Breaking Down Customer Success Costs
Ready to stand up a Customer Success strategy in your organization? It’s crucial to understand the true cost of Customer Success (hint: it goes way beyond salary). Well-meaning organizations may find themselves with significant investments in human capital only to find their processes aren’t scalable or they’re overspending on hard, soft, and fringe benefit costs. […]
read moreCustomer Profile: Health + Hygiene Undergoing Tech Transformation
Gone are the days when only born in the cloud SaaS companies had Customer Success teams. As the subscription economy continues to spread far and wide, even commodities companies are thinking about how to move to a subscription model, and in turn, how to keep their customers happy and successful. Making that shift is certainly […]
read moreCustomer Profile: ESG Expands Relationship with Major Tech Company
We take great pride in the work that our teams do to help our clients achieve their goals, and nothing makes us prouder than seeing that work result in growing those partnerships. ESG began a partnership with a global customer experience and call center technology company in 2018. In 2019, we’ve expanded that relationship! The […]
read moreCustomer Profile: ESG guides Global Software Company through SaaS transformation
We’re thrilled to partner with a Global $3B Software company to help build out their brand new Customer Success program. Business challenges A significant SaaS transformation within this Global Enterprise Software company led them to a new need to create a Customer Success program. Building a successful and scalable CS program from scratch is no […]
read moreCase Study: VMware Education Partnership
Business challenges Demand for revenue growth Clients that leverage the robust training and education that VMWare offers are happier and more likely to renew. To ensure customers take recommended training, VMware offers Training Credits as well as Professional Services Credits (PSO Credits) which can help cover customer training expenses. Without someone proactively managing consumption, PSO […]
read moreOnboarding your customers with purpose, momentum, and precision
“The seeds of churn are planted early, and those seeds are planted deep if your onboarding experience is bad.” – Lincoln Murphy It’s widely understood that a good onboarding is critical to ongoing customer happiness. But it’s tricky, and we often miss the mark because: Onboarding a new customer is hard to do. We tend […]
read moreBuilding a Business Case for more Customer Success resources
In the archives of the prestigious research firm Forrester, there’s an article written by a seasoned analyst highlighting what she foresaw as key business trends for the coming year. Number two on her list was “Companies Will Explore Proactive Engagement.” She wrote: “Proactive engagements anticipate the what, when, where, and how for customers, and prioritize […]
read moreNeuroscience and Customer Success: Building a strategy that supports human interaction
In 2015, researchers Dominic Fareri, Luke Chang and Mauricio Delgado published an article in The Journal of Neuroscience on the power of collaborative interactions in building and maintaining relationships. One of their experiments involved playing a simple game. Some participants were told they were playing the game with other people while others were told they […]
read moreCustomer Success at scale
Automation gets a bad rap. Ever since the Industrial Revolution, the same story gets told and retold, and it certainly sounds intuitive: as technology improves, human beings lose jobs. But a closer look at the historical evidence reveals quite the opposite: technology ultimately creates more jobs than it destroys. A 2016 article in The Economist […]
read moreSuccess through Customer Segmentation
“Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets.” – Nido Qubein I read a case study recently about an international cruise vacation company. They were creative and aggressive marketers and were driving brand awareness and lead generation across a variety of geographies and audience […]
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