ChurnZero

APRIL 10, 2020

How to Nail Implementation and Customer Success Handoffs. As a deadline-driven team, Implementation fiercely adheres to project start and completion dates (for their sake and the customer’s). But issues arise when project handoffs occur at a less-than-ideal time for the next in the line of customer succession.

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Customer Success Customer Journeys How To Loyalty Programs 61

Feedbackly

OCTOBER 13, 2022

It is a KPI that helps you track, measure, and analyze how customers feel about your business and understand its impact. The benefit of Emotional Value Index (EVI®) is that it can be applied to any phase of the customer journey, both at the micro and macro level. Download your free EVI® eBook here: Loyalty/Advocacy.

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Customer Journeys Measurement NPS eBook 64

ClientSuccess

DECEMBER 20, 2018

There’s nothing quite like the promise of a new year to get your customer success team invigorated and rejuvenated. The beginning of a new quarter and a new year is the perfect time to nail down parts of your customer success strategy that might have been difficult or confusing in the past. Compensation Plans.

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Customer Success Strategy Customer Journeys eBook 49

ChurnZero

AUGUST 31, 2021

It has become just as important, in the SaaS industry particularly, to work to keep existing customers as it is to chase down new leads. Customer retention and renewal are now crucial pieces of business growth. Focusing on customer success and the renewal proces s in tandem can help improve customer retention.

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Customer Success Net Promoter Score Self Service Customer Retention 95

ClientSuccess

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Over the past several years, customer success has gone from a department only forward-thinking organizations had to an integral part of every single SaaS company in the world. With every new customer issue or new solution on the market, the overarching message and focus of customer success becomes that much more convoluted.

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Customer Success eBook Customer Relationship Management Metrics 88

ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Q&A: Digital Customer Success Strategies to Drive User Adoption. Accessing meaningful data points early in the customer journey can be difficult. You can easily miss opportunities to deeply understand your customers’ behavior when your insights depend on those data points.

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ClientSuccess

AUGUST 3, 2020

Over the last decade or so, the role of the Customer Success Manager has exploded, due in large part to SaaS organizations and updated onboard models. The increased visibility of the customer success function introduced the need for the customer success technology platform, and the industry hasn’t looked back since.

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Customer Success eBook Innovation Metrics 81

ClientSuccess

AUGUST 8, 2017

Register to watch the recorded webinar here: Customer Success Pitfalls to Avoid During the Post-Sale Process. In this webinar you will learn: How to approach post-sale lifecycle management with your customers. What approach to take to build the customer journey map.

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ClientSuccess

APRIL 2, 2019

As a customer success professional, you probably know of a myriad of ways to ‘judge’ or ‘grade’ your customers once they start onboarding or activation. This is a pretty standard customer success process and it’s critical to know exactly where you and your customers stand at all times. This is pretty simple.

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ClientSuccess

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Over the last few months, customer success teams – and the unique relationships they have with customer contacts – have been thrust into the spotlight of the SaaS world. Here is a quick primer on customer success software and why it’s so critical for CSM teams: 1.

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Software Customer Success eBook Metrics 65

ClientSuccess

JANUARY 25, 2021

For most customer success departments, the internal department you work closest with and most often is definitely sales. Why is customer marketing important? The old adage that ‘your current customers are your best marketing tool’ still holds true, even in the age of digital marketing and SaaS vendors.

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Customer Retention Customer Success Marketing Case Study 81

ChurnZero

APRIL 8, 2020

This is a guest post by Danielle Juson is a Customer Success Community expert at inSided. Isn’t it great when you have a customer that not only keeps using your product, but shouts about how great it is too? Upcoming Webinar: Lessons Learned: A Reflection in Customer Journey Mapping.

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Customer Journeys Roadmap Gamification Course 81

Pointillist

JULY 25, 2018

Companies are increasingly benefiting from customer journey analytics across marketing and customer experience, as the results are real, immediate and have a lasting effect. Learning how to choose the best customer journey analytics platform is just the start. Steps to Implement Customer Journey Analytics.

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Customer Journeys Analytics How To Metrics 93

ChurnZero

JANUARY 8, 2021

Against the backdrop of wild economic uncertainty, Customer Success has been the failsafe of SaaS businesses that were blindsided by pandemic-induced churn and contraction. With Customer Success demand at an all-time high, we expect to see more of its leaders join the executive ranks in the coming months and years.

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ClientSuccess

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

In today’s B2B technology world, it seems common that the phrases “customer success” and “customer support or service” are often intertwined. After all, they’re both about serving the customer and ensuring they’re finding success with your product or service, right?

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Customer Success B2B eBook Customers 65

ClientSuccess

JULY 5, 2017

For customer success leaders, these roadblocks or pitfalls can be the tipping point between customer satisfaction and customer churn. 5 Common Success Post-Sales Pitfalls. Understanding Post-Sales Lifecycle Management. Pitfall #1: The Sales Handoff (Poor Knowledge Transfer).

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ClientSuccess

JANUARY 24, 2019

When it comes to dealing directly with customers, is there anything more anxiety-inducing for customer success teams than the dreaded handoff? Typically, customer handoffs are such a complex part of the customer journey because they set the tone for how a relationship is actually going to work.

