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3 Essential Pre-onboarding Principles: Part 1 of 3 – Develop, Document, and Strengthen Customer Lifecycle Plans
For those just joining our blog series CSM from the Trenches, welcome. This series, now a community for frontline Customer Success Managers (CSMs), discusses trends, best practices, and advice that can help the frontline. Being on the CSM frontline allows us to directly influence the success of our clients. I love that; as our clients […]
CSM from the Trenches: Mentors – Jesse Brightman, Head of Customer Success, stensul
For those just joining our blog series CSM from the Trenches, welcome. This series, now a community for frontline Customer Success Managers (CSMs), discusses trends, best practices, and advice that can help the frontline. Being on the CSM frontline allows us to directly influence the success of our clients. I love that; as our clients […]
CSM from the Trenches: Mentors – Adam Kuznia, Chief Customer Officer, DataCamp
For those just joining our blog series CSM from the Trenches, welcome. This series, now a community for frontline Customer Success Managers (CSMs), discusses trends, best practices, and advice that can help the frontline. Being on the CSM frontline allows us to directly influence the success of our clients. I love that; as our clients […]
Customer Success Webinar: How to Design a Customer Education Strategy
ClientSuccess will host Bill Cushard, Customer Success Strategist of ServiceRocket and a 2018 Mindtouch Top Customer Success Strategist, for this month’s customer success webinar series: How to Design a Customer Education Strategy. The webinar covers the topic of designing a proactive strategy for customer education. This webinar is relevant to leaders of B2B recurring revenue […]
CSM from the Trenches: Mentors – Jorie Basque, Customer Relationship Manager, InGenius
For those just joining our blog series CSM from the Trenches, welcome. This series, now a community for frontline Customer Success Managers (CSMs), discusses trends, best practices, and advice that can help the frontline. Being on the CSM frontline allows us to directly influence the success of our clients. I love that; as our clients […]
6 Ways to Cultivate Relationship Value In Your Daily CSM Role
Too often Customer Success Managers (CSMs) can get swept up in the day-to-day grind of activation questions, project management, and renewal processes. It can be easy to lose sight of the original goal at the heart of your role: to create successful customers. And at the end of the day, your most successful customers are […]
CSM from the Trenches: Mentors – Sara Masson, Senior Customer Success Manager, Loopio
For those just joining our blog series CSM from the Trenches, welcome. This series, now a community for frontline Customer Success Managers (CSMs), discusses trends, best practices, and advice that can help the frontline. Being on the CSM frontline allows us to directly influence the success of our clients. I love that; as our clients […]
Experiences Before Stages – How to Build Out Your Customer Experience Journey
I recently watched a video of Rob Jeppsen, CEO of Xvoyant, explaining how to take a different approach when building out your pre and post sales funnel stages. Many times the process of defining the pre and post sales stages is part of building out a customer journey map or strategy. One of the key […]
CSM from the Trenches: Mentors – Vic Kasoff, Director of Customer Experience, NarrativeDx
For those just joining our blog series CSM from the Trenches, welcome. This series, now a community for frontline Customer Success Managers (CSMs), discusses trends, best practices, and advice that can help the frontline. Being on the CSM frontline allows us to directly influence the success of our clients. I love that; as our clients […]
Customer Success Advice from the 2018 MindTouch Top Customer Success Strategists
Yesterday, March 19th, the 2018 MindTouch Top 25 Influencers and the Top 100 Customer Success Strategist list was announced. I want to give a shout out to Mindtouch. I know that Ari Hoffman, Marisa Delao, and many others worked really hard to bring to light the “Top Customer Success Strategists of 2018”. Thank you! Check […]
CSM from the Trenches: Mentors – Sam Feil, Customer Success Manager, ClientSuccess
For those just joining our blog series CSM from the Trenches, welcome. This series, now a community for frontline Customer Success Managers (CSMs), discusses trends, best practices, and advice that can help the frontline. Being on the CSM frontline allows us to directly influence the success of our clients. I love that; as our clients […]
CSM from the Trenches – 4 Ways to Participate in the Community
Since CSM from the Trenches launched as a community, many Customer Success Managers have been eager to join, contribute, or participate. Here are four ways to get involved: 1. Answer mentor questions: Submit your answers to the 7 mentor questions. Share your practical advice and better practices with the frontline CSM community. Example – Sam Feil, […]