Retently

MARCH 16, 2022

But there’s still one area that’s neglected all too often – Customer Success. As SaaS companies spring up, the essential Customer Success role is being rolled into Customer Service. What is the role of Customer Success? The Customer Success Manager (CSM) is thus not a passive role.

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Customer Success Net Promoter Score Customers Customer Retention 157

ChurnZero

JULY 22, 2021

By creating healthy boundaries, Customer Success and Sales don’t have to spend their days assessing and arguing over every expansion situation. Your rules of engagement should be based on which team is genuinely the best fit in each scenario and has the greatest likelihood of gaining sales traction. Circle of influence.

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Examples Sales Customer Success Engagement 98

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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Net Promoter Score Customer Success NPS Culture 150

Totango

JULY 25, 2019

What’s better for your business to focus on: customer success or sales? Customer success is the practice of cultivating deep and lasting relationships with your customers, which can unlock lasting customer lifetime value for your business. Customer Success and Sales: Two Sides of One Lucrative Coin.

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Sales Customer Success Customers Customer Centricity 80

BlueOcean

MARCH 7, 2024

Blue Ocean, a world leader in customer care solutions, was named a Finalist today in the “Contact Center Outsourcing Provider of the Year” category in the 18 th annual Stevie ® Awards for Sales & Customer Service. About Blue Ocean Blue Ocean is an award-winning provider of innovative customer care solutions.

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Sales Customer Service Sports Contact Center 156

Amity

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Amity decided to sit down with David Apple , Director of Customer Success at Typeform, to learn about the structure and culture of Customer Success in this fast-growing startup, and to find out how it has evolved since its beginning 3 years ago. I got lucky! I got lucky! So I was just at the right place at the right time!

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Customer Success NPS Metrics Culture 129

Totango

APRIL 9, 2024

Is 2024 the year of customer success or sales? They unanimously agreed that 2024 is the year of the ICP (Ideal Customer Profile). The cohesion between these teams can significantly drive customer value and results, which impacts retention, expansion, and, ultimately, predictable growth.

Sales 114

Sales Customer Success Strategy Industry 114

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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Communication Chief Customer Officer Customer Care Leadership 222

InMoment XI

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Almost 80% of employees who created a customer journey map at their organization say it helped generate alignment between internal teams. Increased Resource Allocation Customer journey maps can help you identify problems and present a strong business case for customer experience improvement.

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Customer Journeys Customer Experience Strategy Touchpoint 195

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. These numbers are an indication that sales are slowing down.

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Customer Success Effort Score Customer Centricity Video 128

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 Success How To Insurance Culture 52

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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Resources Customer Success eBook Multi-Channel 111

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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Customer Success Sales Customers Roadmap 98

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: .

Customer Success 113

Customer Success Metrics CRM Trends 113

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.

Customer Success 117

Customer Success Innovation NPS Touchpoint 117

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. The results?

Customer Success 101

Customer Success Management Customers Roadmap 101

Amity

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Amity sat down with Bradley Liou , Director of Customer Success at Densify to ask him about all things Customer Success. Read our interview with Bradley to find out where Customer Success started at Densify, where it is now, and where it’s headed in the future. A lot of the time things are reactive.

Customer Success 106

Customer Success Competitive Advantage Customers Software 106

Lumoa

MARCH 9, 2023

Additionally, studies have shown that customers who believe their needs are being understood and responded to in a timely manner are more likely to make repeat purchases from a business.

Customer Experience 397

Customer Experience Social Media Customers Video 397

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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Examples Customer Success Customers Sales 104

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.”.

Customer Success 98

Customer Success Metrics Consulting Training 98

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)?

Customer Success 97

Customer Success Management Exercises Social Media 97

Retently

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Questions of first impression are game-changers for industries like Ecommerce, SaaS and Retail, basically, anywhere the customer experience directly influences conversions or loyalty. For instance: In Ecommerce , a confusing checkout process can mean a lost sale. Post-Purchase Experience First impressions don’t end with the sale.

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Survey Ecommerce Feedback Interaction 120

ChurnZero

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Virtual events present uniquely flexible opportunities for Customer Success professionals to brush up on skills and to learn from peers, albeit from the safety of being behind a webcam. 1) Out of the Box: ABX Strategies for Marketing, Sales, and CX. 2) The Customer Conference. 3) The Customer Room.

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Conference Customer Success Customer Journeys Industry 98

ChurnZero

JANUARY 3, 2023

Customer Success is not a cost center. Here’s the usual story: Company prides itself on being “sales driven.” The sales team is credited for winning revenue, while the Customer Success team is expected to retain the revenue. Sales closes a customer that’s unlikely to succeed (for any number of reasons.)

Sales 98

Sales How To Financial e-support 98

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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Report Trends Customer Success Self Service 98

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. We’re behind on our sales projections.

Customer Success 98

Customer Success Touchpoint Analysis Customer Journeys 98

Gainsight

AUGUST 17, 2020

In the Customer Success world, as one CS exec told me recently, it’s become clear that “this is our moment.” With new business sales slowing and clients needing more help than ever, Customer Success has proven to be existential in 2020. CS 2020 Requires Alignment Across Customer Success, Sales, and Product.

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Customer Success Company e-support Sales 94

Retently

OCTOBER 16, 2024

For example, after a customer service interaction, the support rep’s signature might include a simple “ How did I do? Think about it: customer service teams, sales representatives, and support agents send hundreds – if not thousands – of emails each week. rating with clickable smiley faces. So, why are they so efficient?

Feedback 134

Feedback Survey Effort Score Customer Satisfaction 134

ClientSuccess

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

While customer success leaders, HR representatives, and other key stakeholders are often involved in the hiring process at every step of the way, the structure of your organization could warrant additional team members from different departments being involved in the hiring process. Customer Success Deep Dive.

Customer Success 81

Customer Success eBook Case Study Touchpoint 81

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.

Customer Success 98

Customer Success Touchpoint Customer Centricity Customers 98

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. Never Stop Iterating.

Customer Success 88

Customer Success Customer Journeys Roadmap Sales 88

ChurnZero

OCTOBER 5, 2021

No worries if you weren’t able to attend (or even if you did and are looking for a recap), we have pulled together our top ten Customer Success takeaways from SaaStr Annual 2021 that we wanted to share with you here. Are your compensation plans setting your business up for longer-term success or subscription contraction? .

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Customer Success Conference B2B Sales 95

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

AUGUST 17, 2021

HR, Learning and Development, or Talent Management , who can both ensure the employee experience is representative of the customer experience and facilitate employee engagement strategies; And in some cases, it’s important to include Internal Communications to share and socialize what the team is doing throughout the organization.

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Meeting Customer Experience How To Net Promoter Score 364

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.

Customer Success 98

Customer Success Net Promoter Score Customers Metrics 98

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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NPS Net Promoter Score Survey Effort Score 304

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.

Customer Success 101

Customer Success Course Conference Software 101

ChurnZero

JANUARY 6, 2022

Customer Success represents a large source of revenue-generation for SaaS businesses. Though Customer Success was originally regarded as a post-sale cost center, you can flip its narrative with the right metrics, positioning, and forecasting strategy. When people think of top-line growth, they often think of Sales.

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Metrics Customer Success Customer Journeys How To 98