Alida

OCTOBER 28, 2016

The success of online communities is all about having the right people. Online communities provide the most ROI when they have people who are eager to actively participate and who represent the company’s customer base. Define your personas. But GoDaddy didn’t stop there.

Healthcare 203

Healthcare Social Media 2016 Insights 203

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.

Customer Journey Mapping 52

Customer Journey Mapping B2B Customer Journey 2025 52

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).

Customer Base 59

Customer Base Return on Investment NPS Metrics 59

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

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.

Customer Success 98

Customer Success Metrics Net Promoter Score NPS 98

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.

ROI 54

ROI Feedback Insights Financial 54

ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Here’s the short and the long of it: if you’re a Customer Success leader who is looking for consolidated business, product, and customer data, then you can probably piggyback on the Business Intelligence (BI) tool your SaaS company already uses – and this will likely be heavily suggested (or even mandated) by your CEO or other C-suite leaders.

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Customer Success Books Insights Customers 96

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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Customer Success Measurement Document Customers 66

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.

Customer Success 97

Customer Success Metrics Measurement Customer Satisfaction 97

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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Customer Success Net Promoter Score Sales 2020 93

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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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?

Metrics 75

Metrics Customer Success Net Promoter Score E-support 75

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.

Customer Success 63

Customer Success Communication Customer Relationships Customers 63

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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Customer Success Management Chief Customer Officer Leadership 98

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.

Metrics 52

Metrics Customer Success Net Promoter Score NPS 52

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.

Metrics 52

Metrics Customer Success Net Promoter Score NPS 52

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.

Customer Success 59

Customer Success Roadmap ROI Sports 59

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.

Customer Success 52

Customer Success Net Promoter Score Customer Centricity Customers 52

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?

Customer Success 52

Customer Success Net Promoter Score Multi-Channel ROI 52

Gainsight

JANUARY 11, 2024

Customer success is firmly entrenched in the SaaS business model. According to a 2020 study by TSIA, more than 90% of organizations had a dedicated customer success role in their company. Nick Mehta , CEO and Founder of Gainsight, recently said, “Every single software company has a customer success program now.

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CEM Customer Success Management Customers 52

Totango

JUNE 28, 2022

But during an economic downturn , when companies are cutting costs and putting a halt on investing in new products, the CMO’s focus has to switch from facilitating growth through new customers to promoting growth via the company’s current customer base. . Be Proactive About Customer Health .

Return on Investment 78

Return on Investment Competitive Advantage ROI Communication 78

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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Customer Success Management Roadmap Feedback 59

Amity

JANUARY 20, 2017

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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Customer Success Management Fashion Leadership 72

Totango

OCTOBER 2, 2020

By considering each stage of the journey as a unique customer experience that comes with its own goals for achieving success, you can generate customer momentum and reduce the time to value — and the sooner customers experience ROI, the sooner they begin to rely on your product. Personalize communications.

Customer Retention 118

Customer Retention Customers Communication Metrics 118

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.

Customer Success 59

Customer Success ROI Metrics Chief Customer Officer 59

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?

Customer Success 60

Customer Success B2C NPS E-support 60

Totango

JULY 2, 2019

There’s no better way to provide a great customer experience than by surrounding them with attentive, responsive, and personalized service. . Understand Your Customers. All customers are essentially seeking the same thing: ROI on investment and to achieve their personal business goals. Nurture Customer Growth.

Customer Centricity 86

Customer Centricity ROI Events Customers 86

delighted

DECEMBER 10, 2019

ROX is the new customer experience ROI. Let’s get right into it — how customers perceive your brand can influence the success of your business more than ever before. Expected Customer Experience (CX) impact on loyalty. Building your own CX ROI model. Baseline ROI metrics: Customer experience by the numbers.

ROI 40

ROI Measurement Customer Experience NPS 40

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.

Customer Success 49

Customer Success Chief Customer Officer 2019 ROI 49

SurveySparrow

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Your client success quotes should be some of your proudest achievements, not just your bottom line. We look at some of the best customer success quotes from business legends and seasoned entrepreneurs in this article. 30 customer success quotes for inspiration: 1. Your customer is going to get to vote and talk.

Customer Success 52

Customer Success Airlines Net Promoter Score Advertising 52

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.

Customer Success 49

Customer Success Chief Customer Officer 2019 ROI 49

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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Customer Success Management Fashion Leadership 67

Alida

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

But putting customers at the forefront of strategic decision-making isn’t always easy. Balancing budget constraints, departmental priorities and revenue growth against customer success can be a challenge, even for the most seasoned of executives. We are truly nothing without our customers.

Chief Customer Officer 50

Chief Customer Officer Customer Centricity Workshop Leadership 50

ChurnZero

JANUARY 4, 2024

It’s an exciting time to be in customer success. “2024 will continue to see the chief customer officer move into the leadership phase,” predicts ChurnZero CEO and co-founder You Mon Tsang. ” How will customer success teams evolve and adapt to meet those expectations, and what challenges will they encounter? .”

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CSM Practice

JUNE 6, 2020

Despite the benefits of a higher renewal rate, many SaaS companies focus on generating revenue from new customers even while they lose revenue to customer churn. Contrarily, SaaS companies who understand the importance of high renewals can grow stable revenue while delivering optimum value to their customers. Increase Retention.

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Metrics Measurement Customer Success Financial 89

Natalie Petouhof

AUGUST 26, 2015

Tweet Buyer’s Guide for Customer Success Management: Totango I’m in the process of writing profiles of vendors in the customer success management industry. These vendor profiles are a tool for buyers to evaluate their customer success management options before selecting a vendor.

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Customer Success Sales Management Advertising 51

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.

Customer Success 49

Customer Success Chief Customer Officer 2019 ROI 49