CSM Practice

MAY 13, 2020

At CSM Practice, we are following the Covid-19 situation and its impact on customer success closely. And as we collectively work together to lower the curve, we would like to provide some guidance based on best practices to smoothen customer journeys during the Coronavirus pandemic. 1. Be Customer-Centric.

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Totango

OCTOBER 23, 2020

By utilizing certain customer onboarding best practices in your enterprise, you can ensure that your clients successfully learn to use your product, see its value for their business, and start on the right path toward high lifetime value. 7 Customer Onboarding Best Practices to Set Clients Up for Success.

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Totango

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Customer Success team accountability isn’t something you just worry about figuring out later once your CS team is up and running. As a manager, when your organizational best practices and your customer’s goals align with your employee’s actions and responsibilities, you have the perfect conditions for growth. .

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CustomerSuccessBox

DECEMBER 4, 2018

In the SaaS world, the customer-acquisition-cost (CAC) is high and the initial payment is peanuts compared to the lifetime value (LTV) of the customer. Without a high customer retention rate, a SaaS company will shut down, no matter how great the other metrics are. Customer Retention Best Practices. Are you ready?

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Totango

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

The freemium SaaS model , where you offer limited free use of your product to promote a premium version, has become common in the tech industry. But is it the best way to sell a SaaS product? We’ll take a closer look at what the freemium SaaS model is and what its pros and cons are. What Is the Freemium SaaS Model?

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Totango

JULY 31, 2020

For SaaS companies especially, the speed and ease with which your customers can progress through new user onboarding will act as the first indicators of how smooth their use of your product will be going forward. How SaaS Enterprises Can Streamline New User Onboarding. Proactively Optimizing SaaS Onboarding.

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ProProfs Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

The importance of SaaS Customer Service is visible in these two data-proven statistics: AmericanExpress reports that 70% of consumers will go with the company that offers excellent customer support. As you can see, delivering the perfect saas customer support experiences is directly correlated with your churn and retention.

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CSM Practice

JULY 6, 2020

To many, SaaS has always been tricky, and the current global economic downturn caused by the Coronavirus pandemic has only exacerbated it. At the moment, SaaS companies appear to be under immense financial pressure, resulting in a dramatic increase in vendors seeking guidance on how to adapt, survive, and even thrive during this downturn.

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Top 10 Blog Posts from 2020. A relic from bygone days of old-school Account Management, QBRs are a classic, but not timeless, practice; one that feels perfunctory and misplaced in today’s always-connected, data-enriched landscape. The SaaS Debate: Who Owns the Renewal and Upsell? Customer Success vs. Sales.

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ClientSuccess

JULY 13, 2021

Modern CSMs working in the SaaS industry wear a lot of hats – and we mean a lot. They’re project managers, act as a liaison between customers and other teams, escalate incidents and issues, keep customers moving forward in their project plans, and are responsible for the general well-being of customer account health. The bottom line

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CSM Practice

JULY 6, 2020

To many, SaaS has always been tricky, and the current global economic downturn caused by the Coronavirus pandemic has only exacerbated it. At the moment, SaaS companies appear to be under immense financial pressure, resulting in a dramatic increase in vendors seeking guidance on how to adapt, survive, and even thrive during this downturn.

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ClientSuccess

AUGUST 14, 2019

Successfully executing a well-planned CSM compensation strategy depends on who owns revenue-generating KPIs and milestones related to a customer account, such as renewals, upsells, and new user expansions. As you structure your CSM compensation plans, here are three best practices to keep in mind: 1. Who Owns the Renewal?

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aircall

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

To make that happen, you’ll need to clearly define your sales training process, invest in the right training programs, and follow best practices for training sessions. . A successful sales management training program will account for past selling trends. Sales Team Training Best Practices Checklist for Your Salespeople.

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CustomerSuccessBox

JUNE 9, 2021

They’ll be very good at it, they’ll be very quick at it, added the experience of onboarding customers and thus are likely to be a lot more consistent, a lot more professional approach in comparison to a generic team, who are likely to be more busy handling accounts as well in comparison to Onboarding specialists.

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Totango

JULY 21, 2020

The current COVID-19 pandemic has not been kind to many industries, and SaaS is no exception. In March of this year, SaaS stocks reached a 20 percent decline from their selling highs. Communications SaaS companies have watched the growth rate of subscriptions rise by 1.4X. Stay Agile As a Company.

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AWS Machine Learning

JANUARY 26, 2024

The goal of this post is to empower AI and machine learning (ML) engineers, data scientists, solutions architects, security teams, and other stakeholders to have a common mental model and framework to apply security best practices, allowing AI/ML teams to move fast without trading off security for speed.

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aircall

APRIL 16, 2021

SaaS software, also known as cloud-based software, has now gone mainstream, making it easy for teams to leverage all the software programs they need to work collaboratively, wherever they are. Let’s look specifically at how SaaS software can help sync your sales and support teams so they work together in perfect harmony.

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ClientSuccess

JANUARY 30, 2023

This blog post will discuss three metrics to consider when evaluating your customer success team size. Setting realistic ACV targets to ensure each CSM can devote enough time and attention to their accounts is essential. The simpler the product is to set up, learn, and use, the more customer accounts the CSM can manage.

