Valuize Consulting

JUNE 9, 2022

If you’re a CCO or CRO at a B2B technology company, ask yourself these 3 critical questions: Is your existing Customer Success management team struggling to keep up with your customer’s needs and your business goals? Is collecting, analyzing and acting on critical customer data a challenge in your organization?

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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. ” 3.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 22, 2020

If you think sales is a simple job, I have a few hundred professional connections who would like a word with you. There’s a range of key skills that separate the best from the rest, and success belongs to companies who can identify and hire reps who have those precious skills. By mastering your sales interview questions.

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OpenView Labs

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Without the product management, you won’t be able to actualize that vision, because there’s no one to handle research, logistics, and all the other elements that go into successfully building and marketing a product. This is why, even for early-stage startups, the sooner you hire your first product person, the better.

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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

AUGUST 16, 2021

A few of the best: “Hire more relationship managers. Customers care about relationships, and nothing replaces a human available to help whenever you need something.” The best place to put that incremental dollar on the revenue team is in existing customers. Hire 9s & 10s ONLY. If not, start ASAP.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 13, 2023

However, it’s tough to predict the future alone — so we asked Customer Success leaders across the industry to share their top trends for 2023. Second, the power of AI in customer experience will become more evident and accessible—an innovation we at ChurnZero have jumped on with the introduction of Customer Success AI.

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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.

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Getting the team right is one of the hardest parts of scaling sales. But no sales team can afford to grow without intention. While building a sales team, we’ve focused a lot on our sales culture. Here’s how we went about growing a sales team that is both world class and culture-additive. They’re resilient.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Customer success means wildly different things to different companies in the SaaS industry. Many organizations create customer success teams but there’s no clear definition as to how these teams develop long-term value for both the customer and the business. The role of customer success teams.

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ChurnZero

MAY 22, 2024

I find that saying the term “digital customer success” in our industry almost always garners one of two responses from CS professionals. Now, there’s absolutely nothing wrong with customer marketing, but that’s just a tiny portion of what we’re really talking about here. or their eyes light up. What the heck do those mean?

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CustomerSuccessBox

JUNE 1, 2021

When you’re trying to build a great success team, searching for a good Customer Success Manager, most often you see that the right fit- Customer Success Managers are hard to find. Roles that succeed as Customer Success Managers. Account Managers. Sales Managers.

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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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Sales Hacker

MAY 6, 2021

What’s the difference between a VP of Sales and a Chief Revenue Officer (CRO)? The VP of Sales. Great VPs of sales have gravitas and tact, command the room and hold their end of the table regardless of who is on the other side. And this is exactly why you hired them! Singular focus on sales.

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ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Customer Success Capacity Planning and Budget Guide. As a Customer Success leader, do you get anxious at the thought of asking your CFO or CEO for additional headcount? Have you ever been in a position where you’ve had to beg to hire more resources? We’re behind on our sales projections.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Join us on Tuesday, December 8th for a full day of interactive Roundtable and Networking Sessions across three tracks – Marketing, Sales, and Product / Customer Success – before the keynotes the next day. . Why The Customer Journey is Everyone’s Responsibility with Demandbase’s CRO, Allison Metcalfe.

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ChurnZero

MAY 3, 2022

Whether you’re building your expertise in cooking, crocheting, coding, or Customer Success, YouTube is now the place to level up. Let’s explore five of the best Customer Success YouTube channels for learning how to fight churn, understand industry trends, and position yourself for professional success in CS.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Aydin Senkut, Founder and Managing Partner @ Felicis. Dave Kellogg, Principal @ Dave Kellogg Consulting. Amy Appleyard, VP Sales @ VMWare. Michelle Benfer, VP, Head of North America Sales @ HubSpot. Dave Walters, CTO @ Hired. Christa Diaz, Senior Director, Customer Success @ Hired.

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Criteria Corp’s Customer Success Team (and a few furry friends). Criteria Corp’s Customer Success Team is primarily based in Los Angeles, but includes team members across the US (Chicago, Denver.). Learn what Patrick Blanton, Vice President of Customer Success shared about his team.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

We’ve talked a ton on SaaStr about how to hire a great VP. We even have 3 great checklists to make sure you hire right: VP of Sales hiring checklist here. VP of Marketing hiring checklist here. VP of Customer Success hiring checklist here. Those can be amazing hires.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2021

Devon Rutherford, Managed Services Program Manager & Pre-Sales Manager @ Leaseweb. Jules Costa, Content Manager @ BEE. Dave Kellogg, Principal @ Dave Kellogg Consulting. Aydin Senkut, Founder and Managing Partner @ Felicis. Tomasz Tunguz, Managing Director @ Redpoint Ventures.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 6, 2023

SaaStr founder and CEO Jason Lemkin chats with Box CEO and Co-Founder Aaron Levie to talk about what’s new at Box, SaaS fatigue, hiring a new COO, operating margins and efficiency, the future of AI, and what to expect for 2024. On Hiring a New COO This is Box’s third COO in 14-15 years. That’s what the COO is for.

