Kellblog

MARCH 17, 2022

Earlier this week I appeared on a webinar with You Mon Tsang , founder and CEO of ChurnZero , a SaaS application aimed at helping subscription businesses reduce churn. Gross revenue retention rate, and why it’s gathering steam as an important metric. Benchmarks for many of these metrics from the KeyBanc 2021 SaaS Survey.

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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Some Customer Success metrics are considered standard but there’s often more than meets the eye. SaaS professionals who geek out on metrics can find themselves in deep philosophical debates about the best numbers to track. There is often more than one way to calculate a given Customer Success metric; Gaming.

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Totango

JANUARY 2, 2024

In an era when customer success (CS) has become pivotal, it’s no longer enough to have a team dedicated to CS. More importantly, you need an organizational strategy that ensures your customers don’t just come to you but stay, thrive, and become your biggest promoters. Need help getting started?

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ChurnZero

MARCH 18, 2022

With so many SaaS metrics floating around, and even more opinions on when and how to use them, it can be hard to know if you’re measuring what really matters. Leading SaaS expert, Dave Kellogg, and ChurnZero CEO, You Mon Tsang, sat down to answer all the questions you want to know about SaaS metrics like ARR, NRR, GRR, LTV, and CAC (i.e.,

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SaaSOptics

MARCH 16, 2022

2022 B2B SaaS Trends [Webinar Recap]. In this webinar recap, you’ll see the most significant trends in SaaS pricing, subscription management, metrics/analytics, and what they could mean for your business in 2022. Trends in Metrics and Analytics . The CFO perspective on B2B SaaS metrics.

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ChurnZero

MAY 25, 2023

Customer renewals are the lifeblood of a subscription business. Responsibility for renewals often falls to the Customer Success (CS) team. For example, survey research shows about half (50.2%) of all CS teams surveyed are directly responsible for customer renewals. Below are recommended metrics to consider.

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User Pilot

APRIL 18, 2023

In SaaS, customer success is needed to ensure that your customers achieve their desired outcomes with your product and become loyal advocates for your brand. But how do you create a customer success strategy that works? And what are some of the best practices and examples across the customer journey?

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Totango

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Qlik’s Vice President of Customer Success Operations and Chief of Staff Chris Wood and his team were on the hunt for a customer success tool that could help them do three things: Streamline processes. Scale customers quickly and efficiently. Use Metrics to Measure Adoption. 4 Key Takeaways . .

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ChurnZero

MARCH 14, 2024

Every customer success leader has encountered or will eventually encounter a book shift: the process of reassigning accounts between different customer success managers. A book shift is a strategic maneuver designed to align resources and responsibilities within a customer success team. Set S.M.A.R.T.

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SaaStr

APRIL 20, 2024

Expectations and Performance Metrics For every functional area, employees should show improvement within one sales cycle or they likely never will. Marketing teams can make a 20% improvement in customer NPS or customer success within one quarter.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 25, 2024

How will customer success jobs, and the skills they require, evolve in 2024? With technology advancing and customer expectations rising, customer success has become an essential force driving business growth and customer loyalty within the SaaS industry.

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ChurnZero

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

This is a guest post by Sara Barnes , vice president of Customer Success at Skilljar. Every Customer Success team focuses on keeping customers engaged and ultimately, preventing churn. In fact, customer education helps scale Customer Success , as the company scales business. .

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Education Customer Success Underperforming Technical Team Scale 98

Totango

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

This experience of value is critical to the health of your customer relationship, so you need a customer success adoption plan. Breaking down the customer journey into modular stages sta helps to operationalize customer success strategies. Adoption : The customer gets more and more value from the product.

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Chart Mogul

JUNE 1, 2023

In an uncertain market, customer retention is key. So if you are keeping a close eye on your retention metrics this year, you’re not alone. Retention is one of the most important metrics when building a successful SaaS business. In an uncertain market, customer retention is key. What is customer retention?

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Totango

AUGUST 21, 2020

In our latest installment in the CXO Series , we sat down with Keith Strodtman, COO, Customer First and Shelby Czarnota, Vice President, Customer Success Business Solutions at SAP as we discussed SAP’s Transformation and Innovation in Customer Success and why they deployed Totango as their One Customer Success Platform.

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Totango

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Customer success vs. customer support: although these two terms appear similar, they actually refer to two different, yet complementary, functions within a company. Fulfilling a proactive role, customer success focuses on problem prevention and creates value by enabling clients to achieve business goals.

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Webinars are a quick and easy way to find out more about a topic especially if you don’t know where to start. As we have a large library of on-demand webinar content in our Resources center , we often get asked by customers, which ones are the most popular and must-see to get caught up on. How Do You Rank?

