Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Customer success means wildly different things to different companies in the SaaS industry. Many organizations create customer success teams but there’s no clear definition as to how these teams develop long-term value for both the customer and the business.

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ChurnZero

APRIL 1, 2022

You’re not alone,” says Sharon Winterton , vice president of Customer Success at Catalina Marketing during her session “ Battling imposter syndrome in Customer Success ” at BIG RYG, ChurnZero’s annual Customer Success conference. You’ve never done Customer Success before. There’s so much to do.

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Chaotic Flow

AUGUST 18, 2015

SaaS businesses develop intimate, long term relationships with their SaaS customers. If they don’t keep their customers around for years, then all that capital invested in customer acquisition will have gone to waste. It is typical in B2B software for customer acquisition to eat up 50% or more of total costs.

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Customer Success Underperforming Technical Team Scale SaaS 138

Totango

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Equipped with the knowledge provided by customer data, you can help your customer survive tough times by offering practical solutions that add value and ultimately contribute to customer retention during economic downturns — even ones caused by a pandemic. Establishing Customer Status and Goals.

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Retention Underperforming Technical Team Churn Customer Lifetime Value 118

CustomerSuccessBox

JULY 26, 2022

The position of Customer Success leader imposes specific responsibilities on the holder. Most of us face competition from both direct and new competitors, as well as other ways customers can spend their limited time and money. What objectives do customers desire that we do not provide? These are some of them.

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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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Scale Customer Success Strategy Sales Hiring 177

User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

They also manage finances and supervise one or more engineering teams. Customer Success Manager: This person is responsible for customer relationships and experience as well as acting as the voice of the customer. In large companies, the CSM also oversees other customer success roles.

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CustomerSuccessBox

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Over the last few years, we’ve seen a lot of growth in the Customer Success space, which means there’s now even more content out there on the web for you to research, consume and rely on. Let’s look at the top customer success blogs. Role of Customer Success Manager in a SaaS Company. CustomerSuccessBox.

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ProfitWell

MARCH 2, 2020

That’s what makes a customer success strategy so important. Thinking proactively about how to build products that help customers achieve their goals is the best tool you have for building lasting relationships. It compounds, fostering stronger relationships that retain customers long-term. What is customer success?

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ChurnZero

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Where is Customer Success Headed in 2022? Customer Success gradually, then suddenly, came to exist. Customer Success gradually, then suddenly, became essential to SaaS companies. Customer Success gradually, then suddenly, joined the C-suite. Customer Success flexes its authority.

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ChurnZero

JUNE 12, 2020

Today, you’d be hard-pressed to find a high-velocity Sales, Marketing, or Product team without a designated operations function. Beloved by their tactical peers, operations brings needed order and logic to busy, results-oriented teams. Poor strategy, organization, and execution hurt your productivity and therefore your scalability.

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CustomerSuccessBox

APRIL 19, 2022

In this hyper-competitive SaaS world, businesses that have enhanced customer experience make it to the top 10% of the SaaS businesses that are able to achieve 125%+ MRR(Monthly Retention Rate). Companies use customer journey analytics because it is one of the most effective ways to. Customer Care and Customer Service Team.

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Chart Mogul

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Naturally, this puts extra pressure on customer success. After all, it’s the customer success teams that drive growth through retention and churn mitigation. So, what’s the best way to drive retention and mitigate churn in 2023? Naturally, this puts extra pressure on customer success.

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Churn Retention Underperforming Technical Team Scale 52

ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

As a Customer Success leader, do you find yourself watering down your budgetary requests? And yet, downplaying your team’s needs undermines CS’s current impact and future revenue-driving potential. And yet, downplaying your team’s needs undermines CS’s current impact and future revenue-driving potential.

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Chart Mogul

MAY 30, 2019

At ChartMogul, our aim is to help our customers become category leaders. We know that transformational customer success focuses on proactive, strategic engagement. It ensures that users are successful. And this kind of customer success may even transcend traditional boundaries to the collective benefit of all parties.

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Valuize Consulting

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Customer Success Management: Distinguishing Fact From Fiction. 91% of businesses have said that their Customer Success organization has grown significantly in the last year alone ( Totango , 2021). Reframe: Investing in Customer Success Operations early is critical to scaling your organization effectively.

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CustomerSuccessBox

OCTOBER 5, 2021

As a Customer Success leader or VP or Head of CS, you must be intrigued by the number. The following are the key considerations that you must look at (for improving retention, increase renewals & upsells, etc. Since they differ from firm to firm, tracking every metric out there doesn’t make economical sense.

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User Pilot

MARCH 27, 2023

We start by looking at different kinds of analyses and the metrics to track and then explore some practical ways of using each of them to drive various product goals. We finish with an overview of product analytics tools that your team can benefit from. As a result, both types of analytics use different metrics.

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User Pilot

MARCH 28, 2024

User analytics play an essential part in the product development and management process. Its aim is to help teams understand user behavior and offer actionable insights on how to improve the user experience. Armed with such insights , teams can better prioritize product initiatives to deliver more customer value faster.

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OpenView Labs

MARCH 3, 2020

Like NPS, it’s a vanity metric that isn’t actionable. But customer success (CS) leaders often drive all departmental improvement off those two numbers. Because they’re stuck with these limited metrics, CS leaders will continue to be second-tier leaders on the exec team (if they’re invited at all).

