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.

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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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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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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

Eventually, you’ll figure out how to get better at closing “all the seats”, all the revenue, up front. 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. Just do it all.

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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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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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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. How do I think about scale? Not every leader is created equally. Considering aspects of sales and GTM strategies.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2019

Businesses also win if, as a result of AI, teams are able to create more white-glove moments that turn users into customers for life. He joined me for a conversation on tackling issues that come up as you scale your customer experience. When scaling your customer experience, remember AI can’t simulate human empathy.

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Scale Scaling AI Search Underperforming Technical Team 156

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

MARCH 19, 2021

Even if that additional upfront work makes us happier or far more successful in the end, we’d rather remain unhappy than make ourselves vulnerable to the unknown of change. Don’t spring sudden changes on your customers or team. Change, such as using a new product, affects our autonomy and power.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 11, 2019

But as the business becomes more successful – and there are resources to build a support team – additional layers begin to separate executives from their customers. It becomes harder for the folks running things to make time to be inside their customers’ minds. If you’re a leader, he says, don’t try to scale your job.

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Scale Scaling Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team 188

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Companies in our region are good at achieving PMF and scaling to $1 million-$5 million ARR efficiently. They are hiring leaders, building teams, and attracting advisors in the US while devouring the SV SaaS playbook. It helps your leaders scale and creates a CXO pipeline for the company. Silicon Valley has a deep talent bench.

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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

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. Why You Need Operations to Scale. Productivity looks at your output relative to your input.

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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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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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SmartKarrot

APRIL 20, 2023

Considering the heavy competition and the evolving business environments, it has become more important than ever to put customer success on the pinnacle. However, as businesses keep on the growth streak, scaling customer success efforts can prove to be daunting.

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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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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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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Almost every week, Iceberg RevOps’ founder Taft Love gets messages from executives and CEOs at growth-stage companies asking for help with their first revenue operations hire. This usually includes a CRM and marketing automation plus any other systems related to sales, marketing, and customer success. Teams need to scale, fast.

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Valuize Consulting

JUNE 10, 2020

How were your company’s customer success processes created? Perhaps it was fueled by all of the strategic expertise, funding and time required to develop a category-leading customer success strategy—one that transforms your company’s revenue retention and expansion metrics. Or perhaps not. So what’s the fix?

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SaaStr

MARCH 18, 2019

Scaling the company’s employee base, sales teams, marketing, and operations—all while preserving its culture—has required a laser focus on first principles, smart processes, and effective hiring. Here’s what Claire talks about: How to avoid trapdoor decisions when scaling. Lessons for scaling high-growth organizations.

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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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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. What’s more, you can collect data at scale for a more representative view.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Our first is Revenue Grid. Guided selling with Revenue Grid allows you to guide reps step-by-step through every deal, reducing guesswork and increasing consistency so your teams have the best odds with every opportunity in the pipeline. Now, before we get there, we want to thank our sponsors. Remote work? Head to outreach.io/saleshacker.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 1, 2021

We’ve heard from some of our community members that they feel like Revenue Operations has been severely misunderstood. Watch this video if you: Never want to misunderstand Revenue Operations again. Everybody wants one, but not everybody knows how to set one up.” — Feras Abdel , Senior Director of Revenue Operations at Outreach.

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Chargify

APRIL 23, 2019

According to a study by the Startup Genome Project of more than 3,200 startups, they found that “70% [of startups] fail because of premature scaling.” Understanding which stage your SaaS business is in can help determine the appropriate time to scale to the next phase—and do so successfully. Let’s get started. Pre-Startup.

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OPEXEngine

AUGUST 31, 2021

Tech debt refers to the cost of redeveloping existing products and code that wouldn’t otherwise be able to scale or evolve over time to meet shifting consumer needs. And while the concept has been around for years, for most of that time, tech debt was primarily the concern of product and engineering teams. Measuring tech debt.

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OPEXEngine

AUGUST 31, 2021

Tech debt refers to the cost of redeveloping existing products and code that wouldn’t otherwise be able to scale or evolve over time to meet shifting consumer needs. And while the concept has been around for years, for most of that time, tech debt was primarily the concern of product and engineering teams. Measuring tech debt.

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SaaStr

JULY 29, 2019

No regrets are things that especially in recurring revenue companies, you’ll look back and say … well, I knew I should have done that at the time, and it wasn’t crazy hard, and it would have helped a lot … but I still didn’t do it. What Order Should You Hire Your Management Team In? #4.

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SaaStr

APRIL 16, 2020

In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Carolyn made her way across the pond from Head of US Communications at Orange to GM of Method in SF to then playing a key role in the marketing team at PagerDuty? * Does it have to be tied to a number directly tied to revenue? How does PagerDuty gain a sense of company morale at scale?

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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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OPEXEngine

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Over the past decade, software has created tremendous value for investors and businesses, thanks largely to its transformative effect on the economy , its role in developing new cloud-based business models, and its ability to increase efficiency in operations. Sticky after all. the ability to offload more IT tasks to a remote vendor.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

Aaron Ross | CEO @ Predictable Revenue. And so, she can, and Anthony just finished up basically going from the first sales hire at Gainsight at almost 100 million in revenue and has just retired. Obviously, marketing and investments are expensive and we know the cost to keep a customer is obviously a lot less. Aaron : No.

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OpenView Labs

JANUARY 8, 2021

What’s your biggest weakness? Leandra Fishman, Chief Revenue Officer at Intercom. A candidate who can’t give me a real answer may not be open to feedback or may lack the humility I want to see on my team.”. David Apple, Head of Customer Success at Notion. It’s just not productive. I have two: 1.

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Chart Mogul

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Schremser tells us the story of how the Usersnap team turned churn analytics into a powerful tool to improve their product. It highlights the bottlenecks and weaknesses of your brand’s customer experience. Following up with customized emails is key for collecting user feedback. About the author: Klaus-M.

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