Totango

JULY 30, 2019

The way you feel as you travel versus when you arrive at your destination is a great metaphor for the distinction between customer experience vs. customer success. Customer experience refers to the feelings, emotions, and perceptions customers have when using your product. Experience vs. Value.

Customer Success 78

Customer Success Marketplace as a Service Travel Enterprise 78

User Pilot

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Is the "North Star Metric" just another bit of SaaS jargon somebody has coined to rename something everybody already knows about? What other SaaS companies use the North Star Metric and how can you find yours? In this article, I'll go over what the North Star is, why this metric matters, and how to find yours.

B2C 98

B2C Metrics B2B Retention 98

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Instead of waiting for leads to reach out to you, a live chat solution like Intercom’s Messenger helps you connect with potential customers right when they’re expressing the most interest with your product — when they’re on your website. Make customer handoffs invisible. Measure and attribute success.

Technical Review 161

Technical Review Marketplace as a Service Systems Review Customer Success 161

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Customers of category creators benefit from a company in the marketplace seeking to help them solve complex problems, get promoted and self-actualize in their own lives and career journeys. Over the years at Gainsight , we’ve spent a lot of time (and money) to help the world understand what Customer Success actually is.

Scale 136

Scale Sales Recruiting Marketplace as a Service Benchmarks 136

ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

As a Customer Success leader, do you find yourself watering down your budgetary requests? According to our 2022 Customer Success Leadership Study, CS teams are already underfunded and under-resourced. How Customer Success can win more resources, budget, and credibility with Jeff Heckler.

Customer Success 98

Customer Success Sales Hiring Headcount Scale 98

Totango

AUGUST 7, 2020

The challenge of the digital marketplace is to make every customer feel like they are your only customer. Thankfully, the same advances that helped build that digital market also make it possible to provide every customer with personalized service. What Is Customer Success Automation?

Customer Success 63

Customer Success Marketplace as a Service Scale Customer Lifetime Value 63

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 11, 2019

As the General Manager for HubSpot’s Service Hub , Michael knows a thing or two about keeping customers close. Since 2010, he’s helped the company grow to more than 40,000 customers and helped scale the support team to more than 500 employees to assist those users. So it was a combination of continued growth and customer demand.

Scale 188

Scale Scaling Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team 188

Totango

MARCH 6, 2020

The feedback your VoC efforts provide are the unique perspective of your own customers, and the actions you take based on that feedback add value to their experience. To make the most of your Voice of Customer (VoC) data you need to know when to request, share, and use feedback in your daily workflows to impress and serve customers.

Marketplace as a Service 93

Marketplace as a Service Social Media Customer Success Enterprise 93

Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

The litmus test is if you’ve created a marketplace: are people actually building on your product because there’s value that you’ve created, or is it just a nifty integration? The upside of having this big two-sided marketplace and extending your product into tons of different products with an API is quite large. But are they platforms?

Underperforming Technical Team 170

Underperforming Technical Team Marketplace as a Service Outsourced Development Development 170

SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

So I’m Nick Mehta, CEO of Gainsight and you probably have heard of Gainsight in the world of customer success and really excited to have two different voices in the world of how companies think about their customers. But then instead of a success plan, it’s a business plan. So it starts there.

Payment Methods 268

Payment Methods Merchant Services Scale Payments 268

Totango

JULY 22, 2022

When facing a struggling economy, it’s more important than ever to keep your customers engaged and reminded of why your products and services are critical to their success. We are constantly adding innovative new apps to our Customer Journey Marketplace , including our newest Engage Customers SuccessBLOC.

Communication 107

Communication Marketplace as a Service Technical Review Engagement 107

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 18, 2019

They didn’t know it at the time, but they had also created an entire business category: an on demand, short-term rental marketplace, which has shot the value of their business north of $38 billion. Over the past four years, the number of Customer Success Managers (CSMs) in the industry has increased 400%.

Scale 112

Scale Sales Recruiting Marketplace as a Service Sales Hiring 112

CloudGeometry

MARCH 22, 2022

SaaS business metrics are not hard to find ; we won’t analyze them in-depth here. As it turns out, SaaS operational platform metrics are also abundant. However, it is still too often the case that business metrics and operations metrics live in parallel universes.

