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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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Learn how to spot the signs that it’s time to revamp your onboarding as well as the dos and don’ts of improving the most influential phase of your customer’s journey. The SaaS Debate: Who Owns the Renewal and Upsell? Customer Success vs. Sales. Top 4 Metrics Chief Customer Officers (CCOs) Must Know.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 26, 2021

This is a guest blog post by Jay Nathan, Chief Customer Officer at Higher Logic. A J oint Success Plan is a simple but powerful tool for outcome-based customer success management. It’s designed to help solution providers align with their customers’ business goals and objectives.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 26, 2022

Here’s how SaaS companies, Customer Success teams, Account Managers, and Chief Customer Officers can use the ChurnZero integration with HubSpot to increase customer retention, reduce churn, and improve the customer experience. Liz Friscino, Managing Director, Client Success, FiscalNote.

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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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Amity

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Dear Louise, Although we have a lot of trial participants for our SaaS product, we are finding it difficult to convert them and we are experiencing some churn. I think it’s time, perhaps overdue actually, to bring a Customer Success Hero or two on board. Any tips for hiring for this role? What should I be looking for?

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Amity

JUNE 3, 2016

Dear Louise, Although we have a lot of trial participants for our SaaS product, we are finding it difficult to convert them and we are experiencing some churn. I think it’s time, perhaps overdue actually, to bring a Customer Success Hero or two on board. Any tips for hiring for this role? What should I be looking for?

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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Top 5 Customer Success Takeaways from Chief Customer Officers USA. Customer Success Around the Web. Biggest Lessons in SaaS as Head of Customer Success – Anne Therese Krieger, Head of Customer Success for a SaaS company called Filestage shares her top tips. .

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ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

ChurnZero’s CCO, Abby Hammer, spoke about getting the resources you need to combat the major obstacle to scaling your SaaS business – Churn! . Abby highlighted several tips surrounding making the case for investment to an executive team. As she explained: . Being an effective agent of change is a must.

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Is the onslaught of support tickets, emails, and customer complaints forcing you to live in a constant state of reaction? 5 Tips f or Dealing with An Angry Customer (The Right Way!) . Mitigation starts with an acute self-awareness of your initial reaction to a customer’s concerns. You’re not alone.

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ChurnZero

JUNE 17, 2022

Is this dashboard for a specific customer? This would be something that an operations team or an onboarding manager or even a chief customer officer could look at. We’ve got 68 customers in onboarding right now. I certainly want to make sure that most of my customers are getting through that.

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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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Netomi

JANUARY 5, 2022

Our favorite content from Colin : How to Manage Customer Wait Time: The Best Tips From Great Companies. Why This is a Great Time to Change Your Customer Habits. Dan’s 20-year career has consistently focused on delighting customers. She is known globally for transforming businesses to earn customer-driven growth.

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CustomerSuccessBox

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Jay Nathan is the Chief Customer Officer at Higher Logic. In 2020, he co-founded Gain Grow Retain, a community for customer success leaders. Here, he talks about the best practices in Customer Onboarding. It is aimed at creating an ever-growing knowledge base to help customers scale up faster.

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Amity

MAY 27, 2014

Dear Louise, Although we have a lot of trial participants for our SaaS product, we are finding it difficult to convert them and we are experiencing some churn. I think it’s time, perhaps overdue actually, to bring a customer success hero or two on board. Any tips for hiring for this role? What should I be looking for?

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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. Four Tips to a Better Renewal Process. Customer Success Around the Web.

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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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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

9 tips to get your CSMs to adopt Customer Success software Have you ever worked at a company where the Customer Success team had to beg for its own tools? I have a few tips to help you drive customer success software adoption that sticks. Tip #1 for CSMs: embrace change As humans, we struggle with change.

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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 . Jay Nathan , Founder & Managing Partner, Customer Imperative . CS brings focus to their purpose. .

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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

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.” Good customer support is good marketing too.

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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

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.” Good customer support is good marketing too.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 26, 2022

Liz Friscino, Managing Director, Client Success, FiscalNote Here’s how SaaS companies, Customer Success teams, Account Managers, and Chief Customer Officers can use the ChurnZero integration with HubSpot to increase customer retention, reduce churn, and improve the customer experience.

