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From the day the three co-founders started the company, its business plan, and its culture, Customer Success has been at the forefront of all things Loopio. How did you get started in Customer Success, and how has your path led you to your current role? MORE
Amity decided to sit down with David Apple , Director of Customer Success at Typeform, to learn about the structure and culture of Customer Success in this fast-growing startup, and to find out how it has evolved since its beginning 3 years ago. Success is very subjective. MORE
Some businesses are convinced that NPS surveys and customer experiences fall squarely on the shoulders of the customer success team. These executives empower the entire company to make the NPS a daily, weekly and monthly measure of a high-quality customer experience. MORE
The sales to customer success handoff is one of the most important intersections in the customer journey. It can make the difference between successful product adoption or a churn risk waiting to happen. Path for self-serve customers. MORE
There’s no question that customer success impacts today’s businesses. We know that unhappy customers will not only take their business elsewhere, they will share bad experiences with friends, family, and colleagues, on social media and with anyone else who will listen. Investors take customer success seriously when assigning value to your business. The first thing I ask for when [evaluating] a company is the customer database. MORE
If you’re like most of the companies filling the B2B space, chances are you’re all about Customer Success. Everyone loves Customer Success account management, and it can do wonders for your organization and your customers. By aligning your definition of success with your client’s, then you’re both striving for the same goal. In fact, KAM is Customer Success for the accounts that matter the most to your organization. Actions Drive Success. MORE
As 2018 comes to a close, customer success teams are taking some time for reflection and planning. Customer success is a rapidly growing industry and trends come and go quickly. This doesn’t mean go back through every single piece of customer data to find holes. MORE
These days, buyers have more choices, are better informed, and expect a superior customer experience. As Customer Success Managers, we have a narrow margin to bring value to a customer, or else we risk losing them. So, it's not surprising that many Customer Success teams spend tremendous energy keeping customers “happy,” or doing whatever they can to conform to customer desires. Customer Success Management MORE
Who owns the customer experience in your organization? When it comes to putting customer experience management into action, it’s critical to know who owns the moving pieces. In today’s B2B world, customer experience management (CEM) often falls to the customer success team. MORE
It’s time for another installment of our blog series where we spotlight a Customer Success professional and get their take on the industry as well as get to hear some of their top tips they’d like to share. A: At Mentor Collective, we structure our Partner Success team in pods. MORE
The goal of any customer success organization is ultimately to reduced churn and increase customer satisfaction. For your managed customers, Komiko influences that outcome directly by insuring that every customer is engaged with their CSM at an appropriate level. MORE
Customer Success Summit brings together the best and brightest minds in Customer Success. Our world-class speaker lineup for 2018 Customer Success Summit will share the impressive business results that customer success best practices should deliver. VP, Global Head Digital Customer Engagement. Manager, Partner & Customer Experience. Dante is the Manager of Partner & Customer Experience at Google Cloud. MORE
What is Customer Success (CS)? Customer Success can be defined as an organization’s approach to ensuring their products and/or services can deliver the right business outcomes for their customers. Why is Customer Success Important? MORE
Every company, especially a large enterprise, builds an organizational structure around their customer operations. Today, Totango launched SuccessTeams for its Enterprise Edition to enable large organizations to align customer success with their global customer operations. MORE
Last week on the 18th May, CustomerGauge’s Customer Success Managers (CSMs) held a Customer Success Meetup in our Amsterdam office. Twenty-five customer success professionals from all over the Netherlands, and in different industries, attended. What We Learned… Only a few CSMs had regular contact with their customers on an ongoing basis Around half used NPS […]. MORE
Growth-savvy customer success experts agree that creating a customer-first culture begins and ends with executive buy-in. While many executives have expressed support for customer advocacy, this has yet to translate into the majority establishing an advanced NPS program. MORE
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. MORE
Zendesk is a family of products that helps companies manage the entire customer lifecycle in different ways. They are on a scale that is uncommon for B2B companies, with a $350M run rate, 90K paying customers, and an additional 50-100K free or trial customers at any given time. MORE
The Customer Success for the Enterprise, luncheon held on Nov. 6th, in Palo Alto was an invitation-only event hosted by Totango, the leader in Customer Success (CS) software for the enterprise. Creating Customer Centricity Within the Organization. MORE
