Chaotic Flow

AUGUST 18, 2015

SaaS businesses develop intimate, long term relationships with their SaaS customers. If they don’t keep their customers around for years, then all that capital invested in customer acquisition will have gone to waste. It is typical in B2B software for customer acquisition to eat up 50% or more of total costs.

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Customer Success Underperforming Technical Team Scale SaaS 138

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

It’s time to start thinking about retention at scale and bring onboard a customer success team. She joined the company in 2007 back when it was just 30 people and has been instrumental in helping the company scale both its team and its market share over the years. Why you need a customer success team.

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VP of Engineering Customer Success Churn Scale 108

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Customer success means wildly different things to different companies in the SaaS industry. Many organizations create customer success teams but there’s no clear definition as to how these teams develop long-term value for both the customer and the business.

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Sales Hiring Customer Success Scale Underperforming Technical Team 123

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

The company’s customers include Etsy, K-Swiss, Toyota, Yelp and Facebook among others. Its customer base spans over 14,000 customers in over 100 countries. sales team. I did all sorts of things there from sales, to project management, to running the engineering team, hiring. Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020.

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Neil Patel

MARCH 8, 2021

Customer support and customer success can be confusing for both beginners and experts alike. Both customer support and customer success teams are important for your brand’s ongoing growth and success, and the roles share similar skill sets. What customer support is and why it’s important.

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Customer Support Customer Success Underperforming Technical Team Customer Lifetime Value 120

User Pilot

DECEMBER 31, 2024

A quick look into Userpilot In a nutshell, Userpilot is an all-in-one product growth platform that enables businesses to increase product metrics at every stage of the user journey. Custom dashboards to track key metrics at a glance. Userpilot is perfect for non-technical teams. for collecting user sentiment data.

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SaaStr

JUNE 4, 2021

Pomel focused his session on: Making your SaaS startup customer-centric: Hw event marketing has helped him integrate his engineering and sales teams. Lastly, he provides his piece of advice to all founders that are looking to become customer-centric. We hired everybody on our teams. So I start with a simple question.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 13, 2021

Few people have more experience with this move than Linda Lin , Director of Customer Success at the revenue intelligence platform Gong. Moving upmarket means larger customers and higher revenue, but it’s not without its challenges. For Linda, it all comes down to your approach to customer success.

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Scale Customer Success Sales Hiring Strategy 177

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 7, 2024

He previously built the pre and post sales solutions team at mParticle from zero to supporting hundreds of enterprise customers. to be the sales engineer during the sales process and then stayed on with customer post sale to manage the implementation process. Should your sales engineers also implement the software?

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Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Sales Hiring Scale 124

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Developing a product that solves a customer’s pain point provides a sense of pride and can drive the positive, emotional moment of awe that retains customers for the long haul. Winning the trust of your customers may take time (and can be lost in a fraction of that time), but earning that trust is essential to success.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 6, 2022

Customer Success represents a large source of revenue-generation for SaaS businesses. Though Customer Success was originally regarded as a post-sale cost center, you can flip its narrative with the right metrics, positioning, and forecasting strategy. Choose Metrics that Emphasize Your Value. Not so much.

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Forecasting Customer Success Metrics Sales Funnel 98

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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SaaStr

APRIL 5, 2023

A bad experience with a revenue operations leader might taint your view of the position at all future companies, but that would be a mistake, as CRO Confidential podcast host Sam Blond learned first-hand. These leaders act as partners and build out a strong team. Not every leader is created equally.

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ChurnZero

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

This is a guest post by Sara Barnes , vice president of Customer Success at Skilljar. Every Customer Success team focuses on keeping customers engaged and ultimately, preventing churn. In fact, customer education helps scale Customer Success , as the company scales business. .

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Education Customer Success Underperforming Technical Team Scale 98

SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2019

And so I just want to throw in a framework around product market fit measured by customer value creation, then go to market fit measured by economics, then we scale fast. So first off, I’m saying we start with customer success. Isn’t sales really around customer value creation? Growth and milk. What is sales?

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Scale Sales Hiring Revenue VP of Engineering 265

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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Customer Success Software Management SaaS 105

Totango

MAY 15, 2024

From the urgent need for organizations to operate like startups to the surprising disparity in AI adoption between CS and support teams, these experts didn’t hold back. 1: For CS to jump ahead with AI, teams will need to operate like a startup Startups are known for their agility, adaptability, and willingness to experiment.

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Customer Success Underperforming Technical Team AI Technical Review 110

Valuize Consulting

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Level Up Your Customer Success Organization. In the subscription economy, there’s no debate about whether or not to invest in Customer Success (CS); 70% of rapidly growing businesses say that Customer Success is extremely important ( Hubspot , 2017). The fourth challenge is complexity.

