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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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.

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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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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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How To Buy Saas

JULY 22, 2024

A patient portal is a secure online website that gives patients convenient 24/7 access to their personal health information and medical records from anywhere with an internet connection. This is especially true if you additionally use a mhealth app development because it delivers convenience that builds provider loyalty.

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FastSpring

JANUARY 27, 2022

In this piece, we offer seven case studies from SaaS companies — small tweaks they made to reduce churn and increase customer LTV. Note: FastSpring offers advanced subscription management services that support free trials, monthly and annual paid plans, proration, discount management, and more. How Castos upsells subscription tiers.

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Chart Mogul

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Getting a new customer on board is a happy time for every sales team, but it’s not quite the end of the road. The final step is the sales to customer success handoff process that lays the foundation for retaining customers successfully. This sales to customer success transition is a delicate balancing act.

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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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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? Calculate it!

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ProfitWell

MARCH 2, 2020

The subscription economy is built on relationships. When your customers are happy, they stick around. That’s what makes a customer success strategy so important. Thinking proactively about how to build products that help customers achieve their goals is the best tool you have for building lasting relationships.

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User Pilot

MARCH 23, 2023

What are the reasons for customer churn in SaaS? And how can customer success teams address them to ensure product growth? As a SaaS company, your ultimate goal is to retain customers and keep them happy with your product. However, sometimes things don’t go as planned, and customers churn. moment faster. #3:

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Chart Mogul

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Getting a new customer on board is a happy time for every sales team, but it’s not quite the end of the road. The final step is the sales to customer success handoff process that lays the foundation for retaining customers successfully. This sales to customer success transition is a delicate balancing act.

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User Pilot

MARCH 25, 2024

Because it improves your business’ profitability, understanding and reducing churn also gives you a better customer acquisition cost to customer lifetime value (CAC: CLV) ratio. To calculate the churn rate, divide the number of customers lost by the total number of customers at the beginning of that period.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 26, 2021

All additional clauses in your plan were probably introduced because of a bad past incident by a rep. They are also not something you can influence directly and might require help from the SDR and marketing teams. Bookings vs. invoices. Companies have a lot of reasons like a history of bad customers, bad sales, etc.

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User Pilot

OCTOBER 19, 2024

What does customer satisfaction look like for SaaS businesses? Unlike traditional businesses, most SaaS businesses operate the subscription pricing model. As a result, satisfying customers is key to any success in SaaS. For instance, you can launch a CSAT survey after a customer interacts with your support team.

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Chart Mogul

MAY 30, 2019

At ChartMogul, our aim is to help our customers become category leaders. We know that transformational customer success focuses on proactive, strategic engagement. It ensures that users are successful. And this kind of customer success may even transcend traditional boundaries to the collective benefit of all parties.

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User Pilot

JANUARY 31, 2023

TL;DR At-risk customers are those who are showing signs of canceling their subscriptions. Identifying at-risk customers is crucial for understanding their behavior, improving customer satisfaction , and reducing churn rate. What are at-risk customers? As a result, at-risk customers end up increasing the churn rate.

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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. B2B SaaS customer loyalty can be quantified through key performance indicators.

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Totango

JANUARY 26, 2021

In other words, the number of customers who didn’t churn is the number of customers you retained. For example, if you sell a subscription SaaS product, a simple procedure for calculating your monthly churn rate would be: Take how many subscribers canceled their subscriptions that month. Poor Customer Fit.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 4, 2019

But what if you could have a better idea of the changes 2019 has in store for Customer Success professionals? We’ll see more applications of AI in Customer Success, but these will mostly be behind-the-scenes. the stuff that Customer Success teams are really meant to do).

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Totango

JULY 8, 2021

Firefighting happens when you don’t have visibility into what is going on in your customer portfolio so you are constantly putting out fires, especially around renewal time. We find this solution works best for teams operating in a high- to medium-touch engagement model. How to Build An Early Customer Warning System.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 24, 2024

How should you handle presenting challenges to your C-suite team when you’ve just joined the company? Lattice had a product-led growth flow on the website while the sales team was still trying to sell the PLG companies The good news is Lattice had a lot of activity and initiatives at play. Can you start and stop a PLG motion?

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CustomerSuccessBox

JUNE 17, 2022

How unfortunate is it to see a subscriber canceling their recurring payment! Product analytics is the process of evaluating how your customers or users engage with your product. This enables your product team to identify and track engagement data and optimize the product. The poor Customer Onboarding process.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 22, 2020

This is especially true in the Software as a Service (SaaS) industry, in which the subscription-based sales model means prospects are typically committing to a product for months or years at a time. If the customer isn’t happy, it can cause months of pain — not just for the customer, but for Customer Success.

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Baremetrics

AUGUST 23, 2021

You need to have a strategic approach that includes identifying your market fit, developing appropriate positioning and marketing strategies, and measuring performance. It acts as a product launch blueprint for your business, enabling you to reach customers and sell your product more effectively. Start your free trial today.

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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. Hear from Duo Security’s VP of Inside Sales America on how to build a $2.3B sales team. Jennifer Lawrence | VP, Inside Sales @ Duo Security.

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User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

TL;DR Customer-led marketing focuses on improving marketing strategies and messaging based on customer feedback and behavior insights. It helps build customer retention and brand loyalty. Product-led growth vs customer-led growth Product-led growth uses the product itself as the primary driver of growth.

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Kellblog

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

For example: The same subscription revenue of $450M The same subscription COGS of $45M The same S&M spend at $180M The same R&D spend at $140M The same G&A spend at $70M What’s jamming our radar here? It’s hard to train people on best practices you don’t know and have never developed.

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Kellblog

JULY 8, 2020

Mark’s a seasoned startup executive, he’s go-to-market oriented, and he has some large-company chops that he developed earlier in his career. DK: a lot of CEOs and boards wait too long in denial on a bad VP of Sales hire. Waiting too long to create Customer Success and give it renewals. Make it work. (DK:

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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. You Can’t Evaluate Customer Health.

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SaaSOptics

MARCH 1, 2022

What makes finance teams throw up their hands and say, “I just need a tool that can do X!” finance teams are responsible for planning the financial roadmap of an organization and keeping everything in balance. Most finance teams are familiar with enterprise and integrated solutions (think Netsuite, Sage Intacct.).

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ChurnZero

JULY 22, 2022

Does your Customer Success team have a shallow view of onboarding? If you consider onboarding to be a success when a customer reaches their go-live date, then you need to dig deeper. It’s about transforming your customer’s business and delivering value, so you make their life better,” says Donna.

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CustomerSuccessBox

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

The searches for the keyword ‘ Role of a Customer Success Manager ’ have been increasing since the last few years. As companies around the world are getting aware of the importance of Customer Success, the demand for seasoned Customer Success Managers (CSMs) is also increasing exponentially. Why is it so?

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ChurnZero

OCTOBER 4, 2019

It’s time for another installment of our blog series where we spotlight a Customer Success professional and get their take on the industry as well as get to hear some of their top tips they’d like to share. Today we are showcasing – Sam Schneider, the VP of Client Success at Bloomfire. A: It’s ok to say no.

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SaaSOptics

APRIL 7, 2022

” Or, as Openview Partners defines it, “ product-led growth is an end user-focused growth model that relies on the product itself as the primary driver of customer acquisition, conversion, and expansion.” Does this mean that sales, marketing, and customer success are forced to hang out on the sidelines?

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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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User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

They also manage finances and supervise one or more engineering teams. Customer Success Manager: This person is responsible for customer relationships and experience as well as acting as the voice of the customer. In large companies, the CSM also oversees other customer success roles.

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