ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Customer Success is gaining ground, influence, and budget within organizations. Based on a detailed survey of more than 1,000 Customer Success leaders, this is the most comprehensive study of the evolving CS landscape to date. Download your full copy of the 2022 Customer Success Leadership Study here.

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Leadership Trends Customer Success Investment 98

Totango

JULY 5, 2022

In uncertain economic times, attracting new customers becomes exponentially harder as budgets get tighter and priorities shift. Let’s take a look at four key actions to take right now that will not only help you prove your worth to your customers but will allow you to see instant results. . Dive into Customer Health.

Customer Success 97

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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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Customer Success Sales Recruiting Technical Review Compensation 98

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

JANUARY 4, 2024

It’s an exciting time to be in customer success. On the other hand, economic headwinds continue to constrain CS budgets and headcounts. “2024 will continue to see the chief customer officer move into the leadership phase,” predicts ChurnZero CEO and co-founder You Mon Tsang.

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CustomerSuccessBox

JUNE 28, 2021

But, the year 2020 has seen a boom in the Customer Success space, as a lot of SaaS businesses are now identifying Customer Success as a strong business imperative. The companies have realized the importance of customer success in an overall increase in revenue and profitability. Top Customer Success trends.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 13, 2021

Few people have more experience with this move than Linda Lin , Director of Customer Success at the revenue intelligence platform Gong. Moving upmarket means larger customers and higher revenue, but it’s not without its challenges. For Linda, it all comes down to your approach to customer success.

Scale 177

Scale Customer Success Strategy Sales Hiring 177

CustomerSuccessBox

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Customer Success(CS) is the most efficient way to grow your MRR/ARR. Yet, Customer Success is looked upon as a ‘ cost center ’. Customer Success teams, typically, follow the recurring revenue model (followed by almost every SaaS business). It wasn’t deployed to manage each and every customer relationship.

Customer Success 52

Customer Success Customer Lifetime Value Headcount Retention 52

SaaStr

JANUARY 30, 2023

Delivering the best customer experience With the surge in inbound leads, the business was growing exponentially. Without headcount planning for the support team, the company’s response time and customer satisfaction scores dipped. Manage scaling issues by using data to plan ahead and being team and customer-obsessed.

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Valuize Consulting

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Customer Success Is A Growth Engine. You Just Need An Effective Customer Success Metric To Prove It. For example, in Sales, you can take your Annual Revenue Target, divide it by the Projected Revenue Attainment Per Headcount (factoring in some ramp time) and out comes a Headcount projection.

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 18, 2020

With each passing year the Customer Success industry matures and meets new challenges along the way, and this year has been nothing short of challenging in many ways. . Q&A Recap: Speakers: Megan Macaluso , VP Customer Success & Operations, ESG. Jay Nathan , Chief Customer Officer, Higher Logic.

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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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ChurnZero

JANUARY 3, 2020

Out of 20 solution providers included in G2’s Winter 2020 Momentum Report for Customer Success Software, ChurnZero has received the highest Momentum Score, based on exceptional customer satisfaction and market growth, reinforcing ChurnZero’s position as the pacesetter in the Customer Success industry.

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Customer Success Venture Capital Software Review Technical Review 69

Tom Tunguz

JUNE 18, 2019

The template is broken into six sections: People, Bookings & Revenue, Cash, Sales, Marketing, Customer Success. This section covers employee satisfaction, headcount, and recruiting metrics. Customer Success reviews the net dollar and logo retention, plus churns and expansions.

Metrics 202

Metrics Sales Recruiting Startup SaaS 202

Totango

APRIL 6, 2023

To survive this tough “do more with less” climate, companies are turning to their customer success (CS) teams to ramp up their customer retention and expansion efforts. While CS is poised to be in the driver’s seat for retention and expansion, we believe that everyone across the enterprise plays a role in customer success.

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Innovation Scale Revenue Technical Review 85

The Angel VC

MARCH 23, 2016

Therefore the key drivers of my imaginary startup are organic growth rate, marketing budget and customer acquisition costs, conversion rate, ARPU and churn rate. If you have a SaaS startup with a higher-touch sales model where revenue growth is largely driven by sales headcount, the plan needs to be modified accordingly.

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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. Can we definitively link these churn and contraction reasons to the lack of coverage in these areas?

Scale 52

Scale Customer Success Scaling Strategy 52

ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

For those of you that might not know – this is the premier Customer Success conference in Europe. Customer Success is one of the fastest growing professions in the modern economy. We’ve complied our top fifteen Customer Success takeaways from the conference to share with you. pulseEurope2018.

Customer Success 49

Customer Success Scale Headcount Sales Hiring 49

OpenView Labs

MARCH 10, 2019

Happy customers stick around and recommend your company to their friends. This is what makes customer success such an important part of any SaaS company’s success, and it’s especially critical for companies that employ a product led approach to growth. But how do organizations make customer success work at scale?

Scale 69

Scale Customer Success Scaling Sales Hiring 69

ChurnZero

JULY 1, 2022

Customer Success operations is a necessity, not a luxury. It’s the best form of self-care you can give your CSMs who are maxed out handling difficult executive sponsors, devising customer business strategies, rescuing at-risk accounts, and selling solution upgrades. Does that save in future CSM headcount?

Customer Success 52

Customer Success Scale Technical Review Systems Review 52

ChurnZero

AUGUST 23, 2019

ChurnZero Leads G2’s Summer 2019 Momentum Report for Customer Success Software. The new Customer Success Software Momentum Grid from G2 showcases CS solutions with the highest growth trajectory on a product’s user satisfaction, online presence, and employee headcount growth over the last year.

