Gainsight

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Now that the era of easy money and growth-at-any-cost is over, they are looking to reconnect with the fundamentals of their business models, which in the case of SaaS means ongoing relationships with customers. . At Gainsight, we believe that truly durable growth is built on strong customer relationships.

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ClientSuccess

MAY 10, 2022

When a new customer joins your book of business, there are some things that are known right out of the gate. The ‘sale’ of a new customer – aka the monetary amount of the contract – is often looked at as the be-all-end-all metric to determine the value of the customer. What is Customer Lifetime Value.

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ClientSuccess

JANUARY 24, 2023

Listening Vectors by Vecteezy Customer success health scoring is one of the most valuable activities SaaS organizations can undertake to evaluate and improve customer engagement, satisfaction, and loyalty. What is a Customer Health Score? What is a Customer Health Score?

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ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

When you’re just getting started, or you’re still building your Customer Success team, sometimes you can use all the help you can get. It can be difficult in these situations for Customer Success Managers (CSMs) to find the time or the resources to dig for those crucial customer insights. And these ones happen to be free!

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ClientSuccess

APRIL 13, 2021

Over time, however, these relationships can become strategic partnerships that can actually drive the future success of both organizations simultaneously. As a main point of contact for many customers, CSMs are often one of the first sounding boards for customer ideas, opinions, and questions. .

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ClientSuccess

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Understanding Vectors by Vecteezy As an industry and a discipline, customer success managers are getting better at delivering a higher percentage of positive customer experiences. Customers want to feel heard, understood, and supported – and empathy helps customer service teams meet those needs. What is empathy?

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ClientSuccess

OCTOBER 5, 2021

For a team to be truly successful in the customer success world, data and metrics should inform every decision made. While gathering data after a strategy has been implemented is a great way to tell if an initiative worked, customer success teams can also gain a predictive advantage into long-term customer success with leading indicators.

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ClientSuccess

JUNE 15, 2021

If there is one lesson that SaaS organizations learned during the last year, the importance of a loyal customer base can not be overstated. During a year where many companies had to make complex strategic decisions, and new sales weren’t exactly flying in at a rapid pace, existing customer accounts helped keep the lights on.

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ClientSuccess

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Have you ever wondered about the difference between customer success and customer support? While both are important for ensuring customer satisfaction and retention, they have different objectives and approaches. Unlike customer support, which is reactive, customer success is proactive.

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ClientSuccess

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Over the years, customer success manager roles have expanded to include many different responsibilities. Bridging the gap between customers and a product team is critical, from managing customer implementations to ongoing account maintenance. Keep tabs on customer satisfaction and account health. .

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ClientSuccess

JANUARY 11, 2023

The concept of customer success continues to rapidly gain traction as businesses strive to improve their customer experience. Here’s an overview of what we call the Golden Rule of Customer Success – 8 Guiding Principles: Understand customer needs, goals and motivations. Create an atmosphere of trust with customers.

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ClientSuccess

JANUARY 10, 2020

When it comes to dealing with customers, there are some situations that can be a little overwhelming for both a customer success manager and the customer in question. Simply put, when onboarding teams and customers aren’t on the same page, these situations typically don’t end very promising. Stay organized. .

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ClientSuccess

JANUARY 10, 2020

When it comes to dealing with customers, there are some situations that can be a little overwhelming for both a customer success manager and the customer in question. Simply put, when onboarding teams and customers aren’t on the same page, these situations typically don’t end very promising. Stay organized. .

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ClientSuccess

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

From juggling multiple customer accounts to keeping a myriad of plates spinning, CSMs rely heavily on metrics and data to ensure they are trending in the right direction. Understanding customer onboarding speed. So, what is customer onboarding speed? Customer onboarding speed includes the amount of time it takes to: .

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ClientSuccess

JUNE 22, 2022

As any CSM has been told – and has realized – many times, no two customer experiences are the same. Every customer has unique goals and is looking to a vendor organization to help solve a problem or two. Here is the tried and true recipe: trust + communication = customer loyalty.

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ClientSuccess

APRIL 4, 2018

This series, now a community for frontline Customer Success Managers (CSMs), discusses trends, best practices, and advice that can help the frontline. The goal is that by sharing our experiences, we’ll be able to learn and apply more practical advice / practices to our customer success careers. Let’s get started with this week’s post!

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ClientSuccess

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

There are an overwhelming amount of metrics that you can measure to track customer success. So, to break through the fray and give you a place to start, Client Success has created THE list of the most valuable customer success metrics. If your company is B2B, this could be interpreted as average revenue per logo.

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ClientSuccess

AUGUST 2, 2021

For CSMs, acting as the bridge between customers and a SaaS product organization sometimes requires a tricky balance. While your main goal is to always go above and beyond for customers, some things may be happening internally that may not be in your customer’s best interest. and keep your customers informed.

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ClientSuccess

MAY 3, 2022

In the world of customer success, robust, fully realized customer relationships don’t just happen overnight. Instead, CSMs must make clear, focused decisions to build loyalty and trust at every customer lifecycle stage. . For CSMs and their customers, nothing beats a first impression.

