ChurnZero

MARCH 28, 2023

Early-stage SaaS businesses tend to put most of their focus on acquiring net new customers. For a little while, customer retention is a manageable task with existing staff. When you have only a handful of customers, your sales team, product team, customer support team—and even executives—can join forces to keep them happy.

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Satrix Solutions

JULY 21, 2021

What are the best ways to reduce customer churn? We had an opportunity to sit down and chat about this topic, as well as what’s coming up in the Customer Success industry with Abby Hammer , Chief Customer Officer with ChurnZero. SaaS onboarding makes or breaks your customer retention.

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Amity

MARCH 22, 2016

SaaS Tattler Issue 79 - Giving Customer Success a Voice at the Executive Table. In an era where the customer experience matters more than ever before, having a voice at the executive table changes everything. Cue the Chief Customer Officer (CCO), breaking down Silos, strapped with customer intuition.

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 18, 2020

With each passing year the Customer Success industry matures and meets new challenges along the way, and this year has been nothing short of challenging in many ways. . Q&A Recap: Speakers: Megan Macaluso , VP Customer Success & Operations, ESG. Jay Nathan , Chief Customer Officer, Higher Logic.

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ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

RYG is an acronym for “Red Yellow Green” and represents a Customer Success team’s goal to create happy and successful customer s and advocates. We want our RYG events to be industry events where smart and motivated professionals want to meet. Why are we doing a Customer Success conference ?

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ChurnZero

MARCH 3, 2020

Top 10 Must Attend Conferences in 2020 for Customer Success Professionals. I’m not talking about a vacation (although those days off are also oh so very important) but I’m talking about, stepping out of the office for a day or two to attend a conference. S aaStr Annual 2020 Date: March 10 – 12, 2020 Location: San Francisco Bay Area.

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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

To help, we’ve curated this watchlist of Customer Success leaders who we believe you’ll gain some inspiration from and see them do great things in 2019. Amanda Berger, Chief Customer Officer, Lucidworks. Amanda’s commitment to business results drives each aspect of her work as Chief Customer Officer at Lucidworks.

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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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Totango

OCTOBER 25, 2022

What Roles Are on a Customer Success Team? The tiers of a SaaS company’s customer success team structure may have a variety of roles. Customer Success Manager : A CSM works one-on-one with customers, guiding them through the customer journey and fostering a positive connection.

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ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Metrics Aren’t Just for Board Meetings – The Value of Customer Metrics is Immeasurable . We often think about CS metrics as being interna l KPIs – after all, these figures surface in board meetings and other internal discussions. Don’t be afraid to discuss these numbers with your customers.

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 2, 2021

But you have to have these meetings, you have to, at least once a month, talk about lost deals too, and you have to have all three [executives] come to these meetings. Jason on sales commission stipulations: “If you have enough trust with your Head of Customer Success, have them have to accept the customer.

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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Establishing transparency around SaaS business metrics , especially ones that you directly influence, increases trust, accountability, and productivity. As CSMs, we often live off our calendar and feel like there is never enough time in the day to handle all our customer meetings as well as our internal tasks. Final thoughts.

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Amity

JANUARY 25, 2017

SaaS Tattler Issue 99 - The Best Online (and Offline) Customer Success Communities. One of the main attributes of Customer Success Managers is that they are sociable people - they like to network, connect, discuss, share, and help one another. Here are a few other active groups: Customer Success Management.

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ChurnZero

JUNE 17, 2022

Onboarding sets the tone for a customer’s entire lifecycle. Every onboarding task, meeting, communication, and training must serve a single purpose—and that is to get the customer to realize value. Is the customer an early adopter, a lagger, or right on track? Identify early usage patterns of customers who have churned.

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Amity

JANUARY 30, 2014

It is abundantly clear that the future is very bright for customer success! As we move into 2014, companies will be more focused than ever on the customer centric organization. Focus on generating a deep understanding of customer’s business drivers #customersuccess [Tweet this!]. Moving Beyond SaaS.

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ProProfs Blog

JUNE 30, 2020

Chief Customer Officer 2.0. Want a proven framework to help you launch and advance the customer experience transformation in businesses in every vertical around the world? Want a proven framework to help you launch and advance the customer experience transformation in businesses in every vertical around the world?

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 27, 2019

This relatable post covers how to handle when the customer is not always right (shocking!) , tell a customer they’re a poor fit, and manage customer s who ignores deadlines and meetings. . 5 Misconceptions Customer Success Has About Product . SIIA CoDiE Award Finalist . 2019 is almost a wrap.

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ClearAction

MAY 29, 2016

Self-service has skyrocketed, allowing 24×7 ability to specify or learn of changes; for instance, customers can get a real-time text message that a flight gate number has changed. Software-as-a-service (SaaS) and other subscription business models were instrumental in Marketing taking on a greater role for customer retention.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 4, 2024

New technologies, best practices, and strategies, combined with an industry-wide drive for sustainable, profitable growth, have made CS teams the revenue-building stars of every SaaS organization. “Their task: to build customer success into the best-performing department: a center of excellence that integrates technology and people. .

