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The End of Customer Success As We Knew It

SaaStr

So I think 2023 may mark The End of Customer Success as We Knew It. The Massive Push to Efficiency As almost every public SaaS company got cash-flow positive and radically more efficient, and most startups had to stretch their dollars much further — customer success took a lot of the brunt. What happened? Just This Week.

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Why NRR is Probably The Wrong Core Metric for Your Customer Success Team

SaaStr

So don’t get me wrong — NRR is a Top 3 Metric for any SaaS company. Especially after interviewing 50+ customer success managers over the past few years. Lazier than almost anyone in sales, even the ones that really only work 20 hours a week. Low NRR is a flag, a canary in the coalmine. And high NRR is a gift.

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Why the Future of Customer Success, Sales and Marketing Has Changed For Good: Ask-Me-Anything Part 2 with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

It can replace humans for those companies that can’t find someone to send emails, update the website, or do sales. Q: As you scale, how metrics-oriented should the company be? ARR asks Jason how he sees the best companies steering into metrics and KPIs to drive performance at a leadership level. The market wants it.

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7 Top Trends in Customer Success to Learn From, and Maybe Emulate

SaaStr

Nick Mehta, CEO of Customer Success leader Gainsight, recently did a short post above on his Top 7 takeaways talking with customer success leader for the first time in-person in a long time. Many have NRR as a top-level company metric. I love having NRR be the #1 metric for Customer Success.

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I Was Wrong. NPS is A Great Core Metric.

SaaStr

It created a lot of discussions and was more controversial then — that NPS was a great core metric. And most segment it across customer size or other segments. Back then, I wrote that when I was a SaaS founder, I thought Net Promoter Score (“NPS”) was a somewhat dumb, Big Company metric. Who’s right?

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Customer Success and finance: 8 metrics to build closer alignment

ChurnZero

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. To that end, here are the metrics you can use to get started.

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5 Predictions about the Future of Customer Success in 2024 with Gainsight CEO Nick Mehta and SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

Is it the end of an era for customer success in SaaS? We just wrote up how some of the biggest changes of SaaS are now coming, specifically in Customer Success and Sales. Customer Success Is Vulnerable to Cuts Jason shared that he didn’t realize how vulnerable customer success was to cuts until 2023.