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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Customer Success Underperforming Technical Team Leadership Strategy 98

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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Sales Hiring Customer Success Scale Underperforming Technical Team 123

Totango

MARCH 8, 2022

Getting involved in the best customer success communities can give you access to the resources you need to take your CS team to new levels of performance. Here’s our guide to the top customer success communities in 2022 and what they have to offer. What Is a Customer Success Community?

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Customer Success Technical Review Social Media Underperforming Technical Team 115

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

ChurnZero

DECEMBER 21, 2022

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 Scale Underperforming Technical Team Benchmarks 98

Totango

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Hiring team members with the right customer success manager skills is critical for the effectiveness of your CS team and strategy. We’ll cover these below, along with five best practices to follow when bringing a new customer success manager aboard your team. Interpersonal skills.

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Sales Hiring Customer Success Sales Recruiting Technical Review 90

Chart Mogul

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Getting a new customer on board is a happy time for every sales team, but it’s not quite the end of the road. The final step is the sales to customer success handoff process that lays the foundation for retaining customers successfully. This sales to customer success transition is a delicate balancing act.

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Underperforming Technical Team Customer Success Outsourced Development Sales 80

ChurnZero

JANUARY 6, 2022

Customer Success represents a large source of revenue-generation for SaaS businesses. Though Customer Success was originally regarded as a post-sale cost center, you can flip its narrative with the right metrics, positioning, and forecasting strategy. But Customer Success? Not so much.

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Forecasting Customer Success Metrics Sales Funnel 98

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

You know how everyone says you'll never look and wish you'd kept a bad VP as long as you did? Because to scale, you are going to need to add a true management team, and then a second one, and then layers of management. The fewer weak hires they continue to make. The less they slow down feature development.

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Sales Hiring Part-Time VPE Scale Underperforming Technical Team 219

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

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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ChurnZero

AUGUST 11, 2020

Did you know that 60% of SaaS companies reported a negative impact on customer retention and upsell deals due to the pandemic? Customer retention, along with new customer acquisition, has been challenging for most companies when the pandemic hit. Update Customer Knowledge Bases. This is shocking.

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Retention Strategy Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 97

CustomerSuccessBox

JUNE 13, 2022

All of this contributes to bettering customer journeys and propelling the company’s future growth. Customer success and the role of Customer Intelligence. Customer intelligence may assist marketers in achieving a wide range of customer success objectives and activities.

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Customer Success Artificial Intelligence AI Search Underperforming Technical Team 52

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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Customer Success Underperforming Technical Team Consulting Software Review 64

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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User Pilot

MARCH 23, 2023

What are the reasons for customer churn in SaaS? And how can customer success teams address them to ensure product growth? As a SaaS company, your ultimate goal is to retain customers and keep them happy with your product. However, sometimes things don’t go as planned, and customers churn. moment faster. #3:

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SaaS Payments Churn Underperforming Technical Team Payment Methods 91

ChurnZero

DECEMBER 21, 2023

To make the right choices, however, you need a deep understanding of what your customers need and expect from you. Q: If your customer has more than one need, how do you decide which to prioritize first—or you do you address them all at the same time? You can find even more of Tim’s answers on the CXology blog here.

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Sales Recruiting Scale Customer Success Sales 52

Chart Mogul

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Getting a new customer on board is a happy time for every sales team, but it’s not quite the end of the road. The final step is the sales to customer success handoff process that lays the foundation for retaining customers successfully. This sales to customer success transition is a delicate balancing act.

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Underperforming Technical Team Customer Success Outsourced Development Sales 52

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

Totango

JULY 18, 2018

According to data from Forrester Research, almost two-thirds of interactions between a customer and a company take place through the Customer Service department. Customers often turn to Customer Service or Customer Support teams for help throughout the customer journey.

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Customer Support Customer Success Retention Underperforming Technical Team 56

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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Customer Success SaaS Payments Strategy Payment Services 72

User Pilot

MARCH 18, 2021

A successful customer retention strategy requires constant iteration and innovation to keep up with an ever-changing SaaS market environment. It’s also not like customer retention is the business of only one department. Why does retention management take so much time and effort?

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Retention Strategy Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 52

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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Customer Success Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring 80

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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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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Customer Success Benchmarks Scale Underperforming Technical Team 97

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

User Pilot

JANUARY 31, 2023

Identifying at-risk customers is crucial for understanding their behavior, improving customer satisfaction , and reducing churn rate. While identifying high-risk customers, you can address the root causes and focus on working to retain those customers. Why do some customers become at-risk of churning?

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Churn Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 95

ChurnZero

MARCH 15, 2019

Churn Monster #10: Bad Fit Customer . We’re talking about a bad fit customer. A bad fit customer is a customer who is unable to receive value from your product or service due to a mismatch of currents needs and offerings. You are worried you have acquired a bad fit customer.

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Underperforming Technical Team Churn Software Review Compensation 45

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. However, the one universal metric is the “Net Retention Rate (NRR)”. Net Retention Rate (NRR).

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Customer Success Technical Review Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team 59

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 93

CustomerSuccessBox

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Since the last 5 years, Customer Success has become a buzzword in not only the B2B SaaS industry but several other industries too. As companies have started understanding the benefits of customer success, they have started rushing into the field in the hope of getting quick returns on their investment.

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Customer Success Sales Hiring Scale Underperforming Technical Team 59

OpenView Labs

MARCH 3, 2020

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). If the customer is using the product, their churn risk is unpredictable.

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Customer Success Underperforming Technical Team Scale Churn 55

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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Retention Strategy Underperforming Technical Team SaaS 56

User Pilot

JULY 31, 2023

TL;DR Pendo is a product growth platform for product , marketing , customer success , and UX design teams. It enables businesses to analyze user in-app behavior , collect customer feedback to make data-led decisions, improve user onboarding, and communicate effectively with users. Let’s get right to it!

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Underperforming Technical Team AI Scale Onboarding 79

User Pilot

MARCH 27, 2023

We finish with an overview of product analytics tools that your team can benefit from. Product analytics are used not only by the product team but also by the customer success and the marketing team, as well as UX designers and devs. As a result, product teams are able to make quicker decisions.

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Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Churn User Experience 96

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