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Trends shaping The Forrester Wave™: Customer Success Platforms report

Totango

With acquisition costs proving too high in today’s constrained environment, many businesses are finally putting greater focus on nurturing existing customer relationships to ensure retention and expansion. The global market research company conducted its first Forrester Wave™ evaluation of top customer success platforms.

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Built to last: Nurturing customer relationships that will survive a downturn

Gainsight

During times like these, the relationships you have formed and nurtured become more important than ever. And we’d like to take that idea one step further—during an economic downturn it is vital that customer success teams continue to proactively build relationships. Optimize your product from the customer out.

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Customer Success Plans That Rock!

Education Services Group

Let’s talk Customer Success Plans. What’s a Customer Success Plan, you ask? Well, let’s just say it’s the wind beneath your customer’s wings. It’s the recipe for their success. My amazing metaphors aside, Customer Success Plans are essentially the “what” and “how” of delivering on your CS strategy.

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Where Customer Support and Customer Success Goals Overlap

Kayako

It should never be customer success vs customer service. They’ve been separated to showcase customer success as being this proactive, product-driven, revenue generating machine, and left the support department sitting around feeling like a reactive cost center. Yet, somehow these departments have been separated.

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Pulse Europe 2023: How to Drive Proactive Customer Success When You’re an Early-Stage Company

Gainsight

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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Strategic customer success: minimizing post-sale chaos with Tim Conder.

ChurnZero

To make the right choices, however, you need a deep understanding of what your customers need and expect from you. However, the process never stops, so when there’s a customer need that you don’t get to the first time around, come back around and prioritize it the second time. But we can’t do it all.

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The Importance of Customer Success for SaaS Companies

TeamSupport

The job to communicate both the good and the bad about your SaaS product to your existing customer base often falls on the customer success team. Don’t have a customer success team built up and fully thriving in your business?