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ClientSuccess

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Today’s CSMs act as the one-stop go-between for a customer and the rest of a vendor organization. From product announcements to marketing requests, CSMs are typically the point of contact to relay this information to a customer. This same sense of leadership is also true for sales discussions.

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ClientSuccess

APRIL 20, 2021

One quick search on the internet brings up thousands of articles about ‘what your customers really want’ and ‘one thing customers are looking for but will never tell you’. For CSMs, the amount of content out there touting the secret sauce for amazing customer relationships can be overwhelming and, quite simply, confusing. .

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SurveyGizmo

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Please download our CX Predictions for 2022 ebook for our full report. Many Customer Experience (CX) teams lack the data integration of their Sales and Marketing counterparts. CX has collected numerous potential data sets just waiting to be leveraged: Internal customer behaviors, transactions, and profiles. CX Lags Behind.

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ClientSuccess

JUNE 29, 2022

As a CSM, you know first-hand that working with customers involves more than answering their questions, guiding them through onboarding and product implementations, and ensuring their ongoing satisfaction with your organization. Having a strong rapport with customers doesn’t come immediately. But how often do you mean this?

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ClientSuccess

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Over the past few weeks, we’ve been exploring some of the different types of customer marketing initiatives that CSMs can own to deliver fantastic customer experiences. Today, we’re going to take a look at a fourth customer marketing initiative: engagement. Facilitate learning and information sharing across your customer base.

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ClientSuccess

AUGUST 10, 2021

We’ve all experienced customers going dark. However customers go dark, it is often the CSMs responsibility to rein them back in and get them back on the path to success. Often, CSMs have to go about re-engaging customers with creativity and patience, as your tried-and-true methods of engagement probably aren’t going to work.

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ClientSuccess

APRIL 28, 2021

When critical issues aren’t being flagged, weeks can pass before you look around and realize you haven’t connected with a customer in some time. Then, when you try to reach out and re-engage it can be near impossible to elicit a response from the customer in question. . When do customers ‘go dark’.

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ClientSuccess

OCTOBER 19, 2021

While CSMs put their heart and souls into their customer relationships, there will always be instances of customer churn. Although not all customer churn is avoidable, some common churn reasons can be expected and recognized. If there is no owner, it can be hard to fight your way back into the good graces of a customer.

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ClientSuccess

DECEMBER 27, 2022

At the heart of any successful customer relationship is a clear and well-defined path to customer success. This means implementing best practices in areas such as product training, initial relationship cadence, and real-time support. Here are key strategies to consider when creating a Customer Success Journey Map: 1.

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ClientSuccess

MARCH 23, 2021

As more companies announce they will continue remote operations indefinitely, customer success teams are either auditing their existing remote communications strategy or looking for ways to keep things running smoothly long-term. This is because, for customer success teams, there are more than just internal conversations to think about. .

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ClientSuccess

MARCH 2, 2021

This is especially true for Account Executives and Customer Success Managers – two roles that work extremely close with customers (and each other) and tend to be rolled into one when thinking about customer account management . eBook: Customer Success as a Culture: Sales Leaders Edition.

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ClientSuccess

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Customer success managers have their work cut out for them when it comes to retaining and growing customers. It takes a lot of hard work to draw customers into your company in the first place, so you must work to keep those customers more than satisfied once they decide to work with you. Set Expectations with Customers.

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Playvox

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Customer support teams can get a bad rap — people in other departments may think your team is just a cost center within your business or that it’s not as crucial as other teams. Your team is one of the most important teams in your business because you have a direct line to customers, their concerns, and their insights.

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ClientSuccess

JULY 13, 2021

They’re project managers, act as a liaison between customers and other teams, escalate incidents and issues, keep customers moving forward in their project plans, and are responsible for the general well-being of customer account health. CSMs are the voice and source of truth for customers within a vendor organization.

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ClientSuccess

JUNE 2, 2021

Asking for customer feedback is far and away one of the best tools in any SaaS organization’s arsenal for improving and optimizing the customer experience. After all, your customers are your best sounding board because they live the customer relationship every day. Why customer feedback is important.

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ClientSuccess

APRIL 19, 2022

As any customer success professional knows, metrics and data keep customer relationships running smoothly. CSMs can focus on quick, game-time updates that address immediate customer needs with real-time data. The Customer Satisfaction Score is a metric that addresses both strategic data uses. .

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ClientSuccess

OCTOBER 20, 2020

But if 2020 has taught SaaS leaders anything it’s that it’s a company’s current customers – not the new ones – that have the potential to keep a business afloat when things get hard. 2021 Customer Success Planning. Here are three reasons why a customer success management platform needs to be part of your 2021 budget planning: 1.

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ClientSuccess

AUGUST 24, 2021

It’s no surprise the handoff from sales to customer success is one of the trickiest parts of the customer success journey. It doesn’t help, either, that this handoff happens early on in the customer success journey. Check out the steps your team can take to optimize your sales through onboarding customer experience: 1.

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