Help Scout

MAY 27, 2021

When considering customer success and account management, it’s valuable to consider them as complementary teams rather than interchangeable groups or, worse, competitors. There are a few things that differentiate customer success from account management. What is account management? What is customer success?

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ShepHyken

JUNE 8, 2023

This week, we feature an article by Sage , an international company that helps organizations of all sizes with accounting, payroll, and payment solutions. It discusses customer experience gaps that hinder profitability and how to close them. Are you providing as good of a customer experience as you think you are?

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ShepHyken

JUNE 7, 2021

Customer Interviews for CX: How to Conduct Interviews & How They Can Make a Difference by Jeannie Walters. Here she talks about how to conduct a customer interview. How to Upsell and Cross-Sell (4 Best Practices) by Jared Atchison. That’s the famous McDonald’s upsell question. Interesting concept!

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Totango

JULY 5, 2022

Signs to look for when learning how to identify at-risk customers include: . Make the Most of Upsell Opportunities. Upsells are the result of the growth a customer has enjoyed because of your commitment to delivering lifetime value. Low Net Promoter Score (NPS). Low usage rates. Increase in support tickets.

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Totango

MAY 17, 2021

Tracking this alerts you to churn risks as well as upsell opportunities, empowering you to take appropriate action. Here we’ll cover what product engagement is, why you need to manage it, how to measure it and how to automate engagement tracking and management. It can also be considered in terms of account activity.

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ClientSuccess

JULY 13, 2021

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. How will this impact their current program? How can you broach this upsell opportunity, and when?

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ClientSuccess

MAY 10, 2022

This includes the initial contract, of course, and any upsells, expansions, and renewals that may occur. Second, there is the value a customer account can bring outside of traditional revenue. How to calculate Customer Lifetime Value. Total customer revenue per year: start with the contract value and ARR. Ready to Learn More?

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CustomerSuccessBox

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

When you take into account all these changes with your existing customers and your recurring revenue, what you get is the net revenue retention. It is as follows: Your monthly recurring revenue of the month (a) Revenue through upsells and cross-sells (b) Revenue lost due to downgrades (c) Churned Revenue (d).

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Education Services Group

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Instead, they’re simply “rebranding” their Account Managers as Customer Success Managers with little to no training or transition. Customer Success and Account Management Serve Different Purposes. The main purpose of an Account Manager is twofold. In general, Account Managers are in a sort of “standby” position.

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ChurnZero

OCTOBER 1, 2022

The Q&A portion of the webinar dug into CSQLs deeper—covering the ideal time to roll out a CSQL model and the biggest pitfalls of its implementation—while also delving into whether CSMs should close upsells, and how to assign CSM books when they own expansion. Q: Should CSM roles close upsell deals?

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Totango

JULY 8, 2021

Many of the companies we talk to today all have the same challenge: they are sick and tired of firefighting their customer accounts. With this system, alerts are automatically generated about any customer who requires attention – be it a customer with deteriorating health or an upsell opportunity that is set to renew soon.

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ShepHyken

DECEMBER 9, 2022

So how can you make sure that your customer journey is aligned with your brand expectations? And more importantly, how can you ensure that it’s not costing you sales? We explore these questions and offer some tips on how to improve your customer journey. . How to align your customer journey with brand expectations .

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Totango

JUNE 1, 2021

By sharing the insights of these multi-dimensional data streams across your enterprise, you increase accountability for the customer experience and create a customer-centered enterprise that is poised to effectively deliver customer lifetime value. It all starts with knowing how to gather customer insights and properly leverage that data.

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Comm100

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Before you roll your eyes and point out that you don’t have a magic lamp to rub, consider your upselling game. How often do you actually succeed in getting customers to add a little something extra to their carts? Do you really know how to upsell? Find Appropriate Upsells. Have you even been trying?

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CustomerSuccessBox

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Extra Resource: How to do Effective account transitions in Customer Success. Find out who is: in charge of the key accounts, in charge of the team’s culture, and the innovator who is in charge of developing new processes and propelling the company forward. Yet they are frequently taken into account.

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Totango

JANUARY 9, 2020

Being mindful of your customers’ goals will help you identify upsell opportunities that offer them additional value. . That’s the ideal way to approach upsells: only pursue an upsell or cross-sell if it will genuinely benefit the customer. In our customer-centered economy, renewals are more important than ever.

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Totango

APRIL 2, 2019

This is also a good time to add upsells to accounts that have high customer health scores. Health scores indicate which customers may be receptive to cross-sell or upsell offers and which ones might require extra attention from your success team. Customize Notifications and Health Scores. Gather Feedback.

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Lumoa

AUGUST 8, 2023

This article offers a comprehensive guide on how to analyze survey results efficiently, covering everything from the basics to advanced techniques, and provides actionable solutions to common challenges in customer feedback analysis faced by businesses today. Unlocking the power of VoC feedback is vital to the success of any business.

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CustomerSuccessBox

JUNE 8, 2022

Either they’re not getting the right results, or they’re struggling with, you know, showing value internally struggling with earn struggling with upselling, actually, I would say that that’s my forte, like value management to customers and increasing upsell. You want to do customer logo churn rate and numbers.

