SaaStr

JULY 15, 2022

Jason Lemkin: You certainly can hire a whole content team and build 10,000 pieces of content, but I will tell you what I have always seen work is one incredible piece a week. That will scale, and then take those emails after four great pieces of content and do a weekly webinar and do a weekly get-together for them. This always works.

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ChurnZero

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

This is a guest post by Sara Barnes , vice president of Customer Success at Skilljar. Every Customer Success team focuses on keeping customers engaged and ultimately, preventing churn. In fact, customer education helps scale Customer Success , as the company scales business. .

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 31, 2022

We recently hosted the debut session of our CX for Growth webinar series, with guests Great Question. CX for Growth is a webinar series hosted by the Startups team at Intercom, a casual, interview-style monthly session featuring special guests and exploring customer experience topics that help to drive growth in your business.

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ChurnZero

APRIL 9, 2021

Customer Success is fueled by customer interaction. In honor of Stress Management Awareness Month, we invited Ryan Johansen, Customer Success Director at RapidMiner, to share his experience dealing with extreme burnout and show us how to survive and thrive under the pressures of being a Customer Success professional.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 8, 2021

According to one Microsoft Global State of Customer Service report , 90% of consumers surveyed said that customer service is an important factor in their choice of, and loyalty to, a brand, while nearly two-thirds (58%) would sever their relationship with a business due to poor customer service. Customers want it.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Lots of us fantasize about moving upmarket, but are unsure of how to get started, is it just a matter of hiring a team of SDRs and getting them to hit the phones? You don’t want to fall into a trap of building all this custom stuff, I think you guys all know why that’s a bad idea.

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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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Payments Payment Solutions Customer Success Software Review 87

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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User Pilot

MARCH 25, 2024

Because it improves your business’ profitability, understanding and reducing churn also gives you a better customer acquisition cost to customer lifetime value (CAC: CLV) ratio. To calculate the churn rate, divide the number of customers lost by the total number of customers at the beginning of that period.

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InsightSquared

MARCH 19, 2020

Sales teams across the country are being forced into remote work situations in response to the COVID-19 crisis. However, for some extra guidance, here are some best practices for managing a fully remote sales team from our very own sales leaders. . Set up daily team standups to promote visibility and transparency across your team.

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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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SaaSOptics

MAY 6, 2022

Customer Core —to maintain and develop customer relationships. ” In a recent webinar, Anthony and Clayton Whitfield, co-founder of SaaSOptics , connected to discuss the importance of a well-maintained F&S ecosystem in enabling rapid growth, minimizing risk, and saving cash. Financial Core. People/HR Core.

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User Pilot

JANUARY 17, 2024

The most common challenges that hinder SaaS growth are lack of product-market fit , ineffective sales and marketing strategies , customer churn, and long product development cycles. Here are the 15 most effective ways to scale your SaaS business: Create a solid customer acquisition strategy.

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User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

TL;DR Customer-led marketing focuses on improving marketing strategies and messaging based on customer feedback and behavior insights. It helps build customer retention and brand loyalty. Product-led growth vs customer-led growth Product-led growth uses the product itself as the primary driver of growth.

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CustomerSuccessBox

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

The searches for the keyword ‘ Role of a Customer Success Manager ’ have been increasing since the last few years. As companies around the world are getting aware of the importance of Customer Success, the demand for seasoned Customer Success Managers (CSMs) is also increasing exponentially. Why is it so?

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ChurnZero

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Has your customer community lost its spark? Teams are often eager to launch this new initiative, however, sustaining that same enthusiasm in the months ahead can be a challenge. How can you incentivize team members to be active in the online community when it’s not part of their role? Shauna: It can be a challenge.

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User Pilot

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

It can also serve as a source of invaluable feedback for product development. This means deciding your approach to support, your goals, and how you’ll measure success. You’ll also need to hire the right individuals for your customer support team and invest in training them and providing them with the tools for success.

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User Pilot

JANUARY 31, 2023

Identifying at-risk customers is crucial for understanding their behavior, improving customer satisfaction , and reducing churn rate. While identifying high-risk customers, you can address the root causes and focus on working to retain those customers. Tag feature usage.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

SDRs and BDRs are often young and ambitious, and their investment in these entry-level positions is formative to developing their sales style and shaping the career paths they will choose. SDRs can make excellent customer success reps. Sales development and customer success have in common a customer-facing approach.

