ChurnZero

MARCH 24, 2023

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.

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ChurnZero

MARCH 24, 2023

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.

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 2, 2021

12 Key Takeaways from ChurnZero’s BIG RYG Virtual Customer Success Conference. It’s a wrap on ChurnZero’s 2021 BIG RYG Virtual – our online Customer Success conference. An acronym for Red, Yellow and Green, RYG represents the common indicators of customer health. Then, back into the tech stack from there.”

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ChurnZero

OCTOBER 30, 2020

What’s Next For Customer Success? Top SaaS CEOs Talk Compensation, Automation, and Investors. No one knows what the future holds (as 2020 has made abundantly clear) but that didn’t stop us from asking top SaaS CEOs what’s next for Customer Success. Customer Success Compensation Catches Up to Sales.

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ChurnZero

JULY 8, 2022

Cut to 2022, and the idea that a SaaS company could secure venture funding without investors digging deep into retention metrics seems comical, if not reckless. Net revenue retention (NRR) is taking center stage as the qualifying metric for determining the health of a SaaS business. Invest in customer success.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Go-to-Market matters because sales and marketing spend remain the biggest proportion of SaaS spend, so honing in on that spend to build an engine and drive growth is paramount. According to ICONIQ’s data, many successful companies hit a growth plateau at around $15M ARR. Founders are still leading sales and are very good at it.

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ChurnZero

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Another one of our favorite moments was our Founder, You Mon Tsang’s well attended session on the “ Top Customer Metrics For Your Board and Investors and How to Nail Them with ChurnZero’s CEO.” Are your compensation plans setting your business up for longer-term success or subscription contraction?

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User Pilot

AUGUST 31, 2023

Customer acquisition marketing refers to the subset of strategies and activities within customer acquisition that focus on marketing techniques to attract and convert potential customers. Customer acquisition funnel stages in SaaS are Awareness, Consideration, Evaluation, Conversion. Example from Fullstory.

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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

9 tips to get your CSMs to adopt Customer Success software. Have you ever worked at a company where the Customer Success team had to beg for its own tools? The CSM perspective: how to encourage the adoption of Customer Success software. That’s okay. I have a few tips to help you drive adoption that sticks.

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Chaotic Flow

MAY 13, 2014

Becoming a Metrics-driven SaaS Business is no easy task. It takes time, commitment and plenty of customers. However, the financial rewards of moving beyond standard SaaS financial metrics to SaaS customer success metrics and ultimately to sophisticated predictive analytics are significant.

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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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Kellblog

MARCH 13, 2020

In days of yore, chief revenue officer (CRO) was just a gussied-up title for VP of Sales. Back in the pre-subscription era, basically all the revenue — save for a little bit of services and some maintenance that practically renewed itself — came from sales anyway. Frank, the head of Sales, had a $1B number.

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OpenView Labs

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

That’s why top usage-based SaaS companies instill a customer success mindset across every team. The entire company needs to be set up to do what’s in the best interest of making sure customers are seeing value. Here’s what that means for Product, Marketing, Sales, Customer Success, Pricing, and Finance.

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Totango

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Looking back at the 2020 Customer Success Salary Report , this year has also had a particularly influential effect on the Customer Success (CS) Industry. As compared to 2019, companies are increasingly growing their Customer Success teams to maximize retention and drive growth from existing customers. .

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Valuize Consulting

AUGUST 24, 2021

Mobilize Your Team Around Your Most Pressing Value Metric. Net Dollar Retention (NDR) has quickly become the most important value metric in SaaS organizations and for good reason; NDR provides a clear picture of a company’s overall health and valuation. Plan For Customer Success. Build Your Compensation Model.

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Valuize Consulting

AUGUST 24, 2021

Mobilize Your Team Around Your Most Pressing Value Metric. Net Dollar Retention (NDR) has quickly become the most important value metric in SaaS organizations and for good reason; NDR provides a clear picture of a company’s overall health and valuation. Plan For Customer Success. Build Your Compensation Model.

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ChurnZero

JUNE 12, 2020

This is a guest post by Jason Conrad, Advisory Board Member of Customer Imperative. Today, you’d be hard-pressed to find a high-velocity Sales, Marketing, or Product team without a designated operations function. To find out if you’re prioritizing Customer Success productivity, let’s look at these common questions and answers.

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ChurnZero

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Why is it that the need for operations in marketing and sales is never questioned, yet Customer Success isn’t given the same allowance? Even though CSQLs have a lower customer acquisition cost, faster rate of return, and high close-rate, says Tony D’Auria, industry principal at Valuize, a customer lifecycle consultancy.

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CustomerSuccessBox

MAY 18, 2022

So has the customer success industry and the content around the space! Here is the list of 10 Customer Success blogs to follow and save in your digital library in 2022! Here is the list of 10 Customer Success blogs to follow and save in your digital library in 2022! CustomerSuccessBox. 16 Ventures.

