The Crisis of Confidence in Customer Success: Presentation Recap
Since 2013, the Customer Success Association has been hosting Customer SuccessCon, a conference designed to look at the current state of the profession and into its future. It brings together some of the most experienced and forward-thinking minds in the Customer Success community. ESG was proud to sponsor and present at all of this year’s […]
read moreRevenue Optimization and Customer Success
One of the biggest business lessons of the last decade has been that keeping your current customers is just as important as acquiring new customers. In the age of SaaS, this is an indisputable fact. But there’s more to the success of your business than just retaining customers. You also have to think long-term, ensuring […]
read moreMore than a Buzzword: Why Committing to Customer Success Is Essential
In 1975, Kodak engineer Steve Sasson built the first ever digital camera, but Kodak’s management just didn’t see the appeal. After all, profit margins were far higher on film than on the cameras themselves, and this was filmless photography. In Sasson’s words, “management’s reaction was, ‘that’s cute, but don’t tell anyone about it.’” This was […]
read moreCustomer 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 […]
read moreNotes from the C-Suite: The Value of Customer Success
You’ll find a lot of self-proclaimed experts on the subject of Customer Success on the web, but many of them don’t have the credentials — or track record — to back it up. So we thought we’d go straight to the top and discuss the state of the CS industry with our CEO, Michael Harnum. […]
read moreCS100 Rundown: The Latest and Greatest in Customer Success
Each year, the CS100 Summit brings together the best and brightest minds in the industry to beautiful Sundance, Utah to learn and collaborate in an atmosphere of inspiration, ideation, strategy, and real-world application around Customer Success. This year, for the first time, ESG was proud to not just attend the event, but join it as […]
read moreApproaching 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 […]
read moreFundamentals: Basic Leading and Lagging Indicators in Customer Success
Leading and lagging indicators provide useful ways to look at the cause and effect relationship among various KPIs. It can get a bit complicated the deeper you dive. To keep things simple, think about breaking things down to an ACTIONS=RESULT equation, where leading indicators represent the action and lagging indicators the result. To apply this, […]
read moreStrategies for Making High-Touch and Tech-Touch Friends, Not Enemies.
Today’s customers expect (and sometimes demand) a never-ending wheel of attraction, engagement, and retention after purchasing both the simplest and most complex of SaaS offerings. So, when the volume of customers creeps up, and we’re focused on deploying a tech-touch heavy approach, how do we stay engaged with the personal element of our customers? And […]
read moreSo, What’s an Acceptable Churn Rate?
From customer satisfaction to revenue, SaaS companies have many factors to worry about when it comes to keeping their business not only afloat, but also thriving. One such factor: What is your churn rate, and what can you do to decrease it? Reality check: these are critical questions, but they don’t have such a straightforward […]
read more