ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

As a Customer Success leader, do you find yourself watering down your budgetary requests? According to our 2022 Customer Success Leadership Study, CS teams are already underfunded and under-resourced. How Customer Success can win more resources, budget, and credibility with Jeff Heckler.

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Totango

APRIL 24, 2020

This week Totango hosted our virtual Customer Success Summit: CXO Connect for executives and leaders of Customer Success. Having a cadence of regular communication is key to supporting customers and making sure they don’t feel alone. Your existing communication cadence is not direct or frequent enough.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 29, 2021

Partnerships are driving more leads and sales than ever before, and this is only projected to grow. PartnerOps (or ChannelOps) is newer than sales and marketing ops , but it is important to driving growth in the age of the ecosystem. Forrester estimates that 75% of world sales flows through indirect channels.

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Totango

AUGUST 23, 2017

Customer Success Summit is the industry-leading conference on customer success because it brings together experienced customer success professionals and industry thought-leaders, as well as research institutes for industry benchmarking. The answer is surprisingly prescriptive: Embrace “as a service” offers.

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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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Totango

APRIL 25, 2022

Selecting the right customer success platform for your organization can be challenging. In this article, we’ll look at the mistake of choosing a platform that doesn’t allow you to create inspiring customer journeys. Out-of-the-Box Functionality .

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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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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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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

For startups creating categories, the value of dominating a market while scaling can result in operational benefits as well. Customers of category creators benefit from a company in the marketplace seeking to help them solve complex problems, get promoted and self-actualize in their own lives and career journeys.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 18, 2019

They didn’t know it at the time, but they had also created an entire business category: an on demand, short-term rental marketplace, which has shot the value of their business north of $38 billion. Over the past four years, the number of Customer Success Managers (CSMs) in the industry has increased 400%.

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OPEXEngine

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

An additional non-financial constraint is a fact that these customers typically lack experience in software procurement and implementation, and this adds friction to the sales cycle. Instead, SMM SaaS companies will leverage Inside Sales and Channel Partners coupled with digital marketing to drive down Customer Acquisition Costs.

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OpenView Labs

JANUARY 13, 2022

Product-lead growth continues to be one of the best ways to rapidly scale a software company, and best practices are increasingly shared and understood. It requires rethinking everything from billing and revenue forecasting, to the role of Account Executives, to how to drive a customer success mindset across the entire organization.

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OpenView Labs

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Enterprise sales is not a simple switch to make from SMB sales—it’s a completely different beast. I recently caught up with a founder I talked to last year who didn’t have the time (or desire) to deal with sales and wanted to hire someone to ‘”validate the market” for him. Source: SalesHacker.com.

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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).

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CloudGeometry

MARCH 22, 2022

In this blog series, we explore how these three dimensions figure into key technical recommendations which enable scale in pursuit of SaaS business growth. The intensity of competition in the SaaS marketplace puts a premium on new, stable, and reliable features. The winners offer a better and faster way to solve customer problems.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Seeing a real demand for business courses in their consumer marketplace, the team identified an opening in the market to disrupt corporate training and hypothesized that employers would be more than willing to pay. When Yvonne joined in 2016, the business unit consisted of just 10 people across product, engineering, sales, and marketing.

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User Pilot

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Product-led growth uses the product as the primary driver of customer acquisition and retention, with minimal reliance on traditional sales and marketing. Growth loops leverage product virality, encouraging existing users to promote the product and attract new customers. PLG depends on the self-service model.

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SaaStr

JUNE 3, 2020

The SaaS Trust Crisis is making it harder to market and sell software and services than ever before. And today, I’m very excited to be the co-founder and CEO of G2 where we’re building the world’s leading marketplace for SaaS software. The situation is getting worse. Godard Abel | Co-Founder and CEO @ G2.

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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. OpenView has been tracking growth rates by ARR scale for four years running. Marketing: Market to existing customers rather than just prospects.

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Totango

MARCH 20, 2019

At the Oracle Modern Customer Experience event in Las Vegas, Oracle announced its new CX Partner Ecosystem of which we are a participating member. Together, we’re incorporating innovative and efficiency-building technologies that seamlessly extend Oracle CX Cloud capabilities for enterprises across any industry.

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SaaStr

MARCH 20, 2020

317: Rachel Hepworth is VP of Marketing @ Pilot, the startup that offers the best bookkeeping, tax and CFO services for growing businesses. With the rise of product-led growth, are we seeing a fundamental shift in the structure of sales and marketing? What is the optimal way for customer success and marketing to work together? *

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Valuize Consulting

MARCH 24, 2022

As the Customer Success domain has exploded and earned a seat at the table, the concept of customer value has become ubiquitous in the B2B technology industry. Every C-Suite leader understands, or is asking about, how to optimize creating, delivering and defining customer value across the customer journey.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

And so, she can, and Anthony just finished up basically going from the first sales hire at Gainsight at almost 100 million in revenue and has just retired. Maria : It’s like saying, “Hey, you want a sales rep to carry 10 times the quota they do today. You can’t, you have to invest in that sales infrastructure.”

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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.

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SmartKarrot

MARCH 26, 2021

Role: Senior Manager / Director, Customer Success Location: Remote, Boston, MA, US Organization: MackeyRMS As a Senior Manager/Director of Customer Success, you will manage a team of CSMs as well as own accounts, including renewals and upsells. Escalate issues/cases to the Customer Success Director when needed.

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SmartKarrot

JULY 5, 2021

Role: Director, Customer Success (Federal) Location: Arlington, VA, US Organization: Decision Lens As a Director of Customer Success, you will manage the Federal customer success team through recognition, training, mentoring, feedback and goal-setting.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 7, 2022

And that, according to Catherine Blackmore , was the dawn of customer success. Over the years, Catherine realized businesses need to meet customers at their level. In this episode, we sat down with Catherine to talk about the purpose of customer success and how to evolve the role to meet customers’ needs every step of the way.

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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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User Pilot

AUGUST 30, 2023

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. In this talk, Leah will show you: How to leverage PLG to navigate challenging markets and position yourself for success.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 18, 2018

We’re thrilled to grow our sales and customer success teams in Europe. This year we made it even easier for businesses to scale their online store on WordPress with our very own plugin. I can’t wait to continue building powerful features and tools that make selling online even easier for our customers around the world.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 23, 2020

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Leah Chaney , the Chief Experience Officer for BetterGrowth, a customer support agency she founded. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. 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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Sales Hacker

MARCH 18, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we interview Roger Scott , Chief Customer Officer at New Relic. Roger is a world class technology executive who has spent the last 25 years in customer facing roles, first at Oracle and now at New Relic. The importance of the discomfort of customer feedback. What You’ll Learn.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

In this episode of the Sales Hacker Podcast, we have Brandon Barton , CEO of Bite and a hospitality tech entrepreneur and expert. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Fundraising as a PR activity instead of a sales activity. Welcome to the Sales Hacker podcast. powered by Sounder. Show Agenda and Timestamps. Sam Jacobs.

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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. Operational KPIs.

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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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SaaSOptics

MAY 19, 2022

More customers = more revenue. For subscription-based SaaS businesses, your customer acquisition metrics indicate how effectively you acquire new users via sales, marketing, or a product-led approach like a free trial. At what point will you introduce Sales into the buyer’s journey? . Plain and simple.

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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? Everyone’s always like, “how did you guys scale so quickly,” and like, everyone loves this product. 35% versus 25% in SaaS.

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