Gainsight

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Before you say, “ thank u, next ” to 2018, check out Gainsight’s top blog posts, webinars, and resources of 2018. Top 5 Customer Success Blog Posts of 2018. CSM & Product’ Is the New ‘Sales & Marketing’. Click here to read the blog. Gainsight Elements: The Science of Customer Success.

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ChurnZero

MAY 3, 2022

Whether you’re building your expertise in cooking, crocheting, coding, or Customer Success, YouTube is now the place to level up. Let’s explore five of the best Customer Success YouTube channels for learning how to fight churn, understand industry trends, and position yourself for professional success in CS.

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ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

This is a guest article by Michael Su , senior consultant of Customer Success, The Success League. Customer Success is still a young field and a new concept for many companies. When I ventured out to build my first Customer Success department at a tech software company, my leadership team thought I was nuts.

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Gainsight

JANUARY 4, 2021

As we embark on the New Year, now is the perfect time to catch up on Gainsight’s Customer Success resources from 2020. We compiled our best Customer Success resources from last year, from blogs to ebooks to webinars and podcasts. Launching Customer Success. Customer Success Team Management.

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Totango

JUNE 10, 2022

As we saw in our 2021 State of the Customer Success Industry and Salary Report , the role of Customer Success Manager (CSM) is one of the fastest-growing jobs in the industry. In a recent webinar titled “Navigating Your Customer Success Career Path”, Totango’s Sr. Customer success is still new.

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Top 10 Blog Posts from 2020. 9 Well-Meaning Yet Harmful Phrases to Avoid with Customers. This article is a roundup of the not-so-obvious phrases you should avoid saying to a customer no matter how well-intentioned or deserved. Check out this post to see if you’re inadvertently sending subliminal negativity to your customers.

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ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

With sweeping layoffs, forecast misses, and budget cuts in the news, there’s one question running through the mind of every Customer Success leader right now: What can I do to prepare my department for the impacts of the economic downturn? Customers will respect and trust you infinitely more when you’re upfront with them.

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Education Services Group

JANUARY 4, 2023

It’s no secret that 2022 was a little bumpy for business, yet we saw many Customer Success leaders meeting industry challenges head-on. Customer Success leaders are pulled in so many directions that prioritizing our aspirations can feel impossible. Everybody’s heard of Customer Success, and the industry is growing.

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One Millimeter Mindset

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Business growth either leverages profitable leadership communication. How many of your clients have voiced this sentiment, when attempting to traverse execution of pre-sale promises and their post-sale service delivery and execution? As degradation of services became more frequent, I exercised leadership communication.

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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Customer Success Metrics that Your Investors and Board Care About. They care that you’re staffed appropriately to serve the needs of your customers, because ultimately that results in revenue. A huge part of how customer success collects intel and feedback from customers is by talking with them.

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CustomerSuccessBox

DECEMBER 6, 2021

With the grace of a number of Customer Success communities, we have come a long way to 2022. Where now we see a new avatar of the emerging customer success, with the rise of customer advocacy and expansion putting in greater emphasis on customer onboarding. Lincoln Murphy. Aaron Thompson. Alex Farmer.

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Amity

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Amity sat down with Bradley Liou , Director of Customer Success at Densify to ask him about all things Customer Success. Read our interview with Bradley to find out where Customer Success started at Densify, where it is now, and where it’s headed in the future. A lot of the time things are reactive.

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ClientSuccess

DECEMBER 12, 2022

In today’s competitive customer success landscape, it is essential that CSMs are adequately and appropriately compensated for their work. When making a switch from one compensation plan to another for your Customer Success Managers (CSMs), it’s important to make the transition as smooth and considerate as possible.

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Amity

APRIL 25, 2016

Frequently updated and always on point, the A-List is a snapshot of what's happening in the world of Customer Success. Director of Customer Success - Proven. Alex curates the Customer Success Newsletter which is a weekly curated collection of 4 helpful articles from around the Customer Success community.

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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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Amity

JANUARY 9, 2019

This article was originally published on WnTD's blog. One of the most exciting aspects of developing customer success strategies is looking at how Customer Success is (or should be) integrated with other areas of the organization. When Customer Success Isn’t Part of the Organizational Culture.

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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.

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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. When people think of top-line growth, they often think of Sales.

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One Millimeter Mindset

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

These 3 Industry40 soft skills are mandatory skills for personal development and leadership success in Today’s and Tomorrow’s evolving, complex business ecosystem. Instead, isn’t it time to develop the leadership soft skills for Tomorrow and the Future? Beyond our current personal development and leadership comfort levels?

