leader right now: What can I do to prepare my department for the impacts of the economic downturn? Difficult conversations lead to deeper customer connections.

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Totango

MAY 17, 2024

Economic pressures are compelling companies to rethink their strategies, with a heightened focus on both acquiring new business and nurturing existing customer relationships to drive revenue growth. solution can be as easy as consolidating your sales and customer success information.

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Totango

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Apple and IBM Peanut butter and jelly Martha Stewart and Snoop Dogg Marketing and Customer Success They are all unexpected — yet incredibly successful — partnerships. On the other hand, the CCO focuses on what happens after the sale, overseeing onboarding, customer support, driving retention, and minimizing churn.

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CustomerSuccessBox

MARCH 4, 2022

Congratulations on being promoted to the VP-Customer Success ! Especially, in the field of Customer Success. That’s understandable; you’re probably your company’s first Customer Success executive, and this is your first time in the position. But are you unsure where to begin?

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ClientSuccess

JUNE 15, 2022

As any customer success professional knows, learning and growing in your profession never really ends. Why let your development as a customer success professional fall behind? Stop right there if you’re thinking, “what else about customer success do I stand to learn?”. Continuing education for CSMs.

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ChurnZero

JUNE 10, 2020

Enjoy this list of must-read Customer Success books. . . A veritable blueprint for success in the new membership economy, this book is a must-have for organizations of any size. Never Lose a Customer Again. The Startup’s Guide to Customer Success: How to Champion the Customer at Your Company.

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CustomerSuccessBox

AUGUST 23, 2021

With more than 70,000 attendees from sales, marketing and service fields, it presents a vast opportunity for individuals and teams to network in person as well as online. This summit discusses the importance and innovations of customer success. TSIA Customer Success Conference. Customer Engagement Summit.

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