How Looker Segments Customers for Digital Customer Success

Originally published on inSided.com on June 2, 2022. Digital Customer Success is for everyone. This is the message that has echoed across LinkedIn and in the wider CS community for some time. We caught up with Brian LaFaille, former Global Head of Customer Success Strategic Programs at Looker, to get his take on segmentation and

Two Big Reasons To Operationalize The Sales to Customer Success Handoff

According to Bill Thrash, SVP of Customer Success at Critical Start, customer success has grown from a niche practice to a culture driver in organizations. Critical to that culture, and the effectiveness of customer success, is the CS team’s relationship with sales. For SaaS-modeled businesses, sales and customer success have become two things organizations can’t

What Coke’s Bottle Cap Innovation Reveals About What People Want

Nothing is more difficult than figuring out what people want. Not just with the big, life-changing technologies people want. If you’ve ever been stuck in the endless loop of “What do you want for dinner?” “I don’t care, you choose,” you know that every decision that gets made is a tiny miracle.  Inevitably, decisions create

5 Reasons Using Product Analytics Enhances Your Customer Experience

product experience manager looking at graphs, charts, and analytics on computer

Here’s a harsh reality: To grow your product, your team has to be laser-focused on the customer’s experience. In the modern SaaS world, disappointed users will flee to the competition the moment they start feeling neglected. Unfortunately, as a product leader or manager, you probably feel like all of the extra feedback you’re receiving from

Customer Success Operations: The Hottest Career in the Customer Service Space

This post originally appeared in Customer Experience Magazine. In today’s economy, where nearly every company is either “born in the cloud” or transforming into a SaaS-based, recurring revenue business model, almost all have realized that they can’t accelerate growth without investing in Customer Success (CS). Usually, that means establishing a CS team that can take

Essential Considerations For Your First Customer Scorecard

We’ve all been there. You think everything is going great, the customer is always so kind and enthusiastic on the phone. But when it comes time to renew, they churn. It’s painful and a bit confusing. But it happens all the time. Customers can’t offer their honest feedback in the moment, often because they don’t

Customer Success by Product Design: A New Collaboration Process for Human-First Companies

Co-Authored by Ophir Sweiry and Chris Jalisi The need to bridge the gap between Customer Success and Product to drive positive customer outcomes is well-known. Oftentimes, we look to address that need by including collaboration as part of each role’s responsibilities, allowing for Customer Success to communicate feedback to Product via a seamless pathway, and,

5 Ways Product-Led Growth Will Help You Generate Expansion Revenue

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Let’s face it: The modern world doesn’t operate the way it used to. Snagging one-time customers and walking away won’t cut it if you want your Product team to grow. To thrive, you need to generate expansion revenue and keep that income pouring in. Fortunately, product-led growth is designed to carve out and deepen your