CustomerSuccessBox

JANUARY 10, 2022

Customer Success Manager job description: As a CSM (Customer Success Manager), your role is to maintain a good relationship and the satisfaction of your existing customers while developing the customer portfolio. Additional Resource – What is a Customer Success Manager.

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Totango

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

There is no one-size-fits-all formula for designing customer success compensation plans. Each company is unique and has different goals and KPIs in place that affect CSM compensation structures. 4 Factors to Consider in Your CSM Compensation Plan. 4 Factors to Consider in Your CSM Compensation Plan.

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Tom Tunguz

MAY 12, 2015

At the Gainsight Pulse conference yesterday, I moderated a panel with Boaz Maor, VP of customer success at Mashery and Mike McKee, SVP of customer success and services at Rapid7. During the panel, both men described their path to building substantial customer success organizations at their respective companies.

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SaaStr

JUNE 22, 2021

This is a positive trajectory, but it presents a challenge for your customer success efforts: How can you scale your support and CS while still delivering a memorable, quality customer experience? Today’s Critical Challenges For Customer Success . Who is Involved in Customer Success?

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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

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Believe It Or Not, It’s Time for Your First User Conference One thing that always works in marketing is bringing your customers and prospects together IRL. You Have to Train Sales Reps 3–10. You have to start formal sales training by rep #3. Your Customer Success Team. And you can start very small. Or they fail.

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ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

This is a guest blog post by Kristen Hayer, Founder & CEO of The Success League. . Oh, Sales and Customer Success, you are my two favorite disciplines! My career started in Sales, or rather, I was slowly talked into a Sales career by a string of managers who knew I had the drive to be a great salesperson.

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Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

Many times startup teams ask how to compensate a sales team for renewals and upsells. SaaS companies benefit from great efficiencies when they market to their existing customer base. In addition to mitigating churn, startups spend 2-10x less on acquiring a marginal ARR dollar when expanding and upselling accounts.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Customer success means wildly different things to different companies in the SaaS industry. Many organizations create customer success teams but there’s no clear definition as to how these teams develop long-term value for both the customer and the business. The role of customer success teams.

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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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ChurnZero

OCTOBER 30, 2020

What’s Next For Customer Success? Top SaaS CEOs Talk Compensation, Automation, and Investors. No one knows what the future holds (as 2020 has made abundantly clear) but that didn’t stop us from asking top SaaS CEOs what’s next for Customer Success. Customer Success Compensation Catches Up to Sales.

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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Wondering what is top of mind for companies when it comes to Customer Success? Here are the top business challenges in descending order for Customer Success professionals according to TSIA, along with some recommend resources to help in each of those areas. TSIA Resource: The State of Customer Success: 2021.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The reality is there was an explosion in sales and marketing and other categories in 2021 when the goal was to grow, grow, grow. They’re a public pure-play leader in sales and marketing. Because if you’re in sales and marketing, you’re probably a little like them. People loved Zoom and didn’t churn.

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Totango

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Hiring team members with the right customer success manager skills is critical for the effectiveness of your CS team and strategy. We’ll cover these below, along with five best practices to follow when bringing a new customer success manager aboard your team. What Is a Customer Success Manager (CSM)?

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ChurnZero

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Speaking of fun… Did you see our Churn Monster themed claw machine we had in the ChurnZero booth?? Another one of our favorite moments was our Founder, You Mon Tsang’s well attended session on the “ Top Customer Metrics For Your Board and Investors and How to Nail Them with ChurnZero’s CEO.”

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ChurnZero

MARCH 24, 2023

The Customer Success industry is constantly evolving and developing new strategies for driving customer-led growth. 1: Is NPS a Customer Success metric? So many CEOs and CROs are searching for a singular metric to measure performance because they’re used to managing sales teams. Here’s why.

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ChurnZero

MARCH 24, 2023

The Customer Success industry is constantly evolving and developing new strategies for driving customer-led growth. 1: Is NPS a Customer Success metric? So many CEOs and CROs are searching for a singular metric to measure performance because they’re used to managing sales teams. Here’s why.

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Kellblog

MARCH 13, 2020

In days of yore, chief revenue officer (CRO) was just a gussied-up title for VP of Sales. Back in the pre-subscription era, basically all the revenue — save for a little bit of services and some maintenance that practically renewed itself — came from sales anyway. Frank, the head of Sales, had a $1B number.

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Totango

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Looking back at the 2020 Customer Success Salary Report , this year has also had a particularly influential effect on the Customer Success (CS) Industry. As compared to 2019, companies are increasingly growing their Customer Success teams to maximize retention and drive growth from existing customers. .

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ChurnZero

JUNE 10, 2020

Enjoy this list of must-read Customer Success books. . . A veritable blueprint for success in the new membership economy, this book is a must-have for organizations of any size. Never Lose a Customer Again. The Startup’s Guide to Customer Success: How to Champion the Customer at Your Company.

