SaaStr

AUGUST 25, 2021

And even more importantly, triple down on customer success, customer marketing, and customer happiness. You Aren’t Doing Enough Customer Marketing. Invest More There. They not only will stay a decade or longer. But they’ll likely grow 3x-10x in size. Almost like clockwork.

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ChurnZero

APRIL 1, 2024

When companies think about investing in their customer base, they are usually thinking about driving product adoption, reducing churn, or even delivering expansion revenue. Customer success is one of the most impactful teams on the post-sale experience. This is a guest post by Todd Busler, CEO of Champify.

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SaaStr

JUNE 7, 2021

If a sales rep closed a deal, A customer success manager should take it over. An open question around smaller customers is how do you staff up Customer Success for them — if at all. Many founders wrestle with the question of if they can really afford customer success professionals for their smaller customers.

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ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Customer Success is gaining ground, influence, and budget within organizations. Based on a detailed survey of more than 1,000 Customer Success leaders, this is the most comprehensive study of the evolving CS landscape to date. Download your full copy of the 2022 Customer Success Leadership Study here.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 5, 2023

So Sam Jacobs and the team at Pavilion had me join their podcast and it ended up being a pretty fun deep dive into where markets are today, the role of customer success in a tougher market, and much more. The post A Deep Dive with Jason and Pavilion on Today’s Valuations, Investing and Market Dynamics appeared first on SaaStr.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Sales +Marketing Expenses < First Year ACV = Success ? But maybe not while you are scaling, you can often afford to invest more if you have funding. And even in the enterprise, losing one big customer can swamp you here in the early days. say $300-$500k in customer revenue per segment). Well — Maybe.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 17, 2022

If you’re only investing in sales and marketing, you’re missing a huge revenue opportunity. Customer Success isn’t just for established leaders; it also helps growth-stage companies compound their growth through retention, upsell and expansion. When should you start customer success?

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Customer Success Sales Hiring Scale Leadership 227

SaaStr

DECEMBER 29, 2023

If you haven’t been through an IPO live, there are not that many people who invest in IPOs outside of the frothy times. Q: Where do you see customer success pullback and refocusing that labor to sales and renewals for 2024? “I We’re leaving behind how we did customer success, which was already changing.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Even with late stage VC capital much harder to get now, and the IPO markets still frozen, I see many folks on my LinkedIn feed saying Sales and Customer Success are underpaid. Well, for most of time, about 10% of the “profit” on a deal has done to sales, and about 5% of renewals have gone to customer success.

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Totango

JANUARY 22, 2024

AI also emerged as a topic when we asked three of our executive leaders – Chief Marketing Officer Karen Budell , SVP of Customer Success Chris Dishman , and Chief Revenue Officer Dennis Reardon – to share their industry predictions for 2024. By nature, CSMs feel inclined to assume any responsibility involving the customer.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 14, 2020

Customer success – every business wants to invest in it but only a few know what it actually entails or how to do it well. There are a lot of words that get thrown around with customer success: problems to be solved, implementation, product experts, expansion, strategic partners, technical advisors, proactive versus reactive.

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ChurnZero

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

When a financial slowdown approaches, the smartest businesses look for areas where their investment has the best leverage. Today, the greatest opportunity for efficient growth lies with Customer Success (CS) teams—the purveyors of customer loyalty. Double down on customer retention during a downturn. “In

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Sixteen Ventures

MARCH 9, 2024

The Goal Discovery Framework is an invaluable tool for storytelling in customer success, enabling you to demonstrate value beyond the traditional focus on Return on Investment (ROI).

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

The definition of success will vary from business to business, from customer to customer. That said, customer success is evolving, and the importance of customer success continues to grow. Embed customer success into the core of your business. Offer enhanced value.

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ChurnZero

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Customer Advocacy: How to Get Your Customers and Customer Success Team Invested. At ChurnZero’s virtual RYG, we held a panel discussion with Customer Success leaders who offered up their best advice on how to get both your customers and your team invested in your customer advocacy program.

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Totango

JANUARY 2, 2024

In an era when customer success (CS) has become pivotal, it’s no longer enough to have a team dedicated to CS. More importantly, you need an organizational strategy that ensures your customers don’t just come to you but stay, thrive, and become your biggest promoters. Need help getting started?

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Payment Services Merchant Services Customer Success Business 99

Totango

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Totango’s customer success software drives cross-functional enterprise teams toward enhanced productivity, retention, and growth. The best of customer success At Totango, we know just how important it is for customers to receive not only a high-quality product but one that has been thoroughly vetted by their peers.

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Customer Success Software Review Technical Review Enterprise 112

Totango

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

This shift presents a compelling opportunity for B2B enterprises to invest in tailor-made tools for their post-sales organizations and customer success (CS) teams. Forrester recognizes the value customer success platforms can provide to B2B companies looking to foster retention, growth, and advocacy.

