Totango

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

For enterprises, a well-constructed customer health score isnt just a nice-to-have; its a strategic asset that empowers teams to manage complexity, sustain customer satisfaction, and scale their customer success efforts. This article illustrates how large enterprises can modernize customer health scores for growth.

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Lumoa

JUNE 30, 2022

There are a few common challenges when trying to make customer experience value visible across your company: Lack of good data Contact rate Competing priorities. Each of these challenges makes it harder for you to prove the ROI of customer experience and to sell other leaders on the importance of investing in CX.

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Gainsight

DECEMBER 17, 2019

And I think the same is true with planning out your customer success strategy for 2020 and beyond. Extrapolating the future of your customer success organization. It’s one thing to look ahead to the future of the broader customer success movement. How do you segment your customer base?

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ChurnZero

APRIL 27, 2021

As ChurnZero recently secured a Series B investment bringing our total funding that has been raised to date to $35 million, we thought we’d take a look back and see the role that Customer Success plays at each respective stage of funding for SaaS companies. Early-Stage Funding & Customer Success.

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ChurnZero

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

We’ve found that, when looking to build a strong team of Customer Success Managers (CSMs), an incentive compensation plan , otherwise called a variable compensation plan , produces the best results. This can be measured by how much they sell, the success of their team, or the success of the organization as a whole.

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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

MARCH 26, 2018

The history of Customer Success dates all the way back to 1995 when Concur became the first SaaS company by putting their product into what is today known as the cloud. In 2004, Salesforce came up with the Customer for Life program, and set the foundation for all of the reasons we are so focused on Customer Success today.

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Amity

JUNE 12, 2014

I have participated in several discussions around how to manage your Customer Success organization and the value it brings to your customer base and company. And a question I hear quite often is – is there opportunity to also drive incremental service revenue from your Customer Success staff?

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ClientSuccess

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

There are an overwhelming amount of metrics that you can measure to track customer success. So, to break through the fray and give you a place to start, Client Success has created THE list of the most valuable customer success metrics. Did they achieve these outcomes?

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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. Customer success continues to evolve as a practice within companies that enjoy recurring revenue models.

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ChurnZero

AUGUST 21, 2020

So, to reprieve our collective cry for clarity, we asked industry experts to give their best predictions on the future of Customer Success. So, without further ado, here’s what our Customer Success experts had to say: You Mon Tsang , CEO, ChurnZero. Greg Saiz , VP of Customer Success, Betterworks.

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ClientSuccess

JANUARY 30, 2023

Vectors by Vecteezy As the growth of your business accelerates, you may face a difficult decision: when and how to scale up your customer success team. Scaling up at the right time with the right approach ensures that customers get the support they need while reducing burnout in your organization.

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ClientSuccess

MARCH 20, 2019

Over the next month, I will be writing about the customer success metrics that top organizations use to measure the performance of their customer success strategies and team execution. The metrics I will cover are applicable to customer success departments and also to your entire company. Let’s get started.

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Gainsight

OCTOBER 22, 2020

By identifying risk in your customer base, your team will drive action to mitigate it faster and help drive up retention. Naturally, the first step of establishing a renewal process is defining the leading indicators of risk within your customer base. Customer sentiment (e.g. Return on Investment (ROI).

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Gainsight

DECEMBER 15, 2021

If you’ve been paying attention to our content the last few weeks, you know Gainsight is excited about our 10 New Laws of Customer Success. Of course, we know not everyone is as enthusiastic about the 10 New Laws of Customer Success. As our Chief Customer Officer Kellie Capote put it, the impact was “ squishy ” at best.

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Gainsight

MARCH 31, 2025

That means relying on new customer acquisition is expensive for any organizationand in uncertain markets, companies want to ensure that kind of investment leads to ROI quickly. No team is better positioned to help find quick revenue wins like the Customer Success (CS) team. Thats where automation becomes critical.

