Totango

JULY 28, 2021

Following best practices for hiring a customer success manager can make a critical difference in the quality of your customer relationships. Customer success managers serve as the face of your company in dealing with clients, playing a key role in ensuring satisfying experiences of your brand.

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FastSpring

JANUARY 26, 2024

With years of experience at managing customer success (CS), Jake Dipple knows how important it is to foster collaboration between businesses and their customers. In this episode of Growth Stage, host and CMO of FastSpring David Vogelpohl interviews Jake about his thoughts on: What Customer Success is at a high level.

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Totango

MARCH 8, 2022

Getting involved in the best customer success communities can give you access to the resources you need to take your CS team to new levels of performance. Here’s our guide to the top customer success communities in 2022 and what they have to offer. What Is a Customer Success Community?

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Customer Success Technical Review Social Media Underperforming Technical Team 122

Chart Mogul

JULY 8, 2020

Betty wasn’t a brand mascot or advertising gimmick, she was the embodiment of a brand’s voice. By allowing customers (or users, if you prefer) to interact directly with the Betty Crocker brand voice, General Mills fostered strong brand loyalty and a rich, active community around its products.

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Branding Churn Underperforming Technical Team Retention 133

SaaStr

JULY 15, 2022

Jason Lemkin: You certainly can hire a whole content team and build 10,000 pieces of content, but I will tell you what I have always seen work is one incredible piece a week. Jason Lemkin: But usually your teams can’t do that. So you’re going to need at least three of those in the sales ops team. This always works.

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SaaStr

JULY 29, 2019

Wait to hire your VP of Customer Success … and watch a key account just leave to a competitor. What Order Should You Hire Your Management Team In? #4. Not Being Physically Closer to Key Customers — and Partners. But even worse, they don’t visit their key customers in person even after the deal closes.

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SaaStr

JULY 22, 2019

That’s not a bad start. As the introduction said, I’m the Chief Customer Officer at New Relic. We work with mostly modern teams. It’s an integral part of your business going forward, and having a platform like New Relic is going to be essential to the success of your business over time. Good afternoon.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 8, 2021

According to one Microsoft Global State of Customer Service report , 90% of consumers surveyed said that customer service is an important factor in their choice of, and loyalty to, a brand, while nearly two-thirds (58%) would sever their relationship with a business due to poor customer service.

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User Pilot

JULY 29, 2024

Looking for the best customer success management software to power up your product growth strategy, but you are overwhelmed with so many options in the market? TL;DR Customer success software refers to tools that help manage customer experiences and drive customers toward their desired outcomes.

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Theyquestion the status quo, and relentlessly pursue their customers’ success, using ChurnZero software to power their initiatives and achieve breakthrough results. We’re delighted to introduce the winners of the 2024 ChurnHero Awards for customer success! Here’s who they are, and how they did it.

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ChurnZero

APRIL 9, 2021

Customer Success is fueled by customer interaction. In honor of Stress Management Awareness Month, we invited Ryan Johansen, Customer Success Director at RapidMiner, to share his experience dealing with extreme burnout and show us how to survive and thrive under the pressures of being a Customer Success professional.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

And probably one of the most important things is that customers don’t stay at the same company for long periods of time anymore. And so it’s 65% more likely to convert a repeat customer than a brand new prospect. Second, define your customer journey. So we’re going to go through how we do that today.

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Totango

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Hiring team members with the right customer success manager skills is critical for the effectiveness of your CS team and strategy. We’ll cover these below, along with five best practices to follow when bringing a new customer success manager aboard your team. Interpersonal skills.

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Sales Hiring Customer Success Sales Recruiting Technical Review 97

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 24, 2018

In practice, that means an experimentation model is applied to all marketing activity, from content and demand generation all the way down to brand. This allowed a passionate audience to develop – and built enthusiasm ahead of the books’ full release. PR is an underutilized growth tactic. Adam Risman: Matt, welcome to Inside Intercom.

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 21, 2022

1/ Crash course in Customer Success and SaaS metrics. Related reading: Key SaaS and Customer Success metrics you should care about – What’s a good CAC? 20 quick insights on Customer Success and SaaS metrics – The audience chat was on fire during this webinar. One train can hide another.”.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 31, 2022

CX for Growth is a webinar series hosted by the Startups team at Intercom, a casual, interview-style monthly session featuring special guests and exploring customer experience topics that help to drive growth in your business. Our Advocacy team brought it to our RAD team, who had also seen it come up in the NPS.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Lots of us fantasize about moving upmarket, but are unsure of how to get started, is it just a matter of hiring a team of SDRs and getting them to hit the phones? You don’t want to fall into a trap of building all this custom stuff, I think you guys all know why that’s a bad idea.

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Neil Patel

JUNE 17, 2021

Customer satisfaction is a measure of how people feel when interacting with your brand. It can be influenced by any number of factors, such as: perceived product quality perceived product value convenience customer expectations communication complaint handling. Increase Brand Loyalty. According to PwC , 59 percent of U.S.

