ChurnZero

JULY 31, 2024

And I completely understand that when you’re just starting to build a digital customer success strategy and program, email is often the simplest, fastest low-hanging fruit. But digital customer success is more than just sending automated emails. By using channels outside of email, of course!

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Totango

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

“Customer success is driving value to customers. Digital customer success is driving value more efficiently using a software or service that allows companies to grow and deliver value without using excessive resources” – Chris Dishman, SVP Customer Success, Totango.

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CustomerSuccessBox

MAY 16, 2022

Since you choose to read this blog, I suppose you already know the gravity of Customer Success in a B2B SaaS business. The crux of providing a great customer experience to the customer lies in maintaining great customer health throughout the entire customer lifecycle. However, this is easily manageable.

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Gainsight

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Customer Success teams often believe their only choice is between a platform that can be implemented quickly and one that is powerful enough to grow with them in the future. In fact, companies should not invest in a Customer Success Platform (CSP) unless it offers both. But it doesn’t have to be an either-or decision.

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Gainsight

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Customer Success teams often believe their only choice is between a platform that can be implemented quickly and one that is powerful enough to grow with them in the future. In fact, companies should not invest in a Customer Success Platform (CSP) unless it offers both. But it doesn’t have to be an either-or decision.

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Gainsight

OCTOBER 4, 2024

As a customer success (CS) leader, I’ve witnessed firsthand the transformative power of artificial intelligence in our industry. The rapid evolution of AI technology is reshaping how we engage with customers, manage our teams, and drive business growth.

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Gainsight

OCTOBER 4, 2024

As a customer success (CS) leader, I’ve witnessed firsthand the transformative power of artificial intelligence in our industry. The rapid evolution of AI technology is reshaping how we engage with customers, manage our teams, and drive business growth.

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ChurnZero

APRIL 27, 2023

The respective directors of the customer success team and the product team were really going at it. Customer success would attest something like “If we don’t build this feature for this customer, they won’t renew.” Here are three ways to support product management so you can do the same.

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ChurnZero

OCTOBER 10, 2024

This guest post is by Kristen Hayer, CEO and founder of The Success League. As a discipline that’s shifting from new to established, customer success is facing some interesting headwinds right now. Assess the revenue you’re responsible for, then review from the bottom up (such as time it takes to onboard, manage, renew, etc.).

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Totango

JULY 23, 2021

When it comes to the structure of a Customer Success (CS) team, there are many factors that need to be considered, from the makeup of the team to the technology that will be used. Let’s break down these factors and take a look at what components are needed to structure an efficient and successful CS team. .

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Gainsight

JULY 7, 2020

Churn (the amount of revenue lost from a company’s existing customer base each year) is a metric that rises to the top of most SaaS leaders’ minds; it is one of the most commonly tracked metrics in SaaS businesses. Specifically, we focused on decisions concerning the ‘Customer Success’ function.

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LiveChat

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Companies that take customer service seriously and make it a priority in the early stages of existence, shouldn’t forget about customer success management. It’s often mistaken with customer support, so let’s clarify. Customer success management is the next layer on the top of a successful customer support team.

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Gainsight

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Plus, even if organizations had the resources to spend on headcount, throwing more people at their customer success problems simply doesn’t scale well. As businesses expand and customer bases grow, relying solely on traditional, high-touch customer success models becomes increasingly unsustainable.

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Gainsight

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Plus, even if organizations had the resources to spend on headcount, throwing more people at their customer success problems simply doesn’t scale well. As businesses expand and customer bases grow, relying solely on traditional, high-touch customer success models becomes increasingly unsustainable.

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Totango

JANUARY 22, 2024

AI also emerged as a topic when we asked three of our executive leaders – Chief Marketing Officer Karen Budell , SVP of Customer Success Chris Dishman , and Chief Revenue Officer Dennis Reardon – to share their industry predictions for 2024. By nature, CSMs feel inclined to assume any responsibility involving the customer.

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Totango

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Your customer success team structure forms the organizational backbone supporting your CS strategy. A well-designed structure can help you streamline your operations for greater efficiency to deliver your customers better results. We’ll share four essential keys to structuring a customer success team.

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CustomerSuccessBox

DECEMBER 7, 2021

In an ideal world, it would be amazing to see every customer getting one-to-one attention from your customer success managers. It means it’s time for your business to adopt a digital-led Customer Success model! Understanding customer journey is really important in any SaaS business model.

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Gainsight

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Customer success plays an integral role in the success of any organization. CS efforts impact customer acquisition, upsells, expansions, renewals, and customer advocacy. Almost every business goal outlined by your company can be improved by someone in a customer success role. Customer Success Roles.

