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Getting Customer Success Comfortable with Sales Conversations

ChurnZero

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. .

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Expert tips to unlock business growth with customer success operations

Totango

In an era when customer success (CS) has become pivotal, it’s no longer enough to have a team dedicated to CS. More importantly, you need an organizational strategy that ensures your customers don’t just come to you but stay, thrive, and become your biggest promoters.

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Expanding Customer Success Through Partners

Gainsight

Partner Success has been long talked about in Customer Success programs, but it’s had limitations in practice due to technology constraints like data security requirements and lack of Customer Success capabilities among partners. The average customer maintains seven trusted partnerships according to McBain.

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Rules of Engagement for Customer Success and Sales: Considerations and Examples

ChurnZero

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.

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Why Great CSMs Lead to Great Revenue Pipeline

Speaker: Christian Jakenfelds, CSM at Planhat

But what many customer success professionals don’t understand is that this work can actively impact an organization’s new revenue. Often, the information that marketing and sales need is just lying on the floor of the CSM’s (virtual) office, and its value might be overlooked.

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Transforming Customer Success Into a Revenue-Generating Powerhouse

Gainsight

This is a very exciting time to be in the Customer Success (CS) profession. As economies and customer expectations shift and evolve, we as CS professionals need to evolve with them. It all comes down to Customer Success Managers (CSMs) owning certain revenue metrics: expansion revenue, churn, renewals, etc.

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How Customer Success Can Build a Relationship with Sales

ChurnZero

This is a guest blog post by Kristen Hayer, Founder & CEO of The Success League. . Oh, Sales and Customer Success, you are my two favorite disciplines! My career started in Sales, or rather, I was slowly talked into a Sales career by a string of managers who knew I had the drive to be a great salesperson.

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Customer Success Needs to Grow (Up)

Speaker: Peter Armaly - Senior Director and Advisor of Customer Success at Oracle

Customer success is a well-established practice in the enterprise business world (70% of companies have a dedicated team, according to TSIA) and the benefits it delivers to customers are real and well-documented. With accountability, comes a deepening of the relationship with customers. With revenue, comes accountability.

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The Democratization of Customer Success

Speaker: John Ragsdale, Vice President of Technology Research for TSIA

As enterprise technology firms are in the midst of a rapid transition from on-premise to cloud technology, product development, sales, implementation, and support strategies are obliged to follow suit. One of the most visible changes to companies as part of this transformation is the advent of customer success.

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The Customer-Powered Enterprise Playbook

In today’s crowded marketplace, it’s no longer good enough to just be customer-centric. In order to win the market, organizations need to leverage their customers not only to inform their business strategy, but also to fuel it. 7 tactical worksheets to help you start integrating customer-power into each of your departments.

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The Best Ideas From CS Experts Worldwide – All in One Place

Propel23, the world’s first and best online event for CS professionals, had 30+ sessions focused on distinct aspects of post-sale operations.