Today’s customer success executives are being challenged to use unprecedented amounts of customer data to build more predictable revenue outcomes and run more efficient operations. That’s on top of their existing efforts to manage an entire customer base. If you are a VP of Customer Success, it is time to go beyond defining strategy and start ensuring the execution of your strategy across the organization. Learning From The Success of Sales Operations. MORE
Amity sat down with Bradley Liou , Director of Customer Success at Densify to ask him about all things Customer Success. Read our interview with Bradley to find out where Customer Success started at Densify, where it is now, and where it’s headed in the future. MORE
In today’s subscription-based economy, customers are no longer trapped in long-term contracts; instead, they are able to jump to competitors easily when they become dissatisfied with their current vendor. Customer Success is about making customers as profitable and productive as possible. MORE
Over the last few years, many B2B organizations have created customer success organizations that focus on ensuring that their clients are happy. These companies are realizing that customers aren’t just buying their products, they’re making purchases with the expectation that they will achieve some value from the provider’s products and services. We think that to be successful customer success teams must blend account management with a strong CX mindset. MORE
Founded in 2011, with offices in Edmonton and Toronto, Jobber Software has helped thousands of home service businesses be more successful. When she joined in 2014, Justine Burns was Jobber’s first Customer Success hire. How do you keep on learning about Customer Success? MORE
Why not start with some Customer Success videos? 6 TED Talks That Are Surprisingly Relevant to Customer Success. 5 Powerful Videos That Spotlight Customer Advocacy. 2017 Rewind: Your Customer Success Playlist. How to Get a Hold of Your MIA Customers. MORE
This week we hosted a well-attended webinar on – Customer Success & Finance: Get Aligned! Getting a customer to retention and its financial impact. The webinar discussed the process and impact of the renewal from both the Customer Success and Finance point of view. MORE
There is a long list of metrics for each pillar of Customer Success but for the purposes of this post I’ll focus on the key metrics for Customer Success Management and the metrics commonly used for CS as a whole (I’ll save customer support and customer education metrics for another post). MORE
The Customer Success Manager role is a challenging one. These individuals will be facing both internal teams and external customers, trying to strike a happy balance between both while making the customer experience everything that it can be. MORE
There is a lot happening in the world of Customer Success, everything changes fast, and it can be difficult to see the bigger picture and to locate yourself on the map. In 2016, 60% of Customer Success Organizations have been around for 2 years, or less. MORE
Ask anyone in sales or customer support regarding important customer success metrics, and almost always, churn is mentioned. Churn is short for ‘churn rate’ and refers to the percentage rate of customer loss or customer defection. MORE
Last week, I once again tackled the topic of the differences between customer experience and customer service. This week, I'm going to see if I can do justice to the differences between customer experience and customer success. What is customer success ? MORE
So much is happening in the world of Customer Success. We’re going to bring the best and the brightest from the field to share latest trends in strategy and innovation so you and your organization can make the BIGGEST IMPACT possible in customer adoption, retention and overall customer engagement. This annual industry conference that Totango produces is for ALL customer-facing professionals that want to deliver on their promise to customers. MORE
Cash-flow and funding can limit headcount for many early-stage SaaS companies, and at the outset, the Customer Success function often falls upon a team of one. As the customer base grows, this team of one will need to figure out how to scale their role — and do so quickly. MORE
. This summer, I received a call from one of my favorite customer success community leaders, Dave Lake who is the CEO for ClientSuccess. As Customer Success leaders we are constantly challenged to preserve the customer base and to increase the recurring revenue stream. MORE
We work with many of the largest technology companies, helping them bolster the experiences they deliver to customers, often focusing on their (business-to-business) B2B relationships. With the shift from on-premise to cloud-based software, technology providers have had to focus even more on customer experience. Because customers buy more incrementally and make renewal decisions more frequently, forcing tech vendors to ensure that customers are continuously getting value. MORE
Winning by Design is a premier provider of strategy consulting and coaching programs for SaaS Sales and Customer Success organizations. They are the leaders in SaaS Sales consulting and training, and have recently added Customer Success to their area of expertise. MORE
But, with all these changes, problems can and will arise that require the attention of your customer team. 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. MORE
This summer, I received a call from one of my favorite customer success community leaders, Dave Blake who is the CEO for Client Success. By Andreas Knoefel, Customer Success and Services Executive, Thought Leader, and Author. The Customer Success Performance Index™. MORE
