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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Gainsight

MARCH 30, 2023

Originally published June 2, 2022 By Brian LaFaille, former Global Head of CS Strategic Programs at Looker Digital Customer Success is for everyone. We caught up with Brian LaFaille, former Global Head of Customer Success Strategic Programs at Looker, to get his take on segmentation and how they score customers at Looker.

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CustomerSuccessBox

AUGUST 27, 2021

Customer Success team or the Sales team. Model 1: Sales owns new logos, expansion, and renewals Model 2: Customer Success owns expansion and renewals Model 3: A separate customer-focused sales team owns expansion and renewals. Combining Sales with Customer Success.

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Help Scout

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

The first named customer success group was created in 1996. While the original driver for the role was to grow relationships and increase revenue, the customer success specialist job description has changed quite a bit since then. Today we're supporting more than 12,000 of them — we're passionate about this stuff!

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Gainsight

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

And as you can tell by the chart, the runaway winners in the minds of most executives are: Expansion and Cross-sell: Want to reduce customer acquisition cost (CAC) ? Sell to your existing customer. Automating Customer Success (CS): Can’t add more Customer Success Managers ( CSMs)? Contract up for renewal?

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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

In a world where employee turnover can instantly jeopardize customer renewals and retention, multithreading is an essential churn reduction strategy. If you have a customer success platform (CSP), you can be able to segment them quickly so your CSMs aren’t overwhelmed, and set up a weekly cadence. A: It’s a common scenario.

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Criteria Corp’s Customer Success Team (and a few furry friends). Across their suite of aptitude, personality, and skills tests, the group helps organizations make better talent decisions. Criteria Corp’s Customer Success Team is primarily based in Los Angeles, but includes team members across the US (Chicago, Denver.).

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West Monroe

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Listen to "Customer Success as a Revenue Driver" on Spreaker. About the episode How do you define a strong customer success mindset and what are the benefits? The discussion also touches on the challenges of adopting a customer-first mindset and the significance of digital tools in enhancing customer success efforts.

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West Monroe

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Listen to "Customer Success as a Revenue Driver" on Spreaker. About the episode How do you define a strong customer success mindset and what are the benefits? The discussion also touches on the challenges of adopting a customer-first mindset and the significance of digital tools in enhancing customer success efforts.

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CSM Practice

MAY 22, 2022

A profitable Customer Success framework is built on the various stages that a customer goes through in his/her relationship with your business. On the other hand, Customer Experience, which is an important component of Customer Success, is created at every level of the contact between the customer and vendor. .

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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. A lot of the time things are reactive.

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CustomerSuccessBox

MARCH 28, 2022

In this blog, we talk about how the 80/20 Pareto rule is applicable to customer success. This theory now holds good for every arena and why not apply it for customer success? Let’s call this an “80 20 rule customer success”. How does the 80/20 rule for customer success work? Sales promises.

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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.

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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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ECXO

APRIL 28, 2021

Customer Success – Sowing the Seeds for Mutual Growth. While the role of customer success is not new, it has rapidly become mainstream as companies now recognize its contribution to business growth. According to Jason Lemkin, “Customer success is where 90% of the revenue is”. Share on whatsapp. Jason Lemkin.

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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Some Customer Success metrics are considered standard but there’s often more than meets the eye. Sales and marketing professionals that geek out on metrics can find themselves in deep philosophical debates about the best numbers to track. There is often more than one way to calculate a given Customer Success metric; Gaming.

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Waypoint Group

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

The current mantra: “Customers churn when they don’t see the value. CS is all about ensuring the customer sees value.” EVERY SALE in #B2B #SaaS results in change. EVERY SALE in #B2B #SaaS results in change. it’s ADOPTION — CHANGE — that customers must go through to acquire the value.

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CustomerSuccessBox

MARCH 17, 2022

You should connect your company’s targeted outcomes to your client’s desired outcomes in order to do so in a customer-centric manner. Use the Customer Success Playbook to synchronize those two sets of objectives. Customer Success playbooks are one approach to accomplish this.

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CSM Practice

MAY 13, 2020

As a response to help companies mitigate the impact of COVID-19 on Customer Success organizations around the globe. CSM Practice conducted a weekly survey to observe potential improvements with how the crisis impacted SaaS companies and customer success management teams. Sales and Retention Forecast.