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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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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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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 20, 2019

20 Customer Success Predictions for 2020 . T hat’s why we asked some of the top Customer Success (CS) leaders to share their industry predictions for 2020. Vanessa Hannay , Director of Customer Success, Muck Rack . Making customers happy is no longer good enough. . . The year was 1909.

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Gainsight

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Organizations create Customer Success teams to increase Net Revenue Retention, and we’ve recently published research showing that NRR drives valuation. Organizations create dedicated roles to continuously improve CS functions to improve NRR or reduce costs by scaling up your customer base with the same CS headcount.

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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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ClearAction

MAY 18, 2017

5 Radical Changes to VoC of the Future for ROI Maturity optimizecx. What’s the greatest challenge Voice of the Customer (VoC) managers face? Here are the radical changes I believe will be VoC of the future: (1) Let customers and employees give you feedback anytime , anywhere, any way. Value Chain Solution to VoC ROI.

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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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Amity

AUGUST 30, 2018

Customer Success is still a relatively young discipline, and as a result, leadership teams are often unsure about where it fits into their organization. This would be a short-sighted move since Customer Success and Account Management are distinguished by more than just a naming convention.

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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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CSM Practice

OCTOBER 10, 2018

All About the Customer Success Performance Indicator . This summer, I received a call from one of my favorite customer success community leaders, Dave Lake (CEO for ClientSuccess ) who asked me if I might be interested in taking part as a Judge for The Innovator of the Year Award that takes place each year during CS100 Summit.

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Gainsight

MAY 3, 2020

Last week we were treated to a lively conversation with Eric de Jager, President at Harbor Products Group, and our very own Tyler McNally, VP of Customer Experience who really proved how vital it is for Product Leaders and Customer Success leaders to partner during these uncertain times. Definition of success towards retention.

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Gainsight

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The value of customer success cannot be overstated. A highly focused, strategic, and well-supported Customer Success team can affect everything from your product to Net Revenue Retention (NRR). Today, it’s imperative to prioritize the proper budget for Customer Success. Identify the Impact of Your Team.

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Amity

AUGUST 8, 2016

I have participated in several discussions around how to manage your Customer Success organization and the value it brings to your customer base and company. And a question I hear quite often is – is there opportunity to also drive incremental service revenue from your Customer Success staff?

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Gainsight

MAY 6, 2020

This realization has caused many of our customers to declare “Thank God we have Gainsight right now!” [*actual customer quote]. Perhaps you have investigated Customer Success technology in the past but decided the timing was not right. Here are 3 reasons you’ll want to revisit CS technology right away: 1.

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Gainsight

JANUARY 17, 2020

Q: How do you work with your customer-facing teams to gather feedback? A: We have a daily standup between our product, customer success, and support teams. We do this to make sure each day is organized around customer needs. They surface challenges and try to create a solution for the customer.

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CustomerSuccessBox

JUNE 20, 2022

Now that you’ve chosen to read this article, I suppose you are already aware of the weightage that the Customer Success function holds for your SaaS business. And when it comes to delivering the right customer success function to your clients you are as good as the tool you use. What is a Customer Success Software?

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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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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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CustomerSuccessBox

JUNE 13, 2022

All of this contributes to bettering customer journeys and propelling the company’s future growth. Customer success and the role of Customer Intelligence. Customer intelligence may assist marketers in achieving a wide range of customer success objectives and activities.

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CustomerSuccessBox

JUNE 8, 2021

TL;DR: Customer success is one of the top 10 fields for employment in the tech sector and the Most Customer success departments have different structures to suit each of their unique requirements consisting of a Vice president of Customer Success or Chief Customer success officer, Director of Customer Success and Customer success managers.

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Gainsight

OCTOBER 13, 2022

To help you do that, we created the SaaS Durable Growth Kit for Customer Success , a collection of insights and proven strategies from Gainsight executives that shifts the conversation from “what now” to “what’s possible.” . Capote shares five key points of advice for SaaS customer success leaders: .

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