CCNG

APRIL 27, 2022

I thought about the warehouse full of employees that were waiting to ship out orders the contact center teams took, and I thought about the dozens of account managers that were depending on the contact center teams to sell products and make their clients happy. I did the same thing with the account managers and clients.

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Beyond Philosophy

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

At my global Customer Experience consultancy, we’ve been journey mapping with organizations for 20 years. Framing this situation in terms of Naïve to Natural, a Naïve or Transactional company would start the operational process to get the customer serviced, probably by asking for an account number. They want to get more revenue.

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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. 2+ years of experience specifically in a customer success or account management role.

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Education Services Group

MARCH 4, 2021

We talk to Customer Success organizations at all phases of development, so we often get asked about the differences between hiring a consultant, a staffing agency, and ESG. Now, nearly half of CS teams have advanced to own account expansion opportunities like renewals and upsell. Consultants. billion by 2023.

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Totango

AUGUST 13, 2024

“We hit 115% of our target across Totango + Catalyst in Q1 on our expansion number, and that was largely due to the CSMs and the focus they put in along with the work that we’re doing with our account executives. The partnership that we have is working.” The results? ” 3.

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ChurnZero

MARCH 28, 2025

The account managers were doing heroic work, that one rep had developed her own system to track health with five different tools. If you only reward upsell, you get short-term thinking. Thats the foundation of consultative selling. Sometimes the most strategic move is not to pursue an expansion. Balance incentives.

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Totango

MAY 7, 2024

By our math, that means nine out of 10 revenue-accountable leaders need a hand getting on the same page as their fellow go-to-market (GTM) counterparts. If CS doesn’t have commercial conversations with healthy customers, they’re not setting Sales up to re-enter the conversation and potentially upsell. Use your words Talk to each other!

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Beyond Philosophy

APRIL 14, 2022

Let that upsell be someone else’s job. Can I please have your account number?” These stats tell you why… appeared first on CX Consulting. The customer’s situation would have been resolved automatically by a feature at a higher plan level. Customers don’t want to hear, “Hi!

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Nicereply

MARCH 16, 2022

Some treat Customer Experience as a synonym to Customer Success, others see Success and Support as part of the CX team, and still, others prefer it reports into Sales as a way to increase upsells and renewals. For example, a dedicated account manager and phone support for our highest value customers.

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CSM Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Tasks such as order tracking, refund requests, or account updates are often completely handled by these virtual assistants, reducing wait times for customers. Agents get real-time prompts, such as upselling opportunities or techniques to calm frustrated callers.

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Inbenta

JUNE 12, 2023

According to Forrester Consulting, 50% of consumers said they often feel frustrated from their interactions with Chatbots and nearly 40% of these interactions were flagged as negative. The right Chatbot can also be used on your website to help you automate the upsell and cross sell products based on customer conversations or search terms.

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ClientSuccess

OCTOBER 2, 2019

We often hear the roles of Customer Success Manager (CSM) and Account Manager (AM) used interchangeably. The ultimate difference between a Customer Services Manager and an Account Manager is both in their area of concentration and how each target their customers. . Let’s talk about Account Managers first.

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ChurnZero

MARCH 31, 2023

As the consulting firm said in the study, “If you think you’ll have plenty of time to get it right because you’re a beloved brand, think again.” The authors refer to CSMs as “ growth engines ” and note “McKinsey benchmark data suggesting that existing customers account for between a third to half of total revenue growth, even at start-ups.”

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ClientSuccess

JUNE 17, 2019

In today’s world of SaaS customer success, most CSMs and/or Account Managers are held to some sort of revenue goal. Whether that revenue comes from an upsell, cross-sell, expansion, or something else, it’s still new revenue attributed to the customer. This is what’s commonly known as joint account planning.

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Totango

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

In a minimally proactive scenario, a company might assign individual account managers to email, text, or call customers at renewal time. The main con of renewal automation is that some customers may not want to renew without being consulted, even if they approved automated billing. In-App Promotions.

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ChurnZero

OCTOBER 8, 2021

You start as a company of 10, signing up every employee with a Google Drive account. As your business grows, you’ll have more employees to sign up with a Google Drive account, plus the storage space you need will increase. A large number of opened accounts with the SaaS business. . Yet, over time, your demands will change.

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Outsource Consultants

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Imagine your VIPs or high-value accounts stuck in automation loops, sitting on hold, or screaming at a chatbot! AI Predictive Upselling: Smarter Offers at the Right Time People arent anti-upsell. Theyre anti-bad upselling. Most upsell strategies rely on arbitrary scoring thresholds hit a certain spend, get a perk.

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ChurnZero

JULY 29, 2022

Conversely, if a customer’s mastery of a solution indicates a potential for upselling, your teams can present expansion offers that are grounded in the customer’s realized value. Using consultative touchpoints, the customer success team monitors and increases customers’ adoption and engagement throughout the customer lifecycle.

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CCNG

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Watermark Consulting, 2018) Only 14% of companies measure the ROI of Customer Experience. Zendesk, 2022) More than 70% of customers expect agents to have access to all information relevant to their account and query. Lumoa , 2018) 61% of consumers would pay at least 5% more if they knew they would receive outstanding CX.