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ChurnZero

MAY 3, 2022

Whether you’re building your expertise in cooking, crocheting, coding, or Customer Success, YouTube is now the place to level up. Let’s explore five of the best Customer Success YouTube channels for learning how to fight churn, understand industry trends, and position yourself for professional success in CS.

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ClientSuccess

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

High-performance sales and marketing teams have relied on operations resources for years to streamline operations, optimize workflows, and ensure efficient processes. Here are three considerations to take into account when it comes to investing in customer success operations: 1.

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ClientSuccess

AUGUST 31, 2020

You’ve done your research, gone through the sales cycle, and made your decision. Now, the day is finally here – your team is finally implementing your new customer success platform. Getting started with a new customer success platform is your team’s chance to experience an onboarding process from your customer’s point of view.

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Totango

JANUARY 22, 2018

Customer Success Summit brings together the best and brightest minds in Customer Success. Our world-class speaker lineup for 2018 Customer Success Summit will share the impressive business results that customer success best practices should deliver. VP, Global Head Digital Customer Engagement.

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ChurnZero

JUNE 7, 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. Jason is an Associate Partner at Customer Imperative , responsible for overseeing the strategic consulting business.

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One Millimeter Mindset

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

These third quarter zinger blog posts focus on how “what we do” impacts the customers we serve. Instead, these third quarter zinger blog posts concentrate on the value of YOU. Some days are more successful than others. Confusing Customer Service Delivery with Customer Experience Delivery? Let’s face it.

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ClientSuccess

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

There are an overwhelming amount of metrics that you can measure to track customer success. So, to break through the fray and give you a place to start, Client Success has created THE list of the most valuable customer success metrics. Did they achieve these outcomes?

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ChurnZero

MARCH 4, 2022

This article is adapted from a session presented by Amy Manning , vice president of Customer Success at Lawgeex from BIG RYG, ChurnZero’s annual Customer Success leadership summit. Assist your sales organization in closing deals faster. Customer Success teams receive a constant flow of customer feedback.

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Totango

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Our increasingly customer-centric economy has established Customer Success as critical to every business’s overall strategy. Any CS team member knows that happy customers make for a thriving enterprise, but the same cannot always be said for C-level executives or your board of directors.

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ClientSuccess

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Whether you’re looking for networking opportunities, product recommendations and education, or thought leadership and education, conferences are a great way to achieve just about any of these goals. Here are a few must-attend customer success conferences scheduled to take place in 2021: 1. February 10-11 – Virtual Event.

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CSM Practice

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

A good customer success team drives continuous value to the customer at every point in the customer life-cycle journey. Customer success teams use playbooks and strategies in their ongoing efforts to ensure customers achieve operational success and maximize value from your solution offerings.

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CSM Practice

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

A good customer success team drives continuous value to the customer at every point in the customer life-cycle journey. Customer success teams use playbooks and strategies in their ongoing efforts to ensure customers achieve operational success and maximize value from your solution offerings.

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ClientSuccess

JUNE 15, 2022

As any customer success professional knows, learning and growing in your profession never really ends. Why let your development as a customer success professional fall behind? Stop right there if you’re thinking, “what else about customer success do I stand to learn?”. Continuing education for CSMs.

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ClientSuccess

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Any customer success leader worth his or her salt isn’t making strategic, department-wide decisions based on gut feelings. Instead, customer success leaders lean on hard numbers, insights, and data to help steer their team’s decision-making. Did they achieve these outcomes?

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CSM Practice

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Guessing has no place in a changing customer success industry. Now more than ever, customer success leaders must use relevant and actionable customer success metrics to make guided decisions and strategies to deliver success. Customer Health Metrics. Customer Health Metrics.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

While with traditional enterprise sales the customer is paying for a one-off purchase that may or may not go hand-in-hand with an annual service fee, SaaS companies are constantly having to cultivate the customer relationship if they are to stay in business. Success means moving the relationship beyond the sale.

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ClientSuccess

JULY 5, 2017

For customer success leaders, these roadblocks or pitfalls can be the tipping point between customer satisfaction and customer churn. 5 Common Success Post-Sales Pitfalls. Understanding Post-Sales Lifecycle Management. Pitfall #1: The Sales Handoff (Poor Knowledge Transfer).

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ClientSuccess

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

While customer success leaders, HR representatives, and other key stakeholders are often involved in the hiring process at every step of the way, the structure of your organization could warrant additional team members from different departments being involved in the hiring process. Customer Success Deep Dive.

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