Geologists from Stanford University recently made an astounding discovery. Drilling core samples in Palo Alto, a thousand feet below Sand Hill Road, they discovered the fossils of an ancient civilization. Their excitement grew as excavation revealed a Neanderthal community with complex tools, written language, and a primitive subscription economy. A paleo-forensic team pieced together the
Tales of Groc: Customer Success Caveman – Chapter 3
Geologists from Stanford University recently made an astounding discovery. Drilling core samples in Palo Alto, a thousand feet below Sand Hill Road, they discovered the fossils of an ancient civilization. Their excitement grew as excavation revealed a Neanderthal community with complex tools, written language, and a primitive subscription economy. A paleo-forensic team pieced together the
Nick Mehta’s Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle for Customer Success
We’ve brought together an all-star lineup of customer experience thought leaders to provide insights at Opentalk 2016. Among them is Nick Mehta, Gainsight’s energetic, football-loving CEO. Talkdesk Senior Manager of Field Marketing, Leah Kahn, sat down with Nick to talk to him about everything… except customer experience and football. We thought we’d save the shoptalk
The Problem with ‘Activation’, ‘Engagement’, and Talking about Customer Success like a Robot
When was the last time you felt ‘activated’ by a product? This is going to sound silly at first, and like internal language couldn’t have a meaningful effect on the way we look at approaching customer success for SaaS companies, but I’m going to argue that it can. When you say that you need to
10 Questions CEOs Should Ask Their CCOs
“Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.” – Voltaire If you’re a CEO, you know that your entire company is looking to you for answers. You probably spend a good part of your day responding to emails asking, “what should I do next?” Or, “what’s the plan here?” As important as it
What to Do When a Customer Churns
Allison Pickens leads Customer Success at Gainsight. Thank you to Sonam Dabholkar, who leads one of our CSM teams, for contributing to this blog post! Note to Gainsight Customers: This post contains links to Vault Assets you can import directly into Gainsight. We are maniacal about Customer Success at Gainsight. And we expect this to
Tales of Groc: Customer Success Caveman – Chapter 2
Geologists from Stanford University recently made an astounding discovery. Drilling core samples in Palo Alto, a thousand feet below Sand Hill Road, they discovered the fossils of an ancient civilization. Their excitement grew as excavation revealed a Neanderthal community with complex tools, written language, and a primitive subscription economy. A paleo-forensic team pieced together the
How To Turn Regional Challenges In EMEA Into Advantages
Martine is the Chief Customer Officer of the branding automation SaaS vendor, Bynder. Prior to joining Bynder she spent over 15 years working with customers both in the tradeshow / event industry and at Apple. As a pioneer in Customer Success, I have witnessed this term become more recognized across the world. However, this should
Tales of Groc: Customer Success Caveman – Chapter 1
Geologists from Stanford University recently made an astounding discovery. Drilling core samples in Palo Alto, a thousand feet below Sand Hill Road, they discovered the fossils of an ancient civilization. Their excitement grew as excavation revealed a Neanderthal community with complex tools, written language, and a primitive subscription economy. A paleo-forensic team pieced together the
Why Your Customer Success Team Needs Real Sales Training
Generally speaking, the workflow of a successful sales operation looks something like this: The Sales Development Representative (SDR) qualifies a lead and passes it to a salesperson. The salesperson contacts the lead and wins their business, then passes the new customer to a Customer Success Representative (CSR). The CSR helps the customer with installation, support,