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.

Scale 177

Scale Customer Success Strategy Sales Hiring 177

Totango

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Dynamic customer engagement is key to building strong relationships with your customers. Customer engagement connects your customers with your company, through both personal and digital communications. What Is Customer Engagement? Types of Customer Engagement Models.

Engagement 71

Engagement Scale Customer Lifetime Value Headcount 71

ChurnZero

JANUARY 11, 2024

Most company budgets that earmark dollars for customer success intend for it to go towards headcount. ChurnZero refers to that portion of the budget as the “non-headcount budget.” We’ve conducted an annual survey of customer success leaders for four consecutive years. of revenue. of revenue. of revenue.

Headcount 52

Headcount SaaS Leadership Benchmarks 52

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.

Customer Success 97

Customer Success Benchmarks Scale Underperforming Technical Team 97

ChurnZero

DECEMBER 18, 2020

With each passing year the Customer Success industry matures and meets new challenges along the way, and this year has been nothing short of challenging in many ways. . Q&A Recap: Speakers: Megan Macaluso , VP Customer Success & Operations, ESG. Jay Nathan , Chief Customer Officer, Higher Logic.

Customer Success 87

Customer Success Sales Recruiting Finance Sales Hiring 87

CustomerSuccessBox

MARCH 9, 2022

One is Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and the other is Customer Success (CS) platforms. According to a research study, 20% of the SaaS companies, especially small to midsize companies, often depend on their CRM to administer all customer life cycle tasks which do not suffice their Customer Success function.

Customer Success 52

Customer Success Scale Customer Lifetime Value Outsourced Development 52

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.

Customer Success 52

Customer Success Scale Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team 52

CustomerSuccessBox

DECEMBER 30, 2021

B2B SaaS companies are preparing for their final quarter sprint, determining metrics for the next quarter and year & working on Quarterly Business Reviews while also working on customer journey after the new year. Customer Success depends on the ability to retain and build healthy relationships with customers.

Customer Success 52

Customer Success Finance Headcount Innovation 52

Totango

APRIL 6, 2023

To survive this tough “do more with less” climate, companies are turning to their customer success (CS) teams to ramp up their customer retention and expansion efforts. While CS is poised to be in the driver’s seat for retention and expansion, we believe that everyone across the enterprise plays a role in customer success.

Innovation 85

Innovation Scale Revenue Technical Review 85

Valuize Consulting

MAY 4, 2022

In the vast majority of B2B technology enterprises today, a Customer Success (CS) strategy is firmly in place. However, this strategy often begins and remains as a program that is focused on the minority high ARR customers. Identify Your North Star Metric. Evaluate Your Current Coverage Model.

Scale 52

Scale Customer Success Scaling Strategy 52

OpenView Labs

MARCH 10, 2019

Happy customers stick around and recommend your company to their friends. This is what makes customer success such an important part of any SaaS company’s success, and it’s especially critical for companies that employ a product led approach to growth. But how do organizations make customer success work at scale?

Scale 69

Scale Customer Success Scaling Sales Hiring 69

ChurnZero

JULY 1, 2022

Customer Success operations is a necessity, not a luxury. It’s the best form of self-care you can give your CSMs who are maxed out handling difficult executive sponsors, devising customer business strategies, rescuing at-risk accounts, and selling solution upgrades. Does that save in future CSM headcount?

Customer Success 52

Customer Success Scale Technical Review Systems Review 52

ChurnZero

JULY 1, 2022

Nina: “It’s all about supporting our CSMs and making sure they’ve got everything they need—data, clear processes, workflows—so they can focus on their mission, which is to make their customers successful so they can reach their business goals. Does that save in future CSM headcount? Who’s onboarding?

Customer Success 52

Customer Success Scale Technical Review Systems Review 52

SmartKarrot

MARCH 30, 2023

Role: Senior Customer Success Manager Location: United States (Remote) Organization: Talentify.io As a Senior Customer Success Manager you’ll be focusing on a certain set of accounts and fostering and sustaining relationships with important stakeholders. Co-create new features with our internal teams.