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ClientSuccess

JUNE 2, 2017

In this recorded webinar, Dave Blake, CEO/Founder of ClientSuccess discusses a customer success maturity model that will help you build, scale, and optimize a high-impact team and culture of customer success. The webinar is called “The Customer Success Maturity Model” You can request the recorded version here.

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ChurnZero

AUGUST 28, 2020

Exactly how do you get customers to embrace your product instead of merely moving (erm, politely pushing) them through the motions and hoping for adoption? That’s what we set out to ask the Customer Success experts. So, learn from the failures (and successes) of others whenever you can; then, go make your own.

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Customer Journeys eBook Customer Success Metrics 59

ChurnZero

AUGUST 31, 2021

It has become just as important, in the SaaS industry particularly, to work to keep existing customers as it is to chase down new leads. Customer retention and renewal are now crucial pieces of business growth. Focusing on customer success and the renewal proces s in tandem can help improve customer retention.

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Customer Success Net Promoter Score Self Service Customer Retention 52

ChurnZero

MARCH 6, 2020

Customer Success Starts Within: 6 Ways to Put Employees First. The Customer Success industry is obsessed with cracking the code on customer experience and loyalty. So, it’s easy to see how a fixation on the customer can overshadow the very people who make that success possible: the employees.

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Customer Success Customer Journeys Culture Study 69

Feedbackly

OCTOBER 27, 2022

So, it is simple, straightforward, and requires less effort from the customer to answer. Today, many leading brands and businesses worldwide utilize EVI® to gauge CX and the efficacy of the customer journey. Take a look at how Stockmann , one of the leading retailers in Finland, optimized their customer journey with EVI®.

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Effort Score Customer Journeys Metrics Retail 98

ClientSuccess

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Customer success isn’t limited to a single department. Every single person at an organization touches the customer lifecycle , whether it’s marketing at the pre-buying stage or product in the adoption stage. This is a strategy principle we call “Customer Success as a Culture.”. What is the customer’s budget?

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Customer Journeys Metrics Case Study Customer Satisfaction 40

ClientSuccess

DECEMBER 5, 2022

What is a Customer Advisory Board (CAB)? A Customer Advisory Board (CAB) is a powerful tool for SaaS companies to maximize customer success. It helps drive better relationships between customers and the company, ensure customer satisfaction, and increase loyalty. Find customer champions.

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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 . Making customers happy is no longer good enough. . . The year was 1909.

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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Top 5 Customer Success Takeaways from Chief Customer Officers USA. Our very own CCO, Abby Hammer, had a part of the action and was one of the presenters and spoke on- How to Drive Operational Excellence Through Data-Driven Customer Success. dence to own their role in the customer relationship.

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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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ClientSuccess

DECEMBER 19, 2022

For customer success teams, playbooks are invaluable tools to help them save time and be more efficient in their customer interactions. Playbooks consist of a series of actions, next steps, and tactical items that can be used to help customers achieve their goals or objectives in a scalable manner. Ready to learn more?

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Q&A: New Manager’s Guide for a Customer Success Strategy Implementation. As a new Customer Success leader in your organization, you must figure out how you’ll measure success, keep your team happy and engaged, and secure stakeholder buy-in to champion your strategy in the new year.

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Customer Success Strategy eBook Chief Customer Officer 72

ClientSuccess

MARCH 27, 2018

I recently watched a video of Rob Jeppsen , CEO of Xvoyant , explaining how to take a different approach when building out your pre and post sales funnel stages. Many times the process of defining the pre and post sales stages is part of building out a customer journey map or strategy. Pre Sales. Pre Sales.

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Pointillist

JULY 25, 2018

By Swati Sahai Companies are increasingly benefiting from customer journey analytics across marketing and customer experience, as the results are real, immediate and have a lasting effect. Learning how to choose the best customer journey analytics platform is just the start. If so, you are not alone.

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Customer Journeys Analytics How To Metrics 43

Gainsight

DECEMBER 15, 2023

So what does that mean to Customer Success (CS) orgs? Why CS Needs to Learn How to Speak CFO For years, we’ve been talking about your CS team being trusted advisors to your customers and doing the important work of helping them be more successful. That’s still firmly in the sales team’s purview.

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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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ClientSuccess

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Mapping out the customer journey isn’t just for small start-ups or unicorn companies. It can be tempting to write off this extra step if your company is part of a larger, more mature marketplace as the customer experience is likely well documented and established. What Is Customer Lifecycle Management?

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ClientSuccess

OCTOBER 16, 2017

As any Customer Success Manager (CSM) can attest to, customer success is not merely the work of a single person or even a single department. Ensuring customers see success and thrive with a B2B product takes the work and input of an entire organization, from the CEO down to the last intern.

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ClientSuccess

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

As customer success has grown into a critical corporate function for SaaS organizations, CSMs have turned to data and metrics to make strategic decisions for their customers. This is where the Customer Health Score comes into play. Would the customer recommend your product or services?

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Effort Score eBook Metrics Customer Journeys 68

ChurnZero

JANUARY 10, 2022

Work Cross-Functionally During SaaS Customer Onboarding. Customer onboarding doesn’t only have to stay within Customer Success. When you have multiple teams involved, you have several different perspectives that can help shed light on the customer journey. Segment for Customer Onboarding.

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