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Underperforming Technical Team Social Media Technical Review Software Review 139

Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 31, 2019

And as the organization grows, the work involved to get teams aligned on who you’re selling to and how you’re selling is not something to be taken for granted either. Ambient Strategy founder and CEO April Dunford on the symptoms of weak positioning. When you’re a small team, your time is everything. Speed is everything.

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ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

As a Customer Success leader, do you find yourself watering down your budgetary requests? And yet, downplaying your team’s needs undermines CS’s current impact and future revenue-driving potential. And yet, downplaying your team’s needs undermines CS’s current impact and future revenue-driving potential.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 23, 2020

The businesses who are thriving right now, despite increasing support volume and a mandate to cut costs, are the ones investing in this new way of doing customer support. Customer support is undergoing massive, irreversible change. Once every decade or two, developments in technology trigger monumental changes in an industry.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 21, 2020

Justin used Sales Culture to grow a successful PatientPop team to 140 employees and 55 million in revenue. When I was hired, I came in with one salesperson and zero dollars in recurring revenue and over the next four years grew the sales team to over 140 employees and 55 million in recurring revenue. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

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Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale Sales 332

Totango

JULY 1, 2022

Customer loyalty is a key to repeat business and referral generation for any business model. For B2B SaaS companies, customer loyalty drives subscription renewals and brand advocacy, making it a critical component of a profitable business model. What Is Customer Loyalty?

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FastSpring

MAY 20, 2024

As the VP and General Manager of the Stardock Software division, Brad led his team through this process and has learned some valuable lessons about doing it as strategically and easily as possible. If your company is considering making a SaaS transition, Brad Sams of Stardock knows what you’re going through.

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SaaS Payments Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions 158

Totango

JANUARY 26, 2021

A customer churn analysis is an investigation that uses big data analytics methods to go beyond churn rate and identify underlying factors promoting customer churn. When you know why customers are leaving you, you can develop appropriate preventive measures. Poor Customer Fit.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Always think about the customer first, then you can create products that fit their needs. Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.” – Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft. Nobody wants a bad review. But bad reviews help you improve and create a better experience for your customers.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

When it comes to launching sales teams in hyper-growth startups, few people have walked the walk as much as Maggie Hott. We recently sat down with Maggie to chat about all things sales – from laying down a solid foundation to hiring the right people and, finally, scaling the team into hyper-growth. Look for the team players.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 6, 2019

For instance, many teams build apps on Intercom so users can leverage their workflows and services within our live chat Messenger and messages. Just this week, we announced a new group of apps that users can add to the Intercom Inbox to provide faster and deeper customer interactions. Short on time? Here are a few quick takeaways.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 1, 2021

A made-up role so companies can hire more people to tell sales how best to do their job.” — Jason Henson , Manager, SMB Sales Development at Lytx, Inc. . In bad times, the shield is wielded in exec / BOD meetings to obfuscate real data. A neutral team.” — Adithya Krishnaswamy , Head of Growth at Everstage.

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User Pilot

JANUARY 31, 2023

Identifying at-risk customers is crucial for understanding their behavior, improving customer satisfaction , and reducing churn rate. While identifying high-risk customers, you can address the root causes and focus on working to retain those customers. Tag feature usage.

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ChurnZero

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Has your customer community lost its spark? Teams are often eager to launch this new initiative, however, sustaining that same enthusiasm in the months ahead can be a challenge. How can you incentivize team members to be active in the online community when it’s not part of their role? Shauna: It can be a challenge.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 29, 2019

It’s no surprise that one of the key levers for growth as you go from startup to scale-up is your sales team. How quickly you’re able to accelerate growth depends on your ability to build a nimble sales org and develop a strong sales strategy. These lay the foundation that enables your team to run as efficiently as possible.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2019

For Rick Nucci, customers will win as long as AI empowers employees to do more of what they do best – that is, dealing empathetically with other humans – while skipping tedious busywork that could be handled just as well by a bot. For us, that first fit was with growing sales teams. Rick : That shift came about around 2016.

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Totango

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Whether you’re not using a customer success platform yet or you’re using an aging CS tool, there comes a time when you need to upgrade CS software. There are some common symptoms that your current system is no longer up to the task of managing your customer’s success needs.

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User Pilot

JANUARY 17, 2024

The most common challenges that hinder SaaS growth are lack of product-market fit , ineffective sales and marketing strategies , customer churn, and long product development cycles. Here are the 15 most effective ways to scale your SaaS business: Create a solid customer acquisition strategy.

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Totango

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Customer journey optimization lets you map a path to consistently satisfying experiences throughout client lifecycles. This delivers better service for your customers and better results for your company, promoting higher retention rates and greater motivation for customers to become brand advocates.

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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Additionally, a customer advisory board can help foster deep relationships with those key customers, fostering them as powerful brand champions. They can also provide insights and impressions on how the brand is perceived overall by the larger market. What are the benefits of a customer advisory board?

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