Totango

JUNE 24, 2022

Customer success in SaaS differs from CS in other industries. The software service industry presents unique challenges for customer success management while also creating unique opportunities that call for specific strategies. Read on to learn the keys to effective customer success for SaaS clients.

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Customer Journeys Customer Success Net Promoter Score B2C 102

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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Resources Customer Success eBook Multi-Channel 111

ChurnZero

JUNE 17, 2022

It requires a genuine understanding of your customer cohorts and their goals, perceptions, and needs. To share how to choose, track, and act on effective onboarding metrics, ChurnZero Customer Success Enablement Team Lead Bree Pecci joined CSM Practice for a drill-down into customer-centric onboarding.

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Metrics How To Effort Score Self Service 98

Totango

AUGUST 25, 2022

For software service providers, customer engagement SaaS strategies play a central role in a successful business model. Proactive interactions with your customers can increase satisfaction and retention, driving repeat business and referral revenue. For example, you can: Extend premium upgrade offers to freemium customers.

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Customer Engagement Engagement Tips Strategy 96

ClientSuccess

AUGUST 31, 2020

Now, the day is finally here – your team is finally implementing your new customer success platform. Making the decision to invest in a customer success platform shows that your organization is 100% dedicated to the long-term success and growth of your customer base. . First of all, congratulations!

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ChurnZero

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

We’ve found that, when looking to build a strong team of Customer Success Managers (CSMs), an incentive compensation plan , otherwise called a variable compensation plan , produces the best results. This can be measured by how much they sell, the success of their team, or the success of the organization as a whole.

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Customer Success Metrics Measurement Guidelines 97

Amity

JANUARY 30, 2018

Maheen Memon is the Director of Customer Success at Nulogy. Throughout her career in Customer Success, she’s had the opportunity to try a couple of things and has picked up some life-saving best practices along the way. We invited Maheen to the Amity office to present at one of our monthly Customer Success events.

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Tips Customer Success Social Media Roadmap 69

Totango

JUNE 17, 2021

And we’ll reveal pro tips for leveraging customer segmentation using today’s technology. What Is Customer Segmentation vs. Audience Segmentation? Customer segmentation is a method of customizing customer interactions by dividing customers into categories based on specific characteristics.

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Tips Customer Journeys B2B Groups 71

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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Metrics Net Promoter Score Effort Score NPS 59

ChurnZero

JANUARY 20, 2021

This is a guest blog post by Justine Dennis, Manager, Customer Success & Support at Fusebill. . Mattias Putman and Ewout Meyns launched PieSync in 2014 with a goal in mind: keep customers satisfied. Mattias and I are very aware that PieSync’s success depends on that of our customers.

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Customer Success B2B Metrics Strategy 98

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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Industry Customer Success Tips Customer Centricity 82

Education Services Group

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

One of the biggest challenges facing Customer Success leaders is how to effectively scale. This is nearly impossible without incorporating Digital Customer Success into your overall CS strategy. How will the customer experience be enriched by incorporating Digital Customer Success, not limited by it?

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Customer Success Metrics Customer Journeys Customers 75

Amity

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Why not start with some Customer Success videos? 6 TED Talks That Are Surprisingly Relevant to Customer Success. 5 Powerful Videos That Spotlight Customer Advocacy. 2017 Rewind: Your Customer Success Playlist. Here are some tips around the playbooks that make up most of the everyday life of a CSM.

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Customer Success Tips Video Measurement 107

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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NPS Net Promoter Score Industry How To 208

CustomerSuccessBox

JUNE 24, 2022

Monthly Recurring Revenue is a SaaS metric that you should be tracking in order to see where your SaaS business stands. This blog focuses on the excellent customer success techniques that will help you improve your recurring revenue. Why you should invest in Customer Success? Easy retention via customer success.

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ChurnZero

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

You can devote your energy towards solving complex customer problems and brainstorming new ways to bring value instead of letting the coordination of routine communications dictate your day’s productiveness. . Scenario #1 – Strengthen f eature adoption based on behavior .

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ChurnZero

APRIL 18, 2024

Congratulations – you’re adopting a digital customer success strategy! Those are some big shifts – whether it’s updating your books , implementing a new management system, or revamping the tools, resources, and customer journeys you already have. Digital: Set up consistent journey metrics (e.g. So, now what?

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Interaction Customer Engagement Engagement Customer Journeys 52

CustomerSuccessBox

MAY 16, 2022

Since you choose to read this blog, I suppose you already know the gravity of Customer Success in a B2B SaaS business. The crux of providing a great customer experience to the customer lies in maintaining great customer health throughout the entire customer lifecycle.

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Software Customer Success Management Effort Score 52

ChurnZero

JUNE 17, 2022

It requires a genuine understanding of your customer cohorts and their goals, perceptions, and needs. To share how to choose, track, and act on effective onboarding metrics, ChurnZero Customer Success Enablement Team Lead Bree Pecci joined CSM Practice for a drill-down into customer-centric onboarding.

