Totango

MAY 23, 2019

When your goal is to grow your customer’s business, upselling becomes a means, not an end. Upsells are the result of the growth a customer has enjoyed because of your commitment to delivering lifetime value. It’s also worth noting that up to 70% of revenue in a subscription business comes from existing customer renewals and upsells.

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ClientSuccess

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

From renewals to upsells to expansion, the CSM is often the person who either opens up this conversation with a customer, announces to a customer that it is time to start having these sorts of discussions, or loops in a salesperson when the timing is right. Here are five telling signs your customer might be ready for an upsell discussion: 1.

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ClientSuccess

OCTOBER 25, 2022

In addition to managing the day-to-day health and support of customer accounts, CSMs are tasked with building a strategic vision for customers and reviewing future challenges, wins, and opportunities. . What is a customer account review? Customer account reviews can happen on a quarterly, bi-annual, or even annual basis.

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ChurnZero

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Whether Customer Success or Sales should own the renewal, expansion, and upsell is a hot-button issue in today’s SaaS sphere. Their main arguments include: Humans are wired for reciprocity and Customer Success is best suited to make deposits and withdrawals from the “relationship account”. You need specialists. Amanda’s answer: Sales.

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Help Scout

MAY 27, 2021

When considering customer success and account management, it’s valuable to consider them as complementary teams rather than interchangeable groups or, worse, competitors. There are a few things that differentiate customer success from account management. What is account management? Key components of account management.

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ChurnZero

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

1: To hold customers accountable for outcomes, practice “proactive reactivity” Q: How do you hold customers accountable? Keishla : Accountability in business relationships is key. The post How to hold customers accountable, and other outcomes based customer success best practices appeared first on ChurnZero.

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Amity

AUGUST 26, 2015

Hey, I’m referring to Upselling! Ever try to explain to someone what upsell means? Arguably one of the most recognized promotional tag lines of our time, I’ll bet that people don’t realize the McDonald’s suggestion is pure, shameless upsell. If upsell is fries, then cross-sell is fish. SaaS Click To Tweet.

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ChurnZero

MAY 9, 2024

Time flies, accounts fall through the cracks, renewals get harder, and you miss upsell opportunities. In just 15 minutes of his CSM Appreciation Week tune-up mini webinar, Ryan showed us a three-step customer success outreach technique that’ll get you closer to hitting your accounts more regularly.

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ShepHyken

JUNE 8, 2023

This week, we feature an article by Sage , an international company that helps organizations of all sizes with accounting, payroll, and payment solutions. Sage is a global software company that provides accounting, payroll, and payment solutions for businesses of all sizes.

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CustomerSuccessBox

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Upselling strategies can improve your upsell rate drastically, leading to the financial growth of the company. However, we need to start with the basics before we can learn about upselling strategies. What does Upsell exactly mean? Depending on your product, you may provide better features, more accounts, etc.

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Pointillist

MARCH 22, 2018

JetBlue has in the past made as much as an additional $140million in revenue through its upsell program called ‘Even More Space.’. There are many such examples of B2C and B2B companies that are using upsell and cross-sell opportunities to generate profits. In this post, I take a detailed look at: What is upsell and cross-sell?

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ShepHyken

JUNE 7, 2021

How to Upsell and Cross-Sell (4 Best Practices) by Jared Atchison. That’s the famous McDonald’s upsell question. That question has accounted for millions and millions of extra sales. It’s an upsell, and one that makes the customer glad they bought. Many of the same principles in a B2C loyalty program apply to B2B.

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Totango

JANUARY 30, 2020

Customer success and account management share common goals: Building customer loyalty and driving growth. Still, considering customer success vs account management reveals some insight into the contributions of both roles. Customer Success vs Account Management: How are They Different? Keeping Customer Goals in Mind.

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JustCall

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Or, Are you looking for an Account Manager job description that can take you through your interview? Well, whether you yourself are going to take up the role of an Account Manager or you are looking out for hiring one. This blog post will give you a complete idea of an Account Manager job description.

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ClientSuccess

MARCH 2, 2021

This is especially true for Account Executives and Customer Success Managers – two roles that work extremely close with customers (and each other) and tend to be rolled into one when thinking about customer account management . Here are three important differences between CSMs and AEs: 1.

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CustomerSuccessBox

MARCH 15, 2022

So let’s deep dive into Customer Success, Customer support and Account management. Delivering value to the customers through the product’s abilities and customer experience while also staying intact with the brand image and looking for upsell opportunities every moment. What is Account Management? What is customer success?