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Software Review Customer Success Software Venture Capital 56

ChurnZero

JULY 1, 2022

Nina: “It’s all about supporting our CSMs and making sure they’ve got everything they need—data, clear processes, workflows—so they can focus on their mission, which is to make their customers successful so they can reach their business goals. Does that save in future CSM headcount? Who’s onboarding?

Customer Success 52

Customer Success Scale Technical Review Systems Review 52

ChurnZero

JULY 14, 2021

This metric helps determine which customers are your most profitable and can be useful both pre-sale to focus on acquiring highly valuable customers but then also post-sale to make sure your Customer Success team is able to focus their efforts on retaining your customers with the strongest lifetime value.

Customer Lifetime Value 98

Customer Lifetime Value Scale Headcount Churn 98

ChurnZero

MAY 17, 2022

WASHINGTON , May 17, 2022 — ChurnZero , a leading Customer Success platform, has earned multiple accolades from business and SaaS industry groups for its product innovation and industry leadership. The company plans on doubling its headcount in 2022.

Marketplace as a Service 98

Marketplace as a Service Technical Review Headcount Software Review 98

OpenView Labs

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Professional Services can certainly add value to the pre and post-sales customer experience through implementation and onboarding, instituting change management and product customization. This survey also indicates that Professional Services can lead to more enterprise deals and lower churn. Lower churn. Patrick Cambell.

Customer Success 40

Customer Success Startup SaaS Sales Hiring 40

SaaSX

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

This INCLUDES headcount-related expenses. If you are utilizing Gusto or a similar payroll tool, your headcount expenses are likely coming into your P&L as one (or maybe two) line item(s). these figures are going to be WRONG because you haven’t properly accounted for your headcount costs in Sales & Marketing.

Finance 118

Finance Sales Hiring Headcount Scale 118

Kellblog

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Churn ARR is the sum of ARR lost due to shrinking customers (aka, downsell) and lost customers. Ending ARR is starting ARR + new ARR – churn ARR. It’s + churn ARR if you assign a negative sign to churn, which I usually do.) Note that some people use “net new” to mean “net new customer” (i.e.,

Technical Review 118

Technical Review Software Review Forecasting Churn 118

ChurnZero

APRIL 5, 2019

Our inaugural Atlanta Leadership Hour featured four discussion topics led by area Customer Success leaders. Here are just a few of our favorite tips that we wanted to share with the larger Customer Success community. Hiring and Scaling a Customer Success Team. Hiring and Scaling a Customer Success Team.

Customer Success 40

Customer Success Compensation Scale Leadership 40

SmartKarrot

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Role: Head of Customer Success Location: Remote, United States Organization: Voxie As a Head of Customer Success, you will mentor and inspire a team of high-performing Customer Success Managers. Own the ultimate success of the customers, including onboarding, product adoption, retention, and growth.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 18, 2019

The real magic from a Wall Street perspective isn’t that Salesforce is “SaaS” and much of, say, Oracle still mostly isn’t … it’s that Salesforce’s revenue, with net negative churn, completely recurs every year. With precise headcount and budget needs. How many Customer Success Managers. How many reps.

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Sales Hiring Scale Headcount Revenue 178

OPEXEngine

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Most SaaS executives can relate to a friendly debate they’ve had at a board or leadership team meeting about what percentage of revenue should come from “upsells” to existing customers or what is “healthy churn.” Companies with an equivalent commercial operation- sales headcount, marketing spend, and customer acquisition cost (CAC).

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Benchmarks Scale Headcount Software Review 52

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The landscape of customer success has been evolving rapidly. So much so that we seem to be releasing new content on customer success just about every week. Today we’re focusing on actionable insights you can use to drive down churn with customer success in today’s new era of SaaS efficiency.

Customer Success 217

Customer Success Sales Hiring Scale AI 217

ChurnZero

MAY 17, 2022

WASHINGTON , May 17, 2022 — ChurnZero , a leading Customer Success platform, has earned multiple accolades from business and SaaS industry groups for its product innovation and industry leadership. The company plans on doubling its headcount in 2022.

Marketplace as a Service 52

Marketplace as a Service Technical Review Headcount Software Review 52

OPEXEngine

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

This INCLUDES headcount-related expenses. If you are utilizing Gusto or a similar payroll tool, your headcount expenses are likely coming into your P&L as one (or maybe two) line item(s). these figures are going to be WRONG because you haven’t properly accounted for your headcount costs in Sales & Marketing.

Finance 52

Finance Sales Hiring Headcount Scale 52

User Pilot

MAY 11, 2022

Customer segmentation allows you to understand users on a deeper level and analyze their behavior more precisely to tailor marketing positioning and product experiences. Customer segmentation also affects retaining users and boosting their loyalty. You can also learn why different segments churn more often and fix the issue.

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SaaS Underperforming Technical Team Onboarding Churn 98

ChurnZero

JANUARY 7, 2020

As a result of the ir rapid growth, the RFP360 Customer Success t eam faced several challenges. Maintain a pulse on their customer portfolio. The need to manually search for specific customer metrics meant the team was r eactive rather than proactive. The Challenges . The y struggled to: . The Impact .

Scale 52

Scale Headcount Consulting Customer Success 52

Sixteen Ventures

APRIL 26, 2023

NRR Defined Net Revenue Retention – NRR – is the percentage of revenue retained from existing customers in a defined time period, including Expansion, Contraction, and Churn. When a CS org is focused primarily on customer retention (vs. to “save” the customer).

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