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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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 metrics without documenting the business outcomes they are driving.

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ChurnZero

MARCH 24, 2023

The Customer Success industry is constantly evolving and developing new strategies for driving customer-led growth. 1: Is NPS a Customer Success metric? Stephanie Berner: My answer is unequivocally no— Net Promoter Score (NPS) should not be a CS metric. Here’s why. Value is very hard to measure.

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ChurnZero

MARCH 24, 2023

The Customer Success industry is constantly evolving and developing new strategies for driving customer-led growth. 1: Is NPS a Customer Success metric? Stephanie Berner: My answer is unequivocally no— Net Promoter Score (NPS) should not be a CS metric. Here’s why. Value is very hard to measure.

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Customer Success NPS Metrics Net Promoter Score 97

ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Customer Success is gaining ground, influence, and budget within organizations. Based on a detailed survey of more than 1,000 Customer Success leaders, this is the most comprehensive study of the evolving CS landscape to date. Download your full copy of the 2022 Customer Success Leadership Study here.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 25, 2024

How will customer success jobs, and the skills they require, evolve in 2024? With technology advancing and customer expectations rising, customer success has become an essential force driving business growth and customer loyalty within the SaaS industry.

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Totango

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Our increasingly customer-centric economy has established Customer Success as critical to every business’s overall strategy. Any CS team member knows that happy customers make for a thriving enterprise, but the same cannot always be said for C-level executives or your board of directors.

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Totango

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Luckily, there’s a measure for that, too: customer satisfaction metrics. Customer satisfaction quantifies the degree to which a customer is pleased by a product, brand, or overall experience. How to Track Customer Satisfaction with NPS . That’s why the Net Promoter Score (NPS) is a key metric to track.

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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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Gainsight

JANUARY 4, 2021

As we embark on the New Year, now is the perfect time to catch up on Gainsight’s Customer Success resources from 2020. We compiled our best Customer Success resources from last year, from blogs to ebooks to webinars and podcasts. Launching Customer Success. Customer Success Team Management.

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Lithium

JULY 31, 2023

Drag-and-drop design: Easily customize page layouts, navigation, and make design changes to your community with a new drag-and-drop interface that eliminates the need for custom code. Updated insights include new analytics APIs, health and engagement metrics, reports, and more.

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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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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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Totango

AUGUST 21, 2020

In our latest installment in the CXO Series , we sat down with Keith Strodtman, COO, Customer First and Shelby Czarnota, Vice President, Customer Success Business Solutions at SAP as we discussed SAP’s Transformation and Innovation in Customer Success and why they deployed Totango as their One Customer Success Platform.

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ClientSuccess

AUGUST 3, 2020

Over the last decade or so, the role of the Customer Success Manager has exploded, due in large part to SaaS organizations and updated onboard models. The increased visibility of the customer success function introduced the need for the customer success technology platform, and the industry hasn’t looked back since.

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Education Services Group

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

As presenters at ChurnZero’s BIG RYG 2022, Jordan Olivero and I discussed segmentation, tiering, and capacity planning in our session: Financial Modeling for Customer Success: From the Top Down and Bottom Up. So back to the big question: “How do I cover my entire install base of customers in the most efficient way possible?”.

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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?

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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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CustomerSuccessBox

AUGUST 25, 2022

Attending Customer Success events in 2022 ensures your SaaS business is at par with the current industry trends. However, with the onset of the COVID pandemic, various aspects of customer service and experience drastically changed. Customer Success Festival. Customer Contact Week. Customer Contact West.

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ChurnZero

APRIL 1, 2022

You’re not alone,” says Sharon Winterton , vice president of Customer Success at Catalina Marketing during her session “ Battling imposter syndrome in Customer Success ” at BIG RYG, ChurnZero’s annual Customer Success conference. You’ve never done Customer Success before. There’s so much to do.

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Totango

MARCH 13, 2020

Using customer data to illuminate the road ahead is always going to be far more effective than winging it or blindly assuming that what has worked in the past will continue to work in the future. Still, customer data needs to be carefully tracked and evaluated in order to be worth gathering in the first place.

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Gainsight

AUGUST 14, 2020

I often get asked by Customer Success executives how to discuss retention metrics with their Board of Directors. The focus on retention metrics has been further accelerated in this climate as companies double down on Customer Success. Metrics and names censored for confidentiality.

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ClientSuccess

AUGUST 30, 2018

Notably, Carine Clark , CEO of Banyan , presented at last year’s premier customer success leadership event in Sundance, Utah, and her message was both powerful and practical. Bring the best parts of personal service over to your professional team to ensure your customers feel special. .

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CSM Practice

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Every customer success metric you can measure falls into one of these four categories: Customer Health Metrics. Customer Financial Metrics. Customer Usage Metrics. Customer Success Team Performance Metrics. You can follow the links above for each metric category.

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CSM Practice

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Every customer success metric you can measure falls into one of these four categories: Customer Health Metrics. Customer Financial Metrics. Customer Usage Metrics. Customer Success Team Performance Metrics. You can follow the links above for each metric category.

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CustomerSuccessBox

MAY 12, 2022

It’s astonishing to know how product management converges with customer success management at one point. The overlap is the point where customers truly and completely experience the efficiency and effectiveness of your product! As a Customer Success Manager , you will always want to delight your customers.

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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. I got lucky! So I was just at the right place at the right time!

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ClientSuccess

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

As SaaS organizations and their customers slowly but surely get used to the ‘new normal’ that 2020 ushered in, customer success managers and team leaders are more focused than ever before. 5 resources to set your CSMs up for success. 5 resources to set your CSMs up for success.

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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. I am the GM, the coach and the player.

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CustomerSuccessBox

DECEMBER 3, 2021

As a Customer Success leader , you reviewed your past year’s performance thoroughly. Well, it’s not easy to prove a case for Customer Success(CS). Head of CS, Director of Customer Success , or Senior CS leader. The CFO has to understand the value that a customer brings to the organization is great.

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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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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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CustomerSuccessBox

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Customer Success (CS) and customer experience are often disregarded when firms merge, despite the fact that it is undoubtedly one of the most crucial components of any business. According to Gartner’s research, organizations of the future will compete mostly on customer experience.

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Education Services Group

MAY 27, 2022

Last week, I listed out some common ideas and practices that we should not spend a lot of time chasing , leaving unanswered questions about what is worth the chase in Customer Success. Customer Success Maturity Assessments. You need a complete picture of your Customer Success organization’s maturity.

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Gainsight

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The value of customer success cannot be overstated. A highly focused, strategic, and well-supported Customer Success team can affect everything from your product to Net Revenue Retention (NRR). Today, it’s imperative to prioritize the proper budget for Customer Success. Identify the Impact of Your Team.

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ClientSuccess

APRIL 27, 2017

As we travel the globe and talk with customer success leaders, one of the most frequent asked questions is, “What are the metrics I should be tracking and measuring to help my organization embrace customer success?” Recorded Webinar: The Ultimate Guide for Customer Success SaaS Metrics.

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