Totango

JULY 28, 2021

Following best practices for hiring a customer success manager can make a critical difference in the quality of your customer relationships. Customer success managers serve as the face of your company in dealing with clients, playing a key role in ensuring satisfying experiences of your brand. Suggesting upsells.

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Totango

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Customer retention is the continuation of a valued service. In B2B terms, it is still possible to maintain your customer relationship and even improve customer retention during uncertainty, but you will need to focus on five key steps: Understand Your Customer. Listen to Your Voice of Customer Programs.

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Totango

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Hiring team members with the right customer success manager skills is critical for the effectiveness of your CS team and strategy. We’ll cover these below, along with five best practices to follow when bringing a new customer success manager aboard your team. What Is a Customer Success Manager (CSM)?

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Education Services Group

MAY 28, 2021

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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Education Services Group

MAY 20, 2022

I see a lot of chasing in Customer Success: chasing metrics that our data doesn’t support, chasing insight, chasing answers to the reason customers churn, and chasing a haven of exemplary plays and processes to mitigate risk and drive value. Stop chasing a Customer Success platform that doesn’t do what you need it to do.

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CustomerSuccessBox

MARCH 28, 2022

Most SaaS firms see Customer Success as a necessary evil. Customers buy your product to achieve their goals. It is the responsibility of the customer success team to ensure that a customer makes a repeat purchase. So, customer success is the ‘growth hack’ that your SaaS firm is looking for!

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Education Services Group

APRIL 8, 2022

Welcome to Rants of a Customer Success Analyst. I’m Justin Garlock, and over the next three months, I’ll be providing you a weekly firsthand look into the mind of a Customer Success Analyst: how we should think, what we should be doing, what we should be asking, and how we should execute and deliver.

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Totango

APRIL 9, 2019

Customer retention is the lifeblood of any savvy enterprise. It’s the only way to be successful in this customer-centered economy and ensure scalable long-term revenue. To retain customers, companies must make the customer experience better and ensure customers never stop seeing value from their product or service.

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Totango

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Customer success vs. customer support: although these two terms appear similar, they actually refer to two different, yet complementary, functions within a company. Fulfilling a proactive role, customer success focuses on problem prevention and creates value by enabling clients to achieve business goals.

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ChurnZero

MARCH 5, 2021

Have you ever bemoaned this common refrain after a customer unexpectedly churns? Your customer said they were happy. Customer engaging? Customer satisfied? Customer seeing results? But still, when presented with the opportunity to leave, your customer just up and churns on you. Confirmation Bias.

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CustomerSuccessBox

MAY 6, 2021

From the last couple of weeks, we’ve been writing about the importance of customer retention , key metrics to track and how Customer Success can help you drive retention, and whether your organization is ready to implement Customer success software. . Don’t know where to start? Define Scope.

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ChurnZero

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Another one of our favorite moments was our Founder, You Mon Tsang’s well attended session on the “ Top Customer Metrics For Your Board and Investors and How to Nail Them with ChurnZero’s CEO.” Are your compensation plans setting your business up for longer-term success or subscription contraction? saastrannual.

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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Customer Success Metrics that Your Investors and Board Care About. They care that you’re staffed appropriately to serve the needs of your customers, because ultimately that results in revenue. A huge part of how customer success collects intel and feedback from customers is by talking with them.

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CustomerSuccessBox

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

But it also bought a sea of opportunity for people who could see beyond the present turbulent times. And in all these -the common thread- Customer Success. Customer Success as a stream has played an important role. So, without further ado, let’s see the Customer Success Trends as predicted by the CS experts.

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ChurnZero

APRIL 5, 2022

This is a guest post by Paula Naba , director of Customer Success at Northpass. Did you know that 32% of customers stop doing business with a brand they love after only one bad experience? How about this: customer-centric companies are 60% more profitable than companies that don’t focus on customers.

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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. . Customer Success is a rapidly evolving function. Yet, Customer Success is often undervalued and underfunded.

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One Millimeter Mindset

JULY 4, 2019

What is your current customer retention strategy value? I offer these five customer retention strategy value blog posts for your reading pleasure. While retaining customers is an art form, the relentless pace of technology change challenges the norm. So do your customers. How valuable are they, to you?

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Totango

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

With a focus on lifetime customer success rather than on quick revenue raising, you can turn your renewal process into a celebration of an ongoing partnership. It’s a customer-centered approach that reflects the broader economy we currently operate under, one where the customer expects individualized treatment.

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Education Services Group

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Usage metrics are critical indicators of how well your products are helping customers achieve their desired outcomes, which in turn influences your customer retention strategy. If usage is low, odds are that your customer sees little if any value in your solution. Your Customer Retention Strategy Relies on CSMs!

