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?

Customer Success 101

Customer Success Management Customers Leadership 101

Retently

MARCH 10, 2022

Customer Success and Churn. Great customer success is perhaps the single greatest defense you have against high churn. Some of the areas where the churn rate is affected most significantly are during the Onboarding, Product Adoption, Customer Retention , and Product Expansion stages.

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E-support Poor Customer Service Customer Success Customers 147

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.

Customer Success 81

Customer Success Leadership Customer Journey Metrics 81

Amity

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

Amity had the chance to sit down with Peter Armaly, Principal Transformation Advisor at Oracle Marketing Cloud to find out how its Customer Success philosophy is evolving, and how it has managed to keep the customer at the heart of its work throughout its evolution. How did you get started in Customer Success?

Customer Success 80

Customer Success Marketing White Paper Net Promoter Score 80

Amity

JANUARY 30, 2018

Maheen Memon is the Director of Customer Success at Nulogy. Throughout her career in Customer Success, she’s had the opportunity to try a couple of things and has picked up some life-saving best practices along the way. We invited Maheen to the Amity office to present at one of our monthly Customer Success events.

Customer Success 69

Customer Success Social Media Roadmap Sales 69

Amity

JULY 18, 2016

You’ve probably read your fair share of information online about Customer Success. Specifically -- and especially -- if you are a SaaS company, there are several articles, whitepapers, webinars and blog posts that state how critical Customer Success is to your company’s survival. WHAT is SaaS Customer Success?

Customer Success 66

Customer Success Metrics E-support Leadership 66

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.

Customer Centricity 76

Customer Centricity Customer Success Roadmap Feedback 76

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.

Customer Success 59

Customer Success Management Roadmap Feedback 59

Thematic

APRIL 21, 2025

Customer success notes and QBRs: B2B relationships usually include regular check-ins (e.g., quarterly business reviews) and strategy meetings (sometimes even customer focus groups). These voice-of-customer (VoC) sessions​ capture candid feedback from day-to-day users and executive sponsors.

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B2B Customer Insights Insights Engagement 62

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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Customer Success Definition Customer Journey Customers 61

Gainsight

APRIL 11, 2025

A culture of belonging that fosters a sense of ownership among the customer base. Communities work best when they become specialized settings that are transparent, secure, and productive for customers. Educational programs (including live events) that drive onboarding, adoption, and more. Personal brand-building opportunities.

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Events Customers Roadmap Article 59

Amity

MARCH 19, 2014

You’ve probably read your fair share of information online about customer success. Specifically, and especially, if you are a SaaS company – there are several articles, whitepapers, webinars and blog posts that state how critical customer success is to your survival. WHY adopt a Customer Success model?

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Customer Success Metrics Leadership Customer Satisfaction 54

Kayako

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

There is no shortage of opinion in the market place about Customer Success; what it is, how to execute and whether growth should be a success metric are all hot topics. This may require a long-term culture shift for not only your team but your CMO as well, as their current success metric is probably centered on lead generation.

Customer Success 54

Customer Success Chief Customer Officer NPS Metrics 54

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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2020 Customer Success Chief Customer Officer ROI 61

ChurnZero

DECEMBER 22, 2020

(If your newly minted budget leaves much to be desired, don’t give up b efore you try these arguments to win budget for Customer Success. Because in our very un biased opinion, Customer Success deserves to get everything they asked for and more. Looking for Customer Success book recommendations?

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2021 Customer Success E-support Books 59

TechSee

AUGUST 31, 2022

After speaking with hundreds of customers, enterprise buyers and our global team of customer success leaders, below are the five key questions to ask when evaluating a provider for your business. Consider your team culture and their technology stack. Culture & DNA. Internal Adoption. How often do they meet?

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Engagement Culture Technology Omnichannel 109

ChurnZero

DECEMBER 21, 2023

To make the right choices, however, you need a deep understanding of what your customers need and expect from you. However, the process never stops, so when there’s a customer need that you don’t get to the first time around, come back around and prioritize it the second time. But we can’t do it all.

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Sales Customer Success Webinar Tourism 52

Gainsight

DECEMBER 21, 2023

For a long time, proactive vs reactive was a common debate among Customer Success professionals. Now, the verdict is in, and everyone agrees that proactive Customer Success Managers (CSMs) are best positioned to drive value and deliver a better customer experience. Control over the customer experience.

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2023 Customer Success Culture Roadmap 52

Amity

JULY 18, 2016

You’ve probably read your fair share of information online about Customer Success. Specifically -- and especially -- if you are a SaaS company, there are several articles, whitepapers, webinars and blog posts that state how critical Customer Success is to your company’s survival. WHAT is SaaS Customer Success?

Customer Success 48

Customer Success Metrics E-support Leadership 48

Amity

JULY 18, 2016

You’ve probably read your fair share of information online about Customer Success. Specifically -- and especially -- if you are a SaaS company, there are several articles, whitepapers, webinars and blog posts that state how critical Customer Success is to your company’s survival. WHAT is SaaS Customer Success?

Customer Success 48

Customer Success Metrics E-support Leadership 48

Amity

JULY 18, 2016

You’ve probably read your fair share of information online about Customer Success. Specifically -- and especially -- if you are a SaaS company, there are several articles, whitepapers, webinars and blog posts that state how critical Customer Success is to your company’s survival. WHAT is SaaS Customer Success?

