by Matt Rumins | Jul 29, 2020 | Outcomes, Stakeholders |
A desire to create relationships higher up in your customers is understandable and standard practice for many vendors. In this article we’ll examine the reasons for this desire and look at what’s needed to make sure it’s well executed. Let’s start with the common...
by Ian Robson | Jul 15, 2020 | Customer Success, Outcomes |
Customer success is primarily about value. That value can be expressed as a financial return on investment (ROI) or as a set of vendor specific value metrics. Any organisation with a true focus on customer success will always be searching for ways to increase the...
by Ian Robson | Feb 27, 2020 | Customers, Foundations, Outcomes |
Want to dramatically improve the results you’re getting as a CSM? Before your next customer success conversation do the following. Get a big sheet of paper, split it into 5 columns. In column 1 list the Top 10 ways to improve delivery of value to the customer....
by Ian Robson | Feb 17, 2020 | Foundations, Outcomes |
What would happen to our retention number if we didn’t have a customer success team? That question is in the mind of most SaaS executives. A SaaS solution has an inherent level of stickiness. The stickier your product the less you need customer success to drive...
by Ian Robson | Jul 2, 2019 | Outcomes |
Blog Customer success professionals all know that delivering business outcomes for customers is critical. I’d wager at least 90% of the CSMs who read that sentence would agree. If we dig below the surface what does it actually mean to say that outcomes are critical...
by Ian Robson | Apr 29, 2019 | Outcomes |
Things move on. For a while measuring success was all about page views or user counts. Your bragging rights, and more importantly investor interest, was all about getting people onto your platform to do something, anything. In 2012 Marc Andreessen called for an end to...