When Customer Success Managers talk customer health, Net Promoter Score (NPS) inevitably comes up. But why has NPS become the gold standard for measuring customer sentiment and loyalty? Customer Success Management NPS MORE
Every company I've worked for has offered a different mix of resources to support Customer Success Managers (CSMs) when it came time to negotiate with current customers. At one startup, customers were mapped to an Account Executive, and CSMs would loop them into any contract discussions. In other organizations, I was the customer's sole point of contact as soon as they signed on the dotted line. Customer Success Management MORE
Customers and prospects have a number of ways to reach your team with sales and support questions, but none are as effective and immediate as live chat. Over the past 4 years live chat usage has grown by 400% and more and more customers expect businesses to have it. MORE
As of today, there are over 200,000 Google search results with the phrase "Customer Success" in the title. Needless to say, there's a staggering amount of content about Customer Success! To help cut through the noise, we've compiled our favorite Customer Success organizations that you can turn to for advice, inspiration, and community. Customer Success Management MORE
Welcome to our blog series CSM from the Trenches, a community for frontline Customer Success Managers (CSMs) that discusses trends, best practices, and advice for the frontline. Being on the CSM frontline allows us to directly influence the success of our clients. MORE
This is my forward to Guy Nirpaz’ s new eBook on customer success, Farm Don’t Hunt , available today on Amazon. The disciplines of marketing and sales have traditionally owned a controlling stake in building customer relationships. Customer Success Kerry Bodine & Co MORE
Customer Success Related Topics CloudCherry
OCTOBER 30, 2018
Who owns the customer experience in your organization? When it comes to putting customer experience management into action, it’s critical to know who owns the moving pieces. In today’s B2B world, customer experience management (CEM) often falls to the customer success team.
Amity
NOVEMBER 28, 2018
Amity sat down with Bradley Liou , Director of Customer Success at Densify to ask him about all things Customer Success. Read our interview with Bradley to find out where Customer Success started at Densify, where it is now, and where it’s headed in the future.
Kayako
AUGUST 10, 2018
Customers and prospects have a number of ways to reach your team with sales and support questions, but none are as effective and immediate as live chat. Over the past 4 years live chat usage has grown by 400% and more and more customers expect businesses to have it.
Amity
OCTOBER 23, 2018
There is a long list of metrics for each pillar of Customer Success but for the purposes of this post I’ll focus on the key metrics for Customer Success Management and the metrics commonly used for CS as a whole (I’ll save customer support and customer education metrics for another post).
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. By Andreas Knoefel, Customer Success and Services Executive, Thought Leader, and Author. The Customer Success Performance Index™.
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 Customer Success leaders we are constantly challenged to preserve the customer base and to increase the recurring revenue stream.
Amity
DECEMBER 5, 2018
Winning by Design is a premier provider of strategy consulting and coaching programs for SaaS Sales and Customer Success organizations. They are the leaders in SaaS Sales consulting and training, and have recently added Customer Success to their area of expertise.
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Experience Matters
JUNE 18, 2018
Over the last few years, many B2B organizations have created customer success organizations that focus on ensuring that their clients are happy. These companies are realizing that customers aren’t just buying their products, they’re making purchases with the expectation that they will achieve some value from the provider’s products and services. We think that to be successful customer success teams must blend account management with a strong CX mindset.
Amity
JANUARY 11, 2018
Founded in 2011, with offices in Edmonton and Toronto, Jobber Software has helped thousands of home service businesses be more successful. When she joined in 2014, Justine Burns was Jobber’s first Customer Success hire. How do you keep on learning about Customer Success?
Amity
NOVEMBER 14, 2018
The sales to customer success handoff is one of the most important intersections in the customer journey. It can make the difference between successful product adoption or a churn risk waiting to happen. Path for self-serve customers.
Kerry Bodine
MARCH 21, 2016
This is my forward to Guy Nirpaz’ s new eBook on customer success, Farm Don’t Hunt , available today on Amazon. The disciplines of marketing and sales have traditionally owned a controlling stake in building customer relationships. Customer Success Kerry Bodine & Co
natero
OCTOBER 19, 2018
When Customer Success Managers talk customer health, Net Promoter Score (NPS) inevitably comes up. But why has NPS become the gold standard for measuring customer sentiment and loyalty? Customer Success Management NPS
Amity
OCTOBER 5, 2016
Amity decided to sit down with David Apple , Director of Customer Success at Typeform, to learn about the structure and culture of Customer Success in this fast-growing startup, and to find out how it has evolved since its beginning 3 years ago. Success is very subjective.