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Totango

JANUARY 29, 2021

When your product directly helps your customers achieve their goals, your brand wins their loyalty. Playbooks for customer success managers help drive processes that promote winning client outcomes. What Is a Customer Success Playbook? Why Do You Need Playbooks for Customer Success?

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Answer Dash

JANUARY 8, 2020

(This article is published by the written consent of Custify ) If you’ve spent any time reading about customer success (CS), you’ve probably noticed that it emphasizes crafting positive customer experiences. Read any content about the field of customer experience (CX) and you’ll see the same. So what separates the two?

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ChurnZero

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Why is it that the need for operations in marketing and sales is never questioned, yet Customer Success isn’t given the same allowance? Even though CSQLs have a lower customer acquisition cost, faster rate of return, and high close-rate, says Tony D’Auria, industry principal at Valuize, a customer lifecycle consultancy.

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CustomerSuccessBox

JUNE 13, 2022

Customer intelligence (CI) is becoming a prominent competitive advantage in this age of increased competition with other organizations. We already knew that customer-centricity is critical for any SaaS company’s success. However, there are other aspects to being a customer-centric company.

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West Monroe

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Since you’re not wearing VR goggles today to engage with customers, it’s safe to say you made the right decision in not overturning your sales organization to a virtual sales process. So, what is gen AI, and how can it impact your sales organization? Consider an e-commerce company that sells fashion apparel.

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Education Services Group

APRIL 21, 2021

If you’re wondering what the ESG Customer Success Maturity Model is and why we built it, go back and read the first installment of this three-part series. Here in part two, I’ll talk about the second phase of Customer Success maturity – Operationalize. If you’ve already devoured that and are ready for more, read on!

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LiveChat

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Companies that take customer service seriously and make it a priority in the early stages of existence, shouldn’t forget about customer success management. It’s often mistaken with customer support, so let’s clarify. Customer success management is the next layer on the top of a successful customer support team.

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CSM Practice

JANUARY 19, 2021

There are different internal teams in the organization that work hard to achieve a common goal towards Customer Success, namely Marketing and CX. These teams with different responsibilities but with one mission for the company, to increase renewals , minimize churns , increase sales and revenue. The Role of Marketing.

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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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Education Services Group

AUGUST 10, 2021

In a dream world, Customer Success, sales, marketing, product, and support organizations all work together to weave the beautiful tapestry this is your customer experience. We’re not saying that shattering the siloed barriers should fall on Customer Success alone. How do we take on such a monumental task?

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ClientSuccess

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

In today’s B2B technology world, it seems common that the phrases “customer success” and “customer support or service” are often intertwined. After all, they’re both about serving the customer and ensuring they’re finding success with your product or service, right?

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Think Customers

AUGUST 30, 2021

The sales world is forever altered, thanks to pandemic-fueled digital transformation across entire enterprises. In the B2B space, where relationships reign supreme, sales organizations found effective and efficient ways to conduct business with a digital-first approach that’s efficient, effective, and won’t go away any time soon.

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CustomerSuccessBox

APRIL 27, 2022

Have your customer’s been engaging a lot with your business? That customer experience has a lot of impact on customer engagement. And you’d want a customer success team to bring this experience to them. For that to happen, you must hire the best Customer Success Manager (CSM).

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CustomerSuccessBox

APRIL 19, 2022

One of the key drivers for growth in the B2B SaaS industry is the customer success based business models. So, as an enterprise, you’d require an ‘ Enterprise Customer Success Management ‘ system in place! 6 Logical Factors involved in Enterprise Customer Success Management.

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Totango

AUGUST 9, 2022

B2B customer segmentation gives you the power to customize your service and even personalize it for individual clients. This yields superior customer satisfaction, translating into higher revenue for your business. This article will give you six best practices for optimizing your B2B customer segmentation.

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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).

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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.

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ChurnZero

MARCH 4, 2022

This article is adapted from a session presented by Amy Manning , vice president of Customer Success at Lawgeex from BIG RYG, ChurnZero’s annual Customer Success leadership summit. Manage customer feedback. Assist your sales organization in closing deals faster. When should you use a force field analysis?

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