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Amity

AUGUST 19, 2014

Seems staffing a customer success team continues to be as hot a topic as customer success itself. Earlier this year in an open letter response from a SaaS in need of saving , Amity’s Chief Customer Officer Louise Philp provided some valuable insights on how to build a team of customer success heroes.

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ChurnZero

AUGUST 21, 2020

Equipping your CSM team with things like configurable in-product guidance can often solve customer requests while freeing your product and development teams to introduce more innovative new products. Naomi Aiken , Customer Success Team Lead, ChurnZero. There will be a renewed focus on new customer onboarding.

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ChurnZero

JUNE 3, 2022

To dig into what makes CS indispensable to SaaS, ChurnZero CEO You Mon Tsang joined the Digital Disrupted podcast. What are some of the metrics that a Customer Success team needs to be aware of? Chief customer officers (CCOs) own the Customer Success department. How should they be held to account?

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ChurnZero

JUNE 3, 2022

To dig into what makes CS indispensable to SaaS, ChurnZero CEO You Mon Tsang joined the Digital Disrupted podcast. What are some of the metrics that a Customer Success team needs to be aware of? Chief customer officers (CCOs) own the Customer Success department. How should they be held to account?

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Amity

MAY 22, 2016

Customer success is an exciting and game-changing opportunity, and a prerequisite for the majority of B2B SaaS companies, but are you ready for it? According to an Aberdeen Report* on Customer Experience Management, the top three drivers for investing in customer experience management are: Improve customer retention – (42%).

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ChurnZero

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Customer Success gradually, then suddenly, came to exist. Customer Success gradually, then suddenly, became essential to SaaS companies. Customer Success gradually, then suddenly, joined the C-suite. Nowadays, you can’t sit through an executive, a board, or an investor meeting without being asked about NRR.

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ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Serious About Customer Success? The SaaS model has rapidly changed the software marketplace by lowering the b arrier s of entry and exit for buyers. Now more than ever Customer Success is essential to the long-term success of your entire organization. CRM s and Customer Success Platforms are no exception.

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ClientSuccess

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Any time your customer shares something new with you (whether it be a new workflow, goal, or use case), imagine you’re immediately going to have to explain it to a key internal stakeholder. If no one immediately pops to mind, picture explaining this in a meeting with your CEO. Don’t focus on making your customers happy.

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Netomi

JANUARY 5, 2022

Colin’s company, Beyond Philosophy LLC, helps organizations unlock growth by discovering customers’ hidden, unmet needs that drive value ($).They They capitalize on this by improving customer experience to meet these needs thereby retaining and acquiring new customers across the market. Lynn Hunsaker.

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ChurnZero

JULY 17, 2020

This is a guest blog post by Irit Eizips , Chief Customer Officer and CEO of CSM Practice. . Keeping a renewing client allows you to increase your Customer Success team’s efficiency and grow your SaaS business. It is cheaper to keep a current relationship in place than to lose a client and have to secure a new one.

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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

This means a customer’s experience during onboarding can have a lasting impact on the relationship you build. Ed Powers , a Customer Success consultant with Service Excellence Partners summed up this idea nicely in our guide, “ How to Crush SaaS Customer Onboarding ” when he said, “High customer loyalty is achieved by design, not by luck.”

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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

This means a customer’s experience during onboarding can have a lasting impact on the relationship you build. Ed Powers , a Customer Success consultant with Service Excellence Partners summed up this idea nicely in our guide, “ How to Crush SaaS Customer Onboarding ” when he said, “High customer loyalty is achieved by design, not by luck.”

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ChurnZero

MAY 20, 2021

Examine your customer activity and the intention behind it. If a customer skips two meetings in a row, is that a trigger? Where do you have an opportunity to celebrate a customer, cross-sell a customer, or introduce a customer to a new resource? Don’t lose the customer along the way.

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Comm100

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

Chief Customer Officer 2.0: How to Build Your Customer-Driven Growth Engine by Jeanne Bliss. This book will show you how to launch a proven framework through customer experience expert, Jeanne Bliss’s, five-competency model. Reinventing the Customer Experience.

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 20, 2019

By joining forces and clarifying roles, both teams can deliver a better customer experience and drive more revenue for their organizations. . . Abby Hammer , Chief Customer Officer , ChurnZero . CS and Product work lockstep to meet customer needs and wants. . CS brings focus to their purpose. .

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 15, 2021

Customer Success teams rose to the challenge of retaining customers during a global health and economic crisis. For SaaS businesses, protecting the customer base became the main, if not only, priority during this tumultuous time. Bigger budgets for Customer Success. Marley Wagner , Sr.

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Amity

JULY 28, 2014

Customer success is an exciting and game-changing opportunity, and a prerequisite for the majority of B2B SaaS companies, but are you ready for it? A number of CEOs have walked in the shoes of their customers. How do you get the CEO to buy in? You don’t have a process.

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CSM Practice

JULY 20, 2020

Businesses are taking quick action and coping mechanisms as they struggle to meet the well-being of their employees and their customers. As such, your customer success communication strategy needs to be implemented in a concise, relevant, clear manner.

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