ChurnZero

JANUARY 13, 2023

However, it’s tough to predict the future alone — so we asked Customer Success leaders across the industry to share their top trends for 2023. Second, the power of AI in customer experience will become more evident and accessible—an innovation we at ChurnZero have jumped on with the introduction of Customer Success AI.

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Gainsight

OCTOBER 15, 2024

For the past decade, Customer Success (CS) has been defined by a straightforward mission: guide customers to achieve their desired outcomes with your product or service. While this goal remains steadfast, the landscape of Customer Success is shifting dramatically.

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TeamSupport

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Last year, we highlighted some of the key customer service trends to watch in 2018 and many of them came to fruition. Once a thought of the distant future, many companies began adding these concepts to their workflows and roadmaps. Once again, for the third year in a row, here are 7 customer service trends to watch in 2019….

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Totango

OCTOBER 30, 2024

With seemingly never-ending growth capital, organizational leaders focused almost exclusively on getting new customers—retention, upsell, and expansion would be handled by Customer Success. Notice a trend? All of these tactics are about the company versus the customer. But then the ground shifted from underneath.

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CSM Practice

JUNE 24, 2021

How valuable is Customer Success’s input in creating a solid product roadmap?! In the past, companies relied solely on the product management team to build and drive roadmaps. Shifting the Product Roadmap Ownership to Customer Success. What is a product roadmap? It was a one-team show.

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ECXO

MARCH 6, 2025

Some organizations create a detailed CX roadmap that estimates improvements in metrics like net retention rate, customer lifetime value, or average deal size as experience enhancements roll out. This group regularly reviews progress on the CX roadmap, monitors key metrics, and helps resolve any interdepartmental issues.

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Gainsight

JANUARY 31, 2019

Ask, “What’s next on our product roadmap?” Your customer data is a goldmine wrapped in a bow covered in glitter. Because your customers are the most important source of information when it comes to prioritizing your product roadmap. Your customers’ primary interaction with your company is through your product.

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GetFeedback

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Then use text analytics to understand sentiment, identify keywords, and spot trends. Close with a custom thank you page. This is a great marketing real estate to promote relevant content, like customer stories, or ask promoters for reviews. NPS isn’t just a customer metric, it’s a company metric.

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ChurnZero

APRIL 22, 2022

Did you hear that ChurnZero’s Customer Success team are finalists for a 2022 CODiE Award, the software industry’s only peer-recognized awards program? We’re in the running for Client Success Team of the Year. As a Customer Success company, this award couldn’t be closer to our hearts. this October.

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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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Gainsight

AUGUST 4, 2022

In the decade since Gainsight created the customer success (CS) category, the industry has matured from a reactionary stance, answering post-sales and services needs, into a proactive and sophisticated revenue-generating machine. . Instead, continuously evaluate what practices and customer insights might lead to better outcomes.”.

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ChurnZero

JULY 30, 2021

It’s no secret that Customer Success teams can occasionally get overlooked, or that organizations struggle with consistent cross-team collaboration. I know this firsthand, because as a Customer Success Manager at ChurnZero, I see it happen all the time with customers.

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ChurnZero

MARCH 31, 2023

The purpose of a Customer Success team is to help a company’s customers get the most value out of its product. The hypothesis is, if a customer maximizes the obtainable value, they will remain loyal and spend more with the company. A Customer Success team has the time and resources to respond this way.

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Totango

MARCH 13, 2020

Still, customer data needs to be carefully tracked and evaluated in order to be worth gathering in the first place. Understanding how to use customer success analytics to your advantage is key to seeing your enterprise’s roadmap for the future. Tracking Data Throughout the Customer Journey.

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Interactions

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Analytics and continued optimization Without an active customer success team by your side, your business only has its own singular point of view when studying analytics to derive insights and areas for improvement. We have eight reports out of the box, as well as the ability to customize reporting at any point of the engagement.

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Gainsight

APRIL 26, 2019

In the “final frontier” there isn’t a roadmap to follow. In the customer success movement, we’re in the middle of the same transition Star Trek made—from a Kirk-type leader to more of a Picard. Customer Success in the 2010s vs. Customer Success in 2020—and beyond. Recruiting.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 8, 2021

Against the backdrop of wild economic uncertainty, Customer Success has been the failsafe of SaaS businesses that were blindsided by pandemic-induced churn and contraction. With Customer Success demand at an all-time high, we expect to see more of its leaders join the executive ranks in the coming months and years.

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Gainsight

JANUARY 17, 2020

So we asked 10 experts the following questions to learn more about how they collect and prioritze customer feedback: What are some of the effective ways you collect feedback? How do you work with your customer-facing teams to gather feedback? How do you prioritize what feedback gets incorporated into the product roadmap?

