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.

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Totango

JANUARY 2, 2024

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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Education Services Group

APRIL 27, 2022

Do your CS Ops team use a UAT approach to enable your CSMs with SOPs to view ARR, GRR, MRR, ACV, TCV, ARPU, CAC, CES, CSAT, CGR, CLV, DAU, TTFV, MAU, TTO, TTV, FCR, NPS, NRR, and PES within their customer’s CSPs in your CSP to effectively deliver EBRs and meet OKRs that lead to an enhanced ICP? Truly the king of CS metrics.

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Gainsight

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

As a Chief Product Officer with over two decades of experience, I can tell you with certainty that in the current market, all product managers (PMs) should be thinking in terms of efficiency—how can we do more with less? Master These Metrics . Metric #2: GRR. Metric #3: NRR. Or their productivity? How about both?

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Totango

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Customer Success Managers (CSMs) work hard to provide the best customer experience possible by prioritizing customer needs and helping them throughout the customer journey. They monitor the customer experience and their achievement of value. What Do Customer Success Managers Do?

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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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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.

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Integrity Solutions

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Here are the sales training metrics you should be using to measure your success. Let’s take a closer look at how you can pinpoint the metrics that will be useful and tell an accurate story of your sales training ROI. How to Determine Sales Training Metrics. How is that problem impacting these three important areas?

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Help Scout

MAY 27, 2021

When considering customer success and account management, it’s valuable to consider them as complementary teams rather than interchangeable groups or, worse, competitors. What is customer success? There are a few things that differentiate customer success from account management.

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CSM Practice

MAY 13, 2020

To those of us in customer success, it is even more clear that the pandemic has caused an unprecedented shift that is already affecting our customers, their journeys, their expected business outcomes , and our ability to fulfill them. 1. Be Customer-Centric.

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Totango

JANUARY 30, 2020

Customer success and account management share common goals: Building customer loyalty and driving growth. Still, considering customer success vs account management reveals some insight into the contributions of both roles. Customer Success vs Account Management: How are They Different?

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CSM Practice

APRIL 13, 2021

Being a Customer Success Manager (CSM) is a non-stop learning process that requires hands-on management at every stage. At its most basic, customer success seems simple; however, in practice, it is complex and challenging as it should help to satiate every customer’s needs. . Challenges.

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ProProfs Chat

APRIL 17, 2020

And if you successfully increase customer retention rates by 5%, then you can boost profits by 25% to 95%. That’s one of the reasons why y ou formulate strategies to retain your customers. But without numbers or metric data in hand, coming up with any new strategy would only consume your valuable time. 1: Customer Churn Rate. #2:

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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

JULY 8, 2022

Oh, by the way, what’s your customer retention?” asked the managing partner of a venture firm while we were in the final stages of their due diligence. Cut to 2022, and the idea that a SaaS company could secure venture funding without investors digging deep into retention metrics seems comical, if not reckless.

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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 Net Promoter Score Metrics 97

Totango

JANUARY 30, 2020

Customer success and account management share common goals: Building customer loyalty and driving growth. Still, considering customer success vs account management reveals some insight into the contributions of both roles. Customer Success vs Account Management: How are They Different?

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Gainsight

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Customer success plays an integral role in the success of any organization. CS efforts impact customer acquisition, upsells, expansions, renewals, and customer advocacy. Almost every business goal outlined by your company can be improved by someone in a customer success role. Customer Success Roles.

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ClientSuccess

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

While the customer success world (and the larger SaaS economy in general) has experienced its fair share of ups and downs this year, the industry will be even more prepared in the future. . Here are 3 predictions for 2021 that will help customer success teams and leaders alike strategize, plan, and prepare: .

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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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eGain Blogs

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

The importance of knowledge management in the call center is growing. Based on the findings of the TSIA annual report on the state of knowledge management , this is what John Ragsdale, Distinguished Vice President at TSIA, says about the importance of knowledge management (KM). Impact on metric. Average Handle Time (AHT).

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ClearAction

JULY 20, 2023

Customer Success Technology Buyer Guide Lynn Hunsaker Customer success technology is sure to grow in importance and array. Non-stop for the past 25 years, technology for experience management and marketing have been super hot since CRM arrived on the scene. Why We Expect a Lot from Customer Success Technology Why?

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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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ClientSuccess

OCTOBER 5, 2021

For a team to be truly successful in the customer success world, data and metrics should inform every decision made. Leading indicators are variables or occurrences which can help your team forecast how a customer account will fare over time. Five customer success leading indicators.

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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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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

DECEMBER 1, 2021

When you bring agile innovation to customer success , you empower your CS strategy with the latest technology. In this blog, we’ll look deeper at what an agile customer success strategy means and why you can benefit from using one. Then we’ll lay out seven steps to bring agile innovation to customer success.

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ChurnZero

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Where is Customer Success Headed in 2022? Customer Success gradually, then suddenly, came to exist. Customer Success gradually, then suddenly, became essential to SaaS companies. Customer Success gradually, then suddenly, joined the C-suite. Customer Success flexes its authority.

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Gainsight

AUGUST 29, 2023

Customer Success (CS) has become a mission-critical discipline in SaaS and beyond, with 97% of the companies we surveyed this year reporting that they have a Customer Success function. In other words, if you’re reading this, chances are you use a Customer Success management platform.

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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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CustomerSuccessBox

MAY 31, 2021

The Customer Success Manager has an integral role in ensuring healthy Customer relationships by evaluating and analysing the customer needs and acting as a customer advocate to promote customer loyalty. Essential Responsibilities of Customer Success Managers. Onboarding Customers.

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ClientSuccess

MAY 8, 2019

I’m excited to continue on with our blog series on customer success metrics. In our last post on this topic, we covered the top four categories of customer success metrics. The topic I will cover in this blog is on the top five customer success health metrics. Customer Engagement.

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CSM Practice

JUNE 6, 2020

Despite the benefits of a higher renewal rate, many SaaS companies focus on generating revenue from new customers even while they lose revenue to customer churn. Contrarily, SaaS companies who understand the importance of high renewals can grow stable revenue while delivering optimum value to their customers.

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Gainsight

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Being in a Customer Success role in Gainsight, a Customer Success company, is akin to being an English professor at Oxford. Since my role as a CSM requires me to meet many talented peers in the customer success industry (our end users are often CSMs), I started looking for qualities that make a CSM a superstar.

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Kapta Customer Success

MAY 27, 2019

There are a lot of intangible factors in key account management, your customer’s idea for success or failure being one of them. 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. Get Specific.

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ChurnZero

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

6 Steps to Rock Your Customer Success Software Implementation. As an Implementation Specialist here at ChurnZero, I can tell you firsthand that neglecting your Customer Success software implementation is a recipe for rework, or worse, abandonment. Trust the process. Trust the process. They know their tool best.

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Education Services Group

JANUARY 4, 2023

It’s no secret that 2022 was a little bumpy for business, yet we saw many Customer Success leaders meeting industry challenges head-on. Customer Success leaders are pulled in so many directions that prioritizing our aspirations can feel impossible. Everybody’s heard of Customer Success, and the industry is growing.

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