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Building a Product Roadmap & Why Customer Success Input Is Valuable

CSM Practice

How valuable is Customer Success’s input in creating a solid product roadmap?! In the past, companies relied solely on the product management team to build and drive roadmaps. Shifting the Product Roadmap Ownership to Customer Success. What is a product roadmap? Document customer needs.

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Customer Success Plans That Rock!

Education Services Group

Let’s talk Customer Success Plans. What’s a Customer Success Plan, you ask? Well, let’s just say it’s the wind beneath your customer’s wings. It’s the recipe for their success. My amazing metaphors aside, Customer Success Plans are essentially the “what” and “how” of delivering on your CS strategy.

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What is a Product Roadmap?

Gainsight

A product roadmap is a high-level, visual representation of the direction your product offering will take over time. A good product roadmap will provide your colleagues and stakeholders with the “why” behind your product and should serve the following purposes: Lay out the overarching strategy. Executive-level product roadmaps.

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Pulse Europe 2023: How to Drive Proactive Customer Success When You’re an Early-Stage Company

Gainsight

For a long time, proactive vs reactive was a common debate among Customer Success professionals. Now, the verdict is in, and everyone agrees that proactive Customer Success Managers (CSMs) are best positioned to drive value and deliver a better customer experience. Control over the customer experience.

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Customer Success Salary Report for 2020: What Factors Impact the Bottom Line?

Totango

Looking back at the 2020 Customer Success Salary Report , this year has also had a particularly influential effect on the Customer Success (CS) Industry. As compared to 2019, companies are increasingly growing their Customer Success teams to maximize retention and drive growth from existing customers. .

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Top 10 Insights from Customer Success Executives in 2022

Totango

At Totango’s 2022 Global Executive Forum , customer success leaders from around the world came together to connect with their peers, share ideas and learn about new products and opportunities. Top 10 Insights from Customer Success Executives. The Customer Comes Before the Product. A Digital Execution Engine is Key.

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Three ways customer success can support product management to everyone’s benefit

ChurnZero

The respective directors of the customer success team and the product team were really going at it. The meeting we were in was supposed to be a forum where the two teams could trade notes and collaborate on the product roadmap. How many customers will the feature affect? That’s why we do two different jobs.