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CustomerSuccessBox

MAY 18, 2022

So has the customer success industry and the content around the space! Here is the list of 10 Customer Success blogs to follow and save in your digital library in 2022! Here is the list of 10 Customer Success blogs to follow and save in your digital library in 2022! CustomerSuccessBox. 16 Ventures.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 21, 2020

Justin Welsh, former SVP of Sales at PatientPop explains how he started in SaaS in 2009 as the second sales hire at Zocdoc. Justin used Sales Culture to grow a successful PatientPop team to 140 employees and 55 million in revenue. Justin Welsh | SVP Sales @ PatientPop. Want to see more content like this?

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OpenView Labs

JANUARY 6, 2022

Welcome back to the final installment of our customer success series. As I have touched on in my prior posts, the customer success role has evolved in parallel with how software is adopted. For CS, that is the voice of the customer. You’ll find parts one and two here. .

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ChurnZero

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Why is it that the need for operations in marketing and sales is never questioned, yet Customer Success isn’t given the same allowance? Even though CSQLs have a lower customer acquisition cost, faster rate of return, and high close-rate, says Tony D’Auria, industry principal at Valuize, a customer lifecycle consultancy.

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OpenView Labs

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

That’s why top usage-based SaaS companies instill a customer success mindset across every team. The entire company needs to be set up to do what’s in the best interest of making sure customers are seeing value. Here’s what that means for Product, Marketing, Sales, Customer Success, Pricing, and Finance.

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ChurnZero

JUNE 12, 2020

This is a guest post by Jason Conrad, Advisory Board Member of Customer Imperative. Today, you’d be hard-pressed to find a high-velocity Sales, Marketing, or Product team without a designated operations function. To find out if you’re prioritizing Customer Success productivity, let’s look at these common questions and answers.

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Tom Tunguz

MAY 14, 2015

At Gainsight’s Pulse Conference on Customer Success, Mike McKee of Rapid7 spoke about the structure of his customer success team. It’s the best visualization I’ve seen to describe the sales and customer success process and the inter-team collaboration required to be successful.

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CustomerSuccessBox

JUNE 8, 2022

The capacity to forecast that a specific customer is at a high risk of churning while there is still time to do something about it is a major new possible revenue generator for any company. We, at CustomerSuccessBox , spoke to some of the Top Customer Success Influencers to know how they manage churn!

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Tom Tunguz

MAY 14, 2014

Yesterday, I spoke on a panel at the Gainsight Pulse conference with Aaron Ross, the author of Predictable Revenue , Jason Lemkin of Storm Ventures who authors SaaStr , and Brian Stafford, a customer success expert from McKinsey. Customer success (CS) within SaaS startups is a relatively new idea.

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Incredo

OCTOBER 17, 2019

common software sales comp plans, 2. what factors to consider before defining your SaaS sales commission percentage. We will share 8 ideas on how to increase your sales team’s productivity and help them close more deals. We will share 8 ideas on how to increase your sales team’s productivity and help them close more deals.

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Incredo

OCTOBER 17, 2019

common software sales comp plans, 2. what factors to consider before defining your SaaS sales commission percentage 4. and finally figure out how much that SaaS sales salary should be. In the end, a bonus section is waiting for you! What are 5 common SaaS sales compensation models? We will write about: 1.

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ChurnZero

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Churn Monster #5: Manic Customer. With Halloween approaching there’s all sorts of spooky things around us, which makes it a perfect time for us to talk – churn monsters! If you are responsible for customer success or customer retention at your company, you have monsters in your closet. Fight Customer Churn!

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 20, 2019

20 Customer Success Predictions for 2020 . T hat’s why we asked some of the top Customer Success (CS) leaders to share their industry predictions for 2020. Vanessa Hannay , Director of Customer Success, Muck Rack . Making customers happy is no longer good enough. . . The year was 1909.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 22, 2021

So, you signed up for a Customer Success gig and now your boss wants you to upsell? But I didn’t want a job in sales!”. If you’ve internally cursed the idea of selling or simply desire to take your sales skills up a notch, then this webinar is for you. Apply a language framework to “get into” the sales conversations.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 29, 2021

It’s hard to find a “better” example than in sales, where the annual turnover rate in the United States averages at 34%. Sales is one of those jobs where you sink or swim based on your efforts. All of that can lead to a lot of pressure and stress on sales teams. What is sales productivity? What causes sales burnout?

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ChurnZero

MARCH 15, 2019

Churn Monster #10: Bad Fit Customer . This month we are going to take a look at a churn monster that we’ve all experienced but is different than all the rest, for one very specific reason, that we will get into. We’re talking about a bad fit customer. You are worried you have acquired a bad fit customer.

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Incredo

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Do you want to grow your SaaS sales team and improve your processes? maintain healthy atmosphere in your Smarketing team, make smart choices regarding your SaaS sales model, strategy, pricing, . build smoother connections both with your prospects through optimized sales process. And from SaaS sales models to SaaS pricing.

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