ClientSuccess

OCTOBER 26, 2020

In today’s ever-changing corporate landscape, modern SaaS organizations are asked to be a lot of things: employee-centric, focused on new business, and profitable against goals – just to name a few. One characteristic that is often overlooked (or left out completely) is being customer-centric.

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Totango

AUGUST 12, 2020

The digital transformation of business has empowered customers to expect personalized, on-demand attention from their service partners. The rise in SaaS and subscription business models with low upfront costs and regular renewal windows means customers can make emotional and rapid decisions to leave an agreement with little consequence.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 17, 2020

ChurnZero Power-Users Share Tips, Tricks and Best Practices. If your company is exploring the idea of implementing a dedicated Customer Success (CS) platform, the question of where to start can be daunting. What’s important is collecting data that will help you truly understand your customer and their needs and goals.

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CSM Practice

MAY 22, 2020

More and more SaaS businesses are realizing the value of having a customer success team to ensure the continued success of their customers. Successful customers are more likely to renew and pay more through renewals and expansion, ensuring a steady revenue growth for SaaS businesses. Popular CSM Compensation Plans.

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CSM Practice

JULY 6, 2020

To many, SaaS has always been tricky, and the current global economic downturn caused by the Coronavirus pandemic has only exacerbated it. At the moment, SaaS companies appear to be under immense financial pressure, resulting in a dramatic increase in vendors seeking guidance on how to adapt, survive, and even thrive during this downturn.

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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. Foster a culture of customer-centricity throughout the organization.

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CSM Practice

MAY 16, 2020

At CSM Practice, we are following the Covid-19 situation and its impact on customer success closely. And as we collectively work together to lower the curve, we would like to provide some guidance based on best practices to smoothen customer journeys during the Coronavirus pandemic. 1. Be Customer-Centric.

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CSM Practice

JULY 6, 2020

To many, SaaS has always been tricky, and the current global economic downturn caused by the Coronavirus pandemic has only exacerbated it. At the moment, SaaS companies appear to be under immense financial pressure, resulting in a dramatic increase in vendors seeking guidance on how to adapt, survive, and even thrive during this downturn.

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ChurnZero

JUNE 17, 2022

To share how to choose, track, and act on effective onboarding metrics, ChurnZero Customer Success Enablement Team Lead Bree Pecci joined CSM Practice for a drill-down into customer-centric onboarding. Irit: Let’s talk about that because I have a lot of customers that ask me what are best practices for surveys.

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Totango

DECEMBER 6, 2021

What 2021 Taught SaaS Businesses about Customer Success. As the business world adapted to the challenges of 2021, SaaS companies re-examined what customer success means in today’s digital-first environment. First, we’ll look at how the flywheel model has redefined our understanding of the customer journey.

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aircall

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

To make that happen, you’ll need to clearly define your sales training process, invest in the right training programs, and follow best practices for training sessions. . From the very beginning, emphasize the importance of being customer-centric during your sales coaching program. What Is Sales Team Training?

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Totango

JULY 21, 2020

One of the most important ways to reduce churn and stay relevant to your customers is to make sure your team is as flexible and agile as possible. The current COVID-19 pandemic has not been kind to many industries, and SaaS is no exception. In March of this year, SaaS stocks reached a 20 percent decline from their selling highs.

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Amity

APRIL 25, 2016

VP of Customer Success and Business Operations - Gainsight. Follow her weekly blog posts on Customer Success best practices. Director of Customer Success Education - CSM Practice. CEO - C hief Customer Office Council. Dave is an industry veteran and early leader for Customer Success Management.

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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

This course can be taken on its own as an introduction to the topic, or as one in a series of courses from PracticalCSM.com that build upon each other to cover the entirety of CSM best practices in greater detail. Instructor: Rick Adams , Author, Trainer, Consultant and Business Owner, Practical CSM. Level: Intermediate.

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Totango

MARCH 4, 2022

Despite their differences, however, they do share an intimate relationship – you need strong customer service to achieve customer success. In this article, we’ll take a look at the relationship between these two important ingredients for a successful SaaS business model. What is B2B Customer Service? Lost passwords.

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Totango

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Delivering a satisfying B2B customer experience is key to staying competitive in today’s SaaS market. Here, we’ll outline a strategic roadmap to developing a winning B2B customer experience strategy. First, we’ll take a look at what B2B customer experience is and why it’s an important priority.

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ChurnZero

MAY 3, 2022

Across more than 30 playlists, you’ll discover everything you need to know about upsell, launching CS, customer training, CS careers, customer value management, retention and renewals, customer journey maps, health scores, segmentation, QBRs and much more. Start with: What is Customer Experience? 5: ChurnZero.

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Totango

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Customer Success team accountability isn’t something you just worry about figuring out later once your CS team is up and running. As a manager, when your organizational best practices and your customer’s goals align with your employee’s actions and responsibilities, you have the perfect conditions for growth. .

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Totango

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

We’re going to bring the best and the brightest from the field to share latest trends in strategy and innovation so you and your organization can make the BIGGEST IMPACT possible in customer adoption, retention and overall customer engagement.

