ChurnZero

JULY 22, 2022

Does your Customer Success team have a shallow view of onboarding? If you consider onboarding to be a success when a customer reaches their go-live date, then you need to dig deeper. It’s about transforming your customer’s business and delivering value, so you make their life better,” says Donna.

Scale 98

Scale Onboarding Scaling Underperforming Technical Team 98

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

What is Customer Success and why do you need it? Gain a new customer, you increase revenue. What happens when you lose more customers than you gain? It may happen sooner or later, but failure is the only prospect a business faces when customer loyalty plunges. Guide overview: What is Customer Success?

Customer Success 56

Customer Success Scale Technical Review Systems Review 56

Totango

JULY 18, 2018

According to data from Forrester Research, almost two-thirds of interactions between a customer and a company take place through the Customer Service department. Customers often turn to Customer Service or Customer Support teams for help throughout the customer journey.

Customer Support 56

Customer Support Customer Success Retention Underperforming Technical Team 56

Sales Hacker

APRIL 1, 2021

We’ve heard from some of our community members that they feel like Revenue Operations has been severely misunderstood. Watch this video if you: Never want to misunderstand Revenue Operations again. Everybody wants one, but not everybody knows how to set one up.” — Feras Abdel , Senior Director of Revenue Operations at Outreach.

Sales Recruiting 91

Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring Scale 91

Valuize Consulting

JUNE 10, 2020

C ustomer success processes in B2B software businesses today are often inefficient, siloed and lacking scalability. How were your company’s customer success processes created? The state of customer success processes. In some cases, the reaction was to the compelling market hype around customer success.

Customer Success 40

Customer Success Engineering Scale Technical Review 40

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Modern sales teams need competent professionals with a variety of talents, skills and abilities. But in a hyper changing landscap e, which are the most crucial sales skills and traits that reps must possess (or develop) in order to exceed targets and deliver consistent sales success? What Actually Makes a Great Sales Rep?

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Underperforming Technical Team Outsourced Development Development Social Media 102

Sales Hacker

JULY 21, 2021

But that doesn’t mean they’re all bad. For Sue Singh , Customer Success and Project Manager at NextBee, strategy makes her want to say: “Nah, I just spent the last few hours wasting my time or twiddling my thumbs.”. A strategy is how a team plans to reach their overarching goals and all of the steps to get there.

Sales Hiring 125

Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Sales Sales Enablement 125

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Our first is Revenue Grid. Guided selling with Revenue Grid allows you to guide reps step-by-step through every deal, reducing guesswork and increasing consistency so your teams have the best odds with every opportunity in the pipeline. Now, before we get there, we want to thank our sponsors. Remote work?

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Underperforming Technical Team Scale Sales Hiring Systems Review 68

CustomerSuccessBox

APRIL 19, 2022

Companies use customer journey analytics because it is one of the most effective ways to. Increase customer lifetime value, Improve customer loyalty, and Drive revenue growth. Customer journey analytics gives teams a real-time comprehensive sight into customer behavior providing valuable insight into the journey.

Scale 52

Scale Metrics Underperforming Technical Team Customer Lifetime Value 52

SaaSOptics

MAY 19, 2022

Customer Acquisition is the process of acquiring new customers in a business. Not only is it one of the main drivers of revenue growth for early-stage companies, but it’s a primary goal for SaaS businesses across market stages. More customers = more revenue. How to Develop a Customer Acquisition Strategy.

Acquisition 59

Acquisition Scale Strategy Software Review 59

SmartKarrot

APRIL 20, 2023

Considering the heavy competition and the evolving business environments, it has become more important than ever to put customer success on the pinnacle. However, as businesses keep on the growth streak, scaling customer success efforts can prove to be daunting.

Scale 19

Scale Customer Success Scaling Underperforming Technical Team 19

SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

Aaron Ross | CEO @ Predictable Revenue. And so, she can, and Anthony just finished up basically going from the first sales hire at Gainsight at almost 100 million in revenue and has just retired. Obviously, marketing and investments are expensive and we know the cost to keep a customer is obviously a lot less. Aaron : No.