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CSM Practice

MARCH 1, 2021

Currently, Ziv oversees numerous customer success managers, and Salesforce helps him assess the level of the relationship for each of those accounts. Salesforce helps them identify which regions have a better relationship with the accounts and which areas need assistance. How many customer success managers worked on a specific account?

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CSM Practice

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

With the continuous growth of their customers and an increase in product complexity, Taylor challenged herself on how to best optimize her customer success team. Expansion Manager – reports to Sales, mostly focused on growth, and plays an active role in the renewal as needed, harvesting opportunities for Upsell and Cross-Sell.

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Kapta Customer Success

MAY 1, 2023

When you boost retention, you increase renewals and drive revenue through upsells, cross-sells, and referrals. Helping customers achieve measurable results by using your product or service has been found to be the best predictor of customer retention.

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ClientSuccess

OCTOBER 2, 2019

We often hear the roles of Customer Success Manager (CSM) and Account Manager (AM) used interchangeably. The ultimate difference between a Customer Services Manager and an Account Manager is both in their area of concentration and how each target their customers. . Let’s talk about Account Managers first.

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ClientSuccess

APRIL 28, 2021

When a customer account is moving smoothly, with no big issues or concerns, this may seem like a good thing to the discerning CSM. How to avoid getting ghosted by customers. Instead, CSMs should be proactive and strategic about how they are engaging with their customer on an ongoing basis to avoid being ghosted in the first place. .

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Totango

JUNE 25, 2019

By sharing the insights of these multi-dimensional data streams across your enterprise, you increase accountability for the customer experience and create a customer-centered enterprise that is poised to effectively deliver customer lifetime value. It all starts with knowing how to gather customer insights and properly leverage that data. .

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Solvvy

JUNE 17, 2021

Automation and personalization also serve an important role in retention, sales enablement, and upsell opportunities. This intelligence also gives the opportunity for companies to upsell advanced support packages and seamlessly integrate them into existing support platforms. . Premium Service for Premium Customers.

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Totango

OCTOBER 1, 2020

The volumes and customer-to-CSM ratios mentioned above give a basic guide to the customer engagement model that may best suit your enterprise and customer accounts, but there is more to optimizing customer success than just balancing a headcount. Delivering Engagements That Add Value. Which Model Best Services My Customers?

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Totango

APRIL 5, 2019

This could mean giving more attention to accounts that are in danger of churning or it could mean finding opportunities for upsells based on high usage rates. Gross upsell. Measure the number of active daily users in an account against the total number of licenses purchased. Let’s take a closer look at each metric.

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ChurnZero

JULY 17, 2020

We will then explore best practices for how to optimize your renewal rate regardless of the renewal owner at your organization. . . Account Executive – A hunter. Account Executive – A hunter. Account Manager – A farmer. Who in Sales owns the Renewal Process?

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CSM Practice

JANUARY 13, 2021

For many startup companies, the renewal process usually begins with the personnel in charge of the account reaching out to customers to start the renewal conversation. Account review and summary of previous interactions. Account review and summary of previous interactions. How to Scale the Renewal Process? Clarify Roles.

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Kapta Customer Success

OCTOBER 2, 2017

The terms Key Account Management and Customer Success are often used interchangeably within organizations. Key Account Management Versus Customer Success. The goals of both Key Account Management and customer success are to retain and build relationships with customers. Relevant Industries. Customer Lifecycle.

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CustomerSuccessBox

MAY 9, 2022

The pros (new customer ARR, upsells) and cons (no new customer ARR, no upsells) should be highlighted on this Customer Success dashboard (downgrades and churn). The post How to make a Customer Success Dashboard that Works appeared first on. With more complex metrics, you can take your customer insights to the next level.

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JustCall

MAY 4, 2023

These metrics can be used to understand how effective the existing strategies and workflows are. How to track sales quota? Foster a culture of accountability, transparency, and meritocracy within the team. How to perform win/loss analysis? How to measure customer satisfaction scores? How to boost CSAT scores?

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JustCall

MAY 4, 2023

These metrics can be used to understand how effective the existing strategies and workflows are. How to track sales quota? Foster a culture of accountability, transparency, and meritocracy within the team. How to perform win/loss analysis? How to measure customer satisfaction scores? How to boost CSAT scores?

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Kapta Customer Success

MARCH 20, 2023

Companies have shifted their focus from high growth at any cost to customer retention and growth through cross-sells and upsells. This puts a lot of pressure on Key Account Managers (KAMs). In fact, 67% of businesses are skipping customer acquisition in favor of customer retention.

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Totango

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Customers seek out your product as a solution to a problem and a path to growth, and your ability to deliver on that promise, right from the outset, is key to ensuring they stay satisfied and continue growing their relationship with you through repeated renewals and upsells. Leveraging an Early Warning System.

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Global Response

JULY 23, 2023

How to Fix It: Thankfully, there’s a fairly simple fix to this problem: consider working with onshoring or nearshoring teams rather than outsourcing to distant, offshore teams. How to Fix It: The key to avoiding this problem when outsourcing is to eliminate it from the beginning. Sounds obvious? In most cases, probably not.

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