Customer Success Must Sell and be a Trusted Advisor
In customer success, it is commonly believed that one cannot sell and be a trusted advisor. “If I try to sell something to my customer, I’ll lose all that trust I’ve built up over the past several months,” we say. This is a misguided belief that does not consider the...
Where is the Best Stability – At a Start-up or Big Company?
The economy has been turned upside down, and technology companies across multiple industries are feeling it. The customer success function is not immune. We are hearing more and more that people are questioning whether startups are committed to investing in customer...
Talking to Customers During COVID-19 Starts with Empathy and Segmentation
Keri Keeling, CS Executive and member of the Customer Success Leadership Network (CSLN) governing council and Mark Pecoraro, Principal at CSLeadership, facilitated a live Zoom discussion on various customer success topics as the second session in a series of ongoing...
Servicing Customers In Today’s Climate
I was recently invited to engage in a webinar with Sandler. I am particularly passionate about the topic of discussion: How to Succeed at Customer Success Conversations in an Evolving Landscape and decided to continue the conversation here. How do we continue to...
Zoom Helpline Sessions from the Customer Success Leadership Network
On Tuesday, May 12 at 5 pm pacific time, the Customer Success Leadership Network facilitated the first in a series of weekly CS Leadership Helpline Sessions. Two members of the governing council facilitated the session: Kim Oslob, senior director of customer...
Gaining 20/20 Vision towards Customer Success in 2020
If you work in the Customer Success (CS) profession (in its broad sense including: Professional Services, Technical Support, Customer Management, Education and Training, etc.), 2019 was a heck of the year! CS is maturing and growing fast: A CS function exists in...
Customer Success: Are You Going to Dodge or Ride the Coming Meteor Called 2020?
Have you inadvertently wasted an hour or two enjoying 2019 retrospectives and then feeling guilty? This post will help you get 2020 back on track, and help you as a Customer Success leader navigate the onslaught of changes hurtling straight for your career. Better...
What I learned from my Daughter’s Volleyball Game about Customer Success
My daughter has been playing volleyball for the past few years. As she is a freshman in high school this year, she tried out for the freshmen school team and made it. She is neither the best nor the worst player on the team, and she is well aware of it. She has been...
Are Multi-year Contracts Bad Business?
THE BIG DEAL: Everyone loves the excitement of the “The Big Deal”. Aaron Rodgers 5 year $165M contract makes a great headline. And as much as any particular deal can be debated (and often are) multiyear contracts in sports make sense. The question is: Do Multiyear...
Puzzled about Customer Success Metrics?
There is a lot of talk about metrics, measurements, and KPIs in the world of Customer Success. Peter Drucker’s statement that, “What gets measured gets improved” continues to show up in presentations and blogs, on a variety of topics from CS ROI, to Health Scores, and...