AskNicely

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Growth-savvy customer success experts agree that creating a customer-first culture begins and ends with executive buy-in. Here’s why: According to The 2018 NPS Benchmark Study, when high-level executive support is present, an organization is twice as likely to successfully build an advanced NPS (Net Promoter Score) program.

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ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

In the world of customer success, there’s a constant pressure to scale while maintaining that personal touch that keeps customers loyal and engaged. Training took months, and canned responses broke down the moment a customer veered off-script. Enter generative AI: a game-changer for customer success.

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Totango

MARCH 30, 2021

If you were presented with the opportunity to double or triple the size of your business virtually overnight, what would you say? For one thing, how would you scale your customer success operations quickly enough to meet the demand that this type of growth requires? 8 Steps for Scaling Customer Success.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

OCTOBER 5, 2021

There are CX leaders who focus primarily on customer insights, like Voice of the Customer programs. And there are CX teams dedicated to customer journey design and improvements. There are CX leaders who have titles like Customer Success Manager and Contact Center Supervisor. Ask leaders to present their ideas.

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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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Totango

JULY 28, 2021

Following best practices for hiring a customer success manager can make a critical difference in the quality of your customer relationships. Customer success managers serve as the face of your company in dealing with clients, playing a key role in ensuring satisfying experiences of your brand. Suggesting upsells.

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ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

This is a guest article by Swati Garg , founder and CEO, Melo Associates , and Lindsay Lynch , senior recruitment consultant, Melo Associates , a recruitment firm focused on customer success hiring for SaaS and tech companies nationwide. For example, “Enterprise Customer Success Manager”.

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Customer Bliss

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

“If you have a customer success job in an organization that isn’t interested in customer retention, you need to consider doing something else,” says Lucy Norris , Executive VP, Global Leader of Customer Success at Genesys , a technology company that provides solutions for customer experience, marketing, and sales.

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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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CustomerSuccessBox

MARCH 18, 2020

In a world where work from home is fast becoming the norm, Customer Success Managers have always faced this dilemma – to travel or not to travel to meet their customers. In most situations, a hybrid model, i.e., a combination of on-ground and remote success, works best. Should customer success managers travel?

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ClientSuccess

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

While the customer success world (and the larger SaaS economy in general) has experienced its fair share of ups and downs this year, the industry will be even more prepared in the future. . Here are 3 predictions for 2021 that will help customer success teams and leaders alike strategize, plan, and prepare: .

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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

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

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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ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

When you’re just getting started, or you’re still building your Customer Success team, sometimes you can use all the help you can get. It can be difficult in these situations for Customer Success Managers (CSMs) to find the time or the resources to dig for those crucial customer insights. Your Customers.

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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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Totango

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Ongoing market volatility created by the COVID-19 pandemic has placed a greater emphasis on the revenue potential of existing customers. A decline in new business opportunities brought about by belt-tightening in the market is encouraging the use of Customer Success best practices to retain and grow opportunities with existing customers.

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Totango

AUGUST 13, 2024

At Totango + Catalyst, we made a strategic decision to challenge the script on revenue priorities, empowering customer success managers (CSMs)—those mostly intimately aware of customer needs and goals—to own core renewals, expansions, and upsells. Are you ready to unlock a new level of impact for your customer success team?

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ChurnZero

MARCH 5, 2021

Customer seeing results? But still, when presented with the opportunity to leave, your customer just up and churns on you. When applied to Customer Success, these principles help explain why “surprise churn” happens, despite your every endeavor to follow all the best Customer Success playbooks to a T.

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Education Services Group

APRIL 8, 2022

Welcome to Rants of a Customer Success Analyst. I’m Justin Garlock, and over the next three months, I’ll be providing you a weekly firsthand look into the mind of a Customer Success Analyst: how we should think, what we should be doing, what we should be asking, and how we should execute and deliver.

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Help Scout

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

The first named customer success group was created in 1996. While the original driver for the role was to grow relationships and increase revenue, the customer success specialist job description has changed quite a bit since then. Learn from those examples, and apply the elements that fit for your team and situation.