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ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

This is a guest article by Michael Su , senior consultant of Customer Success, The Success League. Customer Success is still a young field and a new concept for many companies. When I ventured out to build my first Customer Success department at a tech software company, my leadership team thought I was nuts.

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ChurnZero

MAY 24, 2022

Welcome back to our Customer Success leader spotlight series, where we get candid with the leaders behind today’s most customer-centric organizations about their career stories, takes on the industry, and lessons learned along the way. . Chief Strategy and Customer Officer Mary Poppen. Get to know involve.ai Involve.ai

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ChurnZero

MAY 24, 2022

Welcome back to our Customer Success leader spotlight series, where we get candid with the leaders behind today’s most customer-centric organizations about their career stories, takes on the industry, and lessons learned along the way. . Chief Strategy and Customer Officer Mary Poppen. Get to know involve.ai Involve.ai

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SaaStr

JULY 15, 2022

Jason Lemkin: You certainly can hire a whole content team and build 10,000 pieces of content, but I will tell you what I have always seen work is one incredible piece a week. Jason Lemkin: I’ll answer it, but are you thinking more on sales or technology or broadly speaking in the question? That’s a great example.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 13, 2022

As the demand for Customer Success surges within SaaS, so too does the need for effective leaders to spearhead this expanding function and steer its strategy and success. Over the course of the pandemic, Customer Success has cemented itself as a central business driver of growth and profit. Follow Adi on LinkedIn.

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SaaStr

MAY 16, 2021

SaaS companies thrive on partnerships to share leads, mutually champion brands and collaborate on customer success efforts. The objective could be several things, from lead and revenue sharing, driving visibility or customer success. Are they bringing in consultants? Start by looking at recurring sales frictions.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

When it comes to launching sales teams in hyper-growth startups, few people have walked the walk as much as Maggie Hott. She “stumbled” into it, as she told us, first as one of the earliest sales hires of Eventbrite, where she stayed for four years, and then into Slack in early 2015 as the first sales rep in the Bay Area.

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SaaStr

MAY 16, 2019

I’ve now worked with or invested in ~25 successful start-ups beyond my own companies and I’ve watched a lot of VP hire train wrecks. Probably the most common is “the wrong VP of Sales” We’ve talked about that for 6+ years on SaaStr, and we’ll keep talking about it. The 48 Types of VP Sales.

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ChurnZero

APRIL 13, 2021

With Customer Success being one of the top emerging departments in software companies around the globe, you might be considering a career in this industry, but you also might be wondering which role is right for you. . Customer Success Vice President/Director . Customer Success Manager.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 7, 2020

Fortunately, more organizers than ever before are consciously seeking out female sales experts for panels, presentations, and podcasts. At Sales Hacker, we’re serious about diversity, and for that reason, we’ve compiled a list of 530+ female sales experts to consider for your next event. Sales Development. Sales Growth.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 16, 2019

Growing a sales team isn’t as simple as putting a bunch of A players in a room and getting them to start selling your product. If you want to build a revenue engine that will fuel long-term growth, you need to build and scale your sales org with intention. and many more to talk about how they’ve built sales teams from the ground up.

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SaaStr

MAY 15, 2020

333: Bridget Gleason is the Head of Sales and Customer Success @ Tidelift, the company providing managed open source, backed by maintainers. Before Tidelift, Bridget was VP of Sales @ Logz.io and before that was VP of Corporate Sales @ Sumo Logic where she drove ARR up by a record 237%.

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CustomerSuccessBox

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Every SaaS company knows how important Customer Success is and what results it can bring if implemented properly. However, since it is a comparatively new field, there are many different ideas, thoughts on how one should be building a customer success team so that it can have a big impact on the bottom-line.

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Sixteen Ventures

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Customer Success is transformative. Whether you have a Software-as-a-Service, subscription or membership business or you sell one-off products or services and simply want to do business with your customer more than once, Customer Success should be your driving purpose. Here’s to your success in 2020! . .

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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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