CSM Practice

JULY 29, 2020

Customer retention is the process of engaging with existing customers to continue buying your products or services. If customer retention is poor, there is a high probability that your business is in jeopardy. Customer Retention Strategies. It’s one of the main factors to measure a business’ success.

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Customer retention Finance SaaS Consulting 59

ClientSuccess

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Research Vectors by Vecteezy Many customer success leaders in the SaaS space are faced with the same question: who should own customer renewals? It’s an important question to answer, as it can make all the difference in customer retention and long-term success.

SaaS 71

SaaS Upselling Accountability Sales 71

CSM Practice

JULY 29, 2020

Customer retention is the process of engaging with existing customers to continue buying your products or services. If customer retention is poor, there is a high probability that your business is in jeopardy. Customer Retention Strategies. It’s one of the main factors to measure a business’ success.

Customer retention 52

Customer retention Finance SaaS Consulting 52

CSM Practice

JULY 29, 2020

Customer retention is the process of engaging with existing customers to continue buying your products or services. If customer retention is poor, there is a high probability that your business is in jeopardy. Customer Retention Strategies. It’s one of the main factors to measure a business’ success.

Customer retention 52

Customer retention Finance SaaS Consulting 52

Outsource Consultants

MARCH 18, 2025

At Outsource Consultants, we’ve seen firsthand how crucial it is to understand the key factors that drive this decision. Key metrics to consider include customer retention rates, average handle time, and first call resolution rates. Expert guidance can simplify the complex process of choosing a call center service.

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Call Center outsourcing First call resolution Average Handle Time 67

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. Expertise in working with a particular industry, company size, or customer type.

SaaS 52

SaaS Upselling Enterprise industry standards 52

ChurnZero

MARCH 3, 2022

As Customer Success professionals you might find yourself building out something completely new at your organization, or just trying to break the status quo on what’s been done in order to help drive growth and expansion for your SaaS organization. Top five Customer Success resources brought to you by ChurnZero.

SaaS 98

SaaS Customer retention Surveys Consulting 98

ChurnZero

JUNE 17, 2022

Create a specific onboarding health score that accounts for these variances as well as the customer’s journey progress or lack thereof. Irit Eizips here from CSM Practice, the customer success strategy consulting firm. Customer retention, churn prevention, all of those efforts start at the very beginning.

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Metrics SaaS Surveys Self service 98

Amity

APRIL 25, 2016

Alex curates the Customer Success Newsletter which is a weekly curated collection of 4 helpful articles from around the Customer Success community. The Customer Success Newsletter. Customer Success Expert - Glide Consulting. The Glide Consulting Blog. Director of Customer Success Education - CSM Practice.

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SaaS Chief Customer Officer Consulting Consulting 96

Amity

MARCH 13, 2016

While attracting customers is a challenge, keeping them is just as important. In a world in which churn is a reality, SaaS companies need to be aware about why customers leave so they can develop well-defined strategies and tactics to retain them. User adoption also plays a major role in the success of a SaaS business.

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SaaS Sales Customer retention Consulting 95

ChurnZero

OCTOBER 8, 2021

We have two customers, both are large enterprises signed up to use a given marketing SaaS product. Both customers have had good relations with the SaaS enterprise for years, and are comparable in size, geography, and stage. . Customer 1: Is an e-commerce store, selling electronic goods. . Excellent B2B relations.

SaaS 98

SaaS Metrics B2B Enterprise 98

CustomerSuccessBox

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Your goal as a business is to reduce churn, increase customer retention, product adoption, and aim for customer success. The underlying theme for all of these is customer education. Research by TSIA shows that customer education can immensely enhance your retention. Customer Education helps customers grow.

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Education Consulting Consulting Management 52

ChurnZero

JANUARY 13, 2022

As the demand for Customer Success surges within SaaS, so too does the need for effective leaders to spearhead this expanding function and steer its strategy and success. Over the course of the pandemic, Customer Success has cemented itself as a central business driver of growth and profit. Follow Bill on LinkedIn.

Chief Customer Officer 98

Chief Customer Officer SaaS Engineering Consulting 98

ChurnZero

JULY 9, 2020

These SaaS companies offer comprehensive training programs, resources, and events to their customers and even the larger professional community. They have loyal followings and student-customers who proudly display their certifications on LinkedIn to not only show off their product proficiency, but also their brand affiliation. .

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SaaS Marketing Upselling Chief Customer Officer 64

Amity

JULY 13, 2016

The misconception with SaaS is that there is no longer a need for a team of this nature in today’s organization. Still, expectation gaps remain, Customer Success by definition is still in its infancy, processes are immature and confusion reigns. Jason Lemkin - Jason is a 2x founder, 1x VC, and dedicated SaaS enthusiast.

SaaS 81

SaaS Best practices industry standards Consulting 81

CSM Practice

DECEMBER 7, 2020

CSM Leader Optimizes Customer Success Strategies and Processes in collaboration with top thought leaders in its industry. Dec 1, 2020 — Today, CSM Practice, the world’s first consulting firm dedicated to Customer Success Management (CSM) strategy, announced the formation of its new Advisory Board. Sunnyvale, Calif.—

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Chief Customer Officer Upselling SaaS Consulting 81

CSM Practice

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Customer churn is a vital metric for the success of any SaaS company and its customer success team. It is the rate at which customers cease their relationship with a business over a specified period. At the same time, a 5% increase in customer retention rates can increase profits by up to 95%.

SaaS 88

SaaS Customer retention Accountability Feedback 88

ClientSuccess

APRIL 30, 2019

Customer Success Financial Metrics. When most executives think about customer success metrics, they typically refer to the core SaaS financial metrics. If current customers are the lifeblood of a SaaS business, then these metrics are the heartbeat metrics for any SaaS company. Quick Ratio.