Customer Success 19

Customer Success Sales Recruiting Advertising Headcount 19

SmartKarrot

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Role: Head of Customer Success Location: Remote, United States Organization: Voxie As a Head of Customer Success, you will mentor and inspire a team of high-performing Customer Success Managers. Own the ultimate success of the customers, including onboarding, product adoption, retention, and growth.

Customer Success 19

Customer Success Development Team Review Systems Review Headcount 19

Sales Hacker

MARCH 1, 2024

Learn through this example AudiencePlus , a platform that enables B2B marketers to build, engage, and convert audiences through owned media, used this very strategy. By the time they officially launched the product, they already had an engaged audience. As a result, 60-65% of AudiencePlus deals are sourced through events and content.

VP of Engineering 71

VP of Engineering Scale SaaS AI Search 71

Totango

JUNE 28, 2022

The sooner your customers see value and experience ROI, the quicker you can strengthen your partnership with them and positively impact customer loyalty and advocacy. Totango’s composable customer success platform makes it easy to break each stage of the customer journey down with our modular SuccessBLOCs.

Scale 73

Scale Headcount Systems Review Communication 73

ChurnZero

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

How to Pro actively Engage Clients and Automate Your High Touch Service – A Success Story . As a result of their Customer Success t eam’s rapid growth , the MineralTree team lacked effective automation. They sought the ability to both monitor and influence their customer’s health. The Impact .

Payment Services 40

Payment Services Engagement Payments Headcount 40

Totango

MAY 26, 2021

We recently polled the Customer Success industry asking about the top challenges they are facing. Over the years, we’ve found that most companies are very oriented around a high-touch customer engagement model. Data is the lifeblood of a digital customer success program. The customer journey is not linear.

Scaling 95

Scaling Business Headcount Customer Success 95

SmartKarrot

AUGUST 25, 2022

Role: VP of Customer Success Location: Remote, United States Organization: Infogrid As a VP of Customer Success, you will ensure Infogrid’s customers achieve high rates of product adoption, realize significant value, thereby leading to high net dollar retention.

Customer Success 19

Customer Success Sales Hiring Outsourced Development Headcount 19

ChurnZero

APRIL 5, 2019

Our inaugural Atlanta Leadership Hour featured four discussion topics led by area Customer Success leaders. Here are just a few of our favorite tips that we wanted to share with the larger Customer Success community. Hiring and Scaling a Customer Success Team. Hiring and Scaling a Customer Success Team.

Customer Success 40

Customer Success Compensation Scale Leadership 40

SmartKarrot

MARCH 30, 2023

Role: Senior Customer Success Manager Location: United States (Remote) Organization: Talentify.io As a Senior Customer Success Manager you’ll be focusing on a certain set of accounts and fostering and sustaining relationships with important stakeholders. Co-create new features with our internal teams.

Customer Success 15

Customer Success Sales Recruiting Advertising Headcount 15

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The landscape of customer success has been evolving rapidly. So much so that we seem to be releasing new content on customer success just about every week. Today we’re focusing on actionable insights you can use to drive down churn with customer success in today’s new era of SaaS efficiency.

Customer Success 223

Customer Success Sales Hiring Scale AI 223

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Often, founders are unsure about the headcount split between India and the US. The engagement model is standard: a) Companies reserve $XX million equity for advisors. Some companies do very creative things around renewals to incentivize Customer Success teams to renew early, which is powerful in the current climate.

Scale 207

Scale Sales Hiring Cybersecurity Underperforming Technical Team 207

User Pilot

MAY 11, 2022

Behavioral segmentation divides customers based on their in-app engagement to unlock and fix product friction. There’re eight key product user segments to focus on: new users and existing users, free trial vs. lifetime free vs. paying users, and users that haven’t engaged with a core feature. Account upgrade microsurvey.

