Kevin Bondonno is the Director of Solutions Consulting and Will Robins is the Sr. Business Operations Associate at Gainsight From prospect to seasoned customer, Gainsight is an ideal platform to manage the entire customer journey. We’ve talked a lot about the value of the platform in post-sale Customer Success and want to highlight some of
5 Ways to Be a Brand Ambassador in Customer Success
Allison Pickens is VP of Customer Success & Business Operations at Gainsight. At Gainsight, our brand is quite important to us. You probably know this already if you’ve attended our annual Pulse conference — which has featured a Taylor Swift impersonator, choreographed Disney song rip-offs, and a cappella groups. This past May, I was accompanied
Top 10 Unanswered Questions From PulseCheck 2016
PulseCheck turned out to be a bigger success than any of us expected — we had more than 3,300 registrations and over 500,000 total minutes streamed. We got tons of great feedback, too. Participation was high, but it meant that we simply didn’t have time to get to every question during Q&A. So many were
3 Ways to Drive More Upsells that Every CSM Needs to Know
Nikhil Hasija is the CEO of Azuqua, an integration platform that empowers unified customer experiences by connecting the applications, data, and processes across siloed teams in order to increase customer satisfaction and repeat revenue. Sometimes the customer needs more of your product or services to achieve success. But upselling is a tricky topic. At what
Customer Success is a Single Digit Hire
At Pulse 2016, SaaStr’s Customer Success for Start-ups track was one of the most popular series of sessions in the entire conference. This is a transcript of a really valuable panel featuring Jason Lemkin (SaaStr), Nakul Mandan (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Blaire Fernandez (Talkdesk), and Jennifer Bantelman (Zapproved). Jason: Okay, this is a fun one. It’ll
CLTV Isn’t the Whole Story: Don’t Shortchange Second Order Revenue
At Pulse 2016, SaaStr’s Customer Success for Start-ups track was one of the most popular series of sessions in the entire conference. This is a transcript of a really valuable panel featuring Jason Lemkin (SaaStr), Matt Garratt (Salesforce Ventures), Cliff Cate (ToutApp), and Joe Loveless (PowerDMS). Jason: All right. Good afternoon, everybody. I think we’ve
Is Private Equity Eating the (SaaS) World? What PE Consolidation Means for SaaS CEOs
TCV General Partner Dave Yuan is an old friend and colleague. We actually first met in college, but over the years I’ve turned to him for insight and advice. When we reconnected last week I was particularly struck by his perspective on private equity investments and got his permission to share our conversation. Nick: How
Why NPS is the most important indicator of your company’s success
There’s a Cubone on my desk. If you’re sick to death of hearing about Pokémon, skip to the first subhead below. From then on it’s all enterprise tech shop talk. But if you can stand to hear a bit more, I promise this story ties into NPS. Anyway, yes, I’m playing Pokémon Go at work
How to Think About Scaling Your Customer Success Team
At Pulse 2016, SaaStr’s Customer Success for Start-ups track was one of the most popular series of sessions in the entire conference. This is a transcript of a really valuable panel featuring Jason Lemkin, Christina Shen, Adam Strong, and April Oman. Jason: I’m super excited about this next session. We’ve got a rock star group
Are you sure you’re ready for a Customer Success platform?
Foreword By Dan Gamito After working with dozens of hyper-growth SaaS businesses, we’ve seen some fascinating patterns emerge. One of the patterns is that most Customer Success platform implementations take way longer than expected. When a team gets to the point where they need a dedicated Customer Success platform like Gainsight, they’ve probably long since