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Gainsight

DECEMBER 23, 2019

On a recent webinar with one of our private equity partners, Gainsight CEO Nick Mehta shared an inspiring outlook on what’s to come in the year 2020 for customer success. The industry is constantly evolving and it’s important to stay ahead of the curve with new concepts and trends. That’s a big, big trend.

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CustomerSuccessBox

JANUARY 10, 2022

Customer Success Manager job description: As a CSM (Customer Success Manager), your role is to maintain a good relationship and the satisfaction of your existing customers while developing the customer portfolio. Additional Resource – What is a Customer Success Manager.

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Totango

OCTOBER 14, 2024

“Your job as a CSM is to help your customers leverage your tool to the maximum capabilities to create ROI for them, to get them promoted,” said Edward. When the company is focused on customer ROI, Marketing can develop campaigns around that ROI, and sales can qualify prospects based on their need for that return.

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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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Amity

JANUARY 9, 2019

One of the most exciting aspects of developing customer success strategies is looking at how Customer Success is (or should be) integrated with other areas of the organization. It can also happen when the senior leadership team has not agreed on and adopted a cohesive customer success strategy and culture.

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GetFeedback

JULY 29, 2019

Instead, use existing processes such as product standups, defect tracking, roadmap planning, or market assessment meetings to notify stakeholders about relevant feedback. Observe trends and correlations. Your actionable plan helps make it obvious where each group and category of feedback should be sent and tracked!

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Gainsight

JANUARY 7, 2019

We don’t have a handle on how each customer is using the product. We need to scale our customer onboarding. These challenges are nothing new to Customer Success (CS). The world is realizing that to drive Customer Success in a SaaS business, the product plays a central role.

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Gainsight

JANUARY 9, 2019

The rise of digital business has added urgency to—and rigor around—the concept of customer-centricity. But one thing missing from this whole conversation on customer centricity, customer obsession, and customer success has been data. What are the actual figures around these trends?

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ChurnZero

AUGUST 3, 2021

Report on net and gross expansion and contraction from existing customers. Assess trends in your ASP (average selling price) overall and broken down by individual reps. Report on cohorts (typically by customer start month, quarter, or year). . Customer Success Around the Web. Customer Success Around the Web.

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ChurnZero

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

The first installment outlined the significance of (and ramifications of not) marrying your Customer Success and Product teams, how to spot the misaligned warning signs, and decoding each team’s unique working style.]. Go to customer onboarding and training sessions. Make Customer Success Feedback Measurable.

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GetFeedback

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

After a customer submits feedback, they receive a prompt response from your team acknowledging that you’ve read their comments. With Salesforce, you can set up rules that notify a Customer Success Manager (CSM) every time someone gives a score of 6 or lower.

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Lumoa

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

software bug fixes, wrong information corrected on the website) Product development decisions : reprioritizing things on the product development roadmap taking the feedback into account (e.g. more friendly behavior in customer service) Marketing to take the info into account in better targeting (e.g.

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Gainsight

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Partner Success has been long talked about in Customer Success programs, but it’s had limitations in practice due to technology constraints like data security requirements and lack of Customer Success capabilities among partners.

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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. Traditional Factors.

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ChurnZero

MAY 22, 2024

I find that saying the term “digital customer success” in our industry almost always garners one of two responses from CS professionals. Now, there’s absolutely nothing wrong with customer marketing, but that’s just a tiny portion of what we’re really talking about here. or their eyes light up. What the heck do those mean?

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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Is your Customer Success team: Butting heads with Sales during onboarding. Getting bombarded by Marketing for unrestricted customer access. Put simply, Customer Success does a lot of things for a lot of people. ChurnZero vRYG panelists included: Sana Farooq , Director of Customer Success, FloQast.

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CustomerSuccessBox

APRIL 12, 2022

While the core of the Customer success function involves anticipating client difficulties and providing proactive solutions to the customers. The needs of customers are continuously evolving and with that, you as a business should also reshape your strategy to keep up with the trend and maintain the growth of your business.

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Amity

JANUARY 30, 2019

In a previous post we tackled the question of ‘what is customer success?’ ’ In case you didn’t read it, or need a refresher, our definition of Customer Success is proactive enablement. This is the high level 100,000 foot overview of what Customer Success means to us.

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Gainsight

OCTOBER 23, 2019

The critical role played by customer success (CS) teams is well known, as is the importance of the customer success software powering these teams. But, could thinking about customer success software as a category be leading us down the wrong path? Understanding the Customer Success Software Market.

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