DevOps as a Service 130

DevOps as a Service Software Delivery Well Architected Framework AWS 130

User Pilot

JULY 9, 2024

Salesforce : Best customer experience software for AI-powered personalized marketing automation. Hubspot : Best for comprehensive inbound marketing, sales, and customer service solutions. ChurnZero : Best for reducing churn , identifying customer needs, and increasing retention. Ready to get started? Salesforce pricing.

Software Review 103

Software Review Software Management Business 103

Unbounce

JUNE 16, 2020

These are often built with agencies, consultants, and managed-service-providers (MSPs) in mind. These partners resell your product and benefit from offering ongoing services, usually on a retainer basis. To make these distinctions more clear, ask yourself, “who owns the selling and customer success functions, you or your partner?”

Outsourcing Services 131

Outsourcing Services Sales Recruiting Scale SaaS 131

User Pilot

JULY 24, 2023

Are you looking for Zendesk integrations to boost the efficiency of your self-service customer support? The article explores the best Zendesk integrations for: Customer support Customer feedback Productivity Email and social media communication Analytics and reporting Let's get right to it!

Marketplace as a Service 97

Marketplace as a Service AI Search Social Media SaaS 97

ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

At ChurnZero, our mission is to be the best Customer Success platform out there – and Customer Success teams sit at the heart of this goal. Since the field of Customer Success is still maturing, we feel it’s key to learn from others in the industry. Amanda Berger, Chief Customer Officer, Lucidworks.

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VP of Engineering Customer Success Scale Marketplace as a Service 53

CustomerSuccessBox

JUNE 20, 2022

Now that you’ve chosen to read this article, I suppose you are already aware of the weightage that the Customer Success function holds for your SaaS business. And when it comes to delivering the right customer success function to your clients you are as good as the tool you use. What is a Customer Success Software?

Artificial Intelligence 52

Artificial Intelligence Customer Success Software Payment Features 52

SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

Anthony : I’ll add more too and this sounds like a sponsored answer, but customer success becomes even more important as we sort of think about where growth is coming from. Obviously, marketing and investments are expensive and we know the cost to keep a customer is obviously a lot less. The customers love her, right?

Sales Hiring 244

Sales Hiring Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting 244

Chart Mogul

APRIL 24, 2020

With a pandemic underway, software-as-a-service businesses, in normal times the beneficiaries of relatively stable compounding growth, are now facing an existential threat: recurring revenue streams are drying up, at least in part. Promote the metrics that signify business progress and demote the rest. Arrested attention.

Forecasting 98

Forecasting Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Marketplace as a Service 98

Totango

JULY 2, 2019

These days, customers expect personalized service. The digital transformation of business means that customers can easily leave a professional relationship that isn’t working for them. There’s no better way to provide a great customer experience than by surrounding them with attentive, responsive, and personalized service. .

Enterprise 86

Enterprise Marketplace as a Service Customer Lifetime Value Onboarding 86

SaaStr

MAY 14, 2023

Algolia went from zero to seven figures in revenue in 12 months, and the launch of their search as a service product, and grew pricing from $19 a month to $100,000, which sounds amazing. web services. There’s no specific metrics. Metrics like the number of customers. I want to integrate for other customers.”

Sales Hiring 274

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale Payment Methods 274

Sales Hacker

APRIL 1, 2025

The GTM Podcast is available on any major directory, including: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Hayden Stafford is the President and Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) at Seismic, where he oversees the global go-to-market (GTM) organization, including pre-sales, sales, customer success, services, partners, and more.

Scale 63

Scale VP of Engineering Outsourcing Services Enterprise 63

OpenView Labs

APRIL 7, 2021

We’ve grown accustomed to the traditional set of SaaS metrics as just part of how to operate a SaaS business. It’s hard to conceive of what to do without metrics like CAC payback, LTV:CAC, average ACV, or the magic number. But we also need to expand the aperture of how we define success for PLG and usage-based businesses.

Metrics 52

Metrics Scale SaaS Marketplace as a Service 52

Valuize Consulting

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

While the core product addresses the fundamental need and the actual product provides the tangible goods or services, it’s the augmented product that often sets a brand apart. It’s the essence of what the product or service deliversbeyond the physical item itself.

