SaaStr

NOVEMBER 27, 2021

If this is your first SaaS company, you may not have ever hired or built a Customer Success team. If you hire a great, experienced Client Success leader as your first hire here, and you like him/her, and the experience is on point — my guess is you’ll be fine. — Jason BeKind Lemkin (@jasonlk) November 29, 2021.

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SaaStr

APRIL 28, 2022

And we religiously track the NRR of all public cloud and SaaS leaders in our 5 Interesting Learning series. So don’t get me wrong — NRR is a Top 3 Metric for any SaaS company. Especially after interviewing 50+ customer success managers over the past few years. Lost a few customers? It’s true.

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User Pilot

JANUARY 22, 2024

What are the most common customer success models? What factors should you consider when choosing one for your SaaS business to provide the best assistance to your customer ? TL;DR Customer success models are frameworks that help organizations ensure that customers can use their products effectively to realize their goals.

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Metrics are the language of business. Metrics are the key to aligning with finance , proving value to your leadership and of course understanding the health of the business. So what metrics are customer success teams tracking as we move into 2024? Customer lifetime value (CLV). Churn rate.

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ChurnZero

MAY 25, 2023

Customer renewals are the lifeblood of a subscription business. Responsibility for renewals often falls to the Customer Success (CS) team. For example, survey research shows about half (50.2%) of all CS teams surveyed are directly responsible for customer renewals. It doesn’t end there either. The second is more advanced.

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SaaS Metrics

JULY 5, 2023

SaaS companies that really care about their customers are always looking for ways to boost customer engagement. However, measuring customer engagement objectively can be tricky and you cannot leave everything on subjective analysis.

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User Pilot

JANUARY 11, 2024

A seamless onboarding experience , thus, creates the right first impression, setting you up for success. In this piece, we examine the importance of FinTech onboarding and dive into best practices that make for a successful onboarding experience. to assist customers at all times. Establish trust by maintaining transparency.

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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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User Pilot

APRIL 18, 2023

In SaaS, customer success is needed to ensure that your customers achieve their desired outcomes with your product and become loyal advocates for your brand. But how do you create a customer success strategy that works? And what are some of the best practices and examples across the customer journey?

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 21, 2022

1/ Crash course in Customer Success and SaaS metrics. Many people think of SaaS and CS metrics as black and white. But the truth is, there are many ways to calculate and interpret—and game—metrics. Related reading: Key SaaS and Customer Success metrics you should care about – What’s a good CAC?

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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Some Customer Success metrics are considered standard but there’s often more than meets the eye. Sales and marketing professionals that geek out on metrics can find themselves in deep philosophical debates about the best numbers to track. You Mon is a serial entrepreneur and the Founder and CEO of ChurnZero.

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User Pilot

APRIL 21, 2024

In SaaS, a customer onboarding dashboard can become a massive product analytics tool to understand and optimize the user journey. Let’s explore how a customer onboarding dashboard works and see different examples. TL;DR A customer onboarding dashboard is an analytical tool designed to monitor and report different onboarding metrics.

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Totango

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Customer Success Playbook Strategies: Mapping a Path to Winning Outcomes. A customer success playbook maps out a game plan you can use to automate successful outcomes for your clients. Then we’ll consider the benefits of using success playbooks. What Is a Customer Success Playbook?

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CustomerSuccessBox

APRIL 7, 2022

So, it’s legit to have a customer success team in hand. But with effective customer success, it’s possible to attain those extra gains from the SaaS revenue model. Assess the quality of the customer success efforts. Assess the quality of the customer success efforts. That is important to track.

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Sixteen Ventures

AUGUST 14, 2022

The purpose of Customer Success is not to make customers happy. It’s actually not even to make customers successful. NRR, if you’re not familiar, is a simple metric to understand, but actually quite complex and convoluted to implement in practice. Thus the premium placed on NRR as a valuation metric.

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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

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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Totango

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Qlik’s Vice President of Customer Success Operations and Chief of Staff Chris Wood and his team were on the hunt for a customer success tool that could help them do three things: Streamline processes. Scale customers quickly and efficiently. Enable teams to work cross-functionally. 4 Key Takeaways . .

