Totango

DECEMBER 1, 2021

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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Totango

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Customer success vs. customer support: although these two terms appear similar, they actually refer to two different, yet complementary, functions within a company. Fulfilling a proactive role, customer success focuses on problem prevention and creates value by enabling clients to achieve business goals.

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Totango

APRIL 4, 2024

If you asked your customer success (CS) and sales leaders this question, what do you think each of them would say? Revenue retention hinges on the collaborative efforts of CS and sales teams as they collectively shepherd customers throughout the lifecycle journey, from acquisition to retention and expansion.

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Totango

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Customer Success team accountability isn’t something you just worry about figuring out later once your CS team is up and running. As a manager, when your organizational best practices and your customer’s goals align with your employee’s actions and responsibilities, you have the perfect conditions for growth. .

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Totango

JUNE 24, 2022

Customer success in SaaS differs from CS in other industries. The software service industry presents unique challenges for customer success management while also creating unique opportunities that call for specific strategies. Read on to learn the keys to effective customer success for SaaS clients.

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Customer Journeys Customer Success Net Promoter Score B2C 109

Totango

JUNE 10, 2022

As we saw in our 2021 State of the Customer Success Industry and Salary Report , the role of Customer Success Manager (CSM) is one of the fastest-growing jobs in the industry. In a recent webinar titled “Navigating Your Customer Success Career Path”, Totango’s Sr. Customer success is still new.

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Kayako

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Consider the three below as entry points as you get more detail in creating a training program that works: Set up documentation. Set up documentation. As a customer support professional, it’s impossible to overstate the importance of good documentation. Your internal documentation should never go stale.

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Amity

APRIL 24, 2017

From the day the three co-founders started the company, its business plan, and its culture, Customer Success has been at the forefront of all things Loopio. We sat down with Loopio's Co-founder and CEO, Zakir Hemraj , to discuss the genesis of Customer Success at Loopio and the effect it’s had on the company as a whole.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 10, 2023

No matter what your role in Customer Success, creating and ideating on new content, strategies and engagements is key to the customer relationships you build and the results you drive. What is Customer Success AI ? How can AI help Customer Success? How do I use Customer Success AI?

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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

By investing in Customer Success from the start, startups can build loyal and engaged customers who ultimately become brand advocates. Jennifer Chiang author of “The Startup’s Guide to Customer Success,” joined us to share how Customer Success can help you as you scale your startup.

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Customer Success Metrics Sales Course 96

GetFeedback

JUNE 22, 2019

Remember that your NPS survey represents a valuable customer loyalty metric. Viewing customers through this lens gives customer success teams a better way to build healthy, long-lasting customer relationships. Solid customer data helps your customer success teams predict and prevent churn.

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ChurnZero

APRIL 13, 2020

ChurnZero Partners with ESG to Offer Digital Customer Success Strategy Consulting Services. ESG is now offering a Digital Customer Success Starter Pack to augment ChurnZero customers’ bandwidth. The ESG Digital Customer Success Starter Pack includes: One-hour digital Customer Success maturity assessment.

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Amity

MAY 24, 2018

Do an inventory of every type of communication (to both internal and external customers) and processes you own. Chances are, there is still a large portion of your communications that is manually sent and could potentially be automated. Surveys - What surveys are being sent to your customer and how?

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Education Services Group

APRIL 13, 2020

Customer Success as a Service ® provider ESG announces a partnership with ChurnZero , a real-time Customer Success platform, to offer a Digital Customer Success Starter Pack to their customer base. ESG is now offering a Digital Customer Success Starter Pack to augment ChurnZero customers’ bandwidth.

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ChurnZero

MAY 26, 2021

Slack has transformed business communication. When we think of Slack, we usually think of it as an internal communication tool, however many people do not realize it can also be used for external communication as well. There are a number of Slack communities that have been created specifically for Customer Success professionals.

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Education Services Group

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

One of the biggest challenges facing Customer Success leaders is how to effectively scale. This is nearly impossible without incorporating Digital Customer Success into your overall CS strategy. How will the customer experience be enriched by incorporating Digital Customer Success, not limited by it?

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Amity

MAY 25, 2016

With over 750 customers worldwide, Vision Critical provides a cloud-based Customer Intelligence platform that allows companies to build engaged, secure communities of customers they can use continuously, across the enterprise, for ongoing, real-time feedback and insight. I head up the Customer Success Team in Toronto.

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Customer Bliss

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Amy Downs is the Chief Customer Success & Happiness Officer at Lifesize, a company enabling communication and collaboration among many mediums (their slogan is “connecting people to make their workplace great” ), was quite interesting. At Lifesize, she was initially VP of Customer Care. Episode Overview.

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Totango

APRIL 12, 2022

At Totango’s 2022 Global Executive Forum , customer success leaders from around the world came together to connect with their peers, share ideas and learn about new products and opportunities. Top 10 Insights from Customer Success Executives. The Customer Comes Before the Product. Design and Run All-in-One .

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Customer Success Customer Journeys Roadmap Sales 88

ChurnZero

JANUARY 26, 2021

A J oint Success Plan is a simple but powerful tool for outcome-based customer success management. It’s designed to help solution providers align with their customers’ business goals and objectives. Customer success continues to evolve as a practice within companies that enjoy recurring revenue models.