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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

NOVEMBER 25, 2014

And like the pioneers in marketing, there is a lot we can learn by revisiting how the pioneers in Customer Success, like Paul Teshima, realized why helping customers succeed was integral to SaaS success and in doing so, shaped this discipline. Amity: You were a pioneer in the Customer Success – how did you break ground?

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ChurnZero

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

As the Head of Customer Success and Product, I can tell you that you needn’t go searching for an alternate universe to see these functions work in (im)perfect harmony – we’re keeping it real here. Product is from Mars, Customer Success is from Venus. Customer Success Around the Web.

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ClientSuccess

OCTOBER 17, 2018

2) From : Sara Masson , Senior Customer Success Manager | Company : Loopio | Location : Toronto, Canada. Our team has recently implemented a “top tip” sharing as part of our weekly team meeting, and it’s had a huge impact. 4) From : Adam Kuznia , Chief Customer Officer | Company : DataCamp | Location : New York City.

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SmartKarrot

JANUARY 7, 2022

With the continuous evolution of the CX domain on the bottom line, a new role has emerged to assist enterprises in setting up the next level of CX expectations – the Chief Customer Officer (CCO). But the question is still: What exactly do CCOs (Chief Customer Officer) in this relatively new executive position do?

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ClientSuccess

AUGUST 24, 2018

4) The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference , by Malcolm Gladwell. From : Jorie Basque , Customer Relationship Manager. From : Adam Kuznia , Chief Customer Officer. Ultimate Guide to SaaS Customer Success Metrics. Company : InGenius Software. Location : Ottawa, Canada.

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SmartKarrot

JANUARY 5, 2021

His blog is highly credited as one of the richest sources of actionable information and guidance on Customer Success and SaaS growth. She has also geared up many product-based SaaS companies as an Investor in recent times. he has been supporting the customer relationship management professionals and teams for over decades now.

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ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Q&A: How to Get 20/20 Foresight for Your 2020 Customer Success Planning. . We are in the thick of Q4 and the high-pressure budget and strategy planning season is in full swing in SaaS organizations around the globe. Moderator: Abby Hammer, Chief Customer Officer, ChurnZero. Customer Success Around the Web.

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SmartKarrot

AUGUST 7, 2020

The Director of Customer Success comes somewhere in the middle of the corporate ladder. Mostly they report to the Vice President of Customer Success or the Chief Customer Officer. A Director of Customer Success is responsible for building and leading the customer success team. Chief customer officer.

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SmartKarrot

APRIL 21, 2021

For instance, you can easily batch related tasks such as mapping the customer journey or maybe reviewing the onboarding process periodically. Look at this really informative video by Ruben Rabago , Chief Customer Officer, Intellum who talks about Time Management in Customer Success: There is no Trophy for ‘Complete it all in a Day’.

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ChurnZero

AUGUST 23, 2019

Customer Success) and it is even more critical to build out “Customer Success Operations”. To talk about this newer role and shed some light on the evolution of Customer Success Operations and how it can impact SaaS businesses, we hosted a well-attended webinar earlier this week with Jason Conrad from the Customer Imperative.

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

As a Chief Customer Officer, you need your team to understand your customer success goals and work in alignment with the strategies developed by you. So, as your customer success team grows in size you will have to get ready for educating, involving, and aligning the right people at the right position.

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SmartKarrot

MARCH 24, 2022

In other words, you need to delight the customer consistently, repeatedly. So, how to delight the customer? As a Chief Customer Officer, your most important job is to create a culture of customer delight, and your entire team needs to be aligned towards that goal. Creating a culture of customer delight.

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Once you have the information in your hand, pitch the idea to the CFO using the following tips. Budget for customer success can be difficult. You need to articulate why the customer success departments need the budget. You need to tie and demonstrate how CSMs or customer success teams’ work impacts the company’s growth.

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SmartKarrot

JUNE 10, 2020

Before we begin on sharing resources on this customer success portal, here is a brief background I would like you to read. If you are a budding Customer Success Manager in a SaaS organization then we understand your challenges. This blog is mainly focused on career building tips along with latest CS insights from the industry.

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