Stax

JANUARY 28, 2024

Long before the digital age, newspaper and magazine companies have been using the subscription model to create and retain a consistent readership for their publications. The most potent benefit of the subscription-based business model is that companies are guaranteed a fixed revenue stream—if they can retain their customers or subscribers.

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Totango

JUNE 3, 2022

Customer success email templates form a foundation for effective CS automation. While customer success management can result in a rewarding payoff, it can also be very time-consuming if you don’t use the right strategies. Customer check-ins. Sales to Customer Success Handoff Email Template.

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Totango

AUGUST 16, 2022

Customer retention software has become essential for effective SaaS customer success strategies. A winning SaaS business model must prioritize retaining customers, which is far more cost-efficient than acquiring new clients to offset churn. What Is Customer Retention Software?

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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. What Is a Customer Success Manager (CSM)?

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Everything from hiring on the GTM side to layering in a sales-led motion into PLG. From a Go-To-Market perspective, Zapier uses a hybrid model that involves a combination of freemium offerings, subscription plans, and partnerships. Let’s dive into what’s making that hybrid model successful: PLG and Sales Led?

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ChurnZero

AUGUST 31, 2021

It has become just as important, in the SaaS industry particularly, to work to keep existing customers as it is to chase down new leads. Customer retention and renewal are now crucial pieces of business growth. Focusing on customer success and the renewal proces s in tandem can help improve customer retention.

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User Pilot

APRIL 6, 2023

A powerful AI tool can be the perfect companion to your customer success platform. In this article, we will explore: How to leverage AI tools for customer success and retention. How can customer success managers address the challenges and concerns around AI when it comes to providing a better user experience?

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Totango

JULY 13, 2021

Strategy for customer success growth has changed as commerce has gone digital and big data has made marketing and sales customer-centric. Tell people about your business, get them in the store, sell them things, then look for more customers. Businesses need a new strategy for customer success growth.

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Blulogix

MARCH 19, 2024

By BluLogix Team Mastering the Art of Complex B2B Recurring and Subscription Billing: Managing Digital Inventory Complexity As the digital economy continues to expand, B2B companies are increasingly offering a variety of digital products and services, necessitating sophisticated strategies for managing digital inventory.

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Sixteen Ventures

AUGUST 14, 2022

The purpose of Customer Success is not to make customers happy. It’s actually not even to make customers successful. In this simplistic view, revenue from any new customers that come in that quarter wouldn’t be included in NRR for that quarter, but would be in the starting amount for next quarter.

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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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CustomerSuccessBox

APRIL 7, 2022

So, it’s legit to have a customer success team in hand. But with effective customer success, it’s possible to attain those extra gains from the SaaS revenue model. Assess the quality of the customer success efforts. Lay a top-notch customer success journey! In the end!

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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Some Customer Success metrics are considered standard but there’s often more than meets the eye. Sales and marketing professionals that geek out on metrics can find themselves in deep philosophical debates about the best numbers to track. There is often more than one way to calculate a given Customer Success metric; Gaming.

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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

To help you amp up your Customer Success management skills here’s a breakdown of our top recommendations for courses to consider taking. Customer Success Management Fundamentals. Course Description: New to customer success management (CSM)? Value Realization Best Practices for Customer Success Management.

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CustomerSuccessBox

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

A seamless handoff from sales to customer success to implementation is necessary to deliver the promised early value. This is crucial to make your customer’s experience easier. CS professionals must have felt the grunt of a bad transition from Sales to Customer Success. Customer Retention.

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ChurnZero

JUNE 14, 2023

For subscription businesses, the focus is clear: retaining customers. Older research from Fred Reichheld of Bain & Company showed that, in financial services, “a 5% increase in customer retention produces more than a 25% increase in profit.” When choosing your platform, think beyond your customer success team.

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ChurnZero

OCTOBER 5, 2021

No worries if you weren’t able to attend (or even if you did and are looking for a recap), we have pulled together our top ten Customer Success takeaways from SaaStr Annual 2021 that we wanted to share with you here. Are your compensation plans setting your business up for longer-term success or subscription contraction?

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ChurnZero

MAY 19, 2020

It’s time for another installment of our blog series where we spotlight a Customer Success professional and get their take on the industry as well as get to hear some of their top tips they’d like to share. Brian is the Senior Director of Customer Success at RFP360, where he leads the customer experience team.

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CustomerSuccessBox

APRIL 11, 2019

A lot of Customer Success leaders and Founders I have talked to since starting at CustomerSuccessBox have been confused about what customer tech stack to use at their SaaS businesses. So this got me thinking about what should be the Customer Success Tech Maturity Model. Level 1: CRM + Excel.

