Totango

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Hiring team members with the right customer success manager skills is critical for the effectiveness of your CS team and strategy. We’ll cover these below, along with five best practices to follow when bringing a new customer success manager aboard your team. Interpersonal skills.

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Chaotic Flow

AUGUST 18, 2015

SaaS businesses develop intimate, long term relationships with their SaaS customers. If they don’t keep their customers around for years, then all that capital invested in customer acquisition will have gone to waste. It is typical in B2B software for customer acquisition to eat up 50% or more of total costs.

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 21, 2022

1/ Crash course in Customer Success and SaaS metrics. If you’ve ever felt like being data-savvy was out of your reach and reserved for people who were naturally good with numbers, this webinar will enlighten you to the myriad of nuance that exists in SaaS metrics using plain language and concrete examples.

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Valuize Consulting

AUGUST 4, 2022

Reaping the full benefits of your selected Customer Success (CS) technology platform and ensuring its adoption across your organization requires a thorough action plan that accounts for common mistakes. Mistake #2: Using Bad Data. Mistake #1: Not Tying Your Technology Implementation To Your CS Strategy.

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ChurnZero

APRIL 9, 2021

Customer Success is fueled by customer interaction. In honor of Stress Management Awareness Month, we invited Ryan Johansen, Customer Success Director at RapidMiner, to share his experience dealing with extreme burnout and show us how to survive and thrive under the pressures of being a Customer Success professional.

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CustomerSuccessBox

MARCH 11, 2022

As Customer Success specialists, we often think of quarterly business reviews (QBRs) as the reviews we do with our own customers, when we summarize recent successes, outline future targets, and build our connections with key stakeholders. Why Internal Quarterly Business Review is important.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Jeff Bezos says that customers are always unhappy; they always want more. As companies begin to succeed, they sometimes develop a tunnel vision towards the customers who have brought them their success. They continue to cater to these customers by responding to small feature requests and addressing their pain points.

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Chart Mogul

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Getting a new customer on board is a happy time for every sales team, but it’s not quite the end of the road. The final step is the sales to customer success handoff process that lays the foundation for retaining customers successfully. This sales to customer success transition is a delicate balancing act.

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CustomerSuccessBox

JULY 26, 2022

The position of Customer Success leader imposes specific responsibilities on the holder. Most of us face competition from both direct and new competitors, as well as other ways customers can spend their limited time and money. What objectives do customers desire that we do not provide? These are some of them.

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CustomerSuccessBox

MARCH 10, 2022

Customer Success, as a function, is evolving fast. You might notice as a customer success manager that you’re spreading yourself too thin trying to take care of all of your customers at some point. Scaling entails accomplishing more with fewer customer success managers.

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ChurnZero

AUGUST 14, 2020

At ChurnZero, we’re humble enough to admit that Customer Success software can’t do it all, and quite frankly, it shouldn’t. We stick to our circle of competence and focus on our area of expertise: Customer Success software. It’s Customer Success for us. Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Software.

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ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

As a Customer Success leader, do you find yourself watering down your budgetary requests? And yet, downplaying your team’s needs undermines CS’s current impact and future revenue-driving potential. And yet, downplaying your team’s needs undermines CS’s current impact and future revenue-driving potential.

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 21, 2023

To make the right choices, however, you need a deep understanding of what your customers need and expect from you. Q: If your customer has more than one need, how do you decide which to prioritize first—or you do you address them all at the same time? You can find even more of Tim’s answers on the CXology blog here.

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CustomerSuccessBox

JUNE 13, 2022

Customer intelligence (CI) is the process of gathering and analyzing extensive customer data from both internal and external sources to acquire insights into customers’ demands, motivations, and actions. All of this contributes to bettering customer journeys and propelling the company’s future growth.

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Totango

MAY 5, 2021

This information can, in turn, influence product updates, customized offerings, and internal workflows. It is important that companies collect this valuable voice of customer data , and then use it to best leverage results into effective action. . The Importance of Measuring Customer Experience. What do you have to lose?

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ChurnZero

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Where is Customer Success Headed in 2022? Customer Success gradually, then suddenly, came to exist. Customer Success gradually, then suddenly, became essential to SaaS companies. Customer Success gradually, then suddenly, joined the C-suite. Customer Success flexes its authority.

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CustomerSuccessBox

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Over the last few years, we’ve seen a lot of growth in the Customer Success space, which means there’s now even more content out there on the web for you to research, consume and rely on. Let’s look at the top customer success blogs. Role of Customer Success Manager in a SaaS Company. CustomerSuccessBox.

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InsightSquared

MARCH 19, 2020

Sales teams across the country are being forced into remote work situations in response to the COVID-19 crisis. However, for some extra guidance, here are some best practices for managing a fully remote sales team from our very own sales leaders. . Set up daily team standups to promote visibility and transparency across your team.