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CSM Practice

APRIL 13, 2021

Being a Customer Success Manager (CSM) is a non-stop learning process that requires hands-on management at every stage. At its most basic, customer success seems simple; however, in practice, it is complex and challenging as it should help to satiate every customer’s needs. . A CSM is also a communicator.

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ChurnZero

JULY 22, 2021

By creating healthy boundaries, Customer Success and Sales don’t have to spend their days assessing and arguing over every expansion situation. Customer comfortability and experience. When creating internal rules and processes, teams have a habit of prioritizing their own needs above the needs of the customer.

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Education Services Group

JUNE 9, 2022

Recently, I was in a very intense game of Topgolf with two of my friends and colleagues, Sheik Ayube and Peter Armaly (VPs of Business Development and Customer Success, respectively, here at ESG). When it comes to Customer Success and forecasting, there are three big picture principles that we must get right. The Reason.

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ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

With sweeping layoffs, forecast misses, and budget cuts in the news, there’s one question running through the mind of every Customer Success leader right now: What can I do to prepare my department for the impacts of the economic downturn? Difficult conversations lead to deeper customer connections.

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Education Services Group

AUGUST 16, 2022

Customer Success Plans are key to starting your customer relationships off on the right foot. CSMs use them to guide their first interactions with the customer, helping them clarify and set expectations, set up an action plan for moving forward, and establish critical milestones to work toward through the customer journey.

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ChurnZero

JUNE 10, 2020

Enjoy this list of must-read Customer Success books. . . A veritable blueprint for success in the new membership economy, this book is a must-have for organizations of any size. Never Lose a Customer Again. He identifies eight distinct emotional phases customers go through in the 100 days following a purchase.

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CustomerSuccessBox

DECEMBER 4, 2018

In the SaaS world, the customer-acquisition-cost (CAC) is high and the initial payment is peanuts compared to the lifetime value (LTV) of the customer. That means the customer needs to renew their contract more than once. You may believe that if the customer does not have any problem, the customer will renew the contract.

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CSM Practice

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Guessing has no place in a changing customer success industry. Now more than ever, customer success leaders must use relevant and actionable customer success metrics to make guided decisions and strategies to deliver success. Customer Health Metrics. Customer Usage Metrics.

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ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Each week, I read many customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. Elevating Customer Experience: Embracing Hospitality as the Foundation by Charles Ryan Minton (Newsweek) When it comes to providing exceptional customer experiences, few industries excel quite like the hotel business.

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CustomerSuccessBox

MAY 23, 2022

This is why it’s quite surprising to know that the profession of customer success specialist has been marked universally as a high-demand job profile. Read further to know how can you progress through the customer success career path. Additional Read: The key responsibilities of the Customer Success Manager.

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CustomerSuccessBox

MAY 25, 2021

Have you ever heard any SaaS founder or VP -CS saying,” I‘m okay with losing a few customers every month?”. That’s because Customer Retention is critical. Customer retention is critical — particularly for B2B SaaS companies. Retaining a customer is way more profitable than acquiring new ones. .

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ChurnZero

JUNE 12, 2020

This is a guest post by Jason Conrad, Advisory Board Member of Customer Imperative. Following the trajectory of these more established functions, the next natural progression in Customer Success’ evolution is specialization. Who administers your customer systems (such as your Customer Success platform, CRM, or support desk)?

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CSM Practice

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Guessing has no place in a changing customer success industry. Now more than ever, customer success leaders must use relevant and actionable customer success metrics to make guided decisions and strategies to deliver success. Customer Health Metrics. Customer Usage Metrics.

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CSM Practice

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Guessing has no place in a changing customer success industry. Now more than ever, customer success leaders must use relevant and actionable customer success metrics to make guided decisions and strategies to deliver success. Customer Health Metrics. Customer Usage Metrics.

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CustomerSuccessBox

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The key activity that is important to good execution of customer success is the renewal process obviously. And this goes without saying that whether it is the customer success team that’s managing it or another part of your organization, it is very critical. Read: Why is customer retention important for B2B SaaS.

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ChurnZero

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

INBOUND is an industry event designed to gather Marketing, Sales, and Customer Success professionals all in one place to learn and get inspired together. Check out our top ten Customer Success takeaways from INBOUND 2018. Customer Support does not equal Customer Success. Solve for the customer.

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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? Will this role have high growth potential? 6 in the U.S. #2 2 in Mexico. #6

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CustomerSuccessBox

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

A seamless handoff from sales to customer success to implementation is necessary to deliver the promised early value. This is crucial to make your customer’s experience easier. CS professionals must have felt the grunt of a bad transition from Sales to Customer Success. This makes retention easier.

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