CSM Practice

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

A good customer success team drives continuous value to the customer at every point in the customer life-cycle journey. Customer success teams use playbooks and strategies in their ongoing efforts to ensure customers achieve operational success and maximize value from your solution offerings.

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ClientSuccess

JANUARY 11, 2023

The concept of customer success continues to rapidly gain traction as businesses strive to improve their customer experience. Here’s an overview of what we call the Golden Rule of Customer Success – 8 Guiding Principles: Understand customer needs, goals and motivations. Read on to learn more. In fact, a lot.

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Totango

AUGUST 8, 2021

Driving software adoption through customer success in the 2020s is a precision business. Create a Cross-Functional Customer Journey Team. Choose the Right Customer Success Software that provides a 360-degree view of your customer. Driving Software Adoption through Customer Success Begins with Understanding.

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CustomerSuccessBox

DECEMBER 3, 2021

As a Customer Success leader , you reviewed your past year’s performance thoroughly. Well, it’s not easy to prove a case for Customer Success(CS). Irrespective of your designation, this blog is going to help you with exactly that. Head of CS, Director of Customer Success , or Senior CS leader.

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Totango

AUGUST 21, 2020

In our latest installment in the CXO Series , we sat down with Keith Strodtman, COO, Customer First and Shelby Czarnota, Vice President, Customer Success Business Solutions at SAP as we discussed SAP’s Transformation and Innovation in Customer Success and why they deployed Totango as their One Customer Success Platform.

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Gainsight

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Specifically, the Customer Success world learned 10 important lessons in 2020: 1. Customer Success Helps Businesses Survive Through the Pandemic. . Customer Success Helps Businesses Rebound – Through Their Clients. Net Dollar Retention Becomes THE Metric. Customer Success Is a Unicorn.

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Centercode

APRIL 16, 2019

What are beta program metrics exactly? I’m sharing this experience (with his blessing) because it provides some insight for other product and program managers who have questions about identifying key beta program metrics. Measuring Beta Program Success. That’s why he reached out to Centercode’s Customer Success team.

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CSM Practice

JUNE 6, 2020

Despite the benefits of a higher renewal rate, many SaaS companies focus on generating revenue from new customers even while they lose revenue to customer churn. Contrarily, SaaS companies who understand the importance of high renewals can grow stable revenue while delivering optimum value to their customers. Increase Retention.

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CustomerSuccessBox

APRIL 19, 2022

From marketing to customer support to even customer success. Similarly, customer journey analytics will allow contact center professionals to smoothly monitor contact center metrics and help them analyze the serious metrics that impact key business objectives like the cost to serve, NPS, etc.

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ChurnZero

MAY 6, 2022

He also discusses how the market’s perception of net revenue retention has shifted over the last decade and what companies can do to increase this red-hot metric. B2B products must impact ROI. “If If your product or service can have an impact on ROI, that’s what you really need to do. You have to get your customers now.

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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

9 tips to get your CSMs to adopt Customer Success software. Have you ever worked at a company where the Customer Success team had to beg for its own tools? The CSM perspective: how to encourage the adoption of Customer Success software. As CSMs, we spend our days convincing our customers to adopt our tools.

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ClientSuccess

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

As we near the end of 2018, it’s the perfect time to look back on what we’ve experienced so far this year in customer success. Customer success is an ever-changing role and we’ve seen incredible advancements this year in technology, ideas, and processes to help us all elevate customer success.

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ChurnZero

OCTOBER 30, 2020

What’s Next For Customer Success? No one knows what the future holds (as 2020 has made abundantly clear) but that didn’t stop us from asking top SaaS CEOs what’s next for Customer Success. In-product onboarding also affords CSMs more time to focus on the work that makes the greatest customer impact and return on effort.

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Amity

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Amity sat down with Maranda Dziekonski , HelloSign's VP of Customer Operations, to chat about all things Customer Success: data, churn, team management, and much more. I’m the Vice President of Customer Operations at HelloSign. What does the culture of Customer Success look like at HelloSign?

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Gainsight

MARCH 3, 2021

I’ve hosted get-togethers with Customer Success executives nearly every month for the past 8 years. He’s also well known for his humorous and insightful blog, kellblog. Net dollar retention (NDR) becomes the top SaaS metric , driving companies towards consumption-based pricing and expansion-oriented contracts.

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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. These actionable points are powerful enough to turn around your CS business’s ROI! Since they differ from firm to firm, tracking every metric out there doesn’t make economical sense. Yes, you heard that right! Know your North Star KPI.

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CSM Practice

OCTOBER 10, 2018

This summer, I received a call from one of my favorite customer success community leaders, Dave Blake who is the CEO for Client Success. Dave asked me if I might be interested in taking part as a judge for The Customer Success Innovator of the Year Award that takes place each year during CS100 Summit.

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CSM Practice

OCTOBER 10, 2018

This summer, I received a call from one of my favorite customer success community leaders, Dave Lake who is the CEO for ClientSuccess. As a judge, assessing the finalists included meeting with 5 forward-thinking brainiacs, who all shared fascinating new approaches to doing customer success better.

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Customer Success Chief Customer Officer ROI Customers 49

ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Is your Customer Success team: Butting heads with Sales during onboarding. Getting bombarded by Marketing for unrestricted customer access. Put simply, Customer Success does a lot of things for a lot of people. ChurnZero vRYG panelists included: Sana Farooq , Director of Customer Success, FloQast.