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Totango
NOVEMBER 22, 2017
So much is happening in the world of Customer Success. We’re going to bring the best and the brightest from the field to share latest trends in strategy and innovation so you and your organization can make the BIGGEST IMPACT possible in customer adoption, retention and overall customer engagement. This annual industry conference that Totango produces is for ALL customer-facing professionals that want to deliver on their promise to customers.
Experience Matters
FEBRUARY 21, 2018
We work with many of the largest technology companies, helping them bolster the experiences they deliver to customers, often focusing on their (business-to-business) B2B relationships. With the shift from on-premise to cloud-based software, technology providers have had to focus even more on customer experience. Because customers buy more incrementally and make renewal decisions more frequently, forcing tech vendors to ensure that customers are continuously getting value.
Amity
NOVEMBER 9, 2016
There is a lot happening in the world of Customer Success, everything changes fast, and it can be difficult to see the bigger picture and to locate yourself on the map. In 2016, 60% of Customer Success Organizations have been around for 2 years, or less.
Totango
SEPTEMBER 6, 2017
Zendesk is a family of products that helps companies manage the entire customer lifecycle in different ways. They are on a scale that is uncommon for B2B companies, with a $350M run rate, 90K paying customers, and an additional 50-100K free or trial customers at any given time.
Komiko
JUNE 24, 2018
The goal of any customer success organization is ultimately to reduced churn and increase customer satisfaction. For your managed customers, Komiko influences that outcome directly by insuring that every customer is engaged with their CSM at an appropriate level.
natero
SEPTEMBER 20, 2017
Cash-flow and funding can limit headcount for many early-stage SaaS companies, and at the outset, the Customer Success function often falls upon a team of one. As the customer base grows, this team of one will need to figure out how to scale their role — and do so quickly.
Amity
OCTOBER 26, 2017
Ask anyone in sales or customer support regarding important customer success metrics, and almost always, churn is mentioned. Churn is short for ‘churn rate’ and refers to the percentage rate of customer loss or customer defection.
Totango
OCTOBER 2, 2017
Every company, especially a large enterprise, builds an organizational structure around their customer operations. Today, Totango launched SuccessTeams for its Enterprise Edition to enable large organizations to align customer success with their global customer operations.
CX Journey
OCTOBER 10, 2018
Last week, I once again tackled the topic of the differences between customer experience and customer service. This week, I'm going to see if I can do justice to the differences between customer experience and customer success. What is customer success ?
Totango
NOVEMBER 12, 2018
The Customer Success for the Enterprise, luncheon held on Nov. 6th, in Palo Alto was an invitation-only event hosted by Totango, the leader in Customer Success (CS) software for the enterprise. Creating Customer Centricity Within the Organization.
Amity
APRIL 24, 2017
From the day the three co-founders started the company, its business plan, and its culture, Customer Success has been at the forefront of all things Loopio. How did you get started in Customer Success, and how has your path led you to your current role?
natero
DECEMBER 13, 2017
As of today, there are over 200,000 Google search results with the phrase "Customer Success" in the title. Needless to say, there's a staggering amount of content about Customer Success! To help cut through the noise, we've compiled our favorite Customer Success organizations that you can turn to for advice, inspiration, and community. Customer Success Management
Bob Hayes
MAY 21, 2018
In today’s subscription-based economy, customers are no longer trapped in long-term contracts; instead, they are able to jump to competitors easily when they become dissatisfied with their current vendor. Customer Success is about making customers as profitable and productive as possible.
B2B Customer Service Blog - TeamSupport
SEPTEMBER 28, 2018
But, with all these changes, problems can and will arise that require the attention of your customer team. 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.
Confirmit
DECEMBER 5, 2018
What is Customer Success (CS)? Customer Success can be defined as an organization’s approach to ensuring their products and/or services can deliver the right business outcomes for their customers. Why is Customer Success Important?