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ChurnZero

JULY 2, 2020

The term “customer-first” gets thrown around and cited often in the B2B world. SaaS organizations aspire to be it, but many don’t know how to transform this highly touted phrase into a practical application. The challenges to becoming a customer-centric company are not easy to overcome alone.

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Chief Customer Officer Customer centricity Best practices Metrics 98

Calabrio

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

We’re often asked what makes Calabrio a top workplace for Minnesota’s sharp, inventive Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) developers—what really sets us apart from all of the other SaaS technology companies in the state. Feedback from customers early in the development process helps minimize wasted cycles. Our answer?

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SaaS Customer centricity Analytics Education 52

ChurnZero

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Recommended read: How to Improve Customer Success Manager Status Updates. SuccessCOACHING helps CSMs and Customer Success teams understand best practices and gives practical advice on how to apply them to resolve real, everyday challenges CS professionals face as they work with their customers. inSided Blog.

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CSM Practice

JANUARY 13, 2021

“It costs five times as much to acquire new customers than it does to keep existing ones” is a saying that only begins to scratch the surface of why renewals are so important. In the SaaS world, where revenue generation and business growth depends on the customer’s decision to renew, the customer renewal process demands even more attention.

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Totango

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

A customer success playbook maps out a game plan you can use to automate successful outcomes for your clients. Having a playbook in place can help you deliver better results for your SaaS customers and yield higher satisfaction, retention, and revenue for your business. What Is a Customer Success Playbook?

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CSM Magazine

JULY 22, 2021

Henry Spitzer, VP of Sales at Lusha explains how community building is a powerful and cost-effective way to increase retention by creating a central destination for users to find support, advice and best practices. Gone are the days of static one-sided advertising that speaks at the customer. The Bare Basics.

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CustomerSuccessBox

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Let’s look at the top customer success blogs. CustomerSuccessBox is an outcome-driven Customer Success software for B2B SaaS, which helps maximize retention, drive product adoption, and grow revenue for your B2B SaaS. As well as their actionable customer success platform they provide a widely respected blog.

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CSM Practice

DECEMBER 7, 2020

The firm selected board members with the goal of bringing distinctive customer success perspectives from a variety of market segments. Board members work in areas spanning on-premises technology, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), and advisory services.

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Totango

AUGUST 18, 2022

A Customer Onboarding Checklist for Successful CS Teams. A lot goes into crafting the ideal onboarding process for SaaS products. You need to clearly demonstrate the ins and outs of your software to ensure your customers know how to use it and how to employ it effectively in the pursuit of their enterprise’s unique needs and goals.

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ProProfs Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2019

You can say that this is a more customer-centric approach as opposed to a business-centric strategy. That is possibly the biggest difference between customer service and customer support. But is customer support limited to SaaS companies only? And the term support is properly used here. Not really.

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CSM Practice

JUNE 6, 2020

The valuation of a SaaS company is based on its recurring revenue stream. However, the health of the recurring revenue is not dependent on new customers only, but also the renewal rate of existing customers. SaaS Companies with high renewal rates can generate a regular, predictable recurring revenue stream more efficiently.

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Metrics SaaS Accountability Upselling 89

Totango

JULY 23, 2019

The old sales idea of courting and closing a customer in a single effort and considering their value “bagged” from a one-off transaction is as antiquated as dial-up modems. After all, the digitization of business has empowered customers to seek long-term gains from short-term investments. Adopting a Customer-Centric Approach.

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Upselling Customer centricity Enterprise Education 92

CSM Practice

DECEMBER 19, 2021

A CS tech stack that is not customer-centric loses usability gradually. A stack of well-integrated software is developed to guide customers to success. Best practices for building a CS tech stack. Best practices for building a CS tech stack. Convince them to spend more on customer success technology.

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Totango

AUGUST 28, 2020

A lot goes into crafting the ideal onboarding process for SaaS products. You need to clearly demonstrate the ins and outs of your software to ensure your customers not only know how to use it, but how to employ it effectively in the pursuit of their enterprise’s unique needs and goals. Why Optimizing Your SaaS Onboarding Matters.

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SaaS Enterprise Customer centricity Best practices 71

ChurnZero

JANUARY 8, 2021

Against the backdrop of wild economic uncertainty, Customer Success has been the failsafe of SaaS businesses that were blindsided by pandemic-induced churn and contraction. With Customer Success demand at an all-time high, we expect to see more of its leaders join the executive ranks in the coming months and years.

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Amity

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Exploring the Top 5 Benefits of Customer Success. The nature of the SaaS model means that there is a very direct relationship between your company’s ability to achieve its corporate goals and your customers’ ability to achieve their goals. Why the Customer Success Manager is the Product Manager’s New BFF.

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Totango

JANUARY 22, 2024

. – Chris Dishman, SVP of Customer Success, Totango Expansion will become a top growth driver for recurring revenue companies For a while, expansion has been overlooked as a driver of SaaS growth.

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ChurnZero

MARCH 3, 2020

SaaStr is the largest community of SaaS executives, founders, and entrepreneurs in the world and they are brought together at their flagship event – SaaStr Annual. With 12,500 attendees, 250 speakers, 200 sponsors, their missions is to provide the SaaS community with unparalleled access to the top minds in SaaS.

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