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Education Services Group

MAY 20, 2022

I see a lot of chasing in Customer Success: chasing metrics that our data doesn’t support, chasing insight, chasing answers to the reason customers churn, and chasing a haven of exemplary plays and processes to mitigate risk and drive value. Stop chasing a Customer Success platform that doesn’t do what you need it to do.

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Gainsight

APRIL 7, 2022

Looking back, those investors were early believers in the Customer Success movement before it was a proven concept. Fast forward to today, VC and Private Equity firms have made Customer Success strategy and strong Net Revenue Retention a core part of their investment diligence process. .

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ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Customer Success Capacity Planning and Budget Guide. As a Customer Success leader, do you get anxious at the thought of asking your CFO or CEO for additional headcount? Even though it’s evident that your understaffing is causing the customer experience to suffer. Your team is stressed and ready to walk away.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JULY 20, 2021

Meanwhile, Malik from the Social Media Response team is doing his best to reply to customers who say they’ve complained about this issue before — even though he doesn’t know what the root cause of the issue might be — and Padma from Customer Success doesn’t have any visibility into what customers are saying at all.

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 21, 2022

1/ Crash course in Customer Success and SaaS metrics. Presented by: Dave Kellogg , principal, Dave Kellogg Consulting. Related reading: Key SaaS and Customer Success metrics you should care about – What’s a good CAC? 3/ Drive customers to value during onboarding, at scale. One train can hide another.”.

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ChurnZero

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

When asked to sell to customers, Customer Success Managers (CSMs) are often scared of coming off as too pushy or getting a “no.” There’s a common (albeit misplaced) fear among CSMs that sales talk will tarnish their customer’s trust and set fire to the relationships they’ve worked so hard to build. .

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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

6 Ways to Capitalize on the C-Suite’s Attention on Customer Success. As a customer success leader, you’re likely familiar with the struggles of gaining executive buy-in and advocating for the criticality of customer success to the larger organization. How to play offense as a customer success leader.

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ChurnZero

MAY 11, 2021

Here’s a roundup of our top five takeaways for Customer Success professionals from TSIA Interact 2021. . . Companies who monetize Customer Success, see higher Net Promoter Scores (NPS). There’s room for improvement in the industry with measuring and presenting ROI to your customers . Only 27.2%

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Totango

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Hiring team members with the right customer success manager skills is critical for the effectiveness of your CS team and strategy. We’ll cover these below, along with five best practices to follow when bringing a new customer success manager aboard your team. What Is a Customer Success Manager (CSM)?

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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

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

With acquisition costs proving too high in today’s constrained environment, many businesses are finally putting greater focus on nurturing existing customer relationships to ensure retention and expansion. The global market research company conducted its first Forrester Wave™ evaluation of top customer success platforms.

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Lumoa

JANUARY 9, 2018

Stop organising by function and skill set, start organising by ‘ability to deliver customer success’ create ‘experience teams’ of people with different skills and different core competencies that can manage the entire customer life cycle and reward them together for the achievement of customer success, not completing tasks and activities.”.

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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Customer Success Metrics that Your Investors and Board Care About. They care that you’re staffed appropriately to serve the needs of your customers, because ultimately that results in revenue. A huge part of how customer success collects intel and feedback from customers is by talking with them.

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Totango

JULY 5, 2022

In uncertain economic times, attracting new customers becomes exponentially harder as budgets get tighter and priorities shift. Let’s take a look at four key actions to take right now that will not only help you prove your worth to your customers but will allow you to see instant results. . Dive into Customer Health.

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Gainsight

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

[TL;DR: We’re thrilled to announce a partnership with Vista Equity Partners, valuing Gainsight as a “unicorn,” to take the Customer Success movement to new heights. The face of every Gainster past and present who has played a role in making the Customer Success movement a reality. The Customer Success Mountain.

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Customer Bliss

JULY 19, 2019

In today’s episode, we take a look at how Lucy Norris , Executive Vice President, Chief Customer Success Officer at Genesys and Daniel Coullet , Senior Vice President of Customer Success and Experience at PTC , handled the first year in their role. Understand Current Customer Satisfaction. What is at the top?

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