Valuize Consulting

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Developing A Transformational Leadership Approach. While Customer Success (CS) is still in its infancy, it has quickly established a new level of maturity and prominence over the last few years. Yet, compared to legacy organizations like Sales and Support, Customer Success still has plenty of room to grow.

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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). Net revenue retention (NRR).

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ChurnZero

MARCH 10, 2022

Online Customer Success communities are excellent places to gain fresh perspectives, stay on the pulse of industry trends, learn from seasoned Customer Success professionals and other SaaS experts, and have conversations with like-minded folks. Top five Customer Success communities. Customer Success Network.

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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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ChurnZero

MARCH 3, 2022

As Customer Success professionals you might find yourself building out something completely new at your organization, or just trying to break the status quo on what’s been done in order to help drive growth and expansion for your SaaS organization. Top five Customer Success resources brought to you by ChurnZero.

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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

JUNE 10, 2022

As we saw in our 2021 State of the Customer Success Industry and Salary Report , the role of Customer Success Manager (CSM) is one of the fastest-growing jobs in the industry. In a recent webinar titled “Navigating Your Customer Success Career Path”, Totango’s Sr. Remember, we’re in the business of people.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 8, 2024

At most SaaS companies, the line item for customer success budgets is dedicated to headcount. This is why on our annual survey of customer success leaders , we ask about “non-headcount budgets.” So how did non-headcount customer success budgets shake out in 2023?

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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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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. HubSpot’s Make My Persona.

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Totango

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Our increasingly customer-centric economy has established Customer Success as critical to every business’s overall strategy. Any CS team member knows that happy customers make for a thriving enterprise, but the same cannot always be said for C-level executives or your board of directors.

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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. Boost team productivity by determining who owns what in the customer lifecycle. Build and scale a Customer Success function from series A to C+.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 4, 2024

It’s an exciting time to be in customer success. “2024 will continue to see the chief customer officer move into the leadership phase,” predicts ChurnZero CEO and co-founder You Mon Tsang. Expanded roles and responsibilities: how will customer success evolve in 2024?

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ChurnZero

JUNE 7, 2022

Those of us who work in Customer Success know just how vital high-powered Customer Success teams are for organizations. Customer Success teams are essential for retaining customers, improving the customer experience, reducing churn, and boosting other crucial metrics.

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Totango

APRIL 1, 2021

Totango is excited to announce that we have once again been recognized by G2 with awards for our leadership in Customer Success. We understand that authentic ratings and reviews from real users are critical to helping customers evaluate and decide on purchasing a product, which is why awards like these are so valuable to us.

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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Technology Services Industry Association (TSIA) has a library of 751 business challenges, which represent specific issues about which members go to seek assistance, guidance, or direction on. Each inquiry, advisory engagement, and workshop that they conducted, was tagged to a corresponding business challenge. Chances are, yes.

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Totango

AUGUST 14, 2020

In our latest installment in the CXO Series , we sat down with Stephanie Comardelle, Vice President of Customer Experience, Success, and Solutions at Lucid to discuss what it takes to implement a stakeholder engagement plan at a time when there is so much going on as well as how they are managing their new customer success program. .

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Totango

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Building and leading a customer success team is no easy feat. From gaining the buy-in of other departments to training team members and earning customers’ trust, the role of a customer success leader can be as challenging as it is rewarding. 5 Key Takeaways. 5 Key Takeaways. Need help leading your CS team?

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Totango

JANUARY 12, 2022

Being a Customer Success Manager (CSM) can be an extremely rewarding career. A CSM works hand-in-hand with customers, guiding them through the customer journey and fostering a positive connection. 5 Key Customer Success Manager Interview Questions. . Customer Success Managers are leaders.

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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. What makes Customer Success unique.

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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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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. While customer advocacy doesn’t roll-up directly to NRR, the effects of it absolutely can and will. But let’s be clear; This is NOT Customer Success. Let me explain.

