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How to Transform Customer Success Into a Profit Center with Metrics and Forecasting

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Though Customer Success was originally regarded as a post-sale cost center, you can flip its narrative with the right metrics, positioning, and forecasting strategy. Choose Metrics that Emphasize Your Value. Changing the perception of Customer Success within your organization starts by evaluating your metrics. Not so much.

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Top Customer Engagement Tips for Retaining Executive Stakeholders

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Trials of upsell products. Engaging decision-makers in discussions about performance goals and metrics provides a transparent, objective basis to demonstrate product value. Promoting product usage increases the value clients derive from your product, increasing the likelihood of renewals, upsells, and referrals.

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QBR in SaaS: Is the traditional QBR dead?

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In general, QBR meetings help ensure that SaaS clients receive the value they’re paying for from their software provider, promoting higher subscription renewal, upsell, and referral rates. Overall, the benefits of SaaS QBRs boil down to higher subscription renewal rates and more revenue from upsells and referrals.

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B2B Customer Segmentation: Six Best Practices

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Sales : Sales teams can use customer segmentation to group prospects and customers based on propensity to buy, potential transaction value and upsell opportunities. Success teams can also use segmentation to promote subscription renewal, spot upsell opportunities and analyze trends in customer product usage to better understand behavior.

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What is Customer Lifetime Value and How to Calculate It

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This metric helps determine which customers are your most profitable and can be useful both pre-sale to focus on acquiring highly valuable customers but then also post-sale to make sure your Customer Success team is able to focus their efforts on retaining your customers with the strongest lifetime value. Customer Success Around the Web.

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Top 6 Tips for a Successful SaaS Customer Engagement Strategy

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It increases customer satisfaction and loyalty, driving higher subscription renewal rates, reduced churn, and more sales from upsells and referrals. Customer engagement can occur at any point in your customer journey where clients interact with your brand – before or after purchase. The key metric here is churn.

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What are the best Customer Success YouTube channels? Start with our top five.

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Across more than 30 playlists, you’ll discover everything you need to know about upsell, launching CS, customer training, CS careers, customer value management, retention and renewals, customer journey maps, health scores, segmentation, QBRs and much more. Crash Course in Customer Success and SaaS Metrics (with Dave Kellogg).