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Customer Success + Sales = Revenue Retention: Insights from Totango Leaders

Totango

If you asked your customer success (CS) and sales leaders this question, what do you think each of them would say? Revenue retention hinges on the collaborative efforts of CS and sales teams as they collectively shepherd customers throughout the lifecycle journey, from acquisition to retention and expansion.

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Mastering the Sales to CSM Handoff

Kapta Customer Success

The Importance of a Seamless Sales to CS Handoff The handoff from the sales team to the customer success team is a critical juncture in the customer journey. A seamless handoff sets the tone for the entire customer experience and can make or break the relationship.

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From Silos to Synergy: How Sales and CS Alignment Unlocks Revenue Growth

Totango

Success is revenue. You get success right; your revenue is coming.” – Charlie Sonnenberg, VP Sales, Totango + Catalyst Customer-led growth is the only way to protect and sustain revenue growth. But to do that well, CS needs true alignment with their sales counterparts. Bold statement?

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Rules of Engagement for Customer Success and Sales: Considerations and Examples

ChurnZero

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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Why Great CSMs Lead to Great Revenue Pipeline

Speaker: Christian Jakenfelds, CSM at Planhat

But what many customer success professionals don’t understand is that this work can actively impact an organization’s new revenue. Often, the information that marketing and sales need is just lying on the floor of the CSM’s (virtual) office, and its value might be overlooked.

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Spotlight on CS Ops: Supercharging Customer Success with Data-Driven Strategies

Totango

But making it work demands a balancing act of two core things: supporting customer outcomes and empowering the internal CS team with business-critical insights. In particular, you need to arm your customer success team with razor-sharp processes and cutting-edge tools that optimize long-term customer value throughout the post-sales journey.

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Why Your Next Employee Should Be a Customer Success Manager

Retently

The Connective Tissue of a Company The first non-technical hire you make needs to be in Customer Success. Customer Success is the bridge between what your company does and what your customers need you to do. They offer a look into the minds of your customers and can shape the direction of your entire firm.

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Customer Success Needs to Grow (Up)

Speaker: Peter Armaly - Senior Director and Advisor of Customer Success at Oracle

Customer success is a well-established practice in the enterprise business world (70% of companies have a dedicated team, according to TSIA) and the benefits it delivers to customers are real and well-documented. With accountability, comes a deepening of the relationship with customers.

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The Democratization of Customer Success

Speaker: John Ragsdale, Vice President of Technology Research for TSIA

As enterprise technology firms are in the midst of a rapid transition from on-premise to cloud technology, product development, sales, implementation, and support strategies are obliged to follow suit. One of the most visible changes to companies as part of this transformation is the advent of customer success.