FastSpring

JANUARY 26, 2024

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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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 14, 2020

Customer success – every business wants to invest in it but only a few know what it actually entails or how to do it well. There are a lot of words that get thrown around with customer success: problems to be solved, implementation, product experts, expansion, strategic partners, technical advisors, proactive versus reactive.

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Totango

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

As a leader in customer success, who’s your friend in the C-suite? Is the customer journey mapping exercise a worthwhile effort? Who owns the customer community for your organization? 2023, Chris Dishman , Totango’s SVP of Global Customer Success, hosted the lively Hot Takes! We hope so!

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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. Need help getting started?

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Totango

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

“Customer success is driving value to customers. Digital customer success is driving value more efficiently using a software or service that allows companies to grow and deliver value without using excessive resources” – Chris Dishman, SVP Customer Success, Totango.

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Totango

JANUARY 22, 2024

AI also emerged as a topic when we asked three of our executive leaders – Chief Marketing Officer Karen Budell , SVP of Customer Success Chris Dishman , and Chief Revenue Officer Dennis Reardon – to share their industry predictions for 2024. By nature, CSMs feel inclined to assume any responsibility involving the customer.

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SaaStr

MAY 22, 2021

Q: Dear SaaStr: Who Should I Hire First to Get My Customer Success Function Going? I don’t mean a true VP of Customer Success in the early days of revenues … you’re not ready for that yet. you believe in and would trust with your hard-won customers. It’s easy — these days. Just hire a veteran.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Ah, who should Customer Success report to? So usually, she can easily also manage Customer Success as well as all her reps. And Sales and Customer Success are of course connected. Your VP of Sales may know better how to manage customer success than you do. It’s not super simple.

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Kellblog

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Just a quick post to invite people to join a chat that I’m having with my old friend Nick Mehta from GainSight in just a few days — on Thursday, February 22nd at 1:00 PM Pacific time — entitled How to Prevent Your Customer Success Team from Getting the Axe. I hope to see you there !

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

And even in the enterprise, losing one big customer can swamp you here in the early days. One you may not have heard but it’s a good one — is Hire One Customer Success Manager for every $2m in ARR. say $300-$500k in customer revenue per segment). This is pretty much where most of us end up at, at scale.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Q: Who Should Our First Head of Customer Success Report To? Ah, who should Customer Success report to. So usually, she can easily also manage Customer Success as well as all her reps. But in Customer Success, renewing, even without any upsell, is usually Job #1. It’s not super simple.

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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. If not, are you sure your have this right?

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ChurnZero

MARCH 30, 2021

As we are always on the lookout for new and interesting Customer Success resources, we thought we’d do a roundup of our favorite Customer Success infographics. . Why Customer Success Matters. Topic: Learn about the importance of implementing a Customer Success program.

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Totango

JUNE 21, 2023

We are thrilled to announce an exciting new product as part of our Composable Customer Success platform: Totango In-App ! By providing real-time, in-app guidance, you can create a seamless and intuitive customer journey that can be managed across all customer-facing departments.

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Totango

MARCH 8, 2022

Getting involved in the best customer success communities can give you access to the resources you need to take your CS team to new levels of performance. Here’s our guide to the top customer success communities in 2022 and what they have to offer. What Is a Customer Success Community?

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Totango

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Check out these five tips for how to fight burnout and keep your customer success team healthy and effective. . As a customer success leader, you are responsible for setting the right tone and creating the right environment for your team to be successful. 5 Ways to Fight Burnout.

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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. If not, are you sure your have this right?

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ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

When you’re just getting started, or you’re still building your Customer Success team, sometimes you can use all the help you can get. It can be difficult in these situations for Customer Success Managers (CSMs) to find the time or the resources to dig for those crucial customer insights. Your Customers.

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ChurnZero

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

In the business landscape today, Customer Success is a bit of an outlier. One other thing that makes Customer Success particularly unique in an organization: formal Customer Success training, or lack thereof. The truth is that Customer Success training is far from standardized, and it doesn’t always happen.