SaaS 46

SaaS Metrics Upselling Customer retention 46

LiveChat

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Why You Need a Customer Success Strategy. Every company, especially SaaS businesses, face some of the following challenges and situations: High churn rate. Customer complaints about issues you could’ve fixed a long time ago, or features you should already implemented. Let’s define customer success. Always with a smile!

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SaaS Management CRM Sales 106

ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Some Customer Success metrics are considered standard but there’s often more than meets the eye. SaaS professionals who geek out on metrics can find themselves in deep philosophical debates about the best numbers to track. Today he is the principal of Dave Kellogg Consulting and an entrepreneur in residence (EIR) at Balderton Capital.

SaaS 52

SaaS Metrics Customer retention Construction 52

CustomerSuccessBox

JULY 8, 2020

Customer Retention is key. We had Jay Nathan , Founding & Managing Partner, Customer Imperative and Andrew Marks , Founder, President and COO, SuccessHacker speak to Puneet Kataria , Founder & CEO, CustomerSuccessBox about the role of customer success in driving SaaS businesses during a lockdown.

Customer retention 40

Customer retention SaaS Consulting Consulting 40

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.

Chief Customer Officer 98

Chief Customer Officer Healthcare Customer centricity Customer retention 98

ChurnZero

OCTOBER 31, 2023

He was tasked with getting a SaaS implementation that was eight months behind back on schedule. The customer was understandably unhappy. Yet the problem remained: these customizations were necessary to go live with the product. Jeff gave the example of a customer needing a certain integration that a SaaS provider did not have.

SaaS 52

SaaS Sales Metrics Benchmark 52

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.

SaaS 98

SaaS Chief Customer Officer Upselling Metrics 98

ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Like anything else, customer onboarding needs maintenance. Grant Freeland, the Managing Director at Boston Consulting Group (BCG), wrote in Forbes , “Waiting until something is obviously broken before you fix it is often too late.”. Customer onboarding is a crucial part of the customer journey to get right.

Customer retention 98

Customer retention Feedback Benchmark SaaS 98

ChurnZero

JUNE 7, 2019

Jason is an Associate Partner at Customer Imperative , responsible for overseeing the strategic consulting business. Jason works closely with Customer Imperative consulting teams to ensure that clients succeed at gaining, growing and retaining customers. Q: What drew you to working in Customer Success?

SaaS 73

SaaS B2B Consulting Consulting 73

Kayako

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Why worry about churn when you can just get new customers? New SaaS companies are obsessed with growth. Without after sales service or customer care, you’ll hit a point where the revenue you lose has greater impact the bigger you get. Churn is the term for customers asking to stop their subscription, or customer attrition.

SaaS 85

SaaS Customer retention Morale Accountability 85

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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Journey mapping SaaS Upselling Enterprise 99

ChurnZero

JANUARY 4, 2019

Whether that’s AI-enabled analysis of customer data to help teams be proactive, in-house virtual assistants that are a resource to support teams as they work with customers or other operational applications, AI will play a larger role in this capacity next year.” – Julia Ahlfeldt, Customer Experience Advisor, Julia Ahlfeldt CX Consulting.

SaaS 73

SaaS Chief Customer Officer Education Consulting 73

Netomi

JANUARY 5, 2022

Prior to joining Temkin Group, she implemented the CX strategy and managed the Voice of the Customer program for Crowe Horwath LLP, one of the top 10 public accounting and consulting firms in the US. Arie is a Customer Insight, Customer Strategy, Customer Lifecycle Management, and Innovation Independent Consultant.

Customer Experience 98

Customer Experience Customer Service Consulting Consulting 98

Amity

MARCH 16, 2016

Yet, when you’re inbox is full of customer issues, customer questions, product updates, and onboarding requests … it’s hard to be. In a recent survey of over 700 CSMs, Glide Consulting LLC found that the most commonly reported frustration of a CSM was time management. • The Best of Customer Success Today.

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Management SaaS Time management Customer retention 73

ChurnZero

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Understand the Growth and Retention Metrics of SaaS Companies from Recent Surveys and M&A Activity. Watch this webinar to learn: How customer retention impacts the valuation of your company. How Customer Success can effectively drive retention. How Customer Success can effectively drive retention.

SaaS 59

SaaS Customer retention Coaching Consulting 59

ClientSuccess

APRIL 28, 2021

Faltorusso brings over a decade of experience in Customer Success leadership. As the VP of Customer Success, Kristi will oversee the entire post-sales customer journey and customer experience, including leading the customer success, consulting, and support teams.

SaaS 59

SaaS B2B Customer retention Consulting 59

Satrix Solutions

JANUARY 24, 2022

Under these new conditions, one thing remains undeniable, a strong customer experience (CX) is a business imperative. Today, B2B customers stay loyal to organizations due to the experience they receive rather than simply the price or quality of a SaaS platform.

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Customer Experience B2B Customer centricity Feedback 97

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.

SaaS 72

SaaS Chief Customer Officer Best practices B2B 72

ChurnZero

MARCH 3, 2022

As Customer Success professionals you might find yourself building out something completely new at your organization, or just trying to break the status quo on what’s been done in order to help drive growth and expansion for your SaaS organization. Top five Customer Success resources brought to you by ChurnZero 1.)

SaaS 52

SaaS Customer retention Surveys Consulting 52

Satrix Solutions

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

And, just like your customer relationships never stay static, nor should your approach and commitment to customer success. As a customer experience consulting firm, we regularly talk with stakeholders who thirst for a greater impact from their CX programs.

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B2B Feedback Consulting Consulting 78