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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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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SaaStr

JUNE 23, 2020

In SaaS, it is recruiting your VPs and management team : SaaS products mostly don’t sell themselves. You can hack managing and finding 1–3 reps yourself, but after that, you really need a VP of Sales. Q: What’s the number one challenge for scale-up founders? You’ll need more than 5–6 core engineers to go big.

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Valuize Consulting

JANUARY 25, 2024

Mastering Digital Customer Success: Insights From Valuize Spark Toronto What does your Digital CS model look like today and what was the journey like to get here? In the rapidly evolving B2B recurring revenue economy, the focus on Digital Customer Success is more pertinent than ever.

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SaaStr

MARCH 19, 2021

A head of sales that doesn’t recruit at least one strong rep in the first 90 days. A head of customer success that doesn’t own churn, or net revenue retention in the first 90 days. I can go on. But the top VPs of Sales know you have to get it going soon. Never will. Never will. Never will.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

We’ve written a lot on SaaStr on how to increase the odds your first management team is a success. How to hire a great VP of Sales (tons on that here ). What a great VP of sales really does. How to manage customer success. About recruiting and helping you scale. All good stuff.

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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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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.

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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. It’s important to track the number of leads in the conversion rates to sales generated by sales.

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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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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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CustomerSuccessBox

MAY 9, 2022

A Customer Success dashboard keeps track of your company’s health in connection to your product and its users. Customers are the lifeblood of any company, therefore having a clear picture of its revenue activities is critical for expansion. 360 Customer Success Dashboard.

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User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

Customer Success Manager: This person is responsible for customer relationships and experience as well as acting as the voice of the customer. In large companies, the CSM also oversees other customer success roles. They also manage finances and supervise one or more engineering teams.

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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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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

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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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? This podcast is sponsored by Guru.

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Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Your customer success teams need to grow with your user base to maintain a high level of customer satisfaction. Your marketing and sales budgets, and the personnel assigned to those teams, will also rise. A longer lead time for recruitment means higher quality recruits. It helps maintain consistent growth.

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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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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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Natalia Luneva

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

How he founded Sales playbook. I founded SalesPlaybook after getting frustrated by the lack or absence of sales support for startup founders. A lot of these companies have never done outbound sales and they don’t have a repeatable process in place and they haven’t really nailed down their ideal customer profile.

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SaaStr

JULY 12, 2022

One of the first what How to Hire a Great VP of Sales at the New York Enterprise Tech Meet-Up (thank you to John Lehr and Work-Bench for setting this up). The Number One Thing You Can Do to Accelerate Your Business Post-Initial Traction is Hiring a Great VP of Sales. I don’t know anything about sales. More power to you.

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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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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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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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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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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

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

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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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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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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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 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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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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SaaStr

JUNE 4, 2019

I actually worked in sales for five and a half years and that’s probably why I have tended to gravitate to B2B marketing. Worked as an AE and then a sales manager. Decided to go to business school, did that for a little bit and then came out in management consulting, a company. So, they’re a B2B piece.

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