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VP of Engineering Customer Success Sales Hiring Interviewing 98

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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Customer Success Scale Underperforming Technical Team Innovation 52

ChurnZero

APRIL 1, 2022

You’re not alone,” says Sharon Winterton , vice president of Customer Success at Catalina Marketing during her session “ Battling imposter syndrome in Customer Success ” at BIG RYG, ChurnZero’s annual Customer Success conference. You’ve never done Customer Success before. There’s so much to do.

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Customer Success Underperforming Technical Team Leadership Strategy 98

SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

And that means the customer is king.” ” In the context of the larger article, he’s making the case for manufacturers to adopt a SaaS playbook: become customer-centric, hire Customer Success Managers (CSMs) to engage customers more deeply, deploy technology to manage the customer relationship beyond the initial sale, etc.

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Sales Hiring Scale Underperforming Technical Team Onboarding 173

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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Sales Hacker

MAY 20, 2021

You should approach this tactically with honed and consistent metrics. You need to measure and repeat so you and your sales team only put effort into promising prospects abroad. Develop a focused sales approach. Who is your ideal customer in terms of vertical? Who are your favorite customers currently?

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Scale Metrics Outsourcing Services Sales Recruiting 119

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 4, 2020

A sales dashboard gives your team a fast and efficient way to see all the data that is most important to doing their job effectively. Most customer relationship management (CRM) tools have the built-in ability to create dashboards for your team. 3 Steps to Set Up a Successful Sales Dashboard. #1 Who is the dashboard for?

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Underperforming Technical Team Data Sales Metrics 136

ChurnZero

APRIL 27, 2021

As ChurnZero recently secured a Series B investment bringing our total funding that has been raised to date to $35 million, we thought we’d take a look back and see the role that Customer Success plays at each respective stage of funding for SaaS companies. Early-Stage Funding & Customer Success.

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Scale Customer Success Payments Underperforming Technical Team 98

User Pilot

JUNE 26, 2023

Want to track the different types of product metrics to get product growth insights ? Product metrics are critical for product growth managers to develop the right product strategies and drive continuous value for customers. You can also use a product metrics framework, ie. What are product metrics?

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Metrics Customer Lifetime Value SaaS Acquisition 96

Totango

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Luckily, there’s a measure for that, too: customer satisfaction metrics. Customer satisfaction quantifies the degree to which a customer is pleased by a product, brand, or overall experience. How to Track Customer Satisfaction with NPS . That’s why the Net Promoter Score (NPS) is a key metric to track.

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Metrics Underperforming Technical Team Systems Review Software Review 93

ChurnZero

DECEMBER 21, 2022

1/ Crash course in Customer Success and SaaS metrics. Many people think of SaaS and CS metrics as black and white. But the truth is, there are many ways to calculate and interpret—and game—metrics. Related reading: Key SaaS and Customer Success metrics you should care about – What’s a good CAC?

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Customer Success Scale Underperforming Technical Team Benchmarks 98

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. Aaron : No. Aaron : He wanted it.

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ChurnZero

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Where is Customer Success Headed in 2022? 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. Customer Success flexes its authority.

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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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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 22, 2020

But as straightforward as their metrics may be, their jobs are anything but simple. There’s a range of key skills that separate the best from the rest, and success belongs to companies who can identify and hire reps who have those precious skills. It’s also one of the hardest to teach and develop. Again it’s all about balance.

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Sales Hiring Interviewing Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting 104

ChurnZero

AUGUST 14, 2020

At ChurnZero, we’re humble enough to admit that Customer Success software can’t do it all, and quite frankly, it shouldn’t. We stick to our circle of competence and focus on our area of expertise: Customer Success software. It’s Customer Success for us. Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Software.

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Payments Payment Solutions Customer Success Software Review 87

Kellblog

MAY 10, 2020

I’m a SaaS metrics nut and I go to a lot of SaaS board meetings, so I’m constantly thinking about (among other things) how to produce a minimal set of metrics that holistically describe a SaaS company. In a prior post, I made a nice one-slide metrics summary for an investor deck. Slide 2: Key Operating Metrics.

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Metrics Sales Hiring Software Review Underperforming Technical Team 98

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Take notes, highlight the best parts, and share important takeaways with your team. Catalyst Sale enables organizations to build and deploy top-notch sales teams through training and enablement. Learn how to develop a full array of selling skills: from asking the right questions to using the proper apps. Links: Website , iTunes.

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User Pilot

APRIL 26, 2024

Customer success is a core growth driver for any SaaS business. The SaaS market is crowded with tons of similar products and the best ones that stand out are those who delight their customers regularly. Are you wondering how to retain your customers and make them love your product? No worries! Let’s get started!

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Customer Success Customer Lifetime Value SaaS Churn 81

Totango

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

To make it to the Super Bowl, a football team must have two things: a strong defense and a strategic offense. The defense maintains a good field position and prevents the opposing team from scoring points, while the offense orchestrates smart plays to gain additional yards and score points. What is gross retention?

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