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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 are successful, we’re successful. Each day we learn from the trenches what it takes to make clients happy and successful.
We recently launched a new segment of the series that focuses on 7 mentor questions for the frontline. The goal is that by sharing our experiences, we’ll be able to learn and apply more practical advice / practices to our careers.
Let’s get started with this week’s post!
My role involves both customer on-boarding and traditional customer success management, so I created a workflow from the moment the customer signs their initial contract through to the renewal process and then built out templates and documents for each step of our process so that I can quickly edit and adapt communications for each customer.
I like to check in with our CEO on any pressing issues to see if I need to shift my priorities for the day. I use trello to manage my ongoing implementations and live customer tasks, so scrolling through those lists to check due dates and priority tasks is the most important thing to do early in the day.
I am a member of TechLadies and a local Women in SaaS group and the discussions featured in both groups has been hugely beneficial in learning from others.
Failures are always good inspiration for process improvements. If something doesn't go well, I like to identify how to prevent the same thing from happening again with other customers. I showed up to train clients and didn't have enough background information on the customer use case and hadn't confirmed the staff had been informed of our implementation. The training went well in the end and I developed a series of resources for customers to provide their staff before we show up for training.
Continual opportunities to positively impact the lives of my customers. Our software aims to make it easier for caregivers to do their jobs more effectively and efficiently so I love knowing that in some small way I am making a positive impact on those in care.
Adding value to your customers is always going to pay off. Even seemingly small improvements or add-ons can make a huge difference for customers.
Show your customers that they are important and that you appreciate them. Solicit feedback and then do something with it. Say thank-you.
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Here are other customer success resources:
Customer Success eBooks:
Customer Success as a Culture: Customer Success Leaders Edition
Ultimate Guide to SaaS Customer Success Metrics
Other CSM from the Trenches Posts:
Mieke Maes, Intuo – 5 Keys to an Effective Customer Apology
Priscilla Zorrilla, 15Five – Asking the Right Questions to Challenge Customers
Learn more about how ClientSuccess can help your company develop a strong customer success methodology and strategy with easy-to-use customer success software by requesting a 30-minute demo.