How We Work With Our Product Team

Allison Pickens is VP of Customer Success & Business Operations at Gainsight. Special thanks to Gaurav Kotak, Will Robins, and Elena Painter for contributing to this blog post. Customer Success leaders typically want to collaborate more effectively with other departments in their organization. Even though CS departments are accountable for the renewal rate in many

Gainsight Announces New Product Capabilities that Deliver Success to Complex Customers and Introduces New Technology to Blend Data

I am excited to announce our August Product Release which further evolves our Relationships functionality, introduces new data modeling technology with Data Spaces, provides an efficient and personalized way to communicate with customers, and advances our native support of the Salesforce Account Hierarchy. Here’s an overview of the major enhancements included in the August release:

Tales of Groc: Customer Success Caveman – Chapter 8

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

Three Steps to Building an Effective Client Success Plan

Client Success is much more than ensuring a customer’s successful installation or configuration of your product and much more than offering high quality training and support. Client Success is about helping an organization drive change through your products or services. You can provide a perfect customer onboarding experience with seamless setup and great training; the

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

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