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User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

TL;DR Customer discovery questions enable product teams to better understand customer needs and problems so that they can build products that the potential customer truly needs. To collect the necessary data, you can conduct customer discovery interviews or trigger in-app surveys.

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Chart Mogul

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Getting a new customer on board is a happy time for every sales team, but it’s not quite the end of the road. The final step is the sales to customer success handoff process that lays the foundation for retaining customers successfully. This sales to customer success transition is a delicate balancing act.

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ChurnZero

MARCH 4, 2022

This article is adapted from a session presented by Amy Manning , vice president of Customer Success at Lawgeex from BIG RYG, ChurnZero’s annual Customer Success leadership summit. This analysis was first developed by Kurt Lewin who is often recognized as the founder of social psychology. Score all the forces.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 24, 2024

How should you handle presenting challenges to your C-suite team when you’ve just joined the company? Lattice had a product-led growth flow on the website while the sales team was still trying to sell the PLG companies The good news is Lattice had a lot of activity and initiatives at play. Can you start and stop a PLG motion?

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ChurnZero

JUNE 12, 2020

Today, you’d be hard-pressed to find a high-velocity Sales, Marketing, or Product team without a designated operations function. Beloved by their tactical peers, operations brings needed order and logic to busy, results-oriented teams. Poor strategy, organization, and execution hurt your productivity and therefore your scalability.

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User Pilot

APRIL 7, 2023

When your product is catering to other businesses, it can be difficult for sales reps and other teams to understand the needs and experiences of the clients, especially if the client company sells multiple products. However, customer insights can help your teams understand all aspects of your B2B partners.

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User Pilot

MARCH 23, 2023

What are the reasons for customer churn in SaaS? And how can customer success teams address them to ensure product growth? As a SaaS company, your ultimate goal is to retain customers and keep them happy with your product. However, sometimes things don’t go as planned, and customers churn. moment faster. #3:

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Valuize Consulting

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Customer Success Management: Distinguishing Fact From Fiction. 91% of businesses have said that their Customer Success organization has grown significantly in the last year alone ( Totango , 2021). Reframe: Investing in Customer Success Operations early is critical to scaling your organization effectively.

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CustomerSuccessBox

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Since the last 5 years, Customer Success has become a buzzword in not only the B2B SaaS industry but several other industries too. As companies have started understanding the benefits of customer success, they have started rushing into the field in the hope of getting quick returns on their investment.

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ChurnZero

MARCH 15, 2019

Churn Monster #10: Bad Fit Customer . We’re talking about a bad fit customer. A bad fit customer is a customer who is unable to receive value from your product or service due to a mismatch of currents needs and offerings. You are worried you have acquired a bad fit customer.

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OpenView Labs

MARCH 3, 2020

But customer success (CS) leaders often drive all departmental improvement off those two numbers. Because they’re stuck with these limited metrics, CS leaders will continue to be second-tier leaders on the exec team (if they’re invited at all). If the customer is using the product, their churn risk is unpredictable.

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SaaStr

APRIL 5, 2023

A bad experience with a revenue operations leader might taint your view of the position at all future companies, but that would be a mistake, as CRO Confidential podcast host Sam Blond learned first-hand. It might be a systems person or someone deep in data analytics who can quickly translate different data points.

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Totango

OCTOBER 20, 2020

This information can, in turn, influence product updates, customized offerings, and internal workflows. It is important that companies collect this valuable voice of customer data , and then use it to best leverage results into effective action. . The Importance of Measuring Customer Experience.

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ChurnZero

OCTOBER 28, 2022

The results of the 2022 Customer Success Leadership Study, based on the perspectives and insights of more than 1,000 Customer Success leaders, are in. The good news is Customer Success teams are growing both in size and budget. The bad news is they’re not growing enough.

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Valuize Consulting

JULY 22, 2021

Accelerate Customer Success With Customer Success Operations. Customer Success (CS) Operations is a new addition to the world of Customer Success that has grown exponentially in both size and scope over the last few years. I know most companies focus on: ‘why are we churning customers?

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User Pilot

JANUARY 31, 2023

Identifying at-risk customers is crucial for understanding their behavior, improving customer satisfaction , and reducing churn rate. While identifying high-risk customers, you can address the root causes and focus on working to retain those customers.

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ChurnZero

JUNE 10, 2022

Implementing a Customer Success platform is a momentous occasion—the mark of a new beginning and growth. You must take inventory of all your data points and sources, get your operations in order, and corral internal stakeholders for support. Hold your team accountable to the same standards as you would your vendor.

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User Pilot

JULY 31, 2023

TL;DR Pendo is a product growth platform for product , marketing , customer success , and UX design teams. It enables businesses to analyze user in-app behavior , collect customer feedback to make data-led decisions, improve user onboarding, and communicate effectively with users. Let’s get right to it!

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User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

They also manage finances and supervise one or more engineering teams. Customer Success Manager: This person is responsible for customer relationships and experience as well as acting as the voice of the customer. In large companies, the CSM also oversees other customer success roles.

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