User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

Confused about trying to understand SaaS roles? SaaS companies have many moving parts, and it can be difficult to determine who does what. TL;DR SaaS, or “Software as a Service,” is a business model that delivers centrally hosted software to subscribers over the internet. What is a SaaS business model?

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Valuize Consulting

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Level Up Your Customer Success Organization. In the subscription economy, there’s no debate about whether or not to invest in Customer Success (CS); 70% of rapidly growing businesses say that Customer Success is extremely important ( Hubspot , 2017). The fourth challenge is complexity.

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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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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. ” 3.

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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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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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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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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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CustomerSuccessBox

MARCH 10, 2022

Customer Success, as a function, is evolving fast. You might notice as a customer success manager that you’re spreading yourself too thin trying to take care of all of your customers at some point. Scaling entails accomplishing more with fewer customer success managers.

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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. As a result, product teams are able to make quicker decisions.

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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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ChurnZero

MAY 4, 2023

There’s a closely held growth secret among large B2B professional services firms, like consultants, accountants and law firms, that Customer Success Managers (CSMs) might appreciate: The more relationships a client has across a firm, the lower that client’s flight risk. We landed on a theme that made sense: a neighborhood.

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User Pilot

APRIL 7, 2023

What are the different types of B2B customer insights for SaaS businesses? 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. Their challenges and pain points.

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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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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. SixteenVentures.

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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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CustomerSuccessBox

JUNE 13, 2022

Customer intelligence (CI) is becoming a prominent competitive advantage in this age of increased competition with other organizations. We already knew that customer-centricity is critical for any SaaS company’s success. However, there are other aspects to being a customer-centric company.

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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

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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SaaStr

JANUARY 24, 2024

Mark Roberge , SaaStr fan-favorite and Co-Founder and Managing Director of Stage 2 Capital brought together some of the top CROs in SaaS during the SaaStr Annual to share some of their greatest learnings and pivotal moments leading some of the Cloud 100 SaaS companies. The bad news is it wasn’t driving the results they wanted.

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ChurnZero

MARCH 4, 2022

This article is adapted from a session presented by Amy Manning , vice president of Customer Success at Lawgeex from BIG RYG, ChurnZero’s annual Customer Success leadership summit. This analysis was first developed by Kurt Lewin who is often recognized as the founder of social psychology. Score all the forces.

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SaaStr

JULY 29, 2019

Recently on LinkedIn and Twitter I put together a list of things that later, once you are successful, even very successful, you’ll regret. It got a lot of engagement from the SaaS veterans out there, so I thought it would be worth digging in more on each point: Regrets are different than mistakes. It Compounds.

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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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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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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Sequoia Capital’s India arm put together a terrific summary of all their learnings about SaaS and Cloud from SaaStr Annual this year. They also did an A+ session at Annual with several top India SaaS founders, which you can catch below! Here’s 22 of the most relevant takeaways for India’s SaaS ecosystem.

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Incredo

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Asking “what’s the typical commission for SaaS salesperson?” is like asking “how expensive should I price my SaaS product?” what factors to consider before defining your SaaS sales commission percentage. We will share 8 ideas on how to increase your sales team’s productivity and help them close more deals. See below!

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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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Incredo

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Asking “what’s the typical commission for SaaS salesperson?” is like asking “how expensive should I price my SaaS product?” what factors to consider before defining your SaaS sales commission percentage 4. and finally figure out how much that SaaS sales salary should be. In the end, a bonus section is waiting for you!

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TriTuns

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

If you are like many customer success managers, you are probably extremely focused on the question, “Will our customers be successful with OUR software”. You and your team probably ask yourselves what you, as a customer success professional, need to do to ensure the customer is successful using your product.

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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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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Both are two of the most impressive and inspiring public SaaS CEOs — but their products and companies couldn’t be more different. Veeva sells eight figure deals to a very small number of very sophisticated customers, while Twilio has a huge long tail and starts at $0.0085 a minute. Do you have two sales teams?

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User Pilot

JANUARY 31, 2023

How to prevent churn by identifying at-risk customers? In SaaS, you can grow your revenue only if your churn rate is low, so retaining at-risk customers is crucial. In this article, we will discuss the ins and outs of at-risk customers, how to detect them, and five actionable strategies to help you prevent churn.

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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. In SaaS businesses, ARR/MRR is the lifeline for their existence. Surprisingly, only 10% of SaaS businesses ever get past the 125% MRR rate. This will help you in deciding whether you’re on the right track to success or not.

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TriTuns

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

If you are like many customer success managers, you are probably extremely focused on the question, “Will our customers be successful with OUR software”. You and your team probably ask yourselves what you, as a customer success professional, need to do to ensure the customer is successful using your product.

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OpenView Labs

JANUARY 8, 2021

What’s your biggest weakness? To help us all conduct better interviews, we asked some of the smartest leaders in SaaS to share their favorite questions. Here’s what they said: “What did your last product do for customers?” Their answer shows whether they understood the value proposition from the vantage point of the customer.

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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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ChurnZero

JUNE 10, 2022

Implementing a Customer Success platform is a momentous occasion—the mark of a new beginning and growth. As an implementation team lead, I’ve overseen hundreds of launches—the good, the bad, and the ugly. Hold your team accountable to the same standards as you would your vendor.

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