SaaStr

JULY 29, 2021

Someone great at something core you aren’t: Sales, Engineering, Marketing. Great at sales. Do at least 20–30 customer interviews before you start writing too much code. Otherwise, you often are building for an imaginary customer. A 10x feature that customers will pay for, that the key competition doesn’t have.

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User Pilot

JULY 22, 2023

What is a land and expand strategy? In this guide, we’re going to show you how a land and expand strategy can help you grow your revenue generation from existing clients by deploying a foot-in-the-door approach with your sales team! What is the land and expand sales strategy? How do you get started?

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Strategy Sales Recruiting Customer Success Acquisition 72

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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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

Average Revenue per Customer. Customer Lifetime Value (LTV). Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC). & One is your churn. SaaS businesses have churn. Two is the growth of your existing customers. Three is your new customers that’s kind of how we’re gonna structure the rest of the discussion today.

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Kellblog

JUNE 27, 2020

And, depending on the initial contract duration, high customer churn [1]. churn of 25%, and services margins of negative 66% when I started working with them [2]. Customers are left high-and-dry with failed or partial implementations that, if left unfinished, will likely lead to churn. High adoption failure.

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User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

Chief Technical Officer : Responsible for outlining the company’s technological vision, implementing technology strategies, and ensuring that the technological resources are aligned with the company’s business needs. Product Manager : In charge of creating product strategy and overseeing the design process, among other things.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 20, 2020

343: Kyle Parrish is the Head of Sales @ Figma, the company that helps teams create, test and ship better designs from start to finish. In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Kyle made his way into the world of SaaS and sales and came to be Head of Sales at one of the fastest-growing companies in Figma. What worked?

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 26, 2021

A J oint Success Plan is a simple but powerful tool for outcome-based customer success management. It’s designed to help solution providers align with their customers’ business goals and objectives. Customer success continues to evolve as a practice within companies that enjoy recurring revenue models.

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ChurnZero

APRIL 27, 2021

As ChurnZero recently secured a Series B investment bringing our total funding that has been raised to date to $35 million, we thought we’d take a look back and see the role that Customer Success plays at each respective stage of funding for SaaS companies. Early-Stage Funding & Customer Success.

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Scale Customer Success Payments Underperforming Technical Team 98

CustomerSuccessBox

JUNE 8, 2021

TL;DR: Customer success is one of the top 10 fields for employment in the tech sector and the Most Customer success departments have different structures to suit each of their unique requirements consisting of a Vice president of Customer Success or Chief Customer success officer, Director of Customer Success and Customer success managers.

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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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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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ChurnZero

MARCH 11, 2020

Churn Reasons: You’re Not Digging Deep Enough. This is a guest post by Jay Nathan , Founder & Managing Partner at Customer Imperative. Disappointed, but oddly satisfied, I hung up the phone from a call with a recently-churned customer. Eventually, these issues become deal-breakers which can lead to churn.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Sales compensation planning can be a tricky beast to tame — but know that you’re not alone. I asked 12 incredible sales leaders across the SaaS industry to share their biggest challenges with comp planning and how to overcome them. Related: New to sales compensation planning? Top 10 sales compensation challenges.

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SaaStr

MAY 8, 2020

* What does Jessica believe is the right way for sales reps to engage with new customers during this time? How should sales teams and CS respond to requests for discounts? What specific and deliberate things can startups do not just to prevent churn but also to increase usage and upsell?

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SmartKarrot

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Role: Senior Director of Customer Success Location: Washington DC-Baltimore Area, US (Hybrid) Organization: TitanHouse As a Senior Director of Customer Success, you will establish and adhere to best practices in SaaS Customer Success. Recruit, hire, mentor and coach Customer Success team members.

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ChurnZero

MAY 10, 2019

Top 10 Customer Success Takeaways from TSW 2019. This event brought together thousands of technology leaders from Customer Success, Services, Sales, Product and Marketing. What was particularly great to see was the amount of Customer Success content that was structured into the programming.

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SmartKarrot

MARCH 15, 2023

Role: Director, Customer Success Location: Houston, TX, United States (Remote) Organization: Innovapptive Inc As a Director of Customer Success, you’ll ensure great client happiness, adoption improvements, retention, and expansion, you should lead and manage the customer success team of strategic accounts.

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SmartKarrot

JANUARY 4, 2023

Role: Director of Customer Success Location: Remote, United States Organization: Slync.io As a Director of Customer Success, you will plan, lead, organize and control multiple project initiatives in accordance with the approved scope and schedule. Guide and coach customers with proactive customer success processes.

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OpenView Labs

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

The value of your contracted subscriptions taking into account revenue added/lost from components such as new sales, renewals, upsells, churn, etc. Churn Rates. Customer Churn = # of customers lost / total #of customers. Revenue Churn = # MRR this month / # MRR lost from last month.

