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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CustomerSuccessBox

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

A well structured customer success organization is necessary for any SaaS company to achieve massive growth. Most SaaS businesses have well defined product, engineering, marketing and sales teams. So, a proper customer success organization is required to provide consistent growth. That is NOT a good idea.

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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.

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Totango

JUNE 17, 2021

For example, you might divide your customer base up into customers who have purchased a particular product and those who have not, allowing you to limit an email marketing promotion to customers who have not purchased the product. Sales funnel stages. Customer support history. Customer Health Score.

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CSM Practice

APRIL 16, 2019

In this blog, I’m going to share best practices and proven tactics to help your company increase new business deals, accelerate your sales cycle and increase net retention rate using best of breed advocacy playbooks for Customer Success teams. In the customer success word we use the term “advocate” to define a customer who t?lk?

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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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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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CustomerSuccessBox

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Over the last few years, we’ve seen a lot of growth in the Customer Success space, which means there’s now even more content out there on the web for you to research, consume and rely on. Let’s look at the top customer success blogs. Role of Customer Success Manager in a SaaS Company. CustomerSuccessBox.

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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.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

DECEMBER 15, 2023

But explaining how you measure Net Promoter Score (NPS) and how that can help predict how happy and loyal customers will be is helpful. Spend some time highlighting what the metrics mean, and what your goals really are. Don’t forget to highlight the human side of what those metrics measure. Interview a customer or two!

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Gainsight

MARCH 15, 2022

And now that customer success (CS) is the carrot every company is dangling to woo the best-and-brightest talent, you’ll often find job descriptions that tout the company’s rock-solid commitment to CS. How does the sales comp plan align to CS? Are CSMs invited to the sales kickoff? Game nights with the C-suite!

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Kapta Customer Success

MAY 27, 2019

When you can practically guarantee success and overdeliver time and time again, then it becomes harder and harder for them not to renew every year. So, how do we go about creating this metric and tracking the success of your customers? What’s Important to Your Customers? Get Specific. It Must Be Measurable.

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Lumoa

APRIL 28, 2024

If you are still not convinced and are looking for arguments for your new software purchase, here are three statistics to prove why CX platforms can significantly affect your business: Increased Customer Lifetime Value : Customers are 2.4 times more likely to stick with a brand when their problems are solved quickly.

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CustomerSuccessBox

MAY 18, 2022

So has the customer success industry and the content around the space! Here is the list of 10 Customer Success blogs to follow and save in your digital library in 2022! Here is the list of 10 Customer Success blogs to follow and save in your digital library in 2022! CustomerSuccessBox. 16 Ventures.

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ChurnZero

JUNE 30, 2021

Hiring the wrong Customer Success Manager can have a real impact on your company’s customer base and its renewal rates. That is why its important to make sure your Customer Success team hires are right for your team and more broadly your organization. Customer Success Skills. Data Management.

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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Wondering what is top of mind for companies when it comes to Customer Success? Here are the top business challenges in descending order for Customer Success professionals according to TSIA, along with some recommend resources to help in each of those areas. TSIA Resource: The State of Customer Success: 2021.

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CustomerSuccessBox

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Customer Success(CS) is the most efficient way to grow your MRR/ARR. Yet, Customer Success is looked upon as a ‘ cost center ’. Customer Success teams, typically, follow the recurring revenue model (followed by almost every SaaS business). It wasn’t deployed to manage each and every customer relationship.

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Gainsight

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Specifically, the Customer Success world learned 10 important lessons in 2020: 1. Customer Success Helps Businesses Survive Through the Pandemic. . Customer Success Helps Businesses Rebound – Through Their Clients. Net Dollar Retention Becomes THE Metric. Customer Success Is a Unicorn.

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ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

As a Customer Success leader, do you find yourself watering down your budgetary requests? According to our 2022 Customer Success Leadership Study, CS teams are already underfunded and under-resourced. How Customer Success can win more resources, budget, and credibility with Jeff Heckler.

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Customer Bliss

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Amy Downs is the Chief Customer Success & Happiness Officer at Lifesize, a company enabling communication and collaboration among many mediums (their slogan is “connecting people to make their workplace great” ), was quite interesting. At Lifesize, she was initially VP of Customer Care. Sales Enablement.

