AskNicely

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Growth-savvy customer success experts agree that creating a customer-first culture begins and ends with executive buy-in. They might think it’s enough to hire a customer success manager and let that department, or marketing, lead the charge. Lower customer churn and higher revenue growth.

Net Promoter Score 150

Net Promoter Score Customer Success NPS Culture 150

Kayako

JULY 31, 2019

The past few years have seen live chat completely change the way online businesses carry out marketing and sales. Gone are the days prospects would email and wait several hours to receive a response to a sales-related query, or call an 800 number and be stuck in a cyclical loop of annoying prompts and call trees.

Sales 161

Sales Marketing Net Promoter Score Consumers 161

Gainsight

JANUARY 26, 2022

In the era of Customer Success 2.0, the solid force of customer-centricity ensures that no department is isolated within your company, certainly not the Customer Success team. CS adds value to all parts of your business, whether Product, Sales, or Marketing. Creating Alignment Between Sales and CS.

Sales 111

Sales Customer Success ROI Customer Centricity 111

Feedbackly

JANUARY 10, 2023

You may not need some of the features marked as “nice to have” However if you want to be confident that your time and money is going into something that will hugely impact the success of your business and reach a positive ROI for your CX strategy, the features labelled “mandatory” will be required.

Customer Journeys 52

Customer Journeys Customer Experience Company How To 52

CSM Practice

DECEMBER 19, 2021

This saying applies to your Customer Success Technology stack more than anything else. The tools in your stack must work together to provide an exceptional customer experience. . You need to layout your journey first. Customer Success is a rapidly evolving function. Enhances overall customer experience.

Customer Success 98

Customer Success How To CRM Software 98

CustomerSuccessBox

JUNE 13, 2022

All of this contributes to bettering customer journeys and propelling the company’s future growth. Customer success and the role of Customer Intelligence. Customer intelligence may assist marketers in achieving a wide range of customer success objectives and activities.

Customer Success 52

Customer Success Net Promoter Score Customer Centricity ROI 52

Gainsight

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

I’d love to get your input on our Customer Success Organization.”. It’s so encouraging to see CEOs leaning into Customer Success. Inevitably, CEOs and leaders have the following common questions around how a Customer Success Organization should look: What should my Customer Success strategy be?

Customer Success 52

Customer Success Chief Customer Officer Report Sales 52

Education Services Group

JULY 10, 2019

Customer Success goes beyond your customer-facing domain. It is about more than just delivering specific customer outcomes. An effective Customer Success strategy depends on buy-in from your channel partners as well. Moreover, it’s traditionally based on product sales, rather than services.

Customer Success 40

Customer Success Customer Journeys Customer Centricity Strategy 40

Totango

JANUARY 30, 2020

Customer success and account management share common goals: Building customer loyalty and driving growth. Still, considering customer success vs account management reveals some insight into the contributions of both roles. Customer Success vs Account Management: How are They Different?

Customer Success 71

Customer Success Management Net Promoter Score Effort Score 71

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).

Sales 40

Sales Customer Success ROI Strategy 40

ClearAction

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Acquisition Addiction’s Impact on Customer Experience ROI Lynn Hunsaker. Addiction to acquisition of customers is taking a toll on customer experience ROI. trillion dollars lost through customers switching suppliers every year in the USA is equivalent to the GDP of Canada or Italy? Did you know that 1.8

ROI 59

ROI Customer Experience Customer Centricity Net Promoter Score 59

ChurnZero

OCTOBER 30, 2020

What’s Next For Customer Success? No one knows what the future holds (as 2020 has made abundantly clear) but that didn’t stop us from asking top SaaS CEOs what’s next for Customer Success. In-product onboarding also affords CSMs more time to focus on the work that makes the greatest customer impact and return on effort.

Customer Success 93

Customer Success Net Promoter Score Effort Score NPS 93

Totango

JANUARY 30, 2020

Customer success and account management share common goals: Building customer loyalty and driving growth. Still, considering customer success vs account management reveals some insight into the contributions of both roles. Customer Success vs Account Management: How are They Different?

Customer Success 63

Customer Success Management Net Promoter Score Effort Score 63

Gainsight

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Specifically, the Customer Success world learned 10 important lessons in 2020: 1. Customer Success Helps Businesses Survive Through the Pandemic. . Customer Success Helps Businesses Rebound – Through Their Clients. Customer Success Is a Unicorn.

Customer Success 69

Customer Success ROI Metrics Sales 69

Totango

MARCH 21, 2019

Realizing lifetime value from your customers is about generating lifetime value for your customers. That’s the central tenant of the customer success approach to business. It reflects the current customer-centered economy that has encouraged customer fluidity and placed greater emphasis on the customer experience.

Customer Success 85

Customer Success ROI Lifetime Customer Customer Journeys 85

Eptica

MARCH 28, 2018

Date: Wednesday, March 28, 2018 Why it is time to calculate the ROI of VoC programs. Author: Olivier Njamfa Businesses have been running Voice of the Customer (VoC) programs for some time , but in many cases overall customer satisfaction has actually deteriorated. This can be linked to business metrics to give a true ROI figure.

ROI 65

ROI Net Promoter Score Return on Investment Effort Score 65

CustomerSuccessBox

JUNE 20, 2022

Now that you’ve chosen to read this article, I suppose you are already aware of the weightage that the Customer Success function holds for your SaaS business. And when it comes to delivering the right customer success function to your clients you are as good as the tool you use. What is a Customer Success Software?

Software 52

Software Customer Success Effort Score Net Promoter Score 52

CSM Practice

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

In SaaS, renewals are a natural part of the customer journey. Sometimes they are seamless, other times a forcing function for change: either you pivot to increase the value of your solution or use it as a time to ‘part ways’ with an unfit customer. After all, we were already in the door with big customers.