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Customer Success Underperforming Technical Team Scale Churn 55

Valuize Consulting

JULY 22, 2021

Accelerate Customer Success With Customer Success Operations. Customer Success (CS) Operations is a new addition to the world of Customer Success that has grown exponentially in both size and scope over the last few years. I know most companies focus on: ‘why are we churning customers?

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Customer Success Scale Underperforming Technical Team Government 52

ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

But after working with hundreds of SaaS companies, I've realized that the same advice applies for your retention rate as well. Yes, churn is inevitable—every customer will abandon your product eventually. Align team incentives around retention. Sales teams like to track dollars in the bank each month.

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ChurnZero

OCTOBER 5, 2022

This is a guest blog contributed by Emily Ryan, chief client officer at Valuize , a B2B consulting company that helps industry-leading technology organizations supercharge their customer lifecycle to drive best-in-class net dollar retention. Define what customer health looks like for your business. Can I do anything about it?

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ChurnZero

OCTOBER 28, 2022

The results of the 2022 Customer Success Leadership Study, based on the perspectives and insights of more than 1,000 Customer Success leaders, are in. The good news is Customer Success teams are growing both in size and budget. The bad news is they’re not growing enough.

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VP of Engineering Customer Success Scale Underperforming Technical Team 52

User Pilot

APRIL 7, 2023

When your product is catering to other businesses, it can be difficult for sales reps and other teams to understand the needs and experiences of the clients, especially if the client company sells multiple products. However, customer insights can help your teams understand all aspects of your B2B partners.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 4, 2019

But what if you could have a better idea of the changes 2019 has in store for Customer Success professionals? We’ll see more applications of AI in Customer Success, but these will mostly be behind-the-scenes. the stuff that Customer Success teams are really meant to do).

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User Pilot

AUGUST 5, 2023

Analyzing data is the key to achieving customer success and product growth. Set up custom events to track user activities. Trigger contextual in-app surveys to gather customer satisfaction data. It involves tracking events and metrics and using the insights to make data-driven business decisions.

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ChurnZero

MAY 4, 2023

There’s a closely held growth secret among large B2B professional services firms, like consultants, accountants and law firms, that Customer Success Managers (CSMs) might appreciate: The more relationships a client has across a firm, the lower that client’s flight risk. We landed on a theme that made sense: a neighborhood.

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Totango

MAY 5, 2021

By measuring product experience, as a facet of customer experience, you can view how your clients interact with your product on a daily basis and the level of satisfaction they get with your service. Once these metrics are recorded, you can use this information to proactively engage customers and meet their needs in a more personalized way.

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SmartKarrot

MARCH 23, 2023

To give input on what “delights” our customers in addition to reviews with a rating of four or higher, and to use that feedback to systematically improve our customer experience. Adhere to and put into practise practises aimed to increase customer retention. Demonstrating our SaaS platform online.

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OPEXEngine

AUGUST 31, 2021

And while the concept has been around for years, for most of that time, tech debt was primarily the concern of product and engineering teams. They’re also increasingly holding their teams accountable to manage it appropriately. Tech debt metrics are still in their infancy and we expect they’ll become more robust over time.

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Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Scale 52

OPEXEngine

AUGUST 31, 2021

And while the concept has been around for years, for most of that time, tech debt was primarily the concern of product and engineering teams. They’re also increasingly holding their teams accountable to manage it appropriately. Tech debt metrics are still in their infancy and we expect they’ll become more robust over time.

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Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Scale 52

ChurnZero

OCTOBER 4, 2019

It’s time for another installment of our blog series where we spotlight a Customer Success professional and get their take on the industry as well as get to hear some of their top tips they’d like to share. Today we are showcasing – Sam Schneider, the VP of Client Success at Bloomfire. A: It’s ok to say no.

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Customer Success Sales Hiring Scale Underperforming Technical Team 40

User Pilot

AUGUST 31, 2023

While you can only view the user cohort changes in Heap, GA4 allows you to analyze retention by seeing differences in active users, event count, transactions, or purchase revenue. You can track retention of your preferred segments in 90 days by default, but you can also select other time ranges. Retention analysis in Heap.

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Software Review Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Retention 104

Valuize Consulting

JUNE 10, 2020

How were your company’s customer success processes created? Perhaps it was fueled by all of the strategic expertise, funding and time required to develop a category-leading customer success strategy—one that transforms your company’s revenue retention and expansion metrics. Or perhaps not.

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Customer Success Engineering Scale Technical Review 40

CustomerSuccessBox

JUNE 17, 2022

This enables your product team to identify and track engagement data and optimize the product. It, ultimately, helps customer success managers to drive product adoption among the users. Product analytics enables you to track, visualize and evaluate real-time customer engagement and behavioral data. Retain customers.

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Churn SaaS Payments Underperforming Technical Team Payment Features 52

Totango

JULY 8, 2021

Firefighting happens when you don’t have visibility into what is going on in your customer portfolio so you are constantly putting out fires, especially around renewal time. We find this solution works best for teams operating in a high- to medium-touch engagement model. How to Build An Early Customer Warning System.

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