SaaS 98

SaaS Underperforming Technical Team Onboarding Churn 98

Totango

OCTOBER 8, 2020

In B2B terms, it is still possible to maintain your customer relationship and even improve customer retention during uncertainty, but you will need to focus on five key steps: Understand Your Customer. Proactively Personalize Engagements. Listen to Your Voice of Customer Programs. Learn from Customers.

Retention 63

Retention Headcount Customer Success Engagement 63

ChurnZero

JANUARY 7, 2020

As a result of the ir rapid growth, the RFP360 Customer Success t eam faced several challenges. Maintain a pulse on their customer portfolio. Centralize Customer Success Efforts – Actionable customer information is never more than a few clicks away. Read the complete success story here. .

Scale 52

Scale Headcount Consulting Customer Success 52

OpenView Labs

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Sales now accounts for about 7% of the company’s headcount–a similar share of their workforce as marketing or product management. We call them enterprise advocates and it’s something that we began to grow about four years ago, with a focus on really complex large customers.”. The rest of their headcount only grew by 31%.

Sales Hiring 57

Sales Hiring Scale Headcount Sales 57

SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Role: Vice President of Customer Success – SaaS Experience Required! Location: Remote, United States Organization: Jarvis Elliott Jarvis Elliott is looking for a Vice President of Customer Success with experience in the SaaS / eCommerce space. Re-organize current headcount to fit the needs of the company.

Customer Success 10

Customer Success Scale Headcount Healthcare 10

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? Even though it’s evident that your understaffing is causing the customer experience to suffer. Your team is stressed and ready to walk away.

Customer Success 98

Customer Success Sales Hiring Headcount Benchmarks 98

Sixteen Ventures

APRIL 26, 2023

So, some leading indicators that customers may not expand (at least for now) include any of the indicators of churn or contraction, plus: Their goals have shifted Avoiding new long-term commitments Personnel changes Low C-Sat Stated lack of confidence Slowed growth on their end (headcount, revenue, market share, etc.) NRR is a KPI.

Headcount 43

Headcount Churn Retention Metrics 43

SmartKarrot

APRIL 16, 2020

Role: Customer Success Representative Location: Cork, Ireland Organization: Varonis In this role, you will be teaming up with Varonis account teams to manage a portfolio of Varonis customers. Apply here: [link] Role: Customer Success Analyst Location: Chicago, Illinois Organization: Nice Ltd.,

Technical Advisors 8

Technical Advisors Customer Success Scale Headcount 8

ProfitWell

DECEMBER 6, 2019

That’s what David Apple—customer success and sales guru at Notion— is asking. Along with: What’s the ROI of your customer success manager? But we know customer success reduces churn and increases expansion revenue, so CSMs do have a very serious purpose in an organization.

Scale 43

Scale CTO Hire Sales Hiring New CTO 43

SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

This holds true even for building an effective business case for customer success. Let’s look at them individually in the context of customer success. If your company has not yet started its customer success program, there would definitely be a lot of opportunities to optimize your revenues.

Outsourcing Services 10

Outsourcing Services Customer Success Technical Review Business 10

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 2, 2020

What’s the difference between sales enablement and Sales Engagement? As sales leaders figure out how to do more with less, 9 out of 10 sales orgs consider a Sales Engagement Platform (SEP) critical to their team’s success. That’s because Sales Engagement isn’t just a tool for automated sequences and CRM integrations.

Scale 132

Scale Engagement Sales Sales Enablement 132

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 28, 2022

Liam: What advice would you give for fostering a culture of broader company engagement in a sales team? Liam: What makes a successful salesperson? Sanj: Great salespeople are almost obsessive about finding the right outcomes for their customers. What are the traits?

Scale 210

Scale Scaling Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting 210

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 11, 2019

So often, when we think about investing in a support team, sometimes the conversation becomes about getting the headcount higher, higher, higher. But where else can you be investing outside of headcount to maintain that customer centricity? I’ve used small companies as just a very, very special time for the customer.

Scale 188

Scale Scaling Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team 188