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Stax

MARCH 18, 2025

Generate product interest through lead generation Lead generation is a way to pique the interest of prospective customers to increase your SaaS growth rate by nurturing and converting them into customers. If your product is amazing, but you have a poor onboarding process, chances are high you’ll have a low activation rate.

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Totango

MAY 17, 2024

Leading companies and CS teams are paving the way by providing innovative solutions that leverage AI technologies to accelerate impact and drive customer retention and growth. So, what can CS teams do today? As a result, CSMs spend a staggering 35% of their time compiling details on customer accounts using various tools.

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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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ChurnZero

OCTOBER 30, 2023

About one-third (36%) of customer success teams have veto power over bad-fit customers,according to our recent annual Customer Success Leadership Survey.That means for better or worse, the remaining 64% have to find a way to manage those customer relationships anyway. Benchmarking.

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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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ChurnZero

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Fostering a ‘Customer Success First’ Attitude Across Your Organization. The success of your customers no longer lies squarely on one team or department. Instead, every part of your organization must be aligned with the needs, desires and wants of today’s ever-evolving customers.

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ChurnZero

JULY 12, 2019

Perhaps product problems, loss of a key user in the account, a bad use case… Sure, these are some reasons why customers may churn, but the reality is that your churn rate is deeply connected to the quality of onboarding journey your users go through. Outstanding brands create connections between customer needs and their solution.

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User Pilot

JANUARY 8, 2024

TL;DR A customer acquisition strategy is a comprehensive plan for attracting, engaging, and converting new customers into paying users. Host product webinars to reach your target audience Develop webinar content that educates your audience on industry trends, common challenges, and how your product addresses these issues.

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User Pilot

JULY 29, 2024

To create a successful product marketing strategy, you need to set tangible goals, create user personas to understand your target audience better, and develop messaging that showcases your unique value proposition. Successful product marketing examples to inspire you: Userpilot reaches its target customers through product-led content.

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Does your Customer Success team have the right structure, workload, and engagement model to hit its goals? If (nearly) missed targets are becoming the norm, it might be time for you to dust off and revamp your customer segmentation strategy. We were very lucky that our specific customer base is CX professionals.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 1, 2023

We’re still learning what world we’re in — some people interview over Zoom, some are focused on how to build teams in the current age, and many are dealing with a weird overhang from the SaaS explosion of 2021, quiet quitting, layoffs, and team turnover. The last thing a VP of Sales wants to do is start without a team.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 4, 2021

Developing a revenue operations (RevOps) strategy — and the team to implement it — is no easy task. As the VP of Revenue Operations at Sales BQ®, I saw my role develop from primarily sales enablement to sales operations as we worked to understand and get a hold of the wide variety of roles RevOps is in charge of.

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ChurnZero

AUGUST 24, 2023

The job is never done in customer success. Emails pile up, meetings are stacked back-to-back and theres always someone who needs something from the customersand its up to customer success to make the request. Watch the webinar in full here, and read Ryan’s lessons for first-time leaders below.

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SaaStr

JULY 1, 2020

She manages a huge global team. It has a portion of its revenue that’s very sensitive to the economy and a lot of startups in the customer base, good and bad, right? Sam will have a lot of interesting perspectives on how he manages his team through these times. Four, people in the sale? Jason Lemkin: None.

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 21, 2023

To make the right choices, however, you need a deep understanding of what your customers need and expect from you. Here’s the webinar in full. Q: If your customer has more than one need, how do you decide which to prioritize first—or you do you address them all at the same time? But we can’t do it all.

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User Pilot

MAY 27, 2024

Now let’s go over how you can improve and create positive customer perception: Personalize customer experience : Segment user base and design relevant product experiences for each. Deliver ongoing training : Engage users with educational content like webinars and tutorials. Userpilot webinars. an engagement loop ).

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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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OpenView Labs

MARCH 15, 2019

Part of the appeal of this approach is that it’s a very effective way to scale revenue without having to go through the expense and effort of scaling your direct sales team. That’s not to say that designing and building a successful channel sales program is easy. Channel Sales versus Direct Sales – The Good and the Bad.

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