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CustomerSuccessBox

MARCH 28, 2022

In this blog, we talk about how the 80/20 Pareto rule is applicable to customer success. This theory now holds good for every arena and why not apply it for customer success? Let’s call this an “80 20 rule customer success”. How does the 80/20 rule for customer success work? Sales promises.

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CustomerSuccessBox

AUGUST 3, 2021

In this era of SaaS and subscription businesses, getting the user to buy your product is only the beginning of a long journey ahead. During the entire process with the customer, pre-sales and post-sales, there is a need for a close relationship between Customer Success and Sales.

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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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Valuize Consulting

DECEMBER 22, 2021

The initial sale represents only a fraction of a customer’s lifetime value; if you want the customer to realize their full revenue potential, you have to ensure their success and deliver tangible value throughout the customer journey, starting in your Pre-Sales motion and seamlessly carrying through to Post-Sales.

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Sixteen Ventures

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

It’s critical to understand why your customers churn, but if you’re relying solely on the reason the customer gives you for that churn, you’re definitely missing the actual reason. It’s easy to just ask a customer why they’re cancelling or not renewing and to leave it at that. So… is it worth “saving” customers? .

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 20, 2021

This is a guest blog post by Justine Dennis, Manager, Customer Success & Support at Fusebill. . Mattias Putman and Ewout Meyns launched PieSync in 2014 with a goal in mind: keep customers satisfied. Mattias and I are very aware that PieSync’s success depends on that of our customers.

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ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

With sweeping layoffs, forecast misses, and budget cuts in the news, there’s one question running through the mind of every Customer Success leader right now: What can I do to prepare my department for the impacts of the economic downturn? Customers will respect and trust you infinitely more when you’re upfront with them.

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CustomerSuccessBox

MARCH 17, 2022

You should connect your company’s targeted outcomes to your client’s desired outcomes in order to do so in a customer-centric manner. Use the Customer Success Playbook to synchronize those two sets of objectives. Customer Success playbooks are one approach to accomplish this.

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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

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Today, the greatest opportunity for efficient growth lies with Customer Success (CS) teams—the purveyors of customer loyalty. Find out how Customer Success builds financial fortitude and resilience in the latest Punk CX podcast, featuring ChurnZero CEO You Mon Tsang. Start sharing [customer] stories.

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Totango

JANUARY 29, 2021

When your product directly helps your customers achieve their goals, your brand wins their loyalty. Playbooks for customer success managers help drive processes that promote winning client outcomes. What Is a Customer Success Playbook? Why Do You Need Playbooks for Customer Success?

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SaaSHolic

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Customer success software provides businesses with a 360-degree look at the entire customer relationship. You’ll get helpful insights into the customer’s activities and the general health of the relationship. Good customer success software will help you identify red flags and maintain successful customer retention.

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CustomerSuccessBox

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Customer Success(CS) is the most efficient way to grow your MRR/ARR. Yet, Customer Success is looked upon as a ‘ cost center ’. Customer Success teams, typically, follow the recurring revenue model (followed by almost every SaaS business). It wasn’t deployed to manage each and every customer relationship.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 24, 2022

Building a business from the ground up always has its challenges, but maintaining a subscription-based business can be particularly difficult due to its ongoing nature. One of the most effective ways to run a subscription-based business is through a customer-centric strategy. You might be wondering, what is customer centricity

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CustomerSuccessBox

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Customer Success has become a must for every SaaS business with the advent of the subscription economy. But just having a customer success department does not solve issues with your churn rate, customer lifetime value, retention rate, or MRR/ARR. It starts by understanding why customer success is important.

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ChurnZero

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Why is it that the need for operations in marketing and sales is never questioned, yet Customer Success isn’t given the same allowance? Even though CSQLs have a lower customer acquisition cost, faster rate of return, and high close-rate, says Tony D’Auria, industry principal at Valuize, a customer lifecycle consultancy.

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Valuize Consulting

MARCH 18, 2020

However, in today’s subscription economy, the prioritization of strategies that support this growth have fundamentally shifted. Customer success strategy eats all other strategies for breakfast. Your customer success strategy should be driving your sales, product [.].

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ChurnZero

AUGUST 31, 2021

It has become just as important, in the SaaS industry particularly, to work to keep existing customers as it is to chase down new leads. Customer retention and renewal are now crucial pieces of business growth. Focusing on customer success and the renewal proces s in tandem can help improve customer retention.

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