Customer Journeys 52

Customer Journeys Management Innovation ROI 52

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.

Resources 52

Resources Customer Success ROI Metrics 52

Education Services Group

JUNE 24, 2022

It’s more than ROI. It’s more than enabling customers to use your product. These are the ‘uh-oh’ moments when you realize expectations of what your product or service can do versus reality are not aligned from the customer’s point of view. This one is all too common for something we can discover easily before the point of sale.

Customer Success 98

Customer Success Net Promoter Score ROI Customers 98

Gainsight

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Our Chief Customer Officer, Ashvin Vaidyanathan , talks to customer success trailblazer Garin Landry in this conversation. Garin is the Insight Strategy Manager for Customer Operations and Strategy at Planview , a global leader in work and resource management (WRM). Ashvin: Hello, Garin!

Customer Success 52

Customer Success Customer Journeys Chief Customer Officer Guidelines 52

Lumoa

JUNE 30, 2022

There are a few common challenges when trying to make customer experience value visible across your company: Lack of good data Contact rate Competing priorities. Each of these challenges makes it harder for you to prove the ROI of customer experience and to sell other leaders on the importance of investing in CX.

Customer Experience 277

Customer Experience How To Metrics Feedback 277

Gainsight

APRIL 2, 2021

Have you ever heard the one about the client that “was a little different than your other customers?” In the Customer Success world, this scenario has become a bit of a joke. So when a Customer Success leader, as one of OUR clients, tells us about how different they are, it’s reasonable to be a bit skeptical.

Customer Success 52

Customer Success Handbook Software Groups 52

Wootric CX Blog

MAY 4, 2020

Three years ago, I wrote a post on “ How to start a customer success program from scratch ” and outlined all the reasons to do so: . The ROI from increased referrals, cross-sells and upsells. The potential for a customer success program to become a “growth engine”. The ‘free marketing’ of brand advocacy.

Customer Success 82

Customer Success Net Promoter Score Effort Score ROI 82

ChurnZero

MAY 17, 2019

The most commonly quoted challenge facing Customer Success leaders worldwide over the past ten years or more has been confusion over the role and definition of Customer Success. The question “ What do Customer Success people do? ” Q: What type of activities do you categorize as Customer Success?

Customer Success 64

Customer Success ROI Sales Groups 64

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.

Customer Success 80

Customer Success Chief Customer Officer ROI Sales 80

Totango

MAY 23, 2019

It’s also worth noting that up to 70% of revenue in a subscription business comes from existing customer renewals and upsells. Customer success upsells are critical to your own success. Let’s look at how you can generate customer success upsell opportunities and encourage continued expansion.

Customer Success 74

Customer Success Effort Score Customer Centricity How To 74

ChurnZero

MARCH 11, 2020

I wasn’t satisfied that we lost a customer, but I was now armed with valuable new information that would lead to a breakthrough in our sales model. When I ran Customer Success at PeopleMatter I interviewed every customer who canceled their services with us. Didn’t realize ROI. A note on “Didn’t realize ROI”.

Customer Journeys 52

Customer Journeys ROI Return on Investment Customer Success 52

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.

Customer Journeys 40

Customer Journeys Customer Experience How To ROI 40

CSM Practice

OCTOBER 10, 2018

This summer, I received a call from one of my favorite customer success community leaders, Dave Blake who is the CEO for Client Success. Dave asked me if I might be interested in taking part as a judge for The Customer Success Innovator of the Year Award that takes place each year during CS100 Summit.

Customer Success 49

Customer Success Chief Customer Officer ROI Customers 49

ClearAction

JANUARY 8, 2024

Anything you do that bothers customers costs you! Longer sales cycles due to distrust. Higher costs to serve: customer service, returned materials, remedies, etc. More expense to retain customers: loyalty incentives, customer success, etc. 24 Ways to Boost 2024 CX ROI. to reach them.

Customer Centricity 62

Customer Centricity ROI Policies Chief Customer Officer 62

CSM Practice

OCTOBER 10, 2018

This summer, I received a call from one of my favorite customer success community leaders, Dave Lake who is the CEO for ClientSuccess. As a judge, assessing the finalists included meeting with 5 forward-thinking brainiacs, who all shared fascinating new approaches to doing customer success better.

Customer Success 49

Customer Success Chief Customer Officer ROI Customers 49

Amity

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Last week, we published a blog post in which Susan Nabeth Moore explored how Customer Success has changed the traditional Marketing and Sales revenue funnel and the way we conceive of the customer journey. Potential customers need to know WHY they should invest. Consideration. Decision and Contract.

Customer Journeys 48

Customer Journeys ROI Sales Measurement 48

CSM Practice

AUGUST 26, 2019

A while back, I sat down with Paul Piazza for a fireside chat at one of our PulseLocal Silicon Valley Customer Success event series. At that time, Paul Piazza had already had multiple Customer Success systems deployed and configured. Ultimately, that change in behavior is what delivers your ROI. What are they?

System 49

System Customer Success Net Promoter Score ROI 49

SmartKarrot

JANUARY 13, 2023

Role: Customer Success Specialist Location: Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland (Hybrid) Organization: Zowie As a Customer Success Specialist, you will manage and support the success of a portfolio of customers across the entire post-sale customer journey from kick-off to advocacy and renewal.

Customer Success 19

Customer Success Touchpoint Case Study Customer Journeys 19

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.

Metrics 52

Metrics Customer Success Net Promoter Score Effort Score 52

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.

Metrics 52

Metrics Customer Success Net Promoter Score Effort Score 52