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Product Dogfooding in Software Development: A Quick Guide (+Best Practices)

User Pilot

The term comes from a commercial and was first used in the software context by a Microsoft manager in 1988. You want to have participants from different departments involved in the product development process: product management, customer success , marketing , and sales. TL;DR Product dogfooding is a testing practice.

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How customer success teams drive value through collaboration

Totango

Combined with intense competition and sign-up discounts, not to mention global inflation prompting many consumers to rethink their budgets, the customer retention stakes are high. . With the potential for churn dramatically increasing, customer success is a key priority. We can see this development in our recent survey.

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How to Bring Agile Innovation to Customer Success

Totango

When you bring agile innovation to customer success , you empower your CS strategy with the latest technology. In this blog, we’ll look deeper at what an agile customer success strategy means and why you can benefit from using one. Then we’ll lay out seven steps to bring agile innovation to customer success.

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Why TestDome Considers FastSpring a Real Partner for Selling Software Online (Plus: Is Using AI Cheating?)

FastSpring

When TestDome was created, CEO and co-founder Mario Zivic knew the pre-employment testing software company wouldn’t be able to rely on domestic sales to succeed. “As Selling Software Internationally With FastSpring Croatia is a relatively small country with a population of only 4 million people.

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8 Skills Every Customer Success Operations Leader Needs To Succeed

Valuize Consulting

In today’s high-velocity subscription-based economy, a solid Customer Success (CS) Operations motion is imperative to driving sustainable and scalable growth. At the same time, you must also be structured, tactical and process-driven, so that you can facilitate the delivery of customer value across your customer journey.

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How to Reinvent a Category that’s Already Been Won with Braze Co-Founder Mark Ghermezian (Pod 550 + Video)

SaaStr

Listen to your customers. As we were pioneering a new platform in the mobile ecosystem, it was vital for us to listen to our customers. This led to Braze creating our entire brand around customer success. As companies started to understand what a CRM was, we watched company budgets rapidly grow for software purchases.

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6 Customer Success Mistakes that Leaders make

CustomerSuccessBox

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.