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ChurnZero

MARCH 6, 2020

Customer Success Starts Within: 6 Ways to Put Employees First. The Customer Success industry is obsessed with cracking the code on customer experience and loyalty. So, it’s easy to see how a fixation on the customer can overshadow the very people who make that success possible: the employees.

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Customer Success Software Review Scale Sales Recruiting 69

SmartKarrot

JUNE 22, 2022

Role: VP, Customer Success Location: Pleasant Grove, UT, US (Hybrid) Organization: Whistic As a VP of Customer Success, you will develop and execute a strategic roadmap for the customer success organization. Collaborate with partnerships and sales on selling techniques and growth/retention strategies.

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Role: Head of Customer Success Location: San Francisco, CA, United States Organization: Ikigai As the Head of Customer Success, you’ll manage the onboarding of new clients and ensure a smooth transition from sales. Present consumer voices internally accurately, raising them as necessary.

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SmartKarrot

APRIL 6, 2023

Role: Senior Manager, Customer Success Location: Munich, Bavaria, Germany (Hybrid) Organization: Rapid7 As a Senior Manager, Customer Success, you’ll manage recurring revenue in a predictable manner and produce high rates of timely renewal. 20–30 clients make up your personal client portfolio.

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SaaStr

MAY 15, 2019

About Nick… Nick Mehta and Anthony Kennada presented on how to create a new category (customer success). Gainsight’s customer success software empowers companies to increase revenue and decrease customer churn. His sales focused, actionable content made an impact on the audience.

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ChurnZero

JULY 9, 2020

But if you’re like most companies, when it comes to attracting your customers, the only thing your marketing’s dropping is the ball. Sure, you won customers over to get the initial purchase, but what about your post-sale courting? If you teach a customer how to use your product to fix a problem, you’re in the game.

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Retention Strategy Scale Sales Recruiting 64

SaaStr

JULY 30, 2020

356: Pete Kazanjy is the Co-Founder @ Atrium, the startup providing proactive, always-on insights for sales operations, managers, and leaders. Alongside Atrium, Pete is also the Founder of Modern Sales Pros, a community of 15,000 focused on sales operations and sales management. Stop asking questions.

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SmartKarrot

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Role: VP Customer Success Location: Irvine, CA, US (Hybrid) Organization: IntelligenceBank As a VP of Customer Success, you will achieve business targets for upsell, product usage and engagement, retention ARR and churn prevention for the North American region. set by your manager.

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SmartKarrot

MARCH 16, 2023

Role: VP of Customer Success Location: Austin, TX, United States (On-site) Organization: ShipperHQ As a VP of Customer Success, you’ll create and put into action ideas to boost client retention and decrease customer churn.

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Customer Success Sales Recruiting Scale Churn 19

SmartKarrot

MAY 6, 2022

Role: Director of Customer Success Location: Remote, United States Organization: Chevin Fleet Solutions As a Director of Customer Success, you will optimize the CS mission, vision, and customer journey map with the VP of Customer Success & Support.

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SmartKarrot

JANUARY 13, 2023

Role: Customer Success Specialist Location: Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland (Hybrid) Organization: Zowie As a Customer Success Specialist, you will manage and support the success of a portfolio of customers across the entire post-sale customer journey from kick-off to advocacy and renewal.

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SmartKarrot

MARCH 21, 2023

Role: Director, Customer Success Strategy Location: Seattle, WA, United States (Remote) Organization: CommerceIQ As a Director, Customer Success Strategy, you’ll create and implement customer success strategies that promote effective onboarding, adoption, retention, value creation, and customer satisfaction.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 19, 2021

What’s more, Forrester’s study, Drive Conversational Experiences For A Future-Ready Customer Support Strategy , revealed how conversational support can fuel customer retention and business growth across the entire business. Conversational support allows you to effortlessly capture important customer information up front.

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Role: VP Customer Success Location: United States (Remote) Organization: Unifyed As a VP of Customer Success, you’ll drive Customer Success Outcomes. Increase renewal rates and reduce churn. Expand revenue in accounts through cross-sell and up-sell.

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Customer Success Sales Recruiting Scale Outsourced Development 19

SmartKarrot

JUNE 9, 2022

Ensure Customer Success and Asset Management teams are coordinated with respect to the communication of project and utility timelines with end-user customers; develop processes between teams to ensure seamless communication for the benefit of all the customers.

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Role: VP, Customer Success Location: Toronto, ON, Canada (Remote) Organization: Affinity.co As a VP, Customer Success you’ll assemble, nurture, and keep a top-notch team. Metrics at every level of the company that define success for our clients are established. Create a world-class client success team.

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User Pilot

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Marketing teams that understand what customers value can target them more accurately with marketing campaigns that truly resonate. Sales reps can use the knowledge to shift sales negotiations from price to value. Teams can foster it by analyzing customers’ progress along the user journey and removing unnecessary friction.

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Management Scale Customer Lifetime Value SaaS 89