Megan Macaluso, Author at ESG

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Are You Ready for a CS Tool?

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 […]

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Top 5 Tips for a Thriving Partner Success Program

Partner 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 […]

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CS Technology Vendor Selection: Gathering Tool Requirements

Utilizing a Customer Success tool can be an invaluable part of your customer engagement strategy, but with the ever-growing number of providers and platforms, it’s difficult to know which solution is the right fit for your business. A tool won’t magically fix the challenges you face or fill in any gaps you may have in […]

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Customer Success and Revenue: Why CS Should Embrace the Numbers

Tying Customer Success to your company’s strategic growth (aka revenue) can be tricky to maneuver. Yet, for most Customer Success organizations, embracing revenue goals is the only way to have a seat at the table as your company expands and evolves. To really prove your value to senior leadership, CS metrics must have a direct […]

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Account Management vs Customer Success: 4 Major Differences

As the gospel of Customer Success is spreading like wildfire in the corporate world, executives are realizing that they need to act fast to incorporate it into their organizational structure. But to their own detriment, some of these executives aren’t fully committing to the importance of Customer Success. Instead, they’re simply “rebranding” their Account Managers […]

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Customer Success Recommendations for Your 2020 Planning

Fall is in the air! The days are getting shorter, the air is getting cooler, and that can mean only one thing: it’s time to start planning your Customer Success strategy for 2020. To help you get started, we pulled together advice from the best of the best — our very own Sheik Ayube, Director […]

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Approaching Renewals from the Customer Success Angle

Gone are the days when B2B companies could survive just by sending sales people out to chase down new customers. In today’s subscription-based SaaS world, it’s just as important to focus on keeping your existing customers as it is on acquiring new ones. Retention and renewal have quickly become the new focal points for business […]

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Fundamentals: Focus on Retaining your Mid-tier Customers

Here we are in the midst of “the dog days of summer.” That time when productivity ebbs and new customer acquisition slows down. It seems people are more focused on vacations with the family and road trips to the beach than they are on actual business. Who can blame you for soaking up those last […]

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How To Measure Customer Adoption

Imagine one of those food subscription services that sends you the ingredients to easily make meals at home — we’ll call it FoodBox. You sign up for a FoodBox subscription that sends you five dinners for the week, and the box arrives the following Monday. As it turns out, some of the recipes are too […]

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5 Questions to Gauge Customer Adoption

Think back to your first smartphone. Unless you’re one of the first people to buy an iPhone, way back in 2007, there was probably a time when you thought a smartphone was unnecessary. All those features were flashy, sure, but who needed it? You’ve got calls and texts on your current phone already. When you […]