Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 23, 2022

The process of purchasing software is increasingly complex – the choices for products and services are endless, and customers have a harder time parsing which companies to trust and which product will better cater to their needs. Customers are looking more and more to their peers before considering a purchase.

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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

At ChurnZero, our mission is to be the best Customer Success platform out there – and Customer Success teams sit at the heart of this goal. Since the field of Customer Success is still maturing, we feel it’s key to learn from others in the industry. Amanda Berger, Chief Customer Officer, Lucidworks.

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User Pilot

OCTOBER 26, 2023

TL;DR Growth initiatives are strategies aimed at expanding a company’s customer base, market share, revenue, or profitability. Product-led growth uses the product as the primary driver of customer acquisition and retention, with minimal reliance on traditional sales and marketing. Let’s dive right in!

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SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2019

You don’t need us to tell you this is mainstream—even Jack Dorsey, co-founder, and CEO of Twitter and Square is investing in customer success: Hello St. Louis Square Customer Success team! So are you invested in your customers? If you’re in the SaaS industry, chances are you’ve heard of customer success.

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SmartKarrot

AUGUST 29, 2022

Role: Senior Customer Success Manager Location: Boston, MA, US Organization: LeanIX As a Senior Customer Success Manager, you will be responsible for the retention of customer accounts by ensuring continuous communication and relentless support and guidance. Execute consulting projects with customers.

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SmartKarrot

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Role: Director Client Success Location: Leawood, KS, US Organization: C2FO As a Director of Client Success, you will hire, mentor, develop, and direct Client Success Managers (CSM) to perform their daily duties. Build long-term, trusted relationships with key decision-makers across your portfolio of customers.

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OPEXEngine

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

In this article, one in a series of three covering each of these SaaS customer categories, we will focus exclusively on Small/Mid-Market SaaS companies. Small and Mid-Market (SMM) SaaS Companies serve customers with annual revenues of $1 million to $1 billion and with a typical employee base of 100 to 1,000. Direct Sales.

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OPEXEngine

OCTOBER 5, 2021

But while software’s success in the marketplace has lifted the valuations of software companies, our analysis suggests that some firms may still be undervalued. In more mature software companies, we see oversized returns for companies that are moving to software-as-a-service subscription models (see Figure 1). Sticky after all.

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SmartKarrot

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

In the ever-evolving landscape of the business world, customer success has become an essential component for sustainable growth of business and long-term prosperity. Today, we will dive into the Top 7 Must-Have Customer Success Playbooks , which are indispensable for business growth.

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OpenView Labs

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The ‘haves’, defined by growing quickly out of the gate and then maintaining 50% or faster revenue growth at significant scale, have seen their valuations skyrocket over the years. Pro-tip: churn isn’t just a customer success problem; it’s a business-wide responsibility that requires contributions from each function. .

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OpenView Labs

APRIL 7, 2021

Product as a growth driver: Atlassian spends only 19% of their revenue on sales & marketing (slower growing New Relic spends 55% for comparison), making its CAC payback appear to be best-in-class. That’s because most of their growth is powered by the product itself through a highly efficient self-service motion.

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Totango

JUNE 9, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic may have radically altered the marketplace around us, but the fundamentals of customer renewal strategies remain the same. Customers have always based their renewal decisions on emotional connections, financial realities, and the amount of trust they have that a service can deliver sustained value.

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SmartKarrot

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Role: Vice President of Customer Success Location: Remote , Chicago, Illinois, US Organization: Storm2 As a Vice President of Customer Success, you will hire, coach, and lead their customer success organization. Serve as the Voice of the Customer in cross-functional teams and senior leadership discussions.

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SmartKarrot

MAY 13, 2021

Role: Director, Customer Success Location: New York, NY, US Organization: LeagueApps As a Director of Customer Success, you will own and deliver on key activation, churn and retention/growth metrics for your portfolio of customers. Lead and scale a team of high-performing Customer Success Managers.

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SmartKarrot

AUGUST 13, 2021

Role: Director of Customer Success Location: Remote, United Kingdom Organization: Founder and Lightning As a Director of Customer Success, you will be the main point of contact for commercial negotiations and escalation point for client issues. Become a trusted advisor and advocate for customers’ executive sponsor(s).

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 11, 2019

As the General Manager for HubSpot’s Service Hub , Michael knows a thing or two about keeping customers close. Since 2010, he’s helped the company grow to more than 40,000 customers and helped scale the support team to more than 500 employees to assist those users. So it was a combination of continued growth and customer demand.

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SmartKarrot

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Director, Customer Success Location: Denver, Colorado, United States Organization: Convercent As a Sr. Director of Customer Success, you will be responsible for developing the Customer Success Management team and associated practices to exceed revenue objectives from the customer base.

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SaaSOptics

MAY 19, 2022

Customer Acquisition is the process of acquiring new customers in a business. Not only is it one of the main drivers of revenue growth for early-stage companies, but it’s a primary goal for SaaS businesses across market stages. More customers = more revenue. How to Develop a Customer Acquisition Strategy.

