CS100 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 moreThe Importance of Account Segmentation for Customer Success
You wouldn’t shop for furniture at the grocery store. You wouldn’t ask your accountant for help with child care. Why? Because there is a method to breaking things apart into what makes sense. Customer segmentation isn’t all that different. It makes sense that we divide our customers and prospects into various groups based upon their […]
read moreOutsource – A Dirty Word?
As a function of my role as Business Development Manager at ESG, I spend a lot of time talking with Customer Success leaders. And from those conversations, I’ve found that many of them very much dislike the idea of outsourcing any part of their business. In fact, I recently spoke with a gentleman who boldly […]
read moreSetting Up Your Channel Partners for Customer Success
Customer Success goes beyond your customer-facing domain. It is about more than just delivering specific customer outcomes. An effective Customer Success strategy depends on buy-in from your channel partners as well. Regardless of the vendor – manufacturers, resellers, service providers, stakeholders – success for a customer means buy in from everyone. While many companies are […]
read moreWho Owns Your Customer Communication? Marketing or Customer Success?
Fact: keeping customers is more cost effective than adding new ones. The numbers vary depending on industry, time scale, and who you ask, but the consensus is that it’s five to ten times more expensive to acquire a new customer than it is to retain an existing one. Furthermore, existing customers are more likely to […]
read moreUpgrade from Freemium to Premium with Tech Touch
Everyone loves free stuff — like free samples of fancy cheese at the grocery store. But there’s a reason the store hands out free samples, and it’s not out of the goodness of their heart. They want you to spend money on a whole block of the fancy cheese. Freemium SaaS models — where the […]
read more3 Unique Concepts to Connect Marketing & Customer Success
A Director at a successful SaaS company recently approached me about the role of marketing in customer success. This leader understood that the marketing team was a valuable resource when developing customer-facing communications but wanted more. As we discussed possible options for the “future state” of a marketing + customer success partnership, it became apparent […]
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