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CSM Practice

AUGUST 26, 2019

A while back, I sat down with Paul Piazza for a fireside chat at one of our PulseLocal Silicon Valley Customer Success event series. At that time, Paul Piazza had already had multiple Customer Success systems deployed and configured. This blog captures some of the questions that were addressed during this fireside chat.

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CustomerSuccessBox

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

A well structured customer success organization is necessary for any SaaS company to achieve massive growth. So, a proper customer success organization is required to provide consistent growth. Setting Up a Customer Success Organization. Should Customer Success report to Sales?

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Totango

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

That is the idea behind tech-touch customer success solutions: thoughtful, relevant, value-driven communication delivered only when it has a positive impact on the customer. When your enterprise starts to fulfill its growth potential, it becomes impossible to greet every customer with one-on-one attention.

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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

9 tips to get your CSMs to adopt Customer Success software Have you ever worked at a company where the Customer Success team had to beg for its own tools? I have a few tips to help you drive customer success software adoption that sticks. We know that if they adopt, ROI will happen naturally!

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Software Customer Success How To CRM 52

CustomerSuccessBox

MAY 25, 2021

The Net Retention Rate (NRR) and Gross Retention Rate(GRR) show retention in terms of revenue retained over a period of time whereas Customer retention Rate or Logo Retention Rate show retention in terms of the number of customers. Measuring both of these metrics will give a more balanced view of your retention. GRR or NRR.

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Totango

MAY 10, 2022

A customer engagement strategy is critical for retaining and growing SaaS clients. In this blog, we’ll look at the essentials of a customer engagement strategy, particularly how to use it to engage enterprise clients. What Is a Customer Engagement Strategy?

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Amity

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Amity sat down with Maranda Dziekonski , HelloSign's VP of Customer Operations, to chat about all things Customer Success: data, churn, team management, and much more. I’m the Vice President of Customer Operations at HelloSign. What does the culture of Customer Success look like at HelloSign?

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ClientSuccess

MAY 14, 2019

Welcome to our blog series CSM from the Trenches, a community for frontline Customer Success Managers (CSMs) that discusses trends, best practices, and advice for the frontline. Being on the CSM frontline allows us to directly influence the success of our clients. From : Cole Sanders, Sr Customer Success Manager.

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Touchpoint Customer Success Engagement Strategy 45

SmartKarrot

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Before customer success was introduced, companies used to spend massive funds in acquiring the customers only to see them finally go. But as customer retention became a major goal for these companies, customer success ROI started paying off. Importance of measuring customer success ROI.

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NICE inContact

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Quantifying benefits of investment in customer experience technologies is a very involved process. Forrester interviewed several NICE inContact customers as well as their industry analysts to come up with The Total Economic Impact of NICE inContact CXone which models an 1,100 seat composite organization.

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ClientSuccess

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Customer success, like any other department, is dependent on metrics. Customer success managers (CSMs) and leaders rely on these metrics to ensure they’re delivering the best possible experience to customers, and to determine repeatable workflows. Research Stage. Evaluation Stage. Onboarding Stage.

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Metrics How To Effort Score Customer Success 40

Centercode

DECEMBER 22, 2020

The ROI of Testing Pre-Release Products with Centercode. Our customers were crushing it this year, and we couldn’t be more proud of the role we played in their success. How to Decrease Beta Testing Costs by 40% (Blog). How Defined Processes Are Shaping Success in 2020 (Blog). Increasing Efficiency.

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Amity

APRIL 25, 2016

Frequently updated and always on point, the A-List is a snapshot of what's happening in the world of Customer Success. Director of Customer Success - Proven. Alex curates the Customer Success Newsletter which is a weekly curated collection of 4 helpful articles from around the Customer Success community.

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ClientSuccess

JULY 5, 2017

For customer success leaders, these roadblocks or pitfalls can be the tipping point between customer satisfaction and customer churn. 5 Common Success Post-Sales Pitfalls. This way the CSM is aware of all promises, discussions, and even internal political issues before they even meet the customer.

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SmartKarrot

JANUARY 13, 2023

Role: Customer Success Specialist Location: Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland (Hybrid) Organization: Zowie As a Customer Success Specialist, you will manage and support the success of a portfolio of customers across the entire post-sale customer journey from kick-off to advocacy and renewal.

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ClientSuccess

JULY 23, 2019

Welcome to our blog series CSM from the Trenches, a community for frontline Customer Success Managers (CSMs) that discusses trends, best practices, and advice for the frontline. Being on the CSM frontline allows us to directly influence the success of our clients. From : Natalie Williams ; Director, Customer Success.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 11, 2019

This is a guest blog post by Joe Daniels, Head of Content at Receptive. It’s no secret that Customer Success and Product teams have a bit of a love-hate relationship, and when it comes to communicating and working together things don’t always go smoothly. 1 – Product Doesn’t Care About Our Customers.

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ClientSuccess

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Imagine you took a poll at your company across all departments and proposed the question, “Which is more important: customer success or customer satisfaction?” You’re likely thinking that customer success and customer satisfaction are one in the same, or at least very closely related. And you’re not wrong.

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