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CustomerSuccessBox

MARCH 31, 2022

With the tremendous growth in the SaaS industry, the job role of a Customer Success Manager (CSM) has become one of the most promising careers! In this highly competitive SaaS market, it is the customer success manager who elevates the company’s growth. The same goes for the customer success role.

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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. The range of responsibilities of Customer Success Managers (CSM) in the industry is dizzying.

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SurveySensum

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Customer Experience Management vs. Customer Relationship Management – What are the Key Differences? Good customer experience goes beyond a transaction — it’s about making your customers feel heard, valued, and understood. But as customer expectations evolve, so do the tools to manage them.

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Amity

DECEMBER 12, 2018

The Customer Success Manager role is a challenging one. These individuals will be facing both internal teams and external customers, trying to strike a happy balance between both while making the customer experience everything that it can be. Customer Success Managers must be strong, natural advocates.

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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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Totango

MARCH 4, 2022

B2B customer service is often confused with B2B customer success, but they are not the same. Despite their differences, however, they do share an intimate relationship – you need strong customer service to achieve customer success. What is B2B Customer Service? B2B vs. B2C Customer Service.

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Totango

AUGUST 16, 2022

Customer Retention Software Cuts Down Client Churn. 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. Onboarding.

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ChurnZero

JULY 29, 2022

A customer’s decision to stay with you doesn’t come from a single interaction; instead, it reflects their entire experience across your organization. To tap retention as a growth channel, you need a customer success strategy that elevates your customer success teams and puts customers at the heart of everything you do.

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Totango

JULY 19, 2021

And in this customer-centered economy, your customer success (CS) team is invaluable. The team’s goal is to retain your hard-won customers and help them grow by deepening the customer relationship and ensuring they are realizing value with your product every step of the way. Churn Reduction.

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Gainsight

JUNE 28, 2023

When I joined Coveo, they had a great Customer Success (CS) team and were doing an excellent job servicing customers. They were a small group fully committed to their customers’ success. Over time, it became clear they needed a plan for long-term success with their customer base.

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Totango

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Customer Success Dashboard Metrics: Nine Top KPIs You Need to Monitor. A customer success dashboard provides a powerful tool for tracking key performance indicators (KPIs) and ensuring that your clients are experiencing satisfying outcomes. What is a Customer Success Dashboard?

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Gainsight

OCTOBER 11, 2022

A well-oiled customer success (CS) machine that drives Net Revenue Retention (NRR). . SaaS organizations must align their teams around customer outcomes, and scale their CS team’s efforts with the utmost efficiency. To do this, CS leaders should operationalize CSM motions through a robust customer success management platform. .

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Education Services Group

MAY 28, 2021

Let’s talk Customer Success Plans. What’s a Customer Success Plan, you ask? Well, let’s just say it’s the wind beneath your customer’s wings. It’s the recipe for their success. My amazing metaphors aside, Customer Success Plans are essentially the “what” and “how” of delivering on your CS strategy.

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Totango

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Customer Success Playbook Strategies: Mapping a Path to Winning Outcomes. A customer success playbook maps out a game plan you can use to automate successful outcomes for your clients. Then we’ll consider the benefits of using success playbooks. What Is a Customer Success Playbook?

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delighted

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Customers have more options than ever, and a strong customer success program can make you stand out among competitors. Companies that consider the question “what is customer success?” – and work to anticipate and solve customer problems – will set themselves apart.

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Gainsight

JANUARY 4, 2021

As we embark on the New Year, now is the perfect time to catch up on Gainsight’s Customer Success resources from 2020. We compiled our best Customer Success resources from last year, from blogs to ebooks to webinars and podcasts. Launching Customer Success. Customer Success Team Management.

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ClientSuccess

MARCH 8, 2023

A little bit of gratitude can go a long way in building a loyal customer base. In conclusion, writing an effective customer success follow-up email is about personalization, clarity, value, and gratitude.

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CSM Practice

MAY 13, 2020

To those of us in customer success, it is even more clear that the pandemic has caused an unprecedented shift that is already affecting our customers, their journeys, their expected business outcomes , and our ability to fulfill them. 1. Be Customer-Centric.

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Gainsight

MARCH 2, 2022

One of the biggest—and most encouraging—trends we’ve seen over the past 18 months is that companies are no longer lavishing their customer success investments only on their highest-roller enterprise customers. . More and more businesses are realizing that taking care of all of their customers reaps huge dividends.

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