Technology can be an invaluable part of your customer engagement strategy. But. Yes, I said but. Without the proper foundational Customer Success elements in place, it becomes nearly impossible to utilize your chosen CS tool to its fullest potential. With the ever-growing number of CS tool providers and platforms, it’s easy to be dazzled by […]
READ MOREWhen I joined the ESG team earlier this year, I was excited, to say the least. I entered Customer Success with a unique perspective, bringing a sales and renewal background to the table. I was eager to help Customer Success as a Service spread like wildfire! But, before I could do that responsibly, I […]
READ MORECapturing and reacting based on your customers’ expected business outcomes are integral part of Customer Success. Therefore, during a Quarterly Business Review (QBR), customers are asked what their desired business outcomes are. The focal point of the Quarterly Business Review, commonly known as a QBR, revolves around the business of your customers, on what can […]
READ MORETSIA’s conferences are always jam-packed with best-practices, real-life examples, success stories, and lessons learned from some of technology’s biggest names. This year’s virtual TSIA Interact was certainly no exception, with three days of sessions from TSIA researchers and industry-leading companies like Salesforce, Okta, Oracle, SAP, Cisco, Aruba, HPE, and Genesys, and even a session led […]
READ MORE“Have those reports on my desk by five!”…Not something we hear much anymore in the world of ever-advancing technology and automated process. Gone are the days of giving my colleagues hard-copy printouts of graphs and lines of numbers just to have to wait for three months for a person with an analytics degree to tell […]
READ MOREWe were thrilled to sponsor the first annual BIG RYG Customer Success Conference, and have our own Vice President of Customer Success & Operations, Megan Macaluso, included in the list of impressive speakers! (If you missed her session on Operationalizing Iteration & Continuous Improvement for CS, you can watch it On-Demand here.) The day was […]
READ MOREAs a sales leader in a thriving Customer Success marketplace, it pains me to see the dysfunction that often exists between these two power-house organizations. Is some of that tension warranted? Absolutely. Political tug of war over revenue, CS cleaning up ‘bad-fit’ customers, sales running out of referenceable clients from less-than-ideal delivery scenarios. But what […]
READ MOREYou may be asking yourself ‘if this article is about marketing and I’m in Customer Success, why am I using my precious time to read it?’ That would be a valid question. But the answer may not be what you think. It’s not about inter-departmental cooperation or collaboration, or even about learning from your peers. […]
READ MOREPartner Success programs are relatively new to the Customer Success world. Software as a Service (SaaS) companies are big trendsetters in CS. Their subscription business model has taken root across a spectrum of services in our daily lives, and its popularity is only growing. Customer Success evolved out of the need for more dynamic, forward-thinking […]
READ MOREImplementing Digital Customer Success strategies is a new frontier for many CS organizations. Without automation, scaling Customer Success becomes extremely difficult, if not impossible. Very few (and I mean very few) companies excel in this area today, but it’s quickly becoming a must-have. So, as you begin to expand your digital capabilities and build out […]
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