Education Services Group

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Best practice is to name segments based on their defining characteristics like Enterprise, Mid-Market, Growth, SMB, and Emerging. It opens the doors to more personalized engagement, even as we scale and grow. Take tiering higher. Even something small, like getting creative with tier naming conventions, can be effective.

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ClientSuccess

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

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. What is one customer success best practice you’ve applied in the last few months that has had a positive impact on your success in your role?

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ClientSuccess

SEPTEMBER 12, 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. What is one customer success best practice you’ve applied in the last few months that has had a positive impact on your success in your role?

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ClientSuccess

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

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. The goal is that by sharing our experiences we’ll be able to learn and apply more practical advice / practices to our careers. Question 1.

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Amity

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

So here you are, building the next up and coming SaaS tool, with the ever so common recurring revenue model. The first person in any role in your department should ideally have experience in that role. There are three exercises that we conduct with all CSM candidates to get a true understanding of how they think.

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ClientSuccess

APRIL 18, 2018

This series, now a community for frontline Customer Success Managers (CSMs), discusses trends, best practices, and advice that can help the frontline. I personally believe and have seen the success that comes from visualizing your thoughts. Ultimate Guide to SaaS Customer Success Metrics.

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ClientSuccess

SEPTEMBER 26, 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. What is one customer success best practice you’ve applied in the last few months that has had a positive impact on your success in your role?

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Best practices SaaS Metrics Management 40

Education Services Group

AUGUST 4, 2021

Her Churn Crusher System helps SaaS companies uncover the hidden reasons behind their customer churn rates and develop ways to mitigate them – helping both their company and their customers thrive. The other is, surprisingly, the Founders of SaaS companies. It takes practice. One is Customer Success. MW: Absolutely!

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Education Services Group

JUNE 15, 2022

Customer Success is most prominent inside of SaaS companies with really progressive thinkers and leaders that are pushing it forward. They’re not growing as a person. And there are roles and needs and functions that a new industry creates that didn’t exist a couple years ago. So, it’s a very progressive market.

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SaaS Management Best practices Customer advocacy 52

SmartKarrot

MAY 19, 2021

In the SaaS industry it is known that customers have high expectations. B2B customers prefer a personalized experience and nearly 65 percent of them will leave if you don’t deliver as per their expectations. Leveraging customer data will help CSMs offer proactive, personalized value. Here are some must-do best practices.

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ClientSuccess

JULY 23, 2019

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. Each customer is different but by going through that exercise, we engage with customers at the right frequency for both the customer and the CSM.

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Education Services Group

MAY 27, 2022

My older and younger brothers are sitting in their own personal seats in the middle row, my mom in the front passenger seat, my dad’s driving. Whether you’re a Customer Success leader who just came onboard with a new company or have been in the same leadership role for a few decades—do this exercise. The Reason.

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delighted

AUGUST 9, 2019

A 2018 study performed by BrightLocal showed that “86% of consumers of all ages read reviews for local businesses” and “91% of 18 to 34 year-olds will trust an online review just as much as they would trust a personal recommendation from a friend, family member, or coworker.”. B2B and SaaS.

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SmartKarrot

APRIL 20, 2023

These playbooks contain step-by-step procedures, best practices, and strategies to ensure customer success. The book is also supposed to have the best practices for communicating with customers during the process of customer renewal, along with renewal proposals and the communication templates.

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Chatbots Analytics Upselling CRM 19

ChurnZero

JUNE 3, 2022

To dig into what makes CS indispensable to SaaS, ChurnZero CEO You Mon Tsang joined the Digital Disrupted podcast. To understand why, here’s a little thought exercise. For Customer Success managers, when you’re hiring your first few, you feel like it’s hard to find that person.

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SaaS B2B Upselling Metrics 52

ChurnZero

JUNE 3, 2022

To dig into what makes CS indispensable to SaaS, ChurnZero CEO You Mon Tsang joined the Digital Disrupted podcast. To understand why, here’s a little thought exercise. For Customer Success managers, when you’re hiring your first few, you feel like it’s hard to find that person.

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SaaS B2B Upselling Metrics 52

SmartKarrot

MAY 19, 2020

Ever since the boom of the SaaS industry in the past decade, client success and client success manager skills has become the key strategies of the companies who want to maintain a long term relationship with their customers. The whole steps taken for this exercise are shown in the below exhibit. Source: Businesswire.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 26, 2021

The exercise of joint success planning itself is a collaborative one (hence the word “joint” in its name). That information is captured in an Account Plan which is a different exercise and tool altogether. . This is the person whose budget funds your product. They also provide an opportunity to bring in best practices.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 28, 2022

SaaS is fast paced and everchanging, much like your organization’s tech stack. This procrastination isn’t a reflection of personal motivation, but rather, the ambiguity of the goal. Lastly, assign a point person responsible for answering questions. That’s because SaaS and Customer Success are constantly changing.

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SaaS Feedback Coaching Education 98

ChurnZero

JUNE 27, 2023

We recently underwent this exercise ourselves at ChurnZero when the CX team re-segmented our entire customer base as part of a book shift. There is always that one account executive who sells a million-dollar deal to a four-person company. A best practice is to keep your customer journey map to a single page.

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Journey mapping SaaS Customer advocacy Finance 52

Education Services Group

DECEMBER 10, 2019

We know that we’re one of the most important components to a company’s continued longevity — especially in this SaaS-heavy economy. We know that we eat a lot of bad food and we don’t exercise enough. With a simple, five-part framework to both lift your personal profile and elevate your organization’s CS efforts.

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Education SaaS Coaching Personalization 40

AWS Machine Learning

MARCH 28, 2024

Instead, adhere to the security best practices in AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), and create an administrative user and group. Marco is based in Seattle, WA and enjoys writing, reading, exercising, and building applications in his free time. AJ Dhimine is a Solutions Architect at AWS.

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Education Services Group

JANUARY 22, 2020

However, much like their Software as a Service (SaaS) subscription counterparts, renewal is critical to the long-term success of Learning Subscriptions. And since we know that tracking and reporting consumption or usage is critical to renewal in SaaS, the same key concepts must apply here as well.

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Education Gamification SaaS Sales 40

AWS Machine Learning

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

As democratization of foundation models (FMs) becomes more prevalent and demand for AI-augmented services increases, software as a service (SaaS) providers are looking to use machine learning (ML) platforms that support multiple tenants—for data scientists internal to their organization and external customers.

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