AskNicely
SEPTEMBER 25, 2018
Growth-savvy customer success experts agree that creating a customer-first culture begins and ends with executive buy-in. While many executives have expressed support for customer advocacy, this has yet to translate into the majority establishing an advanced NPS program.
Totango
JANUARY 22, 2018
Customer Success Summit brings together the best and brightest minds in Customer Success. Our world-class speaker lineup for 2018 Customer Success Summit will share the impressive business results that customer success best practices should deliver. VP, Global Head Digital Customer Engagement. Manager, Partner & Customer Experience. Dante is the Manager of Partner & Customer Experience at Google Cloud.
Totango
SEPTEMBER 27, 2017
Today’s customer success executives are being challenged to use unprecedented amounts of customer data to build more predictable revenue outcomes and run more efficient operations. That’s on top of their existing efforts to manage an entire customer base. If you are a VP of Customer Success, it is time to go beyond defining strategy and start ensuring the execution of your strategy across the organization. Learning From The Success of Sales Operations.
AskNicely
SEPTEMBER 6, 2018
Some businesses are convinced that NPS surveys and customer experiences fall squarely on the shoulders of the customer success team. These executives empower the entire company to make the NPS a daily, weekly and monthly measure of a high-quality customer experience.
Amity
DECEMBER 21, 2017
Why not start with some Customer Success videos? 6 TED Talks That Are Surprisingly Relevant to Customer Success. 5 Powerful Videos That Spotlight Customer Advocacy. 2017 Rewind: Your Customer Success Playlist. How to Get a Hold of Your MIA Customers.
ClientSuccess
DECEMBER 4, 2018
As 2018 comes to a close, customer success teams are taking some time for reflection and planning. Customer success is a rapidly growing industry and trends come and go quickly. This doesn’t mean go back through every single piece of customer data to find holes.
CustomerGauge
MAY 25, 2017
Last week on the 18th May, CustomerGauge’s Customer Success Managers (CSMs) held a Customer Success Meetup in our Amsterdam office. Twenty-five customer success professionals from all over the Netherlands, and in different industries, attended. What We Learned… Only a few CSMs had regular contact with their customers on an ongoing basis Around half used NPS […].
Kayako
OCTOBER 16, 2017
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.
NewVoiceMedia
JULY 3, 2018
There’s no question that customer success impacts today’s businesses. We know that unhappy customers will not only take their business elsewhere, they will share bad experiences with friends, family, and colleagues, on social media and with anyone else who will listen. Investors take customer success seriously when assigning value to your business. The first thing I ask for when [evaluating] a company is the customer database.
Kapta
AUGUST 20, 2018
If you’re like most of the companies filling the B2B space, chances are you’re all about Customer Success. Everyone loves Customer Success account management, and it can do wonders for your organization and your customers. By aligning your definition of success with your client’s, then you’re both striving for the same goal. In fact, KAM is Customer Success for the accounts that matter the most to your organization. Actions Drive Success.
natero
MAY 16, 2018
These days, buyers have more choices, are better informed, and expect a superior customer experience. As Customer Success Managers, we have a narrow margin to bring value to a customer, or else we risk losing them. So, it's not surprising that many Customer Success teams spend tremendous energy keeping customers “happy,” or doing whatever they can to conform to customer desires. Customer Success Management
ClientSuccess
OCTOBER 10, 2018
Welcome to our blog series CSM from the Trenches, a community for frontline Customer Success Managers (CSMs) that discusses trends, best practices, and advice for the frontline. Being on the CSM frontline allows us to directly influence the success of our clients.
Amity
DECEMBER 12, 2018
The Customer Success Manager role is a challenging one. These individuals will be facing both internal teams and external customers, trying to strike a happy balance between both while making the customer experience everything that it can be.
natero
JULY 23, 2018
Every company I've worked for has offered a different mix of resources to support Customer Success Managers (CSMs) when it came time to negotiate with current customers. At one startup, customers were mapped to an Account Executive, and CSMs would loop them into any contract discussions. In other organizations, I was the customer's sole point of contact as soon as they signed on the dotted line. Customer Success Management
ChurnZero
AUGUST 24, 2018
This week we hosted a well-attended webinar on – Customer Success & Finance: Get Aligned! Getting a customer to retention and its financial impact. The webinar discussed the process and impact of the renewal from both the Customer Success and Finance point of view.
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