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. Your rules of engagement should be based on which team is genuinely the best fit in each scenario and has the greatest likelihood of gaining sales traction. Circle of influence.

Examples 98

Examples Sales Customer Success Engagement 98

Retently

MARCH 16, 2022

With new SaaS companies popping up every day and a customer-centric culture coming into play, there’s (understandably) some confusion about how to manage customer interactions. For many companies, the entire conversation takes place under the umbrella of Customer Support (or Technical Support). reduced customer churn.

Customer Success 166

Customer Success Net Promoter Score Customers Customer Retention 166

Gainsight

AUGUST 24, 2021

When customers have seamless experiences from marketing to sales and on to delivery? One powerful way to inspire, inform, and motivate your organization to reach this next level of customer satisfaction is with deeper integration of sales staff with your organization’s customer success program.

Sales 52

Sales Customer Success e-support Metrics 52

BirdEye

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Customer experience can be vital in helping businesses grow and scale faster. Investing in processes and tools that contribute to customer delight significantly impacts the bottom line. Good customer experience or delight has significantly evolved to finding value across every touchpoint.

Sales 111

Sales Social Media Customers Multi-Channel 111

Totango

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

“Customer success is driving value to customers. Digital customer success is driving value more efficiently using a software or service that allows companies to grow and deliver value without using excessive resources” – Chris Dishman, SVP Customer Success, Totango.

Customer Success 103

Customer Success Effort Score Touchpoint Customers 103

ChurnZero

MARCH 20, 2023

If you want to keep the peace at the dinner table, three things should never be discussed: religion, politics and who owns customer renewals and expansions. We put these two questions to respondents in our most recent 2022 Customer Success Leadership Study published late last year. Who owns customer renewals? said other.

Sales 52

Sales Customer Success Management Study 52

ChurnZero

MARCH 20, 2023

If you want to keep the peace at the dinner table, three things should never be discussed: religion, politics and who owns customer renewals and expansions. We put these two questions to respondents in our most recent 2022 Customer Success Leadership Study published late last year. Who owns customer renewals? said other.

Sales 52

Sales Customer Success Management Study 52

ClientSuccess

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

High-performance sales and marketing teams have relied on operations resources for years to streamline operations, optimize workflows, and ensure efficient processes. Here are three considerations to take into account when it comes to investing in customer success operations: 1.

Customer Success 68

Customer Success eBook Resources Metrics 68

Gainsight

APRIL 15, 2022

The power dynamic has flipped from vendors to customers. Customers have more control than ever before, and companies that don’t build their offerings with the customer at the center will be left behind, sooner rather than later. . Customer success is a team effort, more Avengers than Batman. Get Alignment.

Customer Success 97

Customer Success Effort Score Net Promoter Score Chief Customer Officer 97

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. Let’s talk about where you need to start in order to avoid this from happening to your customers.

Sales 87

Sales Customer Success Tips Customer Journeys 87

ChurnZero

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

When asked to sell to customers, Customer Success Managers (CSMs) are often scared of coming off as too pushy or getting a “no.” There’s a common (albeit misplaced) fear among CSMs that sales talk will tarnish their customer’s trust and set fire to the relationships they’ve worked so hard to build. .

Sales 52

Sales Customer Success Customers Exercises 52

Gainsight

MARCH 1, 2024

In the dynamic landscape of Customer Success (CS), where relationships and outcomes intersect, the voices of female leaders are increasingly shaping the trajectory of the industry. When I started out in 2019, not many knew what a Customer Success Manager (CSM) was. What’s changed: What hasn’t changed?

Customer Success 59

Customer Success Chief Customer Officer Customers Metrics 59

ChurnZero

JUNE 21, 2022

You may have heard of sales enablement, but Customer Success enablement might be a new term for you. Although it’s an important concept and role in the Customer Success space, it hasn’t quite gained the traction it needs to be in the spotlight. The definition of Customer Success enablement.

Customer Success 94

Customer Success Net Promoter Score Return on Investment Metrics 94

ChurnZero

JUNE 9, 2023

Good sales teams typically get the budget, headcount and tools they desire because the function is tied to revenue. However, that’s not always the case for Customer Success (CS) teams even though they are often responsible for renewals and expansions. CS teams communicate using a different language than finance.

Metrics 98

Metrics Customer Success Net Promoter Score Chief Customer Officer 98

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.

Customer Success 52

Customer Success Trends Chatbots Leadership 52

Totango

APRIL 18, 2023

In this uncertain time, many business leaders are seeing budget cuts, longer sales cycles, and forecasts being continually reexamined … but there is good news. As businesses are laser-focused on retaining and growing current clients, they’re turning to their customer success (CS) teams and leaders to make it happen.

Innovation 98

Innovation Customer Success Customer Journeys System 98

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? So many CEOs and CROs are searching for a singular metric to measure performance because they’re used to managing sales teams. Here’s why.

