CSM Practice

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

A good customer success team drives continuous value to the customer at every point in the customer life-cycle journey. Customer success teams use playbooks and strategies in their ongoing efforts to ensure customers achieve operational success and maximize value from your solution offerings.

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Totango

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Customer Success Playbook Strategies: Mapping a Path to Winning Outcomes. A customer success playbook maps out a game plan you can use to automate successful outcomes for your clients. Then we’ll consider the benefits of using success playbooks. What Is a Customer Success Playbook?

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Customer Success Tips Customer Journeys Customer Retention 89

ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

What your Customer Success team looks like will largely depend on your organization’s size, solution complexity, and go-to-market strategy. If you’re standing up a Customer Success function for the first time, you may only have one or a handful of Customer Success managers who do it all.

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ClearAction

JANUARY 10, 2018

What is Customer Centricity DNA? What is customer-centricity DNA? And centricity means “being situated at the center; a position of central prominence or importance”. And centricity means “being situated at the center; a position of central prominence or importance”. Set yourselves up for success.

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ChurnZero

APRIL 13, 2021

With Customer Success being one of the top emerging departments in software companies around the globe, you might be considering a career in this industry, but you also might be wondering which role is right for you. . Responsibilities: Own the revenue number for the installed customer base. Customer Success Manager.

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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

What your Customer Success team looks like will largely depend on your organization’s size, solution complexity, and go-to-market strategy. If you’re standing up a Customer Success function for the first time, you may only have one or a handful of Customer Success Managers who do it all.

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CSM Practice

JUNE 6, 2020

Despite the benefits of a higher renewal rate, many SaaS companies focus on generating revenue from new customers even while they lose revenue to customer churn. Contrarily, SaaS companies who understand the importance of high renewals can grow stable revenue while delivering optimum value to their customers.

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Gainsight

AUGUST 29, 2021

When you think of customer success and marketing, you may be thinking that those two areas of the business—and their related strategies—aren’t very related. But the reality is that the entire company can benefit from having a solid customer success strategy and a customer-centric mindset.

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Retently

JULY 28, 2023

How do you approach customer happiness in your company? Do you simply rely on the generic “the customer is always right” speech, or do you have a customer-centric culture in place that’s overseen by a professional who understands how customers think and feel, and who knows how to get that point of view across to other employees too?

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CSM Practice

JULY 24, 2019

The customer-centric mindset entails making major decisions while taking customer needs and customer journeys into account. This responsibility is not limited to the CSM (Customer Success Manager) alone, a company-wide disposition to customer satisfaction is crucial to customer success.

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InMoment XI

OCTOBER 31, 2023

With the advent of omnichannel customer experience programs and increasing customer demands, effective call center management has become more challenging and pivotal than ever before. It requires a harmonious blend of leadership, technology, and a customer-centric mindset to succeed in this dynamic landscape.

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Gainsight

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

When I reflect on what excites me the most about the evolution of customer success over the past year or so, it’s most certainly the increased appreciation around customer success being existential for organizations. Let’s make 2021 the year that we make Customer Success less squishy!”

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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. VP-Customer Success Job Description (Sample).

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Lumoa

APRIL 7, 2022

The NPS system was created by Fred Reichheld and his team at Bain & Company and Satmetrix Systems in 2003 to help companies improve their marketing strategies to better serve customers’ needs with real, verifiable data that they could analyze and act on. So, without further ado… Why is NPS important? How can you improve your NPS?

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Totango

JUNE 2, 2020

Having a good customer success crisis plan can help you maintain good relationships with customers. So what does a good customer success crisis plan entail? Managing Customer Success in a Crisis. Maintaining a Clear View of Your Customer Base. Their success, after all, is your success.

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CSM Practice

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

At early startup stages , customer success teams and other customer-facing teams are usually familiar with their customer base. This relationship-driven engagement model becomes difficult as the customer base becomes larger and more diversified. Why Should Customer Success Be Obsessed with Data?

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CustomerSuccessBox

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Customer success, as we know, is a holistic approach to delivering the maximum possible value to customers. If you’ve been in the business, you know how you must master human communication, the very first thing to be successful with your customers, which means speaking mindfully but listening even more intently.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 15, 2021

Looking back at our Customer Success predictions for 2020 , I can’t help but wonder if our CEO, You Mon Tsang, was gazing into his own crystal ball. Before the pandemic hit, You Mon predicted that Customer Success would undergo its first pressure test. “Be Partner success will be a growing need in 2021.