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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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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 18, 2020

With each passing year the Customer Success industry matures and meets new challenges along the way, and this year has been nothing short of challenging in many ways. . Q&A Recap: Speakers: Megan Macaluso , VP Customer Success & Operations, ESG. Jay Nathan , Chief Customer Officer, Higher Logic.

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CustomerSuccessBox

MARCH 9, 2022

In the glorious business of the SaaS space, one underlying truth that determines the growth and scaling of the business is that it takes several months to recover the Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC) and get to the profitable zone at a unit economics level. This blog helps to clarify the purpose of CRMs versus Customer Success tools.

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CustomerSuccessBox

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

This article will define time to value (TTV) and explain why it’s important to monitor it to maximize your marketing & customer success efforts. Time to value is one of the most important metrics in SaaS businesses to gauge how long it takes for customers to start benefiting from a product after they make a purchase.

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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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Gainsight

APRIL 26, 2019

In the customer success movement, we’re in the middle of the same transition Star Trek made—from a Kirk-type leader to more of a Picard. Customer Success in the 2010s vs. Customer Success in 2020—and beyond. In a lot of ways, customer success is growing up. Customer Success 2010.

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ChurnZero

JUNE 7, 2019

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. Jason is an Associate Partner at Customer Imperative , responsible for overseeing the strategic consulting business.

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Amity

JANUARY 9, 2019

One of the most exciting aspects of developing customer success strategies is looking at how Customer Success is (or should be) integrated with other areas of the organization. It can also happen when the senior leadership team has not agreed on and adopted a cohesive customer success strategy and culture.

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Gainsight

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

But how do we figure out what’s really going on with our customers, and more importantly, how do we build a health score that helps us deliver on our business objectives? Sofia Marrero, Manager of Customer Success (EMEA) at Deel, sat down with Gainsight’s Global VP, Remco de Vries to discuss Health Scoring in the Modern Age.

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Retently

JULY 28, 2023

Do you simply rely on the generic “the customer is always right” speech, or do you have a customer-centric culture in place that’s overseen by a professional who understands how customers think and feel, and who knows how to get that point of view across to other employees too?

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ClientSuccess

AUGUST 28, 2019

Customer success is a constantly changing and growing role for most companies. While the focus of customer success was only expanded into its own role a decade or so ago, it has really begun to pick up speed and expand in the last few years. Aggregate team metrics into insightful reports.

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 9, 2022

However, given her CS background, Gabby never envisioned herself becoming a CEO, as she explained during her keynote session, “ The new ‘C’ in CEO ” at ChurnZero’s Customer Success Leadership Summit, BIG RYG. Q: Based on your acquisition experience, are for-sale businesses focusing on the customer and NPS?

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Lumoa

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

As businesses recognize its value, the shift from a product-centered approach to a customer-centric one continues. Our A to Z Guide to Customer Experience Definitions and Terms covers everything you need to know, from clear definitions of key terms to a comprehensive overview of the topic. So why should you care?

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Gainsight

OCTOBER 26, 2022

In theory, customer success (CS) and product teams should be the best of friends, even BFFs. Motivated sales organizations, supported by sturdy CSMs who were seen as “gap fillers” for the product, were usually enough to deliver the customer experiences that drive growth. Rise of the Customer-Centric Mindset.

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Answer Dash

MAY 8, 2018

It seems like something from a different lifetime, but I still remember the old days when sales was all chalkboards, steak knives, and “gut feeling.” But gut feelings—those were definitely the name of the game back in the day! But that’s a well known and broadly accepted premise—at least in Sales. Fast forward to today.

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Amity

JANUARY 30, 2019

In a previous post we tackled the question of ‘what is customer success?’ ’ In case you didn’t read it, or need a refresher, our definition of Customer Success is proactive enablement. This is the high level 100,000 foot overview of what Customer Success means to us.

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Education Services Group

MAY 12, 2022

My ankle hurts…and I definitely shouldn’t have had that pizza for lunch. This scenario collects NPS in moments where other CX metrics are the driving factors for the response—not a very telling reflection of advocacy. That the promises of functionality and features we’ve made will be enough for the customer to report as a promoter?

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