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 27, 2020

In part two of our Sequencing Business Models series , we talked about the different types of marketplaces and what needs to be built to be effective in each of them. This builds on the first essay in the series of how there has been an increase in interest of SAAS-like models interested in becoming marketplaces over time.

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User Pilot

AUGUST 30, 2023

It’s 2023, and customers have options. What strategies can you implement to drive acquisition and retention faster? This includes product managers , marketing managers , customer success managers , and anyone else who wants to learn how to attract more users, improve the user experience, and increase product adoption.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 23, 2020

Leah has been a pioneer for customer experience practices for the last two decades, focusing her work on putting customers at the heart of SaaS and service-based technology organizations. How to put customer experience into the DNA of an organization [5:23]. Micro-thoughts on the evolution of customer success [07:08].

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 13, 2022

As the demand for Customer Success surges within SaaS, so too does the need for effective leaders to spearhead this expanding function and steer its strategy and success. Over the course of the pandemic, Customer Success has cemented itself as a central business driver of growth and profit. Follow Adi on LinkedIn.

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VP of Engineering Customer Success Outsourcing Services Technical Review 98

OpenView Labs

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

After all, the marketplace speaks the loudest, and without customers you don’t have a business. Enterprise sales requires an entirely different level of experience and skillset to be successful. “Good salespeople sell lots of product, but great salespeople make lots of customers successful.” – Mark Birch.

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ChurnZero

JUNE 22, 2021

Looking for a way to upskill or even reskill your Customer Success career? Their mission is to improve lives through learning and it’s the largest online destination that help students and businesses gain skills from expert instructors teaching over 155,00 online courses on topics from programming to leadership to Customer Success.

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SmartKarrot

JUNE 27, 2022

Role: Director, Customer Success Location: Remote, Maryland, United States Organization: Riverbed Technology As a Director of Customer Success, you will manage customer success metrics including ARR retention and growth and customer satisfaction (NPS).

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

268: Ryan Bonnici is the CMO @ G2, the company that allows you to get the right software and services for your business with over 897,000 user reviews to help you make smarter buying decisions. Join CEO Romain Lapeyre as he walks you through how to close your first 1000 customers based solely on data. Harry Stebbings: No, totally.

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SmartKarrot

JANUARY 4, 2022

Role: VP, Customer Success Location: Remote, Sunnyvale, CA, US Organization: Clari As a VP of Customer Success, you will lead all aspects of the Customer Success organization which includes driving strategic adoption, ensuring a remarkable customer experience, and optimizing ongoing engagement with Clari.

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SaaStr

MARCH 17, 2021

Managing the Quote-to-Cash process can be complex, since it covers the entire sales cycle, software licensing fulfillment, and revenue recognition, and it’s typically spread across many applications. Through every sales cycle, there’s a need to share information from sales, accounting, customer success, and other teams.

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Totango

MAY 1, 2020

Retain them over the long haul and they’ll provide the stability and dependable revenue that forms the launchpad for your future. Retaining existing customers is especially important during uncertain economic times, when fewer new customers may be signing on with your service.

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SmartKarrot

JUNE 28, 2022

Role: Customer Success Director Location: Remote, Boston, MA, US Organization: Contemporary Staffing Solutions As a Customer Success Director, you will be responsible for advance strategic relevance by driving the integration and adoption in other areas of Human Capital Management and business units within the customer organization.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Congratulations you’ve built a product that’s proven itself in the marketplace! So how can you leverage that product’s success to obtain the valuation and funding you need to scale? Its product drives the acquisition, retention and expansion. Enterprise value per revenue is 10X. They have a customer success team.

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Totango

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

As the digitization of the marketplace reaches near-saturation, organizations will compete for customers based on value derived—and this will be driven by customer success. Customer success and retention have therefore become critical to achieving maximum customer lifetime value.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

It’s time to start thinking about retention at scale and bring onboard a customer success team. That’s exactly how Yelp approached its growth journey, under the leadership of Senior Vice President and General Manager of Local Revenue Kayti Sullivan. Why you need a customer success team.

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VP of Engineering Customer Success Churn Scale 108

ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

February 8, 2023 — ChurnZero, the platform and partner for Customer Success, has earned the G2 2023 Best Software Awards for Fastest Growing Product and Best Product Management Product, based on customer reviews submitted to G2. Washington, D.C.,

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Valuize Consulting

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Cutting-edge Customer Intelligence and impactful customer insights are powerful competitive advantages in the new subscription economy, and if you’re not making the most of your customer data, your NDR could take a hit. . Customer Intelligence allows you to do just that. The Evolution Of Data.

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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

Average Revenue per Customer. Customer Lifetime Value (LTV). Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC). & It wasn’t the case 20 or even 10 years ago, where the business models of the internet were more focused on eCommerce, marketplaces, or even advertising. So the first question is what made SaaS so successful.

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Neil Patel

JANUARY 20, 2021

Don’t Just Promote Products and Services. Whatever your goals are for your Facebook page – be it to generate revenue or drive traffic – evergreen content is the most powerful tool at your disposal. It also makes for a powerful tool to market your products/services. Offer rewards and loyalty points to customers.

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