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Customer Success vs. Customer Support: What Are the Differences?

Totango

Customer success vs. customer support: although these two terms appear similar, they actually refer to two different, yet complementary, functions within a company. Fulfilling a proactive role, customer success focuses on problem prevention and creates value by enabling clients to achieve business goals.

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Customer Success vs. Customer Support: Defining Role Boundaries

ChurnZero

If you work in Customer Success, then you’ve likely experienced the challenges of customers reaching out to you for their support-related needs – whether it’s technical troubleshooting or resetting a password. When distinguishing between these two customer-facing functions , the customer may think: “eh, tomayto, tomahto.”

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FastSpring Support: 2024 Q1 Updates From Customer Support

FastSpring

Get the latest from FastSpring’s Support leaders about important tax updates, fraud and chargeback strategies, our new Changelog, and more. Fraud, Chargebacks, and Mitigation Strategies Need FastSpring support? Visit our Support page. Providing end users with a refund option mitigates chargeback likelihood.

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Moving from reactive to proactive customer support

Intercom, Inc.

Simultaneously, support teams are struggling with spikes in conversation volumes. A proactive customer support approach is the key to regaining control. The typical support “strategy” is to let common issues roll in for support reps to address. What is proactive customer support?

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Onboarding Call vs Automated In-app Onboarding: When to Use Each?

User Pilot

Onboarding is vitally important for any SaaS owner or product manager. Taking users through your product or service using an onboarding call is a pretty standard part of the customer onboarding process. They are typically led by your sales team or a customer success manager. What is onboarding?

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Customer Success Models: How to Choose the Right One for Your SaaS?

User Pilot

What are the most common customer success models? What factors should you consider when choosing one for your SaaS business to provide the best assistance to your customer ? TL;DR Customer success models are frameworks that help organizations ensure that customers can use their products effectively to realize their goals.

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The Earlier, the Better: How Customer Success Compounds Your Growth with ChurnZero Chief Customer Officer Alli Tiscornia (Video)

SaaStr

Customer Success isn’t just for established leaders; it also helps growth-stage companies compound their growth through retention, upsell and expansion. ChurnZero Chief Customer Officer Alli Tiscornia explains why earlier is better, and how to build a CS team that scales for the future. When should you start customer success?