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Resources to build your customer success business
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COVID-19 Crisis Customer Engagement Plan and Playbooks
Keep your customers close by following the steps in our customer engagement plan.
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Customer Success In Time Of Crisis
It’s more important than ever to focus on your customers’ success. Why? Because amidst this crisis, and for the near future, customer acquisition is and will be nearly impossible.
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Customer Success Metrics You Should Track
Tracking customer success metrics is the key to customer loyalty and happiness.
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Conferences & Events Cancelled Due To The Coronavirus
The COVID-19 or coronavirus disease has already had wide-ranging effects on the tech industry, including store closures, production shortages, and manufacturing delays. Its latest victims seem to be conferences and events scheduled in the following months.
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Announcing our Hubspot And Custify Integration
We are excited to announce that Custify is now fully integrated with Hubspot. Our 2-way-integration allows users of Hubspot to synchronize their customers to Custify with just one click.
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15 Customer Success Courses Every CS Manager Needs To Take
Whether you’re planning to start a new career in customer success or upgrade the skills and knowledge you already have on the subject, there are plenty of customer success courses out there that can help you achieve just that.
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A New Way to Look at Customer Interactions
When to have a meeting, when to send a message, and when to automate - choosing the right touchpoints is always difficult process.
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A SaaS Business’ Guide To Building Customer Success
Everyone knows the importance of having a sales team or a marketing team. But what about a customer success team?
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The Role of User Onboarding in Customer Success
In order for your customers to succeed, they must learn what your product does, how it impacts them, and which of their problems it can solve; in short, they must be on board.
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9 SaaS Customer Success Experts Reveal Their Best Advice for 2020
If you're like many SaaS Customer Success professionals we know, you're probably deep in 2020 planning.
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Want a Better Customer Experience - Align Customer Success and Marketing
Custify Insight: So what separates the two? Are customer success and customer experience really the same thing? Or are there differences that differentiate them?
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Best Practices for SaaS Lead Nurturing in 2019
SaaS Lead Nurturing is the process that bridges the gap between a sign-up and an active, paying user
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Using the Golden Rule to Drive Great Customer Success
Any child can tell you the Golden Rule: treat others as you wish to be treated yourself.
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The Importance of Customer Success Documentation
Effective customer success documentation helps your customer success managers (CSMs) work faster, better, and with less confusion.
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How to Hire a Customer Success Manager the Right Way
We’ve put together a list of seven things you can do to make sure you hire a great CSM. It’ll help you put together a team of talented customer success professionals.
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Announcing the Segment and Custify Integration
We are excited to announce that Custify is now integrated with Segment.
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Connect to your data in Segment
Custify offers you the ability to sendgulp build info to our system through Segment.com
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Custify Churn Calculator
Want to calculate your churn and play with your numbers? Let's analyze your current situation against versus your projection and see where your numbers end up
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7 Proven Customer Success Tactics to Improve Your Customer Experience
You know that customer success is crucial for your company. But now you need to figure out how to actually do it. And that can be difficult.
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SaaS Pricing Strategies and How To Pick One
Deciding on a pricing strategy for a SaaS is often not as easy as it looks. Most products have a fixed price and a simple pricing strategy.
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How to Set Up Your CRM for Customer Success
Of all the pieces of software your company uses, customer relationship management (CRM) software might be the most important. This is especially true for customer-success-focused companies.
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Create a Standout Customer Experience With Better SaaS Onboarding
After your sales and marketing team have done their jobs, you come to the first step of customer success
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Segment Your Customers for More Effective Customer Success
It might seem strange to put your customers into groups when customer success is built on individual, personalized outreach.
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The Ultimate Guide to Customer Success for SaaS
Customer success (CS) is becoming an increasingly important part of the SaaS field. In fact, it’s an important part of business in general.
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Overcome This Obstacle for Proactive Customer Success
We talk about proactive customer success a lot at Custify.