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Gainsight

OCTOBER 11, 2022

A well-oiled customer success (CS) machine that drives Net Revenue Retention (NRR). . SaaS organizations must align their teams around customer outcomes, and scale their CS team’s efforts with the utmost efficiency. To do this, CS leaders should operationalize CSM motions through a robust customer success management platform. .

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Gainsight

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Customer Success (CS) is one of the most important growth drivers for any company across the globe. From new SaaS companies to established industries like healthcare, the one thing every organization shares is a need to put the customer first. What metrics should you track? It’s exciting when you think about it.

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Amity

JANUARY 30, 2019

In a previous post we tackled the question of ‘what is customer success?’ ’ In case you didn’t read it, or need a refresher, our definition of Customer Success is proactive enablement. This is the high level 100,000 foot overview of what Customer Success means to us.

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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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CSM Practice

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

All businesses promise to deliver value to their customers. The starting point for excellent customer success is that the promises are kept, empowering the customers to achieve their business goals. However, customer success extends to driving long-term customer lifetime value through various processes and operations.

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Amity

JUNE 27, 2018

For our Customer Success meetup in Toronto, we had the privilege of hearing from James Scott , General Partner at SuccessHacker , who helps other companies achieve growth and success through their Customer Success (CS) teams. Customer Success hasn’t been around for nearly as long as we tend to think.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 10, 2020

As SaaS gets more serious about Customer Success, their representation on the executive and C-suite level will follow (as envisioned in our 2020 Customer Success predictions ; see #2). Based on LinkedIn research, Customer Success r oles saw 34% annual growth —qualifying them as one of the top emerging jobs in 2020.

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CSM Practice

JUNE 19, 2019

The commonly used and highly effective customer success approach for early stage startup companies remains the high-touch model, in which every customer enjoys dedicated attention from their assigned customer success manager, throughout the their customer journey. Customer Success Training Plan.

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Role: VP Customer Success Location: United States (Remote) Organization: Unifyed As a VP of Customer Success, you’ll drive Customer Success Outcomes. Influence future lifetime value through higher product adoption, customer satisfaction, and overall health scores.

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 20, 2019

20 Customer Success Predictions for 2020 . T hat’s why we asked some of the top Customer Success (CS) leaders to share their industry predictions for 2020. Vanessa Hannay , Director of Customer Success, Muck Rack . Rather, the CS team is equally important to the success of a company.

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CSM Practice

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Some foundational questions still require attention in our growing customer success community. These questions include customer success funding and reporting, as well as appropriate customer segmentation. Mature SaaS companies are generally more concerned with the elements of scaling customer success.

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ChurnZero

JULY 2, 2020

The challenges to becoming a customer-centric company are not easy to overcome alone. It takes a village to raise a customer-centric company. Your entire organization must invest in rallying around the customer. Q: How do you know if you’re successfully putting the customer at the center of your organization?

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Team Support

DECEMBER 8, 2023

In today’s customer-centric market, providing exceptional support is non-negotiable. According to research by Microsoft, 59% of consumers have higher expectations for customer service than they did the year prior. Scalability Opt for customer support software that can grow with your business.

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Gainsight

APRIL 14, 2022

One of the biggest paradigm shifts is an increased appreciation for the customer base. We can’t take our customers for granted — ever. Investing in customer success (CS) isn’t a nice-to-have anymore — or even merely a high priority — it’s existential. Quick Level Set: What Customer Success Is, and Isn’t.

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Amity

AUGUST 30, 2018

Customer Success is still a relatively young discipline, and as a result, leadership teams are often unsure about where it fits into their organization. This would be a short-sighted move since Customer Success and Account Management are distinguished by more than just a naming convention.

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Gainsight

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Gainsight is part of those unique breeds of businesses that have accomplished this by helping create the category of customer success, and the solution—Gainsight CS. Marketing to “best fit” customers aligns with one of the Ten Pillars of Customer Success: Sell to the Right Customer.

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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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SmartKarrot

JANUARY 9, 2023

Role: Customer Success Manager Location: London, England, United Kingdom Organization: HiBob As a Customer Success Manager, you will build and execute an account-specific relationship framework inclusive of regularly scheduled status calls, quarterly business reviews, account documentation, reference management, and account planning sessions.

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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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