Customer Success 98

Customer Success NPS Metrics Net Promoter Score 98

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? So many CEOs and CROs are searching for a singular metric to measure performance because they’re used to managing sales teams. Here’s why.

Customer Success 97

Customer Success NPS Metrics Net Promoter Score 97

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.

Resources 52

Resources Customer Success ROI Metrics 52

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. Customer Retention.

Sales 52

Sales Customer Success Communication Customers 52

ClearAction

JULY 20, 2023

Customer Success Technology Buyer Guide Lynn Hunsaker Customer success technology is sure to grow in importance and array. I lived in Silicon Valley for the past 3 decades and saw the inside story across a wide variety of applications of customer success technology.

Technology 62

Technology Customer Success Consulting ROI 62

ClientSuccess

MARCH 8, 2023

This will make the customer feel valued and show that you take their concerns seriously. Get straight to the point and tell the customer what you do to address their issue. Don’t use too much jargon or technical language the customer may not understand. Show gratitude Finally, it’s important to show gratitude.

Customer Success 79

Customer Success Tips eBook Roadmap 79

Gainsight

APRIL 12, 2024

Customer Success is paramount in driving product adoption. From a report, Gainsight found that 67% of respondents are using Digital Customer Success to effectively onboard and grow customer advocacy for their products. The answer: Digital Customer Education (CE). The answer: Digital Customer Education (CE).

Customer Success 52

Customer Success Management Effort Score Training 52

ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

This is a guest article by Michael Su , senior consultant of Customer Success, The Success League. Customer Success is still a young field and a new concept for many companies. When I ventured out to build my first Customer Success department at a tech software company, my leadership team thought I was nuts.

Customer Success 98

Customer Success Leadership Case Study Sales 98

ChurnZero

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

In the business landscape today, Customer Success is a bit of an outlier. It’s newer when compared to more established departments like sales and marketing. One other thing that makes Customer Success particularly unique in an organization: formal Customer Success training, or lack thereof.

Training 94

Training Customer Success Customers Culture 94

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?

Customer Success 52

Customer Success B2C Customers Strategy 52

ClientSuccess

DECEMBER 12, 2022

In today’s competitive customer success landscape, it is essential that CSMs are adequately and appropriately compensated for their work. When making a switch from one compensation plan to another for your Customer Success Managers (CSMs), it’s important to make the transition as smooth and considerate as possible.

Customer Success 87

Customer Success Tips Management Sales 87

ClientSuccess

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

While customer success leaders, HR representatives, and other key stakeholders are often involved in the hiring process at every step of the way, the structure of your organization could warrant additional team members from different departments being involved in the hiring process. Customer Success Deep Dive.

Customer Success 81

Customer Success Case Study eBook Touchpoint 81

ClientSuccess

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Any customer success leader worth his or her salt isn’t making strategic, department-wide decisions based on gut feelings. Instead, customer success leaders lean on hard numbers, insights, and data to help steer their team’s decision-making.

Metrics 100

Metrics Customer Success Net Promoter Score Effort Score 100

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.

Customer Success 98

Customer Success Net Promoter Score Customers Metrics 98

Gainsight

JUNE 2, 2022

While the ultimate goal of any business is to continuously grow, there’s often the challenge of matching the available resources and capabilities at your organization with the total number of customers. All of this falls under the umbrella of scaling customer success.

Customer Success 52

Customer Success Resources Customers Sales 52

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.

Sales 52

Sales Customer Success Net Promoter Score Management 52

delighted

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Customers have more options than ever, and a strong customer success program can make you stand out among competitors. Companies that consider the question “what is customer success?” – and work to anticipate and solve customer problems – will set themselves apart.

Customer Success 52

Customer Success Net Promoter Score Effort Score Self Service 52

Totango

JULY 5, 2022

In uncertain economic times, attracting new customers becomes exponentially harder as budgets get tighter and priorities shift. You need to be able to retain and scale your current customer base efficiently, with the current resources you have rather than adding more. . Dive into Customer Health. So, how do you do this?

Customer Success 97

Customer Success Net Promoter Score Effort Score How To 97

Totango

MAY 17, 2023

When it comes to understanding customer needs, marketing, sales, and CS teams are the experts, so it’s on us to work together to define today’s most valuable growth opportunities. VP of Customer Success at Veriforce, Andy Kearney. The idea that CS can own the entire customer journey is both unrealistic and outdated.

Sales 106

Sales Marketing Sports Customer Journeys 106

ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

To help you amp up your Customer Success management skills here’s a breakdown of our top recommendations for courses to consider taking. Customer Success Management Fundamentals. Course Description: New to customer success management (CSM)? Value Realization Best Practices for Customer Success Management.

Course 98

Course Customer Journeys Customer Success Consulting 98

Gainsight

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Customer Success professionals are under more pressure than ever. Secure more renewals and customer expansion opportunities. Here’s the thing: The economic headwinds and premium on efficiency mean company leadership is asking Customer Success Managers (CSMs) and other customer-facing teams to do more with less.

Resources 52

Resources How To Video Course 52