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.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

E.g., Sales +Marketing Expenses < First Year ACV = Success ? if Churn > 2% = Bad, Just Terrible. And even in the enterprise, losing one big customer can swamp you here in the early days. What most matters is that churn is going down , rather than the core absolute value, IMHO. Well — Maybe.

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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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User Pilot

JUNE 28, 2023

Sustaining user engagement throughout the entire onboarding process can feel like a task only large teams can achieve. Introducing core features, driving user activation, and maximizing retention rates after the user onboarding experience will all impact the user journey moving forward.

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Totango

AUGUST 16, 2022

Customer Retention Software Cuts Down Client Churn. Customer retention software has become essential for effective SaaS customer success strategies. A winning SaaS business model must prioritize retaining customers, which is far more cost-efficient than acquiring new clients to offset churn.

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User Pilot

MARCH 23, 2023

What are the reasons for customer churn in SaaS? And how can customer success teams address them to ensure product growth? As a SaaS company, your ultimate goal is to retain customers and keep them happy with your product. However, sometimes things don’t go as planned, and customers churn.

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ChurnZero

JUNE 9, 2023

Good sales teams typically get the budget, headcount and tools they desire because the function is tied to revenue. However, that’s not always the case for Customer Success (CS) teams even though they are often responsible for renewals and expansions. Are their features missing the customer wanted?

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 10, 2022

SaaS customer onboarding makes or breaks your customer retention. Your onboarding process is a learn-or-churn, adopt-or-get-dropped situation. It has a long-lasting impact on your customer and deep ties to their likelihood to churn. Work Cross-Functionally During SaaS Customer Onboarding.

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Totango

AUGUST 18, 2022

A Customer Onboarding Checklist for Successful CS Teams. A lot goes into crafting the ideal onboarding process for SaaS products. At the same time, you need to minimize time-to-value (TTV) to ensure customers see the benefits of your product as soon as possible. What Is the Client Onboarding Process?

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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

DECEMBER 7, 2023

From living and breathing innovation, to questioning the status quo, to relentlessly pursuing customer value and breakthrough results, it takes a lot to become a ChurnHero Award winner. This year, five spectacular customer success teams have joined the list. Here’s what they achieved, and how they did it.

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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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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 21, 2022

1/ Crash course in Customer Success and SaaS metrics. But in reality, it’s 45% expansion hiding 20% churn. Related reading: Key SaaS and Customer Success metrics you should care about – What’s a good CAC? 1 thing CS leaders can do to avoid CSM burnout, and how to keep needy customers from derailing your day.

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Totango

JANUARY 26, 2021

Being proactive about churn prevention provides an antidote to customer attrition. Utilizing technology makes it one of the easiest ways to keep more customers. Read on to learn what churn is, how an attrition analysis can help you pinpoint why you’re losing customers, and what steps you can take to prevent customer churn.

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CustomerSuccessBox

APRIL 7, 2022

So, it’s legit to have a customer success team in hand. But with effective customer success, it’s possible to attain those extra gains from the SaaS revenue model. Assess the quality of the customer success efforts. You know in a business churns don’t leave you behind? That is important to track.

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Totango

JUNE 3, 2022

Customer success email templates form a foundation for effective CS automation. While customer success management can result in a rewarding payoff, it can also be very time-consuming if you don’t use the right strategies. Customer check-ins. Sales to Customer Success Handoff Email Template.

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OpenView Labs

AUGUST 13, 2020

Sure, customer success (CS) teams are on the front lines of preventing churn. Ultimately, making customers succeed is a business-wide responsibility that requires contributions from each function. Ultimately, making customers succeed is a business-wide responsibility that requires contributions from each function.

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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

In a world where employee turnover can instantly jeopardize customer renewals and retention, multithreading is an essential churn reduction strategy. If you have a customer success platform (CSP), you can be able to segment them quickly so your CSMs aren’t overwhelmed, and set up a weekly cadence.

