Gainsight’s newest book, The Customer Success Economy, builds on the success of Gainsight’s first volume, Customer Success: How Innovative Companies Are Reducing Churn and Growing Recurring Revenue, released in 2016. Just four years later, it’s become required reading for thousands of recurring revenue businesses around the world. And Customer Success has evolved into a philosophy
Sue Barsamian, Former Chief Sales and Marketing Officer for Hewlett Packard Enterprise Software Joins Gainsight’s Board of Directors [Redwood City, CA – February 19, 2019] – Gainsight®, the leading provider of customer growth solutions, today announced the appointment of Vice President of Customer Success, Ashvin Vaidyanathan, to Chief Customer Officer. In addition, Gainsight added Sue
We all know how it works…a fledgling SaaS company releases a minimally viable product and starts bringing on customers. Early customers help shape the direction of the product and before you know it, a Customer Success team is created. The CSMs start doing Executive Business Reviews (EBRs) and the product road map is the crutch used
It’s been quite a year but we’re on the home stretch, folks. Before you say, “thank u, next” to 2018, check out Gainsight’s top blog posts, webinars, and resources of 2018. Top 5 Customer Success Blog Posts of 2018 ‘CSM & Product’ Is the New ‘Sales & Marketing’ You can’t have a business without a
This post was co-authored by Allison Pickens, Will Robins, and Mickey Alon. It’s been three weeks since we acquired Aptrinsic, and we’re just now getting our heads above the waves of conversations and opportunities that the announcement spurred. One question that surfaced a number of times: as a company that’s branded around Customer Success, what
I’m reading this fabulous book right now that is perfect for anyone making important decisions—The Book of Why. The author, Judea Pearl, subtitled the work as “The New Science of Cause and Effect,” and the “new” part is what caught my eye. In the introduction, Pearl shares how the distinction between causation and correlation—and the
Customer Success and Product Teams are the ‘New Sales and Marketing’ in the Age of the Customer [San Francisco – October 22, 2018] – Gainsight™, the Customer Success company, announced today it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Aptrinsic, a privately held company based in San Mateo, California and Tel Aviv, Israel. Aptrinsic is
If you take a look at my LinkedIn page (and scroll way, way down), you’ll see exactly where my career took a left turn. (No, not Chipshot.com—you scrolled too far!) I started my professional career as a product manager. Well, I tried to start my career by doing a Master’s in Computer Science in college, which taught
From the time I was little, my dad shared stories with my brother and me about heroes. There was a story about how the Wright Brothers, two little-known bicycle mechanics who worked tirelessly on their flight experiments for years, were greeted in France by unfamiliar praise from crowds of admirers of their innovation. There was
This blog post is based on questions and answers showcased in our webinar, How to Budget for Customer Success: 2019. Does a straw have one hole or two? Why doesn’t Tarzan have a beard? How do I compensate my CSMs? It’s questions like these that keep the world up at night. While the two former