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Totango product innovations help CS drive predictable revenue growth

Totango

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.

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5 Lessons Learned from a 20+ Years Operator Turned First-Time Founder with Jeff Yoshimura

SaaStr

1: Capital As an operator, your job is to take money and add headcount and programs to drive the growth engine for your company, You might think of capital as fundraising and budget. Right Market Jeff loves joining companies during a downturn because a lot of innovation and creativity comes from it.

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CRO Confidential: How The Biggest Product-Led Enterprise Company In The World Did It With Atlassian CRO Cameron Deatsch (Pod 640 + Video)

SaaStr

Don’t Tie Revenue To Headcount “You want to get away from a business model where every incremental dollar requires incremental hiring,” says Deatsch. So instead of focusing on scaling headcount quickly, work toward growing revenue quickly. If you don’t instill this practice early on, it’s very difficult to add later.

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Gong’s Linda Lin on customer success strategies for moving upmarket

Intercom, Inc.

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.

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ChurnZero Named Customer Success Leader in G2 Winter 2020 Report

ChurnZero

Out of 20 solution providers included in G2’s Winter 2020 Momentum Report for Customer Success Software, ChurnZero has received the highest Momentum Score, based on exceptional customer satisfaction and market growth, reinforcing ChurnZero’s position as the pacesetter in the Customer Success industry.

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The 4 Challenges Facing Customer Success Teams in SaaS Startups

Tom Tunguz

Yesterday, I spoke on a panel at the Gainsight Pulse conference with Aaron Ross, the author of Predictable Revenue , Jason Lemkin of Storm Ventures who authors SaaStr , and Brian Stafford, a customer success expert from McKinsey. Customer success (CS) within SaaS startups is a relatively new idea.

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End of the Year Customer Success Checklist for the year 2021

CustomerSuccessBox

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.