Customer Success 48

Customer Success Metrics E-support Leadership 48

Amity

JULY 18, 2016

You’ve probably read your fair share of information online about Customer Success. Specifically -- and especially -- if you are a SaaS company, there are several articles, whitepapers, webinars and blog posts that state how critical Customer Success is to your company’s survival. WHAT is SaaS Customer Success?

Customer Success 48

Customer Success Metrics E-support Leadership 48

SurveySensum

JULY 14, 2020

She is an internationally recognized Customer Experience Thought Leader, Coach, Keynote Speaker, and Author of ‘Customer Understanding: Three Ways to Put the “Customer” in Customer Experience’ (and at the Heart of Your Business). Chad Horenfeldt – Director of Customer Success at Kustomer.

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2020 Customer Experience Magazine Consulting 132

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JANUARY 10, 2023

You also included less structured measurements, like what customers were telling you in user reviews. You asked your frontline teams, like customer service agents and customer success managers, about what they were hearing directly from customers. They also bring CX priorities back to their teams.

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2023 Customer Journey Mapping Customer Experience Customer Journey 143

ChurnZero

APRIL 8, 2020

How Online Communities Create Customer Advocacy and Retention. This is a guest post by Danielle Juson is a Customer Success Community expert at inSided. Isn’t it great when you have a customer that not only keeps using your product, but shouts about how great it is too? developing customer advocacy is a must.

Customer Journey Mapping 81

Customer Journey Mapping Roadmap Customer Journey Customer Success 81

Comm100

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

Customer Service Culture. Whether you’re trying to reinvent your current customer service culture or simply enhance it, it’s important to have a sense of the values you want to instill in your agents. With this book, you can take a peek into the retailing giant’s customer-driven culture.

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Books Customer Service Culture E-support 89

ChurnZero

JANUARY 10, 2020

As SaaS gets more serious about Customer Success, their representation on the executive and C-suite level will follow (as envisioned in our 2020 Customer Success predictions ; see #2). Based on LinkedIn research, Customer Success r oles saw 34% annual growth —qualifying them as one of the top emerging jobs in 2020.

2020 52

2020 Chief Customer Officer Customer Success Leadership 52

Totango

AUGUST 29, 2019

We all know what customer experience is— just remember the best, or worst, experience you’ve had as a customer and you’ll know how important it is! Your brand’s product and people create a lasting impression that stays with new customers. If you aren’t a customer-centric company, now’s the time to become one.

Customer Retention 88

Customer Retention Customer Journey Customer Centricity Customers 88

ChurnZero

AUGUST 30, 2019

Top 10 Customer Success Takeaways from SaaStr Scale. It was a 1-day turbo-charged event in San Francisco with the best-of-the-best in Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success. Best way to improve culture? Respect Your Customer. We are happy to say it was a great event all around. Q&A happening now!

Customer Success 40

Customer Success Net Promoter Score 2019 NPS 40

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.

Customer Success 52

Customer Success Metrics Roadmap Leadership 52

SurveySparrow

JULY 31, 2023

VOC Methodology Process: Unleashing Customer Insights To embark on the journey of understanding your customers, you need a structured approach. The voice of the customer process provides a roadmap to systematically capture, analyze, and act upon customer feedback. When did being attentive become so much fun?”

Voice of Customer 52

Voice of Customer Customer Success Net Promoter Score Social Media 52

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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Definition Net Promoter Score Customer Experience B2C 167

Kustomer

JANUARY 6, 2022

Four – Have a Fantastic Inner Culture. We can’t say this enough, but culture is so necessary to long-term success! Time and time again, we find that when companies have the right internal culture, customer happiness dramatically increases as an awesome after-effect. You made a mistake. Let’s move on.

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Culture Definition Customers Roadmap 92

Totango

JANUARY 2, 2020

The evidence is clear —companies that use customer data insights to arm their operations teams outperform their competitors by as much as 85%. Analyzing customer data helps you determine the best way to retain customers and prevent churn. How Customer Data Insights Inform Next Steps. Take intelligent action based on data.

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Insights Roadmap Customers Customer Success 71

ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The working relationship between customer success and support teams can make, break, or even supercharge your customer experience, as Jaclyn Mullen of TheLoops showed attendees of ChurnZero’s most recent webinar. Remember that culture and alignment are living, breathing things. As you know, support are firefighting.

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Insights Customer Success Webinar Culture 52

ClientSuccess

JULY 23, 2019

Welcome to our blog series CSM from the Trenches, a community for frontline Customer Success Managers (CSMs) that discusses trends, best practices, and advice for the frontline. Being on the CSM frontline allows us to directly influence the success of our clients. I love that; as our clients are successful, we’re successful.

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Customer Success Technology Leadership Chief Customer Officer 44

ClientSuccess

AUGUST 27, 2019

Welcome to our blog series CSM from the Trenches, a community for frontline Customer Success Managers (CSMs) that discusses trends, best practices, and advice for the frontline. Being on the CSM frontline allows us to directly influence the success of our clients. I love that; as our clients are successful, we’re successful.

Customer Success 40

Customer Success Culture Books Blog 40