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Totango

JULY 31, 2020

Customer retention is critical to success in today’s customer-centric economy. Onboarding sets the stage for customer retention by beginning a positive long-term relationship between you and your customer. They are: Use Customer Goals and Objectives to Personalize Onboarding.

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ChurnZero

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

In the business landscape today, Customer Success is a bit of an outlier. It’s newer when compared to more established departments like sales and marketing. One other thing that makes Customer Success particularly unique in an organization: formal Customer Success training, or lack thereof.

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Totango

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

We know that sales and customer success (CS) teams must work together to drive revenue growth and expansion. Check out three highlights from the conversation, and listen to the full podcast to gain more insights and tips on how your teams can create a mutually beneficial relationship between CS and sales.

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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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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. But customers that were a Good-fit might become a Bad-fit, depending upon the change.

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Totango

JULY 13, 2021

Strategy for customer success growth has changed as commerce has gone digital and big data has made marketing and sales customer-centric. Tell people about your business, get them in the store, sell them things, then look for more customers. Businesses need a new strategy for customer success growth.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 26, 2022

Reducing churn is at the forefront of all marketers’ minds. 82% of marketers say that “active customer retention” is one of the most important objectives for their CRM team , leading many Marketing and Customer Success team members to seek out new ways to understand customer pain points and improve the customer experience.

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CustomerSuccessBox

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

A seamless handoff from sales to customer success to implementation is necessary to deliver the promised early value. This is crucial to make your customer’s experience easier. CS professionals must have felt the grunt of a bad transition from Sales to Customer Success. Customer Retention.

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Criteria Corp’s Customer Success Team (and a few furry friends). Criteria Corp’s Customer Success Team is primarily based in Los Angeles, but includes team members across the US (Chicago, Denver.). Learn what Patrick Blanton, Vice President of Customer Success shared about his team.

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Chart Mogul

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Getting a new customer on board is a happy time for every sales team, but it’s not quite the end of the road. The final step is the sales to customer success handoff process that lays the foundation for retaining customers successfully. This sales to customer success transition is a delicate balancing act.

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CustomerSuccessBox

MARCH 17, 2022

You should connect your company’s targeted outcomes to your client’s desired outcomes in order to do so in a customer-centric manner. Use the Customer Success Playbook to synchronize those two sets of objectives. Customer Success playbooks are one approach to accomplish this. The list goes on and on.

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User Pilot

MAY 16, 2022

Product-led onboarding is something of a revolution in the SaaS industry. It’s not a ‘hack’ or a quick fix: it’s a mindset shift in how you approach your user onboarding process. As you’d expect, different SaaS companies adopt slightly different approaches around product-led onboarding.

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CustomerSuccessBox

JUNE 8, 2021

Sales, like Customer Success, has a job to do and the job has to be done well. Remember that a job well done for Sales means surpassing their numbers while the major goal of customer success is to ensure customers achieve their desired business outcome using the product. What is the effective way?

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ChurnZero

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Today, the greatest opportunity for efficient growth lies with Customer Success (CS) teams—the purveyors of customer loyalty. Find out how Customer Success builds financial fortitude and resilience in the latest Punk CX podcast, featuring ChurnZero CEO You Mon Tsang. Focus on your customers’ top three churn risks.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 18, 2022

Which is why it’s key to strengthen customer retention processes by automating them, keeping customers engaged, and detecting any signs of churn before they happen. Automate these 5 processes to boost customer retention. One surefire road to customer churn is the customer not knowing how to use the product.

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ChurnZero

JUNE 14, 2023

.” When times are challenging, and the sales pipeline slows, the disparity between the cost to acquire and retain customers tends to grow. It’s a company-wide goal, but the team in the spotlight is customer success (CS). In a growing market, your sales team takes the lead in bringing in new sales.

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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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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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ChurnZero

MAY 19, 2020

It’s time for another installment of our blog series where we spotlight a Customer Success professional and get their take on the industry as well as get to hear some of their top tips they’d like to share. Brian is the Senior Director of Customer Success at RFP360, where he leads the customer experience team.

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