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Five Warning Signs Your Customer Success Team is Burnt Out

Totango

In a recent poll, we asked customer success professionals to rank their top year-end challenge. Burnout is a common occurrence, especially at the end of the year and especially in customer-facing industries like CS. Turnover comes with an extremely high price for companies, however. Poor Employee Engagement.

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5 Tips To Closing More Bigger Deals

SaaStr

If you already have a few bigger deals under your belt, but most are smaller … a few higher-level suggestions: Hire a Very Good VP of Sales that has sold at your “high end” price point. At getting the High End of Normal, the Most Without The Customer Feeling Ripped Off. Lean in >heavily< on customer success.

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Gross Retention vs. Net Retention: What’s the Difference?

Totango

To make it to the Super Bowl, a football team must have two things: a strong defense and a strategic offense. The defense maintains a good field position and prevents the opposing team from scoring points, while the offense orchestrates smart plays to gain additional yards and score points. What is net retention? Calculate it!

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Aligning SaaS Customer Success

Chaotic Flow

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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The top five Customer Success webinars of 2022 from ChurnZero

ChurnZero

1/ Crash course in Customer Success and SaaS metrics. Related reading: Key SaaS and Customer Success metrics you should care about – What’s a good CAC? 20 quick insights on Customer Success and SaaS metrics – The audience chat was on fire during this webinar. One train can hide another.”.

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Customer success: creating a strategy for growth | Profitwell

ProfitWell

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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Where Is Customer Success Headed in 2022?

ChurnZero

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.