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User Pilot

JANUARY 22, 2024

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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Totango

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Combined with intense competition and sign-up discounts, not to mention global inflation prompting many consumers to rethink their budgets, the customer retention stakes are high. . With the potential for churn dramatically increasing, customer success is a key priority. Leading the charge. Expert collaborators.

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Totango

JUNE 10, 2022

As we saw in our 2021 State of the Customer Success Industry and Salary Report , the role of Customer Success Manager (CSM) is one of the fastest-growing jobs in the industry. In a recent webinar titled “Navigating Your Customer Success Career Path”, Totango’s Sr. Customer success is still new.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 8, 2024

At most SaaS companies, the line item for customer success budgets is dedicated to headcount. This is why on our annual survey of customer success leaders , we ask about “non-headcount budgets.” So how did non-headcount customer success budgets shake out in 2023?

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ChurnZero

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

In the business landscape today, Customer Success is a bit of an outlier. One other thing that makes Customer Success particularly unique in an organization: formal Customer Success training, or lack thereof. The truth is that Customer Success training is far from standardized, and it doesn’t always happen.

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User Pilot

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

The customer success renewal playbook is central to keeping the incoming stream of recurring revenue flowing. Thanks to the subscription economy of SaaS companies, high customer retention is vital to staying afloat and enjoying growth. What is a customer success renewal playbook?

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ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

When you’re just getting started, or you’re still building your Customer Success team, sometimes you can use all the help you can get. It can be difficult in these situations for Customer Success Managers (CSMs) to find the time or the resources to dig for those crucial customer insights. Your Customers.

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Customer Success Technical Review Leadership Technology 98

ChurnZero

JUNE 21, 2022

You may have heard of sales enablement, but Customer Success enablement might be a new term for you. Although it’s an important concept and role in the Customer Success space, it hasn’t quite gained the traction it needs to be in the spotlight. The definition of Customer Success enablement.

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Customer Success Technical Review Education Onboarding 94

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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Totango

AUGUST 14, 2020

In our latest installment in the CXO Series , we sat down with Stephanie Comardelle, Vice President of Customer Experience, Success, and Solutions at Lucid to discuss what it takes to implement a stakeholder engagement plan at a time when there is so much going on as well as how they are managing their new customer success program. .

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Customer Success Systems Review Engagement Leadership 155

Totango

AUGUST 21, 2020

As competitors become more customer-savvy and customers continue to raise the bar of their expectations, keeping customers happy is no longer the icing on the cake—it is now a main and necessary ingredient for business success, and it comes about primarily through the creation of customer value. CS Defined.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 13, 2021

This is an all too familiar motion to analysts, sales reps, customer success managers, and more, preparing data-rich presentations for business reviews, product feature roadmaps, and … The post Investing in Matik appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz. From Excel to Powerpoint and back again.

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Investment Customer Success Data Management 90

ChurnZero

JUNE 9, 2023

However, that’s not always the case for Customer Success (CS) teams even though they are often responsible for renewals and expansions. So said Randy Wootton , chief executive officer at Maxio and Alli Tiscornia , chief customer officer at ChurnZero in our webinar, “ Finance & CS: Charting a path to profitability.”

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Finance Metrics Customer Success Headcount 98

ChurnZero

JANUARY 18, 2023

This is a guest article by Swati Garg , founder and CEO, Melo Associates , and Lindsay Lynch , senior recruitment consultant, Melo Associates , a recruitment firm focused on Customer Success hiring for SaaS and tech companies nationwide. Here are the top five things Customer Success professionals want in their next role.

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User Pilot

APRIL 18, 2023

In SaaS, customer success is needed to ensure that your customers achieve their desired outcomes with your product and become loyal advocates for your brand. But how do you create a customer success strategy that works? And what are some of the best practices and examples across the customer journey?

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Customer Success Strategy Customer Lifetime Value SaaS 95

Valuize Consulting

JANUARY 25, 2024

Mastering Digital Customer Success: Insights From Valuize Spark Toronto What does your Digital CS model look like today and what was the journey like to get here? In the rapidly evolving B2B recurring revenue economy, the focus on Digital Customer Success is more pertinent than ever.

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CustomerSuccessBox

MARCH 23, 2022

As a Customer Success Manager , your main goal is to ensure that your customers have a great experience. And to make sure that your customers get the maximum value out of your product. While a day in the life of a Customer Success Manager (CSM) is imaginably packed with a lot of meetings with customers.

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Sixteen Ventures

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Having worked with hundreds of companies of different sizes, funding stages, and Customer Success maturity, around the world, I’ve boiled down what I believe are the five “secrets” of World-class CSMs. Customers that are successful will want to increase their investment with them. Any CSM can be World-class.

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Customer Success Management Churn Retention 124

Sixteen Ventures

MARCH 9, 2024

This statistic highlights a crucial reality in today’s competitive SaaS landscape: customer engagement is no longer a luxury, it’s a necessity for survival.

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