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5 Lessons Learned When Scaling Product-Led Growth and Sales Motions Beyond $100M with Cloudinary VP of Developer Experience Sanjay Sarathy

SaaStr

It was founded by three developers who owned a consulting firm previously, helping startups come to market. Lesson #1: Invest In Customer Support Early Cloudinary strongly believes that customer success and support are enablers of PLG growth and aren’t just a cost center. They have to make developers successful.

Scale 254
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Forget Support — Optimize for Full Funnel Customer Success

FastSpring

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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Announcing the Early Warning System SuccessBloc

Totango

Today we are releasing the Early Warning System SuccessBloc, which gives you instant visibility into customer signals and critical events, alerting you to proactively engage when needed. You’ve likely experienced this scenario before: you’ve got a customer who’s using your products regularly and getting value out of your solution.

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Five Contract Renewal Tools to Increase Customer Retention

Totango

The main con of renewal automation is that some customers may not want to renew without being consulted, even if they approved automated billing. Additionally, some customers may want to upgrade rather than simply renew, and this opportunity can be lost if the customer is not engaged during the renewal process.

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How to Drive Revenue With PartnerOps

Sales Hacker

In addition, businesses are continuing to rely on agencies, consultancies, and distributors to refer, sell, and implement products. Ensuring partnerships, sales, product, engineering, and customer success teams have the information they need when they need it. Processing and remitting payments.

Payments 101
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Predictions for Customer Success in 2019

ChurnZero

But what if you could have a better idea of the changes 2019 has in store for Customer Success professionals? We’ll see more applications of AI in Customer Success, but these will mostly be behind-the-scenes. the stuff that Customer Success teams are really meant to do).

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6 Critical Criteria for Evaluating Customer Success Technology

Valuize Consulting

Customer success technology is one of the breakout tech categories that has emerged over the past 5 years. The rise of the customer success ‘domain’ in B2B software companies has driven this new market category. Successful adoption begins with selecting the right customer technology for your organization.