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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. Here are the highlights. Here are the highlights.

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Strategic customer success: minimizing post-sale chaos with Tim Conder.

ChurnZero

To make the right choices, however, you need a deep understanding of what your customers need and expect from you. However, the process never stops, so when there’s a customer need that you don’t get to the first time around, come back around and prioritize it the second time. Then, think about leadership in general.

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Harmonizing sales and CS to drive revenue growth and deliver value (Part 2)

Totango

Merging sales and customer success (CS) is a delicate art that is often challenging but necessary for driving business results and creating a frictionless customer journey.

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When Customer Success Becomes a Silo

Amity

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. It can also happen when the senior leadership team has not agreed on and adopted a cohesive customer success strategy and culture.

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ChurnZero’s 10 Customer Success Leaders to Watch in 2020

ChurnZero

As SaaS gets more serious about Customer Success, their representation on the executive and C-suite level will follow (as envisioned in our 2020 Customer Success predictions ; see #2). Based on LinkedIn research, Customer Success r oles saw 34% annual growth —qualifying them as one of the top emerging jobs in 2020.

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A Roadmap to Customer Success for SMBs

SmartKarrot

Customer success is a relatively new function in businesses today. To stay intact with a plan and progress in a foolproof way, a customer success roadmap can help. There are many areas you need to look into while implementing customer success in your organization. Benefits of customer success roadmap.

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How high-tech and software firms can bounce back from retention challenges

West Monroe

There are also questions around the ownership and accountability model for renewals: for example, whether renewals should reside within sales or customer success, if a separate renewals function is necessary, and what the accountabilities/remits for renewals should be between customer success managers and sales reps when both are responsible.