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How Email Automation Can Drive Your Customer Success Program
“Automation” has been one of the hottest terms in marketing over the past decade or so. Especially in email marketing.
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Custify and GDPR Compliance
If you’re in the tech business—and even if you’re not—you’ve probably heard about GDPR. (In case you haven’t, we’ll explain the basics shortly.)
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2 Things That Will Reduce Your Customer Churn
Customer churn seems complicated. There are different types of churn that you should monitor, various systems for calculating each of the metrics, and tactics you can use to reduce all of them.
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The Biggest Customer Success Trends in 2018 and How You Can Take Advantage of Them
Customer success changes rapidly. Every year we see new technologies, best practices, and collaborations. It’s hard to keep up.
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7 Proven Customer Success Tactics That Will Grow Your Business
You might know the basic ideas that support customer success. But when it comes to actually putting them into practice, things get a bit more complex.
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Pricing Strategies for Your SaaS and How To Pick One
Deciding on a pricing strategy for a SaaS is often not as easy as it looks.
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Conversion Rate Optimization in SaaS Companies
Growth is the cornerstone of the goals of any business. It is an unsaid rule of all businesses to expand and increase their revenue over time.
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How SaaS Startups Can Implement Customer Success
Customer service is, and has always been one of the most important facets of businesses – especially for SaaS start ups who offer subscription-based services.
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How to Build Your Product from Scratch with a Customer Success Mindset
Many companies come to customer success late in their lifecycles.
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How SaaS Startups Can Avoid Failed Payments
Subscription renewals are the heart which keeps the SaaS Startup body running.
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14 Customer Retention Strategies For SaaS You Can Implement Today
Customer churn is the SaaS kryptonite. It is what scares SaaS founders the most, and they are always innovating ways to beat it.
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Optimize SaaS Sign Up Flow To Increase Conversion Rates
The first “experience” that your users go through with your SaaS product is the sign-up flow.
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7 Customer Success Best Practices You Can Put Into Action
70% of successful growing businesses say that customer success is very important to them. Only 49% of stagnant or declining companies say the same.
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6 Ways to Make Emotional Connections with Potential Customers
In a competitive market, you need to have strong relationships with potential customers before they make a purchase decision.
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The Framework for Developing Customer Success Personas
How do your customers define success with your product / service?
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How to Move to a Software Subscription Model
While there are still plenty of traditional software vendors out there, the software subscription model is becoming more and more common.
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Should You Outsource Customer Success?
Many customer-facing business functions get outsourced on a regular basis.
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Optimizing Call Center Customer Support for Increased Revenue
Organizational success and long-term growth primarily depends on customer satisfaction and loyalty, and customer service has always supported corporate growth by keeping ...
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Why Customer Service and Success are the Most Important Factors For Your Subscription based SaaS
The SaaS business model is one that keeps on giving. Over time, your subscriptions can provide you increasing value (if you have factors like churn rate under control).
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Customer success managers aren’t just account managers with new titles
And to really run an effective customer success program, you need to know the difference between the two.
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5 Steps for Building an Awesome Customer Success Team
Your business is built on the success of your customers. Using your service successfully will lead to renewals and upsell opportunities.
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What are Customer Success Reps?
Customer success representatives are the company’s aftersales and retention team and are tasked with keeping low churn among its users, buyers, and subscribers.
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Customer Success Process
Every business depends on satisfied, happy customers. You want your customers to have more than an “okay” experience.
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How to Create a Customer Success Journey Map
Navigating the customer success process isn’t always easy. When should your customer success team get involved with your customers?
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The Difference between Customer Success and Customer Support
In today’s fast paced and highly competitive world of B2B products and SaaS offerings we see the terms “Customer Success” and “Customer Support” thrown around more
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Why Churn is Critical in SaaS
SaaS businesses are like living, breathing creatures, evolving, expanding and contracting over time. As your service grows, customers come and go.