A Week in the Life with our Senior CS Ops Manager – Barr Moses! (Part 2 of 2)

As part of an ongoing discussion about the evolving role of Customer Success Operations, we have the second installment from our very own Senior CS Ops Manager, Barr Moses. Below, she takes us through the second half of her week at Gainsight. For part 1, please click here. Wednesday: Hi everyone! Last time we checked

Gainsight’s One to Many Strategy

Allison Pickens is VP of Customer Success & Business Operations at Gainsight “My CSMs are overworked.” “They spend a ton of time on repetitive activities, but we’re not sure how to automate those.” “We want to email segments of our customers, but we can’t get access to the email automation system because Marketing manages it.”

Strengthen and Leverage your Company’s Best Resource: Customer Advocates

The power of a customer’s own words to describe and share their experience with your company can not be undervalued. Today, Gainsight and Boulder Logic announce an integration of Boulder Logic’s leading customer reference management solution with Gainsight’s Customer Success Platform. With Gainsight’s integration with Boulder Logic, you can now synthesize data gathered during a

Information Services, the Subscription Economy, and the Value of Customer Success

The business of buying and selling information is booming. In this competitive and rapidly growing industry, how can companies set themselves apart from the competition, while also contributing to their long-term growth? The answer: Drive your customers’ success. How does your company classify itself — Are you in the Information Services industry? Market Research? Market Intelligence?

Best-in-Class Onboarding: Make It Happen Using Gainsight

Allison Pickens is VP of Customer Success & Business Operations at Gainsight. Last week, I wrote about how Customer Success can play a critical role in enabling cross-functional collaboration. This week, I’ll explore in detail one of those cross-functional processes: Onboarding Management. At Gainsight, our Onboarding team (which we call Services) is distinct from our

What Type of CSM are You? Take the Customer Success Personality Quiz!

On August 4th, we’re hosting the Pulse Online Career Fair. It’s is a great opportunity for you to chat one-on-one with representatives from 20+ companies with open positions in Customer Success. This event is virtual, so all you need is a computer, smartphone or tablet and an internet connection. On the day of the event,

How Customer Success Teams Can Drive Cross-Functional Coordination

Allison Pickens is VP of Customer Success & Business Operations at Gainsight At the Chief Customer Officer Summit that we hosted several months ago, one of the group exercises was to imagine an ideal model for customer success, ignoring all practical constraints (and, of course, demonstrating the model through some kind of theatrical performance, in

How Gainsight uses Scorecards and Calls to Action

Allison Pickens is VP of Customer Success & Business Operations at Gainsight Note to Gainsight Customers: This post contains links to Vault Assets you can import directly into Gainsight. We’re excited to unveil the latest innovation from our Customer Success incubator at Gainsight: a new framework for addressing risk, using a combination of Scorecards and