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Four Sales Compensation Tactics for Consumption-Based GTM with MongoDB’s SVP of Sales

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Meghan Gill, SVP of Sales Ops and Sales Dev at MongoDB, shares different consumption-based compensation models that drive the right behaviors. Compensation will drive it and have unexpected results. If you want to get rid of the cobras, paying for every cobra killed clearly wasn’t the right behavior to compensate.

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Reduce Churn: Craft Customer Success Compensation Plans That Attract Top Tier Talent

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There are several different models of compensation plans , but not all can be guaranteed to produce the same results for your organization. We’ve found that, when looking to build a strong team of Customer Success Managers (CSMs), an incentive compensation plan , otherwise called a variable compensation plan , produces the best results.

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Want Happy Customers? Implement the 5-Visits-Plus-2-Badges Rule. For Your Customer Success Team — And You. (Updated)

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If you are a SaaStr reader, you’ll know how passionate I am about Customer Success, since Day 1. What it all means is that if you do it right, you’ll make 6x or more the revenue from your customers after the sale itself. Churn, upsells, renewals, and all that, and compensating against it. Word-of-Mouth.

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Reduce Churn: Craft Customer Success Compensation Plans That Attract Top Tier Talent

ChurnZero

There are several different models of compensation plans , but not all can be guaranteed to produce the same results for your organization. We’ve found that, when looking to build a strong team of Customer Success Managers (CSMs), an incentive compensation plan, otherwise called a variable compensation plan, produces the best results.

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The Top 18 SaaStr Articles on Excelling at Work

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Your Customer Success Team. Customer success teams are critical for SaaS companies as they own the customer relationship from start to finish, managing up to 75% of revenue through renewals and upsells. Hire your first customer success manager as early as you can afford to once you have some larger customers.

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Five things Customer Success professionals want in their next position

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This is a guest article by Swati Garg , founder and CEO, Melo Associates , and Lindsay Lynch , senior recruitment consultant, Melo Associates , a recruitment firm focused on Customer Success hiring for SaaS and tech companies nationwide. Here are the top five things Customer Success professionals want in their next role.

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Where do you stand?: Five hot topics of debate in Customer Success

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The Customer Success industry is constantly evolving and developing new strategies for driving customer-led growth. 1: Is NPS a Customer Success metric? Stephanie Berner: My answer is unequivocally no— Net Promoter Score (NPS) should not be a CS metric. Here’s why. Value is very hard to measure.