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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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 21, 2022

1/ Crash course in Customer Success and SaaS metrics. Many people think of SaaS and CS metrics as black and white. But the truth is, there are many ways to calculate and interpret—and game—metrics. Related reading: Key SaaS and Customer Success metrics you should care about – What’s a good CAC?

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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

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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SaaStr

DECEMBER 14, 2020

But don’t push the customer and prospect to a breaking point before you’ve “earned” the right, from a brand perspective, to ask for all the seats up front. Lean in >heavily< on customer success. The best way to make pos-initial sale land-and-expand happen organically is engaged, happy customers. A lot more.

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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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CustomerSuccessBox

MARCH 11, 2022

As Customer Success specialists, we often think of quarterly business reviews (QBRs) as the reviews we do with our own customers, when we summarize recent successes, outline future targets, and build our connections with key stakeholders. Why Internal Quarterly Business Review is important.

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Valuize Consulting

AUGUST 4, 2022

Reaping the full benefits of your selected Customer Success (CS) technology platform and ensuring its adoption across your organization requires a thorough action plan that accounts for common mistakes. Mistake #2: Using Bad Data. Can my team impact this metric? Is it actionable?

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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

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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Totango

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Luckily, there’s a measure for that, too: customer satisfaction metrics. Customer satisfaction quantifies the degree to which a customer is pleased by a product, brand, or overall experience. How to Track Customer Satisfaction with NPS . That’s why the Net Promoter Score (NPS) is a key metric to track.

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ChurnZero

AUGUST 14, 2020

At ChurnZero, we’re humble enough to admit that Customer Success software can’t do it all, and quite frankly, it shouldn’t. We stick to our circle of competence and focus on our area of expertise: Customer Success software. It’s Customer Success for us. Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Software.

Payments 87

Payments Payment Solutions Customer Success Software Review 87

SaaStr

APRIL 5, 2023

A bad experience with a revenue operations leader might taint your view of the position at all future companies, but that would be a mistake, as CRO Confidential podcast host Sam Blond learned first-hand. These leaders act as partners and build out a strong team. Not every leader is created equally.

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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

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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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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Sales Hiring SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting CTO Hire 94

CustomerSuccessBox

APRIL 19, 2022

Companies use customer journey analytics because it is one of the most effective ways to. Increase customer lifetime value, Improve customer loyalty, and Drive revenue growth. Customer journey analytics gives teams a real-time comprehensive sight into customer behavior providing valuable insight into the journey.

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Scale Metrics Underperforming Technical Team Customer Lifetime Value 52

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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Customer Success Scale Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team 52

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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CustomerSuccessBox

OCTOBER 5, 2021

As a Customer Success leader or VP or Head of CS, you must be intrigued by the number. Know your North Star KPI Setting up CS team as per those KPI Choose the right CS tool Track, Measure, Improve and build collaborative teams. However, the one universal metric is the “Net Retention Rate (NRR)”.

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Customer Success Technical Review Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team 59

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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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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ChurnZero

JULY 22, 2022

Does your Customer Success team have a shallow view of onboarding? If you consider onboarding to be a success when a customer reaches their go-live date, then you need to dig deeper. It’s about transforming your customer’s business and delivering value, so you make their life better,” says Donna.

Scale 98

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Chart Mogul

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

At the Product-Led Institute, we developed the “Triple-A” sprint, which focuses on rapidly identifying problems, building solutions, and measuring impact. The Triple-A sprint gives you a way to build a sustainable growth process and can be used by any team in your business. Did your high bounce rate lead customers to churn?

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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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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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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 22, 2020

But as straightforward as their metrics may be, their jobs are anything but simple. There’s a range of key skills that separate the best from the rest, and success belongs to companies who can identify and hire reps who have those precious skills. It’s also one of the hardest to teach and develop. Again it’s all about balance.

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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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Customer Success SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions 73

SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

And that means the customer is king.” ” In the context of the larger article, he’s making the case for manufacturers to adopt a SaaS playbook: become customer-centric, hire Customer Success Managers (CSMs) to engage customers more deeply, deploy technology to manage the customer relationship beyond the initial sale, etc.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

The company’s customers include Etsy, K-Swiss, Toyota, Yelp and Facebook among others. Its customer base spans over 14,000 customers in over 100 countries. sales team. I did all sorts of things there from sales, to project management, to running the engineering team, hiring. Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020.

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Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Sales 219

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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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. Aid in developing instructional materials and training programmes to support customer education. Answering client questions.

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Customer Success Payments Underperforming Technical Team Payment Services 19

Chart Mogul

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

At the Product-Led Institute, we developed the “Triple-A” sprint, which focuses on rapidly identifying problems, building solutions, and measuring impact. The Triple-A sprint gives you a way to build a sustainable growth process and can be used by any team in your business. Did your high bounce rate lead customers to churn?

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Underperforming Technical Team Development Churn Metrics 52

ChurnZero

OCTOBER 5, 2022

With a shared understanding of health indicators, your team can look at a scorecard and immediately recognize whether the customer is liable to churn, likely to renew, or a candidate for an expansion opportunity. To get an idea of what a healthy customer looks like, analyze the following elements to spot patterns.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

What is Customer Success and why do you need it? Gain a new customer, you increase revenue. What happens when you lose more customers than you gain? It may happen sooner or later, but failure is the only prospect a business faces when customer loyalty plunges. Guide overview: What is Customer Success?

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