As the new year gets underway, I am excited to introduce new capabilities that address the most central challenges in Customer Management. Federated Customer Management: You no longer have to choose between deploying each of your business lines on their own customer management system or forcing them to operate within one restrictive, shared environment. Optimize

If you haven’t had a chance to read about the advanced technology of our Winter release, I strongly urge you to go through this blog post by Karl, our VP of Products. But if you have, you are likely curious to learn more about the new ‘Bionic Rules’ feature. Regardless of the size of your

Allison Pickens is VP of Customer Success & Business Operations at Gainsight. Whenever I gather a few Chief Customer Officers together, our discussion quickly evolves into a group therapy session. Being CCO is a tough job. That’s because every great CCO knows that s/he has 2 sets of clients: external clients, and internal clients –

Introduction by Allison Pickens, VP of Customer Success & Business Operations at Gainsight In November, we held our second annual Pulse Europe conference. A few of us at Gainsight led workshops on Customer Success, but I think I learned as much (if not more) from the attendees about how to manage Customer Success in Europe,

This post was co-authored by Nick Mehta and Allison Pickens. Nick Mehta is CEO at Gainsight. Allison Pickens is VP of Customer Success & Business Operations at Gainsight. Rolling out company-wide segmentation was probably the most productive initiative that our executive team pursued in 2016. In this post, we’ve documented how we did it. What

Understanding the importance of the professional enablement of their sales teams, many forward-thinking companies invest heavily in helping their salespeople develop more skills and talents on a regular basis. When sales teams become more effective, the ROI is quite clear. Revenue ticks up. But enablement doesn’t need to be limited to sales. It turns out

Noha Khan is on the Business Operations team at Gainsight Note, this use case is dependent on custom fields added to the Call to Action object. If there’s one task that cannot be avoided in an Operations role, it’s recording key KPIs and metrics. And with good reason! Having quantifiable means to track progress and

Pulse. To us here at Gainsight, it’s the most important thing we do all year. We spend about 11 months of the year planning this conference and one white-knuckle week in May pulling it off. It’s intense, but intensely satisfying. We believe in the intrinsic value of the event and the community we build through

Allison Pickens is VP of Customer Success & Business Operations at Gainsight. I remember when I joined Gainsight in January 2014. We were working in a loft above a bar, which shared our address on Castro Street. When clients came to see us, they would sometimes go to the bar, only to be directed by

As you approach the end of your company’s year, if you’re like me, you’re probably juggling three things in parallel: Closing out your (hopefully big) Q4 Planning for next year Mixing in some holiday shopping and cheesy holiday music when you can Somewhere in there, most companies are also simultaneously planning their next year’s “sales