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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

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

This is a guest post by Sara Barnes , vice president of Customer Success at Skilljar. Every Customer Success team focuses on keeping customers engaged and ultimately, preventing churn. In fact, customer education helps scale Customer Success , as the company scales business. .

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Totango

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

This experience of value is critical to the health of your customer relationship, so you need a customer success adoption plan. Breaking down the customer journey into modular stages sta helps to operationalize customer success strategies. The customer journey can be divided into four main stages.

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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Acquiring and keeping new customers is obviously at the core of running any successful business, and one thing about it is certain: for customers to keep using your product, they have to like it. When you pursue product-led growth from a Customer Success angle, you’re even more likely to build up that customer loyalty.

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Totango

AUGUST 8, 2021

Driving software adoption through customer success in the 2020s is a precision business. Your product adoption strategy—the process you follow to ensure your customer is achieving maximum value from their daily use of your product—should be based on solid data and driven by the pursuit of ever-evolving goals.

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ChurnZero

MAY 3, 2022

Whether you’re building your expertise in cooking, crocheting, coding, or Customer Success, YouTube is now the place to level up. Let’s explore five of the best Customer Success YouTube channels for learning how to fight churn, understand industry trends, and position yourself for professional success in CS.

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Totango

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Building out customer success manager automation depends on the effective use of email and in-app messaging. Planning strategic emails at key milestones in your customer journey can help you deliver a smoother customer experience, yielding higher satisfaction and better retention rates. Subscription or license renewal.

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Totango

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

The digital business landscape has made it so competitors can easily reach out to prospective customers with offers of enticing deals and promises of attentive service. What is Customer 360? . Customer 360 enables a complete look into the health of all your customers by aggregating important data into one central location.

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Totango

JULY 13, 2021

Strategy for customer success growth has changed as commerce has gone digital and big data has made marketing and sales customer-centric. Tell people about your business, get them in the store, sell them things, then look for more customers. Businesses need a new strategy for customer success growth.

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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Customer Success Metrics that Your Investors and Board Care About. They care that you’re staffed appropriately to serve the needs of your customers, because ultimately that results in revenue. A huge part of how customer success collects intel and feedback from customers is by talking with them.

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ChurnZero

MARCH 31, 2022

Did you catch our Customer Success and SaaS metrics crash-course webinar with leading SaaS expert Dave Kellogg, of Dave Kellogg Consulting ? We’d like to extend a huge thanks to Dave for his expert insights below, which will help you choose and use Customer Success and SaaS metrics in a more nuanced and purposeful way.

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Totango

OCTOBER 27, 2021

There are a number of reasons why a customer may ghost you. Fortunately, there are some steps you can take to help you re-engage with disengaged customers as well as some measures you can take to help prevent client ghosting altogether. . What to Do When a Customer Ghosts You. Whatever the reason, being ghosted hurts.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 6, 2022

Customer Success represents a large source of revenue-generation for SaaS businesses. Though Customer Success was originally regarded as a post-sale cost center, you can flip its narrative with the right metrics, positioning, and forecasting strategy. Choose Metrics that Emphasize Your Value.

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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

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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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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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Criteria Corp’s Customer Success Team (and a few furry friends). Criteria Corp’s Customer Success Team is primarily based in Los Angeles, but includes team members across the US (Chicago, Denver.). Learn what Patrick Blanton, Vice President of Customer Success shared about his team.

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ChurnZero

MAY 14, 2021

How to Define, Measure, and Advocate for Customer Success Operations. Have you ever wondered: What’s the difference between Customer Success Management and Operations? When should I add Customer Success Operations and how do I advocate for the role? Bora Lee , Manager, Customer Enablement at ChurnZero.

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User Pilot

APRIL 16, 2024

In SaaS, a product experience strategy provides the building blocks for making customers stay, engage with your app, and eventually become loyal advocates for your product. Use analytics to monitor feature usage, spot behavior patterns , and identify what contributes to customer success. And where do you start?

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