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CSM Practice

AUGUST 7, 2020

CSM Practice conducts Customer Success Executives Roundtable every third Tuesday of the month where you can connect and exchange strategies and tactical advice with your peers. The customer journey maps allow customer success managers to feel that they can lead the customer during their journey and become more proactive.

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Customer Journeys Customer Success Guidelines Customers 81

Amity

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

With Elizabeth's permission, we are republishing and sharing it with our community. The sales to customer success handoff is one of the most important intersections in the customer journey. It can make the difference between successful product adoption or a churn risk waiting to happen. Consistency is key.

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Sales Customer Success Tips Customer Journeys 87

Totango

AUGUST 14, 2020

In customer success, your customers define their own victories. No one-size-fits-all finish line exists that clients must strive to cross, and there is no Harvard Business School concept of accomplishment you can award your customer before resting on well-earned laurels. Creating Better Customers, by Definition.

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ECXO

MAY 27, 2024

AI-enhanced tools analyse communication patterns and optimize project management by assigning tasks based on team strengths. Google Workspace leverages AI for document drafting, while Figma’s FigJam organizes ideas into actionable workflows.

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ChurnZero

APRIL 1, 2022

You’re not alone,” says Sharon Winterton , vice president of Customer Success at Catalina Marketing during her session “ Battling imposter syndrome in Customer Success ” at BIG RYG, ChurnZero’s annual Customer Success conference. You’ve never done Customer Success before. There’s so much to do.

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Amity

JUNE 27, 2018

For our Customer Success meetup in Toronto, we had the privilege of hearing from James Scott , General Partner at SuccessHacker , who helps other companies achieve growth and success through their Customer Success (CS) teams. Customer Success hasn’t been around for nearly as long as we tend to think.

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Industry Customer Success Tips Customer Centricity 82

Customer Bliss

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

He began implementing a few new tactics to help them shift their focus to be more customer-driven. To start, he had account reps email post-call summaries to customers. Providing documentation to customers eliminated another step in the process, and demonstrated that Rigor employees want to be of help.

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Customer Bliss

MARCH 28, 2018

Implementing a Customer Success Strategy is a Cultural Transformation. Leading Customer Success in a B2B Business with Jose Vergara. Not everybody in the company will understand customer success because it’s a buzz word. The culture and communication part of CX tends to get left on the table.

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B2B Chief Customer Officer Net Promoter Score Culture 171

ClientSuccess

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Knowing how to identify these indicators, which metrics to track for each, and how to gauge success is critical for any customer success team looking to set themselves up for long-term success. Leading Indicator 1: Customer Engagement. Number of days since the last proactive communication (aka email or phone call).

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Totango

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Looking back at the 2020 Customer Success Salary Report , this year has also had a particularly influential effect on the Customer Success (CS) Industry. As compared to 2019, companies are increasingly growing their Customer Success teams to maximize retention and drive growth from existing customers. .

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Report Customer Success Net Promoter Score Roadmap 65

Totango

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Do you continue to get the same level of attention from that company’s customer success (CS) team? Or does communication slow or stop? As you can see from the customer’s perspective, the attention you offer after a sale is completed is just as important as the attention you show during the sales process.

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Sales Customer Success Customer Journeys How To 60

Amity

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Editor’s note: This is a living document, and our goal is to update it regularly with the best resources around customer success. The Best Customer Success Resources of 2016. Surely, you are staying up to date on the latest customer success trends – did someone say “customer marketing”?

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Education Services Group

JUNE 24, 2022

There was a lot of preparation (what to expect, what to bring), information collecting (height, weight, medical history), communication (times, dates, locations), and safety briefings (waivers, equipment, jumping methodology) that happened before the jump could take place. So, what stops customers from taking the adoption leap?

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Customer Success Net Promoter Score ROI Customers 98

Amity

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

We often encounter the question, " is there a way to measure how well my Customer Success Team is performing?" " After reading the Joel Test , we've come up with our own quick test to assess the maturity of Customer Success as a SaaS vendor. Do you have an up-to-date list of all your customers?

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LiveChat

JUNE 26, 2018

Cloud-based unified communication is a platform that has all the possible ways of making communication. Because of this basic reason, the need for a cloud-hosted communication is severe, today. Because of this basic reason, the need for a cloud-hosted communication is severe, today.

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Communication Trends Multi-Channel Contact Center 59

InMoment XI

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Did you know that 77% of organizations cannot consistently create a consistent customer experience across channels? This often stems from poor internal communication, outdated technology, or inefficient processes. It is particularly useful for aligning teams across multiple departments, such as marketing, sales, and customer success.

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Customer Journeys Customer Experience Strategy Touchpoint 195

ProProfs Chat

APRIL 17, 2020

Keeping that in mind, we’ve decided to help you learn the different metrics that would allow you to create effective strategies that not only gives you an edge in the market but also retain your existing customers. In this thorough guide, you’ll come across: Different SaaS customer success metrics. 1: Customer Churn Rate. #2:

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