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ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Account management Offer workshops on relationship-building, active listening, and consultative selling for identifying upsell or cross-sell opportunities. Encourage shadowing experienced account managers who can disseminate their best tips and tricks. Provide them with checklists, guides, and best practices.

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Totango

JANUARY 30, 2020

Customer success and account management share common goals: Building customer loyalty and driving growth. Still, considering customer success vs account management reveals some insight into the contributions of both roles. Customer Success vs Account Management: How are They Different? Keeping Customer Goals in Mind.

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CustomerSuccessBox

JUNE 12, 2021

Although these two key roles sound similar, some strict lines differentiate between an Account Manager (AM) and a Customer Success Manager (CSM). Who is an Account Manager? An account manager is, usually, the single point of contact between the company and the customer. Account management vs Customer Success (CS).

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Totango

JULY 29, 2022

Did you know that 70% of revenue in a subscription-based business comes from existing customer renewals and upsells? In order to ensure renewals and maximize upsell opportunities, it’s important to consistently provide value throughout the entire customer journey. Accounts with 95%+ licenses consumed. Growth rate last 90 days.

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ClientSuccess

JULY 13, 2021

They’re project managers, act as a liaison between customers and other teams, escalate incidents and issues, keep customers moving forward in their project plans, and are responsible for the general well-being of customer account health. How can you broach this upsell opportunity, and when? How will this impact their current program?

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Amity

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Over the last 15-odd years, it has been made even more challenging and interesting thanks to a little thing called account-based marketing; a type of B2B marketing that everyone is excited about, but which very few companies do the right way. Account-Based Marketing 101 (Exercise in Hypothetic). But, you get the picture.

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Education Services Group

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Instead, they’re simply “rebranding” their Account Managers as Customer Success Managers with little to no training or transition. Customer Success and Account Management Serve Different Purposes. The main purpose of an Account Manager is twofold. In general, Account Managers are in a sort of “standby” position.

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Amity

AUGUST 30, 2018

Companies that don’t want to miss out on the trend of branding themselves as “customer-centric” might consider repackaging an existing team, like Account Management, as Customer Success. 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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Amity

AUGUST 9, 2016

SaaS Tattler Issue 91 - Is it the right time to upsell to your customer? They're an integral part of Customer Success, but they've always led to somewhat of a sensitive topic: Is now the time to upsell? • When Should You Upsell To Your SaaS Customers? • Upselling in a Customer-First Company.

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Comm100

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Before you roll your eyes and point out that you don’t have a magic lamp to rub, consider your upselling game. Do you really know how to upsell? Maybe you’ve just been going about upselling the wrong way, with awkward timing and subpar recommendations. Find Appropriate Upsells. Have you even been trying?

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SmartKarrot

DECEMBER 2, 2022

It is money earned after the original purchase and obtained through upselling, cross-selling , and renewals to your current clientele. Upselling is a sales strategy used to convince clients to buy a more costly, upgraded, or premium variant of the selected product/ service or other add-ons to close a larger deal. Cross-sell.

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Kapta Customer Success

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Let's Talk Retention If you are part of an account management team you are probably hyperaware of how important retention is. Sharing from a chapter of my own journey, I recall an account management team I was part of, where we held regular retrospectives to understand the "whys" behind our retention figures.

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Kapta Customer Success

APRIL 29, 2024

Account managers can easily identify cross-sell and upsell opportunities with a white space analysis to increase customer retention and growth. Here’s how.

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Amity

JANUARY 20, 2017

Companies that don’t want to miss out on the trend of branding themselves as “customer-centric” might consider repackaging an existing team, like Account Management, as Customer Success. 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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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. Assign ownership for expansion success You need someone who is accountable (and compensated) for expansion success.

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SmartKarrot

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

In the dynamic realm of B2B, where every move counts, mastering the art of upselling is no longer a mere choice but a strategic imperative. In this discourse, we’ll unravel seven B2B upsell strategies that, in my experience, work wonders for boosting Net Revenue Retention (NRR) and fortifying customer relationships.

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ChurnZero

MAY 25, 2023

While renewals are a central aspect of CS work, many Customer Success Managers (CSMs) have a mandate for upsells. In this approach, a renewal, upsell, or downsell is either completely in or completely out. In this approach, a renewal, upsell, or downsell is partially included in a forecast. It doesn’t end there either.

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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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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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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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