Sales Hiring 205

Sales Hiring Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting 205

Totango

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Equipped with the knowledge provided by customer data, you can help your customer survive tough times by offering practical solutions that add value and ultimately contribute to customer retention during economic downturns — even ones caused by a pandemic. Every act of providing value is therefore an act of customer retention.

Retention 118

Retention Underperforming Technical Team Churn Customer Lifetime Value 118

ChurnZero

MARCH 20, 2020

The Goldilocks Principle in Customer Success: Finding the ‘Just Right’ Skill Balance. Not too hard, not too soft, Customer Success skills need to be “just right. ” This makes the idea of a universal Customer Success skills composite that’s “just right” sound more like a farfetched fable.

Technical Advisors 52

Technical Advisors Technical Review Customer Success Software Review 52

SaaStr

APRIL 16, 2020

In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Carolyn made her way across the pond from Head of US Communications at Orange to GM of Method in SF to then playing a key role in the marketing team at PagerDuty? * Does it have to be tied to a number directly tied to revenue? How are PagerDuty shifting their strategy? What tools do they use? *

Scale 180

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Leadership Branding 180

TriTuns

JANUARY 21, 2020

*This is an updated version of the article , “The Big Bold Future Of SaaS Growth Is Customer Success” that I originally published on Software Executive Magazine in May 2019. The next generation of this business model, led by the creation of customer success (CS), is ushering in a new growth engine.

SaaS 71

SaaS Underperforming Technical Team Customer Success Business Model 71

TriTuns

JANUARY 21, 2020

*This is an updated version of the article , “The Big Bold Future Of SaaS Growth Is Customer Success” that I originally published on Software Executive Magazine in May 2019. The next generation of this business model, led by the creation of customer success (CS), is ushering in a new growth engine.

SaaS 71

SaaS Underperforming Technical Team Customer Success Business Model 71

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Nick talks to us all about customer success , how to measure it, how to think about it, what phases are important and relevant to your company when you’re incorporating customer success, and he also gives his point of view on why aliens have not yet visited the planet earth. What You’ll Learn. And on Stitcher.

Customer Success 47

Customer Success Scale Underperforming Technical Team Retention 47

Chart Mogul

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Naturally, this puts extra pressure on customer success. After all, it’s the customer success teams that drive growth through retention and churn mitigation. Naturally, this puts extra pressure on customer success. We hosted a panel of customer success experts this month.

Churn 52

Churn Retention Underperforming Technical Team Scale 52

ChurnZero

APRIL 15, 2022

Bad timing sticks out a mile.”. Like a magician flexing their psychic power, pinpointing the most ideal time to present your customer with an expansion opportunity can’t be left to intuition. But knowing when customers are primed for expansion isn’t always obvious. How did Chelsea and her team achieve these phenomenal results?

Payments 98

Payments SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payment Services 98

OPEXEngine

APRIL 5, 2022

Most product-led revenue models use either a freemium offer —a version of their product with limited features or capacity that the customer can use for as long as they want— or a free trial offer —a full product version the customer can use for a limited period. Poor-fit customers can weaken the product over time.

Development Team Review 52

Development Team Review Software Review Systems Review Underperforming Technical Team 52

Sales Hacker

MAY 27, 2019

Wondering how other sales teams are working their magic? Sure, their processes and talent have something to do with their success, but so does their sales stack. Unveiling the sales stacks of 7 top sales teams. Sales tech sometimes gets a bad rap. So what’s going on behind the curtain? An overview of our findings.

Technical Review 141

Technical Review Scale AI Search Sales 141

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Transitioning from the opera to B2B technology [8:40]. Sam Jacobs: On today’s show, we’ve got Matt Klepac, a co-founder and CEO of Vertify, a really interesting company focused on revenue operations. They’re pioneering what they say is the revenue operations revolution. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast.

Scale 102

Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Travel 102

User Pilot

MAY 30, 2023

As a result, one of its primary customer personas is a Product Manager from a B2B SaaS company. This manager wants to better understand how users use their product so they can align users’ needs with product development and increase business revenue. User persona example for Userpilot.

Social Media 96

Social Media Interviewing Underperforming Technical Team Product Marketing 96

SaaStr

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Lots of us fantasize about moving upmarket, but are unsure of how to get started, is it just a matter of hiring a team of SDRs and getting them to hit the phones? You don’t want to fall into a trap of building all this custom stuff, I think you guys all know why that’s a bad idea.