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ClientSuccess

MAY 8, 2019

I’m excited to continue on with our blog series on customer success metrics. The topic I will cover in this blog is on the top five customer success health metrics. Whereas DAU/MAU ratio measures the frequency of using a SaaS solution, product adoption measures *breadth* and *depth* of using a SaaS solution.

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 27, 2019

I f ChurnZero were to release a greatest hits compilation of our top content, milestones, and life events in 2019, this blog post would be it. We hope you enjoy reading this best-of highlights reel; we loved making it happen. . Top 10 Blog Posts from 2019 . Overall SaaS Category Winner in 2019 APPEALIE Awards .

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Totango

DECEMBER 6, 2021

What 2021 Taught SaaS Businesses about Customer Success. As the business world adapted to the challenges of 2021, SaaS companies re-examined what customer success means in today’s digital-first environment. Then, we’ll review how the freemium model has emerged as the optimal way to introduce prospects to SaaS products.

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Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The book lays out some of the best practices for maintaining credibility for the Net Promoter System. Instead of complaining that people don’t use Net Promoter appropriately, Reichheld decided to present an alternative that’s an appropriate metric to hold people accountable.

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Totango

AUGUST 16, 2022

Customer retention software has become essential for effective SaaS customer success strategies. A winning SaaS business model must prioritize retaining customers, which is far more cost-efficient than acquiring new clients to offset churn. For example, you can use automated monitoring of client accounts to track user adoption rates.

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Totango

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The contract renewal stage of the customer lifecycle is a critical component of driving retention for SaaS products. Contract renewal is the stage in your SaaS customer’s lifecycle where they decide whether or not to extend a subscription that is about to expire. What Is Contract Renewal?

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Totango

MARCH 8, 2022

Providing a forum to share CS strategies, tips, and best practices. Nine Best Customer Success Communities in 2022. As customer success management has grown in importance for building SaaS customer loyalty , the number of customer success communities has grown. It also seeks to stimulate discussion of best practices.

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CustomerSuccessBox

JUNE 8, 2022

The following is the list of curated readings that will add value to your SaaS business if implemented efficiently. Read this blog further to know more about the best practices for building a CS tech stack, and more. This blog will help you understand the impact of the same. What to do when a big account churns?

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CustomerSuccessBox

JUNE 8, 2022

The following is the list of curated readings that will add value to your SaaS business if implemented efficiently. Read this blog further to know more about the best practices for building a CS tech stack, and more. This blog will help you understand the impact of the same. What to do when a big account churns?

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ClientSuccess

JUNE 17, 2019

In today’s world of SaaS customer success, most CSMs and/or Account Managers are held to some sort of revenue goal. This is what’s commonly known as joint account planning. Joint account planning takes customer success a step further by analyzing and strategizing how a specific customer account could grow.

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Totango

JUNE 8, 2022

OK, maybe not the world, but they have become an increasingly important factor these days for helping SaaS companies understand whether their products and services are keeping customers engaged and delivering value, so they can prevent churn, increase expansion and earn higher valuations. Embedded best practices.

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ClientSuccess

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Welcome to our blog series CSM from the Trenches, a community for frontline Customer Success Managers (CSMs) that discusses trends, best practices, and advice for the frontline. We’ve compiled a list of 12 Customer Success Best Practices That Can Positively Impact Your Work as a CSM. How has it helped you? ”.

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Totango

AUGUST 23, 2022

By charting the points in your SaaS customers’ journeys, you can plan how to deliver clients’ desired outcomes and satisfying experiences that promote subscription renewals and higher revenue. Touchpoints also include occasions when clients interact with your software app in a SaaS context. Blog content.

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ClientSuccess

MARCH 8, 2018

When an organization is fully aligned around the success of current (and future) customers, it becomes easier to sign, work with, and grow these customer accounts. Blog Posts: Popular Compensation Plans for CSMs. The post 4 Best Practices to Align Customer Success and Product Teams appeared first on ClientSuccess.

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Totango

MAY 10, 2022

A customer engagement strategy is critical for retaining and growing SaaS clients. In this blog, we’ll look at the essentials of a customer engagement strategy, particularly how to use it to engage enterprise clients. A customer engagement strategy is an action plan for promoting active client use of your SaaS product.

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CSM Practice

MAY 22, 2020

More and more SaaS businesses are realizing the value of having a customer success team to ensure the continued success of their customers. Successful customers are more likely to renew and pay more through renewals and expansion, ensuring a steady revenue growth for SaaS businesses. What Is the Best Compensation Plan for CSMs?

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Totango

JANUARY 22, 2024

Chris Dishman, SVP of Customer Success, Totango Expansion will become a top growth driver for recurring revenue companies For a while, expansion has been overlooked as a driver of SaaS growth.

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CustomerSuccessBox

JUNE 18, 2021

Customer success is important for SaaS businesses as they’re a constant voice of the customer for your business.CustomerSuccessBox builds the all-in-one solution for customer success that goes beyond just health scores and viewing portfolios. Who should manage customer onboarding in a SaaS company? Customer Onboarding.

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Totango

MARCH 4, 2022

In this article, we’ll take a look at the relationship between these two important ingredients for a successful SaaS business model. Finally, we’ll explore what B2B customer service and customer success have in common and why you need them to work together to achieve winning SaaS business results. What is B2B Customer Service?

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