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ClientSuccess

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The Account Executive (AE) that closed the initial – new logo – sale continues to collaborate with the CSM throughout the relationship and owns any expansion opportunities and the renewal. I’ve seen several titles associated with this role – Account Manager (AM), Renewals Specialist, Customer Account Executive, Client Executive, etc.

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Totango

APRIL 4, 2024

I recently hosted a webinar with four leaders from our team to learn how they work together to bolster retention, expansion, and upsells as a truly unified CS and sales front. One tool that Katie finds helpful in her role is a RACI matrix that designates accountability to relevant stakeholders involved in a project, task, or decision.

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ChurnZero

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Even though CSQLs have a lower customer acquisition cost, faster rate of return, and high close-rate, says Tony D’Auria, industry principal at Valuize, a customer lifecycle consultancy. Q: Should CSM roles close upsell deals? Tony D’Auria: I have seen it. I have worked it as a CSM. I have led it as a leader, and it can work.

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 29, 2020

A relic from bygone days of old-school Account Management, QBRs are a classic, but not timeless, practice; one that feels perfunctory and misplaced in today’s always-connected, data-enriched landscape. The SaaS Debate: Who Owns the Renewal and Upsell? Rethinking the Quarterly Business Review (QBR). Customer Success vs. Sales.

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ChurnZero

JUNE 15, 2023

With less budget to go around, some SaaS companies are merging customer success and account management into one function that’s responsible for an account’s business strategy, product adoption, and value realization, as well as its renewal and expansion. number of daily logins) to the account level.

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Cincom

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

This results in lost revenue and missed opportunities to upsell or cross-sell. 5- Enhanced Upselling and Cross-Selling Strategies Many CPQ platforms include recommendation engines that suggest upgrades, bundles, and complementary products. Explore our CPQ training resources or schedule a consultation with our experts.

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Outsource Consultants

MARCH 29, 2021

You can’t expect BPO agents dealing directly with customer complaints to maintain the same CSAT scores as those handling account upgrades, for example. Don’t waste time pairing conflicting KPIs, such as setting a lower agent AHT goal with increased upsell targets.

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CustomerSuccessBox

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

But someone needs to be responsible and held accountable for the results and ROI of customer success. At the start, it is not feasible to focus on several KPIs like retention, onboarding, upsells etc. So, s/he would not give the required time or put in the necessary efforts to reduce churn or increase upsells.

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CSM Practice

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Revealing opportunities for cross-sells and upsells. Step 2: Map the Top 10 Reasons with Accounts. Each CSM identifies at-risk accounts for each of the top ten reasons. One customer account may be associated with multiple churn reasons, and input from each CSM is collated into a single spreadsheet.

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ClientSuccess

MARCH 5, 2020

More and more companies are looking to customer success teams to help guide their overarching business strategy (even in sales, marketing, and product) and to help manage and cultivate long-term account growth. Consideration #2: Clear organization of customer accounts and responsibilities. A close second, however, is metrics.

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Totango

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

CSMs can then embrace their strategic role as a consultant, devoting more time to coaching customers on how to achieve their business outcomes by maximizing product value. When customers achieve their goals, businesses will see more subscription renewals and expansion revenue from upsell and cross-sell opportunities.

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Callminer

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

For instance, a call center business analyst might recommend implementing an interaction analytics solution for a collections and accounts receivables management (ARM) firm to ensure that call center agents meet compliance requirements for debt collection. Carol Tompkins is the Business Development Consultant at AccountsPortal.

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CSM Practice

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

06:27 – Nick’s overview of cross-selling and upsell trends for existing customers. 07:44 – Irit shares her insights about companies looking to increasing budget for outsourcing and consulting services. What are some of the trends that you’ve seen for cross-sell and upsell for existing customers? The Interview: .

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ChurnZero

MARCH 24, 2023

For example, if you receive an end-user NPS response or notice a pattern in end-user NPS feedback that says, “I hate this product,” and then from the same account, you get decision makers or contract signers saying, “I love this product,” that’s a problem. Everyone started looking at the dollars and focusing on these upsells.

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ChurnZero

MARCH 14, 2025

Will CSMs struggle to maintain a customer-first mindset and spend all their time on upsells, rather than learning about their big picture goals and helping them navigate the path to get there? 2: Dont lose sight of value realization metrics and the importance of a consultative approach as leading indicators of revenue goals.

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ChurnZero

MARCH 24, 2023

For example, if you receive an end-user NPS response or notice a pattern in end-user NPS feedback that says, “I hate this product,” and then from the same account, you get decision makers or contract signers saying, “I love this product,” that’s a problem. Everyone started looking at the dollars and focusing on these upsells.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 26, 2021

From technical support to renewals and upselling, this role might be one of the most confusing and misunderstood jobs in all of tech. . Finally, because this is a customer-facing tool, we won’t be using it to document internal strategies for engaging and growing a customer account. Simplicity is the name of Joint Success Plan game.

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Totango

AUGUST 18, 2022

Assigning account managers. Activating accounts. It also promotes higher product usage, increases the likelihood of upselling purchases and encourages customers to become enthusiastic brand advocates. Your checklist serves as a reference document that your customer success team and customers can consult.

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