Customer Success 52

Customer Success Strategy Azure Technical Review 52

Valuize Consulting

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

While the core product addresses the fundamental need and the actual product provides the tangible goods or services, it’s the augmented product that often sets a brand apart. It’s the essence of what the product or service delivers—beyond the physical item itself.

Customer Success 52

Customer Success Strategy Azure Technical Review 52

Neil Patel

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

NP Digital is a performance marketing agency built by marketers, and our global offices allow us to deliver our specialized services to clients worldwide. Below, we’ll explain how each of our agencies works, the services they provide, and what to expect from each of them in the future. NP Digital Marketing Services.

VP of Engineering 126

VP of Engineering Marketing Marketplace as a Service Social Media 126

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

But you’ve really focused in the area of customer success. And our job is to basically find a way to bring that to life, be ambassadors of the brand and bring it out to the marketplace. There should be one set of metrics between them that’s indicating the health of that revenue and what the future revenue is to come.

Scale 290

Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team 290

Totango

MARCH 29, 2022

Customer success goes beyond just viewing and knowing data points about your customers, and checking in periodically. So how can companies get a grasp on designing and maintaining all customer journeys while taking proactive measures to scale retention and growth?

Engagement 101

Engagement Scale Marketplace as a Service Retention 101

OpenView Labs

JANUARY 13, 2022

It requires rethinking everything from billing and revenue forecasting, to the role of Account Executives, to how to drive a customer success mindset across the entire organization. Plus companies face significant change management hurdles if they choose to migrate their legacy subscription customers onto a new pricing model. .

Pricing 82

Pricing Payment Services SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 82

User Pilot

MARCH 5, 2025

Self-service support: Userpilot empowers you to build and customize in-app resource center code-free. Take Advantage of Userpilot’s Customer Engagement Software for Every Stage of the User Journey Get a Demo 14 Day Trial No Credit Card Required 2. Customer support with Intercom. Appcues pricing.

Software Review 52

Software Review Engagement Software Scale 52

Sales Hacker

APRIL 21, 2021

Revenue operations (RevOps) is a centralized org within a company that supports all revenue-generating business operations including Sales Ops, Marketing Ops, Customer Success Ops, and systems management. The marketing team ran a super successful campaign and generated hot leads. That didn’t go so well at all!

Scale 116

Scale Sales Recruiting Technical Review Technical Advisors 116

User Pilot

AUGUST 12, 2024

Pendo is a DAP that offers mobile device support and allows segmentation based on product usage , visitor data, account information, and mobile metrics. Mixpanel , a dedicated analytics platform, extends beyond in-app behavior tracking to include the entire customer journey analysis. And satisfy them with personalized experiences.

Marketplace as a Service 95

Marketplace as a Service Banking Telecommunications Mobile 95

SaaStr

JULY 11, 2019

What we try to do is this integration between two or three companies to be so flawless that for the customer seems like it’s only one application, but you are taking advantage of the best E-mail service, the best chat service, the best voice service. Jason Lemkin: That’s a good metric. Tiago Paiva: Yep.

Sales Hiring 270

Sales Hiring SMB Scale Cloud 270

Neil Patel

APRIL 20, 2021

Until that happens, you’ll find it difficult to sell your actual products or services. Most people and companies think products and services sell because of their great features. Let’s look at an example in the world of marketing consulting services and products. service, program, online course, etc.) That’s not the case.

Sales 137

Sales Outsourcing Services Marketplace as a Service Underperforming Technical Team 137

User Pilot

AUGUST 14, 2024

Let’s dive in to learn what they are and how you can implement them into your product for greater customer success and acquisition! TL;DR A product-led strategy focuses on making your product, its value proposition, and user experience the primary drivers of customer acquisition, engagement , and retention.

Scale 106

Scale User Experience Acquisition Technical Review 106

SaaStr

JUNE 16, 2020

Companies were very focused on customer success, retaining existing customers just checking in, seeing how customers were doing, assessing the health of the business, assessing the health of their own employees, really focusing on upsell, closing existing deals, and not as much focusing on top of the funnel.

Sales Hiring 210

Sales Hiring Scale SaaS Payments Payment Services 210