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Valuize Consulting

MAY 4, 2022

In the vast majority of B2B technology enterprises today, a Customer Success (CS) strategy is firmly in place. However, this strategy often begins and remains as a program that is focused on the minority high ARR customers. Rally Your Organization Around A Strong CS Scale Strategy. Identify Your North Star Metric.

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ChurnZero

APRIL 1, 2022

You’re not alone,” says Sharon Winterton , vice president of Customer Success at Catalina Marketing during her session “ Battling imposter syndrome in Customer Success ” at BIG RYG, ChurnZero’s annual Customer Success conference. You’ve never done Customer Success before. There’s so much to do.

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ChurnZero

MAY 26, 2021

Slack has transformed business communication. It’s the leading channel-based messaging platform, used by millions to align their teams, unify systems, and drive their businesses forward. There are a number of Slack communities that have been created specifically for Customer Success professionals. CS in Focus.

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 2, 2021

12 Key Takeaways from ChurnZero’s BIG RYG Virtual Customer Success Conference. It’s a wrap on ChurnZero’s 2021 BIG RYG Virtual – our online Customer Success conference. An acronym for Red, Yellow and Green, RYG represents the common indicators of customer health. Then, back into the tech stack from there.”

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Sixteen Ventures

AUGUST 26, 2020

Everything rolls-up to dollars… time and other resources – and even the negative sentiment in the market caused by churning-and-burning customers – all have an associated monetary value. That’s why we call them Bad-fit Customers. Create your Success Potential checklist. You’ll want to, but you can’t.

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ChurnZero

MARCH 23, 2023

The most important part of Customer Success is the team. More than three-quarters (77%) of Customer Success teams have fewer than 50 people on staff. That’s according to our annual Customer Success Leadership Study published in late 2022. Yet, many teams fall well below industry benchmarks.

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ChurnZero

MARCH 23, 2023

The most important part of Customer Success is the team. More than three-quarters (77%) of Customer Success teams have fewer than 50 people on staff. That’s according to our annual Customer Success Leadership Study published in late 2022. Yet, many teams fall well below industry benchmarks.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 11, 2023

Ang shares her 5 P’s of Sales Leadership: Professionalism Preparation Process Performance Play More on these below. Sara So, Ang, I’m curious what drew you to Sales Leadership originally? If I had to pick a moment, it was in the early 2000s when I joined a startup specializing in enhancing online visibility for small businesses.

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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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CustomerSuccessBox

MARCH 11, 2022

As Customer Success specialists, we often think of quarterly business reviews (QBRs) as the reviews we do with our own customers, when we summarize recent successes, outline future targets, and build our connections with key stakeholders. Why Internal Quarterly Business Review is important.

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Valuize Consulting

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Level Up Your Customer Success Organization. In the subscription economy, there’s no debate about whether or not to invest in Customer Success (CS); 70% of rapidly growing businesses say that Customer Success is extremely important ( Hubspot , 2017). The fourth challenge is complexity.

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30 Day Leadership

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

This is the advice that Nicole Baxby, VP of Global Customer Success at Featurespace, shared with me when I asked how to handle looking at a role that you aren’t 100% qualified for. 3:16 - First leadership position - Nicole packed her bags and moved to the UK. “Stop negotiating against yourself.”

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30 Day Leadership

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

This is the advice that Nicole Baxby, VP of Global Customer Success at Featurespace, shared with me when I asked how to handle looking at a role that you aren’t 100% qualified for. 3:16 - First leadership position - Nicole packed her bags and moved to the UK. Learn more about your own leadership style at: [link].

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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

9 tips to get your CSMs to adopt Customer Success software. Have you ever worked at a company where the Customer Success team had to beg for its own tools? The CSM perspective: how to encourage the adoption of Customer Success software. That’s okay. I have a few tips to help you drive adoption that sticks.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 28, 2021

Revenue Operations is the business version of Switzerland. In providing a neutral ground for marketing, sales, and customer success, RevOps must also analyze contexts to convey insights quicker. To win at this will take great RevOps leadership. Find Revenue Innovators on Apple Podcasts , Google Podcasts , and Spotify.

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