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 18, 2020

With each passing year the Customer Success industry matures and meets new challenges along the way, and this year has been nothing short of challenging in many ways. . If you missed the webinar, you can watch it on-demand. Q&A Recap: Speakers: Megan Macaluso , VP Customer Success & Operations, ESG.

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Totango

AUGUST 8, 2021

Driving software adoption through customer success in the 2020s is a precision business. Create a Cross-Functional Customer Journey Team. Choose the Right Customer Success Software that provides a 360-degree view of your customer. Driving Software Adoption through Customer Success Begins with Understanding.

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Totango

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Hi, Today we have some exciting product updates, as well as an upcoming webinar you can join for more best practices. We’ve added an enhancement to SuccessBLOC Scorecards which now allows you to create KPIs based on user metrics, as well as account metrics. SuccessBLOC Scorecards, Now With User KPIs. Dynamic SuccessTeams.

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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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ChurnZero

AUGUST 13, 2021

Your digital-led Customer Success program will only be as good as the technology behind it. But how do you go about building your Customer Success tech stack the right way? During the webinar, we discuss: What a Customer Success tech stack is and why you should care. Q&A Recap.

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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.

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Payments Payment Solutions Customer Success Software Review 87

ChurnZero

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Why is it that the need for operations in marketing and sales is never questioned, yet Customer Success isn’t given the same allowance? Even though CSQLs have a lower customer acquisition cost, faster rate of return, and high close-rate, says Tony D’Auria, industry principal at Valuize, a customer lifecycle consultancy.

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CustomerSuccessBox

APRIL 3, 2022

Customer Success ensures that your customers remain happy customers. Its objective is to guarantee that your customers get the most value from your product. Sending an email with the appropriate intent at the right time is essential to a good customer success email. Customer Success Email Templates.

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Totango

AUGUST 14, 2020

In customer success, your customers define their own victories. No one-size-fits-all finish line exists that clients must strive to cross, and there is no Harvard Business School concept of accomplishment you can award your customer before resting on well-earned laurels. Creating Better Customers, by Definition.

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Valuize Consulting

JANUARY 18, 2022

Marketing & Customer Success: Two Sides Of The Same Coin. Within this chasm, a sibling rivalry of sorts exists between Marketing and Customer Success, between the marketing of a prospect and the marketing of a customer, and even between Marketing and Retention Marketing.

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CustomerSuccessBox

APRIL 6, 2022

Processes are king in the field of customer success. Many customer success teams rely on a systematic approach to get everything done during the day. They ensure that nothing important for particular customers falls between the cracks. The solution is to drive those ‘aha’ moments with customer success.

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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Wondering what is top of mind for companies when it comes to Customer Success? Here are the top business challenges in descending order for Customer Success professionals according to TSIA, along with some recommend resources to help in each of those areas. TSIA Resource: The State of Customer Success: 2021.

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Customer Success Technical Review Scale Sales Hiring 78

Totango

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

This experience of value is critical to the health of your customer relationship, so you need a customer success adoption plan. Breaking down the customer journey into modular stages sta helps to operationalize customer success strategies. Adoption : The customer gets more and more value from the product.

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ChurnZero

JUNE 7, 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. Jason is an Associate Partner at Customer Imperative , responsible for overseeing the strategic consulting business.

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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. Panelists included: Alli Tiscornia, chief customer officer, ChurnZero.

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ChurnZero

JULY 7, 2020

Because customer retention is tightly correlated with customer satisfaction and customer service. As such, Customer Success and Support teams need to work together closely to keep customers happy and coming back for more. The Difference Between Customer Support and Customer Success Teams.

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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Q&A: Digital Customer Success Strategies to Drive User Adoption. Accessing meaningful data points early in the customer journey can be difficult. You can easily miss opportunities to deeply understand your customers’ behavior when your insights depend on those data points.

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ChurnZero

JUNE 12, 2020

Following the trajectory of these more established functions, the next natural progression in Customer Success’ evolution is specialization. As Customer Success teams continue to mature, and their need to scale and automate grows , having their own operations roles will become evermore essential and prevalent.

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ChurnZero

APRIL 18, 2024

Congratulations – you’re adopting a digital customer success strategy! Those are some big shifts – whether it’s updating your books , implementing a new management system, or revamping the tools, resources, and customer journeys you already have. Digital: Set up consistent journey metrics (e.g. So, now what?

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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

What’s the Job Outlook for Customer Success Professionals? Embarking in an emerging career field like Customer Success brings great possibility—and uncertainty. So, what’s the job outlook for Customer Success professionals? This means a vigilant focus on growing customer retention and lifetime value.

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