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Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring compliance SMB 155

User Pilot

MARCH 18, 2021

It’s also not like customer retention is the business of only one department. There has to be cross-departmental and cross-functional cooperation between product, sales & marketing, customer success, and customer support to implement a successful customer retention strategy. Which one would you buy from?

Retention 52

Retention Strategy Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 52

SmartKarrot

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

This calls for a highly effective and functioning customer success strategy that focuses on customers and their journeys. Customer success teams need to choose data-driven and intelligent strategies to ensure customers meet their goals. Top 5 Reasons why Enterprise Customer Success is Different.

Enterprise 10

Enterprise Customer Success Management Scale 10

SmartKarrot

DECEMBER 24, 2021

In a few years, we have seen lots of B2B SaaS businesses flourish. Running a B2B SaaS business requires a shift in metrics that founders rely upon. Most people run their SaaS business just like any other B2B business. After developing a hypothesis, you can test it by launching a Minimum Value Product (MVP).

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Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review SaaS Systems Review 10

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

372: Latané Conant is the Chief Marketing Officer at 6sense, the company that allows you to achieve predictable revenue growth by identifying accounts looking for your solution, prioritize efforts and then engage the right way. What can teams do to bring their themes to life? Who is involved? What needs to be ready? Question for you.

Scale 173

Scale Sales Hiring Software Review Technical Review 173

SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2019

What ratio of revenue is healthy for professional services to account for? When should one look to hire their first customer success reps? Here’s what Eyal and Megan talk about: How to develop software faster. What sort of terms make them less beneficial for the vendor? * How does Vikas think about professional services?

SaaS Payments 132

SaaS Payments Cloud Technical Review Scale 132

SmartKarrot

APRIL 24, 2023

By ensuring that a SaaS solution meets the highest quality standards, teams can build trust with their customers, reduce churn , and ultimately drive business growth. This is because automation testing can help identify bugs and issues early in the development process, allowing developers to fix them before the product is released.

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Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Scale User Experience 16

User Pilot

MARCH 15, 2022

Focusing on the proper metrics at this stage is crucial to how successful or bad your GTM plan will be. It covers everything from who your potential customer or target market is, where they are, the best marketing efforts and sales strategy to reach them, your positioning tactics, pricing strategy, and more. GTM strategy.

Strategy 84

Strategy Marketing SaaS Customer Lifetime Value 84

SmartKarrot

MAY 16, 2022

Companies were focused on driving revenue and gaining market traction. The challenge is more pronounced with customer success leaders. Customer success managers need to handle customer issues, enhance customer experiences, and make sure they get value even in times of crisis. contact-form-7].

Scale 10

Scale Customer Success Underperforming Technical Team Churn 10

Totango

JULY 1, 2022

Customer loyalty is a key to repeat business and referral generation for any business model. For B2B SaaS companies, customer loyalty drives subscription renewals and brand advocacy, making it a critical component of a profitable business model. First, we’ll discuss what customer loyalty is. What Is Customer Loyalty?

B2B 107

B2B B2C Underperforming Technical Team Business 107

SaaStr

JUNE 4, 2019

In an age where earning customer loyalty and trust is harder than ever, the road to lifetime value is paved with customer feedback. If you take the time to listen, understand and act on what your customers are thinking and feeling, you’ll create an army of advocates and drive topline revenue growth for good measure.

Sales Recruiting 171

Sales Recruiting Scale Underperforming Technical Team Pricing 171

OpenView Labs

JANUARY 29, 2020

CEO Brian Halligan describes their revamped go-to-market motion as “ a flywheel where the customers are the main driver that pulls new prospects in ” and boasts that half of HubSpot’s new customers use the free product before they buy. Freemium Model for SaaS – The Good, The Bad, and The In-between. 10 Questions To Answer.

Pricing 82

Pricing Payments SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 82

ProfitWell

JANUARY 28, 2020

Welcome to the first episode of RevOps and Hops, a show that breaks down everything about Revenue Operations while enjoying some of the best hops around. The simplicity of the product eventually led to more competitors developing—although later in the game—and overusing the word “proof” within their companies. Revenue operations.

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Underperforming Technical Team New CTO Technical Review CTO 45