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From Startup to $500M CARR: How Braze Scaled a Growth and CS Team

SaaStr

At the same time, they saw how scaling tech support was critical for the product, and the customers were asking for it. So they pulled the small team they had out and created its own technical support department with an outside leader. Braze invested in this, and the leadership team agreed to do so.

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Welcoming our new Chief People Officer and other senior leaders

Intercom, Inc.

I am delighted to share that our senior leadership team here at Intercom continues to grow. He’s also served in leadership roles at Mulesoft, Salesforce, Accenture, and Booz Allen. Welcome Declan Ivory, VP of Customer Support. Declan is joining us from Google where he was Director, Cloud Technical Support for EMEA.

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BetterCloud Announces Strategic Growth Investment from Vista Equity Partners, Further Solidifying SaaS Management Leadership

BetterCloud

You’ll see us delivering proactive technical support to customers in new ways, providing self-service training on every part of our platform, offering on-demand access to technical resources to build out integrations, and much more. We’re going to continue to set the bar high in this area.

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Strategies to take your customer support global

Intercom, Inc.

You could keep your team members in a single location – but that means team members working odd hours to provide technical support in different time zones. That’s why many support teams opt for locating team members in the same time zones that their customers are in, also known as a “follow the sun” approach.

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How to Build a CSM Team That Generates 130% Net Retention with Talkdesk (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Gillian oversees Talkdesk’s Customer Success and Technical Support teams, partnering closely with customers to achieve their CX vision. And then there was technical support. The other things that we’ve done is stand up a proactive support team. Our technical support team is amazing.

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Ready to scale your support? Here’s why you need a customer support operations team

Intercom, Inc.

It can seem like an impossible balancing act – but customer support operations can help. Not only can customer support operations help you to measure and improve those results, but they can also help you to demonstrate the value driven by your support team to stakeholders and leadership.

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2024 Expectations: The forefront of the next generation of customer success

Totango

For many companies, the CSM role has become a catch-all for various tasks – from renewals and billing to technical support. As partners, marketing and CS will deliver value through thought leadership, scaled initiatives, one-to-many content programs, community, and personalized support made possible by investments in AI.