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CustomerSuccessBox

MARCH 23, 2022

As a Customer Success Manager , your main goal is to ensure that your customers have a great experience. And to make sure that your customers get the maximum value out of your product. While a day in the life of a Customer Success Manager (CSM) is imaginably packed with a lot of meetings with customers.

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ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

This is a guest article by Michael Su , senior consultant of Customer Success, The Success League. Customer Success is still a young field and a new concept for many companies. When I ventured out to build my first Customer Success department at a tech software company, my leadership team thought I was nuts.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

Have customer success do a soft sell. It will all work — to the segment of your customers that truly love you. And reach out not to the customers you think are happy — but the ones that have told you they are. Spencer Skates, CEO of Amplitude, has a great deep dive here on that topic. They’ll read the email.

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Sixteen Ventures

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Generative Artificial intelligence (AI) like ChatGPT – and now Bing Chat – is transforming the way we communicate and work, especially in Customer Success. These AI-powered tools offer unique benefits to Customer Success Managers (CSMs) and Enablement pros like: enhancing search, language generation, and productivity.

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Valuize Consulting

JANUARY 25, 2024

Mastering Digital Customer Success: Insights From Valuize Spark Toronto What does your Digital CS model look like today and what was the journey like to get here? In the rapidly evolving B2B recurring revenue economy, the focus on Digital Customer Success is more pertinent than ever.

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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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ChurnZero

APRIL 8, 2022

It’s the definitive Customer Success leadership summit. Learn from others in the industry about what it takes to run a modern Customer Success organization today. Past sessions topics have included how to: Align your organization around NRR with variable compensation strategy. you’ll find ideas for years.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 5, 2022

It’s not uncommon to find it difficult to grasp the concept of Customer Experience vs. Customer Success. For some, the Customer Experience definition is not that different from the one for Customer Success. So, are Customer Experience and Customer Success really the same?

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ChurnZero

MAY 26, 2021

Thousands of user-created Slack communicates exist that allow people to virtually meet and discuss a certain topic or practice. There are a number of Slack communities that have been created specifically for Customer Success professionals. CS in Focus applies the same mentality to Customer Success professionals.

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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

To help you amp up your Customer Success management skills here’s a breakdown of our top recommendations for courses to consider taking. Customer Success Management Fundamentals. Course Description: New to customer success management (CSM)? Value Realization Best Practices for Customer Success Management.

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 21, 2022

1/ Crash course in Customer Success and SaaS metrics. Related reading: Key SaaS and Customer Success metrics you should care about – What’s a good CAC? 20 quick insights on Customer Success and SaaS metrics – The audience chat was on fire during this webinar. 5/ The startup’s guide to Customer Success.

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Sixteen Ventures

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Generative AI, like ChatGPT, is a powerful technology that has revolutionized the way we approach various fields, including writing, coding, music composition, and even Customer Success. Especially when it comes to Customer Success. It can generate music, recipes, and even Customer Engagement content, like emails.

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ChurnZero

MARCH 10, 2023

Are you interested in using AI to make your Customer Success job easier? We’ll walk through how to write prompts to help you better serve your customers, with examples you can add to your CS toolkit. It may lack expertise in certain industries or topics or the ability to interpret some data. Try it free at: [link].

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 18, 2023

Customer Success newsletters are a great way to stay on top of industry trends and strategies, get tips and tricks to improve day-to-day operations, and even find networking opportunities and events, without having to do all the digging for information across the web to determine what information is valuable and what is not.

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ChurnZero

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Virtual events present uniquely flexible opportunities for Customer Success professionals to brush up on skills and to learn from peers, albeit from the safety of being behind a webcam. In just the last few months, those of us in the world of CS have seen a fundamental shift in how we build and maintain customer relationships.

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Totango

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Chapman’s original research on this topic was intended for use in romantic relationships, it has since been expanded to apply to any type of relationship – including between an organization and its customers. So, in honor of Valentine’s Day, let’s take a look at how you can apply the five love languages to customer success. .

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