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ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

As a Customer Success leader, do you find yourself watering down your budgetary requests? According to our 2022 Customer Success Leadership Study, CS teams are already underfunded and under-resourced. How Customer Success can win more resources, budget, and credibility with Jeff Heckler.

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OpenView Labs

JANUARY 6, 2022

Welcome back to the final installment of our customer success series. As I have touched on in my prior posts, the customer success role has evolved in parallel with how software is adopted. For CS, that is the voice of the customer. You’ll find parts one and two here. . Take Vitally, for example.

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Kellblog

JANUARY 2, 2024

Customer retention came into sharp focus in 2023 and with it a new, balanced view relying on both NRR and GRR as key retention metrics. As I said last year , “while this bodes well for the customer success (CS) discipline, it does not automatically bode well for the customer success department.”

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Sales Hacker

JULY 29, 2021

It’s hard to find a “better” example than in sales, where the annual turnover rate in the United States averages at 34%. Sales is one of those jobs where you sink or swim based on your efforts. All of that can lead to a lot of pressure and stress on sales teams. What is sales productivity? And who could blame them?

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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

9 tips to get your CSMs to adopt Customer Success software Have you ever worked at a company where the Customer Success team had to beg for its own tools? I have a few tips to help you drive customer success software adoption that sticks. That’s okay. So how do we overcome this?

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Software Platform Consulting

MAY 28, 2019

This is the third in my series on SaaS Metrics for Enterprise-Driven B2B Networks. I spend very little time on issues of compensation on this blog. sales, finance, customer success, and supplier enablement). aligning incentives of all of those groups based on the same metrics. Source: [link].

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Incredo

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Do you want to grow your SaaS sales team and improve your processes? maintain healthy atmosphere in your Smarketing team, make smart choices regarding your SaaS sales model, strategy, pricing, . build smoother connections both with your prospects through optimized sales process. And from SaaS sales models to SaaS pricing.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 22, 2021

So, you signed up for a Customer Success gig and now your boss wants you to upsell? But I didn’t want a job in sales!”. If you’ve internally cursed the idea of selling or simply desire to take your sales skills up a notch, then this webinar is for you. Apply a language framework to “get into” the sales conversations.

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 20, 2019

20 Customer Success Predictions for 2020 . T hat’s why we asked some of the top Customer Success (CS) leaders to share their industry predictions for 2020. Vanessa Hannay , Director of Customer Success, Muck Rack . Making customers happy is no longer good enough. . . The year was 1909.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Nearly every sales organization will admit they could be better at planning. According to a study by Cascade Insights , more than 75% of sales leaders agree their planning efforts are problematic — and 90% of sales ops leaders confessed on LinkedIn they need to do sales planning faster and more frequently.

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SaaStr

JUNE 24, 2022

Your best sales reps can close so much more than your average rep. Move the bottom 10% out and give the best leads to your top performer, and watch sales go up 20%. The best VPs of Sales design comp plans so the team never wants to leave. You should be striving for zero voluntary attrition on your sales team.

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Kellblog

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

Topics we discussed included: The Hippocratic oath and executive compensation plans (do no harm). How to frame the sales / services working relationship (i.e., Why to put an andon cord in place to stop zero-odds-of-success deals early in the sales process. sales, customer success, services).

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Chargify

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

The title says it all…calculating sales commission shouldn’t be a pain in the SaaS. Yet, after countless conversations with SaaS sales teams, including our own, we concluded that everyone shares the same sentiment—it IS a pain in the SaaS. . Compensating Other Revenue Generators. But it is just math, right?

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InsightSquared

MARCH 6, 2018

Sales operations has been around for quite some time, but lately the function has been gaining momentum. Instead of behind-the-scenes sales support, sales ops now acts as a strategic partner for sales VPs and leadership. Start building out your sales operations department by hiring someone to own your CRM.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 11, 2019

Do all the research you want… Implement all the bright-shiny strategies you can think of to get sales reps excited about their roles and success…. Clearly, new strategies alone aren’t enough to motivate a sales team. Sure, these are all key motivators for your sales reps. So what’s the missing link? Is it money?

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SmartKarrot

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Role: Senior Director, Customer Success Location: Remote, United States Organization: OneSpan As a Senior Director, Customer Success, you will build, lead and scale a growing customer success management team while ensuring an excellent customer experience and that outcomes meet the customer goals.

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SmartKarrot

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Role: Director of Customer Success Location: Remote, United States Organization : Fleetio As a Director of Customer Success, you will lead the Customer Success Management Team across three segments (Enterprise, Mid-Market and SMB) to achieve long-term retention via aggressive usage, adoption, and value realization targets.

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OPEXEngine

JANUARY 11, 2022

Additionally, it is a flexible model that allows customers to buy only what they need (i.e., There are many vendor benefits, too — it is easier to sell and it embodies a customer success solution orientation that drives high customer lifetime value and revenue. Pay for performance compensation plan.

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