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

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 general sense is that most VPs of Sales want to fully automate CS. Also, giving salespeople a renewal target.

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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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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

E.g., 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).

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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

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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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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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Meghan Gill, SVP of Sales Ops and Sales Dev at MongoDB, shares different consumption-based compensation models that drive the right behaviors. It’s a very customer-oriented approach — you pay for what you use, and closing a deal is the start of a journey. It was creating friction in the sales cycle.

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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.

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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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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

APRIL 9, 2024

Is 2024 the year of customer success or sales? They unanimously agreed that 2024 is the year of the ICP (Ideal Customer Profile). The cohesion between these teams can significantly drive customer value and results, which impacts retention, expansion, and, ultimately, predictable growth.

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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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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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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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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.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 28, 2021

In providing a neutral ground for marketing, sales, and customer success, RevOps must also analyze contexts to convey insights quicker. How to invest in data that actually drives insights. The post The Switzerland of Marketing, Sales and Customer Success with Seth Marrs appeared first on Sales Hacker.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

It was almost a year ago when our Customer Success team came up against an issue that all growing teams face: knowledge sharing. Enter “Brew and Review,” a lightweight tool that I created for our Customer Success team. I created a sticker that our Customer Success team could put on their laptops.

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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

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

In the business landscape today, Customer Success is a bit of an outlier. It’s newer when compared to more established departments like sales and marketing. One other thing that makes Customer Success particularly unique in an organization: formal Customer Success training, or lack thereof.

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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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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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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. Copy, paste, copy, paste… repeat 20x more.

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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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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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ChurnZero

JUNE 9, 2023

Good sales teams typically get the budget, headcount and tools they desire because the function is tied to revenue. However, that’s not always the case for Customer Success (CS) teams even though they are often responsible for renewals and expansions. One persuasive technique is to compare expansion CAC to new customer CAC.

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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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Sales Hacker

MARCH 19, 2020

Here’s an important, and often overlooked, fact about B2B sales and marketing: Your customer data holds all the keys you need to grow your business. To succeed, you need to trust the data and step into predictive sales. How Customer Success Drives Predictive Sales and Marketing. Let’s dig into it.

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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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Totango

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

They are on a scale that is uncommon for B2B companies, with a $350M run rate, 90K paying customers, and an additional 50-100K free or trial customers at any given time. As Zendesk grew and invested in people, the business and processes became complicated. Zendesk enjoys its position at the intersection of the two.

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Sixteen Ventures

AUGUST 26, 2020

For those who wrongly consider Customer Success an altruistic endeavor, rather than a profit-seeking business strategy, you will want to try to make Bad-fit Customers successful at any cost. That’s why we call them Bad-fit Customers. There is no “good percentage” of Bad-fit customers so don’t ask.

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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

9 tips to get your CSMs to adopt Customer Success software. Have you ever worked at a company where the Customer Success team had to beg for its own tools? The CSM perspective: how to encourage the adoption of Customer Success software. That’s okay. I have a few tips to help you drive adoption that sticks.

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ChurnZero

MAY 20, 2021

When you build a Customer Success organization from the ground up, it’s easy to get caught in the trap of doing the wrong things well. Chasing the wrong priorities and investments can quickly snowball and compound over time, resulting in stunted progress and flatline growth.

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Cobloom

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

SaaS companies traditionally invest most of their time and money in Sales & Marketing, focusing all their energy on acquiring as many new customers as possible. When it comes to your customer relationships, acquisition is just the tip of the iceberg.

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 2, 2021

12 Key Takeaways from ChurnZero’s BIG RYG Virtual Customer Success Conference. It’s a wrap on ChurnZero’s 2021 BIG RYG Virtual – our online Customer Success conference. An acronym for Red, Yellow and Green, RYG represents the common indicators of customer health. Then, back into the tech stack from there.”

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