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What skills do customer success professionals need in 2024?

ChurnZero

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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13 Customer Success Manager Skills to Look for When Hiring

Totango

Hiring team members with the right customer success manager skills is critical for the effectiveness of your CS team and strategy. Here we’ve identified the 13 most essential qualities to consider when hiring a CS manager. What Is a Customer Success Manager (CSM)? Relationship management.

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Strategic customer success: minimizing post-sale chaos with Tim Conder.

ChurnZero

Designing a successful post-sale strategy requires choices, says CXology’s Tim Conder. Without making those choices upfront, you’ll find it hard to create a good customer experience and scale it, and you’ll easily fall into the chaotic trap of “doing what it takes”. A: First, it matters how you recruit.

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Customer Success Manager (CSM): Responsibilities, Compensation and salary trends in 2022

CustomerSuccessBox

Customer Success Manager job description: As a CSM (Customer Success Manager), your role is to maintain a good relationship and the satisfaction of your existing customers while developing the customer portfolio. Additional Resource – What is a Customer Success Manager.

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Using Sales Conversations to Find Product-Market Fit

Sales Hacker

The first goal of sales at a startup isn’t to bring in revenue — it’s to get customer feedback. I’ve used our sales process to iterate our way to product market-fit and wanted to share what I’ve learned along the way. Use sales conversations as a tool to get product feedback. So how do you get there?

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You can’t always get what you quant: Bringing numbers to life through user research

Intercom, Inc.

“Researchers acknowledge and invest in the ‘ what’, but often forget to slow down and understand the ‘ why’ – the people behind the numbers and emerging trends”. To achieve this, researchers capture online movements, behavioral changes, and customer information (with customer consent, of course!).

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Building a Successful Customer Advisory Board in the Enterprise with Mapistry’s VP of Customer Experience Maya Colato

SaaStr

Mapistry sought out feedback about its direction by organizing a Customer Advisory Board (CAB). . A CAB is a selected group of customers who provide strategic feedback about the status of a product, emerging industry trends, and the direction of the company. Which customer segments best represent your growth focus?