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5 Predictions about the Future of Customer Success in 2024 with Gainsight CEO Nick Mehta and SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

Is it the end of an era for customer success in SaaS? We just wrote up how some of the biggest changes of SaaS are now coming, specifically in Customer Success and Sales. Customer Success Is Vulnerable to Cuts Jason shared that he didn’t realize how vulnerable customer success was to cuts until 2023.

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The Three Types of Customer Success Teams

Tom Tunguz

A decade ago, Gainsight championed the creation of the customer success category. People curious and passionate about customer success convened at the Pulse conference to debate customer success. Soon thereafter, the most common question became how to build and run a CS team, replacing why start a CS team.

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Forget Support — Optimize for Full Funnel Customer Success

FastSpring

With years of experience at managing customer success (CS), Jake Dipple knows how important it is to foster collaboration between businesses and their customers. In this episode of Growth Stage, host and CMO of FastSpring David Vogelpohl interviews Jake about his thoughts on: What Customer Success is at a high level.

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17 SaaS Customer Success Best Practices to Improve Customer Retention

User Pilot

In SaaS, it’s advised to follow customer success best practices to ensure that users achieve their desired outcomes with your product and become loyal advocates for your brand. TL;DR Customer success builds long-lasting relationships, increases customer retention , lifetime value , and advocacy, and informs product development.

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The Modern Customer Success Playbook

The evolution of every high-functioning, effective customer success strategy centers around three C’s: connected experiences, an engaging customer journey, and a culture built on customer-centricity. Develop an effective customer health scoring model to mitigate churn and identify opportunities across your customer base.

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Your Customer Success Team Probably Really Are Just Gap Fillers

SaaStr

A lot of CS teams are just gap fillers. A gap opens up when: – Sales abandons the customer the moment deal is closed – Support too reactive & slow to solve real issues – Deployment harder than should be. What I mean is, with most SaaS companies, there’s just a huge customer workflow break. Most of us do.

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Want Happy Customers? Implement the 5-Visits-Plus-2-Badges Rule. For Your Customer Success Team — And You. (Updated)

SaaStr

If you are a SaaStr reader, you’ll know how passionate I am about Customer Success, since Day 1. What it all means is that if you do it right, you’ll make 6x or more the revenue from your customers after the sale itself. And it works just the same with your customers after you close them — only more so.

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The Ultimate Guide to Customer Success in SaaS

The SaaS business model, which runs on recurring revenue, needs Customer Success to survive. As such, people are looking for answers on how to nail their Customer Success initiatives. Whether you’re finding yourself asking “what is Customer Success?” How do you build a Customer Success strategy?

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How to Work with Your Customer Success Team to Create a Great Product Feedback Experience

Speaker: Rebecca Notté, Product Operations Manager and Hannah Chaplin, Director of Product Marketing at Pendo

Throughout this series, we have been discussing ways to innovate your feedback loops, and strategies for incorporating your customers into the heart of your product development systems. It is very common for your product operation team to feel overwhelmed with the amount of customer data that is available to them.