Metrics 52

Metrics How To Effort Score Self Service 52

ChurnZero

MAY 20, 2022

In our webinar, The CSM journey: How to carve your Customer Success career path , Peter Armaly, vice president of Customer Success at ESG , explores specialized career paths in CS, the skills expected of CS professionals, and why you should be more serious than ever about taking charge of your own career.

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Customer Success How To Banking Leadership 98

ChurnZero

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

If you weren’t able to attend the two full days, no worries, we have compiled our top ten favorite Customer Success takeaways for you here. . . Customers today have very high expectations (and there’s stats to prove it). . Check out 2 mind-blowing stats about Customer Expectations! .

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Customer Success Conference Tips Metrics 59

Gainsight

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Growth rate, gross margin, and other traditional metrics matter greatly. But software leaders have increasingly recognized the importance of a new metric unique to the SaaS world, Net Dollar Retention (NDR). As a reminder, NDR looks at your existing customers at the beginning of a period (e.g., Net Dollar Retention Rules.

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Tips Metrics Software B2C 72

ClientSuccess

OCTOBER 8, 2019

As a CSM or customer success leader, you know the importance of success – not just for your customers, but for your department and your business as a whole. But what is the best way to define success in these avenues? Success isn’t based on “we think” or “we feel”. It’s based on data.

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Metrics Net Promoter Score NPS Effort Score 49

Gainsight

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The value of customer success cannot be overstated. A highly focused, strategic, and well-supported Customer Success team can affect everything from your product to Net Revenue Retention (NRR). Today, it’s imperative to prioritize the proper budget for Customer Success. Identify the Impact of Your Team.

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Resources Customer Success ROI Metrics 52

ChurnZero

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

We’ve found that, when looking to build a strong team of Customer Success Managers (CSMs), an incentive compensation plan, otherwise called a variable compensation plan, produces the best results. This can be measured by how much they sell, the success of their team, or the success of the organization as a whole.

Customer Success 52

Customer Success Metrics Measurement Guidelines 52

Totango

JULY 9, 2019

And because customer data has grown in complexity, all members of your organization need access to a single, shared source for customer histories and health scores. Put these tips to work and your business can improve its enterprise customer experience in no time. How to Improve the Enterprise Customer Experience.

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Tips Customer Experience Effort Score Customer Centricity 87

CustomerSuccessBox

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Undoubtedly, this change has crept into the Customer Success world as well. This is why the blog explains why the ‘ LAER model in Customer Success’ is too important a topic to ignore. As a Customer Success professional, you’d know how difficult it is to expand your customer base.

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Customer Success Customer Engagement Sales Customer Journeys 52

ChurnZero

JULY 2, 2021

Choosing between Net Revenue Retention (NRR) and Gross Revenue Retention (GRR) as your north-star growth metric isn’t an either-or question. SaaS companies must be cognizant of and weigh the implications brought about by a sole focus on these metrics when assessing the performance of and building strategies for Customer Success.

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Customer Retention Metrics Chief Customer Officer Tips 97

ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

You purchased your Customer Success software with expectations of how it would perform and how your team would use it. For busy Customer Success teams, it can be difficult to pause and reflect on the systems you use to manage your days. The 7-point audit checklist for Customer Success software 1.

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Software Customer Success Net Promoter Score Exercises 52

CSM Practice

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Managing a growing customer base with ever-evolving desired outcomes requires being proactive and strategic. As a CSM, you can’t afford to be behind the curve on customer needs, you must proactively reach out to customers about guidance or any assistance needed. 2) Document step-by-step customer success playbooks.

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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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Customer Success How To Feedback Customers 52

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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Customer Success Effort Score Self Service eBook 52

ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

7-Point Audit Checklist for Customer Success Software. You purchased your Customer Success software with expectations of how it would perform and how your team would use it. Auditing your Customer Success software helps you identify inefficiencies and quality improvements in your requirements, data, and processes.

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Software Customer Success Net Promoter Score Exercises 52

ChurnZero

JANUARY 26, 2021

A J oint Success Plan is a simple but powerful tool for outcome-based customer success management. It’s designed to help solution providers align with their customers’ business goals and objectives. Customer success continues to evolve as a practice within companies that enjoy recurring revenue models.

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Customer Success Tools Management Chief Customer Officer 98

Totango

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

We know that sales and customer success (CS) teams must work together to drive revenue growth and expansion. Check out three highlights from the conversation, and listen to the full podcast to gain more insights and tips on how your teams can create a mutually beneficial relationship between CS and sales.

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Sales Customer Success Communication Leadership 71

CSM Practice

MAY 21, 2021

In a rapidly evolving yet tight-staffed Saas startup, Customer Success is often overlooked as a growth driver. Most Saas startups focus on customer attraction and acquisition, forgetting that taking care of existing customers and ensuring retention is equally important. Why SaaS Startups Need Customer Success.

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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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